Tatoeba Last Dungeon Mae no Mura no Shounen ga Joban no Machi de Kurasu Youna Monogatari

A long time ago, the ancient saviors of humanity founded a village as their haven, with their descendants said to assist humanity in times of extreme chaos. This village, Kunlun, is located just beside the infamous "Last Dungeon"—a place where monsters of unimaginable strength reside and which serves as the hunting grounds for Kunlun residents.

Despite being accustomed to defeating powerful enemies since childhood, Lloyd Belladonna regards himself as the weakest in his village in terms of magic, strength, and intelligence. Even so, to fulfill his desire of becoming a soldier, he goes to the Kingdom of Azami to enroll in its military academy. However, as someone whose upbringing defies common sense, Lloyd's innate power might just prove to be the key to end the crises enveloping the kingdom!

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Belladonna, Lloyd Main

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Hemein, Selen Supporting

Asahina, Madoka Japanese

Marie Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Phyllo Supporting

Itou, Miku Japanese

Alka Supporting

Hioka, Natsumi Japanese

Flavin, Riho Supporting

Tsuda, Minami Japanese

Shouma Supporting

Saitou, Souma Japanese

Alan Supporting

Yamashita, Seiichirou Japanese

Meltfan Supporting

Hino, Satoshi Japanese

Eug Supporting

Sanpei, Yuuko Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Ogura, Mitsutoshi Producer

Miyazaki, Seiji Producer

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May 25, 2024

Vrozty

Recommended

[Having been a huge fan of isekai, fantasy, an OP MC type of anime — this anime is definitely coming out on top! A light and happy anime with non-complex yet profound conflicts, all masked with silliness and love, definitely one-of-a-kind. — 10/10]

Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies moved to a starter town? is already a silly title, so expect lots of silliness! Silly is the perfect word to describe the amount of comedy in this anime, which is one of its features that stands out the most. It's lighthearted with comedy all over the plot yet not to the point that it ... deserves to be considered a parody because there are adequate serious moments as well. Nevertheless, to watch an anime with such a title while expecting an anime with complex conflict, 12-episode-journey that has to follow strict standards of intro-conflict-resolution, etc. would be insane, and to review the anime badly because it's silly when it's meant to be silly thus should be appreciated for fulfilling its goals? should be a crime.

The first episode was a perfect introduction to the anime to the point that having finished the first episode, I knew I'd rate this anime 10/10. From then on, it's exactly as it's introduced. In short, the plot is about a kid's struggle to resolve his inner demons as he innocently helps everyone and saves the nation. That very same innocence and kindness brings him a lot of love from everyone around him in all kinds of forms, to the point that it even the conflict arises from that very same thing. Each character showcases different experiences one would have with our lovely MC, but not only that, this anime brilliantly managed to tell the stories and struggles of (pretty much) all of those characters, making us fall in love with every single character eventually.

The world building is quite interesting. However, instead of explicitly explaining what is the world that the characters are in, they do it through each characters' stories, and I think it's a nice take on it. Sure, we end up not knowing too much of the world, but enough to understand the characters' sentiments, and that's wonderful for a 12 episode anime.

More about comedy and seriousness - perhaps things can be considered choppy and can give an impression of "suddenly this, suddenly that" but personally, I did not lose track of the plot even though all the fun comedy existed and I did not dwell too much on the intensity of the scene though all the serious conflicts existed. The balance of the two tips towards comedy, but I assure you, as long as you enjoy some silliness, you won't find yourself struggling to enjoy the plot beyond that comedy. The conflicts are very, very light, but they're conflicts, alright. Trickery, ambition, jealousy, boredom — the core of the conflicts still can be felt and understood even when it's packed in a silly way, and with this perspective, the story is definitely well-written.

The graphics are wonderful, the colors are vibrant and bright. The voice acting and the music are nice and enjoyable. Overall, the production quality itself is enjoyable.

For what it's going for, it's done a perfect job. A nice, light watch full of love and happiness that will entertain and will not bore. 10/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Dec 28, 2023

Shabo-kun

Mixed Feelings

Okay I understand why this show gets so much hate, but honestly it wasn’t that bad.

