If I had a dime for every isekai anime airing in Winter 2022 that featured a protagonist being send to the future of their VR fantasy game I would’ve two dimes. Which isn’t much, but it’s weird it’s happened twice.
Yes, telling isekai apart by how the protagonist got trapped in fantasyland gets harder every season and we had two “protagonist gets trapped in the future of the game world they were hugely important in” airing in Spring 2022. Worse, there was a third series with a similar setup, in which protag-kun deliberately reincarnated himself to gain better magical power. We’ll get to those series at some point, but for now let’s look at Leadale no Daichi nite. To distinguish it from the other two, this is the one where the severely disabled girl whose only escape from life is the Leadale VRMMORPG, dies in hospital during a power cut and is reincarnated in the far future of the game she played, as Cayna, an overpowered magician. A quick and easy way to cure anybody’s disabilities. If you hoped that this background would matter at all you’ll be disappointed, as it all quickly turns into yet another massively overpowered character travels the world getting dragged into low stake adventures against her will type of story.
Not much more to say about this series. The idea of a severely disabled woman learning to use her healthy new body could be interesting, but it’s quickly skipped over and her disability doesn’t feature in the rest of the show at all. the other point of interest is that she ended up in the future of her game, with some of the things she did as a player having shaped this world, but again little is made of this. The only thing that really comes out of it is that she has several children still kicking around hundreds of years later, now all grown up to be powerful, important people and she treats them as naughty teenagers. There are attempts at humour there, but it’s all of a same peace: her children praise her too much, she gets embarrassed and mad and punishes them for it.
The plot is no good and animation and character design wise this is all cookie cutter, bog standard isekai anime quality. Not a bit more effort than the bare minimum has been lavished on this series. Watching it week by week was a decent distraction but I feel no great need to rewatch this any time soon. Looking back at it for this post I barely remember anything about it. Completely unremarkable isekai adventures that are not even bad enough to be memorable. It was difficult even finding interesting screenshots… Just thoroughly mid.
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