Yuusha-kei ni Shosu: Choubatsu Yuusha 9004-tai Keimu Kiroku Episode 2 Discussion

What was that??

It was beautifully animated just like the first episode, and the first half was decent, but after the first fight in the caves, it stopped making sense. Why would extracting the captives lead to huge losses when one of them is right next to them? Shouldn't they just need to walk out of the cave at that point? Where are the other monsters that they're expecting to have to fight?

I'll give this show the three episode test. I want to like it, but the writing has just been pretty bad so far

Animation fell hard at times throughout this episode. Some very poorly placed stills, as well. However, there were still quite a few lovely sequences of animation. The goddess is such an unfathomably annoying character. I can't wait until they go further into the mine without her, lol. I did like the dude who thinks he is a king. He cracked me up. I'm close to just giving up completely on the writing, but most everything else should stay entertaining enough.

i'd like to get an answer that i wasn't already expecting

Idk I feel very bored when there's not an action sequence going on, production is fantastic but I don't really care about the characters nor plot so far and was hoping it would get a bit more fleshed out.

Good episode, we got more interesting lore about the world and a partial look into what civilization is currently looking like. As expected, people that were dooming over the episode quality were proven wrong. Despite the many action directors on the episode and the handful of second key animators. The quality only dipped very so slightly while still maintaining above average art, story telling, and animation.

Which picked up in the second half of the episode, the general movement and action sequences were on par to episode 1's. Which makes me think it might be similar to Wistoria in a sense where they save the super well animated sequences for the last half of the episode. (only episodes that don't have as much importance or action in them) so they're definitely spreading out their resources.

I can see why some would find this episode just 'okay' it's not a priority episode, more of a lore dump with character interactions than anything else with little fight scenes. It's a setup to the next episode which seems like will be a big one.

I hope I don't see any more people complaining about the animation quality or dooming over the upcoming episodes. It's clear that the anime is in great hands with a super confident production team, can't wait to for next weeks episode

I find it funny how useless the holy knights look compared to the very same heroes that they look down upon.

The heroes get these bad ass magic weapons while the holy knights are left with regular spears lol.

@Allblackj52 Braindead shonentard take. Stop watching the anime then.

You can't just sit your characters at the campfire, lower their IQ and make them explain things they all know very well... 2 episodes in a row. That's the type of writing kids do come on

I don't like how much of the dialogue between all the characters (especially Kivia) was cut short, definitely lost a lot of nuance there. Instead we get 9 mins of "introduction" that didn't even properly explain the world. I mean not that this original content was bad, but I feel it's not worth losing the characterization of characters like Kivia who imo is just as much the focus of the first few arcs/missions as Xylo.

@Kaijaa irony being 3/4ths of your favourites are shonen lol not to mention solo leveling so I'd rather not hear your opinion on anything to do with writing or the lack there of thanks very much.

@Bronxi_ You must have entered the wrong anime forum.

A terrorist and… whatever Tatsuya is. You know, I’m starting to get why people are so racist toward heroes now. Tatsuya alone would justify it for me, ngl. Anyway yeah, new episode, new mission, and this time it’s nothing more than an obvious trap to capture Teoritta. Glad Xylo caught on to that quickly. Even that bitch, I mean, the knight from last episode who should’ve stayed dead is back to her usual antics.

Honestly though, Xylo has to stop being such a goody two-shoes and should’ve let Terrorist-kun “accidentally” kill them lol. So yeah, Xylo comes to this girl’s rescue once again, in the badass way he always does. Xylo's time again here, let's see him put these annoying pricks in their place hopefully.

Its so stereotypical how the knights are portrayed as totally useless.... Mangakas, it's ok to have capable characters aside from the main cast, specially antagonists

Animation tourists are gonna get filtered out real quick if the characters are not emoting and moving non stop like in KPop Demon Hunters lol.

For a revenge isekai, made by a studio of which you wouldn't have any expectation for them to make this show look and feel good, I am pleasantly surprised by how things are unfolding. This is an excellent appetizer for the king of the isekai genre, Mushoku Tensei, coming this spring season if i remember correctly.

Well done staff and studio working on this, well done!

@Desmascarado Infodumping is one of the weakest narrative techniques, and it is used twice here. Memory loss is always a terrible plot device to do it. Those are facts

@EcchiGodMamster I hope never but probably during ep 5 or 10.

Btw, your profile...has way too much shit going on wtf. Takes an eternity to scroll through.

You can't just sit your characters at the campfire, lower their IQ and make them explain things they all know very well... 2 episodes in a row. That's the type of writing kids do come on