Anime: Ore wa Subete o "Parry" Suru: Gyaku Kanchigai no Sekai Saikyou wa Boukensha ni Naritai 5c332y

Seemingly pretty under-rated anime, and perhaps polarizing. My guess is three things MUST be given a on suspension of disbelief for the premise to work: misunderstandings, OP parrying, and obliviousness. This anime does some unique things well: 1st episode has a good encapsulated story arc, dry humor throughout the season, and last episode after the season's climax is dedicated to bringing things full circle and resolution. I think the story and characters were well developed, and was pretty entertaining and fun throughout.

I feel like I need to correct some of the recommendations here, this is not a very interesting or a very well drawn anime, it's just average (at least for the stuff I watch), what wasn't average was the eng dub, it was below average.
Both the story and the pacing have this subtle awkwardness to it, and there is barely any development in this 1st season, no romance, no party, he goes from zero to hero way too fast, from no weapon to the best weapon, etc. The MC is shown as your typical dense guy, but isn't really and he has his charms which makes it more enjoyable than average so I do recommend it.

A storyline based on misconceptions. If you're up for that give it a try. For me this was to much, i couldn't stomach it any more and dropped it on episode 6 (something i very rarely do).

This could have been a good series but the MC's stupiddity was unbearable for me.

Normally a premise such as this... MC starts off weak, then trains and becomes OP but isn't aware has been done numerous times and in the past those anime have been okay, but this one was surprisingly fun and entertaining. This show makes the MC incredibly dense when it comes to his strength that it leads to a lot of funny misunderstandings to the people around him. For the majority of the anime, his strength was somewhat kept in check but towards the end it was exaggerated. Still, this is a fun/light-hearted adventure series with funny moments sprinkled in; that has a decent ending.

The anime itself is VERY interesting and VERY well drawn. I could give it a rating of 8 and definitely recommend it as a good example of fantasy with another original concept of the main character... but I can't. Because besides all this, there is one thing that drives me crazy and for this reason I will give this anime a 6. After many years of watching many different anime, I am incredibly tired of the "I am uber strong but uber stupid" cliche. Jesus, it's already 2024, this flat concept from the 00-10s isn't funny anymore. If you are not annoyed by such characters - feel free to watch, because the anime itself is very good. But I physically can not perceive such things anymore.

This is surprisingly fun and interesting. I laughed out loud numerous times due to the unexpected twists and turns, especially how the main character's immense strength often leads to unintentionally hilarious outcomes.

First it was interesting, then it became funny, then became too cliched and then it became simply not interesting. There is only that far you could go with being daft, oblivious and ride the wave of misunderstandings. That aside, it is very wholesome. I know it contradicts what I just said, but literally everything is being blown out of proportion so much that it is actually interesting to watch. For what it's worth, characters are sensible, well drawn and are interesting. Not a bad watch, but nothing too spectacular. Could have been better.

MC's ability to take basic skills to an extreme level.
if you are a fan RPG series then you must see it.

I could see this ending after the first (last?) season. The only thing that diminishes this series for me is the MC being ENTIRELY unaware and regularly dense about his strength. This becomes excruciatingly obvious towards the last third of this series.

With that said, it was still enormously enjoyable due to the MC. There is nothing in this series, beyond the MC, that actually has any impact. Everyone else in this series really doesn't matter, they fade into the background so fast.

It's not bad, it is pretty good. I think you won't regret it. Pretty decent watch.

Quite the breath of fresh air. Very light-hearted and decently animated. Not a bad watch.

Light-hearted and not serious, but a bit bland. Decent background noise. It's not actively horrible or unwatchable at any point, but doesn't do enough to make the characters and setting interesting or memorable. Wouldn't be half-bad if they put the main character in more interesting scenarios, but every episode devolves into the main character being incredibly good-hearted and ignorant, making wild mis-assumptions, and being incredibly resilient, tough, and as the title implies, parrying every ridiculous thing thrown at him. Naturally, he underestimates his own strength and assumes he's weak.
There's potentially some threads of mystery to the character (like both his parents being unknown adventurers, and the shack-in-the-woods that he grew up in being concealed in an undetectable magical concealment barrier for some reason), but season 1 doesn't really address much. The biggest reveal of the season is that the talentless overpowered guy isn't actually talentless like he thinks he is.