![]() ![]() Hajime is fighting god, and his class is fighting in the war that god puppeteered. I try to be fair to fans of works I criticize, so to fans of Arifureta: I get it.Īfter 25 episodes + 4 OVAs, I kind of love the cast’s dynamic, and the larger plot isn’t a conceptual failure. I’m here to make a much more difficult case, to zealously advocate for Arifureta as one of the greatest works of garbage media ever crafted. Nobody is interested in hearing a teardown of Arifureta. I could write pages on how bad Arifureta is, but I’m not here to do that. But Arifureta is not an anime that cannot be assessed straightforwardly. I won’t deny this made the anime worse, White Fox’s isekai adaptations most proximate to Arifureta’s production, Re:Zero and Cautious Hero, are both impressive technically, and that quality would no doubt improve Arifureta in a straightforward critical sense. To fans of Arifureta, this was a horrible curse that doomed the anime to failure. Arifureta represents the opposite side of that coin, having swapped studios from the reliable White Fox to the reliably terrible asread. This is often a positive force, it’s what allowed Takehiko Inoue to hold out on Slam Dunk adaptations until he could personally sit in the director’s chair - the result being The First Slam Dunk, the best sports anime of all time. Due to a quirk in Japanese copyright law (Moral Rights or jinkaku-ken), authors often have the authority to approve or disapprove adaptations and fan works. Manga and light novel authors have a surprising amount of control over adaptations of their work. ![]() But a straightforward critical assessment misses most of what Arifureta has to offer. no thematic depth or interesting plot mechanics to compensate. It’s a juvenile power fantasy with all around horrible production values, and By the standards of any reasonable critic, Arifureta is terrible. They present a holistic understanding of their subject matter through the lens of isekai.Īrifureta paints a portrait every bit as honest, though not on purpose.ĭo not mistake my recommendation for a positive critical assessment. Classics of the current movement like Re:Zero and Mushoku Tensei use the isekai premise to examine what their otaku protagonists want, what they need to grow as people, and how aspects of their otaku identity can help and hinder that growth. The best isekai paint honest portraits of otakuism. Taking an interest in him, Yue and a few others along the way accompany Hajime on his journey to find a way back home, while steadily transforming from commonplace to the world's strongest. Desperate to live and return home one day, he resolves to fight for his survival-only to meet an imprisoned vampire he names Yue, who is also seeking to escape the labyrinth. Though he survives the fall, Hajime is faced with menacing monsters and misfortunes that send him spiraling into a grim nightmare. ![]() While his classmates are gifted with impressive abilities useful in combat, Hajime is belittled for only gaining an inferior transmutation skill that lacks any real offensive power.ĭuring an expedition in the Great Orcus Labyrinth, Hajime is betrayed by one of his classmates, plummeting him to the bottom of an abyss. The ordinary life of 17-year-old otaku Hajime Nagumo is disrupted when he and his classmates are summoned to a fantasy world and tasked with saving mankind.
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