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I knew we shouldn't have listened to you. Now we'll never get out of here. As if, your sense of direction is so bad, you can't find yourself in a mirror. You crack mirrors! Pika! Pokemon

Are you challenging me? Shaggy from Scooby-Doo 2002

I just got lucky, but thinking that I outsmarted him will dive Kars nuts! Joseph Joestar

This is how you enjoy a hot spring. Step 1: Breathe Deep. Step 2: Clear Mind. Ok? Step 3: Remove Pants! Wait-What? No, those are my pants! Kid Icarus Uprising

Episode 1 - Spirit Chronicles (Seirei Gensouki) Both Season 1 and 2 OR Hero Who Fights Gaslighting More Than Villains This is a weekly event that I will try to maintain for a while. I will be reviewing a lot of anime that I have seen in the past few years. So, I hope that I get at least 1 viewer who likes this format. This was an idea that I wanted to do for years. Since I'm honored to have a lot of free time to watch shows, movies and other things in my life to do. I hope this weekly series of review can help a lot of people to watch some good or bad shows from my experiences. So, let's get started. BASE INFO: Episodes - 24 (12 per season) Subbed and Dubbed Where to Watch: Crunchyroll (Both Seasons) Genre: Isekai/Revenge Story Personal Ranking: 8 Nitronic Stars out 10 MAL Ranking: 7.07 and 6.57 PLOT: This anime is an Isekai with a Revenge Story as the secondary plotline. While the main plotline follows with the hero dealing with slight existential crisis of how they are a reincarnated being. We start with following a young orphaned child named Rio, who works and lives in the slums of the Beltrum Kingdom . When we meet Rio, he is just 7 years old, when he discovers he has memories of a young college aged man, named Haruto Amakawa. Haruto died by the combined powers of Train-Kun and Bus-Chan. Have to admit, the death scene has to be most insane way to die. Rio, completely stressing with this newfound problem in his life. Upon this revelation, the story our young hero starts to take place. The plot acting like an evil bottle of Sunny D, pretty much slams the plot into his face. Rio would stumble upon a group of 3 young girls and a female guard. One of these girls reveals herself to be a prodigy of magic, so powerful of a mage that at the age of 12, she is already an established teacher. These 4 has entered the slums, to find their kidnapped friend. Mind you, if you were looking for your friend, who may be dumb for their age, and the first person you found was a homeless child. Would you, A. Accuse them of kidnapping. B. Ask for Possible Assistance. C. Ignore them completely. or D. Focus your efforts on what you can control. Spoiler, it wasn't B,C, or D. They accuse a 7 year old of kidnapping another child. Something that will never make sense to even the most insane of people. After this quartet of 'wonderfully mind girls' figure out that Rio wasn't the mastermind. The teacher, who's name is Celia Claire, uses her magic to sense our magic users, in order to track their missing friend. This is when Celia discovers that Rio has magic as well, with a potential that outclasses even her. Yet in stride, she isn't jealous of Rio, as she is mainly focused on retrieving their missing friend. When that spell was cast, Rio discovers magical his own magical sight. Which he will find beneficial later in the series. Rio is rewarded a meager amount of coins to run along, as he did advice these 4 that they were overdressed, appearing to be nobles. Which is true, they were indeed nobles, yet not low ranking nobles. With the squad leaving to find more commoner clothing, to continue their search. Rio would leave and try to live out the remainder of days as a child of the slums. As if to set up a strong right hook, Rio actually finds the missing friend in an abandoned house. With a few corpses to sprinkle out the low decorum. This missing girl, is no other than the 2nd Princess to the Beltrum Kingdom. Rio would have his inner Mario, to tell him to rescue the princess. Yet, sadly the Beltrum Kingdom isn't in the Mushroom Kingdom. The princess, dealing with the trauma of being taken from her castle, and seeing the large mass of corspes around her. This causes her fragile being, to make her pass out. .After finding this princess, not even a a half-step goes by before he is wrongfully convicted to be the mastermind of the kidnapping of the 2nd Princess. This kingdom was so set to punish this action, that they were set to even condemn a completely innocent child. Take note, this will be a repeated action, so this will be on the test. Thankfully, after the princess wakes up from her 3 day coma, she looks for her hero, only learn that Rio is currently being held in the dungeon and those guards are doing their best to get a false confession out of that boy. While he may just be 7, that boy has the manliest set balls to hold out and not break for that long. Pretty sure he could hold on for about a week. He's pretty strong willed that one he is. After getting his freedom back, Rio is a bit jaded to the royal nobles, for good reason. I mean if you did a good deed and got beaten roughly 0.00000000000000001 inch of your life, you too would be a little miffed about the people who could have stopped that from happening to you sooner. Like I said, these royals aren't loyal. Dumber than a sack of rocks in concrete. To save grace, the King decree that Rio to be allowed to attend the Royal Magic Academy. All of this happens in the very 1st episode. Which helps drive this point home would be the musical score of the ending theme. It has a spy master kind of vibe of a banger ending theme. Which did confuse me on the second episode. As this story isn't a spy thriller, its an Isekai anime. Now, for the sake of saving your time. I will quickly explain the 2 major arcs of season 1 and 3 major arcs of season 2. The Royal Academy Arc, Rio studies and excel in school. Yet since he comes from a commoner background, every royal in the school excludes him from all the best parts of being in school. You know, having friends, eating lunch with some cool pals, hanging out in the down times. Rio is systematically looked down as an outsider, an outsider that actually does good work class. This doesn't help him, since despite having access to magic, he can't use this magic system. His magic is more ancient and effective. He is later charged with a crime made by his classmate. Since experiencing how the nobles conduct their laws, Rio quickly leaves and go on the run. Only telling Celia, his only friend and main teacher about his plans. During this arc, we learn about Haruto's own past before his reincarnation. The Lone Traveler Arc, Rio basically travels across the neighboring countries. Amassing allies, some of which travels with him. 1 of which is a reincarnated person like himself, and even a spirit that makes a contract with him. We also finds out that Rio's magic is called Spirit Arts, a powerful and ancient magic system that is far superior to modern magic. Yet Spirit Arts has 1 flaw to it, unlike with modern magic which can be taught to anyone. Spirit Arts can only be inherited. We get to even learn about Rio's own history and family heritage in this new world. These travels also explains the revenge part of this Isekai, Rio's mother was killed by a rogue adventurer, who possibly killed his father. Rio double downs on his revenge on this man. Yet before we get to dive into that part of story, we get to see some good slice of life episodes that ties in the lore in a great tasteful way. This show somehow made "Exposition dumps" in a pleasant and helpful way. Should know that these travels do take some time, like a few years will go by. In Season 2, Rio finds out that while he isn't the only reincarnated person in this world. With one of them being an ally in season1. We find that there were some heroes, summoned to this world. 