I read the first 18 chapters last year. Might continue it some time.
It was one of the bigger/early isekai novels (WN 2012-2015) with a more "complex" plot than other isekais, and it doesn't hide the creepy depressive inceldom of its protagonist. Don't know about the anime specifically but I heard it was polished well. Search "Mushoku Tensei" in this thread and you'll find positive reviews.
Iirc he was younger than that, pretty sure he was 13 and she was 15.
It's fun but it goes hard on the status screen stuff so be prepared for your eyes to glaze over whenever there's a fight. There's also a couple lulls and the ending drags for a bit but it's not bad.
A lot of people think Jobless Reincarnation is somehow better than the standard isekai show, that it avoids the genre clichés and sets a higher standard of writing. I don't get it, either. If anything, I think you're going easy on it.
Hey Interspecies Reviewers was great and surprisingly had better world building than most anime. It was unrepentant in being sexual fantasies of the average dude (mostly) without any melodrama.
Interspecies Reviewers is peak fiction, so they are right.
You can feel the wholesome in that hug.
I started reading it since it supposedly had a competent earth mage, that was clearly bullshit. Then I kept reading the manga more out of fascination of how much of a self insert the main character can be. It reminded me of the The Wise Man's Fear book series that we all know will never come be finished. "And the main character was a virgin but so good at fucking that he had a sex fairy allllll over him!", same deal pedo reincarnation "and I will have 3 wives and they will alllll be perfectly alright with it!".
You do not want to go back to the era of Code Geass, Kanon, Death Note, Deen Fate and Higurashi, Zero no Tsukaima, and out-of-order Haruhi Suzumiya.
The unpredictability of 2006 was why it was a fun era.
You just sound like you've been filtered by CHADshoku Tensei, to be frank.
At least half those shows are harems. Most of the seasonal lineups of 2006 were also harems. ZnT in particular was a big codifying work for fanfiction on both sides of the Pacific, and I shouldn't need to mention how much pulp Fate and Haruhi inspired. How is this any less predictable than modern day?
It's a good blog, I think they're mostly right. My biggest problem with Madoka is something they mention, that it was mostly western fans who didn't actually know anything about Magical Girls that let Madoka warp their whole view of the genre. It's a pretty show and would certainly come off as unique and interesting if you didn't know much about Magical Girls but largely didn't do anything new. Western fans just thought it did. Shinbo worked on Nanoha actually and you can see the influence from that early on in Madoka.
