Jul 25, 2024
A lot of people want to pan this show because of the MC being dense, but that’s not actually the issue here. Noor has been secluded and hardly educated his entire life until 14 when he was left on his own to do nothing but training for a decade, the guy has no reason to know damn near anything at all except for how to tend to animals and whatever odd jobs he picked up. Him being a complete oblivious idiot is expected given the setting.
The problem is that so is everyone else.
Adventurer’s guild: the guild has a policy of ranking capability simply by what
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skills someone has, with no apparent assessment aside from that (or even any confirmation of stated abilities - Noor could just lie to these people and be some SSS-class adventurer but he’s too dumb to do that). The guild master and everyone who works with Noor are constantly shown his abilities and just take it as “guess he’s a strong fellah” or something; word never gets around that this guy can carry tons of bricks all day without sweating.
The royal family: Noor literally saves the princess’s life by slaying a mutant Minotaur and doesn’t even get a formal recognition of achievement. The whole schtick could have been alleviated with a simple “For the grand achievement of slaying the demon…” or whatever but no. I could almost understand it from a position of good old-fashioned aristocratic condescension in forgoing formalities with the common man but the king didn’t know who he was beforehand. In fact, Noor wasn’t on anybody’s radar despite being a one-man any-job-you-want-done crew.
The people: Noor carries around the treasure of the country (the very distinct “sword”) and nobody recognizes it at all or says anything.
The princess: the final nail in the coffin, and the most damning. The princess forgets to speak aloud when naming dangerous monsters, refuses to actively acknowledge Noors abilities, and has taken to thinking “he must have sensed it even then!” and other such drivel the likes of which you get out of fanatical followers of characters like Shadow and Ains, without any of the irony.
It’s one thing to have an oblivious dumbass MC who doesn’t know their strength, but it’s as if every event and line of dialogue is crafted perfectly to maintain his ignorance of the situation. It is frustrating, and nothing else. It is not funny, and if you disagree just keep watching because unless it changes it’ll get old for you too unless you’re content getting to Ep 12 - “I parry any chance at a second season”
Also while the skills are interesting and the concept is good the action really isn’t there, you see a character jump and then the reaction of the enemy, that kind of “action.”
I can’t wait till Gaile the Cursificer gets the anime treatment cause at least the other people in that world aren’t as lead-dense as that tasteless dickhead.
TL;DR no Noor never finds out he’s any good.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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