
a review by femboydirt

a review by femboydirt
I might struggle to get to the 2200 character minimum for this review. You can only say so much about these types of shows and almost everything you can say has been said already. I have seen way to many of this exact type of show. This is where I have to concede that these kinds of shows are my guilty pleasure. A common thing for this genre and this type of show in general is that its very easy to watch.
Almost all of these anime are adapted from Light Novels. They all also have one or two gimmicks. The first is always the power they have, in this case its summoning. If there is another gimmick its usually to do with the world. Whether it be a quirky magic system or extra mechanic and in the case of this show its the found family aspect of the cast. The main character is either an anti hero or paragon with very little deviation. Because of this, I lable isekai where the MC is a monster or the "villain" as different enough to not be included. That idea isn't as overused and still is being explored.

First off, this show isn't bad, but its closer to medicore than good which is probably the worst thing an anime can be. This show like the dozens before it will be forgetten about by the end of the season. This show is not worth being remembered. It will make a great one day binge watch for someone craving a power fantasy anime and not much else.
My score for this show is gonna be a 55. As I said in the previous paragraph, its very close to painfully mediocre. 50 is average on my scale.
I was talking to friends while watching this show and said to them, "I hope this show isn't pro slavery, I hate when isekais do that." A week passes and I am watching the new episode and halfway through I say to myself, "Damn... another pro slavery isekai."
Black Summoner has decent characters, a kinda interesting world, and the plot is engaging enough to not lose you. This show has potential as most of these kinds of shows do, but it moves on from world building or character moments way to fast for anything to truly matter. Yes, you've established the major kingdoms, but have not given us a reason to care about any of them. 12 episodes gives roughly 4 hours worth of time to tell a story, but I don't blame the production team or studio. Light Novels are written so that you get to the big action scene or harem scene as quickly as possible. Threats are established then the MC comes into conflict with them.
Its so hard to talk about Black Summmoner alone as its own thing, because its not trying to be its own thing. One of the worst things about the show is that slavery, yes the buying, selling, and forced labor of humans/humanoids, is treated as fine.
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