My Thoughts on Dad Is A Hero, Mom Is A Spirit, I'm A Reincarnator

I had rock bottom expectations going into this anime. Maybe that's at least partially why I didn't think it was horrible, although I can't confidently call it good either. The beginning is kind of interesting. Although it does start like yet another pointless Isekai where the protagonist, who happens to be a scientist, a detail that is never important after her minute or less long backstory, is reincarnated as a young girl, named Ellen, after that I did enjoy the family dynamic that's established, with her new father marrying a spirit. There's even some potentially intriguing political stuff like the father, named Rovel Vankrefift, is a member of royalty and the brother of the guy who is supposed to take over leadership of the kingdom and Rovel himself has been journeying around for 10 years and finally returned home and his brohter wants him to become the crown prince but he supposedly wouldn't be able to because he himself is half spirit. But it goes downhill after like 2-4 episodes and becomes extremely boring. There's a lot of plot points and none of them are given nearly enough time to be fleshed out well enough for me to care about them, like the royal family supposedly being cursed so long ago that they don't have generational memory or records of them, for crimes that we never learn about. At a certain point the only thing that kept me going through it was Ellen, who's super cute, likable, and endearing. But even that wore thin eventually.

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Western_Promise30632026-01-29 23:56

Totally agree, it's extremely rare for me to drop an isekai power fantasy with a female main character after only a couple of episodes but I just couldn't deal with it anymore. there's clearly so many problems that the insanely overpowered female main character could instantly solve if she wanted to, but she just- fucking doesn't do it for no reason.

Unlucky-Prize2026-01-29 23:57

I’m not even sure how it got funded to be an anime. Definitely a series that isn’t sure what it wants to be.

CarpenterFederal2026-01-30 00:07

I saw all the episodes and it was boring specially the last episodes maybe my taste is too far from the Japanese.
But well it was free, my thoughts are that was cool I dont want to know what happens after that...really

iOttoman2026-01-30 00:07

I enjoyed reading it, but it is honestly just more slop

Organic_Following_382026-01-30 00:37

I hate that no matter how arbitrary and/or unjustified, the protag family always has this like really condescending righteous anger, I found the main cast really off-putting.

Fendreth2026-01-30 00:55

I got through it, and as someone who watches a lot of trash isekai, I've seen worse, but my god, pacing was crap. It reminded me a lot of Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles, and definitely in the bad ways. Tone felt all over the place. It either needed to take itself more seriously or lean into the power fantasy more. It did split the difference and it didn't work.

PeaceAlien2026-01-30 01:13

It’s bad slop and that’s about it.

ddrober20032026-01-30 01:18

I legit grew to hate the characters. How they treated some characters i got so sick of. Was low key hoping one would become a villain that had some success lol.

skavinger58822026-01-30 01:27

It was enjoyable slop, there's 1 or 2 like it most seasons and a few are good or have some clever idea, but even when they do they often fail to execute on them and fall back to deeply engrained tropes of the genre. But they are generally enjoyable for what they are, hell every once in a while one of them surprises you and is genuinely good (Seventh Prince for instance). Personally I'd put Dad's a Hero Mom's a spirit roughly in the middle of the Isekai or isekai adjacent slop quality.

Maximumfabulosity2026-01-30 01:41

I tried watching it because the premise seemed mildly interesting and I like seeing a female protagonist, but it was genuinely just absolute slop. Its treatment of every character outside the protagonist and her parents felt actively mean-spirited.

The only high point was seeing the hero act kind of ditzy and get scolded for it by his own daughter, but even then, it started to irritate me that he seemed completely incapable of saying no to her. I don't care if she's a reincarnator, that's still bad parenting. Which might be interesting if the narrative acknowledged it as such, but that would be waaay too much to expect from a show like this.

Like I went into this being like "ooh, some trash isekai, just what I'm looking for after a long and stressful day at work" and it genuinely was not even good enough to satisfy my garbage cravings. I might have been able to forgive the complete lack of narrative tension if the characters were actually likeable or interesting, but they weren't.

Tbh I kind of want to do a deep dive into the whole thing just because of how hard it ragebaited me

zer0number2026-01-30 01:47

I do not hate your reviews, but can you please use line breaks? Walls of text are hard to read.

That said, I was very annoyed by this anime. It had a great start, but got so damn boring. Also, the spirits are dicks.