YMMV / The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest

• Americans Hate Tingle: The original Web Serial Novel, which was first released in 2016, was ranked no. 1 on Shousetsuka ni Narou for months and had strong sales when published in light novel form in Japan, enough for a mainstream anime studio like J.C. Staff to pick it up for an anime adaptation. However, the anime didn't leave much of a mark in North America, just like author Shinkoshoto's other series to receive an anime adaptation in 2022, My Isekai Life; this is likely due to the fact that by the early 2020s, many other light novel-inspired anime with similar plot beats had been released and American anime fans were growing tired of them.
• Cliché Storm: Being such a collection of Isekai and RPG Mechanics 'Verse tropes was a flaw cited by all reviewers, and ultimately the reason of the anime's lack of success, especially in a market over-saturated with similar works. Sadly, most of the fault actually goes to the makers of the anime, not the original novel, as they attempted to compress a lot of story in a 12 episode series, and to get it they excised a lot of material (including Matthias' childhood and much of the lore) that would have made the series feel much less generic.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Iris, the cute dragon girl, was not only the series' best known character, but literally the only reason many western viewers knew the series to begin with.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Lurie/Ruri greatly resembles Amelia Watson.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Many viewers watched the anime solely because of Iris and her adorable antics with them considering her to be the sole person carrying the entire show. Or because of Lurie/Ruri, as noted above.
• Narm: Devilis being revealed as a demon can come off as this to an English-speaking audience. While the Japanese audience would consider the name "Devilis" as cool due to how foreign it sounds, to English speakers such a name makes it blatantly obvious that he's a demon; in the anime, one character disbelievingly saying "No way! Devilis is a demon?!" makes it come across as even more ridiculous rather than dramatic.

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