From softboi to worlds edgiest
Arifuerta: From commonplace to worlds strongest is not a good anime. The story is meh, the pacing is all over the place, the characters are bad and there’s a very problematic relationship. Before getting too far into why it is bad, let’s go over what this show is about. It should be noted this is technically an isekai, its told off hand that some God pulled people into this world to fight, but we just kind of accept that from the get go. We start off with some rando in the bottom of a dungeon, surrounded by deadly monsters. He’s pretty weak so he quickly gets his arm eaten off and retreats to a cave where he’s kept alive by some magic mana water. We learn via some flashbacks this guy is Hajime, resident softboi synergist who can’t fight but can transmute materials. He seems very kind and idealistic and during an expedition into a labyrinth shows some resolve protecting his classmates. He retreats back but is betrayed by a fellow classmate who knocks him down an abyss into the lower dungeon (they liked the same girl or something). Here’s where shit starts going off the rails. Hajime goes from nice boy to grimdark edgelord in record time. First leaning into more psychotic ramblings, settling on generic bad boy. He figures out how to kill monsters, eats them, thanks to the healing mana he survives their poison and gets new powers from every monster he eats. Honestly, this one of the more original aspects of the show and a cool enough mechanic. However, he immediately just makes a big ass revolver. That’s right, this fantasy show has guns. Pretty sure the Shadow the Hedgehog game was a major inspiration. So one armed grim boy goes around the dungeon, shooting a bunch of monsters with his gun when he finds a nude young girl locked away. This is where things get VERY wrong. Its your same old “300 year old loli” trope, she’s apparently a vampire with such strong regeneration she doesn’t age, and immediately she wants our bad boy. It took longer than I’d like for the show to actually dress her, but anyway they fight some big ass lobster thing guarding her, she has super strong magic powered by totally not sexually sucking some blood from his neck. Combined they kill the lobster and Hajime uses the material from it to build a 50 caliber sniper/railgun because why not. There’s a few more episodes of fighting more monsters, killing some giant hydra monster (spoiler they use the OP sniper). Flash forward to them recovering form their wounds in some nice underground palace of the labyrinth’s creator, and the loli is naked again, sleeping with an also naked Hajime. Again, major red flag. The palace has a bunch of information on ancient magic, lore about rebelling against the Gods, basically serves to give edgelord power ups and a direction in order to go back to his real home world. He gets an eyepatch, robot arm, makes another pistol, learns how to summon fucking motorcycles and SUVs, all your favorite fantasy items. Oh and again the loli comes over nude while he’s bathing and exposes herself, offering herself to him. Pretty sure it’s implied they fuck. Some more stuff happens, they meet a bunny girl thats a ditzy, lusty companion they raid another dungeon, get some more stuff, go try to find another dungeon, really more of the same and if it sounds like I’m breezing through this its because the show does to. After spending like 5 episodes for one dungeon they accomplish a shit ton in three more.
“I want Hajime to take my virginity”
– an actual quote form Shea the rabbit girl
You may be wondering, wow you watched 8 episodes instead of three? Why would you do that? Well I wanted to see what would happen once Hajime reunited with anyone who thought he was dead, see if it added any additional character growth, any intrigue, anything really. It didn’t. He still acts like a cocky edgelord only now his teacher and some other students are joining him. I then lost complete interest in the plot. I also could not look away from the absolutely horrendous 3D monsters in this show. They look like someone’s first day in Blender, even Babylon 5 looks better than this trash. It’s also just so visually jarring when juxtaposed with the 2D animation (also feels like the models are running at 20 fps). They don’t get better, I don’t think they’ll ever get better. I really should have stopped though. The relationship between Hajime and Yue, the loli, was pretty uncomfortable to see. We here at Topanimetrash.com are very against lewding lolis and will automatically classify any show that does so as trash. Shea the rabbit girl isn’t much better. She’s at least older but wears a skimpy outfit, explicitly showing off her assets as she even states directly in the show “wants Hajime to take my virginity”. Yes, all the girls wanna bone edgelord. The show just got worse and worse with each episode that I just lost interest. If you must watch this show, stick to early episodes so you can see some laughably bad CGI but spend your time elsewhere. This isn’t good trash, it’s just bad.
Is it trash? YES
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