This show is so painfully by the numbers that even ChatGPT could write a better story. So you know the drill: Takeru, a faceless salaryman, suffers from the ennui of corporate drudgery. He thus wishes for something new, something exciting, something out of the ordinary. Well, nothing says “out of the ordinary” like yet another goddamn isekai. Before our MC is even reborn, a god of sorts bestows upon him a laundry list of overpowered benefits: extreme magical potential, a cute partner, a bottomless storage bag, so on and so forth. Yep, that’s pretty much par for the course. I also like to think all the people who died from starvation or wars or human trafficking just didn’t deserve this opportunity as much as Takeru. He really slaved away at his corporate office job like a good little drone, so now he gets to reap the rewards. Those other losers? Sucks to suck.

Takeru starts his new life by gathering a bunch of ordinary-looking materials, but he’s already making big bucks. One of those items is a giant chunk of polished turd, and it actually fetches the highest price. See? This isekai’s got poop jokes! Pretty “out of the ordinary,” huh? The shopkeeper asks Takeru why he would haul all this valuable stuff to such a backwater town. It’s so backwater that they don’t even take baths here. According to the staff at the inn, that sort of luxury is reserved for the nobility. The shopkeeper then proceeds to give our hero a gathering quest with a massive monetary reward. Like the equivalent to 3.6 million yen. So are you backwater or not? Christ, I bet you ChatGPT could world build better than this.

So the MC gathers some more. He then stops in the middle of his day to talk to himself as he cooks a rustic stew out of his newly gathered materials. Wow, I haven’t seen this before in my isekai! Takeru then meets a dragon who confirms that our MC is uber powerful. So powerful that he gets the privilege of hatching the dragon’s egg. As a result, Takeru gets a baby dragon as his “cute partner.” This might be a cheeky little twist if the OP didn’t already spoil it for us by showing the MC with two pretty waifus (like potato chips, you can’t have just one!). That’s it. That’s the episode. That’s your “out of the ordinary” isekai adventure. Last night, I had to go through a ten wave gauntlet in Silksong full of flying, input-reading enemies. I then had to do a massive timed escape sequence full of platforming with razor thin error margins. Both experiences felt like taking a hammer to the dick. And somehow, I’d rather do them again a million times over than watch this show. Look, I’m not even joking. I seriously do believe that AI could write a better story than this. And according to Wikipedia, this is based on a light novel series with SIXTEEN parts. Bruh.