We talked about Cellphone Isekai on the last page, which was a really shitty Isekai ("Another world") light novel, that couldn't help but be a shitty anime.
Well Death March in Another World got an anime this season.
By comparison, that one is like the Platonic Form of an Isekai novel -- dude gets inexplicably transported to another world that runs off game elements, ends up being crazy-OP, messes around and has adventures. But it's really well executed, the way "Game Elements" gets integrated into the world is interesting, there are some cool plot twists, and "how did I get transported here anyway" is actually a slow-burn mystery that gets slowly resolved with twists of its own. Some of the light novel cliches (goddam it the harem arc) is obnoxious, but even that gets its own treatment -- the main char picks a Best Girl, and is like "right, Imma marry her," and he's proactive about making that happen (and it doesn't really go his way because she's not a designated Haremette).
I'm going to go see the first two episodes, and see if it lives up to my relatively high expectations.
Well Death March in Another World got an anime this season.
By comparison, that one is like the Platonic Form of an Isekai novel -- dude gets inexplicably transported to another world that runs off game elements, ends up being crazy-OP, messes around and has adventures. But it's really well executed, the way "Game Elements" gets integrated into the world is interesting, there are some cool plot twists, and "how did I get transported here anyway" is actually a slow-burn mystery that gets slowly resolved with twists of its own. Some of the light novel cliches (goddam it the harem arc) is obnoxious, but even that gets its own treatment -- the main char picks a Best Girl, and is like "right, Imma marry her," and he's proactive about making that happen (and it doesn't really go his way because she's not a designated Haremette).
I'm going to go see the first two episodes, and see if it lives up to my relatively high expectations.