The Executioner and Her Way of Life
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| For a show with a somewhat intimidating title, this was actually quite lighthearted. Menou's character is quite normal for her personality, despite that she has such an important role in the show. She has an amusing personality too, seems like the type that can get along with others easily. Has potential I guess, as it's very hard to tell how far this will progress its story. The visuals also looks decent for its character designs and world setting. I also kinda liked the style of the action scenes. |
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| The first new show of the season, and it has to be a fantasy Isekai... The Executioner Menou and people summoned from Japan called 'Lost Ones', she encounters one such boy rejected by the kingdom after he wasn't the candidate they were looking for with various 'Pure Concept' powers, that fell to another girl. The kingdom of Grisarika with an established Japanese culture, split into 3 ranks: the Common, Noblesse and Faust. She is there to keep the Lost Ones away as much as possible, and exterminate them with no one the wiser. But to her dismay, the boy she met didn't die, and this is a no-no for Executioners like her since the Lost Ones have changed and toppled their world upside down. Managed by the head priestess Orwell, Menou's master Flare is a ruthless Executioner, while her aide Momo...does have that Yuri feel while secretly admiring her. The corrupt Noblesse facing against the dogs of the Faust: Executioners like Menou and Momo with their Scriptures being their source of magic, Menou is really to be feared. The other Lost One (the girl with powers) aren't all that safe either, she could have their life ended by Executioners any moment. Mili's OP...eh, it's just OK. J.C.Staff is really trying with this one, and this feels like it has effort put in. A decent but interesting start. |
KANLen09Apr 1, 2022 10:23 AM
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| Interesting plot, but I think I'd start hating this later on since it gives the feels of the MC being a total hypocrite later. Where she kills all these people cause reasons, but then refuses to kill the black haired girl. |
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| A very promising start. This is probably going to be one of my favorite shows of the season. Momo. <3 Yes! That's what I'm talking about. :) |
SerafosJun 25, 6:06 AM
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Sick OP by Mili, probably my favourite anisong of hers. Also looks like J.C. Staff is trying for once, i'm excited what they bring with this. |
KANLen09 said: The first new show of the season, and it has to be a fantasy Isekai... The Executioner Menou and people summoned from Japan called strays or 'Lost Ones', she encounters one such boy rejected by the kingdom after he wasn't the perfect candidate they were looking for, that fell to another girl. She is there to keep the Lost Ones away as much as possible, and kill them with no one the wiser. But to her dismay, the boy she met couldn't die, and this is a no-no for Executioners like her. And welp, Menou has fellow Executioner Momo as her idol and admirer, though she can be weird as heck. Not a surprise to see the the usual Church being the beck and call, but Menou is strong as heck with her Executioner book being her power source. The Isekai-ed beings aren't all that safe either, they could have their lives ended by Executioners any moment. Mili's OP...eh, it's just OK. J.C.Staff is really trying with this one, and this feels like it has effort put in. A decent but interesting start. Are there male characters? I thought it was pretty pure all-female yuri. |
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| The twist with showcasing Menou as the executioner was nice (which really shouldn't be a twist from the title but was just kind of nice to see her role against the otherworlders like that in a villainous fashion) like the book but then the episode kinda became dull for me towards the end. To be fair though, even the novel admittedly quickly lost my interest. Visuals are pretty average. |
RobertBobert said: The beginning doesn't show that, just gives the general idea. We will get there eventually.KANLen09 said: The first new show of the season, and it has to be a fantasy Isekai... The Executioner Menou and people summoned from Japan called strays or 'Lost Ones', she encounters one such boy rejected by the kingdom after he wasn't the perfect candidate they were looking for, that fell to another girl. She is there to keep the Lost Ones away as much as possible, and kill them with no one the wiser. But to her dismay, the boy she met couldn't die, and this is a no-no for Executioners like her. And welp, Menou has fellow Executioner Momo as her idol and admirer, though she can be weird as heck. Not a surprise to see the the usual Church being the beck and call, but Menou is strong as heck with her Executioner book being her power source. The Isekai-ed beings aren't all that safe either, they could have their lives ended by Executioners any moment. Mili's OP...eh, it's just OK. J.C.Staff is really trying with this one, and this feels like it has effort put in. A decent but interesting start. Are there male characters? I thought it was pretty pure all-female yuri. |