This show is in my opinion perfect example of stuff to watch if you want some cheap entertainment. It’s generic, sometimes annoying, predictable and LOUD with clché Japanesse anime style of homour. On the other hand humour knows no bounderies as many of reviewers already said and it worked for me although it was too much "cringy" sometimes. On top of that it looks good, has some enjoyable characters (some not), solid sound effects and if you won’t take it seriously and mainly don’t expect too much you got exactly ... what I said. It doesn’t mean it’s a good show at all tho. There isn’t anything else except of nice animations and humor which would make this show more enjoyable and these are primary aspects which somehow carries whole anime.

STORY: 2/10
It’s obvious story is not main focus of this piece of "art". You can predict almost each exciting moment like fight, small dramas or another plot. Thing is it doesn’t take itself seriously and I didn’t mind. Even if I roughly knew what will most likely happen I still enjoyed the outcome, because it was well presented. Each problem was solved with humorous outcome and thanks to this it fulfilled that role of comedy on point. Adventurous part of the story was dissapointment, becuase there is not much of a world exploring and adventure as such at all. Story is pretty fast pacing and almost every problem is solved in one or two episodes and you got another right in next episode. This is typical thing for medicore and generic fantasy shows.

CHARACTERS: 5/10
One of the bigger issues for me was main hero. He did not have single enjoyable or interesting character trait. He was just prototype of boring fantasy MC, but even more dumb and dense. Even that style of humor which was applied on his character wasn’t my cup of tea. Other female characters had mostly one thing in common and a that was obssesion with our MC. It was like watching some talkshow with Justin Bieber where he surprises his maniac girl fans. Except of this insanity each girl character had some trait which make her fun (OK Selen is exception). We don’t really need to speak about antagonists, because they are here, but they’re so much forgettable it would be waste of time. Shouma gets almost no screentime to introduce his character and you only know him as brother of MC which turns to evil just like that. Overall characters were mostly fun at that time of watching, but after i get some good sleep tonight I’m not gonna remember a single shit about them.

ART: 8/10
Hurrah, at last another thing you can actually appreciate. Animations looks good and that goes for fights as well. On the other hand it’s from big studio and producers made in year 2021, so nice animations are somehow expected. That doesn’t change the fact it looks stylish and it’s probably the biggest plus.

MUSIC/SOUND: 4/10
Not my type of thing and something which would make me thing about it. OP is like you would pick some cliché isekai song to copier, find some generic singer to sing that crap and put it right there. This is appliable for every single one song in this show and OST was terrible even more. Sound effects throughout the anime were on point unlike that music.

ENJOYMENT: 6/10
If you are reading to this part, maybe you wonder why I wrote it wasn’t so bad and then shit talked so much on this show. Simply because there are undoubtedly lot of thing wrong and I cannot overlook them.
Despite this I had fun and it’s mainly because of it’s humor, ease and almost no expectations from my side. As they say in my home country „if you don’t expect anything you cannot be dissapointed".

Overall: 5/10
For sure not type of thing for anybody. This show is definiton of contradiction so it’s purely subjective. Thanks to this I cannot recommend it to anybody and only to people with "wider" spectrum of sense of humor. It’s solid thing to watch if you look for something easy which doesn’t require a lot of your attention or simply as I said in the beginning if you look for cheap entertainment.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Apr 9, 2023

citric_rot

Not Recommended

possibly the most forgettable anime imaginable. its genuinely impressive how mediocre it is in every capacity. the rawest 5/10 you could ever conceive.

watched all in 1 go and if you ask me or anyone else in the watch-party to name a single plot point, theme, or more than 4 characters names it would be a struggle.

i have no hate towards this show. i have no love towards this show. it is nothing.

your time is better spent elsewhere. but if you desire pure slop to not think about for a second, then perhaps this is for you


WDYM MY REVIEW NEEDS MORE INFOMATION. ITS NOTHING. ... SELEN WAS KINDA FUNNY, WHITE WOMAN JUMPSCARE. I LAUGHED PERHAPS TWICE. IS THIS YOUR GOD? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED????

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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