'Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?' Is Notably Hilarious on Occasion; Just Passable as a Whole

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.