Review of Isekai Quartet

So anime finally did it huh?...it did an Avengers: Isekai Anime Short Edition Isekai Quartet is one of the FIRST animes to ever bring in four anime from different franchises, in this case, KonoSuba, Youjo Senki, Overlord and ReZero all together!, the closest thing near this feat was Carnival Phantasm with it's Type-Moon titles but nonetheless... Here's the thing, having these four anime franchises and how the character all mingling together is one thing, but even all four of the animes have ties to one another, giving us many allusions towards each of their anime franchises counterparts and even making jokes to go along with that!. Tosay this anime short was LA favourite comedy of Spring 2019 is an understatement and heck the only anime franchise LA hasn't all of was Overlord (only finished it's first season by the time of writing this review) but LA STILL know it's jokes.

The basic plot towards Isekai Quartet is that a mysterious switch appears in each of the isekai worlds, guess what happens later and all the main cast of their respective series lands in a..high school setting, for our protagonists they did a ReCreators while the rest of the cast have been isekai'd in an anime short isekai collab!. But the school seems to have it's own secret dealings, much like the case as all the higher up characters of each series are the teachers and maintain "order"...for some reason.

Nonetheless the plot isn't where the main focus is at, of course not, it's the comedy and all the different franchise mingling with one another. LA said that all the characters have a connection with one another and this just isn't in personality, but in their respective parent stories as well. For instances, Subaru and Ainz are good friends with one another why?...well Subaru has faced death so many times and Ainz being an undead (but also embodiment of death in his homeworld) it's a given, but Ainz also wants a friend and Subaru is ok with that, the other would be Kazuma and Tanya, why do these two have a connection when one comes from a comedy while the other a violent military fantasy?, well Tanya is VIGILANT towards Kazuma as his "type" was the one who got Tanya's old self killed and well Kazuma is the butt monkey as per usual. Isekai Quartet just makes it al connect and again it's jokes especially works in a similar way.

The animation done by Studio PuYUKAI has the entire four casts in chibi mode and in a pretty decent way, sure it's all chibi but even the animation can be detailed at times for effect. Studio PuYUKAI did a great job as result.

The voice acting, well we have four voice casts together so that's an undertaking in itself but some notable examples would be the protagonists Aoi Yuuki as Tanya, Jun Fukushima as Kazuma, Satoshi Hino as Ainz and Yuusuke Kobayashi as Subaru but also to add from the protagonists, Yumi Hara as Albedo, Sora Amamiya as Aqua, Ai Kayano as Darkness and pulling double duty Rie Takahashi as Megumin and Emilia, Yuusuke Kobayashi as Subaru and Warren and Yumi Uchiyama as Puck and Mare Forte. Really the voice casts are back and that's what all that matters, just awesome.

Now if there were any flaws towards this anime short, is just two, let's get the obvious out of the way first, if you haven't watched of dipped your toes in ALL four franchises you'll miss the many nods and jokes of their respective anime franchises, sure the character jabbing is there but to fully enjoy it, at least having watched all four of the anime franchises is a given (or if your like LA and didn't watch Overlord but watched the rest, the first season is enough). the second would be since the huge cast of characters from FOUR anime franchises are coming together and this is an anime short, that means the screentime for many of the characters are limited to say the least and this even comes into play all the crazier scenarios Isekai Quartet could pull off, like LA wanted Megumin and Emilia interacting together, Darkness and Shalltear going at it, Cocytus and Visha talking about war life. BUT to this what we still got was nonetheless a crazy collab-ing comedy conundrum of craziness.

The finale was good in many aspects with it teasing with EVEN MORE characters being in this crossover anime short. But even with the finale's arc taking something soo typical of a school-comedy and taken up to an eleven with expected results from the Isekai Quartet...the ending was fun and great.

Isekai Quartet easily takes LA's favorite comedy of Spring 2019 and it was freakin' anime short, but the precedence of a collab-ing anime is unheard of, so to say that Isekai Quartet breaking ground in the anime front is actually an understatement and LA would happily put Isekai Quartet as one of LA's favorite animes of Spring 2019, WITHOUT A DOUBT and with it announcing a second season, LA will be pumped especially with the tease of more characters being in this anime short, really whenever LA watched Isekai Quartet it always brought a smile to LA's face.

What next? Shingeki no Kyojin, One Punch Man, Ao no Exorcist and Boku no Hero Academia have a collab under the Shueisha umbrella?