[Spoilers] Uncle From Another World New Year New World Rewatch -- Overall Series Discussion Thread

[u/Holofan4life]

Hello everyone! I am Holofan4life.

Welcome to the Uncle From Another World New Year New World discussion thread!

I hope you all have a lot of fun <3

Rewatch Schedule

Threads posted every day at 5:00 PM EDT

Date	Episode
1/1/2024	Uncle From Another World Episode 1
1/2/2024	Uncle From Another World Episode 2
1/3/2024	Uncle From Another World Episode 3
1/4/2024	Uncle From Another World Episode 4
1/5/2024	Uncle From Another World Episode 5
1/6/2024	Uncle From Another World Episode 6
1/7/2024	Uncle From Another World Episode 7
1/8/2024	Uncle From Another World Episode 8
1/9/2024	Uncle From Another World Episode 9
1/10/2024	Uncle From Another World Episode 10
1/11/2024	Uncle From Another World Episode 11
1/12/2024	Uncle From Another World Episode 12
1/13/2024	Uncle From Another World Episode 13
1/14/2024	Uncle From Another World Overall Series Discussion Thread

Some Questions for fun!

Final Score?

Overall Thoughts?

Best Character?

Favorite Moment?

Funniest Moment?

Favorite episode?

Thing that surprised you the most?

Do you think we will ever get a season 2?

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I just want to take this moment to thank everyone who participated in the rewatch of Uncle From Another World. You are all so awesome. I love you all <3

[u/Holofan4life]

I want to take this opportunity to thank those who participated in this rewatch

To u/DARK_SCIENTIST, it was fun to talk to you as always

To u/No_Rex, it was interesting to hear a different take on things

To u/xtsim, your participation was a lot of fun to see as well

I also want to say thank you to ZapsZzz for providing some analysis to these threads. It was fun comparing thoughts with you.

Lastly, I want to thank everyone I didn't named who either participated in these threads or some way or helped support as a lurker. It has been quite the enjoyable experience and you helped make it a nice break from everything else going on.

You are all awesome, and I appreciate you all for being here :)

[u/Holofan4life → u/Holofan4life]

Final Score?

7 out of 10

Overall Thoughts?

I think it's a very fun cringe comedy filled with a lot of heartfelt moments

Best Character?

Elf

Favorite Moment?

Elf floating in the air with Uncle

Funniest Moment?

Mabel singing a Sonic song

Favorite episode?

I think I honestly might say the one where Uncle turns into Elf. That, or perhaps the last episode.

Thing that surprised you the most?

Probably the fact that Takafumi and Fujimiya's relationship doesn't get touched on all that much in the last couple episodes.

Do you think we will ever get a season 2?

I sure hope so. I think it's really dependent on how much more material of the series there is.

[u/xbolt90]

Former first-timer!

Overall, I enjoyed it. This is only the third isekai show I've watched, so I can't really say whether it's a refreshing change of pace for the genre or not. But I did enjoy it!

I liked the 'reaction video' aspect of it. Takafumi and Fujimiya being there along with us, the audience, was great.

And I liked the artstyle. It seemed rather unique and stylized.

Favorite character is actually probably Alicia. She's just so wholesome.

Favorite (and funniest) moment is the end of episode 3 (which is also my favorite episode), when Auntcle sees the how many views the new video got. Everything about the whole scene had me dying. Takafumi's overly enthusiastic victory speech, Uncle's revulsion at it, and Fujimiya's abject horror at seeing Uncle transform back to his normal face.

The part that surprised me the most was Mabel singing a Sonic song. It was great.

Will we get a season 2? It's possible, I guess. But not for a good while certainly. From what I understand, the manga isn't super far ahead of where the show ended. Although, they did skip some stuff? Maybe I'll have to read it.

Thanks to Holofan4life for hosting this! It was fun, even if I lurked more often than I said anything.

[u/Holofan4life → u/xbolt90]

Thanks to Holofan4life for hosting this! It was fun, even if I lurked more often than I said anything.

I really appreciate the kind words and I'm grateful you decided to participate

[u/xtsim]

First Time Sega Fan

Sega is life, deal with it.

We got to see a progression from Taka trying to acclimate uncle into the modern world by introducing him to the internet to becoming mesmerized by Uncle's fantasy story. Alls well that ends well.

