Okashi na Tensei 2x1u2e

There’s nothing sweet about the show nor about his reincarnation.

Let's be honest, at first, we surely thought this anime would be that slice of life isekai, where the mc is making pastries and sweets in another world. Just like the "Parallel World Pharmacy" but with sweets and pastry, and with the MC opening a bakery or sweet shop. But sike! It's actually "How a realist hero rebuilt the Kingdom!"

While I don't hate the show for what it was, I can understand why others dislike it for this very reason. The actual story was relatively decent, but it seems to be diverging from its initial ... premise. After all, the show is called “Sweet Reincarnation” for a reason. We were expecting a cooking and baking show centered around pastries and sweets, not another politics and war isekai.

It's a slow burn show with an okayish pace. The worldbuilding is present, although it's a bit shallow in every aspect. Nevertheless, it's better than any other current or previous generic isekai. As we progress through the episodes, we get to learn more about the geopolitics, magic system, and war, all of those funsies details slowly build up.

Strangely, this anime reminds me a lot of “Ascendance of a Bookworm,” but it lacks the unique charm that Honzuki has. In Honzuki, the story is primarily focused on Myne/Main, the main protagonist, and we intimately follow her struggles and journey to make a single sheet of paper for her dream of becoming a librarian. However, in this anime, it seems like the story revolves more around the people surrounding Pastry, the main protagonist. While he faces similar struggles to Myne, every time he tries to pursue his ion, it's constantly hindered by others, whether it's his father, his friend, his brother in law, or unnecessary diplomacy with other fiefs. For God's sake, let him cook for a moment!

All that aside, yet it still lacks baking or making sweets. For a show called Sweet Reincarnation it's incredibly lacking on those thing. I swear I could probably count how many sweets he's made throughout the entire series with just one hand. All I want is just one episode dedicated to making pastry/sweets and with Pas as the main focus, no politics, only sweets and pastries. Maybe a second season would bring justice to this anime.

Anyway to sum it up, it's a fun show about a patissier that reincarnated in another world although slightly a bit lacking in the pastry/sweet department. If you are looking for a foodie show, this is not it. If you are looking for another generic isekai that is slightly better than the others, this would be perfect for you.

Maybe the real sweets were the friends that he made along the way. Seriously, his fiancee's name is Licorice.

Since I am quite the foodie myself I was happy to see a new anime that centers around food, in this particular case baking.

A world renowned patisserie dies and reincarnates into a world that for some reason names all its people after baked goods. Fine and all, but that is basically all you can expect to see of any form of baking in this anime.
If you want to watch a very generic isekai show be my guest, but if you want to watch a show about baking this is definitely not for you.

A shame really, I was so excited to see a twist of both ... isekai as well as cooking anime, but this is just such a disappointment.
Maybe in the next few weeks it gets some baking content, but let´s be real, if the only baking that happens in the first 5 episodes is an apple pie that was neither the focus of the episode nor even shown it´s making fully on-screen... then it cannot call itself a show about baking.

I really wanted to like it and everything besides the story is decent enough, but I struggle to see the point in continuing to watch this anime if it doesn`t fulfil its premise.

This show takes the standard Isekai tropes and plays them with a level of honesty and groundedness that is hard to come by (and by this I mean any groundedness at all).

There are some concerns about this not being a cooking show, and that there are politics and war instead. I see this as a strength; I appreciated the sort of bait-and-switch of expecting to see a MC living in leisure and doing what they love, but instead seeing them being confronted by the responsibility of being born noble. Desserts are left mostly in the background but they are used as a plot device here ... and there.

I like to think of this as Ascendance of a Bookworm but with desserts instead. That is probably the highest praise I can give an Isekai series.

Overall, this is an enjoyable show. The elements of Isekai that make them bad are mostly absent -- I'd recommend it to anyone who doesn't have a big prejudice against the genre.

So I think this one is the few animes that happens to be the most enjoyable ones which are not "big" animes like jujutsu or anything like that. I really loved the first 2 episodes it was epic it's own way and i always like watching "kingdom" building and managing animes and i think Pastry is one of those mc s who are not being a complete idiot or useless otherwise he s a great mc and i love the story too because it s not the same dumb isekais which i watch over and over again. It has only 3 episode but i think ... this anime is way better than 6.6 and i really enjoy everything about this chilling making sweets is the goal and manage the things around :D

I have never written reviews before but as I said i really don't think this anime should be rated this low, and i recommend this anime for everyone.

i don't understand the hate for this show, it is a very cute and enjoyable show with fun characters and a cute world, yeah there isn't much baking but that's the premise of the show! the art style is bright and colorful and fits the theme well, while some characters can be one note the protagonist is a nice change from recent isekai. it's not a masterpiece but it's a fun little anime and sometimes that's enough! not every anime needs to be the best ever, I feel like people these days expect every anime to be amazing and end up shitting on perfectly enjoyable ... shows like this one.

