Level 1 dakedo Unique Skill de Saikyou desu

As a corporate slave, Ryouta Satou experiences the worst forms of stress, overwork, and loneliness. Even after he is hospitalized due to exhaustion, his days of toil only become worse. Soon enough, the sheer fatigue catches up to him and kills him in his sleep. However, Ryouta is given a second chance at life: he wakes up in another world as a slime drop—much to the surprise of Emily Brown, the petite blonde girl who defeated said slime.

Acquainting himself with the rules of this RPG-like world, Ryouta finds out that he will never grow past level 1. However, he also discovers that one of his skills is at the maximum level: the skill which determines the rarity of monster drops. This allows him to acquire not only items of the best quality, but also some that are unheard of.

Ryouta sets out to make the most of his ability—meeting new friends, grinding through dungeons, and acquiring unique items along the way. Reveling in his new life seems to be the long-awaited and much-deserved reward for all the tribulations he had suffered.

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Brown, Emily Main

Kusumi, Rin Japanese

Satou, Ryouta Main

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Callusleader, Eve Supporting

Kouno, Marika Japanese

Monsoon, Erza Supporting

Fuchigami, Mai Japanese

Celeste Supporting

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Wonderland, Alice Supporting

Takao, Kanon Japanese

Adalbard Supporting

Akabane, Kenji Japanese

Duke Supporting

Kawada, Shinji Japanese

Clint Supporting

Shioya, Yoku Japanese

Ran Supporting

Uchida, Maaya Japanese

Kurosu, Nobuhiko Producer

Hayashi, Nobuhito Producer

Kawasumi, Mayuka Producer

Kubota, Akira Producer

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Apr 29, 2024

Gilded

Recommended

Anyways...

This is your generic seasonal "budget" isekai show
Its light and simple story with not much going on really, bordering a slow burner show to a degree
Didnt expected much from it but still managed to enjoy it even with its flaws.
Its the type of show you just dont think too hard and just chill and enjoy the ride

Art is fine with CGI here and there
Characters look fine for overall duration of the show but sometimes you could notice reused "Still frames", but considering the nature of this show its acceptable.

... Action is done ok as well, sometimes some scenes could feel repetitive after some time

Ambient music is nothing too special really, OP and ED songs are fine (i prefer ED over OP personally)
I sometimes didnt even notice that there was some ambient music in the background playing

Story and the setting is fine for what it was, there were clearly some of the things cut in order to fit it all into 12 episode bracket and i bet they wish they could have done 13th episode but they just couldnt.
Quite a lot of Light novel adaptations overall beg to be +12 episodes because its more densely packed with events and some minor details that were important could be skipped compared to manga

Only part it really suffers is the story pacing and some intentional cuts when MC gets something new.
MC gets some new item and its shown, but we dont get told what it is and it cuts into next thing happening and the thing MC got is getting the reveal later in the episode as it solves some problem.
Really just classic storyboard mistake / technique in order to fill the gaps from cut dialogues and ect...

So its little bit everywhere sometimes and writing can be weak sometimes, but it could been a storyboard and screenwriter issues
(Hey at least we didnt get a recap episode with reused scenes in the middle of the show...)

So the premise of the story is basically:

In classic isekai fashion the MC died from overwork due to working in black company, we all seen plenty of shows that start like this.
This as classic opening as DnD campaigns with Tavern start, you cant really come up with anything new because its probably already been done and failed, plus everyone is tired of Truck-kun already honestly...

There is just not much you can do with isekai as setting when you have to come up with a way for MC to get into the new world with some backstory, its common trope because it just works so just deal with it

The World setting is somewhat interesting as basically everything is generated in dungeons as drop from monsters, that also includes money and food, if you can think of an item we use daily there is a dungeon with monster for it somewhere.

World outside towns is a wasteland, with not even trees growing so the civilization is dependent on dungeons for everything, which affects nations and appearance of new dungeons or change inside the dungeon could cause a big impact which is explored little bit in the story.

