Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!

私、能力は平均値でって言ったよね! (Watashi, Nouryoku wa Heikinchi de tte Itta yo ne!)

6.7(109,813)

MAL Score

Ranked #6390

Popularity #1305

Adventure
Comedy
Fantasy
Isekai
Reincarnation

Episodes: 12
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Oct 7, 2019 to Dec 23, 2019
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Misato Kurihara has spent her life standing out for her extraordinary talents, leaving her without the simple comfort of close friends or an ordinary upbringing. After an unexpected death, she awakens in a divine realm and is offered a single wish for her next life. Hoping to finally blend in, she asks to be reborn with “average” abilities in the world where she’ll be reincarnated.

She returns as Adele von Ascham, a nobleman’s daughter—only to discover her magical power is anything but average. Determined to live the quiet, normal life she imagined, she sets off for a distant kingdom, enrolls in a hunter school, and takes the name “Mile.” Keeping her true strength under wraps proves easier said than done, especially as one wild situation after another threatens to expose just how exceptional she really is.

Otaku Consensus

Project No.9’s 12-episode adaptation lands best as a gag-first, cute-girl isekai: Masahiko Oota’s direction and Takashi Aoshima’s series composition keep the pacing light, meta, and parody-driven rather than treating the setting as a serious power fantasy. Its most praised assets are the heroine-group chemistry, otaku-reference humor, and low-stress adventure format; its recurring criticism is that the anime can feel too lightweight or “average” compared with the broader light novel experience.

Why You Should Watch

Watch this if you want isekai comfort food built around jokes, party banter, and intentionally silly power-scaling rather than grim quests or status-screen bookkeeping. It scratches a similar itch to BOFURI’s “accidentally overpowered girl breaks the system” comedy and KonoSuba’s genre-ribbing, but with a softer primarily female cast and less abrasive chaos. The appeal is in the rhythm: short fantasy problems become excuses for reaction faces, meta references, and the main group trying to preserve normalcy while the show keeps nudging them into absurdity. Viewers who like Cute Girls Doing Cute Things but want swords, magic, reincarnation logic, and parody baked into the format will get the cleanest payoff here.

Key Characters

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Mile(VA: Azumi Waki)
Mile is the comic engine of the series: a reincarnated otaku whose attempts at restraint keep turning into punchlines about fantasy math, social awkwardness, and genre-savvy overcorrection.
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Reina(VA: Sora Tokui)
Reina gives the party its sharpest tsundere energy, often acting as the emotional spark that turns a gentle adventure setup into a faster, noisier comedy scene.
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Mavis(VA: Fumiko Uchimura)
Mavis fills the tomboy-swordswoman lane, standing out because the show treats her earnest chivalric ambitions as both admirable and a reliable source of deadpan contrast.
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Pauline(VA: Masumi Tazawa)
Pauline rounds out the group with a polite surface and a more calculating comic edge, giving the party’s cute dynamic a useful dose of merchant-minded pragmatism.

What Makes It Stand Out

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The anime’s AniList tag profile makes its identity unusually clear: Isekai at 97%, Primarily Female Cast at 95%, Reincarnation at 92%, Magic at 89%, Cute Girls Doing Cute Things at 81%, Meta at 73%, and Parody at 71%. That combination explains why it plays more like a self-aware ensemble comedy than a conventional fantasy campaign.
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Project No.9 produced the TV adaptation as a compact 12-episode Fall 2019 series, airing from October 7 to December 23, 2019. The short run favors episodic comic momentum over long-form worldbuilding sprawl.
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The anime adapts FUNA’s light novel series with original character designs by Itsuki Akata, while the TV character designs are credited to Susumu Watanabe. That lineage matters because the adaptation’s appeal is heavily tied to how the cast reads as cute, expressive, and immediately readable in comedy beats.
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Director Masahiko Oota and series composer Takashi Aoshima are the top-billed adaptation team, and the finished show reflects a gag-structure priority: quick reversals, group reactions, and parody framing matter more than dramatic escalation.
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Its reception numbers show a title with broad reach but modest critical consensus: 6.73 on MyAnimeList from 109,813 votes, MAL popularity rank #1305, AniList score 66/100, and 941 AniList favourites. That spread fits a show many sampled for isekai comedy, while fewer elevated it into genre-essential territory.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The full Japanese title is Watashi, Nouryoku wa Heikinchi de tte Itta yo ne!, commonly shortened by fans to Noukin.
Fun fact 2: The franchise began as a light novel series written by FUNA and illustrated by Itsuki Akata, and a manga adaptation by Neko Mint began serialization in 2016.
Fun fact 3: Seven Seas Entertainment licensed both the light novel and manga in North America, so English-language viewers can compare the 2019 TV version with the source material directly.
Fun fact 4: The anime credits two art directors, Miu Miyamoto and Masazumi Matsumiya, alongside Youko Suzuki for color design, Fumiaki Nimura for photography, and Emi Onodera for editing.
Fun fact 5: Although its MAL rank sits at #6390, its popularity rank of #1305 shows the series reached far beyond a tiny niche; the “underappreciated isekai” label in fan discussion comes from that gap between visibility and middling aggregate scores.