Food sculptor, aka pâtissier, dies crushed by his own creation and reincarnates into a magical world, where he will realize his pastry dream by becoming a super magical being... wait what? No, no, he will realize his pastry dream by becoming the village's general... and defending it from a bandit invasion?

I though this was going to be a show about pastry, food, and maybe some magic, but if they cant stick to their own themes not even for the first 3 episodes, i guess they wont hold up any quality content through the rest. Not only that but the completely unrelated parts to the theme ... aren't even well made, just generic superficial rushed stuff, and poorly written.

I was promised anime about baking in isekai instead I got this boring stilted political "talks". Thats probably the reason why they had to put that "he is amazing patissier" schlock in front of every opening - otherwise everyone would probably forget by the 3rd episode. I am a huge fan of cookig/baking anime and I usually rate them higher than they objectively deserve to be rated because I just enjoy them so much. This was just disappointing and a waste of time. Frankly I had to watch the last 4 episodes on 2x speed because it was so boring. Dont watch it unless you ... want to be put to sleep.

Review for this anime, many mistakes can be started from the most basic, namely the title and story are not in sync, if you think this anime will tell a story of a pâtissier who will revolutionize the culinary world with knowledge from the modern world then you will be very wrong. The focus of this anime story is more on the military side than the world of pâtissier/culinary, the MC who plays the profession of Patissier is only an occasional interlude that is inserted in this story. So this is the root of the problem of this anime story. The main focus of this ... anime story does not match the title and prologue that are always inserted at the beginning of this anime aired every episode. This is where the disappointment begins, from the most basic thing in this story. A more reasonable approach to the profession of Patissier would be more suitable in the fields of economics, agriculture and industry than the military. Patissier and the military have no relationship to compatibility. I myself am confused a Patissier but more dedicated in battle than baking ..,

So the conclusion of this anime is the same as most low-rated reincarnation genre anime that only fulfill the seasonal anime quota, with the addition of Patissier frills and many typical cliche scenes such as fighting bandits, kidnapping, and wars whose causes are unreasonable. And even if this story leans towards a military approach, there are too many gaps in the story, one small example: the context of the use of magic in this story is ambiguous, aka only a part of the complement without a clear basis, what is the use for in everyday life in the kingdom and who can use magic? This is really unclear ?! And many more strange gap details in the story of this anime.

For animation etc. the assessment is all standard minus, tiring if explaining it.
So I can't recommend this anime, if it's just to waste time maybe yes.

The anime might feel like a generic isekai anime at first but its different for what it seems to be. First of all its just fun that the plot isn't serious at all that makes quite pleasant to watch no drama or anything its entertaining who those who like the isekai genre and those who are into as the name suggests cooking sweets or eating them. For those who are up for watching a pretty intense plot with action and romance and stuff like that I suggest you look for another anime. I really hope they release season 2 of this anime.

Real disappointment from what I was expecting, looking at the title and artwork for the anime, one might expect it to be about desserts, cakes and cookies..... in the end, it's plot is lost on itself. (if you rather skip the blabber, read the last paragraph, it's a 3/10 :P )

We're introduced to our main accruing characters, Pastry, our protagonist and his father Casserole (also a type of pastry, names are a bit odd, but cute, another character is named Brioche, another pastry dish), being reincarnated after suffering a fatal death by candy sculpture, Pastry is born into a low ranked noble house with a ... dream of building a world filled with sweets and yummy food. After his father notices his talents after seeing Pastry's vast knowledge to grow more wealth for their family he is brought to the church, a bit early for his age, all suited up and ready to know how strong his magic is in this new world.

Replicate!

This new found power granted to our MC through the trial will soon become a stable throughout the show, a way for them to make more money for the house and bring more plot swings to drive us away from the more interesting aspects of what the show could have been, I felt drained halfway through, from the bandit attack against the village to the kidnapping of a noble girl, it ends up with our protagonist having smirky conversations with nobles trying to outwit them to gain money for his house, honestly wanted to just drop the anime halfway through seeing it swung to being about politics and Pastry just being witty with adults because his from another world and is smorter hehe....... also there's a bad guy bandit named Strudel.... enough said

I don't know where this story went, it's all over the place and it just lost my interest in every way, some character designs were cute, especially the mom and daughter, other than that it's nothing much, was expecting a fun anime about food, instead I was fed more medieval politics mixed with a little magic. It's nothing new and not worth the time to watch.

