Its been 10 episodes and I still don't get the point of this show. Like, do something other than making potions already!!
the point of this show is the love story between Sei and Hawke, since it's revealed in episode 10 that the saint's magic power is the power of love
It's a fantasy slice of life, so it's just about how Sei lives her new life in the isekai world she was transported in. The show is pretty mid and I have no idea why I'm still watching it LMAO. I guess I'm watching it for the smooth ass visuals because, damn, I'm not gonna lie, man, the show looks colorful and mesmerizing from time to time.
it feels very slow and very fast at the same time. there's some sort of formula or rather pattern that I've noticed with the episodes. the first 20 minutes give or take are so slow and then it begins to pick up in the last 5 minutes but it feels very odd... as if they're trying to cram everything that could potentially be some sort of plot progression into those 5 minutes only.
and the issue after that is the fact that they then don't continue the tiny bit of development into the next episode, we just start at square one with aimless slice of life. rinse and repeat the formula I mentioned earlier.
Yes, at the start I thought it would develope into the slice of live/feel good Isekai direction, what would be slighty unusual for isekais, cause most often they are about action, fantasy, ecchi and so forth. So I was quite optimistic about that. Also with the start that she spawns in a new world and gets abandoned you could have made a very interesting story out of it, but she just got picked up by some guy from the institutes and it went on very soothing.
So we couldn´t get a "from rags to riches" story so it has to aim for a slice of live, feel good anime, but therefore you would need an interesting story or caracter setting but all the caracters liked each other or we never saw real drama. The most drama we saw probably was between the prince and his fiancee who fought over the second isekai girl or at the end between Hawke-sama and the mercenary leader, but they just traded evil looks. Not even somekind of comedic touch we got from there. The way it was at the end... it just resembled to me to a fairy/princess story written for 8year old girls it was just going forth to smoothly and in my eyes had not realy any kind of purpose. I think even disney stroys are way more advanced in the drama or caracter development writing.
I would feel bad rating it next to Ex-Arm or Gibiate, but honestly it wasn´t much better - well the animation and so forth wasn´t that bad...
I haven't finished the last episode yet, but that's exactly why I'm personally vibing with this show.
The first few episodes were just "ok" for me, and most of the plot was pretty obvious from the start. But it was so relaxing to watch this show after stuff like Vivy, 86, and To Your Eternity, that I found myself looking forward to watching Sei go about her day.
Also, there were a few times that other shows left me emotionally wrecked and this show, along with the 2 slime shows, were there to revive me a bit :P.
This show kind of feels like a mild reverse-harem (we all knew who the main guy was) shojo power fantasy with some flying witch sprinkled on top, and that made a pretty good complement to everything else airing for me.
Just my 2 cents.
As a member of the target audience of this Josei, I must admit I found it rather enjoyable. No pointless drama, no bitchy characters, no annoying "comedic relief", just a plain and simple, relaxing show. I especially enjoyed how it playfully omitted certain tropes. The pacing could be a bit awkward at times (whenever they held a shot for too long it felt like they were padding the runtime), but other than that I have no complains.