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Totally not everyone’s cup of tea, with some flaws, but made with a lot of love!

First of all, a show about proper adults doing adult stuff? No magic bullshit? Not “I died in the office because of overwork, now I am in a world of camping”? Hallelujah, brother! (Especially because socially clueless people can have a peek what adults could behave like.)

Let’s mention the 2 flaws: animation quality is sometimes too cheap, BUT bearable. And the female protagonist’s friends are super annoying. (Both visual design and character) Hopefully the male friend doesn’t turn out to be a complete dick.

Otherwise, a real chill and heartwarming series ... so far. You won’t learn how to camp from this anime, but I recommend it for the vibes. Luckily, no “buy this brand of tent or gear” stuff is mixed in between the lines. So, nothing really special happens, but makes you want to touch grass.

(And I hope it wasn’t sponsored by serial killers who specialize in solo campers.)

The first 3 episodes felt really off. It looks like the original, the soundtrack is similar, but is it the continuation we waited for? It felt like a totally different writing style, and the jokes too! It didn’t feel right. Bland, empty. Like someone took the skin of the characters, and tried to direct a half-assed fanfic.
The “special” (the sea-men, remember?) had negative value. I almost dropped the series because of it. Nothing, but empty “haha, pop-culture reference” “jokes”, just like when the parody movie genre died. The F&F with the little white swimmers made zero sense, and it was dumb. Saturday morning cartoons can ... do the “makes zero sense and dumb” in the fun way.

Then episode 4 came. It finally clicked! Maybe they changed the staff, maybe the first 3 episodes were an elaborate shitpost (remember, a whole season of Pop Team Epic was a shitpost), but it changed, and now it feels engaging. Hopefully this stays for the rest of the season.

Haha, isekai! Haha, now the protagonist is a vending machine!
This was really fun for one season, but that’s it. Fun’s over. Practically everything was achieved in season 1, what can be achieved. It could have been a nice, dense, fun, and memorable one-season miracle, but they decided to continue the “generic fantasy isekai with a twist”. The idea is not that great to fill several seasons.

And let me post it, god damn it! It’s a gimmick isekai, can’t expect much from the characters and story! Generic heroes, generic supervillain in a generic world. It feels mass-produced at best. Maybe good for one’s first gimmick isekai.