Shinmai Ossan Boukensha, Saikyou Party ni Shinu hodo Kitaerarete Muteki ni Naru. Episode 4 Discussion

And he was God the whole time.

Its not that often, but still far too often, we get two of the shame shows airing simultaneously but with one being actually competent. This show is just the parry show but worse in every way; both shows are still bad. However the parry show is kinda watchable whereas this is just bad.

So, if he knew he single handedly defeated a monster that it would take a team of A Ranked or better adventurers to defeat....WTF was he thinking that he was just getting lucky fighting sub-A ranked people? Also, Reanette is only 17.....

@HOOfan_1 You make a very good point.

As a longtime receptionist, he had the knowledge of how powerful a dragon is, what rank the adventurers needed to be and how many adventurers were necessary to defeat the dragon.

Also, Rick knew that he had a unique inherent skill like the hero, that it finally awaked within him during the fight, and that he defeated the dragon all by himself.

It would seem like this contradicts the first 3 episodes, that gave the impression that he did not know how powerful he was, not having anything to gage his true strength by, along with having a limited amount of magical power, which causes him to have to work on the 3 other aspects of the magical scale.

So I guess it would be his extreme lack of confidence, knowing he started so late in life, and the naive assumption that A-rankers or higher are still better than him, even after all his training with the greatest adventure party?

What do you think?

@ejleon I don't think there is an explanation. The reason many have been so annoyed by the first few episodes of the show are because it makes no sense that he isn't aware of how strong he is. It's virtually impossible unless he's just an idiot, and nothing has shown that he is.

@HOOfan_1 You make a very good point.

As a longtime receptionist, he had the knowledge of how powerful a dragon is, what rank the adventurers needed to be and how many adventurers were necessary to defeat the dragon.

Also, Rick knew that he had a unique inherent skill like the hero, that it finally awaked within him during the fight, and that he defeated the dragon all by himself.

It would seem like this contradicts the first 3 episodes, that gave the impression that he did not know how powerful he was, not having anything to gage his true strength by, along with having a limited amount of magical power, which causes him to have to work on the 3 other aspects of the magical scale.

So I guess it would be his extreme lack of confidence, knowing he started so late in life, and the naive assumption that A-rankers or higher are still better than him, even after all his training with the greatest adventure party?

What do you think?

I think the first 3 episodes are some of the laziest writing, with multiple anime tropes just thrown in, that made them really frustrating and annoying.

This 4th episode had actual depth and character to the story, with the MC having a dream, experiencing the pain of not succeeding, and then overcoming to make the first step of his new journey as an adventure.

I acknowledge that it doesn’t make logical sense in the context of the previous 3 episodes, but I do like this new story better.

Also, instead of being an unconfident and awkward person with extreme self doubt, which was really annoying.

He could have been a confident warrior that was still humble, who hated the nobles’ arrogance and their treatment of people, stomping on the 3 noble brats intentially, not accidentally.

Would have been better if it had just started with this outright. Flashbacks/jumping forward or backwards in time is a poor way to tell a story, but at least it wasn't stretched for multiple episodes. Didn't expect him to 1 shot a dragon lol also explains his relationship with Reanette a little better. Bit of a pacing concern with this being episode 4 already, the story having barely progressed at all makes you worry if it won't get rushed through later. 12ep definitely going to hurt the overall story progression, they've basically wasted 4 episodes on maybe 1-2 actual (story timeline) days. Either this stays at an incredibly slow pace and very little progress happens in this season, or the in story timeline will end up drastically rushing from this point on. Either way this pacing is awful for a 12ep format, it feels like a 2 cour story going off of current pace development. If they transition to a sped up pace it will only seem more like poor time management and less rewarding overall.

@Hot-Pantaloons It doesn't explain his relationship with Reanette at all. Through the first episodes he acts like he's nothing but a fly on the wall compared to her, when in fact, he already saved her life even before they started training.

Oh, not to mention!



But Rick doesn't have a mana pool, does he?!

@Love_And_Forward idk she seems like one of the "straight face" types, explains why she cares about him they clearly have an unspoken awkward thing between them. As for the magic it seems more like he just used everything he had all at once, how she says "you destroyed every magic circuit in your body". They never said he has no magic, just that he wouldn't be able to cultivate More.

@Hot-Pantaloons I mean, he had enough magic to kill a dragon.

@Love_And_Forward to be fair we don't have any real power scale or reference for what/how much magic is needed to do something or how much magic he really has other then "its very low". We only know he can't increase his mana pool, but putting every ounce into a finite point all at once who's to say it wasn't enough to "laser beam punch" a dragons head off. The fact they mention him destroying all his magic circuits just means he threw every drop into that 1 attack. It's definitely a bit of a plot-hole since we had 0 reference to his baseline original magic power before that. The name of his special skill makes it seem more like a self destructive last resort type move. Makes me at least think that's why they trained him so much, not so he'd get stronger but seemingly more so he wouldn't fall apart after 1 use. Also as they mentioned in earlier episodes he has superior control over his basic magic, but when used properly even basic magic can overwhelm. So odds are him killing the dragon was along the lines of showing how it's not total magic so much as how someone is able to use it. Again that's just my take on it, the story has some definite plot holes/development issues. Tbh this pacing in general has me worried about how far things will actually go, and or how drastically they'll start skipping forward.

So he had a cheat skill anyways? That's lame.

@Grim1952 Looks like it was also destroyed using it that way, if pay careful attention to the Episode. You know where it says Magic circuits destroyed or something like that in the subtitles.

Congratulations Rick. This was for all your hard work. You are now an adventurer.