Review of CHOYOYU!: High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World!

There is a major flaw in this anime, the attempt to make the 7 protagonist the “Best of the world” in their specialties, even so it’s a good idea to have multiple geniuses to be in a plot, the throwback is that is also difficult to make them, if you don’t know what makes a magician or a doctor to be the best, you simply will fail to create those characters, that was way too ambitious. Let’s talk about the seven main characters: Right in the first minutes of the show they emphasize how “Badass” and that they still are in the high school, that is justa blunt way to introduce characters, and the truth is, they actually don’t show why they are the best, it would be way better if they were prodigies that have the potential to be the best of the entire history instead of announcing they are the best.

The characters are actually mixed in my opinion for the question of technical quality. The order of best to worse is: Merchant > Doctor > Ninja > Inventor > Politician > Magician > Samurai

The Merchant is by far the best character in this show, as technical and how close the plot shows that he’s the best in the world. The arc of him in the beginning was good, and I liked even the introduction of the pink cat girl. Overall this one is a well made character in my opinion.

The Doctor is an above the average type, she has a good character design, personality and ways to show why is she good, I think the author needed to research at least a little bit for her dialogues. Whatever there wasn’t much shine and she isn’t that original.

The Ninja is an average anime girl, but her main jobs being a ninja and a reporter is kind of interesting, whatever besides fighting and doing undercover jobs she also didn’t shine as she should, being the best reporter and all, she actually didn’t tell any strategies that she could use to do things right, resuming, she was badass because the author wanted to and not because the author showed to the viewers why is she badass.

The Inventor was an interesting character, but her job was basically null in all the episodes, the only objective of her existing in the show was to excuse their technological advances and to have a romance war later on.

The Politician was average until a point in specific, for me he simply didn’t gave the impression of being the “Best politician in the world”, he only has an intelligence above the average and knows how to communicate, the only shown strategy that he thought and executed was weak, almost like the author knew what was going to happen and told the protagonist what to do instead of the character thinking to himself a plan with a data he acquired with the ninja. Also the “until a point in specific” that I wrote in the beginning was the actual pathetic colloquial misconception that he had when trying to explain why another character was lying by only saying like ‘He was avoiding looking in my eyes, and his expression tended to a lie’, right there you can see that the author just didn’t research at all how to know when someone lies and even so created a character that does that.
First of all, the main argument was “avoiding eye contact”, actually that is not correct, it has been scientifically proven that generally someone that is lying and wants you to believe in him will look at your face for feedback, instead of avoiding. And second, you make the “Oh, he was lying because his expressions were of a liar”, well that is just evasive, it doesn’t show that the character actually knows and trained such skill.

The magician is another example of the author’s research lack, he just took a bunch of illusionism acts straight from his ass instead of trying to explore real magician tricks, seriously there are some out there that is just impressive, but you would need to research a lot and work hard on it, well who told you to try to make the “Best magician of the world” character.

Now by dead last is the Samurai, seriously just don’t, don’t exist, why this character is in the plot? Just for the protection of the party? Or for the cliché of needing someone to cut bullets with a katana? This character is the personification of unrealistic action anime, nothing original and just bad. If her wasn’t in the anime it’s score would increase at least a point or two. Someone even gets pride by being the best samurai of the world in modernity? Anyone knows the best samurai alive of our generation? Yeah maybe one for each a hundred thousand would, and that’s being positive.

EDIT: After thinking about the Samurai character I realized how lazy the story build is, it would be really simple to fix this one, just make her able to use magic to enhance her body, and that would explain the unrealism that she have inside the new world and would make the plot more interesting, also being logically perfect, because as her being the fighter she might be the best out of the seven to learn something new that envolves physical effort, considering that a fighter generally has patience, will and stamina. This just shows the incompetence of the author about storytelling, always wanting things to just happens as he want, instead of using his own creation to explain how something happens.
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At the beginning of the anime, the kiss really was bad, I don’t understand why the necessity of it, and in a technical way it was just unrealistic and not fitting. They try to make as an unconscious suggestion of the protagonist saying “Like a mother bird feeding his child” so the heroine can kiss him, but in my opinion that wouldn’t be enough to overpass the social fear of not knowing someone that came from a giant metal bird, it’s just not emotionally or logically accurate.
At the end of it, well, it was just bad, in the last episode they ended the villain by an impactful and original way, but them the author “revived” him just so the anime could have some cliché action of ‘Let’s fight the evil guy, friends!’, just awful.

As a conclusion, don’t watch it if you don’t like isekai, the first season is just not that worth it. I might see the second if it comes out, but not with high hopes.