Uncle from Another World

Since it looks like I can post this publicly, this is a short review and the most analytical or anything. It's mainly there for me to be able to gather my thoughts after watching the show, but also so any of my friends can read this to see if they should watch the show in the future. Please keep that in mind while reading this review.

Uncle From Another World tells the story of a young man who's youth was taken away from him by Truck-kun...until he woke up from a coma several years later in the modern day, while speaking some whack-ass language. During the past 20 or so years he has been living in a fantasy world, and the show sees him tell the stories of his time in the isekai through magic video playback.

This show is split up between two sections primarily, direct retellings of Uncle's time in the isekai and the shenanigans he, his nephew, and later, his nephew's female childhood friend. To me, what makes this show fun are the Sega references (Uncle was a Sega kid who's first love was Sonic and Tails, but as Sega did not have a market at all in Japan, he had no friends; the disconnect Uncle feels since he's not used to the modern day, and the conflicts that arise from it; and couple aspects of the isekai sections.

There are two primary aspects of the comedy in the isekai sections in my opinion, Because Uncle is seemingly exceptionally ugly, he experienced insane prejudice with people trying to kill him constantly. The other aspect would be the harem he develops and how he is exceptionally clueless. Both of these tend also have the gag of him erasing his memory. These jokes don't always land, but they land the vast majority of the time. At certain points, it'll cut back to the current day and the nephew and friend will react and that also add to the humor.

Honestly, the only thing I didn't really like about the show is the final bathhouse and battle arc, but I watched this show for the slice of life and comedy elements. This final arc wasn't done poorly at all. The character moments were great.

All in all, this was maybe the most unique and fun isekai I've ever had the pleasure of watching, since it's not even focused on the isekai adventures, in my opinion. I'm pretty biased against fantasy and action shows, which is what isekais tend to be, and it's not like I have experience with such games or MMOs either to always get some of the humor and references their worlds and characters are built-on, but because of that, I can definitely say that this is an isekai that I whole-heartedly recommend. This does not disappoint!

Hopefully there'll be a season 2, but with the troubled release schedule and botched release by Netflix US, I highly doubt there's a market. Which is really sad.