Rance 01: Hikari wo Motomete The Animation Episode 1 Discussion

ShyGuyDY said:
The protagonist is without a doubt the biggest piece of shit I've seen in an anime before (no joke!). He treats his poor innocent partner as a sex slave, berates and degrades her at every turn and doesn't really seem to care about her. And we're supposed to root for this guy? Next, he proceeds to look at EVERY FEMALE in this universe as a sex trophy and nothing more, which IS NOT AN INTERESTING CHARACTER TRAIT, it's just lazy character writing, even for a hentai it's lazy. And then, when he shows off his skills (in a poorly animated 30 second fight) he proceeds to rape the girl he saved, then when it's all done he acts like a righteous saviour?

ShyGuyDY said:
Alright people seemed to like this, but I'll be honest. This was horrible!

I'm not normally comfortable with watching hentai with rape anyway, but this turned that up to eleven! The protagonist is without a doubt the biggest piece of shit I've seen in an anime before (no joke!). He treats his poor innocent partner as a sex slave, berates and degrades her at every turn and doesn't really seem to care about her. And we're supposed to root for this guy? Next, he proceeds to look at EVERY FEMALE in this universe as a sex trophy and nothing more, which IS NOT AN INTERESTING CHARACTER TRAIT, it's just lazy character writing, even for a hentai it's lazy. And then, when he shows off his skills (in a poorly animated 30 second fight) he proceeds to rape the girl he saved, then when it's all done he acts like a righteous saviour? AND THEN HE COMPLAINS ABOUT WANTING TO FUCK SOMEONE?! Fuck me this guy is the worst. I kinda wished that girl with the knife at the end just got it over with and stabbed him in the neck.

Apart from all that, while the character designs are nice and the backgrounds look decent, the actual sex scenes are stupidly over the top and weren't sexy at all, ironically. The only one I sorta liked was the blowjob scene with the boss' second in command, and that lasted all of ten seconds!

Also for an anime that is labeled as a comedy, it wasn't particularly funny. At least I didn't find it funny. I don't even know if I was supposed to laugh, is there something wrong with ME?!

So yeah, don't really care enough about the plot to continue this, I didn't have an enjoyable experience and didn't attempt to fap ONCE, and that may be the greatest sin this show could commit. This show probably would have been better off as a traditional fantasy anime with minor ecchi elements, but the likes of Konosuba or Interspecies Reviewers probably would have shot it in the head for even daring to try...

AziaTheNeko said:
Does anyone know the voice actor for Rance?

Piter675 said:
as really nice. It's weird hearing Rance talk, just like it was in Desert Guardian, but this VA was kinda meh. Maybe I was expecting a little too much though... anyways, I can't wait for this episode to get subbed now!