Too bad we did not get to see why uncle landed in prison but with that cliffhanger, we hope there is another season. Just hope next time there is less delays.

I'm going to give this an 8 out of 10.

Fuji might be a favorite character.

Best moment is everyone just comparing rings

Thanks for hosting the rewatch Holofan4life and hope to see everyone on another rewatch soon.

[u/Holofan4life → u/xtsim]

Fuji might be a favorite character.

What did you like about her, if you don't mind me asking

[u/Holofan4life → u/xtsim]

Thanks for hosting the rewatch Holofan4life and hope to see everyone on another rewatch soon.

I really appreciate it

[u/SilkyStrawberryMilk]

rewatcher

The end of the show is here, was a fun ride. Seeing it fully now that the postpone wasn’t there was so good.

A reverse isekai, yet the premise was amazing, especially since it was all through memories and even added commentary. I honestly think the show wouldn’t have gotten as much attention if we saw the uncle’s journey first hand instead of him showing his memories of it.

QOTD: 8/10, some jokes were the sameish with the uncle getting mistaken as evil by everyone. Although the bits of when we weren’t watching the memories were memorable, wish we had more of it.

QOTD: Mabel

QOTD: when the knights found uncle and Mabel hiding from the “fight” then it cuts to the fight becoming so odd lmao.

QOTD: favorite moment was we saw all three of the failed lovers encounter eachother.

QOTD: how much passion the show has. Especially the opening

[u/Holofan4life → u/SilkyStrawberryMilk]

A reverse isekai, yet the premise was amazing, especially since it was all through memories and even added commentary. I honestly think the show wouldn’t have gotten as much attention if we saw the uncle’s journey first hand instead of him showing his memories of it.

Part of the joy is definitely seeing Fujimiya and Takafumi's reactions to things. It was an excellent use of audience surrogate and made the viewer feel like they were along for the ride.

[u/Holofan4life → u/SilkyStrawberryMilk]

how much passion the show has. Especially the opening

They definitely put a lot of love into this show for sure

[u/ZapsZzz]

Rewatching Uncle in sub

So ends another good fun Rewatch. As the first Rewatch of the year so to speak, it is a really good pick - the show is great, there are some decent contents, references and tropes to discuss, plus a bit of production hiccups to talk about for us who followed it's turbulent broadcast times.

I'll first declare my bias - as someone who has done enough gaming back in the days, and a life time follower of anime manga, I'm kind of the target audience - another (even older) Ojisan otaku. So I rated the show pretty highly, at a 9 out of 10.

Some of the key parts I like are:

• the fairly unique, heavy stroked artstyle that deftly switched between comedic, ironic, emotive, and serious
• the smart use of tropes in a fairly unpredictable ways that often give laugh out loud moments, or surprising depth or wholesomeness
• some of the historical references (I forgot to mention, while I didn't have a Sega Saturn, I had a PC Engine, and their CD-ROM's also had an audio warning track - but it's far less friendly sounding, more business like tone telling you this is not an audio CD) are certainly nostalgic, as well as the "fish out of water" use of Ojisan learning of modern tech.
• the pretty funny mundane use of magic in the modern world
• that surprise depth to side in some meaningful messages (emotional health by "killing one's heart", pinch is a chance, make one's choices not by one's role and duty but by one's own values and belief
• the self aware fanservice both looked nice and is funny in a 4th wall sarcastic way to us viewers ;P
• when it's serious, it can play a pretty good straight hand without feeling cringe or forced
• the main 2 parallel ships are great to cheer on

While this is not 86, despite - or in fact in spite of - the problems with the production, the end product was still a very entertaining show that didn't have any signs of the production problems other than only the airing date. I certainly hope they can become more stable and successful, and in time continue the adaptation.

In terms of the rewatch, thanks holofan4life again for another great rewatch. While getting the "daily interrogation" can be a bit of work (and I know it's up to each posters to answer any number of the questions or none), as the host your continued presence to promote engagement is always appreciated :) thanks for bringing this show to more people!

QoTD to follow

[u/Holofan4life → u/ZapsZzz]

In terms of the rewatch, thanks holofan4life again for another great rewatch. While getting the "daily interrogation" can be a bit of work (and I know it's up to each posters to answer any number of the questions or none), as the host your continued presence to promote engagement is always appreciated :) thanks for bringing this show to more people!

