In Another World With My Smartphone - Reviews

This is the very reason why isekai genre has a bad name in the anime world. The main character is the very definition of the 

word 'bland'. Thge scens are all cliche. I personally am a big fan of isekai series(with good one's like Re:zero, overlord, Konosuba, Overcautios hero,shield Hero , NGNL and many mmore) .But these is the very reason the hate for isekai series keeps on increasing. anime is average story plot is non existant (main goal is roam around to pick up some chicks)

Would not reccomed unless u want to make mash potato out of ur brains.

You know, when the main Japanese demographic your anime markets to, hates your anime, then your anime sucks complete ass. Not even pretty girls can remedy that fact. I should’ve listened to OtaKing. Well, *sigh* let's just get this over with...oh, and if you don't want to see a vicious rant on this lazy ass piece of shit that is the cheap bootleg equivalent to Konosuba, leave immediately. I'm about to go ballistic on this one.

Creative bankruptcy. It's something that any artist of any medium worth his or her salt should dread when creating a work. It's when the art has no soul of any kind, no artistic purpose behind it, meant only for the money. They brings us to our target: Isekai wa Smartphone. This pile of insufferable, bland, incompetent dreck can fuck off and here’s why! Fuck you, this is all you're getting for this intro, since this show doesn't try, why should I?! Hooray!!

Fuck my life...

STORY AND CHARACTERS: 1/10

This anime can't establish jack for shit properly! It can't establish magic until way after it was used and even then the system, especially concerning null, is stupid. It doesn't establish the idea of guilds properly at all. The gauntlets, the currency, none of it! Part of it is because its worldbuilding is beyond atrocious, and there are gigantic leaps and lies, so yeah. Oh, here’s an example! When a butler got hit with an arrow offscreen, how? Apparently he and the guys he was with were surrounded by lizards with swords and shields, so that can't work, and apparently part of it broke off and...yeah. Also, inconsistent magic since they say the only way to use magic (except maybe null) was with special designated crystals yet they violate that multiple times. Oh, and the protagonist knows literally every magic ever, including the personal null ones, which are already a bad system due to being contradictory (since they're supposed to be unique but they're recorded in ways that imply more people can use these null spells, but they're each limited to a few people at a time), and heck, the magic system as a while had its own tuned violated constantly with people constantly using elemental magic without a magical fragment catalyst, so fuck this anime’s own rules, amirite?! Oh, and they just randomly and haphazardly insert us into a bunch of scenarios for the characters to quickly solve and have no remote emotional effect on the audience or even have any meaningful things for the characters aside from them interacting and constantly blushing. Ugh, fuck this anime.

Do I even need to mention that this is generic fucking shit with so many of the worst clichés of a typical LN and that it has some of the worst variations on them I have ever seen? Do I need to mention that this is basically a store bought brand of Konosuba that actually went beyond an expiration date before airing? No? Well, too bad! The characters with no defined personality, the setting, the story beats? Well, here’s something interesting: we don't know how MC-kun died! Think back to any Isekai you've seen. Re:Zero? Subaru blinked and somehow fake into a fantasy world, unsure how it happened but he was summoned by Satela. Knight's & Magic? Kurata (who we know as Ernesti in the fantasy world) got ran over, though we don't know how he got to his fantasy world. Konosuba? Kazuma died of shock and tricked a stupid cunt “goddess” into coming with him into a fantasy world. Here, well, God tells him that he was stuck by a bolt and then is willing to send him somewhere, we don't actually see what happened to him. It wouldn't have taken long to do something so basic, but look at what I'm reviewing. It can't have a good sweet moment either since it ruins those, even though they don't even work in the first place, but way to ruin your theoretical chance, anime! Oh, and pacing is fucked with this one, especially in the first half. I know I'm just sort of ranting and raving but fuck, my brain is trying to scrape this show off of it and none of my friends want to kill this anime, so I have to now. This show has no effort put into anything at all; why should I bother? I would say because I care and because I try to put effort by honestly, my brain is committing genocide against any specifics I can bring up about this nightmare of a show.

I don't think this anime had heard of this term I'm about to say: it's called “characterization”! No character has a real defined personality, especially not the main character, who at best can be defined as the stereotypical boring pussy ass yet OP AF protagonist, like fucking Ayato from The Asterisk War. I actually believe that all of the main women in the show are largely the exact same character with the most minor of different traits, this show characterizes them that poorly. No show to my knowledge has ever done that before. Obviously, they're all trash, especially the tsundere one for being a typical tsundere.I can't remember any real traits from anyone else, this show is rotting my FUCKING BRAIN!!

The other characters are bland and without personality and do shut you expect, so that leaves us with MC-kun. Oh wait, I said everything about him other than the fact they he gets so OP without any actual progression that it constantly feels like he’s pulling powers or of his ass, and yes, he does get a harem, to the point where. It all of the members can even travel with him, it's their crowded a harem,and for next to no reason beyond “dude is nice enough to help and can do crazy things” and not due to anything about his personality or even looks...ugh. His name is Touya, and I learned that over time but it's obviously not worth remembering. Actually, why should you remember a single character's name? Aside from pussy ass OP MC-kun, I certainly don't! There is nothing standout or remotely interesting about any of them. They also constantly blush and get embarrassed for no adequate reason. They're also all fucking idiots as displayed by the crime solving scene in episode 4. I only remember something about the blonde 12 year old princess and it's that she acts like a 6 year old half the time. Just...wow. I could go on and on about the character and especially the narrative problems, but honestly, this anime tries so little in any department that it's honestly not worth it.

