Anime 52482 Sasaki To Pii-chan Reviews Filter Check 3

This anime is just a complete mess...

""Want a slice of life anime about a mid 30s guy finally deciding to owe a pet? We got just want you need!

Or, do you want a isekai story where you can live up your power fantasy? Boy you are in luck !!

Want to also try to conquer the isekai world through economy and trading and slowly build an enterprise in that medieval world?
Say no more !!!

But now you say that this is a generic isekai and you're thinking of switching to something else ? Wait !! We saw that you liked isekai Ojisan and we know that ... we can do it better!
Our "Ojisan" comes back to his salary life with magic powers !!

Now what can he do with his powers in the real world?.... Hmm...
I know ! Lets throw in shady government organization fighting paranormal people into the mix that recruits our Ojisan!

Oh yea, i forgot to mention that this is also a gourmet show for the hell of it. We cannot have the netflix one be the only one this season.

Now all we need is an yandere loli that will force herself onto our Ojisan...
Ha! Joking ,we got that already!!!""

By the end of it i am sure that we will also go to space and find out that aliens were the real enemies all along....

Sasaki to Pii-chan started out interesting enough: You have a first episode that looked like typical isekai slop only for it to shift gears completely into urban fantasy with espers in the second half. Count me sold I thought at the time. But no, alas, it's yet another case of "interesting premise, bad execution".

Actually no, it's worse than that. Bad execution can sometimes lead to amusing trainwrecks, this is just overly bland. I had just finished watching the last episode a few hours ago and already I'm forgetting plot details.

One of the main issues with this is how it lacks any sort of ... focus. Even within the Isekai stuff which takes up like half of the season, it jumps between slow life, business management, (boring) political intrigue, and there are some battles in there too. I could not give less of a shit for most of these, and Marc-san's Mild Ride taking up the bulk of the Isekai segments made me wonder why Sasaki is involved with any of this at all.

It's not like the other segments fare any better either. The Real World segments are even more messy. You have the show juggling between many plot threads with his supernatural spy agency and evil espers, then suddenly they throw in Mahou Shoujos who use a different magic system altogether. I wouldn't have minded any of this if the show have given proper buildup, development, and payoff to these sudden shifts in the narrative, but the original author seemingly just dumped them whenever he got bored of a particular plot thread.

But the biggest crime in all of this is how boring everything just ended up being. Even Sugita and Yuuki Aoi sound like they're phoning it in most of the time. But even if the voice acting was good it still wouldn't save the show from siphoning away your life energy the more you look at it. There is just way too much boring expository dialogue that don't contribute much to the mess of a plot and just serves to bore you even more.

In short, if this was like your very first show after watching nothing but Netflix, then yeah, maybe you'd find some kind of enjoyment from how different it is, but just don't bother with the show.

I guess the one saving grace is that the OP is unintentionally funny. Though that is immediately negated by its creepy ass ED.

(update upon completion)

The anime turned out to be fragmented and ill-structured till the end. Among the many characters introduced (with polarizing traits), not a single one left a lasting impression on me; the connections between the characters were also very weak. Perhaps this was intended with much ambitions yet to be fully showcased; but for the audience, it was annoyingly chaotic.

The story's progression mainly revolved around the male protagonist Sasaki getting entangled in various issues in two different worlds and smoothly resolving them by navigating between various factions. The anime tried hard to portray Sasaki as a mature problem-solver, but the lack of persuasive problem-solving ... methods makes it difficult for the viewers to resonate, especially those with years of experience in the workplace. A main character lacking charm is devastating in this case.

I'm not sure which type of audience is this anime trying to target - overall I don't find it worth watching.

(preliminary review at ep.3)

This anime tried to incorporate so many elements that it became confusing. It's hard to predict where the story will end with current pacing.

Ep.1 took viewers on quite a ride. The first few minutes seemed like a healing slice-of-life story, but all of sudden the main character Sasaki was teleported to isekai by a talking bird. Then Sasaki got into trading for a while, but somehow he learnt magic and was forced into some secret government agency dealing with supernatural power IN REAL WORLD (?!). Not to mention the mysterious teenage girl living next door, who showed toxic love towards this 40 y/o man (wtf?), but seemed to have nothing to do with either isekai and secret agent…There were a lot going on, but they were all parallel with no clear connection points. It felt like a dish with too many ingredients.

