Sentouin, Hakenshimasu! (Combatants Will Be Dispatched!)

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Japanese: 戦闘員、派遣します！

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 4, 2021 to Jun 20, 2021

Premiered: Spring 2021

Broadcast: Sundays at 21:00 (JST)

Producers: Nippon Columbia, Kadokawa

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: J.C.Staff

Source: Light novel

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Theme: Isekai

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.16¹ (scored by 171,364 users)

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Ranked: #3377²

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Popularity: #625

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As a chief operative of the villainous Kisaragi Corporation, Sentouin Roku-gou receives orders to help the organization conquer the entire known universe. Tasked with infiltrating the kingdom of Grace—a mission that could change the fate of the world—Roku-gou mistakenly believes that his skills as a combatant are superb, fuelling his arrogant attitude. To ensure the success of the mission, Alice Kisaragi, an exceptional android with a youthful appearance named after the company itself, is assigned to be Roku-gou's travel companion.

Upon their arrival at the outskirts of the kingdom, Alice and Roku-gou encounter Snow, the commander of the country's royal guard. Snow leads the pair to a broken legendary artifact, and Roku-gou seizes the opportunity for a long-awaited promotion at his company and changes the recitation for the sacred ritual to an embarrassing phrase. As punishment, the princess of the kingdom forces Roku-gou to become an honorary knight, fulfilling part of his mission. Having infiltrated the kingdom's inner circle, Roku-gou must now help his new employer fight against the Demon Lord's Army, all while perpetuating evil deeds as a combatant of the Kisaragi Corporation.

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"No.6" by Miku Itou (伊藤美来) (eps 2-11)

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	1: "No.6" by Miku Itou (伊藤美来) (eps 1, 12)
	2: "Home Sweet Home" by Alice Kisaragi (Miyu Tomita), Snow (Sayaka Kikuchi), Rose (Natsumi Murakami), Grim (Minami Takahashi) (eps 2-11)

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Oct 3, 2023

hexashadow13

Recommended

tl;dr: A hilarious first half that’s overall pretty great, but a second half that’s lacking and makes it feel like the concept has run it’s course.

This anime is an adaptation of a light novel series by Akatsuki Natsume, who is best known for being the author of Konosuba. As this too is a satirical take on isekai, it is inevitable that comparisons will ensue. Similar to Konosuba, here too the focus is on a party of adventurers that really don’t fit the isekai mold. The protagonist is Combat Agent Six, an operative of an evil Earth organization that was teleported to a fantasy planet to ... prep for an eventual invasion. He was teleported alongside the android girl Alice, who has all the combat abilities of a normal little girl, but is really smart and quite skilled at coming up with devious plans. Three other girls from Grace, the kingdom they land in, end up joining their squad: the incredibly greedy knight Snow, the gluttonous airhead chimera Rose, and the envious death worshiping bishop Grimm. Together they deal with various problems that the Grace Kingdom faces under the threat of a demon invasion in ways only members of an evil organization could.

The overarching plot is pretty simple and doesn’t feel that important. It just sets up problems for the main characters to get involved in, and the core of the story is the unique ways in which they solve said problems. The party is ultimately very different from Konosuba in that while the main cast of Konosuba definitely have some very nonheroic traits, it still felt like overall they were clearly being presented as heroic. Here the focus is very much on them being villainous, with the protagonist’s abilities essentially being straight up powered by him committing evil deeds. However, this is still a character focused story with an emphasis on comedy so it relies on the viewers liking the main characters. As such, I feel it is much more difficult to write, and unfortunately I feel this missed the mark in quite a few areas.

The parts that work well are those involving the protagonist Six and his partner Alice. They’re members of a evil organization and they very much play the part. They come up with all sorts of cartoonishly evil plans and just in general behave childishly malevolent. Seeing them deal with the type of problems heroes face in very unheroic ways is hilarious. And just in general the two of them have pretty good chemistry that’s fun to watch as well. Snow too works decently well for the first arc of the anime, which takes up the first half. She’s not quite evil, but she is really greedy and always desperate for cash. But despite that she also is somewhat heroic. And over the course of the first arc of the anime she develops a decent relationship with Six and Alice such that she draws out the heroism in them too and it feels like the bonds between them are developing reasonably well.

However, the second arc which takes up the second half drops the focus on Snow’s arc entirely. It feels like any progress in Snow and her relationships with the rest of the group were completely reverted. Furthermore, in the second half it places a larger emphasis on Snow’s less heroic traits, but they aren’t written as cartoonishly evil as Six and Alice. As such, she just seems kind of lame and unlikable. If the focus on Snow was dropped to focus on the other two members of the group, Grimm and Rose, that would be acceptable, but the second arc feels completely directionless. Grimm and Rose get so little development that it’s hard to really have much of an opinion on them at all. Though I suppose it’s better than being actively unlikable as with Snow. There are also of course various other side characters such as a reoccurring antagonist demon woman named Heine, or brief cuts to the leaders of the evil organization that Six is apart of as they read his reports. However, they don’t really have anything interesting to them either beyond being the butt of jokes.

