Shinmai Ossan Boukensha, Saikyou Party ni Shinu hodo Kitaerarete Muteki ni Naru.

I'm an elitist pig anime watcher, and while I act like I know something (and literally know nothing), there is one true aspect I'm an expert in - overpowered MC trash. Is this show generic? Yes. Is it stupid? Yes. Is it genuinely pretty good? In my opinion, 100%.

A big fan of the manga, the backstory of the main characters turn out to be great. Rick's party Orihalcon Fist is fun on screen, the waifus are cute, and the production is surprisingly good. While the world building and magic system is rehashed and generic, the self-aware humour keeps it a little fresh and the lovable ... "40-something" year old MC makes me feel young and hopeful. The following arc is great - Broughston's past in the manga honestly made me tear up.

If you're a fan of overpowered MC trash I'd definitely recommend "Shinmai Ossan Boukensha". If you don't yet have this aquired taste then maybe this show isn't for you and you'll think this review is batsh*t insane.

Being in my late 20s as of the point of writing, and as a new anime watcher with less than a year of experience. I always wondered, had I started too late to do anything, be it trying a new sport or experience, when comparing to people who started in their teens or younger and have tons of experience?

This show is a good example of a simple concept show that is inspirational and shows that hard work overcomes born talent. While the concept is definitely done a thousand times by now, what make the show (and I Parry Everything) stood out for me is the ... use of an over 30s main characters to drive the message and it couldn't have aired at a better time.

When I was watching this, I was on a (as of writing) 6 month hiatus of not skateboarding, because I just felt like I'm just terrible as compared to people who are younger than me, or people who are older and had way more experience and I couldn't help but keep trying to make excuses to think that it's because I started late and I don't have the talent.

Three episodes of this is enough to make me tear up because the message the show sent was genuine, it is not about how much talent a person have, it is the effort, and I want to treat this as a way to keep pushing myself and to stop making excuses. For a person who only teared up twice previously in his short 1 year watching anime, this is one of the best anime I've seen, not because of the concept, but because of the strong and powerful message sent.

Overall, I'd say a strong 8 for me so far, hoping the pacing can keeps up and hoping this show will encourage more people who are in their late 20s and older to realise that it is never too late to start anything.

Anime Name is "The Ossan Newbie Adventurer, Trained to Death by the Most Powerful Party, Became Invincible"

This anime sounds generic but is one of the better ones. The story is about a character who trains hard with the strongest party and becomes invincible. At first, he pretends to be weak, which is explained by the third episode.

The main issue is the pacing. Fight scenes have too much talking, making them feel stretched. For example, a single fight can take a whole episode, which can get boring.

The animation is decent, better than some other fantasy animes but not top-notch. Some jokes and moments are ... good, while others feel unnecessary. It's a mixed bag.

Overall, it’s a mid-tier anime. If you like basic fantasy anime, this is for you. If you prefer top-tier anime, it might not be. For me, it's a decent watch. I enjoyed some moments and not others, but it was mostly a good experience. I recommend waiting for the whole season to binge-watch, but weekly watching is also fine if you don't mind the pacing issues.

I will update my review as I watch more episodes.

And lastly,

This is just my opinion; others might feel differently. Please consider this when deciding whether to watch.

The theme of this review is the "illusion of hard work". The anime itself is a mediocre soulless isekai-like that isn't worth watching, in case you want a TLDR.

A very interesting phenomenon that I observe regularly is that almost every person will complain about how hard their life is or how hard they're working. In most cases this is not true though, therefore illusion of hard work. This happens because "hard work" is universally seen as a virtue in all societies and there is something truly fascinating when hard work is rewarded, because it often isn't. This idea also found its way into the anime ... culture, which is to be expected from a country with one of the highest number or work hours per day in developed countries. It gave birth to the "talentless hard worker" character archetype, which is now relatively common.

The main character of this anime - Rick, is basically that. The talentless hard worker... which is completely not real. Just like in reality all the hard work people are usually fake, in anime there is no hard work. It's all power fantasy for losers. About as soon as episode 4, we find that Rick actually has an overpowered skill. Did he actually work for it? Nope. While spending the first 3 episodes on depicting hardcore work/training that he went through, all of that is invalidated completely in a single moment. This obvious disconnect between what the anime claims to show and what it really shows is insulting to my intelligence as a viewer.

The first example of a fake hard worker that comes to my mind is Naruto. The show follows a similar pattern, depicting Naruto as a talentless loser and then the convenient fox power saves the day every single time, something that he never worked for. It even ends with him literally being 1/2 Jesus, chosen child of prophecy all along. Other notable examples - Deku from My Hero Academia and Asta from Black Clover (I'm seeing a trend). In all of them, the hard work is an illusion. Basically the only anime that shows REAL hard work over time with actual no talent is World Trigger.

The rest of my criticism is just all the usual baggage that most anime today have, especially light novel adaptations - the whole world exists only to blow the main character, the antagonists are cartoonishly evil, the other support characters have no value to offer as well. The second most important character is literally a maid. This honestly is just H fantasies of the author. Also, screw the gaming stuff, I want my pure medieval fantasy back.

"It's never too late to follow your dreams"

Shinmai Ossan Boukensha, Saikyou Party ni Shinu hodo Kitaerarete Muteki ni Naru, explores the life of Rick, who at the age of 30 wants to become an adventurer, where this dream comes through a simple heroic story that he read in a book, but for him, it is something special and inspiring enough for him to work hard to achieve, it through disciplineds trainings. The premise itself seems interesting, but over the course of the episodes It becomes increasingly evident how bad this anime is in many ways, I will develop this idea throughout the review.


