The Dark Summoner #01 — Follow the Status Screen

July 9th, 2022

 

Please stop making this exact show over and over.

Teppen's second episode was flat out canceled this week because it was about those wacky girls getting involved with a wacky presidential assassination plot. Which, uh… Yeah. Recent events might have made that a bit… fraught. They're moving right on to the third episode next week. This is, what I believe the kids call, a Nice Boat kind of situation.

Impressions:

But here we have the last of the (new) cheat power reincarnation status screen slave wife affairs, and it certainly has all of those. He spends a while following a chirping status screen, then goes to the guild to listen to an explanation of basic hierarchy, then goes to grind on some slimes. We're a slower paced affair though, so we only start to get to the One Simple Trick that gives him the ultimate cheat powers. But don't worry, he also wanders past a bunch of broken slave girls dressed up for sexual servitude, which he… is quite ambivalent to, ignores, and just wanders off. But we know that they're there now, ready for him to buy them to be a good sex slave owner!

There's literally nothing notable about this one. It is Another God Forsaken One of These in a season that already has too many. Animation is mediocre, which admittedly puts it in the middle of the pack as far as these stupid things are concerned, but there's nothing whatsoever unique or even ambitious about this that would make it stand out. I guess there's not a whole lot of yelling, so it's not obnoxious in that way, but what else is there? It's not trying for the extra T&A, nor the Serious Drama crowd by offing somebody or being particularly gory, and even if you're here for the misogynstic power fantasy, it's only crawling its way towards the inevitable. Enough of this dross already.

     

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5 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • LUNI_TUNZ says:

    Jesus, Joseph and Mary. At some point the law of diminishing returns has to kick in on the isekai genre, right?

    Like, are these even written by actual humans anymore? Do they look at what they’ve written and go, “Good job, me.” Because if they were written by AI, it would make a hell of a lot more sense.

    I mean, it’s no wonder Spy x Family got so popular. It actually feels original, and leans into it’s ridiculous premise.

    • Aroduc says:

      It certainly seems to have a staying power that even stuff like the magical girlfriend or harem landlord phases lacked. Sword Art Online was ten bloody years ago.

  • NeclordX says:

    This one felt more like an actual game tutorial than an anime. And thats sayling A LOT considering how these shows are already quite tutorial-like.
    But this one was a literal tutorial

  • Joshua says:

    And I thought Engage Kiss was going to be the “content” series of this season.

    Nope, we have this literal embodiment of “content” right here, whose only purpose is to keep feeding casual viewers a bland gruel of what they want from an isekai series until they’re full, then repeat 11 or 12 more times before moving on to consuming the next piece of “content”. There’s no taste and it is quickly forgotten.

  • The Phantom says:

    Isekai, Slimes, Summoner, seriously? the only thing he is missing is a freaking Smartphone to cast magic with.