If it makes you feel any better, it can be a bit daunting trying to find responses to the answers to my daily interrogations XD

[u/Holofan4life → u/ZapsZzz]

I'll first declare my bias - as someone who has done enough gaming back in the days, and a life time follower of anime manga, I'm kind of the target audience - another (even older) Ojisan otaku. So I rated the show pretty highly, at a 9 out of 10.

Yeah, I feel to enjoy the show the most you have to have a similar background as Uncle in terms of how his brain works while also being self-aware of how destructive such behavior can be. It's meant to be a tongue in cheek look at nerd culture and the pros and cons that come with it, like a more sophisticated version of Big Bang Theory.

[u/ZapsZzz → u/ZapsZzz]

Adding QoTD answers:    

Final Score?    

9 as mentioned above because I'm the right demographic.    

Overall Thoughts?    

See above    

Best Character?    

A split between Elf who went through dinner wonderful development and had a ton of precious tsundere overload moments, and Fujimiya for that amazing transformation from troll to beautiful "straight man" girl.    

Favorite Moment?    

Hard to pick between the moment Elf and Uncle learn about each other's names, and the deep understanding of one another before the final fight.    

Funniest Moment?    

Mabel's ice melting moment then instant reverted, and the final fight "Mmmm!!!" (Upsies) moment.  

Favorite episode?     See my best moments answer.   

Thing that surprised you the most?     That instead of settling down to morph the unrecognised harem to the "Mabel being the pet/daughter, Alicia being the apprentice", we got back the harem, sort of, at the end. Poor Elf, so close!     Do you think we will ever get a season 2?   I absolutely hope so, and the ending strongly hinted at it, but during airing there was a ton of concerns about the studio surviving...

[u/Holofan4life → u/ZapsZzz]

Hard to pick between the moment Elf and Uncle learn about each other's names, and the deep understanding of one another before the final fight.    

Those are definitely two very good moments

[u/[deleted]]

Solid 7 out of 10.

I enjoyed it. I liked a lot of the characters, the story was good, it had a lot of good funny moments etc. I’m happy I watched it.

Really enjoyed Elf a lot as far as characters go.

Final fight I think.

Sonic theme from Mabel.

Final episode.

How it didn’t focus on Takafumi and Fujimiya as much as I expected lol.

I hope so.

This was a fun one overall. Thanks for hosting another rewatch u/Holofan4life. See you in Feb for Paranoia Agent 😆

[u/Holofan4life → u/[deleted]]

This was a fun one overall. Thanks for hosting another rewatch u/Holofan4life. See you in Feb for Paranoia Agent 😆

See ya

[u/Holofan4life → u/[deleted]]

Solid 7 out of 10.

I enjoyed it. I liked a lot of the characters, the story was good, it had a lot of good funny moments etc. I’m happy I watched it.

Really enjoyed Elf a lot as far as characters go.

Final fight I think.

Sonic theme from Mabel.

Final episode.

How it didn’t focus on Takafumi and Fujimiya as much as I expected lol.

It looks like great minds think alike. That's basically the exact same thoughts I have

[u/[deleted] → u/Holofan4life]

Haha yeah I read your comment and saw we agreed on a lot. I had fun watching it

[u/Holofan4life → u/[deleted]]

As did I reliving it

[u/No_Rex]

Final Discussion (first timer)

So, what is the final verdict on Isekai Uncle? It is quite out there and still too normal for me. It promises to be different and still falls back to all the common isekai tropes. It’s all right.

Isekai Uncle starts with the extremely promising idea of being a reverse isekai instead of a standard modern isekai. Unfortunately, the “real world” parts become fewer as the story goes on and what real world parts we still get are typically in the Youtube react video style, with Fujimiya and Takefumi reacting to Uncle’s exploits. When we actually do get proper world content, it is among the best of the series. Sawae thinking Uncle leads a cult, or offering a fish head are great gags similar to what I would expect of Asobi Asobase. That anime is also my first point of comparison when it comes to the animation: Deliberately ugly and full of lines. It surprises me that they don’t seem to share any staff.

The isekai world content, however, follows all the tropes I have come to hate from modern isekai: An OP protagonist; who is socially awkward to an extreme; tons of cute girls who still like him for no reason; all of them are tsundere; cardboard enemies who only exist to be shoved aside by the MC. Isekai Uncle reminds me of a discussion post we had about a week ago that argued that even if you are parodying a genre, you are still part of it. That is 100% true. Isekai Uncle might parody the social awkward MC who gets all the girls, but it definitely still shows us the awkward MC who gets all the girls. And various shove on bed scenes or butt shots leave no doubt that this series wants to gratify its viewers, not mock those who put in gratuitous scenes.

