Type: TV

Episodes: 20

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 5, 2022 to Feb 15, 2023

Premiered: Fall 2022

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 22:30 (JST)

Producers: AT-X, BS NTV, Kadokawa, NewGin, Aiming

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Nexus

Source: Light novel

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Themes: Isekai, Reincarnation

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Plot: For as long as he can remember, Minoru Kagenou has been fixated on becoming as strong as possible, which has led him to undertake all kinds of rigorous training. This wish, however, does not stem from a desire to be recognized by others; rather, Minoru does everything he can to blend in with the crowd. So, while pretending to be a completely average student during the day, he arms himself with a crowbar and ruthlessly thrashes local biker gangs at night. Yet when Minoru finds himself in a truck accident, his ambitions seemingly come to a sudden end. In his final moments, he laments his powerlessness—no matter how much he trained, there was nothing he could do to overcome his human limitations.

But instead of dying, Minoru reawakens as Cid, the second child of the noble Kagenou family, in another world—one where magic is commonplace. With the power he so desired finally within his grasp, he dons the moniker "Shadow" and establishes Shadow Garden: a group whose sole purpose is to combat the enigmatic Cult of Diablos, an organization born from Cid's imagination. However, as Shadow Garden grows in both membership and influence, it becomes increasingly apparent that the Cult of Diablos is not as fictional as Cid had intended.

User Review: Aw, it’s another edgy isekai with an overpowered MC? Wait, there’s a guy in the show whose actual name is called Perv Asshat? Another guy called Imatry Nottaloos? Sign me up!!!

Fundamentally, this show has quite a garbage formula, but did I enjoy it anyway? Yes. At the outset, it has most of the isekai tropes. Protagonist gets truck-kun’d, he’s really OP, has a harem of sorts, so what’s different about this one? The main character is a chuunibyou, whose wild ideas come to life in the new world. The cackling cult of baddies that he’s always thought of is actually in this world, and he constructs an organization called Shadow Garden to loom in the shadows, not to destroy bad guys or anything, but… actually, I have no idea what their goal is.

If you are coming in expecting a well-told story, you won’t get that, at all. I won’t say the story was a huge mess, it definitely wasn’t the best part of the show. At its core, this is a self-aware “parody” of isekai, that is mostly a comedy. The show balances itself between some serious politics and stories, mixed with very dumb comedy, which works sometimes, and sometimes falls flat. One of the gripes I have with this show overall is its tonal inconsistencies, and while the tonal shifts work sometimes, it detracts from the serious undertones the show has as well. It delivers solid entertainment value at a consistent quality, but I can’t say I was ever really interested in the politics or even a bunch of the characters, because there were just too many of them.

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