Eiyuu Kyoushitsu

After defeating the Demon Lord, the great hero Blade finds himself on the brink of death. Though he miraculously survives, he loses a significant portion of his strength. Being stripped of his immense power frees Blade from the obligation of being humanity's savior. He chooses to spend his newfound freetime embarking on a new quest, making friends.

Blade enrolls at Rosewood Academy, an institution that trains prospective heroes to become bonafide champions of justice. He quickly fits in, befriending his fellow classmates and helping them through the trials and tribulations on the path toward becoming a hero.

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Sophie Main

Touyama, Nao Japanese

Blade Main

Kawashima, Reiji Japanese

Flaming, Arnest Main

Yamada, Misuzu Japanese

Cú Chulainn Main

Kino, Hina Japanese

Iona Supporting

Uchida, Aya Japanese

Maria Supporting

Bridcutt, Sarah Emi Japanese

Dione Supporting

Ishigami, Shizuka Japanese

Yessica Supporting

Shiraishi, Haruka Japanese

Claire Supporting

Yukimura, Eri Japanese

Maou Supporting

Okiayu, Ryoutarou Japanese

Kimura, Yasutaka Producer

Maruyama, Shunpei Producer

Wang, Ereka Producer

Tezuka, Yuuki Producer

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Sep 24, 2023

Ionliosite2

Recommended

If you told me that this season I would find 2 series which are basically shows that look like they were written in 2015 and that I would have them as some of my favourites shows in 2023, then I wouldn't believe you, but here we are, and while I had no plans on writting a review about Temple because I can barely think of what to say besides that "it was a very fun show", on the other hand there is Eiyuu Kyoushitsu. I'm not surprised by people being very negative about it, after all, it is basically one of those magic school harem ... series that were the trend before isekais came around, and while watching the first episode I immediatly thought "this looks like it was written in 2015" and I was (not really) surprised to see it was, in fact, a light novel from 2015. But what exactly made me like Eiyuu Kyoushitsu? Well, because unike most of the light novels from those times, this one was actually fun to watch.

The protagonist Blade gets to the school and asks some people to be his friends, because his goal is to have many friends, and the reason is because he was a hero that couldn’t live like an ordinary person at all so he wants to try it now that he doesn’t have those duties, but he is terrible acting normal because he has never experienced such thing, and that’s basically what the show goes about. Since this is a light novel, the format on which it works on is that a different girl has the spotlight for the adaptation of a volumen, and the very first moment we get to the school we see a speedrun of the tsundered redhead with fire powers with Earnest, the thing with her is that while her fire powers make her strong, they come from a sword with a demon inside which she couldn’t control and her hair became red because of it, over time she starts acting less tsundere-ish once the thing with her sword is solved, as the show basically deals with the kind of stuff you would see in these magic school series adding just some minor stuff. As per usual, there are a lot of female characters since, to no one’s surprise, this is also a harem series, girls like Sophie (whom I like to call a Rei Ayanami clone) or Maria (who is the daughter of the demon King Blade defeated in the past) and even a dragon loli are in here, and while their characters aren’t complex they can be fun to watch. I was even surprised when the minor characters that I thought wouldn’t matter at all, the ones that Blade first contacted in the school, actually reappeared across the series multiple times helping Blade on whatever he was doing and had some moments for themselves, even if some of them were as simple as being interested in a girl and wanting to do whatever to get her.

I know this is going for the anime director because there's no way this kind of stuff is working into a written medium this easily, specially because many of them require visual cues, there are a lot of jokes that are references to different series and that is incorporated into the humour. There is some classic stuff like Shaft-like headtilts and Shokugeki no Soma's foodgasms, but the first time I was pleasantly surprised with these references is when I saw fricking Galeon from GaoGaiGar (a 90s show most people outside Japan don't even know) spouting water from its mouth in a mixed bathing to the point it was even recognized by that series' writer Yuuichirou Takeda in a Tweet, in another episode there is someone screaming "STAND ALONE COMPLEX" to name her plan of getting a soul into an android, and others that were easily recognizable like recreating the "Congratulations!" from Evangelion and the final scene of Ashita no Joe, this series has unironically better taste in anime than most anime fans I have seen.

