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In Another World With My Smartphone Episode 11: Will This Show Actually Acknowledge the Harem?

Posted on September 23, 2017September 19, 2017 by Karandi

Review:

It is pretty standard in isekai stories for their to be a harem that forms around the protagonist. However, usually these remain unrequited and unspoken (or every girl is just aggressive beyond reason). Episode 11 of In Another World with my Smartphone kind of defies this trend with the girls clearly discussing the future amongst themselves and then Linze openly declaring her love for Touya at the end after being spurred on by jealousy when the android caretaker of the garden essentially kissed Touya in order to collect a DNA sample (have they never heard of hair).

While that was kind of novel and interesting way for the episode to end, the path there was full of the usual kind of silliness including the girls on the beach discussing the various things that get stuck in their chest while swimming. Where do these scenes come from? Really?

Then Touya transports all the girls to the garden and we get various misunderstandings and innuendos until we finally get to that ending. There’s a lot of eye rolling to get to the end of the episode, but kind of interested to see what happens next with the harem now that they’ve broken the usual rules about them.

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In Another World With My Smartphone Episode 9: Behold the Great and Powerful Touya

Posted on September 9, 2017September 6, 2017 by Karandi

Review:

There’s genuinely no way to ignore the breast groping segment of this episode. While this show has definitely hit fan service points before just for the sake of having them, this is probably the first time I’ve actively wanted to stop watching the show because of a fan service moment. It was just incredibly unnecessary and intrusive into what was otherwise a pretty good episode. Yae’s brother and father have gotten caught up in a war and now Touya’s going to walk in and end it in about five minutes.

Yeah, that’s probably why there are the unnecessary clutter moments in this episode. There is no challenge in this world for Touya as he is incredibly and ridiculously overpowered and while mostly that’s been amusing, this episode really needed to put something in his path to at least slow down the resolution as maybe that would have meant they wouldn’t have needed to have ‘that’ particular scene go on as long as it did.

And once again, we have some fairly casual violence and just kind of dismiss the fact that the guy Touya beat in an entirely unfair fashion crumbles into dust.

Definitely not the best episode this show has offered us.

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In Another World With My Smartphone Episode 5: Slimes… Sigh.

Posted on August 19, 2017August 9, 2017 by Karandi

Review Episode 5:

Well, we knew from earlier episode comments that green slimes existed in this world and that they dissolved clothing so I guess we all knew this episode was coming. Given the premise they were actually fairly tame in how far they went with this one though it is the usual kind of anime stupidity that makes non-anime fans roll their eyes at the entire industry.

And in case the slimes weren’t enough for the episode we then have Touya starting to combine his magic spells with his smartphone functionality and one of the results is seeing through the wall to one of his female companions as she changes. Maybe they have some fan service quota they have to hit for a show like this and due to the tame nature so far they decided to get a lot of points this episode.

Though, if you can get past all that silliness, and it really is silly and not overly disturbing or offensive, then we actually get a reasonably sweet story about Touya helping out a couple of his companions and continuing to learn how he can use his smart phone in this new world. Even the slime section had some good moments for the group so all and all the episode is kind of fun.

I just want to know why only the girls ended up with dissolved clothes when we could have easily dumped our protagonist into the mix for an equally unnecessary but at least slightly novel outcome to the scenario.

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In Another World With My Smartphone Episode 4: Touya Might Redefine Overpowered At This Rate

Posted on August 12, 2017August 4, 2017 by Karandi

Review Episode 4:

In Another World With My Smartphone is very good at making me smile. The show is stupid, and it is playing on every cliché and trope you would expect from an isekai anime, now including the random Princess character who has decided she absolutely must marry the protagonist even if that means waiting two years, yet despite that I cannot help but smile and sometimes even laugh at this show.

The start of this episode kind of looked like we were going for a more serious, political tone with the King being poisoned an ambassador being accused but then, just when it looked like things might become tense, Touya uses his ‘slip’ spell on an annoying count and sends him tumbling down the stairs. I’m going to be honest, that whole ‘slip’ thing may become the most overused gag in this show, but I don’t really think I want them to stop doing it. There’s just something inherently funny and immensely satisfying about watching either an obnoxious person or a monster just suddenly fall over at Touya’s say so.

My one genuine criticism was the tiger’s voice after it decided to take on a chibi form. That might get annoying in an episode or two. Otherwise, the harem continues to expand, Touya continues to be oblivious and absolutely brilliant at everything, and all and all, this continues to be a lot of fun to watch even while it isn’t doing anything we haven’t seen a million times before.

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In Another World with my Smartphone Episode 1: At Least There’s a Reason for an Overpowered MC here

Posted on July 29, 2017July 22, 2017 by Karandi

In Another World With my Smartphone - Touya

Overview:

After dying as a result of God’s mistake, the main character finds himself in a parallel world, where he begins his second life. His only possessions are the body that God gave back to him and a smartphone that works even in this new world. As he meets all kinds of new people and forges new friendships, he ends up learning the secret to this world.

– from Crunchyroll

Review:

This show kind of knows that it is not treading new ground bringing us bland self-insert protagonist who through some mix up is being sent to another world after dying accidentally. However, it isn’t letting its own lack of originality get it down and this first episode kind of moves along at a nice pace. Though, it is clear they aren’t trying overly hard with the script given rather than worry about being criticised for an overpowered protagonist they literally write an explainer in and tell the audience to get over it.

Uh huh. So ordinary guy just got all basic abilities boosted and sent to a world full of magic. Guess we can all see where that is going. If that wasn’t enough of a clue, the opening makes it clear we are heading straight into harem (or harem like) territory and I’m just kind of hoping that another male character, other than god, gets any kind of screen time.

One thing I found very strange were the number of eye catches used throughout the episode. Almost every scene transition used one and it was a little bit jarring and broke the flow of the episode a bit. It isn’t a deal breaker but it is an odd choice in terms of pace and transition.

I’m not expecting huge amounts from this, but the first episode was highly entertaining so I’m a little hopeful that I’ll enjoy the season. That said, it could get old fast if they don’t find a way to develop their own identity outside of the generic isekai structure.

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