Pekola will lead the revolution

No I'm not talking about the 2020 one by the way.

Here's my opinion so far...

People kept telling me that both the anime and the manga is "Isekai done right" or "the best isekai out there" gave the manga and the anime a shot just recently and it feels...very meh to me, there's really nothing differenating TBH, the anime still feels like an Isekai slop at it's core, Itami aka the Author's barely disguised self insert (The author of the manga is an ex-JSDF from what I heard) is a fairly meek guy who get's a harem and keeps getting all sort of lucky things happening to him for no other reason besides of "Just Because" (okay maybe asides from that promotion), but you get my point, there isn't really anything that differentiate Itami from other Isekai protagonists from my observation, but the overrall overreaching plot on the other hand reminds me strongly of the 1994 film "Stargate" there's a lot of things that felt like was taken by the author into the manga, with the only difference of that the Nationalist innuendos being toned up to 100.

The whole plot of the manga and the anime also felt very...Imperialish? I don't know, I mean yeah sure the Japanese treated the Saderans better than how the Americans treated the Iraqis or Afghans, but they still heavily interferes within their daily matter and politics, the reason why i'm kinda mixed on the overral Imperialish tone of the anime is because of Sadera's status as a "Pseudo-Roman Empire" and as we all knew, Rome is hardly the most progressive place at the time, so I feel, maybe it's kind of justifiable? Sure modern day Japan is very strongly influenced by the States, but I'm sensing a strong "eye for an eye" mentality of the whole series, an empire who came to subjugate and enslave the people on the lands they were supposed to conquer ended up going the opposite direction is supposed to be the irony the whole series is trying to push.

Speaking of Irony, another thing I found extremely Ironic within the series is how the series seemingly kept pushing innuendos with how the foreign powers that keep nagging with Japan's internal affair with that one Hakone chapter or that diet thingy with that one Politician that got paid by the US to discredit the JSDF also with the global powers and the United Nations who keeps nagging Japan about the Gate to another world whom they very desperately trying to keep for themselves under the incredibly childish "muh internal affairs" excuse. All the while of them interfering with Sadera's internal politics for near 24/7.

I feel like people are only saying it's the best Isekai out there solely for the fact that it's one of the very few medias that deal with the topic of "Modern army vs Fantasy" trope and people just love seeing arrogant and very prideful people being put down on their places especially with those wannabe Romans. While on it's core, it really is just a Isekai slop with some spices of Nationalism and probably the authors wet dream of making Nippon great again or something among those lines...

Overall it's a meh from me, pretty much your average Isekai but with modern militaries and some reverse isekai elements thrown into it. 5.5/10. (I'll give it a 4.5 originally, but it paid some tribute to Apocalypse Now, so that's a bonus for me lol).

I guess one thing I can surely say is, The Saderans certainly fared a better fate by the Japanese in comparison to the Chinese in Nanjing.

So what do you guys think overall? about the anime and the manga? I want to hear from you guys as well (pretty much the first reason why I made this post lol).