 https://myanimelist.net/anime/55997/Guild_no_Uketsukejou_desu_ga_Zangyou_wa_Iya_nanode_Boss_wo_Solo_Toubatsu_Shiyou_to_Omoimasu Plot Summary Alina Clover signed up to be a receptionist for the Adventurers Guild thinking it would be her ticket to the good life. Unfortunately, her dream gig turns into an overtime nightmare whenever adventurers get stuck clearing a dungeon. To save herself from paperwork, Alina takes to beating down monsters herself to solve the problem! Now she just needs to keep her activities a secret... (Source: Yen Press) Other Information Type: TV Episodes: Unknown Status: Currently Airing Aired: Jan 11, 2025 to ? Premiered: Winter 2025 Broadcast: Saturdays at 00:00 (JST) Producers: Aniplex, Sakura Create Licensors: None found, add some Studios: CloverWorks Source: Light novel Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy Duration: Unknown Rating: None |
| Failure is always an option. |
| That's a banger OP. |
| I'm a cultured degenerate. |
| That LN title is epic. I may check it out based on that alone. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| Episode 1 And here is another fantasy show. But instead of it being about adventurers, it's about a guild clerk who just so happens to also be an adventurer herself, working incognito as the solo adventurer known as the Executioner. She just wants to end her workday on-time as overtime is quite the pain for her. So she takes matters into her own hands by finishing the job for the inept adventurers who keep her at work to avoid working overtime. But she needs to do this in total secrecy, and the leader of the Silver Sword party Jade figures out her identity. Seeing that she doesn't want things to spread that Alina and Jade talk things over in private, and Alina gives him a piece of her mind. Pretty funny stuff there as Alina will go to great lengths to make sure that she doesn't have to come home late ever again as she just wants to be working behind the desk. |
| Episode 1 Alina just wants a relaxing clerical job, but when a dragon proves too stubborn to beat for the adventurers, she decides to take it down herself using a massive hammer so she doesn't have to suffer the stress of working overtime. But the party's leader, Jade, manages to track her down and attempt to recruit her, and Alina severely intimidates him into keeping her secret. Jade hasn't given up on her, though, and another demanding adventurer showing up means more stress for Alina is bound to happen. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| I hope there is an actual mystery around Alina's super-powers. She clearly doesn't train for combat regularly, and it's implied that her weapone may be a "Dia" skill, whatever that is. I'm not fully on board yet, but I'll give it at least a couple more episodes. |
| So it's not bad enough that they ruined the first episode's main joke in the title, but they had to go and make sure they ruined it for anyone who managed to avoid reading the full title by telling it to you in the first 30 seconds. Which left the rest of the episode kind of boring and lifeless. It looks nice though and all the girls are very cute so hopefully it will get better and not end up wasting all that production work. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| The single most relatable anime premise I've seen in a very long time. If you've never been stuck in overtime hell you're one lucky SOB. |
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| Man, that OP is gorgeous. And the protagonist is easy on the eyes, too. The premise seems kinda thin, but I'm certainly willing to watch it for now. See how it develops. Oh, and so far... NO STAT SCREENS! One can only hope. |
SparkyBobJan 10, 4:28 PM
| Cloverworks production elevating the proceedings here. It was pretty cute; the only real question is how much mileage can they get from the premise? The scene with the two party members shopping & donuts was probably meant to set up a contrast in that Alina feels like job security & stability is the greatest good, but she'll learn that the sense of camaraderie experienced in a party is worth the uncertainty of that line of work. Along with the standard "you don't have to take it all on yourself; depend on others" trope. I'll keep watching. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| Already loving Alina. She's become a bundle of pent-up rage due to all that overtime. She seems to take her work more seriously than most; as she was the only one doing overtime in the office. Hopefully she's at least getting paid for overtime. I do think she should let the work pile up more and force management to hire more workers. I'll be curious to see the how balance between receptionist portion and the Executioner portion is handled as the show goes on. The perspective of receptionist is pretty interesting. Alina had a lot of colorful internal dialogue that's pretty relatable. |
