Shinmai Renkinjutsushi no Tenpo Keiei

After her parents are killed by bandits, young Sarasa Feed is sent to an orphanage where she learns about the prestigious world of alchemy. Determined to follow in her late parents' footsteps and become an independent business owner, she enrolls at the Royal Alchemist Academy to train and get certified as an official alchemist.

Five years later, Sarasa graduates from the institution and nearly achieves her dream before realizing that she lacks the funds to do so. Left with little choice, she makes do with a low-priced storefront in a town situated far away from the bustling capital. Despite the threat of treacherous terrain and dangerous monsters in the remote countryside, Sarasa begins her exciting new life as an alchemist.

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Feed, Sarasa Main

Takao, Kanon Japanese

Lorea Main

Kino, Hina Japanese

Lotze, Iris Main

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Starven, Kate Main

Suwa, Nanaka Japanese

Millis, Ophelia Supporting

Saiga, Mitsuki Japanese

Feed, Louis Supporting

Nakamura, Genta Japanese

Darna Supporting

Yanagi, Kouhei Japanese

Village Chief Supporting

Tamai, Yuuki Japanese

Erin Supporting

Sugiyama, Riho Japanese

Baal, Yoku Supporting

Okitsu, Kazuyuki Japanese

Tokumura, Kenichi Producer

Kawamoto, Sachi Producer

Isogai, Noritomo Producer

Andou, Keiichi Producer

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Jan 14, 2024

DesolatePsyche

Recommended

Review (short ver):
In a nutshell: I Am NoVIcE ALcheMIST
PROS
+Very relaxing and cute
+Cute girls doing cute stuff and Alchemy combination done right
+surprisingly good alchemy genre, if it remembers that part
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CONS
-wish they wouldn’t forget being alchemy genre at times
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... Review (comments/longer ver):
Story

I mean, there isn’t much to really talk about story. We have a premise, where young girl had a situation in a life, had a lucky encounter, had strong innate ability and then everything got served on a silver plate. We pretty much got a cute girl managing a alchemy store on a country side with cute girls, creating cool stuff with sometimes cool logic and we have the whole alchemy fiasco. Material gathering, magic infusion, making stuff and so on. Whilst just chilling around, talking, doing nothing and occasionally having few challenges. I mean it’s nothing serious, it’s just relaxing, fun and enjoyable to watch.
Only gripe I have is that although the alchemy aspect itself is pretty fun when they actually focus on that, at some points it feels they kinda forget about the alchemy aspect and get lazy about it. But when they actually show early on and at some later episodes the alchemy element, it’s actually pretty fun. Gets me into mood to play one of atelier games.

Character

We have cute and cheery cast, with few more mature side character stereotypes. But for the most part it’s a bright group of friends enjoying their daily lives at alchemy store. Growth is pretty much them getting closer and we learning a bit about their past and them growing a bit better managing their store and giving ideas to thrive better. What else do you need from this genre?

Art & Sound

As far as animation and art itself goes, nothing too special. Not bad nor amazingly good, it is just good enough for the genre and the contents of the show. Didn’t feel like it needed particularly “better” anything. But I did quite like the sound design. The choices for soundtrack, ambiance and music overall felt fitting and pleasant. The voice acting was also quite nice.

Enjoyment & Overall

All things considered, I pretty much binged it few evenings, felt relaxing and soothing to watch. So yeah, I enjoyed it a lot. If you like cute girls doing cute stuff, and them just messing around in a store, gathering ingredients, tossing stuff pot and creating occasionally some weird goods that helps village life and such and occasional potions and then simply mess around, then why not.

Total Score 8/10
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Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Nov 13, 2025

JrDetectiveUBet

Mixed Feelings

Unpretentious Reviews

Management of a Novice Alchemist is an odd anime, and unfortunately not in a good way. Still it has some nuggets of harvest-able experience. After all, I have watched it twice, so it isn't TERRIBLE. The show has both "Wow!" and "What?" elements--unusual for most shows, especially ones that aren't the best like this one.

First, the "What?": In like, the first episode, there's this weird capitalist semi-soliloquy in the middle of a life saving procedure that doesn't fit at all. And throughout the show there's a capitalist theme about profits and such. It feels like the creator of ... the show has some strong feelings about wealth, and they bolted an anime to it. It might as well have said "brought to you by United Healthcare". It especially doesn't make sense in a world where it takes a month of travel to get from one town to another. Currency and enumerated debt just wouldn't make sense in such a world. I found the anachronism kind of irritating, but it also made me thing of a fun game called Recettear, so there's that.

Now the "Wow!": There's this particular background music. Several variations of the theme are played throughout the series, more heavily in the first half of the season. The theme is so good. It has no business being included in this anime. It's better than the show, and could be a theme song for like Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter.

The OP music starts with a motif that reminds me of the Crash Man level in Mega Man II. Overall though neither the OP or ED were interesting enough to re-watch or download the music for. That's pretty much all I can think of. Even though I rated this show a 5, I'll likely watch it again again; there aren't too many "roll my eyes" moments, and it's easy to watch. Most shows I rate a 5 I'll never watch again.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Dec 21, 2022

KusagiTsuki

Not Recommended

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Oh god i almost commited seppuku while watching this...

At first it looked like normal cgdct but then it came out like absolute nonsense.
Characters are flat like animal on highway and story is practicaly none. Almost 3/4 of time you watch infantile dialogues and the rest is ultimate walk in the park for mc. Oh and not to forget you know how its named "Management of a Novice Alchemist"? It has really nothing to do with any management or being novice and its not even about alchemy. Yea you will see some some kind of transmutation circle 2-3 times and some scenes with cauldron but thats ... all.

"Hey you forgot rate things like animation and music" - Nah it was mediocre through and through.

For me its 3/10 and nothing can convince me otherwise.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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