Welcome back to A Woman With No Reviewing Skills Watches A LowRated Anime Just To See How Bad It Really Is Seriously though this is the second time this year Im reviewing a lowrated anime only to reiterate what everyone already knows. From what I can tell though Waza no Tabibito doesnt seem to be even on the level of infamy that Spectral Force is at the very least less people have watched the former than the latter. Maybe its because its not based on an Idea Factory game this time or perhaps its just that it took way longer for it to even get the Englishsubbed treatment by fansubbers. Either way its probably for the best that Waza no Tabibito has largely gone unnoticed by the anime community because even though its not quite as bad as Spectral Force it still sucks a lot. In the postapocalyptic world of Waza no Tabibito there is a group of people known as the Wazabito. These people live out in nature and train their hearts whatever that means to control a kind of power known as the wazans. One such Wazabito Techni is a traveling warrior who one day saves a little girl from a biological weapon known as an Oxylic. The girl Ruri comes from a city that is in search of more Patia an energy source for the people that has also caused many problems for the world such as civilization not progressing any further. Does any of this really get explored? Nope because the anime is too busy throwing Technis boobs and ugly CGI animation in our faces Look Im not going to knock on the fanservice since I knew going in that its an ecchi anime but that fanservice is attached to one of the most generic fantasy stories Ive ever seen. Not only that but its 31minute runtime leaves no time to explore the world or its characters. I could barely follow the story as a result I hardly remember what wazabito or Patia are even supposed to mean. Also as a result of the lack of time to explore the characters I couldnt get attached to any of them. I couldnt care less about Techni despite her not being particularly unlikable and the exact same thing could be said about the rest of the cast. This could have been fixed if Waza no Tabibito was a 12episode series instead of a 31minute film I refuse to believe this ever played in theaters but alas tis not. .On second thought it probably would have been better if Waza no Tabibito wasnt a series if it was going to be animated like this. Think of the ugliest CGIanimated thing youve ever seen in your entire life I guarantee you that the animation here is worse than that. I respect Shun Matsuena for his work on Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple but any amount of hard work he put into this was absolutely wasted and the animation was a showcase of that. One positive thing I can say is that there are some sort of nicelooking establishing shots but thats not really saying much when the backgrounds dont look that impressive the rest of the time. Oh and it bothers me how inexpressive the characters could be especially Fuku Technis owl companion arent animal sidekicks supposed to have more expressions that what he displays with his little owl face? Honestly the most positive thing I can say about Waza no Tabibito is that the voice acting wasnt as terrible as the animation but thats not really saying much. Techni is voiced by Rie Kugimiya a wellliked voice actress who even I have a lot of respect for but even though she doesnt give a bad performance here overall its clear that her heart wasnt really in it resulting in this being one of her weaker roles. Again the same could be said about the rest of the cast including Tomoko Kawakami. I feel bad for saying so given that this was one of her final voice roles before her 2011 passing and especially that there was a short tribute to her at the end but I cant really say anything about her performance given how insignificant her character was. Speaking of the end of the anime I guess there was also an ending theme Anata no Tabi wo by Sora Yuizuki to be exact but I pretty much forgot about it as soon as it ended. Overall Waza no Tabibito was 31 minutes I will never get back and Id recommend you to spend those 31 minutes you could spend watching this on something else. Even if youre a Kenichi fan youre just going to come out of it disappointed. Now I wonder what other bad anime Im going to end up reviewing this year.... Dont say Spectral Force Chronicle Divergence. Ive already watched it and Im not rewatching it.