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| That was a pretty fun start. They didn't go overboard with the world-building and showcasing of the OP-ness of Alina's alter ego... ... she's still very OP though. xD I won't expect this to solidly execute the secret identity gimmick-- I'd assume it's just gonna be more like a superhero approach similar to Shy where some people know who she is, and that we'd mostly see her as the receptionist than the mysterious adventurer. I'm guessing it's gonna be focusing more on her personal dilemma and such stuff. I do like the dynamic between her and Jade though. Hopefully, we get lots of good comical moments from their shenanigans, since I don't see it coming elsewhere so far. |
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| Good Smile has released a Nendoroid of Alina. Have to admit I'm disappointed they went with her guild receptionist attire instead of her dungeon clothes. Especially since they're including her giant hammer. I think giving her a desk to stand behind would have been a better call with that outfit, but at the offered price point it feels like Good Smile doesn't have a lot of confidence this one is going to fly off the shelves. |
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| Episode 2 Alina had a pretty rude adventurer trying to assault her cute assistant Laila, but Alina dealt with him in a professional manner. That complainer is none too pleased about that and tries to get revenge on her by unleashing an attack on the town with a captured clay golem. Alina's house gets destroyed by his attack, which pushes her over the edge and comes out as the Executioner to deal with him. But then comes the guild master, who has the power to see the past and finds out that Alina is the Executioner. Alina is doing a rather poor job covering her tracks there, though it takes some extraordinarily observant guys to figure out the truth. So first, Jade figures her out, and now the guild master does as well, though at least they are being respectful by talking about this matter privately. Pretty amusing episode that was as Alina is pretty funny when she's trying to cover up her alter ego. |
| Episode 2 The demanding adventurer, Slay, ends up commanding a clay golem to rampage through town, and Alina's house gets wrecked as collateral damage. Alina destroys the golem and gives Slay quite the scare, but the stress keeps piling on her, even while Jade offers to help her complete her paperwork so she can clock out sooner. And then the guild master, Glen Garia, manages to find out Alina's identity thanks to his skill that shows him the events of the battle. Now Glen has challenged Alina to a duel. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Her cover really didn't last long if she's completely outed by ep 2. |
| I know in Japan it's considered very desirable to get a job in government for the stability and assurance of a solid retirement. Clearly that's Alina's goal. Can't blame her, really. If it weren't for the overtime she'd have a job with steady pay and hours whereas I'm sure being an adventurer offers neither. Curious where they're planning to take the story. Having her constantly trying to hide her identity could have been amusing, but probably would have gotten tiresome since it would hew so closely to superhero tropes. Of course, they could still have her trying to ensure no one else discovers she's the Executioner while being coerced into helping the Guild. ("If you do 'x' the Guild Master will make certain you don't have overtime this week.") |
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| Too many holes in this story. If she just wanted a nice home and a secure future she should have just taken out a few dungeons, collected the treasure and retired. Though this is probably one of those settings where the guild can somehow force people to do what it wants. Even if that's the case she could just get rich and then leave country. What did she think was going to happen at the end? Why else would he call her out to the training grounds except to see her in action. This doesn't do a great job of switching between serious situations and comedic ones. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
zkeleton said: If she just wanted a nice home and a secure future she should have just taken out a few dungeons, collected the treasure and retired. I think what we're missing is a sense of the economy. Do adventurers make a lot of money from quests? Or are they just a bunch of thrill-seekers and muscleheads out for an adrenaline rush and a chance to be famous—only making just enough to scrape by? |
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| It's still being fairly entertaining but, Art and VA quality are definitely amplifying it. I mean, if this had the art quality of Unwanted Undead Adventurer or I Parry Everything, I probably wouldn't care too much about this. I need more from this, both in gimmick and obstacles. |
