Ningen Fushin no Boukensha-tachi ga Sekai wo Sukuu you desu

Veteran adventurer Nick, mage Tiana, cleric Zem, and half-dragon Curran each show up alone at a tavern, only to find themselves seated at the same table. As the night goes on, they take turns divulging their grievances and the hobbies they have taken up as a means of coping. While their stories are utterly different, there is one common thread: betrayal. Each of the four, having been bitterly betrayed by someone they treasured, has developed a deep-seated distrust of humanity.

But in addition to their similar worldviews, the four have one more commonality: a critical lack of funds. Realizing that things cannot continue as they are, they decide to form a party, rank up, and make as much money as possible to spend on their respective hobbies. What these disillusioned adventurers do not know, however, is that they will one day save the world from unfathomable peril.

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Curran Main

Kikuchi, Sayaka Japanese

Tiana Main

Watabe, Sayumi Japanese

Nick Main

Kobayashi, Yuusuke Japanese

Zem Main

Toki, Shunichi Japanese

Agate Supporting

Ishihara, Kaori Japanese

Olivia Supporting

Takahashi, Minami Japanese

Kizuna Supporting

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Jun Supporting

Ueda, Hitomi Japanese

Vilma Supporting

Hirano, Fumi Japanese

Fifs Supporting

Morikawa, Toshiyuki Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Ogata, Mitsuhiro Producer

Matsumoto, Hideaki Producer

Nanbara, Mitsuhiro Producer

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Mar 21, 2023

KANLen09

Recommended

This show is the epitome of the famous saying: One man's trash is another man's treasure. Or to put it another way: the majority thinks that this show is fantasy trash, but to me, this show is fantasy that's out-of-the-ordinary charming, in its own way.

Ever since recent times, the "Banished out of the Hero's Party" fantasy sub-genre has been gaining lots of traction ever since the said series was released back in Fall 2021, and it's been almost a good 1.5 years having different shows showcase more of this trend. But as I've said before in previous reviews, when one show becomes too popular, the ... AniManga industry will start picking up on these trends and come out with the most trash and generic series of works that are popular in its own right, not caring for quality but pumping out quantity. Case in point, the lone novelist by the name of Shinta Fuji, with his sole work that is Ningen Fushin no Boukensha-tachi ga Sekai wo Sukuu you desu a.k.a. Ningen Fushin: Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World, which considering its time in Syosetu since January 2019, it's still quite a recent series that the difference of 4 years between novels (Syosetu and LN) and anime (adaptation), don't really matter quite a lot.

For the Average Joe, once you hear a trope, you'll ALWAYS remember a trope. So many works have Heroes (in their own right) getting booted/kicked out from either their own party or organization (see this season's Kaiko Sareta Ankoku Heishi (30-dai) no Slow na Second Life), only for them to develop their new life and having their past's vestiges come haunting when necessary, NGL, it's becoming increasingly stale. But when you apply this formula into not one person but a group of people, it changes the formula and provides something fresh to the table. Case in point, this show's story about a group of adventurers who are betrayed in one form or another from whence they came from, all coming together to form a party after quote-unquote "being disllusioned and jaded by the people around them" enough to bear a distrustful mark on humanity, wishing for nothing but humanity's downfall. You have the typical adventurer Nick, the sorceress Tiana, the ex-priest Zem, and the dragonkin girl Curran, all with their same-old dispositions of how they got booted out in the first place.

Starting off with Nick, his story is that the kick-out is not the only thing adding to his displeasement, it's also his girlfriend who scams the living hell and dumps him when he is not able to provide to her source of income. Dejected, he develops the otaku lifestyle in the form in idols through the teen idol Agate, which this is actually the first time that I'm hearing of an Isekai/fantasy world having such idiosyncracies that it feels whack-a-mole-ish, but I was definitely taken aback and surprised at the show's philisophy of "anything goes". The problem is, idolship also needs funds, and Nick goes in search for a party that would help support his lifestyle. It's at this juncture that he meets 3 individuals, all of them with their own story to tell. With sorceress Tiana, her story is that she is a magical prodigy, that like Nick, suddenly got slapped the other cheek by her fiance to become a gambling addict, thereby failing at her adventurer status because of her glaring, serious-looking eyes that scares away potential party mates. For the ex-priest Zem, he was a Healer Priest who was just your typical fan-favourite doctor, until a young village loli tried to take advantage of him, only to accuse him of rape, that despite the glaring truth, people just don't care and beat the living crap out of him and strip away his license of priesthood. Things got worse for Zem as in the midst of becoming an adventurer, he turned into a drunken womanizer after being freed from the vow of chastity. Last but not least, the dragonkin girl Curran's story being the most despicable of all: serving the human that she believed would become the fantasy world's hero, after being saved from a swindling incident with a merchant and having him expose the crime to be handed back the necklace of memorabilia, which contains a picture of her and said hero. But as per usual, the hero took adventage of the unsuspecting Curran and steals the necklace containing an entity that she was tasked to secure with her whole life.

