 https://myanimelist.net/anime/61026/ Plot Summary Oda Akira is the kind of guy who people forget is even there. His unassuming nature pays off, though, when his entire class is swept away to a fantasy world, and he slips easily into his new role as a silent assassin. Between his suspiciously high starting stats and too many details that don't fit, Akira is sure something is wrong. But digging into royal secrets is a dangerous game, and when Akira uncovers an evil scheme, he also makes a powerful enemy—the very king who brought him to this world! With the help of the elven spirit medium Amelia, can he find the power to set things right, and get his revenge? Other Information Type: TV Episodes: Unknown Status: Currently Airing Aired: Oct 7, 2025 to ? Premiered: Fall 2025 Broadcast: Tuesdays at 01:30 (JST) Producers: TMS Entertainment, Kanon Sound Licensors: None found, add some Studios: Sunrise Source: Light novel Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy Theme: Isekai Duration: Unknown Rating: None |
| Episode 1 Here is another show like Arifureta in which an entire class gets isekaied, but without the betrayal as Akira chose to distance himself from the class seeing that his stats are way too high and would rather remain a background character like he had been all his life as opposed to being the hero his insanely high stats would otherwise make him be. As it turns out, the guys who summoned the class are up to no good, and Akira is the only one who knows about it seeing that his concealment is quite a handy skill. There, he meets Saran, the one guy he can't hide his presence from, and they become buddies as they are out to stop a coup that's coming. So with that, Akira has his own mission in order to take down the king and expose all the royal secrets about how corrupt he is, though Saran seems like a shady guy himself as well. Interesting start here, and the production values are pretty good seeing that it's being handled by a highly reputable studio. Akira feels so much like Shadow here, though without the harem as he's going at it alone to root out corruption as he wants to return home more than anything. |
| Well. The show is trying to look cool. This is despite the fact that it uses SO MANY standard fantasy isekai tropes and game mechanics. It's also disjointed. The director doesn't seem to know how to control the flow of the story well. So, the coolness factor almost comes across as an unintentional parody to me. The protagonist is actually not a bad isekai character so far, despite being a bit overpowered. I'm not sold on the cast, though. Technically, this show fails to meet my minimum standards in the first episode. I might give it another episode or two to win me over, though, depending on my mood next week. |
RMikamiOct 6, 2025 11:17 AM
| Oh, Failure Frame got a season 2? Although, to be honest, this seems like it will have more potential that than show...despite the well worn "class of high schoolers summoned to another world to be heroes" trope. Also, WTF is with the episode title Crunchyroll gave it? "The Assassin EASTS Bread"....come on |
| He's not even being an edgelord. He's just bland and anti-social. The story is also pretty clunky. I feel like I learned everything and nothing. The one interesting thing about him is being an assassin who doesn't kill. But we know he does thanks to the opening flash forward fight showing him off a dude. Or does that not count because he made the guy's own sword fall on him? His avoidance of murder could have been a plot point but we already know he eventually does so there's no real tension. Does the bread get concealed too or was it just floating in the air? |
marklebid said: But that actually is the episode title EASTS? not eats, but EASTS? That's what Crunchyroll titled it...EASTS looks like they went back and fixed it |
| Episode 2 Akira is framed for killing Saran after he finds out about the king's plans and broke the curse the princess has been putting on his fellow classmates. It's a good thing Gilles anticipated that this would happen and provided Akira with supplies should he need to flee the kingdom, though he left a bag behind that has something really important. With the Night Ravens in pursuit, the safest place for Akira to be at is the dungeon, where he levels up his skills, all while he meets up with an elf lady who happens to be royalty. So with that, Akira makes his way down to level 80 where he defeats a dragon that his conceal ability doesn't work on, and gains an ally, but he's about to get another one in the form of a cat. So the betrayal has happened just like in Arifureta and Failure Frame, although in this case Akira finds out about it himself and was ready to wage war before it happened. |
| Is the dragon going to leave behind a waifu as well? |
| Saran being killed offscreen seems bogus somehow. Either it's extremely lazy writing or it's some sort of ploy and he's not really dead. |
| So now it's taking the Arifureta route except it's an elf princess instead of a vampire princess. SparkyBob said: Hadn't thought of that, but with the way someone mentioned that they were surprised he went down so easily that's a strong possibility.Either it's extremely lazy writing or it's some sort of ploy and he's not really dead. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| The beginning was like a combination of The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and Loner Life in Another World, the villainous trap of Shield Hero, the edginess of Solo Leveling, and the labyrinth grinding of The Unwanted Undead Adventurer.. I only really checked it out to simp on the waifu xD I was expecting to hate it so much that I would just drop it immediately, but the show seem to know when to fast forward things so I don't have time to get pissed enough and rage quit xD I'll give it a few more chances to infuriate me. xP |
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Jozuwa-_- said: Solo Leveling as soon as he mentioned his sick mom and little sister, that's all I could think..that or Cid Kagenou actually became an edgelord, not just playing on on TV |
| Episode 3 The dragon transforms into a giant black cat, and while she asks Akira to kill him, Akira has a soft spot for cats. So instead seeing they are trapped in the boss room until either he or the cat is killed. But there's another way out as Akira instead makes the cat his familiar through soul linking, and thus the cat he names Night has joined the party. While that's going on, Tsukasa's party that ran away from the kingdom is stopping in Yamato, which is a town that looks just like Edo-period Japan as it looks like there was another hero that was previously isekaied there. While resting up, Amelia explains her background as she was branded a traitor by her homeland and is despised by her sister Kilika. While they are now out of the king's eye, they end up warping to Amelia's homeland where they are surrounded right away. Some family feud this is going to turn out to be as Akira is determined to try and fix things here seeing that he could have easily gone home there, but decides to fix things in this world before doing so. |
| Man, the pacing on this thing is all over the place. "I shall not rest until I get my vengeance!" But first let's hang out and chat for a bit. We've opened the portal to somewhere, but no rush? And nobody discussed whose destination should be the one in mind, so they end up in Elfland because of Amelia's PTSD and are instantly fired upon by her sister and an army of elf-thugs because of course they are. I mean Amelia's been gone for months, so naturally the thugs are still ready for battle and just happen to be right where she and the others get teleported... And meanwhile the other heroes have been hanging out in Edoville scarfing rice bowls and dressing up in cute clothes and talking about how they need to get stronger so they can measure up to Akira but don't seem to have any real urgency for doing so. I will say that in a season of lousy OPs, this one is not bad, but I sure had a hard time remembering what happened in the previous episodes. |
SparkyBobOct 20, 2025 6:08 PM
| Still waiting on the dragon cat thing to become a waifu. |
| The elf girl fell for him already? That was fast even for an isekai. runec said: Well it is a shapeshifter. And I like the totally on the nose name for what kind of creature it is: Black Cat.Still waiting on the dragon cat thing to become a waifu. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Episode 4 As it turns out, Kilika used her mesmerizing skill on the royal guard to get everybody to believe her lie, but the spell doesn't work on Akira. The king arrives and demands Kilika to undo it, but wants Amelia to stay behind to become the next queen. So Akira agrees to a duel against Kilika with Amelia's freedom at stake. Through this duel, it is revealed that Amelia and Kilika used to be close, but everything changed during a certain incident that the king blocked from her memory. Kilika was tricked by the demon Aurum into using an item that summons monsters that ravaged through her homeland and killed Liam, and Liam ended up being revived with the power of immunity. This duel was set up to get Kilika to overcome her past and be back to the sweet sister she once was, which was accomplished. I can understand why the king would do what he did and being in the dark about so many things that Kilika would act that way, and it's a good thing he was around to clear the situation, but in a roundabout way. |
| Remember kids: Always listen to the strange man in the trees who is obviously hiding his identity with the black cloak. |
| that entire setup made no sense...they acted like she didn't exist so that she didn't find out her father wiped her memory...maybe just don't tell her what happened...isn't that a bit easier? Liam worked with Kilika to have Amelia exiled...like the father would just go along with that when he came back? So was Amelia only gone for like a week or something, the way the father just appeared back from his trip and figured out what was going on? |
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| Dear God that was a lot of nauseating melodrama. We don't know these characters enough to give a shit about their family angst. And no, you can't make us care about it in a single episode just because they're pretty elf girls. |