Do they make sweets every episode? No not really. At moments I think it should be just called Reincarnation instead of Sweet Reincarnation. Though, there are moments in the anime where it does shine, like the politics the main protagonist plays in order to make sweets. But there are sometimes too many politics which I consider to be both a positive and a negative of this anime. The reincarnate plays the politics well, but when I watch an anime about making sweets, I expect there to be more sweets than politics. If I wanted to watch a politics anime, I would've watched How a Realist ... Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom. Now I did not "not" enjoy this anime, it's good to watch just to the time, but I probably would not rewatch this anime in the future.

This anime was not in the realm of so bad it's good, nor was it in the realm of good anime. It was so bad it's bad.
The story is neither unique nor interesting. It's essentially a carbon copy of any kindom/fief building simulator. The premise is completely ignored, both the reincarnation element and the cooking element. Even up to the final episode I was wondering when he was going to do anything interesting.
The art style is standard and neither good nor bad. Probably the best part of this show.
The characters were so one dimensional I struggled to believe they existed in 2 ... dimensions. The main character was a typical doormat Japanese MC who also gave off the impression he "liked them young". All side characters were essentially enablers with no personality, cartoonishly evil (even for an actual cartoon) or sycophants who love the MC for the most basic of favours.
The anime was, if anything, too realistic as it spent the entire time on mundane affairs and ignored the actually interesting stuff like the sweets and magic.
I would like to note he has EXTREMELY interesting magic and apparently no interest in using it despite its utility. Imagine buying a ferrari and then deciding to cycle for the rest of your life.
Others will not enjoy this series unless they are of the same mindset as the moron that though this show was good enough to release.

Okashi na Tensei is a light-hearted and enjoyable anime about a young boy who is reincarnated into a world of swords and magic with a dream of becoming a great patissier. The anime follows Pas as he learns to bake sweets, make friends, and fight to defend his land.

The anime's strengths lie in its characters and its humor. Pas is a likable and relatable protagonist, and the ing cast is also full of fun and quirky characters. The anime's humor is often subtle and understated, but it always hits the mark.

However, the anime does have some weaknesses. The plot is fairly predictable, and the pacing ... can be slow at times. Additionally, the anime's focus on sweets can be a bit too much for some viewers.

Overall, Okashi na Tensei is a fun and enjoyable anime that is perfect for fans of fantasy, comedy, and slice-of-life. It is not the most groundbreaking anime, but it is sure to leave you with a smile on your face.

I would recommend Okashi na Tensei to fans of fantasy, comedy, and slice of life. If you are looking for an anime that is light-hearted and enjoyable, then this is a great choice. However, if you are looking for an anime with a more complex plot or more action, then you may want to look elsewhere.

Personal Thoughts:

I enjoyed Okashi na Tensei. It was a fun and lighthearted anime that was perfect for a relaxing watch. The characters were likable and the humor was on point. I would definitely recommend it to fans of the genre.

Full on disclosure, this is probably the worst Isekai I've watched. Like seriously.

I mean, I hated almost every concept of ...😤

First of all, what's with the character names. Was it really necessary to name them basing on foods just to relate with the story. WTF is Lord Casserole 🤦🏾.

Is this story about food or about war. Just the way they mix the story makes me sick. When I started watching this I expected an plot where the main person brings new food while exploring the new world. How are children even allowed to fight!!!

I dropped the anime since I didn't feel the need to watch ... it but the 5/10 rating was due to the fact that it's an Isekai(I love them) so watching this failure just made me wanna cry.

My suggestion don't watch this. Don't!!

