Review of Summoned to Another World for a Second Time

I wanted to like this anime. I'm easy to please, I consume many anime that most people consider mediocre or straight up trash. I'm very forgiving of a lot of things, but man this one was rough. The first 8 episodes were acceptable to my low standards, I noticed some things that were a bit too silly to overlook for most people, but for me, it wasn't that big of a deal. The last 4 episodes broke me. It takes a lot for me to hate something, but immediately I was turned off. At this point I just wanted to finish it. I needed palate cleansersbetween the remaining episodes. It was bad enough that I felt compelled to write a review. I normally avoid writing reviews, because I know not everyone is as forgiving of anime as I am.

I've seen many reviews where they say certain studios completely botched series' and took too many liberties with story changes and order, so I had to know if it was the same for Isekai Shoukan wa Nidome desu. I've been reading it for a bit now, I plan to read all of it, and I have come to the conclusion that it is significantly better. Setsu is a bit more interesting, he's not the generic good guy the anime depicts, he has more flaws and it makes him somewhat more likeable. The anime removed and added things, where if they had just stuck to the source material, it would have been fine. The story of the anime was all over the place, it was rushed and reveals of powers weapons and abilities were lackluster and unimpressive. Many supporting characters are completely wasted, forgettable, rushed or no background info, and such generic npcs that it hurts. I recognize that it's still not amazing, but the source material is way better to me by comparison. The way that the source was written was already paced like an anime that was edited for TV, it didn't need to be changed.

The last time I had an anime leave this bad of a taste in my mouth was the first half of season 2 of Rising of Shield Hero, which I still need to finish and will probably read parts I didn't like. Even though it was rushed and disjointed it was still better than this one. I could at lest tell that the source likely had potential. They changed so much in this one that I didn't have much hope for the source but was somewhat relieved to find out it was practically a story from an alternate reality than this anime came from.

To sum it up, I like trash, but this was way too bad even for me, so viewer beware. I recommend reading over watching if you have tastes or as low standards as myself. Studio Elle either needs to make major changes to how it's run or give up all together, because if they keep going like this, the next project will be awful as well. I do not have high hopes for "Party kara Tsuihou sareta Sono Chiyushi, Jitsu wa Saikyou ni Tsuki" as a result of this experience, but I will still check it out out of morbid curiosity.