So being an isekai I’m sure a lot of you are thinking this is another random show I came across and had to watch. Well not quite. What actually happened is I saw a clip of one of the fights on Facebook and thought it looked like a fun watch. Our story stars Makoto Misumi who was out of nowhere summoned to another world. He was intended to be the hero in a fight of humans versus demons, but the goddess took one look at him, called him ugly, and sent him on his way. Now he is free to live his new life as he wishes and journeys on an adventure that had unexpected connections to his family.

The story here is much more interesting than what I expected. It has a very slow start but that’s because it has an unusual amount of set up compared to your normal isekai. Makoto’s parents were actually isekaied from the world Makoto finds himself in. So in addition to living the way he wants he also decides to find out more about his heritage. For the most part the story is a bit slice of life as Makoto befriends demi-humans and manages to create his own demi-human settlement. As he progresses in this mostly aimless journey he finds new challenges such as his incredible mana and his inability to speak to humans and new goals such as the desire to own a shop. What makes all of these individual elements so interesting is how they find ways to connect themselves to one another. For example the inability to speak to humans challenge and his excessive mana come with similar drawbacks while his shop ends up helping him further develop his settlement. This is why the story starts off a bit slow but it ends up being well worth the investment.

The characters were more than I expected too. I wasn’t sure about Makoto at first. At times he comes across as a little much for my taste but the more the season progressed the more I enjoyed it. Especially when you add elements where Makoto has to get dark and serious. When that happens the contrast to his usual demeanor is so intense it sells the scene partly from that alone. The supporting cast is also really nice. He does have a small harem like in many shows like this but it works out well here. It only has a couple of characters and both of them are distinct and provide different functions to the story. Side characters outside of the main cast are also very interesting. There was one in particular that I was kind of upset didn’t show up more often because she was so entertaining.

The fight scenes were surprisingly good as well. They were pretty fast paced and even though Makoto mainly uses magic and ranged attacks the movements remain constant and not stiff. The music added in these scenes helps a lot as the songs are really good. I normally find fights in the random isekais I watch to be decent but we go well beyond that here.

Overall this season ended up being a really entertaining one. It has a slow start to set up an unusually high number of aspects to a genre that tends to not need that amount of work. The work pays off in the end by finding ways to connect the individual threads it weaves together to a more cohesive story that really makes me intrigued in how season two takes this from here.