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Aug 28, 2026
It's a typical chilling anime. You don't have to put much thought into it, so just relax and enjoy.
The MC has the much muscle - big heart character trope(not dumb!) and overall the cast is just likeable. The animation is decent and I wanna point out the character designs. For a fantasy world I think it does a good job portraying a big variety of different species.
The story is just there. A reknown war veteran settles down to create his own village/city and is facing different "challenges".
At all you shouldn't expect extraordinary stuff, it has some typical cliche topics it works through and
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while you can say it's more or less a checklist, it is always entertaining enough(sometimes with some little twists or tells things with a different point of view).
Overall it's not an anime that will win any award or does something outstanding. Still I will remember this anime for it's positive vibe, characters and small moments. If you surch for an anime with some fantasy, to end the day with and/or just for a good time:
I can assure you this anime can give it to you.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jun 28, 2026
One of the best examples that shows when the author has no idea how to write a, at least, decent story.
It all fell down for me with the last episode. Over 24 eps now we watched how our MC Will tried his hardest to get reunited with his childhood friend Elfie. Despite him being a non-mage he battled classmates, stereotypes, exams, got insulted, looked down;
people constantly got in his way and so often things were done to make his life miserable and his goals unreachable and he still pulled through and managed to prove everyone wrong and still kept a positive mindset. That point
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the author did well in my eyes, sometimes bit over the top but ok.
So now, after all that shit and multiple setbacks we are this close to see Will and Elfie finally reunited. BUT AGAIN something has to hinder them and that something is another Magier Vender which want Will in his faction. Will says multiple times he wants to join Elfies faction and EVERYONE knows that as well, still Elfie and this electro guy have to battle it out. The fight and animation was fire and I thought "Ok, now it's Elfies part to fight for Will. She will win so they finally reunite and we can go on with the story.", because actually, the world is close to being destroyed and the Magier Vender are desperate to get new recruits.
What happens? - Draw, and I was already pretty pissed that it still is about Will getting to Elfie. But in my naivety I thought that they now all saw how important Will is to Elfie and that we can finally get over this topic. But I didn't count in the authors incompetence:
They f***ing have to battle it out by rock paper scissor. After being all that serious in the last eps and an amazing visual fight to really make us believe this is the final hurdle they have to overcome, their rock paper scissor becomes a funny comedy scene which destroyes all the seriousness and tension the last eps, actually both seasons build up, and after over 299 draws Elfie loses the 300 one and that was the moment I wanted 'IQ being able to be bought' to be real.
How the fu** can this still be a thing? Why are we still stuck in this loop? We cheered and hoped for Will and Elfie coming together again and it would have been the best ending for a finale and this season and a really good payoff, for Will and us the audience.
BUT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!
I just don't get it, the only reason must be that the author doesn't know how to write a story besides the reunion thing.
The anime states that the Magia Vender need recruits since many died during the second season and logically it would be the best to let the recruits join the factions they want so they have the best conditions to improve. What is the logic behind Will joining a faction he doesn't want to. Their world is one the line and they knowingly handicap him, a person with so much potential and power. Ret***ed beyond imagination. Also that Will gave in this easily and apologized that he complicates things again is such a bad decision. This at least could have been the moment to rly show he has some backbone and openly stands for his goals, but no, he again lets his wish to be reunited slip through his fingers, literally gave it up in a way, because by the rules; mages aren't allowed to see other Magia Vender and probably aren't allowed to change factions afterwards either, otherwise why wouldn't he do it.
We know there are people which can use multiple types of magic so if all possible factions want them they get to choose. So why shouldn't there be the option to change afterwards? Obviously for "PlOt" reasons you dummy, which means Will gets forced into the one he didn't choose and is stuck there.
The whole last episode is frustrating and such a poor and horrible decision of the author. It shows a middle finger to the audience which followed this entertaining journey and I just can't imagine any other reason why the author decided to go this way with the "sToRy" except them having no idea where Wistoria wants to go, so it does everything to make no progress and stick to the formula with Will and Elfie which works as a good side story which can get much attention, but not as the main plot. I'm more than sad that this season ended this way and whenever this anime gets a third season it will be the first time I'm gonna hate-watch something. Normally you'd stop watching if you dislike something, but here I wanna see how the author thinks he's gonna finish Wistoria in a "SaTiSfYiNg" way which is not possible to achieve after this seasons ending.
