From the super long title, I expected The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash to be a mediocre standard-production anime, probably isekai, like we have seen numerous in recent times.

But the first episode instantly sets a great atmosphere and tone, substantiated by great visuals, animation, world depth, and story premise. While aspects or focus points change through the journey progression, the production quality never drops.

The "tamer" and picking-up-trash aspects are only a premise and hardly important to what is happening.

It's an adventure, a youthful exploration, stemming from hardships, with discoveries of the world and people. It's slow-paced - it reminded me of Mushishi (beautiful, world-depth, character embedded in world, slow-paced).

It's a great series that I can wholeheartedly recommend.

Have you watched it? What did you think?

JP title: Saijaku Tamer wa Gomi Hiroi no Tabi o Hajimemashita

Finished airing on 2024-03-29