Review of The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash

The Weakest Tamer follows Femicia, a daughter in a village awaiting her awakening skill along with her reincarnated split-personality. After her fifth birthday and awakening she receives a starless tamer skill and is ridiculed by the villagers and even her own family members; She decides to escape the village and explore the lands with her skill hiding under the guise of a boy named Ivy. It is on this journey where Ivy learns the true values of family and kinship. Story & Characters: 5/10 The story is very simple: There is no story or goal. In The Weakest Tamer, the story is more like an impromptu andorganic flow of events that we encounter as Ivy explores the world. There isn't any direct goal or milestones beyond Ivy's efforts to explore the world while scavenging for useful materials and equipment. This means the story does lack in substance and overall impact on the characters but that means it doesn't follow suit with other reincarnation/fantasy series.

The characters are vast but they all lack depth; They are surface level because instead of dwelling on a niche set of characters the series intends on having characters that are organically developed through natural encounters with Ivy and Sora. This makes their personalities and roles more authentic in a storytelling aspect. I enjoyed the character establishment and development but what I didn't really enjoy was the split personality Femicia had with her reincarnated persona. It felt really awkward and broke up the immersion with such outlandish dialogue of her speaking to herself vocally. I'd rather have one persona or the other if I had the choice; If not, perhaps a persona that can voice itself as a companion instead of an invisible 'in my head demon' like what we see with Femicia/Ivy. It's wacky but not in a good way.

Art & Sound: 6/10
The art was very detailed and colorful; Animation in the environment scenes were fluid by modern standards and it was visually appealing to watch throughout the series. The character designs felt a bit low budget especially when it came to characters from the Guild in the latter half of the series where their movements and designs just felt very low budget. Otherwise I was pleasantly surprised with how well the animation of Sora and the other slimes were handled.

The sound design was fairly decent by modern standards. Nothing stood out as extraordinary to me in terms of voice acting, sound effects or music choice.

Overall & Enjoyment: 5/10
Overall, I think it was a decent watch. There wasn't anything deep or super symbolic in this series since it was more of a casual and slow-moving narrative. The characters all felt really authentic and the premise was handled well; I just wished that Ivy/Femicia's character didn't have split personalities.