"The Strongest Job Is Apparently Not a Hero or a Sage, but an Appraiser (Provisional)!" key visual

Look, it's got something for everyone. A young boy, a girl of the same age (who is DEFINATELY not interested in the boy!!!), a much younger girl, an older girl (with big massive tits. Big bahongas. Massive bazonk- ehhh you know the drill) who is the older sister type. And of course an animal with abs, to pull in the weirdo furries who want to fuck their dogs (or something, idk. you do you)

Yea, no, I'mna be skipping

To be fair, this series will be 9 years old next month.
So it's definitely one of the older ones of its type.

The art style alone is enough for me to give it three episodes, looks cute as hell and I'm all in for that.

I literally know 6 separate shows that this title could describe. Only one of them is ok.

Too bad. You'll swallow the Nth slop isekai and you'll hate it

Yeah, that's indeed the title of the source material.

My guess is the sudden increase in power without the effort in doing so.

My only guess is that it's a kickback type of reaction to all the "I'm the greatest sword master/mage/archer" stories that have also flooded the manga and manhwa scenes.

Still more interesting than the 1000th Chinese cultivation plot.

I think it’s a skill people can identify with. In modern Japan, being physically strong or having OP martial arts skills really doesn’t do anything for you. You could be a MMA fighter or something, but that’s not what an average salaryman dreams about. But being able to know what people are thinking, their affinities and skills, and’s even what things are really worth, you can plan your actions accordingly. And that’s useful whether you’re an office worker or restaurant server or pretty much anything.

Excuse me but what is an appraiser?

Even easier to self-insert into than a combat genius Mary Sue.

Honestly, hard not to feel that it's in part because it just offloads so much writing. You stop having to think about nuance and can just have your MC "appraise" things to learn the absolute truth of it.

I think it's a good (read: cheap/easy) way to make the MC OP while having an ability that most people wouldn't think as OP.

- Ep1, 1 second in: "Wow you suck MC, all you can do is appraise things!"
- Ep1, 5 seconds in: "Wow, I appraised this randomly discarded dagger and it can one-shot a god!"

I think it's pretty much the same reason why Isekai got so popular (a cheap way to introduce a world/characters so any talentless author can do it).

It's a "skill" you always have by default in most games, and it's overpowered, it's having the current internet, while no one else has access to it, it's easy to push yourself up when you just have all the knowledge you need at a single glance.

The weird thing is when one particular anime becomes popular, everyone and their mother tries to replicate it, and if eventually enough tittles go to be popular, it becomes a genre on itself. I.e.- dot hack was quite popular, although not the massive hit. Years later we got sword art online and from there we had videogame menu and skill trees everywhere.

But for 'appraisal' anime, while I have seen quite a lot of them lately, I don’t remember one that's particularly popular. Maybe the reborn aristocrat one? That one had average to bad animation, but the plot and writing was really good.

I think it's a lazy way of giving other characters background info.

Probably because the readers of sites like syousetsu are nerds and "They underestimated how important my [KNOWLEDGE OF RANDOM STUFF] skill is, but then I showed them by being super powerful due to my [KNOWLEDGE OF RANDOM STUFF]" is the sort of thing that's appealing to nerds.

"Appraiser" is a fairly direct way to do "nerd" -> "power", but it's not exactly a unique idea to anime.

There's an [old tumblr post talking about the different ways that magic is used in fiction](https://balioc.tumblr.com/post/628726469386960897/a-taxonomy-of-magic) and #1 on the list is "Magic as The Gun That Can Be Wielded Only By Nerds".

> D&D wizardry is “as a science nerd, I can use my brainpower to blast you in the face with lightning.” Similarly, sorcery is “as a colorful weirdo, I can use my force of personality to blast you in the face with lightning,” and warlockry is “as a goth/emo kid, I can use my raw power of alienation to blast you in the face with lightning.”

Could probably add "as a NEET kid, I can use my random knowledge about stuff to blast you in the face with lightning".

It covers the power fantasy area of "Every one thinks it is a useless skill, it is really Over power when applied"

Anyone who has done appraisal either in real life or videogames can appreciate the skills and the hard work you have to put into it.

The real question is will the author use it in an interesting way or simply cop out as the character is op right away.

Because it's also a special skill in real life?

And I wonder why people disagree with this. Can anyone explain?

Appraisal isn’t even that great of an ability. I could open a fucking book and find out the same information. Generic garbage, all of it.

I'd like an actual list, cause I think we're at 4 so far.

The power of easy exposition is very attractive for less capable writers.

Another show to burn through foreign investments.

Bro 😂😂

poop from the butt

Exactly, I can't tell if this is adapting the one I read a bit or not lol.

[Don't cry litte redditor , Japan has enough isekai slop to feed you you entire life!](https://i.redd.it/8rwlueuqowoe1.jpeg)

I think it's about how, rather than a hero or a sage, the strongest job is actually that of an appraiser.

Absolutely humongous knockers in these Isekai slopfests. I dont even know who reads or watches this type of garbage nowadays.

It's either that or they are childlike. Marcille from Dungeon Meshi, and all the elves there actually, were great.

Elf's either have flat chests or massive boobs with no in between.

Mushoku Tensei elves are also flat

My issue isn't that she's an elf, it's that she's an archer.

Those assets are very much in the way of the bowstring unless she does some major unconventional shooting techniques involving contortions that are humanly impossible.

While there is major concern about AIs being trained on AI output leading to worse outcomes, Isekai writers are suffering from a far worse case, in that they are only reading other Isekai stories.

You jest but a while ago some dumbass [AI-generated isekai LN](https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/71kizF2467) won an award.

Thanks god it was canceled.

Shit Inuyasha even

Now And Then, Here And There

Dawg, isekais then were creative. 12 Kingdoms was peak.

I'd like to get another season of log horizon.

Back when protags were actually trying to go back to their original world and it had meaning rather than pure escapism.

Well there is Evil Galactic Empire that has MC isekai to space faring sci-fi with mecha. For novel there's \[Evolving Space Monster\] and \[Legendary Mechanic\], it has manhwa and manhua adaptation. But avoid reading Legendary Mechanic manhua because it butchered the source material.