Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody

The Isekai genre may have its most frustratingly mundane anime yet. This lighthearted story revolves around a super strong male protagonist living in a MMORPG type world with an envious amount of female admirers. An inspired concept!

Unoriginality aside, I am addicted to these exact settings in anime. But unlike the others in the genre, such as "Rising of the Shield Hero", "How Not to Summon a Demon Lord", "Wise Man's Grandchild" and even "SAO", the overpowered character does practically nothing with his level 200+, unlimited skill points and "Watch Dogs" type surveillance powers in a world where a Demon Lord is only level 70. He doesn't even use his holy swords. Yes! Plural!

Although his double digit amount of female companions don't know the true extent of his power, it's not a plot point. In fact, I don't think this has a plot. He doesn't try to search for evil enemies, doesn't go on quests, doesn't try to get back to Japan, doesn't even do merchant stuff although claiming 5 times an episode he's a merchant. I guess a positive from that is they don't have any plot holes...

Nevertheless, I enjoyed it. Much like One Punch Man this story follows more of the day to day lives of the characters and their friendships. The major difference is that this show has minimal anticipation, mediocre pay offs and the main character basically pretends to be a nobody.

I love that the harem of girls actually has some more variety than usual. Plus, the different way in which the mc entered the world was neat. However, that Zena girl drove me absolutely crazy. If they every do come out with a season 2, they need to leave her boring predictable *ss completely out of it. Marry her off to someone and disappear her forever, please.

Why the isakai characters are acting so polite and kind. It's not cool, more like dumb. This guy reaches the top level at the first episode, still fights like a noob.

When I first started to watch this anime, I didn't expect much because it had IMDB rating 6.6. But When I started watching I really liked this anime. The idea of programmer going into game is pretty common in isekai animes. But this anime is kind of different because it has less fight sequences and emphasizes more on the life of the MC in the parallel world. If you want to watch a lighthearted isekai anime with some fight scenes then this anime is for you.

The core of the show centers around a "OP" protagonist trying to understand the world he's in and maybe get home (no shock) but the difference in this case is how he handles it.

Overall he's avoiding making major waves, careful in most instances to hide what & how powerful he is and when cornered underplays his part giving others credit. Again not reinventing the wheel but handled fairly well.

The majority of the show seems to center around how the protagonist is handling his interactions and individual relationships and mostly subtle attempts to try and change the world views / prejudice of those in the same world.

Although it's technically in the Harem category and does give some "Fan Service" in a few instances the reason for the women following him make sense. It's a feudal world and a "man" (he's roughly 15 in appearance) who's not treating those under him horrifically (power wise, servants and spaces) and treating women as equals is unusual and would be a draw logically. The few "Fan Service" moments aside he's going out of his way to avoid inappropriate interactions / allowing his female companions to make sexual advances and instead is making a safe environment for them.

Add in some moments where the character struggles with some real concerns (before he's lost in the enjoyment of the new experience) and it's an above average anime. However it won't appeal to all due to the lack of action in every episode, the focus on relationship building etc.

Genre's are Fantasy, Isekai and Harem