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| Interesting and looks pretty promising start. "Most of the Lost Ones are the Japanese" Well... no wondered about it when we've got tons of isekai mangas,light novels, and anime. |
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KANLen09 said: The beginning doesn't show that, just gives the general idea. We will get there eventually. Well, I already know it's yuri, it's just that maximum all-female shows are not my cup of tea. Mod Edit: Removed quote of deleted post. |
DBXApr 16, 2022 4:47 AM
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| Finally this day and its arrived, sugoii menou-sama is so cool and amazing ♥♥♥ *O* ♥♥♥ We have amazing girl as the lead followed by her dear girlfriends promises to be a great anime uwu RobertBobert said: Are there male characters? I thought it was pretty pure all-female yuri. the men they are already dead kukuku  |
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KitsuYurikano said: Finally this day and its arrived, sugoii menou-sama is so cool and amazing ♥♥♥ *O* ♥♥♥ We have amazing girl as the lead followed by her dear girlfriends promises to be a great anime uwu RobertBobert said: Are there male characters? I thought it was pretty pure all-female yuri. the men they are already dead kukuku It's kind of funny that I haven't seen you in months, but your attempts at attention are just as immature. |
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| Rule One of Isekai: Never trust women |
| Dark Isekai, isn't it? Poor for those all summoned Japanese in that world just to be killed. Seems this show have interesting Yuri premises. |
| Surprisingly this was actually a good start. Compared to JC Staff's other recent works this is actually pretty well made too. Also this is some copium level isekai world lol. Quite interested in this so hopefully rest of the episodes will be even better. |
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RobertBobert said: KitsuYurikano said: Finally this day and its arrived, sugoii menou-sama is so cool and amazing ♥♥♥ *O* ♥♥♥ We have amazing girl as the lead followed by her dear girlfriends promises to be a great anime uwu the men they are already dead kukuku It's kind of funny that I haven't seen you in months, but your attempts at attention are just as immature. yes, it's inmmature but it's the truth hihiha Mihaeroff said: Rule One of Isekai: Never trust women This time the girl won hshshsh Mod Edit: Added image to spoiler tags. |
DBXApr 16, 2022 4:49 AM
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KitsuYurikano said: RobertBobert said: It's kind of funny that I haven't seen you in months, but your attempts at attention are just as immature. yes, it's inmmature but it's the truth hihiha Mihaeroff said: Rule One of Isekai: Never trust women This time the girl won hshshsh  Its really need for me to explain why continuing immature behavior will only reinforce the impression of your immaturity? |
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| My most anticipated anime of the season and it's already off to a great start. The fights were well animated and the moves looked neat too. I love the LN and the manga adaptation The characters are awesome. So yeah, I'm gonna have a great time with the show. Finally a good yuri anime after a long time. |
ARK-13Apr 1, 2022 11:40 AM
Lutecrate said: Of course some minor creative liberties had to be taken, but episode 1 adapted the first 62 pages of the Ln pretty faithfully. I'm excited to see the rest animated! 62 pages in one episode? Holy fuck, there's serious potential for pacing issues as we go, with that speed. |
RobertBobert said: Its really need for me to explain why continuing immature behavior will only reinforce the impression of your immaturity? Funny. From a bystander's point of view like mine, you barging in a discussion episode without even having actually watched the episode feels like you're the one seeking attention, specially when your first response to an obvious joke was to lash out on that guy calling him/her immature. Anywho, back to the actual episode discussion. It was quite interesting the introduction of the sacrificial lamb and the short backstory of the "tragic" protagonist Menou. It will be interesting to see if the JK summoned will become a deuteragonist or if she will have her own path in the story. I certainly would had had a higher impression of the show if the tone didn't change to just pure comedy and yuri baiting right after Menou killed "Taro" or whatever his name was. |
