Just one take a look at the trailer and the important thing visible and you’ll already inform that Loner Life is
going to be one other run-of-the-mill isekai. I’d be prepared to guess you possibly can even inform the place its
strengths and weaknesses lie as properly.
To be truthful, the music is not unhealthy, and neither is the background artwork. The OP’s really a
bop and its animation is fairly smooth for what it’s. And okay, having your primary character journey a
giant wave on a surfboard to defeat a dungeon’s
large fish monster is so silly it is sort of superior. Yet numerous the issues from different sequence of its
sort are so current right here that I nearly really feel like I may have stolen a line or two from a few of my
earlier opinions and dumped them right here. I might be fairly lazy, however not that lazy.
The animation ain’t precisely painful on the eyes, nevertheless it’s nonetheless as flat as you’d count on it to be from a present like this. This would not translate properly in its struggle sequences–I’ve made barbecue bacon cheeseburgers that had extra spice. Seriously, there is a sword struggle between our primary character Haruka and a skeleton the place Haruka’s hair is shifting greater than the struggle itself. The isekai fantasy setting is generic stuff stuffed with perfectly-walled cities, darkish dungeon crawls, and baddies like goblins and cyclops and numerous the opposite belongings you’ve seen a thousand occasions earlier than. The present’s RPG mechanics power Haruka into choosing the low-tier talents for his loner class, however outdoors of that there is no additional twist on the standard “level up and gain abilities” shtick. Speaking of Haruka’s class, get this people: our primary man is a classless loner adventurer in this world, which means that he’s, await it, a NEET. Absolute insanity!
But what makes this present stand out? Simple: our primary character Haruka by no means turns into a
loner because the title implies, as a result of he rapidly earns a Subjugation ability that causes a few of his
fellow isekai’d classmates to type a harem that continuously follows and helps him. In different
phrases, Loner Life is principally the isekai version of 100 Girlfriends. Albeit the
slimmed down Diet Dr. Pepper number of it.
Loner Life introduces this idea inside its preliminary few episodes, and the second it
does is the second it can not cease being an imitation of 100 Girlfriends. That’s not
inherently an issue, since I benefit from the gags and hijinks of 100 Girlfriends sufficient that I
do not thoughts seeing its vibes replicated. So lengthy as they’re achieved proper, in fact. What is a
drawback is that not like the ladies of 100 Girlfriends, no member of Haruka’s harem has any
actual persona to them. They all exist as moeblobs, to the purpose the place the character closest to
Haruka, the category rep Touka, nonetheless simply exists for the sake of current. It’s a disgrace that this mob of
moe is fairly uninteresting, as a result of part of me really likes their designs. At occasions, they’ve some mildly cute and funny facial expressions, and if this have been a greater present, I’d haven’t any issues making this shot right here my desktop wallpaper. Even chibified Haruka sometimes makes for a great
body.
There are alternatives for making Haruka, Touka, and the harem extra fascinating,
particularly contemplating there is a schism that occurs early on between the jocks, delinquents,
and women that have been isekai’d from Haruka’s college into this world. While not essentially the most fleshed-out
plot level ever, it is sufficient of a catalyst that it may have been used to progress the story and
characters. But regardless of a minor plot twist halfway by the sequence, there’s nonetheless not sufficient
substance in Haruka, the harem, or the aforementioned schism to make for something witty or
compelling. Still, even when Touka and her squad of anime women merely exist for the sake of getting a
harem, Loner Life manages to create a chemistry between them and Haruka that’s at the least
believable. I feel it is as a result of the anime realizes how equally inventory Haruka and Touka are, so
there’s at the least a sense of “birds of a feather flock together” between the 2. The anime additionally
makes an attempt to dial its harem-ness down by having Haruka ditch them a couple of occasions to stay out his
loner life. There are some moments of levity right here and there to appreciate–I’ll admit that one
specific gag of Haruka abandoning his harem and assembly a daughter of the lord of the very
city he is attempting to flee from did convey a smile to my face.
I feel I’ve lastly run into the inevitable drawback of being bombarded
by too many isekai. But I can not complain. After all, what else was I imagined to count on? So lengthy
as a bajillion extra isekai hold popping out of the woodwork a minute, the variety of methods you
can name one thing mid simply will get exponentially larger and larger till it stretches out to infinity.
My ultimate thought: there are numerous different isekai I’d like to stay a loner life in, however this ain’t one among
them.
