Review of My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1
It's very decidedly average. Maybe even below that. I do enjoy the world. There's some fun things there. Economically it doesn't make sense for a world where everything is monster drops. Including money. After all that would be... you know what I'm not going to go on a gold rush rant yet again. I spend two hours fuming to myself after that episode. Again I like the world. Economics aside it is interesting to be in a world where everything comes from drops. I even like that when left alone they spawn more powerfully as Strays if left alone. It's WILDLY inconsistent about that though. Sometimesthe presence of a city is enough people to keep things from spawning into strays and sometimes it isn't. When they're camping and have a make shift city the garbage is still a danger even though people around the trash all day and all night.
I read this manga and I'm still weirded at that the mangaka designed the primary waifu to BE an elementary school aged appearance. Like not he was shooting for adorable and she just happened to look like a 3rd grader. Nah 3rd grader was the goal. She looks marginally better in the anime though. The only Waifu of interest is Eve. She's a literal one note character who only cares about carrots. She's obnoxiously strong. But she's fun enough to watch. The final Waifu, Alice, is the least interesting. Ostensibly she has a skill as a monster hunter/beast tamer but it's not explored. It means less than nothing and suddenly she's part of the family.
I liked the complexity of the OP skill in the manga. I think they simplified it here too much. The way the bullet mechanic works. Unfortunately even though this was among the first Isekai's I'd read (technically I've seen a few of the classics but this was the first I've read since it became a fully fledged genre). It's exactly what I expected from an Isekai based on the background tones I was getting. It's dumb, it's power fantasy-ish, it's harem-ish. It's not breaking new ground. It's reductive. That said I will say it doesn't fail. It's a successful anime. It has it's story, it has it's characters. There's progress of a kind. It's excellent for turning my brain off for 30 minute segments. I'm done with it and I don't have any interest in seeing more of it. I must be behind on the manga. So I'll dig up that and finish it and if it ends here. So be it. I wanted the world to be explored more but if it isn't. There are much better shows out there.