Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki Episode 1 Discussion

nightcrawlercyp said:
A country is founded generally by an army lead by a general. After the founding they become the monarch and the nobles. About taxes over taxation is a problem to the failed model of democracy. Historically the army or tax collectors would collect taxes which were much fewer and smaller . But what a civil service does is this: decide to do something for the people without asking if they want to or not , collect taxes by force for it, fill their pockets with over 90% of the money collected and then use the rest to do a poor job of what they planned to do if it ever gets done. And the more civil servants the more money get into their pockets less in the actual work and worse that work is. But many like this because either are not net tax payers or are civil servants.

DirectorK said:
@RedChrome
@ninja_jesus

I do get what you two are saying but you're both forgetting one thing when it comes to adaptations, especially in anime: Time constraints. If either of you have done any kind of film making you would know how much of a nuisance this is especially when it comes to fantasy setting. J.C. Perhaps Staff could have gone without an OP in this opening episode since they didn't have an ED but even then there's only so much you can do without the amount of time you have. We're talking about a twenty-three minute episode after all. If this had been a fifty minute episode then it probably would have been perfect, but this is what we got so far and I'm totally fine with it.

DirectorK said:
The purpose of the opening act is to give the viewers a decent idea of what the setting is, who the characters are, and what the story will be about. This first episode succeeded in all three subjects and I got no complaints. It did what it needed to do without overwhelming the audience with a massive info dump. If they included every single detail then a lot more people would be complaining, "Too much info! I don't care about this stuff! I want more action! I want more waifus! I want more fanservice!"

DirectorK said:
You see what I'm getting at? Just give the audience enough to digest for now and give them more later. To be honest I'm more worried that they'll forget about what the story was originally suppose to be in favor of providing more fanservice as the series goes on. This is J.C. Staff after all and they're notorious for their fanservice.

Craeston said:



Bruh, chill out. Tbh, I didn't like VA yuusuke kobayashi for Souma Kazuya. But at least give him some chance to prove it until end of series. It's interesting so far. Well, I'm more concerned about Inorin that voiced Liscia. It's more like Mabusheena that I hate it (not character development. but totally acting voice was not match). That's why I'm looking forward to see their progress and story. Until now, the first episode was good to watch.

And I hope the studio didn't ruin this series too much.

kei78 said:
I read the ln and the manga


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this adaptation seems flavourless.

ill see if i keep watching or not in 2 weeks

dannymilk said:
welp…that Seto Kaiba reference got me staying for this

_Goldee_ said:


When was it? I think I missed it.

RayReynolds said:
where is the plot?

"Okay, so, this dude is summoned to another world to save it."
"From monsters?"
"No, from mediocre management."
"But he struggles to live up to being a hero?"
"No, everybody is deferential to him from the start, worshipful even."
"But he solves some kind of problem through some kind of epiphany or insight?"
"Eventually, he might!"

That about sums up the episode. If there were any illusions about it being a harem show as well, the OP puts those firmly to rest. The real sin though is that it's just plain boring as absolute sin. The sole point of any drama at all is the one girl who's skeptical of him, but that's the whole conflict right there, and it's not addressed or resolved in any way. He's told there are geopolitical issues, sits down to do paperwork and at the end of the episode, is still doing paperwork. It's like that Futurama gag. "Press 1 if you would like to see Caluculon review his taxes." Except it's not a joke. It's the entire episode. He doesn't even show up the helpless idiot local savages this week. He just… learns that there are geopolitical issues that I guess we're told are pressing? But not, you know, imminently pressing. More like pressing some time eventually, after we finish auditing the paperwork a second time. What is the story here? Why should we care!?

bastek66 said:
How did this kingdom survive with such pathetic ruler? Couldn't king make MC a prime minister instead of his successor? Fucking wishfulfillment garbage.

antonn said:

As for the second part, it probably won't be seen in the anime due to it not happening until the end of v4 of the LN, but there's a reason he isn't made the prime minister.

1_Narumi_1 said:
yeah i think you right, this still only ep1 important think maybe will appear in ep 2-3.
but you know i just feel sad~ you know they wasteting lot of money for useless fps, make useless motion. when other good studio with good skill doesn't have much money and good content~ i just feel sad about it

Craeston said:


I know. But what do you expect from JC Staff? they're making a lot of anime until forgot the quality of it. If realists hero got handled by Deen, imagine what happened. Not only animation, but also visual as well.

Thomas92 said:
Oke so I was watching ep1 and I heard that the kingdom is having an famine cause refugees keep flooding in. So couldn't they conscript and send the refugees to fight the demons? If they dont have the capital they can just borrow from merchants and never pay them back, if they have already done that they can start taxing odd stuff (windows, beards stuff like that).
Final solution to get fast money is to purge nobles from office take their stuff and find someone else to do their job with reclamed land as payment.
Maybe my perspective is flawed but wouldn't that be the safe bet?

HagePotPotato said:


lol, are you intentionally trying to destroy the country and turn it into a people's revolt/revolution? talk about turmoil and chaos

frankly, you sound like you have low/no moral and ethical standards

Thomas92 said:

You really think anyone is going to revolt over some foreigners(especially when it means you have less competition over food)? All of the examples i gave to get money have been used by countries in the past and none of the countries have been destroyed by those actions.
Also morality has nothing to do with it i just said it was the safe bet, not that it was good or morally acceptable.