A total idiot manages to survive for years in a mercilessly violent time period.
Series in more sentences:
A lazy high school student is suddenly sent back in time and comes across a young runaway lord who looks exactly like him. The stranger notices this fact right away and asks him to take his place as lord, as he's too weak to fulfill his responsibilities. Not given the chance to reject, the student is found and taken back to the mansion as "Nobunaga".
Despite not liking his position, the history book inside of his school bag helps him predict what is expected from him, and the once foolish boy manages to earn people's respect. He will work to make sure "Nobunaga will rule all of Japan".
I loved it and I'd absolutely watch a second season of this if there was ever one planned, but..
..it speeds through the most interesting parts and the comedy could've been better.
With a plot like this you can do alot of cool stuff, but it felt like the series just did the bare minimum. An acceptable bare minimum, but still.
It would focus on the boy messing around or coming up with a non-strategy that happens to work out in the end, but then the story's narrator appears and basically goes like "And then they won". Next scene.
In a comedy, something like that would've been a funny one-time joke, but I really wanted to see how this idiot exactly "won". It's glanced over every time, it was a bit annoying.
The episodes make huge leaps in time, while the characters do not visibly age, which confused me greatly. I'd finish one episode, and in the next everyone would be talking about big events and people never mentioned in the last episode; because it supposedly happened off-screen. These wars and meetings should've been episodes or cut, honestly.
Because of these huge jumps, it also didn't feel like the relationships were all that developed. For example, Nobunaga's wife doesn't hide that she adores the faker and it's insinuated they go out on dates alot, but I've never even seen the two kiss. The boy is really unromantic and in most of their scenes together the woman just looks confused over what her loony husband is muttering about.
But okey, I'd say it's a fair watch, despite these flaws.
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