You don't take your characters and plot seriously, but want the audience to take it serious. Delusional and idealess are the fitting words here and while writing and editing this review I can't help myself to also feel mad, because something I enjoyed turned to shit, due to the lack of fantasy and logic which someone should have who wants to create something based on fantasy(in this case even meant literally as well).
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Oct 1, 2025
If you watched ep1(50min) and wanted to see how it goes on, prepare for a huge disappointment. Nothing happens with the started storyline since every ep stands on its own. Some "arcs" are two episodes long, but once one is finished you notice it added nothing to the story or characters.
You think it will be a revenge anime, an anime about the MC which will experience an interesting journey? - WRONG!
Mid way I literally watched it on 2x speed since as mentioned; nothing happens. I hoped that maybe the final episodes will continue where ep1 left off but no. You could skip every second episode
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and there will be no progress in any form. There is so much useless talking about nothing in always the same locations but at the end again, nothing of importance happens. Some characters appear multiple times and it has a twist that is kinda interesting the first time it happens, but as you can guess, nothing special that hooks you.
'Nothing' is the word for this anime.
You get nothing when you want the story of ep1 to continue.
You get nothing when you want some story at all.
You get nothing when it comes to character development or their personalities(only stereotype characters).
You get nothing special when it comes to voice acting.
You get nothing when it comes to steady animation quality. The first two eps are good, but then it just goes constantly downhill, even in the middle of some eps you see the quality drop, I just say ep4 bridge fight.
THE thing you get when watching this is just nothing.
How it gets a score above 5 is beyond me, especially when you think about how it started and what potential it had. But the execution is beyond bad and boring, which means I also blame the work this anime is based on, since I don't believe the studio would change the story to this unappealing nothingness.
Edit 19.6.26: I read through it again and admit that this is a hate review since it's just a disappointing anime in every aspect and for me it felt like complete timewaste at the end and still has no real reason to exist(harsh word I know), because it offers nothing. Using it as a second screen experience makes it ok I guess. Wasted/unused potentail at its best and the end product is beyond boring.
Though I must clarify that there is stuff happening and that the point about "skipping every second ep won't make a difference" is wrong, since there are often timeskips and some things happen around that like characters getting older.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jul 7, 2025
This review is from an anime only for anime only.
As someone who knows nothing about the web novel I must say this anime/donghua makes no effort in these first 3 eps to hook you. The wole time the pace is beyond fast and rushes from event to event, plus you constantly get flooded with information and word dropping and nothing gets explained. You have an interesting power system- nothing gets explained, interesting world concept- nothing gets explained and this goes for everything the anime throws at you. There is nothing to grip on, no hints or little details to let you figure out stuff
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for yourself. I like it a lot when exposition man isn't there every 2 minutes, but giving nothing at all is even worse.
You simply get left out, if you know nothing beforehand. Funny enough the MC more or less starts with the same knowledge as us(nothing), but throughout the eps it seems he is the one whose knowledge increases. He gets his power in the second ep and then instantly, without any training, in the next scene he just uses his abilities and we get no info how it works, how he knows what to do, nothing. He maybe had to train first, but we're not getting it shown and that's the thing: The MC grows without us.
We constantly sit on the same knowledge as when we started, but with every new scene and ep he knows more than us.
As mentioned we also rush from scene to scene and because of that, we get no picture of locations and size. We're in a house somewhere in the city. We're in a bar which is somewhere in the city. We're in another house somewhere in the city. We're at a warehouse on the harbor somewhere in the city. The connection between all these scenes is missing so hard, it's like you got sent out the room for 5 minutes, come back and still you have to know what happened. The characters always know where to go, but don't tell us.
Going to the characters: You could do character interactions, dialogues, let them for once say "This or that is at this place, so that's why we're going there", or whatever. Just something to let the characters bind with us and give us crucial information. Instead, besides their rly cool visuals and some shallow character tropes they have nothing to offer and tell each other stuff they understand, but we don't.
Except the visual part in general, which is rly awesome, this anime is for fans only. Even they say that there is much cut out content and context, that they don't know how I for example should be able to follow the story.
At all I must say it's badly directed, pacing over the top, concepts of story and power system interesting but unexplained, characters for 3 eps got no real character traits, but awesome animation.
I hope fans will like it, tho I think even they would have liked a better execution. If you're someone like me, with no knowledge but is still able to get everything to 100% in one go, I tip my hat to you. (But I can't rly imagine how.)
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jun 18, 2025
How can anyone give this a score above 4?
You can give 1 point for the fact that there is at least something close to the word "animation". Rarely and barely there is at least some movement so you can't say it's PowerPoint only.
