Review: “I’ve Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills”
Welcome to a world where we have to remind the audience every five seconds that everything is a fantasy world. The show acts like the viewers are brain-dead goldfish that need to be constantly told, “This isn’t Earth, this is a fantasy world, guys!” Every single line of dialogue has that energy. “Oh, this isn’t a tomato, it’s a tomatta!” Wow, thank you for that stunning worldbuilding detail, I never would have known. The writing feels like someone just discovered what an RPG is and decided to copy every trope in the most surface-level way possible. It’s condescending to the point of comedy, except it’s not funny, it’s just sad.
The entire thing feels like an AI-generated isekai that never made it past the beta phase. Every scene is oversaturated with awkward exposition, characters explaining things that make no sense, and the most predictable jokes you could imagine. It’s the kind of anime that mistakes repeating the same point ten times for good storytelling. There’s no rhythm, no sense of pacing, just a bunch of disconnected scenes strung together with the enthusiasm of a kid with adhd in the vegetable section at A Walmart You can feel the writer giving up halfway through the script and saying, “Yeah, that’s good enough, slap a dragon in it.”
Speaking of the dragon, let’s talk about the PS2-looking disaster they call a monster. It’s like someone took an old 3D model from a budget RPG on the PlayStation 2 and said, “Yeah, that’ll do.” The animation looks stiff and awkward, the textures look like plastic, and the lighting makes it look like a background asset that accidentally wandered into the main shot. The main character, this guy with the personality of stale bread, kills that thing with a carrot. A carrot. Not a magic sword, not some clever plan, not even a funny gag weapon. Just a carrot. The show doesn’t even bother pretending it makes sense. You can feel your brain trying to find logic in it, and then it just gives up.
The animation is straight up mid. It’s not offensively bad in a technical sense, but it’s so painfully uninspired that you start questioning if anyone actually wanted to make this. Characters move stiffly, like they’re stuck in molasses, and the backgrounds look like recycled stock art. The fights are supposed to look cool, but they end up looking like someone smashing action figures together in slow motion. There’s this weird attempt at dramatic camera angles that just end up feeling awkward, like the show is trying way too hard to look impressive when it clearly doesn’t have the budget for it.
The dialogue is another level of disaster. Every character talks like they’re reading from a poorly translated mobile game script. No one sounds like an actual person, and every emotional moment feels like it was written by someone who’s only seen human interaction through a foggy window. The characters explain everything to each other constantly, as if the audience can’t understand basic context. And whenever the show tries to be heartfelt, it comes across as forced and hollow. You can tell it’s trying to make you care about the characters, but it never gives you a reason to. It’s all talk, no feeling.
And don’t even get me started on the tone. One second it’s a slice-of-life farming comedy, then suddenly it wants to be an epic action adventure, then it tries to pull off serious emotional drama. None of it fits together. The tonal whiplash is insane. One moment the main character is plowing a field, the next he’s fighting for his life against some random monster that looks like it came from an entirely different anime. It feels like watching three different shows awkwardly mashed together by someone who didn’t understand why any of them worked in the first place.
This series is a masterclass in how not to write or animate a fantasy show. Every choice feels like it was made without thought or care. The humor doesn’t land, the worldbuilding is lazy, and the plot is just a pile of random ideas thrown together to fill time. The whole “I got stronger by farming” concept could have actually been fun if the writers had any self-awareness or creativity, but instead it’s treated like the most profound thing ever written. The show genuinely believes it’s clever, which somehow makes it even worse.
Watching this anime feels like a test of endurance. It’s the kind of show that drains your will to live one line at a time. Every episode feels longer than it should be, and every character feels more useless than the last. It’s the peak of generic, uninspired, low-effort fantasy storytelling that somehow manages to be both boring and irritating at the same time. If someone told me this was a parody of bad isekai, I might actually believe them, but sadly it’s completely serious. This show doesn’t just suspend disbelief, it straight up murders it.
Final verdict: “I’ve Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills” is what happens when you take every lazy anime trope, throw it in a blender, and pour the result onto your screen without taste or restraint. It’s dumb, it’s shallow, and it’s painful to watch. You could show this to someone as an example of everything wrong with modern fantasy anime, and they’d understand immediately. If you value your time, your sanity, or even your eyesight, stay far, far away from this vegetable-powered disaster.
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