Forum - View topicREVIEW: I'm a Noble on the Brink of Ruin, So I Might as Well Try Mastering Magic Anime Series Review
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Key
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I did watch this series to conclusion and still agree with every point Richard makes. This was one of my bottomfeeders for the Winter 2025 season, on the same level as Fruitmaster, Ubel Blatt, and Worthless "Appraiser" Class.
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Jabootu
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I might argue with you, except for the fact that I can't remember a single darned thing about this show. Even after looking at the picture I can't really recall anything about it. (I believe I vaguely remember the Ogre Guy, if that's what he is. And the thing about the magical city were everyone can cast magic, sorta kinda.) And it's not like it came out five years ago. I was watching it this year. I *think* I watched it to completion...but maybe not. Maybe I got bored and eventually skipped the last few episodes. So if anything, my review of it is worse than yours. |
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MFrontier
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I'm amazed they got such an all-star cast for such a bargain bin show.
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TheAncientOne
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This fell into the "Did I watch this category?" category for me (e.g., I thought I did but wasn't certain until I checked that it showed as viewed at CR). It was neither bad enough to remember nor good enough to remember easily. Offhand, I don't recall any standout scenes that I might revisit.
If this received a dub I would add it back to my watchlist, but otherwise I don't see a reason to revisit this. I don't regret viewing it, but without something new my time would be better spent on other titles. |
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Gina Szanboti
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While I agree that the comparison to Slime is more obvious and point-for-point aligned, for me its doppleganger was Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time. Magic and alchemy are essentially interchangeable in these, and Alchemist had a slightly more complex story going on, but every week, I always had to stop and think which story I was returning to when I went to watch either of them. Even now, if I try to recall what happened in each of them over the course of the season, I'm not certain if I'm swapping plot points (such as they are) between them. About the only thing I can say is that they were both just ways to kill time and avoid doing whatever I didn't want to do that day.
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beaverusiv
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I dropped this when, iirc, in a single episode they went "we need to relocate these fairies because humans are hunting them" > "I found a secret hidden magic area in the forest made for me" > "Let me give these fairies names so they turn into hot elves that are LITERALLY COPY-PASTE" > "Princess of the kingdom sees me here and decides to give loyalty instead of, idk, charging me with treason for trying to make my own country in hers"
I'm so sick of the slave stuff too - if the MC will never do anything bad why make it so they have to follow his orders no matter what? I know the reason, and it's gross. |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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In conversing with Key earlier about Fruitmaster being summarily reviewed, despite not deserving it if you ask me, he seemed to insinuate all shows of the season would get a review one way or another. While I don't remember that always being the case, the fact this review has been done seems to prove it because I couldn't imagine this show getting a review unless absolutely every show of the season is to be reviewed.
Given the sheer number of shows, I couldn't imagine a reviewer looking at Ep1 and thinking "this should be interesting and of interest to our average reader, so we will review it regardless of reception". Now, I didn't think it was awful but Mr. Eisenbeis' synopsis was "spot-on" and with Liam learning magic at the superhuman pace he does and the speed he gains power and the effortless way he solves every problem, it made for a curious ironic watch to see if he would break through to Godhood before the end. Spoiler, he doesn't...he just gets a nation of waifus (?) I second Gina's assessment that this show and GOAT Alchemist? had lots of similarity, but the latter show at least had more background drama with Takumi's isekai'd classmates developing some moral issues which he will likely deal with in S2 if it ever comes. Given a choice between Noble on the Brink and that, take the latter... 
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Covnam
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Yeah, gotta agree this one wasn't great.
IIRC at some point they just stopped mentioning to people that being a familiar doesn't just have a bunch of benefits :/ Guess they should have read the fine print! |
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Exodus007
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I enjoyed this one except for one thing. The cool Gold Dragon voiced by Tomokazu Sugita turning into a young girl randomly and getting a new voice. You had the best of Japanese VAs and ruined it.
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beaverusiv
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Now I'm definitely not going to attempt to watch it again |
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Edjwald
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I would argue that Ubel Blatt doesn't belong in that group. Even if I agree that Ubel Blatt's s a failure (I don't, but I can see why some people don't like it, whether because they're sort of repulsed by the atmosphere or because of low production values or the way it felt like huge chunks of the story had been cut out with a chainsaw or whatever) I don't think Ubel Blatt belongs in the same category of failure. Those other shows were all basically playing it safe and going through the motions and doing what everyone else has done or was doing last season. It's why they were boring. If they were all wearing noseplugs and goggles and making steeples out of their hands and bending their legs and clumsily trying to dive into the side of the pool like the instructor told them to, Ubel Blatt was leaping into the air, arms spread out wide, and doing a full out, glorious belly flop, and I enjoyed the spectacle. Even the name, Ubel Blatt, kind of sounds like a belly flop... |
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Terraziel
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Yeah, It was definitely a "I forget it existed the moment it was over" show.
but I have to say i kind of found the "slave" stuff funny, it was just so utterly arbitrary and unnecessary. I mean at this point you come in to this level of story expecting a couple of slaves to appear, maybe even with some "slavery wasn't all bad" excuses slopped on top of it, but when they just start enslaving anything that moves you just have to shrug your shoulders and laugh. |
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Key
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I am willing to acknowledge that Ubel Blatt was an entirely different class of disappointment/failure. But it's still on the same level, letter grade-wise.
If I came off like that, it wasn't intentional. But the practice of giving full reviews to at least some of the series that didn't get weekly reviews has been around for nearly as long as ANN has done episode reviews, and we've certainly seen more of that as DVD/BR reviews have become a smaller part of the site's daily featured reviews. |
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FilthyCasual
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Will 2.5 Dimensional Seduction get a full series review?
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jr240483
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i would disagree with that statement for while the other series are definitely average, they are definitely not the worst let alone belong to the bottomfeeder category for the 2025 anime season! for ubel blatt is in a whole other class by itself! that is a series that should have never been given an anime adaptation in this day & age (clearly should have been released during the hellsing ultimate & black lagoon era) and the only way to slightly enjoy it is if you are already well versed in the entire manga! as for this series, its a good series overall & as a reader of the light novels it gets better later on at the next arc, but unfortunately, like with fruit master & worthless appraiser class, viewers will have to read the source materials to know more since that is its only reason that these series were given anime adaptations in the first place. especially in the case for this series since its an isekai series and as we know all too well, unless the light novels for any isekai series are in the same levels as mushoku tensei, tensura , overlord, RE: ZERO , tsukimichi or eminence in shadow, their anime adaptations will more or less always get the "READ THE BOOKS, KIDS" type of treatment, and this series along with from salaryman to elite four will more than likely NOT get a second season! |
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