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BONUS. I've Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills
https://myanimelist.net/anime/51128/Noumin_Kanren_no_Skill_bakka_Agetetara_Nazeka_Tsuyoku_Natta
Fall 2022 (12 episodes)
My Score: TBA, MAL Score: 5.89/10
Best Character: Ruri

(I couldn't find the OP or ED, but you aren't missing much)

Premise: Al Wayne has maxed out his farming abilities and unlocked a unique skill that gave him a huge stat boost. Now he needs to help battle strong monsters even though he'd much rather be working in his fields.

The Good: Farm-Skills (I'm not writing out the whole title) is a fantasy anime. It isn't an isekai and it isn't set in a video game, but everyone has stat screens they can open to see their level and exp, so I dunno. Maybe anime has just gotten so lazy as a medium that they can't even bother going through the motions of isekai-ing the protagonist anymore. In any case, this anime wasn't very good. The nicest thing I can say is that at least it wasn't bad as it could've been! I didn't hate any of the characters. The action and animation were passable. Al's focus on being a farmer rather than an adventurer was occasionally charming.

The Bad: Al claimed he was a farmer first and an adventurer second, but you wouldn't be able to tell if he didn't keep saying it. Most of the plot was just him going on boring adventures fighting goofy monsters. There was an awful running gag where orcs kept trying to have sex with him, ugh. While most of the girls were decent, they were all dragged down by being in a harem for such a boring protagonist. I also really hated how Al was described as super-powerful, but he also struggled against most enemies. The show should've picked one or the other and stuck with it. It was hard to take any tension seriously when I kept wondering why Al couldn't just smoke the bad guy in one punch like he had in previous battles.

Overall: Farm-Skills is a typical bargain-bin fantasy anime. That was what it set out to be, though, so I can't hold that against it. The one to truly blame is me for watching it in the first place. There just weren't very many other anime to choose from this season! Maybe I should've watched Reincarnated as a Sword instead. In any case, at least Farm-Skills wasnt terrible. It'll rank a low 3/10 alongside forgettable junk like How Not to Summon a Demon Lord, but at least it isn't a 2/10 alongside The Master of Ragnarok. Al's love for farming was just barely charming enough to be mildly entertaining.