This review is more for me than it is for you, whoever you are.
When I look back and I stumble upon this anime again in the future, I want to remind myself why I dropped this. There is absolutely no substance here. Not even as a guilty pleasure. There is nothing to enjoy. These are empty calories without any of the flavor.
Tensei Kizoku no Isekai Boukenroku takes all the bad tropes of animanga and somehow makes them worse. The MC is an overpowered devoid of personality shota orbited by a cast of characters that are somehow even more devoid of personality. Actually, perhaps that's not exactly accurate. The supporting cast does have a personality, it just so happens that their personalities are in service of showing the viewer how great of a person the MC is. Whether it's his brocon sister or his doting father who never fails to remind us that even though the MC isn't the firstborn and the MC can't inherit his father's title or land, he's still somehow the best son. If I didn't know any better, I would think the MC implanted himself into this family and had them all under threat of some horrific death if they don't constantly praise and idolize him.
We're shown very early on that the MC will never struggle and it's not because he has some unique surprising gimmick... no, far be it for our MC to have some sort of personality. He just has quite literally everything. Now don't get me wrong, I love an overpowered MC as much as the next guy... Hell, I'm a huge fan of Overlord. The problem is that we don't have even 5% of what makes Overlord so great. There are no stakes, not even fabricated stakes. There is never any sense of urgency. There is no intrigue. There are just a stream of problems that the MC instantly resolves.
Speaking of a vapid supporting cast, the MC's harem is top contender for most insipid. Each member is a carbon copy of the other with the exception that they're technically different people so they look different. They are all immediately capture by the MC who begrudgingly accepts their affection(poor MC). Surely the parents of these girls would have some sort of sense, right? Their daughters are being courted by a single person so it would make sense for them to force our dear shota to choose, no? Well, no. This anime introduces us into its fantasy world with polygamy by showing us that the MC's father has two wives who live in perfect harmony with each other, laying the foundation for the MC to induct as many women as he wants into a frictionless marriage because all the women are content to share the MC cause he's such a great man(boy). In fact, the parents of said girls gush over the MC about as much as their daughters do.
At the end of the day, Tensei Kizoku no Isekai Boukenroku is not noteworthy and will never be noteworthy. There is no plot. There are no characters. The world building is cookie cutter medieval anime fantasy. The art is not good enough to carry all of this midness. It delivers nothing new and revels in its mockery of actually good isekais.
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