Up until ep.3, the storytelling had been straightforward and lacked a clear focus. Sasaki was a typical salaryman, and to be honest there wasn't much fun watching him doing corporate things in isekai. Still, it was better than seeing Sasaki fighting - because the fighting scenes in this anime was subpar.

It remains to be seen how the story will progress; hopefully the multiple lines of plot would cross somewhere in this season.

This anime is really unorganized, the storyline is completely ruined, where is this anime actually going to focus? In Isekai or in his own world? I am also confused!

When reading synopses from various websites, many people think that this anime will be similar to anime Rōgo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu, I also think the same thing, but it's a shame that this anime is far from its initial concept.
At first I thought MC would focus on collecting money to survive, but apparently not, MC and Isekai's affairs seemed to pass quickly, all agreements went smoothly.
Even the MC can immediately enjoy ... the results of trading at Isekai.
Without any obstacles between MC and Isekai.

Apart from that, there is another confusing thing that turns out that in his own world there are people who have super powers, What is this? MC is even involved in an organization involving people with super powers, very confusing!

I was wondering why he had a bird that could take him to Isekai, but MC was more focused on matters in his own World.
What's the use of that bird?
If the MC world itself has a lot of dealings with superhumans, I think the Isekai is really not important, because MC just visited Isekai for business after that he came back again.

Basically what I want to say is where is this ANIME going to focus?

To Isekai or in his own world? In fact, in the world itself, there is a lot of busyness with other Superhumans.
This is very confusing for the audience.

In my opinion, this anime only has two choices so that the story looks neater, First choice focusing on Isekai with business matters and removing superpowered humans in the world MC that are not important. Because this disrupts MC's business with Isekai.
The second option is focused on the organization and superhumans in the world and delete the birds and the Isekai itself, because when it comes to money the MC should be able to get paid from the organization.

Just. No.

I don't know if its the lack of focus, or the trying to be so many different things at once, or just not knowing what it wants to be in the first place, this totally gave me whiplash that practically left a bad taste in my mouth. Seriously more than half the time I keep asking myself what the f I am watching and what fresh hell is this? Is it a general trend now since most genres are done to death and throwing everything and the kitchen sink into a blender is the way to go with Japanese LNs and animes nowadays? Surely ... they don't all think this is the best strategy to go by?

Actually, alot can be forgiven if there is actually clear direction of where the story is going or if its just hilariously bonkers, but what this anime lacks in spades is both direction and humour. Without those two in its favour, it basically just comes across as trying too damn hard.

Sasaki to Pii-chan has a good begining like a decent isekai anime where the MC is the one who obtain a superpower, but the poor execution of the story were disappointing. This anime failed to entertain me even though it started with something interesting.

Here is the only thing I like about this show is the main character Sasaki and his pet Pii-chan, other than that is not in my interest. I'm losing interest at the first 3 episode, the world building is weird, the pacing is messed up like they didn't really care about the progress and skip it to the aftermath, too many plot ... hole and questionable things. If you wanted to watch some light and enjoyable slice of life anime, this one is not recommended because the plot contain a weird political stuff and a lot of weird characters which has no background that I think 12 episode is not enough to make an explanation about all that and the ending was terribly questionable. I can't say it's cliffhanging but a weird way to end a story.

This anime throw every niche thing, from workplace into isekai then supernatural and pet?. The tag genre include comedy, but I'm not see any comedy that make me laugh. Rather it's getting boring

With that so many niche thing, they didn't give direction where the story want to go. There's no purpose, no threat, no motive, no comedy.

The MC also bland, he like Pet then what. I could even skip some dialog and still not missing out anything. After 3 episode in, I'm not even have interest to continue watching.

You also have sugita with his voice that famous and fit in comedy character, yet they not ... utilize it. Also sugita comedy need another character to make comedy work, example in anime arakawa under the bridge.

I read the Synopsis for this and it honestly didn’t sound that interesting to me. I thought it would be your generic Isekai and it basically is. After watching it i was pleasantly surprised at first. The show startet out very fun and interesting. It was honestly a great watch in the first few episodes!
Sadly the author of this story is a huge f*cking pervert with a fetish for underage girls and ruined the story. Some of the dialogue was honestly appalling and should put the author on a watchlist.
Disgusting.

Please just don’t watch this! It will only make you mad.