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Wise Man's Grandchild

★ 6.8 5K votes 2019–2019 1 season · 12 episodes Ended AT-X
AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 9/10High fantasyInvented worlds with magic and rules of their own.This show: 7/10Easy watchingLow-demand television where half your attention is enough.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Yusuke KobayashiRina HonnizumiShohei KomatsuYuki WakaiDaman MillsLindsay Seidel
Written by
Yoshioka Tsuyoshi
Starring
Yusuke KobayashiRina HonnizumiShohei KomatsuYuki WakaiDaman MillsLindsay Seidel
Written by
Yoshioka Tsuyoshi
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About

"Isekai comfort food with zero real conflict"

A salaryman dies and is reborn as Shin, raised from infancy by a legendary sage whose overprotective training turns the kid into an absurdly overpowered mage before he's even a teenager. The show then follows him into magic school, where his power is an open secret and everyone reacts accordingly. It's fast, breezy wish-fulfillment isekai: low stakes, low tension, thin plotting, but pleasant enough as background viewing if you just want a kind hero steamrolling problems without much friction.

Watch it for

the pure escapist fantasy of a protagonist who is never seriously challenged.

Maybe skip if

you want tension, nuance, or an isekai that subverts its own tropes.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12019
7.42K124h 38m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1A Babe in the Woods Goes to the Capital7.3
15823 min
▶2The Unconventional New Student7.6
14923 min
▶3An Emergency Arises!7.4
13623 min
▶4The Name of the Instigator7.7
14223 min
▶5A Pioneering New Hero7.4
13023 min
▶6Outbreak of War and a Joint Training Exercise7.5
12723 min
▶7Let's Go to Camp!7.3
12623 min
▶8A Starlit Pledge7.1
12223 min
▶9The Grandchild, the Magic Gear, and the Engagement Party7.4
12523 min
▶10The Fall of the Empire7.6
12123 min
▶11The Mightiest Corps of Magicians Ever7.4
11923 min
▶12And So, Off into the World...7.6
12625 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Yusuke Kobayashi Shin Wolford
Rina Honnizumi Sicily von Claude
Shohei Komatsu August von Earlshide, Company Employee
Yuki Wakai Maria von Messina
Daman Mills Shin
Lindsay Seidel Sizilien, Sicily
Chiaki Kobayashi Tony Freyd
Katelyn Barr Maria
Juri Nagatsuma Yuri Carlton
Arisa Shida Thor von Flegel

Crew

Yoshioka Tsuyoshi

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