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

Overall a fairly polished anime, but also a very disappointing one. The animation has some flash to it surprisingly, it's pretty good and a pleasure to watch. The character detail can be a bit lacking at times, but overall it's exceptionally tidy. The backgrounds are really good and consistent to boot. The story and characters start out fantastic. There's depth and intrigue, it's fairly dark and hits home. However, much to my disappointment, the latter epsiodes start to be more of the typical isekai cheese. Character development slows, and the characters around the main character lose most of the charm the previous characters had. Thestory also slows down quite a bit and loses the grit it began with, becoming rather typical and lackluster.

The voice acting was pretty much the same story, but dropped off pretty quickly. There was a character with fantastic voice acting in the first couple of episodes, but then it grew more average in terms of performance. It was still decently cast and not grating, but a little disappointing given how it started. The soundtrack is actually pretty decent as well, but gets a little cheesy towards the end. I love the op, but the ed is... weak. Not sure how else to say that, but weak is a good desciptor.

Overall, I'm pretty disappointed. What started out looking like high 7's to low 8's and a real hidden gem turned into a fairly mediocre isekai. Not bad, just not to the level of the intitial episodes. So it ends up being more of a high-ish 6. Sad days. I really don't think there is any coming back from this either. I don't see how they can reattain the intial grit they had given the direction the characters and story are heading.

6.75/10.0 Dubbed