| This was something different. And I didn’t expect that. I love the art style and the animation. That boy getting killed really surprised me there. I can’t wait to see what will happen next. |
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Kimurah said: RobertBobert said: Its really need for me to explain why continuing immature behavior will only reinforce the impression of your immaturity? Funny. From a bystander's point of view like mine, you barging in a discussion episode without even having actually watched the episode feels like you're the one seeking attention, specially when your first response to an obvious joke was to lash out on that guy calling him/her immature. Anywho, back to the actual episode discussion. It was quite interesting the introduction of the sacrificial lamb and the short backstory of the "tragic" protagonist Menou. It will be interesting to see if the JK summoned will become a deuteragonist or if she will have her own path in the story. I certainly would had had a higher impression of the show if the tone didn't change to just pure comedy and yuri baiting right after Menou killed "Taro" or whatever his name was. So, are you literally trying to shame me for asking questions about the show to those who have already watched the first episode, while you consider it reasonable to accuse me of immaturity? Lol, ok. I assume that the implication that we are very familiar with this guy and that his reaction was an unambiguous childish trolling towards me seems to be too complicated things for an "bystander". |
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| this is how to kill a reincarnated isekai boy looser dudes, aim for the head! |
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Geminosity said: oh-ho! An isekai anime where isekais are common-place! I imagine this probably isn't the first take on such a concept, but it's the first one I've personally seen so I'm rather enjoying the self-awareness of it... especially the mayonnaise joke :3 Erm, in a bunch of isekai show characters are literally forced to get isekai-ed for various purposes. Last season, there was literally a show where, along with the MC, Isekai got a parody of Kirito. |
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| If you were trying to subvert expectations, pretending to be cliche and bad is a dangerous game. it might be a good idea to not give away the game in the title, or the opening shot of the show. At the very least, you can cut right to the gist, not faff around for half the damn episode, pretending to be the obnoxious thing that you're supposedly subverting. You can't unring a bell, and the danger of pretending to be something annoying and crappy, especially for so long, is that you become the thing you're pretending to be. But then it stops that, changes to a mopey flashback, before getting all fanservicey and fillery instead with silly costumes. The fight at the end was also not great, but I was admittedly distracted trying to figure out what the hell was going on with the music during it. Speaking of which… Even aside from the tone being all over the place, the scoring looks at that and goes "Yo, let's crank this mess up to eleven." The music is just plain bad across the board. Unfitting and weird, especially during the out-of-place groping and costume fetish scene where it goes practically penny arcade, followed by the soldiers showing up so it goes all flamenco for god only knows what reason. There is no cohesion whatsoever, yet it is also ridiculously loud and intrusive. It's also a hard sell that about the psychotic setting of summoning kids just to murder them for having been summoned. Because power corrupts and/or is dangerous, and needs to be left in the hands of the fascist secret police who are super powerful themselves. I don't think the show actually understands either how psychotic or hypocritical it is and is just relying on "Look at how we're subverting cheat power stuff!" …Right before it just does cheat power stuff anyway. |
Culturedmaster said: Fede_5000 said: this is how to kill a reincarnated isekai boy looser dudes, aim for the head! Haaaaa yes, it was satisfying seeing that this is a series not about self insert wish fulfillment isekai like most isekais these days. Self-insert or fetishized all-female? It's both a male fantasy for a male audience, so I don't think it makes much of a difference. Not to mention, Rentai Kanoujo and Classroom for Elite is a very funny pick of favorites for someone who complains about self-inserting. |
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Culturedmaster said: ARK-13 said: My most anticipated anime of the season and it's already off to a great start. The fights were well animated and the moves looked neat too. I love the LN and the manga adaptation The characters are awesome. So yeah, I'm gonna have a great time with the show. Finally a good yuri anime after a long time. Yeah really liked the LN, but the anime pacing felt too fast. I thought it was fine. The first episode did it's job well to convey what the show is about. |
| Poor dude didn't deserve to die like that |
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RayReynolds said: It's also a hard sell that about the psychotic setting of summoning kids just to murder them for having been summoned. Because power corrupts and/or is dangerous, and needs to be left in the hands of the fascist secret police who are super powerful themselves. I don't think the show actually understands either how psychotic or hypocritical it is and is just relying on "Look at how we're subverting cheat power stuff!" …Right before it just does cheat power stuff anyway. This, basically. I'm gonna keep watching for now because I like the art and hope I'll be able to like the 2nd lead a bit more than the sociopathic hypocritical protagonist, but... Switching right from a scene of deceiving a high school kid by pretending to help him when he has literally been summoned to your BS world against his will and then stabbing him in the goddamn head to the stereotypical bait-and-switch master/servant "yuri" and maid cosplay fanservice was in incredibly poor taste. Still, I figure most viewers won't care about it because Shokei Shoujo, like the majority of GL/yuribait shows, seems to be going the "men are ugly, evil and weak so they're to be killed on sight by the beautiful, powerful, and somehow always Incorruptibly Pure women" route that seems to constitute the winning formula with this particular audience. And here I am, wanting to, for once, watch/read a GL with strong and good male characters so it doesn't look like the women are hooking up with each other out of sheer desperation... |
DrabinWhiteApr 1, 2022 1:54 PM
DrabinWhite said: RayReynolds said: It's also a hard sell that about the psychotic setting of summoning kids just to murder them for having been summoned. Because power corrupts and/or is dangerous, and needs to be left in the hands of the fascist secret police who are super powerful themselves. I don't think the show actually understands either how psychotic or hypocritical it is and is just relying on "Look at how we're subverting cheat power stuff!" …Right before it just does cheat power stuff anyway. This, basically. I'm gonna keep watching for now because I like the art and hope I'll be able to like the 2nd lead a bit more than the sociopathic hypocritical protagonist, but... Switching right from a scene of deceiving a high school kid by pretending to help him when he has literally been summoned to your BS world against his will and then stabbing him in the goddamn head to the stereotypical bait-and-switch master/servant "yuri" and maid cosplay fanservice was in incredibly poor taste. Still, I figure most viewers won't care about it because Shokei Shoujo, like most typical fake GL shows, seems to be going the "men are ugly, evil and weak so they're to be killed on sight by the beautiful, powerful, and somehow always Incorruptibly Pure women" route that seems to constitute the winning formula with this particular audience. And here I am, wanting to, for once, watch/read a GL with strong and good male characters so it doesn't look like the women are hooking up with each other out of sheer desperation... It's not a fake GL show and the MC is just as killing female travelers, but you're right that romanticized misandrism is still a common theme in yuri, even made and oriented towards men. Not to mention the negative implications that girls are "forced" to become lesbians either because of the lack of men or because of their absurd toxicity (A special bonus if the female characters show much more toxic and predatory behavior, but it is played strictly as fanservice and comedy, if not hot romance.). Personally, I think of this show more like a yuri version of Talentless Nana, which then turns into something of an action adventure. |
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KANLen09 said: Is it the first? Wasn't that Paripi Koumei with the reincarnated Chinese tactician?The first new show of the season, and it has to be a fantasy Isekai... |
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| I have been hyped for this show since I saw one of the PVs back in December, and episode 1 established the world but already told bits of Menou's backstory as well. We'll have to wait for Akari for the next episode tho. The animation and OST give me a lot of Railgun vibes and I am loving it. J.C. Staff at their peak! |
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| Wow, this was a uniquely stinking combination of cliche, edginess and sheer insanity. My first drop for the season. |
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