The issues with love aren’t over yet for our Uncle-Nephew duo as we come back from this break. Uncle From Another World Episode 5 sees them get into their pasts a little more. Let’s see where it took the duo in this review!
Uncle From Another World Episode 5 Overview
Uncle From Another World or Isekai Ojisan in original Japanese is a comedy and fantasy anime based on a manga written by Shindeiru Hotondo and serialized in Web Comic Apanta. The series is developed by studio AtelierPontdarc and will be their first foray into the world of anime.
The show is being directed by Kawai Shigeki, who has been a part of the production of several anime in the past, including Darling in the Franxx and Blue Exorcist, although this is also his first venture into directing an anime. The episode is also called Isekai Ojisan Episode 5 and Isekai Uncle Episode 5. Click here to read the review of the previous episode of the show.
–Isekai Ojisan Episode 5 Review does not contain spoilers –
Uncle From Another World Episode 5 Review- Back With A Whimper
Welcome back! Be honest for a second, did you miss this show? Did the particular style of humour that it has, or the weird but generic isekai world it has constructed, or the off-the-wire characters it has developed make people watch any more of it than they had already seen? Why did the show take a break of two weeks in the first place? Was it to create a longing to watch the second part or simple production issues that were plaguing the show? All of that is to ask this question- do people still care?
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Let’s say this first- the break was a great idea for this show. It felt like it was already running out of ideas by the time the previous episode came out, and this helped alleviate that somewhat. We didn’t have to watch the same flashback that we had been seeing for the past four weeks because the episode was nowhere to be found. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and that certainly did help out this show. This might come across as harsh, but the show doesn’t seem to have much left in the tank anyways.
This episode didn’t offer anything that we hadn’t seen before, and that was a shame. We are still at the same apartment, watching Uncle screw up his entire other-world adventure in the same ways as we have seen him do countless times since we started doing this. This time, he was messing around with Mable, the white witch whom he “set free” of her responsibilities and asked to follow her dreams- of not doing anything. While I’ll admit that was a good joke, doing it again so soon was stretching it too far.
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It wasn’t even anything much different than what happened with Elf. The two characters just follow two very different female character archetypes in anime, and all their interactions with Uncle are just what you expect them to be. He is surprisingly wise and profound, then screws everything up because of how unaware he is of his surroundings and the new world he has landed in. The show tried to create some intrigue by looking at how Uncle got there in the first place, and it was all for nothing as it all led to the same place that we have already talked about- nowhere new.
There were still some funny moments in this episode, and the art style was still unique and easy to look at, with some great reaction shots sprinkled throughout. Takafumi and Fujimiya didn’t have much of a presence, other than being one of those reaction shots or being displayed over the memories, similar to what’s popular in Japanese TV. Overall, this was a pretty lacklustre episode that failed to do anything fresh with the concept, which is the one thing it has going for it.
Verdict
Uncle From Another World Episode 5 was a nothing episode which relied on the tropes the series has already established while not doing anything fresh with them. This didn’t take long, did it?
Click here to read the review of the next episode!