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Kemono Michi: Rise UpWhat is the isekai genre missing? If you think it's pro wrestling, pet shops and butts, Kemono Michi has you covered.Isekai has been pretty stale for years, and it usually comes down to a few reasons: lazy worldbuilding, cliched RPG plots, and boring protagonists. This show doesn't do much with its worldbuilding, and the basic throughline of the plot could have ended up as a typical defeat-the-demon-lord quest, but that gets derailed thanks to the protagonist. Rather than the usual otaku or salaryman, Genzo is a pro wrestler/animal fetishist whose plans to retire from wrestling and open a pet shop are scuppered when a princess teleports him to another world. When she commands him to rid the world of demon beasts (ie. animals), he responds by suplexing her into the ground and walking out. So begins his plan to tame/befriend/sexually harass demon beasts and open that world's first pet shop.Genzo is this show's saving grace. He's presented with a cast of stock action-comedy characters (the hungry one, the money-obsessed one, the trashy vampire, etc) and stock fantasy quest setups, but his approach to problem-solving usually involves a clothesline and a submission hold. Repetition sets in at times, but its generally pretty funny, and gets all the more entertaining when Genzo starts setting up isekai wrestling tournaments. Cap it off with a plot arc that reaches a satisfying (if not entirely conclusive) conclusion within 12 episodes and you have an isekai comedy that manages to outshine the typical tired power fantasies.7/10
Kemono Michi: Rise Up
What is the isekai genre missing? If you think it's pro wrestling, pet shops and butts, Kemono Michi has you covered.
Isekai has been pretty stale for years, and it usually comes down to a few reasons: lazy worldbuilding, cliched RPG plots, and boring protagonists. This show doesn't do much with its worldbuilding, and the basic throughline of the plot could have ended up as a typical defeat-the-demon-lord quest, but that gets derailed thanks to the protagonist. Rather than the usual otaku or salaryman, Genzo is a pro wrestler/animal fetishist whose plans to retire from wrestling and open a pet shop are scuppered when a princess teleports him to another world. When she commands him to rid the world of demon beasts (ie. animals), he responds by suplexing her into the ground and walking out. So begins his plan to tame/befriend/sexually harass demon beasts and open that world's first pet shop.
Genzo is this show's saving grace. He's presented with a cast of stock action-comedy characters (the hungry one, the money-obsessed one, the trashy vampire, etc) and stock fantasy quest setups, but his approach to problem-solving usually involves a clothesline and a submission hold. Repetition sets in at times, but its generally pretty funny, and gets all the more entertaining when Genzo starts setting up isekai wrestling tournaments. Cap it off with a plot arc that reaches a satisfying (if not entirely conclusive) conclusion within 12 episodes and you have an isekai comedy that manages to outshine the typical tired power fantasies.
7/10
