Saikyou Tank no Meikyuu Kouryaku: Tairyoku 9999 no Rare Skill-mochi Tank, Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou sareru

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Synonyms: The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids: A Tank with a Rare 9999 Resistance Skill Got Kicked from the Hero's Party

Japanese: 最強タンクの迷宮攻略～体力9999のレアスキル持ちタンク、勇者パーティーを追放される～

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 7, 2024 to Mar 24, 2024

Premiered: Winter 2024

Broadcast: Sundays at 02:00 (JST)

Producers: Square Enix, Victor Entertainment, Medicos Entertainment, ABC Animation, AbemaTV, ABC Frontier, Procen Studio

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Studio Polon

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.10¹ (scored by 26,570 users)

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Popularity: #2740

Members: 63,746

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6.10

Ranked #9241Popularity #2740Members 63,746

Winter 2024TVStudio Polon

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Rud is a tank of the Hero's Party and is said to have the highest defense ever in history. The party often does labyrinth raids, but to Rud, it means more than just a raid. To cure his beloved sister's illness, he is in search for the wish-granting treasure that might be hidden in those labyrinths. But one day, the arrogant hero kicks him from the party after an unsuccessful raid attempt, blaming it on his skills whose effects he is still unaware of.

With nowhere else to go and nothing to do, he decides to return to his hometown, where his sister is waiting. On his way there, he saves a girl who was being attacked by a monster. Unexpectedly, this girl has an extremely rare skill called "Appraisal." Thanks to her skill, Rud is able to discover the truth behind his unknown skills, which turn out to be very powerful skills. With a defense of 9999 and powerful skills, thus begins the adventure of the strongest tank, Rud!

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Saikyou Tank no Meikyuu Kouryaku: Tairyoku 9999 no Rare Skill-mochi Tank, Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou sareru

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Characters & Voice Actors

Luna

Main

Ichinose, Kana
Japanese

Nin

Main

Hondo, Kaede
Japanese

Rud

Main

Kasama, Jun
Japanese

Amon

Supporting

Kuno, Misaki
Japanese

Marius

Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko
Japanese

Manicia

Supporting

Ogura, Yui
Japanese

Samimina

Supporting

Mimori, Suzuko
Japanese

Lilia

Supporting

Ohashi, Ayaka
Japanese

Garry

Supporting

Boo

Supporting

Nakano, Taisuke
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Tanaka, Yuusuke

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Kobayashi, Daisuke

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Noshitani, Mitsutaka

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Ebina, Yasunori

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Opening Theme

"Brave" by Ireisu (いれいす)

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Ending Theme

"Yume no Naka de (夢の中で)" by Ireisu (いれいす)

Reviews

Mar 16, 2024

LemonadeSamurai

Recommended

Preliminary (11/12 eps)

TSTLR is not a bad anime. It's just painfully generic.

It's still an entertaining watch. The premise is that in an MMO like world (complete with skills and stats) a guy who plays the role of a tank has an ultra powerful magical shield with 9999 defense

In this world they raid labyrinths that appear and the goal is to defeat the boss who will grant you a wish upon defeating them

The main character Rud has no personality whatsoever or charm. He does have a sister complex however and his wish is for his sister to feel better because she suffers from some ailment. His ...

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Mar 23, 2024

PanzerIV-J

Mixed Feelings

A Decent story, held down by generic adventurers and oversights.
A few episodes are well-made, but there are also a lot of episodes that are boring and have obvious oversights. Sometimes watching cable news might be preferable to watching some of the episodes.

These more mediocre episodes start at episode 6 and grow to be even more mediocre until episode 8. Of course there are decent scenes in these episodes, but that's it, there really isn't much outside of these fight scenes that drive the viewer to watch this anime. Thus, this causes people to drop it before coming to better managed episodes like episode 9. ... Episode 9 entirely kept itself interesting throughout most of the episode, only becoming more stale when there are long scenes with lots of chatting.
But then it gets even worse, after episode ten in feels like it's drawing the story out just to waste time. It's not fun if a few episodes are mediocre. But, when it gets to be boring, it gets worse than when it's mediocre and full of oversights, it actively makes you not want to watch the next episode.

(Small Tangent on this Anime's Oversights):
In episode 11 there are people who can raise stone barricades/defenses from the ground to protect their town, doing so they raise the stone barricades within the town's walls.... AND The wall is made out of wood..... do you see what I'm getting at? Why wouldn't they make stone walls to defend the town using these mages?
I know it is small, but when I noticed it, it bugged me. Makes you wonder if the writers or producers took the 20 seconds to think this through. I think it tells the overall quality of the whole anime from this scene. [Maybe I'm being too harsh?]
(End of Tangent)

This gets into another big complaint; The absolute amount of time taken up by conversations.
Ever hear of the phrase "Show, Don't Tell?", this is something this anime should've focused on, there's so much chatter about going into the dungeons, that the producers could've just shown a quick plan between the party and saved a lot of time each episode wasting time explaining the obvious.