ART: 1/10

Veteran studio, Production Reed took the reigns for this and boy did they not do a good job, to put it lightly. The character art and overall animation is so unbelievably flat, and so is the magic. It's not a pleasant view at any point, it all looks insanely plain, life-draining in fact! The character designs are pretty terrible overall, to add insult to injury. They can even get walking right as it looks like they're often moving both forward and backwards in some walking scenes, like the beginning of episode 3. In fact, they always fuck it up somehow, and it's just walking! How?! Why?! Oh, and when you see debris in a fight scene, it looks so poorly drawn and it doesn't fit well with any of the rest of the art at all.

Don't expect much animation in the fight scenes either, especially in the episode 7 duel with the awful looking wooden swords; and I though Akashic Records was bad in that department. You can also see some rather noticeable errors here, like feces being off, the fact that one of the characters who has a sword suddenly had two swords with hilts on her sleeve and not her waist, and yeah, it’s pretty bad and lazy. They also use a lot of visual gag shortcuts that I thought only long-running shounens were allowed to get away with (since no other kind of show uses them and those shows have an insane amount of episodes to have to spread their budget and staff and time etc. on). It's a visual bore with blunders, though thankfully there really isn't any CGI to speak of, since I'm sure that probably would've been handled poorly, just like every there aspect of this show.

OH WAIT!!! NEVERMIND!!! EPISODE 3 HAS THOSE FUCKING CGI STAIRS WITH A GIGANTIC FRAME RATE DROP FOR 5 WHOLE SECONDS!!! AND EPISODE 5 HAS ABOMINABLE, HAND-SHAKERS LEVEL CGI FIRE!!! FUCK ME!!! FUCK!! FUCK!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH-

Looks like my anti-mental breakdown pulls wore off. Christ, and at the worst time too. Ugh, let’s just move on. The main uniform the girls wear looks awful, especially with those lines in the white part. One of the character designs is blatantly ripped from the princess from Knight's & Magic, whose anime adaptation just so happens to be airing at the same time as this pile of shit, only she has been aged down by comparison to a 12 year old. Why are we sexualizing 12 year olds again? Also, expect some shitty digital close-ups. Lastly, for God knows what reason, they have it so that the eyebrows and eyelashes always overlap with the hair rather than being obstructed by it. This is basic anime shit and they constantly fuck that up. Then again, they didn't really try here either, did they? Oh, and there’s a fair amount of reused animation, so that's a sin, especially since unlike Knight's & Magic, this isn't a mecha show (not that I really excuse that show for it either). C’mon, it's 2017! This shit shouldn't be happening anymore! And...that's everything for this one. Sadly, this is somehow the show’s best, or rather, least worst aspect, it only barely.

SOUND: 1/10

For what it's worth, the OST on its own isn't actually that abysmal, though some tracks are especially bad and wrong. Sure, none of it works but what's worse is the fact that that almost none of it ever fits with the scenes at all. Oh, and while I'll talk about those cancerous scene transitions a bit later and how pointless and aggravating they are in every way possible, let’s just say that the music doesn't help with that. The OP is the most obnoxious and generic JPop song I have ever heard in my life, especially the techno aspects. Fuck this song, it's not worth naming since it's the absolute worst OP song I have ever heard in my life thus far. Same applies to the ED to a slightly lesser extent; it's also awful and I don't care which of the characters sings it. There is nothing of merit to the music in this show whatsoever, and that almost never happens. If that isn't sad, I don't know what is.

ENJOYMENT: 1/10

You know, I have to ask: for those out there who actually enjoyed this anime, how? What is the appeal of this? Is it the fact that the main character is OP? Is it the fact that this is a world with magic? Is it the admittedly out there premise? Because...I don't see this as a show that really wants to entertain, like at all. I see no semblance of soul from this anime, no spirit or any enthusiasm from it or anything. It's just super bland. It's not like it even really attempts to have interesting, consistent, or involved fight scenes either. At best, it tries to pander with the whole slime nonsense,in ways that should probably be seen as an insult to the intelligence. And as for the OP MC part, why? Isn't it boring to see some guy plow through anything, especially if he doesn't really do anything fancy or especially crazy and flashy, or have any personality to latch into while doing it? Wouldn't you want that kind of MC to have some actual personality or actually show off some crazy epic shit to cheese fights instead of cheering fights without any effort? Wouldn't you want someone like Izayoi from Problem Children over this main character?