2 points for the voice acting which is the only thing that anime does well and that's it.
Characters and story not existent, the anime could have been shortened to like 8/9/10 episodes and you'd still think it's too long. Not because the aNiMaTiOn is lacking, but because there is no story and character development, nothing is rly happening at all. 2010 CGI also
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joins in here and there, sceneries empty as hell...
As an anime only this one just sucks and it's a perfect example how not enough givin time can work out, at least I hope that's the reason, otherwise the animators are not suited for this industry.
Besides the points to make fun about it or analyze this anime of a mistake about all it's errors, I see no reason to recommend or watch it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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May 7, 2025
For ME the anime feels like it's out of the 2010s.
The art style, the way the story is told, a short flashback of the last episode at the start of a new one, a titel card of the episodes name which a narrator reads out loud, the music, how "show don't tell scenes" are executed- like as a compilation...
It somehow does't rly fit the 2020 era but I don't mean that in a bad way. It made me feel bit nostalgic how back in the days some of the cast say the episodes title with a theme exactly just for that and where they give
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you a quick summarization what happened in the last episode. The good old days...
Anyway, this anime for now is pretty decent. Character visuals are nice, the story has the "twist" that the MC is Isekaid into a more medival fantasy world but doesn't know/remember it yet- at least has memories of our timeline and figured out the use magic just by immagination. This discovery felt that it happened bit too fast but hey.
Animation is solid, nothing special but definetly watchable and the characters aren't blant and seem to have bit of personality.
Actually the areas where the story takes place so far feel rly organic. There are many scenes which are just 5-20 seconds long, which only show the "NPCs" and their lifes and interactions with each other and that makes the world much more believable than the elf village of "The beginning after the end" which is also airing right now.
(Sorry for the fans at this point, H-Studio Queen Bee could probably do better.)
I admit that for now that Teogonia doesn't have the vibes of a deep story or anything which could become really intriguing later on, but is also not an anime you can just use as a second screen experience.
A highlight for me is has scenes which actually show skirmishes and battles. Finally a "medival battle anime". I miss such anime so much since there aren't that many in comparison to other genre.
6,5/10 for me, maybe a 7/10 but that depends how the anime is going.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Apr 7, 2025
I tried to like it but I just can't.
The female MC(Mina,vampire) is beyond dislikeable in everything. I don't care about the Loli design(it seems to have an actual reason but in my eyes it's not a problem anyway), it's just basically everything she does. The longer I watched the more I couldn't stand her. In some scenes and arguments she has some points if we try to look from her perspective, but overall she is one of the most dislikeable characters that exist.
I wanted to watch to the point someone hopefully punches her in the face, but since in ep7 sexual assault and probably rape
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join the story it's over.
The manga seems to be pretty long and I've spoilered myself a bit in what kind of direction it's heading, and I don't like that either.
Overlord seems to be the much better choice if you want to watch something from the "villian" side. At least it explains the viewer much faster and better why cruel things are allowed and done, even if you don't agree with it.
In this anime the only thing why violence, sexual assault and stuff happens is because vampires are just the superior race. Mina even orders and allows such things, still she "wants" the help of the humans for good co-existence.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Mar 27, 2025
So my guys,
as every other basic Isekai it's nothing special if you look at the story but good enough to just shut off, so until ep12 it was a 6/10 for me,
why that changed comes bit later.
Voice acting in my eyes is rly nice(Japanese voice actors are just awesome) but man, this animation. I don't care when small anime don't get the Demon Slayer/Solo Leveling/Jujutsu Kaisen animation quality level and are more static, but holy moly THIS anime is beyond that.
I'd say you can see that the animation studio wants to try and some scenes are much better than the rest, but then there are
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scenes where you can't deny that it's 2/10 quality, even Seven Deadly Sins S3 looks like gold compared to that.
A thing I must "highligh" is the character variety, even for the side of side characters. Every no-name has his own visual.
Now to the point why it dropped to 3/10.
The MC... when the anime started he was the typical average MC you can expect when it comes to this kind of Isekai. Good heart, kind: stereotype MC personality. He says he doesn't want attention and wants to live in peace and at first it's exactly like that. Not every Isekai has to be action heavy. Chill anime are also fine, Tondemo Skill is a good example.
Of course the story turns out to be the opposite and that's fine. Still, the thing I don't think matches all that is that the MC actively works for that and I don't mean that by twists and turns it becomes like that. His "I want to live in silence and peace" is nowhere to be seen(at latest halfway through, it is no longer the case) and the longer the anime goes on and whenever there is the chance for him to stay true to his self acclaimed "I want to live in silence and peace" he does the exact opposite. It just makes him unrelieable.