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| I'm really liking this. Cloverworks is doing a good job with the production, as expected. I also like the fact that I really don't know which way the story is going to go. I mean, joining Silver Sword would be the antithesis of everything Alina wants from a job. I like Jade's barely-repressed crush on her, and the quality of their banter. And the other two party members (and Alina's co-receptionist) seem to have distinct personalities as well. Also, both the OP and ED are great and worth not skipping. Who wants to bet Jade has a secret side gig as well? Maybe his public face is adventuring, but moonlights doing administrative work... Domvina said: I think what we're missing is a sense of the economy. Do adventurers make a lot of money from quests? Or are they just a bunch of thrill-seekers and muscleheads out for an adrenaline rush and a chance to be famous—only making just enough to scrape by? Both, probably. I think they can make a lot of money, but it's a risky line of work, and all Alina wants is predictability and stability. I expect we'll see some backstory that fleshes out her motivations a little more. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| Episode 3 For a minute there, I thought that I played the end of the last episode since the show's ending is used as this episode's opening. As it turns out, this wasn't so much of a dual as it is Glenn assessing Alina's strength, and it turns out that she has the Dia skill, one of the rarest skills in the world. While Glenn agreed to leave Alina alone if she won, he makes a proposal to join Silver Sword for a quest at the Chalk Tower and in exchange Glenn will double the staff size of the guild so that Alina will never need to work overtime again. The quest involves fighting a monster with a Dia skill that Rufus suspects is the Executioner after the party Rufus led was killed. Alina ends up staying at Jade's mansion while she gets her house repaired, and she is reminded about Shroud when Jade goes off on a quest, and Shroud ended up being killed on that quest. As it turns out, Rufus killed his party members to used as sacrifices to revive the dark god Silha for his use, but after hearing all that Silha decides to kill Rufus and absorb his soul. Alina is in quite a tough situation, but at least she can trust Silver Sword, all while there are a lot of rogue adventurers about with Slay, and now Rufus among them. |
GridironOtakuJan 24, 10:11 AM
| Best episode so far! Action and struggles finally begin. I like that they finally gave us some kind of reasoning as to why Alina would be against the idea of being an adventurer; She had a traumatic experience relating to it which also somewhat led to her being a receptionist. I also think that her using the receptionist job as an excuse for her reluctance to be an adventurer is just a subconscious in-denial light cover to her dark trauma. I wonder if they're just gonna keep the themes switched from now; They had the ED as OP and the OP as ED this week. Works either way for me. |
Jozuwa-_-Jan 24, 10:12 AM
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| Episode 3 Glen freezes time, but Alina manages to break through, so Glen decides to make a compromise. Alina joins the Silver Sword for a venture into a new dungeon, the Chalk Tower, in exchange for Glen arranging for more receptionists to relieve Alina's workload. But the party decides to turn back once they reach the second floor and find another dead party. The only survivor of that party, Rufus, wants to go further up the tower with the Silver Sword, so they go without Alina, and she has a foreboding feeling about Jade's choice. It turns out that Rufus killed his own partymates to offer as sacrifices for the tower's boss, Silha. But Silha betrays Rufus and literally stabs him in the back. Now Silha's attention is squarely on the Silver Sword. The opening and ending themes were switched this week; that was weird. My thought is it was to fit the theme of the nature of Glen's skill. |
Galaxy-CrisisJan 24, 10:20 AM
| Failure is always an option. |
| This is actually really good. I like the pacing, I like the characterizations, I like the banter, and so help me, they're actually getting decent mileage out of the central joke. The way Alina was throttling Glenn was pretty funny. Nice to get some Alina backstory, and the little romance between her and Jade is burning at just the right low intensity. Galaxy-Crisis said: The opening and ending themes were switched this week; that was weird. Yeah I thought that was a little weird too, but it would have been really awkward to have the bubbly regular ED after that super dark cliffhanger. Kind of like how it was jarring to have the normal upbeat Dandadan ED after episode 7. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
boldulysses said: Yeah I thought that was a little weird too, but it would have been really awkward to have the bubbly regular ED after that super dark cliffhanger. Kind of like how it was jarring to have the normal upbeat Dandadan ED after episode 7. Agreed. It was really a smart move that also helped to conceal the upcoming tone shift. "Just another happy-go-lucky episode!" *hammer smash* (I admit at first I thought they were going to do one of those "I'm never doing this again!" roll credits jokes.) |
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| Out of idle (Idol?) curiosity, does anyone know if the VAs for some characters use electronically altered voices? I would swear Lululee's voice could not be generated by a human throat. Not that it matters, really. Been done since Alvin and the Chipmunks if not earlier. I confess I'm enjoying this show. Good characters, funny personas, and (ahem) short skirts. |
