Am I Actually the Strongest? #01 — Super Cubes
July 1st, 2023
I cannot wait for this fad to end. …Please say it'll end.
Impressions:
I keep holding out hope that one of these will genuinely surprise me in the way that shows like Milky Holmes did. Just by the sheer number of these, one of them has to eventually be made by somebody with actual talent and ambition who lost a bet and was forced into doing one of these with enough freedom to make an actual subversive parody, or even just a compelling story. But today is not that day, and this is not that show. His power level is maximum. The sorting hat says it is minimum. He is a thirty plus year old man with a harem consisting of a slave dog, his adopted twelve year old sister, and god only knows what else.
The story is the same awful cheat power thing as all the others. The budget is on par with Ryza's, which is to say non-existent. The story likewise doesn't deign to show up in any form except "has a naked slave dog," which is also most of the jokes. Even the whole "baby nukes a monster" has been done in at least three other shows in the last year, and all this does is conjure up some cubes like it was a lazy PS1 RPG. The two most notable things about it are that the music is a bit weird, and the stepmother's voice is ridiculously high pitched and nasally, like listening to someone rub a balloon. Those are your selling points here, I guess. Eat your slop.
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I did not expect to be saying it but whatever happened to classic isekai that at least had a thin veneer or better yet where are the experiments? grimgar and others who tried to play with presets?
Whole max power thing seems big in China so I think it will go on until they have no market there or they run it into ground harder than “rando with a tsundere battle wife” LN concept.
I still recall the younger me thinking Irregular at Magic High School would be the peak of overpoweredness