Mary Sues

I started watching In Another World With My Smartphone. In short, guy dies and God makes it up by sending him and his smartphone to a fantasy world. There polygyny is acceptable and dragons roam the skies. A ho-hum harem anime. (He has four girls in his "adventuring party".)

That's not the point.

The main character (I'll just call him Ren, because I forgot) is able to control all aspects of magic and use any Null Magic (personal spells unique to each magic user) when he sees it. Not only does he have a smartphone that works on magic and can be magically augmented, but he can cast nearly any spell that can be conceived. He can even reshape objects into other objects.

That's not the point.

In the most recent episode he meets the queen of the fairies and she teaches him a specific Null Magic spell called "Program". Disregard the use of modern words for a moment. This spell allows a caster to impart "abilities" into objects. For the example the animators showed, casting Program on a chair allowed it to move when someone sat down on it.

That's not the point.

Having done all this up to the current episode, Ren decides to create a new weapon for himself. Being from modern Earth himself, he proceeds to make a gun and bullets. But not just any gun. He makes a sword-gun. Damn it, someone on the animation team played too much Final Fantasy. Anyways, in order to make reloading the gun easier, he uses Program so that the gun magically discharges casings and reloads using the nearest supply of bullets.

This is the point. Ren is dumped into a fantasy world and has the ability to disrupt the status quo just by being himself. Not only is he the Mary Sue but he is also creating LEGENDARY WEAPONS on the fly. In the story no one has ever heard of a gun, let alone bullets. Here Ren has given himself the most overpowered weapon in the world and barely gave it a second thought. He is so overpowered that his own experiments make him even more overpowered. It's ridiculous.

Did I fail to mention this is a harem anime? No? Okay. Just thought I'd point out my mistake.

In a nutshell, the train not only jumped off the rails but is careening into a canyon. It is somewhat fun at times but its focus is on the interactions between the one boy and (currently) four girls. Did I fail to mention this is a harem anime?