| Kinda weird that the guildmaster would go along with that guy's blackmailing. Surely the guild would have the power to discredit the guy if he tried going around claiming she was some sort of monster. Who would believe that about their sweet guild receptionist? |
SparkyBob said: I would swear Lululee's voice could not be generated by a human throat. Aoi Koga has quite the range (and list of credits). From Ellee in Precure to Kaguya in Love is War. |
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runec said: Kinda weird that the guildmaster would go along with that guy's blackmailing. Surely the guild would have the power to discredit the guy if he tried going around claiming she was some sort of monster. Who would believe that about their sweet guild receptionist? Crowds are pretty fickle things; I don't think he'd have much trouble whipping up a mob if he really wanted to, esp. since she has an unknown/legendary skill. And he wouldn't even have to convince them she's a monster, but just exposing her as the Executioner would be enough. Still—it is pretty ballsy to threaten all that with the guildmaster standing right there. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
Domvina said: Aoi Koga has quite the range (and list of credits). From Ellee in Precure to Kaguya in Love is War. The Lululee voice is a lot like the one she used in 16 bit sensation. So is this Dark God like a Pillar Man from JoJo? |
| I'm so used to the slideshow action animation in a lot of other shows that I'm actually impressed with the animation here. I'm getting the impression that the creators are putting some effort into it. |
| While that was the best ep so far the stuff with the guy from the other party was a definite weak spot. Very weak. Almost enough to bring the entire episode down. Anyway, what that shows me is that this anime does serious better than comedy. I noticed in the previous episode the new tower was called the "White Tower" in that special quest that came out of the red gem. I guess when translating it into english, before turning it into that script, it didn't come out quite right. runec said: I agree that made no sense. Especially because we got no indication that he knows The Executioner is Alina. He saw her but she had her hood on and he never said anything about knowing who she was, so there's no reason to think he recognized her. He simply said that she had the same kind of skill that the 'monster' had. Even if a few people did buy into what he might say it's hard to believe everyone would since The Executioner hasn't done anything except kill monsters. On top of that, Silver Sword, which appears to be pretty popular, and the guild master would refute anything he said.Kinda weird that the guildmaster would go along with that guy's blackmailing. Surely the guild would have the power to discredit the guy if he tried going around claiming she was some sort of monster. Who would believe that about their sweet guild receptionist? |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
RMikami said: It does seem like it. Even the animation when the characters are nudging around a bit has details in it, i.e. when Alina was standing by door contemplating about the Guild Master's offer, or when Jade stood up from the couch after having a conversation with Alina in her room-- it almost felt like Motion Capture.I'm getting the impression that the creators are putting some effort into it. Although, when it comes to movements in a wide background is where it feels awkward, i.e. when Jade was running and did drift break before positioning for the 'Taunt' skill. Either they have put great effort in it, or they are beginning to use a lil bit of AI. If it's the latter, I won't complain if the result is this good. zkeleton said: I agree. It was so obvious. Not to mention the conclusion for it being him getting killed by the villain is so predictable.the stuff with the guy from the other party was a definite weak spot. Very weak. Almost enough to bring the entire episode down. The only benefit of having that guy's is: They established that some people perceive the Executioner (Alina) as a threat or something to be afraid of, even the Dia skill. But when it comes to having an excuse for the party to go back to the White Tower without Alina, they could've done better. |
Jozuwa-_-Jan 24, 11:11 PM
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MenchiK1 said: last week "all I want is a quiet receptionist job with no OT" now "I always wanted to be an adventurer but then the adventurer I admired died and the last thing he told me was to be a receptionist". It's her character arc. She originally wanted to be an adventurer, but was so emotionally scarred by the sight of someone she cared about dead as a result of adventuring, that she overreacted and defaulted to the least risky job imaginable. Not that much of a stretch. MenchiK1 said: And yeah why did they go back without her? That was part of the deal that she help clear it. Did I miss him saying he didn't want her coming? He did want her to join, but 1) he was blackmailed by the traitor guy, and 2) he cares about her and wants to protect her from the dungeon that turned out to be more dangerous than they thought. There could be a rule about only up to 4 people to a party. MenchiK1 said: Pretty obvious she's going to see the stone and go rescue them anyway. This is true. This being a comedy show, I'm curious as to how they'll play it for laughs, though. MenchiK1 said: Also her normal clothes were stupid "I'm glad I got to see you in your normal clothes" I'm not. How do you design such a cute receptionist outfit and then do that? Agree to disagree. I thought her outfit was really cute. |