Overall : 8/10
Art Work : 7/10 this anime is trying to make acceptable quality that will entertain the viewers but on budget and concedering for being from a humble studio so don't compare it to some other animes with higher budget
Most Scenes isn't that detailed when it comes to backgrounds and movements, but I liked characters design, choice of colors as it's good for eyes and chilling however i didn't feel it at the first half of ep1, and ofc the food ! As it's mainly about deserts and sweets ... so obviously what's will make us watch some painted food if it doesn't look tasty and delicious !? And i noticed that most of the art effort goes to painting sweeties and they did good job in that apple pie that i wanted to bake on as soon i finished the episode! 🍧🥧
Enjoyment: 10/10! Cozy and chill , I have been watching/reading action , drama and Psychology or your usual manhwas that can't any chapter without drama or misunderstanding and had things going on in my life that pushed me to wonder my existence purpose and i don't need to explain University stress
So i wanted something lite and cozy and looked up what's the SOL animes for this season and found [ Okashi na tensei ] and after a long day of unlimited tasks, prepared my lunch and watched it , honestly it was fun and super cozy however i was making jokes about how some stuff doesn't make sense or look hilarious but totally enjoyed it⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This is perfectly fine anime. Good animation, nice fx, pretty good VA. Bit bland here and there but its a good watch.

However, there is one aspect of this show I despise. It's a fantasy show, with fantasy elements, taking stuff from our world too. Goats are goats, milk is milk, eggs are eggs, but apples are bonkas. They say it repeatedly. it's used in a lot of recipes in the show. This would be charming if the other ingredients were given fantasy names, or maybe if he slipped up and called them apples by mistake. There's a poignant moment full of the history of desserts ... and relating it to a side characters arc ruined by "its made from bonkas". No point in calling them that, zero purpose.

other than that he has a cool power that doesn't get much use, not forgotten but still... It had a cool moment but then the back half of the show its almost absent. I thought thered be a scene explaining why he cant duplicate money, or if he tried to duplicate a goat or horse theyd be very sick so he can't use it like that, but no. He couldve the whole time.

This anime is so bad it forced me to write my first review on MAL. The basic outline of the story is the reincarnation of a patissier into a medieval world, where we meet him by the name of Pastry Mille Morteln. Our protagonist is a wanna-be Willy Wonka, since he wants to create a land of sweets (see: Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory and the Room of Sweets).

Plot:
To say the plot deviated from its original pathway is a gross understatement. The original goal of this character is to make sweets, yet we see so little of any sweet making. Pastry made some hard candies, ... candy apples, apple pies, a tarte tatin, and a cheesecake. There were no intriguing details about why Pastry wants to make a land of sweets except, "I want to see a smile on people's face"
Honestly, this dialogue is repeated so often, it's stuck in my head now. If this 9-year old child wants to make sweets, then why is the plot throwing him into wars and poltical conflicts? There was even an engagement, where Pastry is engaged off to our air-headed female lead Licorice. There's even a misunderstanding to spice things up, where a grown woman tries to seduce a 9-year old boy. I don't know how to express my disappointment and disgust.
Pastry has the magic ability to "Replicate" which should have been explained better because doesn't it sound like he can duplicate anything he sees? Like turning one apple into two apples, or turning one sack of gold into two sacks of gold. Wrong! He can replicate one thing onto another thing, such as image on a cloth, or teleportation spell on himself. He cannot duplicate items, which is a rather useless ability to give to a supposedly OP main character.

Characters:
This anime had the most hilarious names in the history of names. You have a story of the reincarnation of a patissier, I wonder what could his name be in the new world? Eureka! It's "Pastry". Oh, I wonder what his love interest could be named? You get "Licorice"!
The father is named Casserole, a bandit is named Strudel, and the main villain is named Brioche. I can't even make this up! Just how lazy do you need to be when naming to get this cast of characters?
We do not get any background of these characters, which makes them appear like a generic cast of nobodies plucked from a box and fitted in the story simply to get the story going. Pastry is supposed to have 5 older sisters but we only see Josephine, his next older sister. Pastry's mother and sister are shallow characters, as in, they only care about dresses and love. We learn nothing about Pastry's life before the reincarnation. There is nothing aout Pastry's parents or their life story. We don't even know why our female lead developed such a complex inferiority syndrome while she was doted upon by her father equally as her twin Petra.
How does Pastry's parents justify sending a 9-year old into war? I don't care if he's the main protagonist, he's still just a boy. It is iterated in the anime that Pastry does not have a buff body (he's 9 years old) so how is he parrying adults with years of experience with a sword?

Art Style:
The art style is reminiscent of animes like "Ascendance of a Bookworm" and "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime" which is what attracted me to start this anime in the first place. Not too shabby in that regards, and the sha-la-la effects were nicely done. However, during several scenes, the background characters would be drawn without any faces, which was severely disconcerting. Let us say for the benefit of doubt that background characters don't need faces. However, even our cast of main characters would be drawn without faces while they were in the foreground of a scene. I suppose the animation studio had very limited budget so they spent it all on the first episode drawing all the fancy candy sculptures.

