Ending Thoughts: In Another World with my Smartphone

Synopsis

The story tells of a young man named Touya Mochizuki; not much can be said about him but one day he is suddenly struck by lightning. When he awakens rather than being in heaven, he finds himself face to face with Kami himself who apparently has made a mistake and had killed him accidentally. As token of is apology Touya is granted with the opportunity to be reborn in a fantasy world and not only that, he may have one wish granted.

His wish? To be able to bring his smartphone with him to the new world. With a little something extra given to him by Kami, Touya soon awakens in a new world and thus begins his journey of knights and quests.

General Thoughts

Word building, character designs, these are what can considered as the best qualities of the entire series. In the beginning when the series gives a premise of a young man actually bringing piece of technology that could have multiple uses, the amount of potential found from this was high. But as the series progressed there was very obvious that the series has decided to take on the most cliche route that it can imagine.

From the growing harem, to the main character essentially being a Gary Stu in terms of abilities and personality, the potential that it once had began to dwindle. The most redeeming qualities about the series is the fact that it is rather upfront on what it is and while it may be filled with multiple cliches it does have a solid world building, a steady plot to go with it, and relatively creative ways of tackling magic and action scenes.

Depending on how much a viewer is able to handle, the series is tolerable at best and cringe worthy at worst. But overall, it is not the worst anime that this writer has encountered as it does have its moments.

Ending Thoughts

One thing that can be said about this ending is that it is not only committed to the story and the cliches that it has established itself to have but also rather ballsy as well. Amongst all of the harem stories that this writer has encountered, the fact that an anime series, an anime and not a manga, would be willing to take on a polyamorous relationship is partially impressive. Not only that, it even managed to fit itself with the resolution of the story and mostly tie all of the knots while presenting a confirmation of a second season.

The problem however is that as always, the protagonist is basically standing in the Gary Stu circle as always in resolving his issues. Because no matter how you look at it, he took the route where he not only got his cake but ate it too in the end, even if it is for the future. What’s more we get a future image that there will be in fact more girls added to the group. Once again, this series has either little creativity or is just being cheeky, it could be both.

On a different note, while there wasn’t much action to be found in this episode, other than for one scene, there was surprisingly a look into the more emotional depth side of the characters that was barely looked at in previous episodes. So if you were to look at the bigger picture, then the ending did a pretty decent job and it even did a good job on the designs of new characters.

From the beginning of the series the series had no shame in making use of every cliche in the isekai and harem theme you can think of and managed to create a generally steady plot with established characters. But it does not change the fact that the series took the easy route till the end and barely utilized the potential that it had in the beginning.

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars