Saikyou no Ousama, Nidome no Jinsei wa Nani wo Suru? Episode 12 Discussion

everything in this one is a disappointment starting from the animation to the story

I hoped that the animation would improve with each episode, but unfortunately, it didn't. I felt dizzy with every frame due to the rapid transitions, which moved faster than I could appreciate the details in the still images. The story wasn't exciting enough to evoke strong emotions. However, because the storyline contained a mystery that piqued my curiosity, I continued to watch everything.

I'm used to seeing light novels getting garbage adaptations by butchering the source materials or by cramming several volumes into a 12 episode season. But the tBAtE adaptation is a first for me. The source was almost faithfully adapted and they only adapted a single volume into 12 episodes. But the animation quality was so bad that it ended up being worse than many other terrible LN adaptations. The only good thing that came out of this anime is that it served as an advertisement to people like me who haven't heard of the tBAtE novels before.

After watching the anime, I got curious and checked out the novels. It initially felt like a cheap Mushoku Tensei copy and later, your typical isekai power fantasy in the next few volumes. But everything changed when the "War" started. The novel took an entire different direction and there was this constant tension while reading each chapter. The enemies were just too ruthless and overpowered while the MC and his allies were getting their asses handed to them every single battle. At some point around volumes 5-7, the situation was so horrible that I was hoping for the return of the good old isekai power fantasy cuz the losses were too much to bear.

As of now, the entire novel series is completed and there are a total of 529 Chapters (12 volumes). I genuinely started to enjoy reading the novel after the "turning point" in volume 7 (Chapter 253). I had a lot of fun reading the 2nd half of the story, where Arthur becomes an adult and starts acting more like King Grey instead of an immature shounen protagonists who gets thrashed around by his enemies.

Not to mention, Regis > Sylvie and Caera >> Tessia

I didn't like how the author kinda ignored Caera to focus on Tess towards the end, but the ending was pretty decent. Though it would've been even better if he added more chapters towards the end. Or an Afterstory like how the Arifureta author expanded on his work.

Overall, even though the beginning and ending of the "tBAtE" novel had its issues, the entire journey itself was super fun and totally worth it imo. I ended up writing a review of the novel cuz there ain't much to say about "Terrible Animations, the Anime" lol.

Thanks for the advice.. I'll try to read better stories from now on :P

For real tho, I see where you're coming from. The ending could've been a lot better and the author "took inspiration" from a lot of other works. Some might straight up say he copied from other works but let's be real, it's 2025 and at this point we have thousands of fictional novels with similar plots. And it's easy to criticize some of the most popular ones.

Just to be clear, I ain't some tBAtE fanboy or anything and I've no idea about the author or his other works. I just finished watching the anime early last month and decided to check out the novels. And as I've mention in my previous comment, I found some parts of the novel (like the Alacrya Arc from volumes 8-10) to be quite enjoyable.

episode 12 is the real beginning after the end I guess I need to read the source material to see what happens next. This anime is definitely one of the best isekai this year