So it has come to this: the transitions! FUCK! THE! SCENE TRANSITIONS!!! There nothing but obnoxious time-wasters with blaring and equally obnoxious music, either showing the results of a scene for 5 seconds or what happened already, with these stupid and obnoxious characters and voices doing stupid and obnoxious things! You see anywhere from 6-8 of these an episode too! You can no doubt tell this got irritating fast! Why was this included? Why?! For comedy? I doubt it succeeded with many viewers.

So, yeah, this show was boring and vexing as all hell. Not a single moment to enjoy. It doesn't even try so of course I feel unamused to the nth degree. Not to mention that there were a few specific moments (boob grab scene in episode 9 being chief among them) that were especially maddening, so that didn’t help one bit. Some of you might say “why not just turn your brain off and enjoy the ride?” Because it's so fucking boring and retarded, that's why! If I didn't keep my brain permanently on thinking mode when watching anime, I’d have dropped so many more by now since I would've quit the moment I got really angry bored from watching, hence more of my time would've been wasted! I actually heard people say this was a parody of these kinds of shows: it is not. It image then completely straight and pretends to be mildly self-aware, so that blows. So yeah, this show fails on both levels! Fuck this show, I hate it! I hate it so much!

OVERALL: 1/10 RAW SCORE: 3/100

This might prime some of you to ask: “why did you watch this obviously bad show in the first place?” Well, some people probably watched it out of interest of the admittedly out there premise. Maybe some wanted a trashy anime to chill to (and likely found themselves still disappointed). And of course, some of us came here just to join hands with a chunk of the community always ready to see a truly and obviously terrible burn and revel in the flames together (I mean, usually the anime suffering that fate deserves it), often coming one by one to see if it is as bad as the reputation hypes it up to be. Not gonna lie, that was part of it for me. The other part was that for all intents and purposes, this did catch my eye as something I thought would just be a below average at best isekai title for me to watch and feel little towards, at least after I was initially put off by the cover picture. However, I can definitely say that it did deserve the fate I mentioned in the third reason, because as I have been saying over and over again, this anime is the very definition of laziness when it comes to this medium.

Anime is a very intensive and passion-filled medium. There are so many titles out there, good and bad, that obviously show a ton of passion and effort in at least some regard. So, when I see an anime as lazy as this get a sizeable viewership while better and more passionate (if not always good) shows like Knight’s & Magic, ACCA 13, and so on and so forth get at best a much lower viewership and at worst the absolute shaft, I get royally angry. People had to slave over this, and no passion feels like it’s coming out, no care put into anything regarding this show. I am so thankful that this show is getting quite a thrashing, and honestly, it needs all the hate it can get. This is anal sauce! Honestly, unless you really want to watch something without a soul, you should avoid this anime entirely, as this anime is an affront to the medium as a whole. Is it the absolute worst anime out there? No, there are some worse ones out their for their own reasons, but this anime really has no right to exist, and honestly, it is still very, very high up there, both in an all time perspective and in the perspective of this season alone. Sadly, this season isn’t over yet and there are a few real duds left to cover at the time of writing, so until then, I bid you adieu.

Dispite my low score for this anime i actually enjoy it and have watched it twice already.

The anime is full of cliche moments but hell its still good, the story is simple to understand and its something you can breeze through in an afternoon. 

The premis is simple and has been done before: Alternate world, unique ability, overpowered main character who knows it but doesnt shove it in your face and plenty of girls who follow him.

The story is liniar with one event simply leading to the next and the next etc and its no master piece but then again i dont need a notpad, wikipedia and a forum to follow it. 

the sound and animation are spot on as far as quaility are concerend but the lack of any unique sounds in the anime (especialy with regards to the magic use) leave it feeling like stock assets bought in bulk with everythin sounding boring.

Overall if you go into this believeing you found the next gem in anime, you will be disapointed. Just take your time and enjoy the characters (however stolent they are)

what the fuck did i just watch. if you're like me and are not a pedophile or a fucking freak you will probably want to skip this show. if you like the trope of a harem of one dimensional anime girls constantly lusting for a one dimensional overpowered isekai protagonist who has an IQ lower than shovel that doesn't realize his group is made up of girls who would follow him off a cliff for a chance to get his cock you might like this. it was an annoying and typical isekai from the get go but it just continues to ramp up the fanservice and love triangle (pentagon) shit. normally ill try to just stick it out for the 12 episodes since its not that many but I had to quit on the final episode when spoiler (?) the protagonist kisses his 12 year old future wife to make up for the fact that he kissed his other future wife first. because obviously the 12 year old future wife is the main wife while all the other girls in the harem are just concubines i guess. i want to know what twisted fuck wrote himself into this retarded self insert hentai fantasy with more lolis and tsunderes and every other shitty trope than you can shake a stick at. please give me back the time i wasted on this, i feel like i regressed 10 years just for having watched this, i would give it a 0 if i could. fuck.

In another world with smartphone is amalgamation of various anime/Light Novel tropes. That’s all folks! It is like watching long list of anime cliché. Seriously, you don’t expect me to write walls of words to describe “plain Jane” light novel adaptation to meet standard for public review. The only good point is that the anime does not present itself as some deep masterwork. It is super simple and if you want that simplicity in story, characters it is right there with pretty much all usual fetishes.