boldulyssesJan 25, 7:34 AM
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
MenchiK1 said: Also her normal clothes were stupid "I'm glad I got to see you in your normal clothes" I'm not. How do you design such a cute receptionist outfit and then do that? Opinion on cuteness aside I was curious to see does her normal clothes fit with the style of clothing worn by non-adventurer women in the series so I checked out the background characters. Other than her skirt being roughly knee-length instead of ankle length stylistically it's similar to what the average woman in the city wears. (It does have the few extra embellishments expected for a main character versus a background character.) It would seem the guild receptionists are, comparatively, scantily clad. Though looking at what some of the female adventurers wear it's not that out of place. |
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| Episode 4 Silver Sword fights against Silha who has been powered up by Rufus, and Jade decides to confront him alone while telling Lowe and Lululee to retreat, and those two end up fighting against another tough dungeon boss themselves. Alina is alerted by her glowing gem that Jade is about to bite the dust and rushes towards the dungeon. Seeing that it's an emergency and that lives are on the line, Alina rushes towards the dungeon without her disguise and defeats the boss Lowe and Lululee were fighting. Then she confronts Silha and sees that Jade is on the verge of death, and is able to knock him down to come to Jade's aid. But Silha can regenerate having swiped Lululee's power, and needs to be defeated in one blow. So Alina powers up and takes all of his attacks without a scratch, and then delivers the big blow to defeat Silha. As it turns out, Silha is just one of several Dark Gods as he warns the party that other Dark Gods are preparing to strike, but before he could finish, Alina finishes him. So after all that, Glenn agrees to keep Alina's secret safe and instructs the guards to not tell about it, but there's no staff increase as Alina will have to continue to endure overtime hell. While Alina didn't get what she wanted, at least she saved a life, which is far more important then clocking out on time everyday. |
| Episode 4 Silha can steal skills! Jade tries to hold him back while Lowe and Lululee escape, but they're soon pinned down by a large monster. Alina notices Jade's gem glowing and rushes to the tower and smashes the monster, then rushes to save Jade. It takes a while considering Alina's skill is on the same caliber as Silha's, but she ultimately knocks him down in one blow to keep him from regenerating via the healing skill he stole from Lululee. Alina had to expose her identity to some guards to get to the tower, but Glen orders them to keep quiet about it. Silha's last words about there being more dark gods out there sounds ominous, but Alina has to endure something more ominous than that: more overtime. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| That was disappointing. They predictably stretched out Alina's arrival to save the Hero party, then they butchered their first opportunity to showcase Alina having a good fight scene with her first official big boss fight; Could've helped elevate the "Other Dark Gods" for future stuff. But how could the viewers care about those when they saw how this one was done, battle animation and story-wise. I guess the animation budget only goes to Alina's character model since that boss fight against a "Dark God" looked too plain and boring as heck. Rom-Com wise, it's working just fine. I'll keep watching but that'll be my expectation of this show now every time I do-- it's a Cutesy Rom-Com... not Comedy/Action. |
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| What happened to the guild master doubling the number of receptionists? Maybe he hasn't been able to hire them yet, however, if that's the case she should have said something about not being able to wait until they get more help. I have a feeling it won't happen though just so we can continue with this oh so hilarious gag. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Hiding her identity doesn't really seem to be a problem as every time she blows her cover there is some excuse for why it didn't matter. Also how is everyone hugging Jade, who is absolutely covered in blood, and not getting a drop of it on them? She's wearing a white blouse at that. Nice of the bad guy to just sit and wait for her to arrive and not finish Jade off or chase the other two. |
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