Premise and Tone
In the crowded graveyard of isekai anime—a genre so saturated that even its parodies now have parodies—one show in 2018 did the unthinkable. It opened with a 37-year-old salaryman getting stabbed on a Tokyo side street... and then spent the next twenty minutes making you fall in love with a gelatinous blob.
The story begins in modern-day Tokyo with , a 37-year-old corporate worker who is generally content but has never had a girlfriend. His ordinary life ends abruptly when he is stabbed while protecting his junior colleague, Tamura, and his girlfriend from a random assailant.