Now to the MAIN POINT:
Throughout the anime female characters join his group and as you can guess by the way I phrase this sentence yes, he fu**s most of them and in all honesty I don't mind that since he is in no relationship, plus all of them are always fine with that(you can say it's a cliche harem but it's not 100% like that but I don't know how to phrase it better right now). I hate that character trait when even in not romance anime guys act like little kids when it comes to sex and being an adult, all this unnecessary shyness for nothing.
So, where is the bad thing I dislike you may ask. Now in ep12 there is a maid and to summerize the situation:
He and his group/family help the princess in different cases and at the end of the episode he gets summoned by the princess in a room where she and a maid, which the MC earlier took a glimpse at, are waiting. The princess asks the MC if he likes women like the maid. He says yes, princess says as thanks he can do the maid, MC says he has a wife, princess says he's bit stubborn and asks, since the MC has the ability called Item Box and Shangri-La which means he can buy items of our world and put them in a magic back, if he has some naughty stuff in his item box(ye- double meaning). MC suddenly asks if the maid would be fine with that, maid says yes, MC bangs the maid while the princess is watching. -_-
First he brings up the point that he has a wife but literally 5 seconds later it means nothing to him. That his wife is fine with him banging the other girls(not the little girl, he sees her as his kid) since they are travelling together is okayish. At least no cheating and whenever he interacted with other women, doesn't matter if he got caught lacking there or was just on friendly terms with them he got the side eyes from his group and focused again. Until now he stayed true to his harem but now when there was a chance he just took it.
Cheating is always a dealbreaker for me, doesn't matter real life or fiction and that he just went for it when noone was there is just garbage.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Oct 25, 2024
Currently we sit on episode 4 and damn, the phrase: 'Wasted potential' rarely fits as well as it does here. I know it's a bold statement for only 4 ep out of 12. Quick rundown:
You have the name giving robot kinda living beings called Mecha Ude with their own mind which can "fuse"(more like attache) with a humans body. This will increase the humans physical strengh and the Mecha Ude can activate it's true form like an extra robot arm, a tail, variety of guns, whatever and makes both of them dependant on each other. The Mecha Ude needs something called Albitrium which every human
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has inside his body. If they get seperated by force the human will die after a few days since the Albitrium in his body will leak(imagine it in a form of gas) and the anime states that Albitrium is like the soul(don't quote me on that).
Now to my points:
The anime jumps from event to event. I don't mean it's fast paced(which it sometimes is but not hasty) but I miss the connections between the scenes from time to time. Sometimes you watch a scene with almost no connection to the last scene, no transitions or explanation why character XY is at place XY.
Another thing is the bad/weird storytelling and how things are connected, character decisions are made and how they are executed. There are so many examples in only 4 episodes I don't know which ones I should take.
For example(Minimal Spoilers now, jump too *** to skip):
1. You're one of the good guys. Imagine your job is to retrieve an really important Mecha Ude(their unactivated form is like a rubic cube). You then find out it has fused with a random civilian teenager(MC, who ditched school that day since he had to follow a voice in his head which led him into a cordoned off area by the police he simply ignored because the voice in his head asked for help- how to become the MC clichee).
Now you have two options how you can convince him that you don't want to kill him and that you need him to follow:
Option 1: Gain his trust by like introducing yourself and explaining him the situation.
Option 2: Tell him that if he moves he's dead, which would make him scared and increases the chance he would try to escape.
Guess which option the character(main female character) in this series chose.
You can argue it's a good introduction for this character to give the viewer the right impression on what kind of personality/character traits this character seems to have.
But looking at the importance this situation has for the story it's just a bad call. There are plenty of better ways to tell her personality without making her look stupid.
2. In this example you're the boss of the good guys. You now have the MC which actually isn't suited to have this Mecha Ude since his amount of Albitrium is far under average(means he's weak) and for his safety, since he(more his Mecha Ude) is very important, you decide he should have a bodyguard. Again you have two options:
Option 1: Choose someone you trust and can handle this task.
Option 2: Choose someone you trust, is the main female character, but due to her past and recent events could maybe slightly be bit impulsive and do some actions which could endanger the person she should protect.
Again, guess what the decision here was.