The story, as ... previously stated, is simplistic or better said, generic. This anime is the same as what you may have seen, which is something like: "a protagonist trains hard to achieve his goals, but there will be people who don't accept him", this type of story only in the summer season of 2024(the year this anime was released, in case you are reading this in the future) there are two other animes with this same premise which I left in quotes, are they:Ore wa Subete wo "Parry" suru: Gyaku Kanchigai no Sekai Saikyou wa Boukensha ni Naritai, and another is Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria. And I'm not just talking about this 2024 season in question, currently, every year, this type of anime where the only thing that's different is the characters and animation, are made regularly, everyone copies each other. However, unlike these two that I mentioned previously, the anime I'm reviewing here manages to be the worst of the three in several ways. A story just about training, fighting monsters, fighting villains, protecting the innocent, and that's it. That's the story, I literally just summarized the entire content of the anime.

Already the characters in this anime one are terrible in many ways, starting with Rick, who is simply a lazy-written character, it seems like the author doesn't really care about the characters in this anime. I say this because Rick is literally a generic character who trains, trains, trains...The anime will always only make this explicit in each episode, making the character something empty, because it lacks emotions, objectives, an interesting life story, and development it's just about training, training and training... Just that and nothing more. The other characters are no different either, the entire cast only has two roles in the story:help or hinder Rick, that's all. None of them are explored enough to be interesting for the plot. They are all generic, empty and you simply can't take any of them seriously.

The animation is also not good, the line/art itself is ugly to look at. The scenarios have terrible animations, the fights have almost no movement between the characters. The animation in general is mediocre, it's the same ones you see in low-budget isekai/fantasy animes, everything is forgettable and visually it's poorly done.

The sound is also negligible. The opening and closure are bad, you will hardly remember the song you hear in both, because both the instruments and the lyrics of the song are insignificant, as well as the poorly done visuals. It's all as forgettable as most isekai anime you've probably watched.

The world itself seems to be the same as you will see in other anime throughout your life, with monsters, powers and a basic power system, there is not much to say because the anime doesn't manage to develop the initial ideas of the world well, "but why?" because the story is focused on showing how much Rick is improving in training. The author just doesn't care much about it.

Well, just don't watch this, it's generic, the direction/animation and characters are terrible. It's something you could watch to pass the time if it had something good, but in this case there's nothing. Anything...It's all just simplistic, empty and poorly done. Just.

Quitting his job as a guild receptionist to make his dream come true - makes one think this dude had a middle age crisis, anyway, he decided to become an adventurer with the ultimate goal of slaying the legendary beast.

In a world where you have to start magic training in your teens because it will only get harder/impossible to improve the older you get, we have our Mc who is “40 ish”.

We have smooth animation, no clay doll cgi (thank god), magic, swords, martial arts, vampire loli, orc with healing magic, dwarf whom crafts guns!

There is nothing new here but this show is definitely ... worth watching.
Gotta love the message this show has too, which i interpreters it to be:
“As long as you want to and as long as your ready to shed some sweat n tears, its never to late to change”

This is a tough one to review: it's an enjoyable, if generic, OP protag fantasy/comedy; but it's also really, really insulting if you happen to be over the age of 30.

We've got Rick, our MC, who is in his early 30s and just getting started as an adventurer. At first, he thinks he's got a long way to go to catch up to all these veteran adventurers around him who started much younger than him, but soon he realizes that due to his intense training, he's already got the power of an S-Rank adventurer despite just starting out. Cool, we get the OP thing and ... a few oblivious protag jokes too, but the oblivious thing doesn't outlast its welcome and we also get an underlying "it's never too late to follow your dreams" message, which is nice to see. Then it turns out Rick has a cheat power (it seems like it only activates when all is lost, so I call the power Deus Ex Machina), which undercuts that message a little bit, but it's a little thing and for the most part the show stays on message.

However, a lot of the humor in the story is built around the audience accepting the idea that "30 = old", which is completely unnecessary because Rick's supporting cast is a group of S-Ranked adventurers who are 5 times more overpowered than him, and none of them seem to understand the concept of "restraint". That is comedic gold right there, but instead of just relying on that for all the laughs, all too often the show goes for the "30 = old" joke, which is only funny to people under the age of 25. This is not to say they never utilize the supporting cast's craziness for humor, it is the main source of humor as the show gets past the first three episodes, but too often it tries to make age jokes that just fall flat.

For now, I'll keep watching and hope that the lame age jokes become less and less common because when it's not insulting every audience member over the age of 30, it's a generically enjoyable enough little show.

"This one is for the older anime fans..." Regardless of your age, this is an interesting one, and as one of the older anime viewers, I might have some bias about it. Just cause, in most animes these days, everyone is in high school.

The premise is straightforward: a man in his 30s transitions from being a receptionist at an adventurer's guild to becoming a hero. He enlists the world's most potent adventurers to train him, and despite being past his prime, he remains overpowered.

This anime is an average series lacking overall logic and depth. However, it's not entirely terrible from a slapstick, nonsensical approach.

While ... many exciting anime seasons exist, this one stands out as average. If you're short on time, there are better options to spend your time on this season.

However, if you have nothing else to watch, this anime will pass the time mildly entertainingly.

Watch on, my friends, if you dare.

Had a strong start, went on to make a good character developing sequence along with satisfying light story to make the MC something you can root for.

Only to fuck it all up at episode 4 with the backstory making him yet another "specialest of special boys" that this premise did not call for in the least. Seriously, why build up the MC in terms of taking a late-start and break conventions only to paint him as something "special" and not as something that breaks social norms and standards?

I was hoping to see the "hard work payout" story occur here rather than yet another case of ... "specialest little boy" story play out, I guess I was wrong...

For that? I can't without good conscience give this anything but the lowest score as my first time ever review, the sheer audacity in misleading is absolutely horrific to speak of.