Reborn to Master the Blade: From HeroKing to Extraordinary Squire is an isekaifantasy light novel written by Hayakenhttps://anilist.co/staff/123654/Hayaken. It was adapted into a 12episode anime by Studio Comet. 290https://s4.anilist.co/file/anilistcdn/media/manga/cover/large/bx122737IXSoXTRCG5aP.png 270https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/zrnUnV0PFWnJ1G6wDvzkQL2HL9d.jpg I will cut to the chase.. this anime sucks. I first saw it while overviewing the Winter 2023 season the premise was generic but I did get interested in its genderbending gimmick. It sounded like fun. I was open to giving it a try especially when it had an above 75 score.. for some reason? I thought it would be some dumb fun like Season 1 of How Not to Summon a Demon Lord. Nothing great but fun enough to keep you entertained. But nope it is incredibly boring so boring I would rather watch Naruto filler. This is the type of anime you use as examples when trying to list bad Isekai to someone. This is a generic power fantasy. A reincarnation story of an old king reincarnating as a busty silverhaired girl named Inglis Chris Eucus. His main goal in his second life is to become the strongest person possible... but its so booooring.. It reminded me of The Strongest Sage with The Weakest Crest as each episode kept getting duller and duller. Worldbuilding? There was worldbuilding? Umm lets see monsters attack people some people get crests on their hands to use magic but our OP MC can gather mana from the atmosphere or some shit. Some supremacists called highlanders look down on common people and some resistance groups forms trying to kill the highlanders. While our MC goes to school and wants to fight fight fight. 720https://i.yt.com/vi/IiilfaBv3m0/maxresdefault.jpg Chris is one of the worst main characters I have had the displeasure of watching. Watching her is the equivalent of selfharm to the brain. She is dumber than Goku from Dragon Ball Super and her key personality trait is that she loves to fight.. and she reminds you over and over again. More in a single cour than a majority of battles Shonens. She is incredibly smug with no humility or weaknesses. There is no purpose to her even being genderbended into a female body except for an internal monologue or two. Incredibly powerful no less. She no diffs every single character in the series. Despite being called Reborn to Master the Blade she never uses a sword Instead just throws her hands and shoots Kamehameha waves as a baby. Whenever I hear the term Mary Sue Chris will pop into my brain from now on. The side characters are not worth mentioning in the slightest all of them feel like Oblivion NPCs that you can summarize in a single sentence. 720https://i.yt.com/vi/blpcnrjDbtA/maxresdefault.jpg The production values are what you usually see out of J.C. Staffs C team. The art style is appealing to me but the animation is bad. Punches have no weight behind them half of an episode you have characters just moving their lip flaps in a room with uninteresting dialog and the CGI for the monsters is exceptionally bad. The sound design wasnt anything noteworthy and it felt like even the voice actors just wanted to quickly record their lines and bail.. but at least the opening is good. Would I recommend this anime? Hell no. It is boring uninspiring and has a truly terrible main character.