3. It had to happen as described above. Side girl decides to immediatly run somewhere(Port storage depot or something like that) to investigate something and drags the MC with her. They notice enemies being in that area. If you would take your task as a bodyguard serios you would probably avoid facing them. But guess what our big brain did. Because of her emotions she approaches them directly and since it's obvious a fight will break out she tells the MC to stay close and not leave her side. Seems logic, except the first move she does is an aoe attack around herself which pushes the MC away and then she says: "I told you to stay close!". You might think it was supposed to be funny for the viewer, but I see no details and hints that it was meant to be a joke. It could end here but na.
In her brawl with the other guys stones, baseball bats and even a shipping container fly around and almost crushes the MC so he takes cover and finds a child sitting between other shipping containers.
He wants to protect the child from the ongoing fight(which our girl can't see since she's some meters away), gets kidnapped, gets saved by main girl and then one of her Mecha Ude claims the MC tried to use the chaos to escape and she has the audacity to say; that because of the MC's recklessness the bad guys almost got his Mecha Ude. Just imagine this stupidity, also looking character writing wise.
Thankfully the MC then points out that only because of her they ended up in this situation and that she was the one which created their separation in the first place and that he wants to leave without her, and now imagine this:
She ignores her task of bodyguarding, let's him go and argues this with the reason that the MC should cool down, but may have forgotten that she dragged him into the danger- like no reflection at all. Even the MC's Mecha Ude asks him to apologize since she's their bodyguard and I'm just sitting in front of my screen and ask myself what I'm watching right now. In his shoes I would ask myself too who's the bigger danger here. But hey, they had to create a situation where they are separated for another event to happen...
*** I ofc want character development and know more about the cast, but pls figure out more reasonable and logic reasons which make such events happen and god pls, don't make this kind of stupid characters with the dumbest decision making just to make the story go on. This is just bad storytelling since I can't imagine who would act that way. Yes, it's anime and yes, it's fiction but cmon.
The action is rly good (8/10), but for me it feels like there are sometimes 1-2 frames missing since some connections in the animation feel bit off, but maybe that's just me. I also like how they try to do some cool camera angles but sometimes it's bit too much and I lost focus. Voice acting is top but for now nothing extraordinary yet.
Characterwise there's not much to say. Designs are cool- mostly the bad guys stand out and at all I saw more personality of them compared to the good guys which is also bit questionable but nothing which the next eps can't fix.
I know I bashed a lot here. Itself the anime isn't bad and at least rly entertaining, but lacks so much in my eyes so I can't rly say it's good either. That's why I'm currently sitting on a 5/10. Opening is nice too.
Update: I watched ep6 right now and in some points it got even worse, story still doesn't rly exist, the characters of both sides have no screentime and personality(except the MC's) and that makes me so sad. You have cool character designs, a cool setting and somewhere there is a kinda origin story to be told, but the way everything gets portrayed and shown is so BASIC, boring, in some ways beyond any logic and in many points not fleshed out in the slightest which makes everything you see just slide by in your brain and the only entertaining aspect are the fight scenes(still 8/10, maybe even 9/10).
At all I don't see in which point except the fight animation this anime wants to shine. You can see the anime can be more, but isn't successful since the action seems to be the only focus and everything else like world building and story are left out.
I honestly hope the fans get what they want/expect. Usually an anime should inspire the viewer to get his hands on the manga to deep dive even more in it's world, but here I would get the manga only for the reason to see if it's actually good.
This anime could have been a small shining star...
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 23, 2024
Just ask yourself this: Would you like someone who says rape shouldn't be allowed but does it himself anyway, because he drugs the women(which don't want to) with aphrodosiac and whatever else so they want him "theirselfes" and it can't be considered rape anymore?
If you do, then hey, you and the author have something in common.
If you despise such actions, don't watch this. Besides that the anime is trash either way.
You jump from day to day with one of the most annoying sounds that exist and the MC gets like 10 new abilities every minute so you get no feeling for his power
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scaling. He gets his abilities by eating anything he wants and he shits on almost everything which has something do to with humanity(yes he's an Orc but still). There are no moments you can symphatize with the MC and his actions, as well with his behavior at all. He's the embodiement of: 'Power allows you everything' and that's it.
You yourself probably used/heard the term where people say that this and/or that is one of the worst things they've ever seen- mostly used as an exaggeration to show their point.
But in this case... This is one of the most garbage things whose existence I have ever experienced in my life. Without exaggerating anything here, I don't get why someone would like this or even animate it.
Anyway, do yourself a favor, read other reviews which took the time to rly explain why this show sucks, because I can't bring myself to point out everything that's bad here.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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