Aside from references to other series the comedy itself is solid, as while some scenes definitely look more exagerated than they should be, some others hit me just right. This is the kind of series that can change from having a big fight with a huge monster to a very heartwarming moment celebrating someone's birthday where he is happy for being born, basically think about what Spy x Family does but actually good, it just has this very nice atmosphere all around. Take for example this scene where the MC and the Rei Ayanami Clone decide to go on a date and, since both most definitely don't know how to have one since they are utterly unaware of how normal humans act, they proceed to have one of the most autistic dates I have seen in an anime, and I loved that shit, and by the end of the episode, where Sophie tells Blade her backstory, it ends in a more heartwarming note.

However, this suffers from the same thing these adaptations used to suffer, obvious censorship in fanservice and bad animation. I mean, the animation in this series doesn't look good at all, it is barely animated at times and the characters aside from the main cast look like main characters from Boku no Hero Academia. And the censorship is obvious, the girls are literal barbie dolls, while I like the fact they aren't feigning they have nipples by hinding it under impossibly glued hair covering the breasts, it still looks kinda weird, and in other scenes like the mixed bathing? Would you really guess this series actually makes the girls wear bikinis instead of making them go naked? I don't know about the novel or even about the manga, but I'm sure you bathe naked.

Eiyuu Kyoushitsu is actually something I had my doubts at the beggining, I mean, how I could not with magic school harems? They have been dissapointing me a long time, but after watching it for some weeks, it became one of my favourites shows of this season, being very fun despite its obvious flaws in production.

Thank you for reading.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 15, 2023

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

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From a comfy little slice of life series...to Classroom of the Elite wannabe Chuunibyou heroes? What the...?

To speak of this series called Eiyuu Kyoushitsu a.k.a Classroom for Heroes, we need to go back into history just a teeny bit. Novelist Shin Araki is someone that most people would not recognise, though I did, and that's thanks to one of his works called GJ-bu a.k.a GJ Club, which started as a LN in 2010, then to Doga Kobo's Winter 2013 anime, which to this day, is still one of my low-key favourite anime of the 2010s that despite the dwindling numbers, had a lot of discussion ... back in the day. I loved and embraced GJ-bu for what it is, being primarily a school slice-of-life series with its etched comedy that wasn't forced on you, that despite so many unknown works done, GJ-bu would be Shin Araki's first series to capture sizable attention.

Fast forward a few years later, and we get his 2nd biggest attention-grabbing work: Eiyuu Kyoushitsu a.k.a Classroom for Heroes, with the LN released in 2015 and its subsequent manga counterpart the year after. And it's safe to say that whatever Shin Araki has got planned out for this, it's going to be in the same vein as GJ-bu, but being in an action, fantasy setting that while wasn't new at the time, it was a series that doesn't take itself seriously (though it has its serious moments). This is certainly true when the anime was announced back in 2021 around this time, and it hearkened back to the old days of school-type fantasy traits where if the audience can jibe with whatever works, then it's guaranteed a success.

So then, what's the story like for the series? In a nutshell, think of all of the "hero vs. demon lord" encounters of many series blemished within the past few years, then slot this one in for a countersolution to prepare for future conflicts. That's the resolution of the past hero who did this: the one simply called Blade, the Great Hero, who is capable of being objective, but lacks focus outside of that realm. He is summoned to help raise future heroes in this institution called Rosewood Academy, under the leadership of King Gilgamesh Soulmaker, though his clumsiness lands in straight on the trajectory of the top student of the academy: the Empress of Flames, Earnest Flaming. The conflict aside, Blade is in the academy for one sole purpose: to settle his daily life training heroes, as his title of the Great Hero is only known to the bare minimum of people.

For starters, nowadays, you can tell a work by its tropes and gimmicks, and Eiyuu Kyoushitsu has already felt dated by the time the anime premiered about 8.5 years since the start of the LN. And while that has old, veteran anime weebs like myself calling it a nostalgia throwback to a time where we don't know much ado about the anime climate of the late 2010s, people who are either: new to anime; have been watching anime for less than 3 years; or have not explored past classics will not get the intentionality of authors like Shin Araki to just go ham on whatever works that progress both the story and plot. Which, in account of the anime, despite it following the LN, the pacing (as per the manga adaptation which is almost 1-to-1 of the anime) is indeed quite slow, but that's a testament to the content and free real estate of how much they're willing to commit to the act. And while most people have no monkey brains of understanding capability, I found some fun to be had through this show and its weird idiosyncracies of the past.

