Overview:
After a god accidentally slays him, Takumi is reborn with new skills in a monster-filled forest where he stumbles upon twins. They’re sweet, adorable, and super strong! Won over instantly, he names them Alan and Elena, becomes their guardian and joins an adventurers’ guild to provide for his new family. And so starts his chill life of adventure, watching over Alan and Elena’s growth!
Our Take:
This might be a short and sweet review, which sums up this anime well. It’s short and cute but doesn’t have much else going for it. There isn’t much character growth and while the kids are cute we learn next to nothing about them other than the fact that they might be the children of a water god. They never say much and other than being strong enough to take on monsters and loving Takumi there isn’t much else here.
As far as stakes there are none, Takumi gets sent to this world, and from then on he just… exists. Which is fine we have plenty of isekai with that premise but this is aimless adventuring. If he wanted to settle down and give Alan and Elena a better life that would have been interesting, if he would have wanted to find their parents that could have been interesting as well. Ultimately they did find information about their father but that was just blind luck because of where they went. Takumi is also an overpowered isekai protagonist so most of the fights lack any sense of danger.
There were times I thought it was going to be a cooking or invention type of show because Takumi was constantly “inventing” new foods. It felt like this was a show that didn’t know what it wanted to be and suffered for it.
Matt Shipman does the voice of Takumi and he did as good of a job as he could. Takumi isn’t exactly the most interesting character out there. He brought some fun and charm to the character when he could but he just wasn’t given much to work with.
If you’ve read my reviews you’ll know that I love isekai as much as the next guy. But this show just doesn’t offer enough for it to be worth your time. It doesn’t delve into the aspect of raising the kids, being an adventurer, or cooking. This show is an expert at dabbling and that isn’t a compliment. Find your isekai fix elsewhere.