Lastly, the ending is just bad. Has final fight has zero thought put into it, and the boss is incredibly forgettable, and some of the scenes feel cringy and quite generic.

Overall, this is kinda mediocre. So, this probably isn't worth watching over the good deal of other anime that have much better production and story, like Frieren.
But I wouldn't say that there are a lot of issues besides the oversights and boring scenes. This anime just isn't captivating (especially after the sixth episode).

🗿 5/10 It's Mid 🗿

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Mar 23, 2024

KANLen09

Not Recommended

The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids - The stereotypical below-average generic fantasy with an objective, but not with a purpose.

For every good fantasy work, be it underrated or overrated, there're more than 10 times as much average works as uninspiring authors can chunk it out of the oversaturated genre. And one such work is novelist Ryuuta Kijima's Saikyou Tank no Meikyuu Kouryaku: Tairyoku 9999 no Rare Skill-mochi Tank, Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou sareru a.k.a The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids: A Tank with a Rare 9999 Resistance Skill Got Kicked from the Hero's Party, part of the "Shin no Nakama a.k.a Banished from the Hero Party" sub-theme, ... but worse.

The story about a hero party's strongest tank character, this is Rud's way of burning through a smorgasbord of dungeon labyrinth raids, all in the pursuit of finding the cure that would help to alleviate his sister Manicia's illness. But just like Shin no Nakama's Red, he was ousted for his "rather unimpressive" tank abilities, all in the while that Rud himself isn't even aware of what he himself and his big-sized shield is capable of. That would come as a coincidence when he finds a girl of unknown origin escaping from a group of people, which he carried her to safety, only realizing that she has a rare Appraisal skill, proving that Rud indeed has his tank powers unimaginable, but at an insane defense level of 9999 HP along with skills that he learns from this girl: power capable to find that cure for himself as the unknowingly strongest tank ever. And yeah...that entire premise sounds just as tropey as the last Isekai/fantasy show you've just watched, that leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

To be fair, a lot of authors like Ryuuta Kijima who just want to profit from the "Japanese don't care if Isekai/fantasy is good or shit", they're free to do so on their own regard. But a workaround like this sure only laments the fact that these "up and coming" authors who think they have the capability to write a "decent" fantasy, it's not helping the people who has to take that job and say, turn it into an anime. Heck, giving this assignment to a new and unproven animation studio just shows the lack of attention that the Japanese will never learn from their mistakes.

Back to Saikyou Tank then, the one constant problem that stems from these generic and tropey works is the plot. The summary: it’s all so generic — there’s your typical cliches and half-assed reasonings for the plot to progress, but it’s all not delved into, making the story shallow. Remember that I mentioned that the show "had an objective, but not a purpose"? The show is supposed to fixate on Rud getting his dear sister (which he has a siscon fetish to) with the rare medicine that treats her, barring her from death, but they treat it like "Ah, my sister has a disease that she will die if not being treated, but even if I have the treasure, we need to think of what to do next and keep the plot alive". Like hello, people's lives, loved ones especially, are not things you can toy and be not serious about. Plus, it's your own sister...who is nonchalant about her own peril and wants to keep being clinically troubled yet alive for the sake of her wellbeing. This is just terrible writing, not just on the objective part, but of the purpose as well.

Even worse, as a show that focuses on the development and introspection of characters, they need to be fundamentally sound. Too bad like the horrible writing that this source material gets, all of them are pitifully generic and uninteresting — there are some “emotional” chapters within the story, but it was forced before any interest formed in the first place. Let's take the girl that Rud found in the first place: Luna, the white-haired escapee/refugee with a gem encrusted on her chest, she's a breed of illegal homunculi created for slave labour, not to mention of her "training" to be a combat slave. Rud taking her in is natural progression, but when he faces more of the Hero's Party (i.e. healer Nin and twin swordswomen Lily and Lilia) and others coming after him which seemingly are all girls in that regard, they all fall victim to the harem genre, being in love with Rud. Outside of that, they don’t have much of a personality besides for the classic waifu traits. Even with the other dungeon guardians which Rud subsequently earns their respect and works with them to improve Avancia, this is about the best that he can do: a spokesperson for the small town. Talk about generic in the most general sense.

If the show does not get even more basic enough, look no further than its mediocre production, put forward by a very new Studio Polon, who is the embodiment of additions to "new" studios like Maho Film and Staple Entertainment of falling victim to being chosen to produce fantasy shows that are just plain bad. More people getting into the AniManga industry DOES NOT equal quality, and this show just made a fine example of how the studio's future works will be soldered by its third-rate and substandard quality.

You think the show's generic-ness couldn't be that bad yet? Nope, there's worse, and the music here is just simply forgettable. Both of Ireisu's OP and ED songs are just white noise at best, which once again, extends the fact that this show is just nothing memorable at all.

The very simple TL;DR I can give you: Shin no Nakama still stands alone as the best representation of the "Banished from the Hero's Party" thematic, while this show does nothing to serve its plot, or heck, even perform the MacGuffin effect correctly. Do not watch this show unless you don't mind watching something that's a perfect representation of a worthless time-waster.

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