Review of My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1

An Isekai where a dungeon drops things like weapons and groceries that's exclusive, how neat, but being OP while being stuck at Level 1, it's not. For time millennia, on and off, Isekai stories have all been the same copy-pasted blurb that doesn't distinguish one from the rest, and there's really no point on the discussion that every new Isekai from progressing anime seasons will ever be any better, at the very least to stand out. It's the same affair with novelist Nazuna Miki, whom in his run has created at least a new work every other year since 2013, creating mediocre works that are moreof less bootleg copies of already available material that did it better or just as worse. What's even more surprising that Miki Nazuna is born Taiwanese but is an active AniManga (LN and manga) writer in Japan who claims, quote, "wants to be the fastest in the industry". Yeah right, as if writing copy-paste, cheaply imitated ideas already done before will get you so far in your job as a low form of imitation.

I really don't want to highlight all the typical Isekai mediocrity nonsense if it has been done one and the same, so let's just focus on what makes this show really stand out: its dungeon system. For the MC, Ryota Sato, dies from overwork and gets reincarnated into a dungeon where seemingly, he was monster loot from the typical low-level slime, and gets an explanation from the girl that killed it of the uniqueness of the monster loot, ranging it from weapons to everyday groceries like fruits and vegetables. However, where this "Telulu" dungeon that they were at now, there is this "Nihonium" dungeon that for some inexplicable reason, doesn't drop items from monster killings for the typical fantasy folk who goes into the dungeon looking for a profit. That, and which only when Ryota does the same RPG-like actions to it, however, has droppings instead that are meant for S-rank adventurers, which Ryota being Level 1, it should be impossible. But hey, rules are meant to be broken, which if you haven't ready caught on by now, it's naming gimmick should already be an indication in and of itself that quite possibly, reincarnated figures like Ryota essentially are the only people who could benefit from this Nihonium dungeon.

However, let's not kid ourselves here. Ryota is as bland as the average, typical OP MC as it gets, that as the show (and its original source material) surmises that indeed, Ryota's unique skill truly makes him OP even at Level 1. All that he's good for are the usual aspects of a good Samaritan, and the unique skill that when a gun comes in, he's like an alchemist to fuse and combine traits to make new and distinguished bullets for the weapon's use. His saviour of young girl Emily Brown, she is quite the enthuiastic kid who sports a huge hammer as her main weapon and plays fiddle to Ryota being his support and family as a growing party. The bunny girl of Eve Callusleader is quite the literate "support" character: she is strong enough to one-shot KO adventurers with her hand chop skill, but this doesn't apply to Ryota, which she starts calling him "low-level" due to her angst, and her only appeal is carrots, since she's a bunny girl, that's all. The other support characters, who also plays fiddle to the "Ryota Family" party...is the typical harem party of sorts, which, come on, there's no reason for lazy writing like that, but since Miki Nazuna himself wants to be "the fastest", he's fueled by the laziness to not be inspired by anything and go the safe route, which par for the course helps lengthen the story, but it does not do anything to satisfy our tastes for a suited cast of characters who are just as barebones as they arrive.

I'm not surprised that Maho Film is tasked with the show's production, which if to be perfectly honest, since the studio's debut exactly 4 years ago with novelist Chirolu's Summer 2019 anime of UchiMusume a.k.a If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord, the production may matured overtime, but this show just brought me back to UchiMusume's level of quality, which isn't saying a fair lot, but the studio really is the kind of a 2nd-rate production house that tells you not to expect much from it. I'm just waiting for the chance for the now 5-year-old studio to have a breakthrough, but if being content with where it is does give it a better face, then let it be so with a decent production. Together with the music of its OP and ED songs which are average, it does its job for that one sole purpose only.

Nowadays, people can skip barebones mediocre Isekai shows because they are nothing noteworthy at all. But as a trash Isekai connoisseur, my fight with watching lots of 2nd and 3rd-rate studios producing average Isekai shows every season will continue on, because there could still be potential, but 99% of the time, that potential is wasted, just like with this show.

Just skip and move on.