To put it simply, Nick, Tiana, Zem and Curran are wannabe disillusioned adventurers that have been commonly betrayed by their own kind, apart from initially the lack of funds to do what they really want by forming the party that would otherwise in a typical party, be simply impossible to deal with based on their circumstances. And more often than not, this makes for an interesting combination of not the perfect team, but the betrayal team that they call "Survivors" because they have survived off their own peril to live to tell their story, that one day, like any other typical Hero's Party in the most generic of generic storylines, save the world from ruin. And I have always been an advocate for interesting storylines such as these amidst the boring tropes that the Isekai/fantasy genre has come to give the audience as time quickly passes by, because one slight change to the formula, can make something totally fresh and innovative, only if the execution is done right, which this show unfortunately, has a hit-or-miss record due to this show being Shinta Fuji's only lone work. It's a risk trying to input something as tropey as an idol segment that would otherwise be out of place in a regular fantasy world, but props for trying to stand out amongst the crowded pack.

Obviously, the production is not going to win any awards, for one of the worst produced shows of the season that as ass as the story is, the animation is laughable at best. Director-cum-series composer Itsuki Imazaki with character designer-cum-animation director Hiroo Nagao have a lot of shoes to fill on the production side of things, and this is not the first time that both of them worked together as a duo, as the 2nd outing after Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasu ka? a.k.a HenSuki back in Summer 2019. The studio Seven director working alongside Geek Toys as a collab production is nothing to scoff at, if you have the taste for subpar produced shows like HenSuki and this show. It's obvious as hell that production is the lowest grip of the show, and I would agree with you of any sentimentality that this could be produced better...somehow.

The music truly is one of surprise as it comes from composer Ryo Takahashi, but ultimately it wasn't enough to salvage the poor production values that this show suffers from. At least the OST is kinda decent in spots, but also an area, where depending on your AniSong taste, can be either decent or downright bad. Shunichi Toki's "Glorious World" for the OP is surprisingly good...after a couple of listens, and his voice as Zem can take a bit getting used to. Mao Abe's "Never Fear" for the ED may look out of place and janky and something that's only fitting for an ED, it's also a pleasant listen. But above all, the OST is something that is kinda forgettable in spots.

Despite the poor production values and somewhat limited aspect from the story segments that are hit-or-miss affairs, Ningen Fushin is undoubtedly not a show for everyone. But to those who can appreciate differences in the approach as opposed to the generic Isekai/fantasy mish-mash of the current era (like I did), then there's something to be worth remembering about this show that as unceremonious as it stands out from the pack, at least it's an alternate take on the same tropes that turned out to be surprisingly decent.

Fair warning, give this the 3-episode rule. It doesn't take a big brain to understand this show, but it depends on you.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 21, 2023

Marinate1016

Mixed Feelings

Well-written

Ningen Fushin started out as one of the most promising shows of the season. One of the latest in the “banished from the hero’s party” style of betrayal and redemption fantasy shows. Unfortunately what started out as a promising fantasy show with a fun cast devolved into a directionless mediocre story with no sense of purpose.

I want to be clear that while Ningen Fushin definitely fell off I still liked the show for the most part. I’m just disappointed that it wasn’t as good as it could have been. The first few episodes give us a ragtag group of adventurers who have been cast out ... by the world and betrayed for various reasons, coming together to form a party and slowly but surely opening up to one another. Seeing the characters’ mini arcs, how they went from being on top of the world to rock bottom before ultimately meeting the others was really cool.

I thought there was something natural about how all of them reacted to that trauma and moved on from it. Once those mini arcs stopped though, around episode 6 or so, we got a couple of what felt like filler episodes before getting into the next arc which frankly just felt weak. I do understand that this is of course a light novel series so the second volume was probably just weak compared to the first, but still, it’s a bit jarring with how good those first few eps were. It felt like the last two episodes are where the actual meat and potatoes of the story gets going and where the series starts to earn it’s “disillusioned adventurers save the world” title. I think it probably needed 24 episodes to really do well here.


Where the series is really lacking is in the art. The animation is pretty bad to say the least for most of the series. It’s acceptable to have bad animation when the story is good enough to overlook it, but after those first few eps when the story quality went down, the animation started sticking out even more. I mean some of the scenes look like they were done by me in MS paint or something, it’s that bad. The character designs are ok when the characters aren’t moving, but any action in a scene and it quickly starts to unravel.

Ningen Fushin is an enjoyable but not mandatory Winter 2023 watch by any stretch. It’s got an interesting premise, but fails to really make the most of it. Instead becoming a rather generic and run of the mill fantasy series that, while not bad, isn’t anything special.

Ningen Fushin gets 7 out of 10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 21, 2023

TheAsterNaut

Not Recommended

This show is the perfect example of an interesting premise with poor execution. A group of outcasts form a party and begin adventuring and learning to trust again. However, the show takes multiple weird turns like modern/advanced tech in ancient locations, multiple episodes on side characters no one cares about, and generally no adventuring outside of the town that they live in apart from a few dungeons. There's also the issue that some of the animation is rather unpolished in some places, whether it is awful perspective or missing frames of animation that makes movement stop-motion like.
Finally, the show spends too much time on characters ... individually listening to their thoughts, watching them go about their hobbies, or listening to a long sobby backstory. There's not much meat on the metaphorical bone so I would recommend not watching this; 3/10 just listen to the catchy ending song and enjoy that.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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