Ore wa Subete wo "Parry" suru: Gyaku Kanchigai no Sekai Saikyou wa Boukensha ni Naritai

MAL really needs to add a "Dumb/Dense Protagonist" tag so I can avoid shows like this.

Before, we had shows where the MC would never have to do anything and they'd come across some cheat powers. Now, the meta has shifted to MCs finally training hard to become strong, but the catch is that they lose all their intellect in the process so you end up with a main protagonist who just lives in his own world and has 0 self-awareness.

The gist of the show goes like this, MC strong but he thinks he's weak. Everyone else is weak and thinks the MC is strong. Endless ... frustrating misunderstandings every episode because communication is not an option and MC can't add 1 to 1 together. This formula would be fine in a comedy show but despite the title of this show it tries to be a serious show so it just ends up being annoying to watch.

I only gave it the 3 episodes rule so maybe the MC will eventually wake up and regain his lost intellect, but he's been such a parry god that he's parried me out from watching.

Mentally challenged middle-aged man goes around and experiences things for the first time. Ooh, look a frog. Ooh a goblin. Oooh, a carriage ride in the middle of the fields. Aaah, oooh, eeeh. This pretty much sums up the behavior of main character, his complete lack of ability to think and lack of experience when it comes to common things. Most importantly lack of self-awareness.

He keeps jumping into every situation without a second of a thought while at the same thinking he's the weak one and everyone else is strong, even though he keeps besting everyone and people keep praising him and giving him rewards. ... Somehow king giving a reward to which everyone objects to is not an indication it's a special reward. Naah, must be shovel for shit, which king conveniently keeps above his throne. Weird habit I suppose. This kind of broken logic works, for entire episode, maybe two. Not half of the season. We are almost half-way through and he's still a meat stick that just reacts to things. And reactions are dull and boring.

In fact none of the characters make you invested in this show. Things happen but without any consequences. Nor do you have history on any of the characters apart from simplistic, almost animal-like, behavior patterns... he saved me, must follow until end of time.

The rest of the aspects are nothing worth praising either. Art is fine until there's an action scene in which they just decide to skip most of the fights or animate whole two frames. At least they had enough self-awareness for him not to keep yelling "parry, parry, parry", like some other shows this season are doing.

Overall it's boring. Nothing to see here. There are no well choreographed battles or stunning vistas. There's no great music or great acting. Things are there, inoffensive but boring and average. It might be okay show to kill the time or have something play in background, but not worth waiting for weekly releases and dedicating my time to it. Might finish it later, but I honestly doubt.

The title of the show tells you everything you need to know.
It's very much NOT an exaggeration.
The MC DOES parries everything.
Including a brain.

It's very hard for me to write a review not laced with profanities in this case, so just trust me when I say it is very much not recommended.

And if you dislike the "dense MC" trope, this one is a walking black hole.

And it honestly seems like the rest of the characters are also masters of parrying just like the MC, and they all parried common sense and their brains.
... The FMC ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to end the misunderstandings the MC experiences.
There is absolutely no chemistry between the characters, the interaction feel forced and stiff.

Animation is meh.

Long story short:
Don't recommend.

This review is just my opinion if you disagree its okay also, English is not my first language, so I apologize if you have trouble reading my review.

At first I thought MC was just being humble but the more I watched I realized that MC is just stupid, the story itself was not that bad but the world building is little bit confusing and the worst about this anime is MC keeps misunderstanding everything like when fighting strong enemies and talking to other characters.

The only thing I can respect is his hard work in training and the other characters is okay if you asking me

Could've been okay, ends up being terrible.

Basic premise: We've got a classic MC weakling who can only use the weakest spells/moves so he trained those 'till he became OP.
This could have been one of those okay generic 6/10 OP MC stories of which we get 5 a season. Decent enough to kill some time but, you'll forget it ever existed the moment it ends.
Instead of that they went with the whole misunderstanding trope where everyone but the MC notices he's completely overpowered, but he keeps misunderstanding and thinks he's weak. And they're keeping it going all through the season.

It's simply bad and lazy ... writing, nothing more. I regret waiting 6 episodes to drop it.

I started watching this, expecting just some anime slop with a funny gimmick, and with the novelty of having an older protagonist.

Instead what I got was a story that has clearly no love or even thought put into it, in every episode there are at least 5 things about either the world building or the character's actions that makes absolutely no sense.
Not only that this show contorts itself just to keep this terrible "Im strong but I dont know that I am" trope, and its just so forced, contrived, and BORING. The world has absolutely nothing special about it, things characters say are immediatly contradicted ... by their actions (not because of deceit or anything just first draft writing), and it seems liek every idea presented is executed in perhaps the most boring way possible.

Also they gave the guy who can only parry a sword instead of a shield, because that might've racked their brains too much with a glimpse of originality

I know everyone's been making this joke but the only thing the main character parries more than swords is my interest