Aug 19, 2024
I have seen the first two episodes of this series. I put 3 episodes seen because that's the minimum you need in order to leave a review, and I had already started writing this before I saw the 3 episode minimum rule. I might watch the third episode at some point, but I don't see my review of the series changing in any significant way. I hope that I don't get in trouble for saying I didn't follow that rule.
This is pretty much your cliche "weak-on-paper protagonist turns out to have an ability that makes them actually super OP" anime. The plot is that our
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protagonist has only been able to learn "low-level" skills and is therefore unable to be a regular adventurer. Instead, he takes "F-rank quests" from the adventurer's guild that are basically odd jobs around town. Still, he has learned one low-level skill from every class possible. That isn't what makes him special, but it still seems odd to me that no one has seen the potential usefulness of a jack-of-all-trades. Especially since one of his skills is basically super strength and another one apparently allows him to evade skilled trackers at one point.
Anyway, our protagonist has spend so much time training his "parry" skill hoping to learn a new skill, that his parry skill is absurdly strong. Exactly what it says on the tin, he parries everything. In his first fight, he uses it to deflect the monster's attack back at it, using a broken sword no less, and kill it.
So one of my big complaints is that the protagonist is really dumb. And not in a charming way (in my subjective opinion), just in a frustrating way. He never thinks to mention to his guild leader how powerful his parry skill has become. (Although you could partly blame this on everyone is this world's irrational insistence that "low-level" skills could never be useful in combat, which is something that seems to be common to these kinds of stories.) He is also convinced that the creature he killed to save the princess was just a cow, instead of a minotaur, without checking and despite all indications to the contrary.
He is also completely unconcerned with getting a reward for saving the princess's life when offered. I tend to like ambitious protagonists like Myne from Ascendance of a Bookworm, who wants to give books to everyone in her new world. I enjoy a humble protagonist from time to time as well, someone who lives a simple life and has no need for riches, and who does good deeds just for the sake of doing them. However, in the case of this anime's protagonist it just felt like he lacks imagination. Anyway, the king ends up tricking him into accepting some sort of powerful relic under the guise of it being just an old sword, which I thought was kind of funny.
I enjoy a good underdog story, but I like for everyone to acknowledge how actually OP the protagonist has become at some point, and this story doesn't seem like it's going there. If you enjoy watching a secretly OP protagonist breeze his way through every fight while he and the general public remain oblivious to his power, then you will probably enjoy this anime. If like me however you find it tiresome, then you probably won't.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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