Onto the characters: as aforementioned, Blade is the Great Hero of the past, but he's thw awful, dense type of character in the current day. And to the first girl that he faced, Earnest Flaming was no slouch for her "Empress of Flames" moniker, that she found herself evenly powered with Blade, though she quickly earns an affection for him...aside from getting friend-zoned most of the time. Sophie is next, and while she exhibits the standand kuudere type of character, she's effectively an android who simply can only follow commands, though she also gains a heart for Blade from being once programmed to eliminate the Great Hero, to one who becomes his most trusted ally. Soon, Blade earns other loli in the form of Cu Chulainn, formerly of the demon lord's daughter and a dragon that has nowhere else to go, but to reside together with the Great Hero to be taken care of like his own kin. The other classmates of Claire, Yessica (yes it's Jessica with a Y), Maria/Mao, Iona, Clay, Kassim, Leonard and Eliza, they're your typical bunch of wannabe hero classmates who can done goof, though with their various professions that help lend teamwork together as one. Also, despite this not being a romance series, Earnest and the girls all have affections for Blade, though he's just being dense, clueless and not even understanding common sense as a whack character. If you don't take this seriously, it's all fine and well, but character progression is not what you're here for in the first place.

The rather small studio of Actas has largely vanished and has been lost to time since their days with the very impressive Princess Principal (which was a collab with Studio 3Hz) back in Summer 2017. Even with the acquisition of the studio by (formerly Sunrise) Bandai Namco Filmworks back in September of that year making the studio a subsidiary, other than Princess Principal, there hasn't been anything new from the studio, that is until 6 years later with this show. Don't get me wrong, this show is decently produced and doesn't look the best, but Actas has always felt like the studio that does in-between assistance works that may get them credited, but it's not like a huge affair as well, considering that the show is also produced mainly by Bandai Namco Filmworks as its main in-house production powerhouse.

On the music side, VTuber Kaede Higuchi may had a decent start in AniManga with her debut song on Season 2 of 100-man no Inochi no Ue ni Ore wa Tatteiru a.k.a I’m Standing on a Million Lives (though I didn't really like that song), but in this show, I'm sad that her 2nd OP song of "Bravery? Naturally?" didn't really catch on to the mainstream, because this song is really very good and captures the tone of the anime well, even though I gave it a fair bit of flack when it first debuted. which slowly turned to one of my favourite OP songs of the Summer season. Akane Kumada's ED song is decent, and there are no complaints there, but it felt bland.

Eiyuu Kyoushitsu a.k.a Classroom for Heroes, is a show that, as its title suggests, you should watch with the mindset of not wanting to take things seriously because like GJ-bu, it embraces goofiness and stupidity above all else other than the story and plot. If you can jive with that, then the show becomes more palatable to watch, at least to me. Otherwise, just find another show of your choice; there's always that.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 24, 2023

Flacion

Not Recommended

An anime with a great concept, about a great hero that has fallen from his power level after saving the world and then trying to live a normal life. The only issue is that it fails to deliver in showing any great plotlines.

The concept of a great hero having to go to school after he lost his powers and then just want to live his life, can make for some exciting scenes. But it fails to show this, and instead often shows how the main character still can handle all enemies with a single hit. Which completely destroys the concept and possibilities for development. So ... you end up with a character that they say is weak, but still can do almost anything.

If you look at all the side characters is there close to non character development, after they have been introduced. The side characters get an episode that shows who they are and has a small amount of development for them, but afterwards there is basically nothing. Which isn’t helped by the amount of side characters they introduced throughout the series.

The only positive for the anime is the last two episodes, which actually shows something interesting. There is an actual plot, some sort of character development, and there is actually something on the line suddenly. But sadly is that not something that was shown through the rest of the season.

So overall would i not recommend it, since it fails to deliver on an otherwise promising concept. Maybe if it gets a second season that follows the style from the end of the season, could it be something worth watching.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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