With Hachi-Nan Tte, Sore Wa Nai Deshou!, isekai anime has evolved! Truck-kun is no longer needed. This time our protagonist is reincarnated in another world by the simple method of coming home dead tired one night, cooking a very good looking dinner for himself, then falling asleep at the dinner table before he can even start to eat. The next moment he’s a six year old boy in an aristocratic family in your typical Medeivaloid fantasy world. Hey, at least the food is good when you’re a noble.
Well, that only turned out to be the case because his older brother is getting married and the family has to keep up appearances. His cozy life as a noble turns out to be not so cozy when your family is rich in tradition but not so much in actual wealth. Worse, your prospects as the youngest brother are so low you’ll have to leave the family altogether at some point and make your way in the world as just a lowly commoner, just like your brothers before. And in the meantime, your daily meal looks like this…
But we don’t need to worry too much about our hero. The series went out of its way to make sure we knew from the start young Well (full name: Wendelin von Benno Baumeister) will avoid this ghastly fate. Before we get to the actual story this episode, we got an intro scene with him all grown up, a powerful magicial and Count, with the usual Isekai harem waiting on him. Nice to remove all narrative tension from the start, so we can just vegetate while watching this. From this and the opening, shown halfway through the episode, we can conclude this will turn into a typical battle isekai. How long Well’s socio-economic concerns will remain relevant is unclear.
Animation and character design are typically budget isekai, not very interesting. Lots of shots of characters standing in front of a low detail background. A great many talking heads delivering exposition. Action scenes mainly having characters point and shooting beams. That sort of thing. But there are some interesting little hints that the team behind this is capable of more. Having Well open a door in his mansion in the intro scene to flashback to him opening the door of his flat in real life is a neat touch. The joy with which Well eats was fun too. And whle most of the scenery is medievaloid beige, every now and again a background is actually pretty. Low bars for sure.
To be honest, a low bar is all an isekai needs to clear for me anyway. As long as the protagonist isn’t a total douchebag, the story isn’t too dull, I’m happy. I may drop this in two episodes, but for now let’s keep watching.
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