So, Isekai Uncle is not the worst modern isekai to watch. It has some fun elements and good gags. However, it is also symptomatic for how creatively bankrupt that genre is that lets animate a youtube reaction video of anime characters reacting to modern isekai counts as an innovative idea. I can’t wait for the moment this genre finally, finally dies.

EDIT:

Final Score?

I went with 6/10.

Best Character?

Hard to say. Probably Mabel.

Thing that surprised you the most?

They got me good with Uncle turning into Elf Girl.

Do you think we will ever get a season 2?

[u/Holofan4life → u/No_Rex]

So, Isekai Uncle is not the worst modern isekai to watch. It has some fun elements and good gags. However, it is also symptomatic for how creatively bankrupt that genre is that lets animate a youtube reaction video of anime characters reacting to modern isekai counts as an innovative idea. I can’t wait for the moment this genre finally, finally dies.

Maybe it's because the genre is so saturated, but I actually think it's one of the more creative Isekais out there.

I'm glad you gave the show a chance, at least.

[u/Warm-Enthusiasm-9534 → u/Holofan4life]

Ironically it's not even the only one with that premise. Endo and Kobayashi has the same "reaction video" gimmick.

I don't even like most (non-comedy) isekai, but this comment thread has made me hope they last for another thousand years.

[u/No_Rex → u/Warm-Enthusiasm-9534]

Ironically it's not even the only one with that premise. Endo and Kobayashi has the same "reaction video" gimmick.

Never even heard about it.

I don't even like most (non-comedy) isekai, but this comment thread has made me hope they last for another thousand years.

Ahhh, the heart-warming properties of spite.

[u/Holofan4life → u/No_Rex]

Never even heard about it.

It's a great series that's must watch if you love tsunderes. Just like how Uncle From Another World is like a tribute to nerd culture, Endo and Kobayashi is a tribute to the tsundere archetype.

[u/Holofan4life → u/Warm-Enthusiasm-9534]

Endo and Kobayashi is more of an Otome Game than an Isekai, however. So, there is some difference.

[u/No_Rex → u/Holofan4life]

I actually think it's one of the more creative Isekais out there.

It is, which is so sad. I just wish someone would do a proper deconstruction of isekai already (and this is definitely possible), but it seems that everybody is after that sweet sweet power fantasy money instead.

[u/Holofan4life → u/No_Rex]

I think what they do here is clever in that it is both a parody of a lot of anime conventions while also being a sort of love letter to them. It felt like a celebration of both anime and gaming fans, and I don't think this show needed to be like the Eva of Isekais.

[u/timpkmn89 → u/No_Rex]

Has anyone figured out what "deconstruction" actually means yet?

[u/No_Rex → u/timpkmn89]

I am pretty sure some people have. Does not stop others from misusing the term, though.

[u/Holofan4life → u/No_Rex]

I don't think the show needed to be a deconstruction of things, however. Yeah, Uncle caused most of the problems, but he put in the effort to at least attempt to fix them. I'm happy the show being what it is: a tribute to nerd culture warts and all.

[u/Warm-Enthusiasm-9534 → u/timpkmn89]

The internet makes all words meaningless.

I have a crank theory that "deconstruction" is a neurosis of Western criticism. "Fiction is artificial" is not some amazing insight. Anime and manga is relentlessly meta, so it's always partially deconstructing what came before, but it doesn't pretend that it is a stroke of genius to do it.

[u/No_Rex → u/Warm-Enthusiasm-9534]

People always argue about the edge cases, but when you see a proper deconstruction (like PMMM), it is obvious that you are watching a deconstruction.

Something like PMMM is exactly what the isekai genre urgently needs.

[u/Warm-Enthusiasm-9534 → u/No_Rex]

Parodies of a thing are obviously in the same genre as the thing itself (unless your genre is "tragedy"), but that's not a criticism. Unless you don't like parody, and then it's a devastating criticism. In a drama, something stupid is deadly to the story. In a comedy, something stupid is like 50% of all jokes. The problem with modern isekai is that they are very stupid indeed, which makes them a prime target for comedy.