2 of these people have deep emotional ties to Haruto's past live. A Former crush and younger sister. Now using his former name as a cover from the law, Haruto. Rio now has to play caretaker to these 3, while maintaining his former life from the others. It helps that he has allies on his side. While at this time, dark forces are amassing, and Rio takes the time to track a few sources to find the other summoned heroes. The Ronin Arc, now going out as Haruto, he travels about trying to find any info about the other heroes. Which is actually fairly hard, its not like these heroes are just going to randomly stumble into his path. Sarcasm aside, he only finds 1 hero. Who has no connection his former friends. This hero, is an ego chasing otaku who thinks he been given the chance to have a power trip. Overall, while this hero is completely out of his field, he's actually a pretty decent guy. Just sucks that the people in charge of keeping him safe, aren't doing a damn thing of letting this hero have real life fighting experience. They want to use him as a propaganda tool for the nation's military. Like I said before, this kingdom is batting with a 0-3 average on having good ideas. Rio also gets some passive revenge on some of older classmates. Who has grown to be even worse people. The Get Back Arc, which is the final arc of this season, basically all the planning and scheming of the evil faction of nations finally attack. There is just thing that they didn't account for, Rio and 2 of his allies. This arc, we get to see the result of Rio's training over the years. We see that this kingdom, having a few good nuggets of people, will always have a larger crowd of dumb leaders in power. Will say this, the final fight of this season, has possibly one of the most brutal one-sided beatdowns I have seen. There is only 1 series that has even more viscous fight than this. That series, I will cover next week. (Its Ragna Crimson) Keep in mind, I did my best to explain this show with very little to spoil. These aren't the real names of the arcs at all either. I only talked about the surface plot. Not the finer details and plot points. So, if this does interest you, I recommend a watch. Production Notes: Studios TMS Entertainment and WAO World produced both seasons of this show. I believe this series was animated with their B-Teams, as the anime has the character models have glass eyes feel. Not to say that the eyes or animation is terrible. Season 1 animation is fairly fluid, which very few scenes of characters who stand around and just talk. There is one odd saving grace in season 1. This anime uses CGI on the monsters, and it helps make the monsters look out of place and otherworldly. This only applies to season 1. In season 2, the CGI on the monsters is somewhat lackluster, this is mainly due to recycling certain monsters textures, with even their stronger variants. They also use CGI on human soldiers to decorate the backgrounds of battlefields. This isn't a bad thing, just it somewhat sticks out if you're so hardcore on the animation. Since this is a Silver Link production, this means the possibilities of a season 3 are quite slim. Considering that season 1 came out in 2021 and season 2 came out in 2024, a long wait for the fans. Heck, I watched season 1 back in early 2023 and we didn't even word of a season 2 until very late in the summer of 2024, which it did get a delay for episode 10, 11, and 12. The show has very great potential, yet since season 2 has a few drops of quality compared to its first season. A season 3 is even more worrisome. I hope TMS Entertainment and WAO World can work together again to make a 3rd season, or just let TMS Entertainment take over. As WAO World doesn't have the best track record with long form anime. This being highest rated productions. TMS may have worked with WAO World due to TMS being bombarded with higher rated series, like Dr. Stone, Rent a Girlfriend and Baki. Seriously, TMS take the reins and make season 3! Fun fact, in season 1, CDawgVA voice a major character, yet sadly he didn't return for season 2. I don't know why he was recasted, yet I do like his replacement. They do a good job, that I thought it was the same guy. This anime is one of a small list of anime that I enjoyed enough to read part of the source material. There are 2 manga adaptations, one of which was cancelled due to the artist attached had health issues. The second adaptation pretty much follows the light novel story, which mirrors a lot of the anime. Only changing the order of events of the anime, the ending of season 1 and opening of season 2, around. Which fits better in the narrative in the manga, yet doesn't suffer at all in the anime. It switch that doesn't hurt the plot, only just affect the pacing. Yet, still good. I didn't read the light novel. This is because I rarely read light novels, as I find them quite hard to read and the pacing of them are hard for me to get into. The soundtrack of the show is nothing to write bad about. The openings and endings are a good bop. With only a slight gripe for the opening of season 2, to have brief moment that shows clips of the episode in the opening. Those moments distracted me during the opening, as both in the sub and dub, going from having a mini rave to hearing characters react and chat completely out of context, pulls me out of the hype. If you want hear the openings Season 1 and Season 2 . Note this Season 2 opening doesn't include the clips from the episode, yet when they do the zoom into the sword part, that's when the clips shows. The endings of Season 1 and Season 2 The 1st season pulls a note out from JoJo by having a musical hook at the end of episode before entering the ending theme. Season 2 has a slow hopeful vibe to it. One thing that should be known, is that this anime does have some strange ways of telling its story. Its highly unorthodox with its storytelling. I don't know if it being held back with either its production, or source material. Despite having dark themes, the show takes great strides in keeping those elements in a emotionally tame way. Final Notes: So why watch this anime? Mainly 2 reasons, this anime is somewhat a hidden gem during both of its seasonal releases. As well this anime series tells a non-traditional isekai story. On the surface, it may look like a harem building power fantasy, yet in reality its a really slow burning isekai with a revenge story injected in it for extra flavor. In a way, this is like watching a world building isekai that has a hidden story in plain sight. There one glaring elephant in the room, Rio does have the legally distinct Kirto black armor look, which I don't understand the cling to the design. Its one of the few things that makes no sense. To many, this can be a good watch on a slow day. To few, this will be a series that will make you look for other series like it. Which is why I give it my Nitronic Stars. 8 out of 10 Nitronic Stars!

