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EP. REVIEW: KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World

I too am here to rubberneck at this wreck of a show, and Episode 4 was no exception to this. There were points where it almost flirted with competence. Hell, it almost pulled off a decent joke when the spoiler[other gods Mitama summoned retreated just before the battle could begin]...emphasis on "almost." As Nick has mentioned before, this show is defeated at every turn by its almost random direction, terrible storyboarding, and jokes that are more like anti-humor than anything else.

Mostly I'm just baffled as to how this no-name staff and studio managed to score so many notable voice actors for this shart of a show. If you told me that most of this show's budget went towards the voice cast and the crew were left with only $20 and a conbini sandwich, I'd believe you. Even then, they can't do anything with this D-list source material. Just total pearls before swine.

Now onto the series. I dropped the show after episode one for how cultish and inhuman all the characters acted. With characters having little regard for each other and value for anything.

Sure but they are still unpleasant to watch even if a point is being made, doesnt matter if its official designated as a cult, they can still act culty. I was just interested in if they still act like that in the following episodes.

Naturally I understand its subjective, but damn did the people I was meant to be on the side of creep me the heck out.

The story focus on a guy who is from the modern world, whose dad basically kills him in the name of their religion, which itself operates as a cult except for the fact that their supposed god is actually real, lands in a world without religion. But rather than it being the almost utopic dreamland some anti-religion folks expect, it's pretty much the same as the old world, just without mention or even knowledge of any "god". So the rest of the show ends up being, thus far, jokes aimed at making fun of religion and some of its irrational aspects, while also presenting religion as a positive force that can ultimately do good in the world.

According to the Mangaka, the tractor scenes being live action footage was a deliberate choice by the director: https://twitter.com/akashiro_aoi/status/1651986964013547520.

A lot of isekai shows that are not obsessed with magic fights do that. To name a few Bookworm, Spirit Chronicles (Japan arc farming techniques and food), Log Horizon (applying real world designs to that worlds logic, including steam engines), That farm isekai where his power turns into any farming tool, Realist Hero (crop rotation, waste management, governence, social services) and every single one of those isekai where the hero wows his companions with how soy sauce is superior to all the bland tastes they had previously.

I feel like the original Star Trek has done more than one episode with the same basic premise of this big twist, and each of them was better. Or maybe I could compare it to the dullest imaginable MegaTen knockoff with a protagonist who is somehow less interesting than a mute guy who keeps bumping into walls in search of hidden doors.