Music/OST:
A generic feel good music track, showing all the characters and all the sweets that Pastry wishes to make. Nothing too extraordinary.

Conclusion:
A waste of time that I only completed because I refuse to leave an anime as DNF.
2/10 stars.

Sweet, Delicious Isekai.

Honestly, I wouldn’t blame you if you neglected to watch or dropped Sweet Reincarnation after a couple of episodes. It’s another low-quality, low-effort isekai set in another European medieval light-novel fantasy land, sure, but unlike all of the other isekai garbage (excluding The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen and Mushoku Tensei) there was a certain charm to Sweet Reincarnation that kept me coming back each week.

Unlike other protagonists of this season’s isekai ilk, the reincarnated pastry chief who died after being crushed by his own cake (no, seriously, that’s how he dies) and now is the nine-year-old son of a noble lord ... called Pastry (no, seriously, that’s his name) has an actual long term goal for us to follow. He wants to create a land of sweets where everyone sits down and eats cake and cookies instead of going to war and murdering each other. Unfortunately, the village and land he lords over are poor and lacking in suitable ingredients for him to bake with. This means that he first needs to build up the village with his father, gather funds and learn how to act like a noble before he can get into the kitchen.
Whilst it is satisfying to watch Pastry slowly but surely work towards his goals, this does mean the show about a reincarnated Pastry chief is caught up in a lot of the typical isekai clichés such as learning magic, fighting bandits and playing politics instead of making sweets. In fairness, his magic ability is very interesting and the way he uses it plays into the politics which is very well done, but it’s a bit disappointing getting five episodes in to see the only thing he’s cooked is an apple pie or a “bonka pie” in this world… because the apples are called bonka’s… even though honey is still called honey and tea is still called tea- its stupid. Why even rename them? I think he bakes maybe five times throughout the entire season.

I enjoyed the characters and the relationships Pastry forms with them, especially with his father and mother which is very wholesome if not a bit slapstick. I especially enjoy Lady Brioche Salgret Mille Leteche's comical reactions to getting bamboozled every time she and Pastry have a conversation. Pastry does an excellent job of balancing his reincarnated adult personality with his nine-year-old new personality to where others around him could believably view him as a prodigy.
Unfortunately, the villains boil down to corrupt nobles doing a bad thing and that's all we get from them for maybe an episode or two before they’re defeated and tossed aside and forgotten.

Sweet Reincarnation is held back by its lacklustre production and light novel isekai clichés, but with a satisfying pacing, interesting magic and politics, something about it reminds me of Ascendance of a Bookworm. Obviously, it’s not as good as that anime and I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t give this anime a shot, but honestly, it’s not too bad. Despite all its flaws, I like it.

6/10 It's Okay *Thumbs Up*

A light and crispy anime that can be enjoyed during a relaxed period. The series revolves around the concept of a sweet-loving pastry chef finding nobility in a new world. It is simple, engaging, and soothing, making it easy and enjoyable to watch.

If we talk about the shortcomings: Firstly, there is a rather bland nobility system and confusing aristocrats. Yes, there is a general lack of clarity and meaning in the plot. Look, this baron, that duke, this count—okay, now you've learned about them, and the story throws you into their troubled world. Additionally, while the characters are not explicitly portrayed as overpowered, they somehow ... manage to overcome every challenge. However, the mind games are significantly lacking and resemble second-rate detective movie style. The whole "I predicted this, but it can't be!" element is introduced, but it's not fully developed.

Let's move on to the scoring: (Coefficient)

Story: 7/10 (7)
Character Development: 4/10 (5)
Animation and Art Quality: 6/10(3)
Music and Sound Design: 6/10 (3)
Emotional Impact: 6/10 (6)
World-building and Atmosphere: 7/10 (5)
Direction and Pacing: 7/10 (6)
Themes and Messages: 8/10 (5)

Total: 258/400
Score: 64,5/100 %64,5

I think this might be one of the most underrated shows of the season, by which I mean, it's very enjoyable, although probably not what most people expected when they first read the title and the synopsis. There isn't as much sweet making as you would expect given that the story is about a pattisier whose wish is to create a "Kingdom of Sweets" after he's reincarnated as the soon of a poor noble family, so if that's what you came looking for I understand how this show might seem dissapointing, but if you manage to look past that it's a really enjoyable story with ... decent action and really interesting political negotiations and planning. The characters are fun and the animation is decent, and the few times that we do get to see Pastry cook up some stuff it feels really great.

Came for the sweets, stayed for the political rivalries, manipulation and lighthearted drama.