Oh, that's impressive! I remember watching that with my Dad. He had the entire run on DVD. My favorite villain will always be Dr. Noah Body.

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Like last in last one finished recently? Or Last one that I loved? I can answer both. Recently, Demon Lord 2099, as of making this post. About and 2 hours and 13 minutes ago. (Currently Watching Taisho Otome Fairy Tale Episode 7). Watching this was a feel good story. A fantasy/cyberpunk hybrid anime is something that I didn't expect. I kind want more of that. A demon lord who was once the most powerful immortal being on the planet. Dies to the hero. Returns after 300 years, only to find that the world had changed vastly. Despite him having access to "Wordless" magic. Everyone now can use magic beyond his understanding and can perform them faster and more efficient. Now in this world of science based magic, will the demon lord be able gather his power and attempt to conquer the world again? Answer, yes. Just not in the traditional way. Last one that I loved~ Oh, my. I will say The Ossan Newbie Adventurer, Trained to Death by the Most Powerful Party, Became Invincible. I saw that last week. It was so amazing. Its one thing to have 32 year old man become an Adventurer in a fantasy world. Its another thing when he in the top 5 Strongest people in the world, after only 2 years of training. Its also nice to see that he already has a future wife, without the nonsense drama that you would find in romance anime set in High Schools. This show, filled with the kind of action that kids imagined themselves to be if they were in the DBZ world. We get to follow a man, who once saw himself be the weakest person, finally live out the power fantasy that he deserves. Just sad to see that now everyone else is weak as paper in the world that he walks in. Fun fact, the main lead is strong enough to kill a wyvern with his bare hands, yet he is still Rank F.

I can't lie about this. This was favorite show to watch when it was on the air. Yet, when it came back on air during the late 2010's on Nicktoons Network in the US, of all places. It helped me since I was not able to follow the plot in a linear fashion, I also learned why it never got that Season 2... Darn you 90's Sony and Marvel pending buy out of Spider-Man IP...

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Woah, I didn't expect an answer so quickly. Guess that silly silk princess was right. This place is active. Possibly more active than CA..... Thank you though, I'm honored that I was noticed and even more glad to know that others felt the same way I once did.

Yes, I'm wholesome. Not without some pain.... Now, I love life and joy. I will share that with others!