Intro Isekai cheat magician. If youve gotten far enough to read this review after seeing that title Im going to assume you probably are willing to put up with isekai cliches to at least some degree. As a person of that type myself having read and watched absolutely metric tons of isekai content I have extremely high tolerances. Thus I was able to make it through this anime. However if you get fed up with tropes and cliches or get easily annoyed by isekais not being original just close this review now and never watch this anime. The Concept This anime is a perfect recreation of the default setting and plot structure for an isekai anime. The key difference between this anime and other isekai anime out there is that they is no difference. With the saturation of the isekai genre being what it is pretty much all other popular isekai anime in recent years have all had some unique twist to the normal formula to make themselves unique. This anime doesnt do that. Shield hero give the protagonist well just a shield and makes it a revenge story with the royalty being evil slime has the main character be well a slime and goes in more interesting directions with a focus on the developing city and such. Even the extremely awful high school prodigies... anime had the twist of each character being overpowered in a variety of different and theoretically interesting ways. This anime feels like a writer made a template story for them to experiment with changing things of to try to make an interesting isekai but then they just published the default version instead. The Plot To say that the plot of this anime is anything other than generic would be a lie as would describing basically anything about this show as anything other than generic would be. The two main characters get summoned to another world of fantasy and magic they join the adventurers guild they are found to be exceedingly strong and they train their strength to fight monsters. They uncover some nefarious people trying to do evil things and they battle them saving the day in the end but never actually killing the enemies because that clearly would be wrong. Seriously I lost track of how many times they just let the villains walk away after they beat them and its not like those villains dont come back to cause more trouble later or anything. The royalty totally feel bad about yanking them out of their world into this dangerous world but they also tell them that after theyve finished doing all of the things that the royalty summoned them to get them to do fight in a civil war of differing policies of Isolation or diplomacy then theyll start trying to find a way to send them home. Of course they dont act like the main characters have any options to not participate and the main characters just kinda go along with it. The Characters I feel like a broken record here but the characters are all exceedingly textbook examples of the roles. The main protagonist wants to protect people and help them the female lead is similar but less headstrong the royalty is unremarkable the villains feel like they are always either ineffectual morons who the main characters can swat away for them to return another day or brooding masterminds who are still somehow so dumb that they dont realize that the overpowered main characters will just stop all of their plans. Summary This show isnt particularly offensive in any way there arent any gaping flaws that arent present in basically any other fairly formulaic isekai out there but it also has nothing to make you actually particularly enjoy it. Its not even good as a power fantasy because the main characters are extremely lame at using their powers and because the battle animation is sorely lacking budget. The fights feel like theyre from yugioh half the time being less blows visibly striking enemies and people moving around and more it is heavily implied that I am punching you it is heavily implied that I just got punched For presumably a power fantasy they do a really bad job at making basically any attack feel powerful or have any impact behind it and its clear that they didnt really have anyone who knew how to choreograph fight scenes. Watch this if youve watched all of the other isekai out there and want something to pass the time but there should almost always be better options.