… and every other power
At first, I thought this anime would be a dumb Isekai centered around some guy’s smartphone. It’d focus on him using apps, calling people, using it as a sonic screw driver of sorts to solve problems and explore a fantasy world. Honestly, that may have been a better anime than what is found here. We start off with our boy Mochizuki Touya being told that he’s dead by God. No truck-kun here, God just accidentally dropped lightening on him ending his life. Touya takes it in stride, really non-plussed about the whole death thing. God tells him he’s gotta be reborn in a new world but he can take some stuff with him. Touya takes just his smartphone, being told he can’t call back to his world but he can view info from it. God also adds himself as a contact and updates his GPS app for the new world. Touya then gets some power buffs and is plopped into the world. God calls him to tell him some basic stuff and at least in the first three episodes he never calls again. Thus begins Touya’s incredibly lucky/convenient journey. Tailor dude loves his weird clothes, pays him a bunch for em. Touya runs into cute twins, Elze and Linze, needing help, happens to have great fighting skills and saves them. Twins teach him about magic, and whatdayaknow he can use every elemental type! There’s also this type called null magic which is supposed to be spoken spells personal to the caster. Elze can cast “boost” which fortifies her attack. Turns out that Touya, however, can cast ANY spell he’s heard of. If you think Touya is starting to sound very OP, its because he is. Elze even says at one point, “good grief… When he’s that all powerful, it’s more exasperating than surprising.” This is very much how I felt watching this show.
“good grief… When he’s that all powerful, it’s more exasperating than surprising.”
– Elze
The show really feels like a poor man’s Konosuba. You’ve got the 1 guy/3 girls party dynamic, you’ve got a guild with quests, traditional fantasy setting with magic, etc. Touya even jokes about using his “steal” spell to take panties at one point. Only difference is that everyone seems like a decent person. They all help each other and everyone out. Touya isn’t an idiot or really all that lecherous (he does have some thoughts about the girls having their clothes dissolved by slime), which honestly makes everyone pretty damn boring. Again, this isn’t helped by the fact that Touya can do literally everything. Hell, he fucking cures the Duke’s wife of her blindness of 5 years in a second. The lack of any stakes is what made me gave up after the third episode. I read the synopsis of the remaining episodes to see if maybe he ever runs into any real struggles. As far as I can tell, he only gets better. Touya is officially the Mary Sue of Isekai until I’m proved otherwise.
You might have noticed I haven’t mentioned his smartphone at all despite it being in the main title. That’s because he barely ever uses it. When he does, its to use the GPS, look up recipes to give to local baker, and take pictures. That’s it. Why even bother with it if its going to be so ancillary? It could have been a great differentiating factor but instead this is generic all the way down.
Is this trash? YES
Rating: ★★☆☆☆