Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? looked
to be the most distinctive new isekai show at the start of the summer season. It has common genre elements, but it probably
has the weirdest isekai premise I’ve ever encountered. Thus, from the get go, I decided to watch
this anime all throughout.
The main character, Masato Oosuki,
is a high school student who does care for his kind, young mother Mamako, but is
frequently annoyed of her being over doting to him. One day, Masato is chosen to participate in a
beta test of a revolutionary, experimental video game, wherein the players get
transported to the game world itself.
Familiar of the idea and implications of being in an isekai, the teenager
becomes excited of going on his very own power fantasy adventure as an isekai
protagonist. But his enthusiasm quickly
deflates when he learns that Mamako is also transported to the fantasy world with him.
To make matters worse for Masato,
Mamako is the one who ends up being overpowered instead of him after getting two powerful
swords as starting bonus. Thus, as they set out to explore this
fantasy world, Mamako – who is ignorant of video game and isekai concepts, and who
just wants to bond with her son above all else – would constantly steal Masato’s thunder, much to the latter’s perpetual dismay.
This anime is pretty promising at
first. As an isekai comedy, it’s far
from being KonoSuba good, but it’s so
funny and endearing nonetheless. This is
all due to Mamako, who’s such an amusingly adorable, giddy airhead most of the time. However, it’s whenever she obliviously and fortuitously
becomes the source of Masato’s embarrassment and unease that things get really hilarious. This is already a given from Mamako inadvertently
one-upping him often and being an affectionate, protective mother to him in
public. But it also – and most severely – comes about when they are
put in painfully awkward situations where it’s pointed out to him that his
mother is voluptuous and attractive, much to his understandable horror.
However, over the course of the
series, this kind of gags becomes few and far between. Thus, the laughs become less and less. This is unfortunate because the show turns
out being bland at other things. And when
the comedy begins to run thin, it has very little else to offer to keep itself
afloat.
As a whole, Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? is a passable anime at best. In the end, the only thing
that stops it from a complete downward spiral is Mamako’s personality, which lights
up the show enough to keep it from being swallowed up by its other lackluster
aspects.
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