Mob kara Hajimaru Tansaku Eiyuutan Episode 12 Discussion

Kaito's rut is clearly being shown on his face, so much so that he comes confessing to Haruka the reason why he ventured the dungeon, all to vindicate her missing father for the 2 years ever since as a nobody. And despite so much opposition from said childhood friend fearing that she could lose her only friend, she knows that he's working hard to save people, case in point with Hikari. And at long last, she can finally release him to the dungeon to get the elixir, no matter how deep he'll need to go to get it, alongside the friends and loli warriors he met along the way to give support not just to him, but it's all for Hikari.

Right from the 1st Floor, farming slimes altogether, plus Kaito's friends Shinji and Hayato, Kaito is no longer a nobody, but a hero in the eyes of the people. Even as they celebrate the coming of Christmas, the elixir is the hope remaining alive, and it all had to do with an unusual rainbow slime which proves harder than most to defeat given its agility. Kaito's party having it surrounded to finally defeat it, whilst bringing Hikari all the way from her hospital bed to the dungeon (like why???) for her to summon the healing servant of Fairy Queen Titania, it may be no elixir, but at her low-level Level 1 state to only do the best she could to cure her, and heal her she did to a degree not completely, but it's a work in progress to either find it, or have Titania learn Yggdrasil.

The cucking moment of Kaito ALMOST getting his confession across to Haruka, I should have anticipated this, even though he will have chances in the future to do that and honour her wishes. But until then, it's more dungeon exploring for the mere nobody and his capable party.

It's all good for a safe ending, but this show is just mediocre, almost pandering to the point of boredom.

Really liked the first scene with Kaito and Haruka. Seemed like some actually decent development. That said, the rest was mostly underwhelming. Animation was so lacking/bad I didn't recognize Kaito's classmates at first. They showed almost no actual combat and reused even more animations.


I noticed this as well. Their eyes are too far apart/too low/uneven. The scene about 9 minutes in with everyone talking to Kaito's classmates is a good example. It's very "B-team" and nostalgic of Madoka to me.

So the reason we're using to justify the successfully finding a cure despite the odds is...metaphysics? Really? They couldn't have just gone with Kaito's blessing skill or something you want to throw metaphysics into this now?

I like that they didn't find the elixir because that would've been way too ridiculous but they arguably found something even more terrifying in the form of the servant who can learn a complete cure-all spell. If they just have to be in the dungeon imagine the demand. Also, they just kidnapped Hikari from the hospital and aside from one doctor no one said anything all the way both to and into the dungeon?


I noticed that immediately too. I thought they would gloss over that but I was pleasantly surprised when he popped out haha

What was with that confession scene? Has there been any inkling at all of Kaito liking Haruka besides an occasional blush (which is expected since she's supposed to be pretty) because I sure didn't notice anything like that, in fact if I recall he acted that way towards Airi as well. Where did this come from?

I weep for the source readers because having read only the first chapter of the manga I already know how bad this adaptation was.

@SawronZXZ

In response to you point on the elixir; ok, that's fair enough and I concede that's one way to look at it. My point was more from the perspective of how in anime the typical 12 episode season structure often doesn't leave enough room for important plot points to get resolved and, well... given that there's little to no chance of season 2, it would've been nice to see the major plot points be resolved so that at a minimum, the story we did get ends with us feeling satisfied, versus "wait, why do I feel like we're still in the middle of something?"

Uh, am I the only one that noticed the active volcano behind the dungeon? Is no one in their town concerned with the black smoke it's putting out? You're child is sick? Maybe move from volcano town.


I was surprised they didn't spend more time convincing Kaito to go back into the dungeon. Happy, but surprised.

I was disappointed that we didn't get to see full size Titania before she shrinking to her chibi form like we did with Syl and Luce.

Another surprise were Kaito's schoold friends at the end. What the hell were they gonna do at their levels with a wood sword and a baseball bat? I thought we'd see them still mining slimes (since they drop the rares) while the others go deeper. At least they'd get stronger.

It was mid. I've seen both a lot better and a helluva lot worse.