People in this world have predetermined "space" they can grow as there is level cap which differs from person to person.
Stats are based on ranking system from S to F
Each person also can be specialized in a way that they have a stat for drop rate of specific goods, the better the stat is the better drop you can get, their taste, texture smells and ect is affected by it. It seems like there are "Drop Brackets" basically.

For example:
F rank in vegetables would make that you would never get veggies from monsters that drops them normally
E rank would make you get small amounts of lower quality veggies that might just make do.
A rank would make you get good quantity of quality goods that are way above whatever you can get while having E rank in every aspect.
You rank can increase with level ups, sometimes your stats wont increase until you are near the said level cap you were predetermined.

So our MC gets "OP" skill that makes hes drop rate rank S across the board while he can never level up as hes level cap is 1/1 and hes combat stats are F rank across the board.
Due to hes stats he has to work hard in order to get food and a roof over hes head because all he can kill is the weakest monsters which pose him some a threat.

Later we find out that our MC can get drops from monsters and places that others cant due to hes unique skill as having S rank skills is unheard already while A ranks are relatively rare and some people are unlucky being permanently stuck at F rank across the board even at high levels..

So MC has to slowly work to increase hes stats in a unique way only available for him that is revealed later on

So the harem part...
I wouldnt call it super generic because characters dont just randomly fall for MC, he helps them in certain ways he can and earns their trust and admiration one way or another and it takes time or something big like with the first friend he makes.

Its still a common trope but at least its not over the top love on the first sight with them fully trusting him with their lives the second they interact with MC

There are slight hints for some of them wanting to be more than just comrades but its not explored much more in the show and they all act more like group of friends with no generic rivalry between the cast for hes attention
They are relatively open for letting new faces into their circle as long as MC approves of them


I still give it 8/10 because its slightly above the average, being overall somewhat consistent and there is nothing dragging it down compared to some of the shows in this genre we seen over the years and wouldnt mind a second season with hopes of overall improvement over this even if its slight one.

Highly recommend if you want a simple show to relax to

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 25, 2024

Otakuculture1234

Mixed Feelings

The story is kind of intended for kids i mean the animation, the slow pace, the over the top sweetness in dialogues, etc . but the lot has the potential to be become much more than that! this could've been the great series if there was some more improvement in the every department ! as the plot itself is interesting enough ! another i am very disappointed is the lack of harem ! i mean just having girl members in the party doesn't mean that it is a harem ! the main lead is dense but there were clear and obvious hints of harem sparks ... heck even one of the female lead gave her every effort by getting some physical ! *ahem* but the plot just ignores it ! nevertheless even after all this issues i still enjoyed this at least to some extent as i mentioned before this is kind of seems like intended for kids that means this is light hearted which is my forte! so as for me it's - 6.3/10 ! the main lead and his abilities are so much interesting that if this anime have gotten a better adaptation it could have been among the top of isekai animes!

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 25, 2024

Whe3333

Not Recommended

Spoiler-less, TL;DR, fast, simple, and easy-to-digest review:

Isekai, Usual Trash, Too Shallow

3/10

Animation? Meh (-)
Mediocre at best. Bland at worst.

Characters? Trash (---)
... Let's see... uhh... the MC is bland and trash, the girls are too plain that watching paint dry is more appealing than them, and their designs are ripoff from Konosuba. There's discount Kazuma with guns (why?), tall Megumin, and loli Lalatina- I mean Darkness.

Story? Trash (---)
Even other trashy isekai animes have more interesting premise and plot than this. And why would the MC spoil the plot of the episode before the OP? Weird... Also world-building and world logic are too shallow. Writing is too shallow as well.

Pacing? Bad (--)
Episodic yet lacks proper coherency. (Yawn...) ok let's move on...

OST? Bad (--)
OP is cringe. Skip!

Enjoyment? Bad (--)
It's not even a junkfood entertainment. Heck, worse than eating cardboard box. You don't need Gordon Ramsey to judge this "food" to him. I'm here, and I'm even overqualified to review this anime. I'm not even popular at all!!!... yet. We need an abridged version of this, just like the Smartphone Isekai.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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