The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me?
八男って、それはないでしょう！
“25-year-old reincarnates as poor noble's 6th son, using magic to rise from poverty.”
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Synopsis
25-year-old reincarnates as poor noble's 6th son, using magic to rise from poverty.
Waking up in a new world, 25-year-old Shingo Ichinomiya realizes that he is in the body of a six-year-old. Retaining memories of his stressful life working at a firm company, Shingo learns that the person he is occupying is Wendelin Von Benno Baumeister, the eighth son of a poor noble family living in the countryside. Awoken to his bizarre situation, Wendelin strives to change his financial and social status for the better. His newly discovered great magical aptitude may prove to be just what he needs to achieve that goal.
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What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 116 sampled reviews
4.9/10
What 116
viewers
settled on.
37% recommend
Score distribution
Agreement
SplitPolarized
σ 2.18 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.8 ptsRecommenders 7.7 · others 2.9
Yes
7.7
No
2.9
Score over time
0.08Verbosity
Short · 44%
Medium · 34%
Long · 22%
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7/10 “I see real potential in this OP MC-based anime and find myself strangely loving the show despite its flaws. However, the forced harem and romance elements, combined with the protagonist's lack of...”
- 9/10 “The artwork is top tier and the animation is personally loved, which is partly why the rating is so high, and the story so far makes me want a lot more without resorting to ecchi-style fan service....”
- 7/10 “This anime gets more hate than it deserves — while it's admittedly a very generic isekai with a bland story and characters that aren't fleshed out, it has a nice Konosuba-ish comedic vibe that...”
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me? begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-14722
- Format
- 12 × 23′
- eps × min
- Total runtime
- 4h 36m
- all episodes
- Aired
- Apr 2020 – Jun 2020
- Spring 2020
- Source
- Tv
- media type
- Rated
- PG
- 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref.
- BS-14722
- catalog