KingZeal said: Well, maybe if they wore less clothing. Just a suggestion.And no, you can't make us care about it in a single episode just because they're pretty elf girls. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Episode 5 Onto the port town of Ur where beastmen rule and humans are looked down upon. Akira finally gets a good night sleep after all that has happened. After that, he meets up with the blacksmith Crow, who can make some of the best weapons, but he requires a lot of money and materials. So this provides another opportunity for Akira to go dungeon conquering. And then Night explains why she's known as the Nightmare of Adlea that Crow mentioned as she went to Adlea as instructed by demon lord, but she lost control of herself and destroyed the town. But it was the rich Nobleman Graham who killed his own people, Crow's sister among them, a century ago, and he lived for revenge, ultimately choosing not to get back at him. And then Ur gets attacked by the demon Aurum, the same guy who tricked Kilika. So here Night's history is explained all while Akira is looking to get some premium weapons, but before that they have to deal with the demon who wrecked Amelia's homeland. |
| Dumber and dumber. Oh great, yet another isekai MC that's gay or afraid of women or has some other dumb reason for avoiding sleeping with his hot waifu. It's especially bad in this case since the guys been completely unfazed by every other situation he's been in. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Yet Rudeus doesn't shy away from porking his waifus and people whine that he's a pervert.🤣 |
| Episode 6 The last fight was a disaster with Aurum decimating the place while Amelia is held captive, but Akira survived that and was out for over a day as a result. So after resting up, Akira heads to where she is with Lia tagging along having scented his presence. It turns out that the demon lord needs Amelia's resurrection magic, which Amelia used on herself and can't use for another week, using that cooldown period to kill Akira for good. So Akira, Lia, and Night go into the labyrinth and make quick work of the monsters there to get to Aurum, and while the spear is quite powerful, Lia's support magic helps Akira take those hits, and then turn the tables by using shadow magic. Then Aurum summons the bosses from the labyrinth, but Amelia regained her strength just in time to save the day. But just when he was about to deliver the fatal blow, an even more powerful demon in Mahiro appears, and things aren't looking too good for Akira in the shape he is in. As powerful as Akira is, he's up against a demon seeing that a third-rated one gave him trouble, and now he's up against a second-rated demon. |
| So now he has some kind of personal AI assistant when he gets knocked unconscious. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| This thing's starting to make me appreciate Solo Leveling. |
| Usually the monster design for these shows is pretty generic but what the fark was the slug thing with the eyes and 2 legs? Shadow Magic just seems to do whatever he needs to win at any given moment. |
| Episode 7 It took everything to defeat Aurum, but Mahiro is on a whole different level. As it turns out, Mahiro is also isekaied from Japan. With the state Akira is in, Night tells Akira to undo the contract so that she can sacrifice herself to save Akira and Amelia, but Akira refuses. Instead, Night transforms into Saran to fight alongside him, and just when they had him cornered, Akira is blindsided by Amelia, whose mind was controlled by Mahiro to backstab him. It's a good thing Crow arrived when he did to save everybody seeing that Akira can't fight after using shadow magic to heal himself as Mahiro retreats after that. And then Akira meets up with Kyosuke's party that defected from the from the rest of the class and are determined to find a way back, but Akira will continue to go at it alone. After that, Akira makes a vow with Amelia as he confesses his love for her, and without any rings to give, he instead puts the scar of a ring on their fingers instead. Akira may be strong, but not if he's facing a strong demon after throwing everything to defeat another demon. |
| Now this show of all things has more romance progress than most rom coms. Shadow Magic is still being an ass pull that solves every situation. |
| How many deus ex machinas is this show going to pull this season? I think we had three just this episode. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Well. That was abrupt. |
| Episode 8 It's off to a new town to attend a festival, and a beauty pageant is going on where Akira meets the cute demon girl Latticenail, who is revealed to be the Demon Lord's daughter. While everybody else is enjoying themselves, Crow tells Akira that he crafted Amelia's staff, and that his sister's murderer is being protected by Gram and his gang of mercenaries, all while he has a job for him that he's reluctant to take. And then comes the pageant as Amelia wows the crowd with her elegance, while Latty puts on a show with all her flashy props with the contest ending in a tie. After that, Amelia puts a spell on Akira that makes him too tired to wake up from bed while Amelia and company go claim their "prize" for winning the pageant. It turns out Gram. kidnapped almost all of the past winners and harvested their organs, and paid hush money to keep everybody silent about this horrific operation. I knew that Gram was another one of those awful nobles, but it's much worse than I imagined it could get. But of course, Latty won't let anybody be killed on her watch, so it's no wonder why Amelia wanted Akira to not come knowing that he would not hesitate to kill anybody before fully understanding things. Latty sure made her presence known, and somebody this cute and powerful makes a great ally. |
| Abducting his girlfriend to sell her organs seems like a great way to be the first to be killed by the assassin that doesn't kill. |
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