And that ultimately brings up the other issue. The comedy in this feels much more narrow than Konosuba. It can be really good at times, and for the first arc I’d say it’s excellent. Konosuba felt like it was playing around with tropes to make fun of them, but here the comedy arises from playing around with tropes trying to break them, which can be both hilarious and satisfying. However, the second arc feels like it’s mostly just making very similar jokes without anything more and it quickly starts losing it’s appeal. I suppose it does try to change things up somewhat, but it’s not enough, as it just feels like it’s slight twists on old material. And just in general I feel the pacing was also weaker and the writing not as good, resulting in the anime overall just being not as funny.

The art and animation were pretty good. The character designs were really good though. The designs outside of that weren’t particularly great, but they weren’t purely generic isekai designs so they get some points for that. The insert illustrations were also amusing. The soundtrack was solid enough but not particularly memorable. The OP and ED had good songs and visuals that fit the anime really well.

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Sep 15, 2023

MeanEYE

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Managed to finish this show on my second try. It's not as bad as I first thought it was but at the same time it wasn't all that good either. It feels as if I've seen 6 hours long trailer for a movie that's suppose to come out and might be a fun watch. These twelve episodes felt just like that. A trailer. Things happen but we jump so often from one thing to another. Writers tried to make good jokes but ultimately failed and whole thing gives off weird feeling. Whole evil points mechanic is kind of stupid and pointless since he would be ...

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Aug 5, 2022

O_T_T

Not Recommended

A drop of intrigue, then a deluge of idiocy.

Much of the entertainment industry is guided thusly: when a property becomes exorbitantly profitable, find a way to capitalise on that. Some work on unsubtle repaints of the concept, others try to weasel their way into the franchise, and another group entirely decides to do something only marginally more respectable, and look towards tapping the same source. I mention this because Combatants will be Dispatched is firmly a result of this last route.

I'll make it clear, first of all, that I'm not saying that its flaws are specifically due to being worse than the creator's other, more ... prominent work, instead that it has to be noted that the only reason it was adapted, and the only reason anyone who watched it chose to, is because of its successor, Konosuba. While it'd be at just the same quality were the other never adapted, coattail-chasing is a critical issue. Any ardent message the story may have had behind it is torn away, replaced only with asinine mimicry. Not only is it trying to be something it isn't, to do so is why the show even exists. I'm put in mind of a neglected prince, born only to be a king's heir.

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For as much of a failure as this was, I can safely point to the premise as being that single sliver of worth I mentioned to begin with. There is comedic potential, even thematic potential, though, of course, neither are acted upon. That's in no small part due to the story's missteps, which is of course my forthcoming complaint. The show, in a word, dawdles. Despite the illusion of progress, no event is even remotely contributory to any other, leading to the whole production having an air of aimlessness. A similar effect occurs with the attempt to match the Isekai side of the show with the quasi-Tokusatsu parts, which ends up feeling like an entirely different show is needlessly interjecting to react to the first. As for the actual minutia of each episode, most are self-contained out-of-the-box questlines. Visiting another kingdom, killing some monsters, and so forth. None are done particularly well, so the show doesn't even work in that regard.

The cast, I must mention next. A more deplorable, more ridiculous and yet boring bunch I've never had the misfortune of seeing. Of the main party, both the men are genuine sex offenders, something already difficult to make redeemable, not that that's even attempted. The women aren't much better, each a single joke and a cup size. Much as I'd hate to write everything off with the single sentence "generic, thoughtless Isekai swill," it's the most truthful phrase I can employ. What I will give credit for is the secondary group, the Toku-villain-organisation, I forget if they were ever named. While this group doesn't get much focus, and though even then their spotlight is drifting and flickering, there's at least a discernible dynamic between the trio. Entertaining, maybe, at a push, on very few occasions, but heaps better than the other gang.

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I've gathered from other sources that the desert setting was not something the source material focused on, rather an intentional choice by the production team. This I can applaud, it's certainly preferable to yet more circular walled cities with a river through it surrounded by fields and hills. But that's about the only design praise I can muster. Character outfits are bland, monster designs lazy, and architecture uninspired. As before, I'm forced to pull the Isekai card, there's no clearer description of the issue.

Lastly, animation and music. With the former, "inoffensive" is probably the best term to use. Entirely mediocre, nothing memorable in even the slightest respect, but it's acceptably consistent. The latter is a step down, with the internal soundtrack not worth even speaking of, while the opening and ending themes only barely match the intended tone. Fittingly, what comes to mind is to note how again it seems to be trying to recapture the style of the creator's other darling. That, I suppose, makes a rather quaint point to close this on.

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I distinguish myself by providing a brief run-down of improvements wherever possible. Here, though, I'm somewhat stumped. Though I gave praise to the secondary cast and basic aesthetic, which ordinarily I'd easily point to as areas to have put more effort into, I'm left with the question of "what's the point?" It'll still be a baby's-first-Isekai. It'll still be painfully uncharismatic. Really, all I can say is this should have remained in Akatsuki Natsume's desk. No-one's early works are their strongest, this is far from an exception.

It goes without saying that this is not worth recommending to strangers, but to fans of his, almost certainly the only group even contemplating seeing this, I really must implore not to try. It's a total waste of time.

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