The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat (light novel)
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| I feel like this could’ve been a good anime; it had all the elements to be great but it just… wasn’t. The characters were so flat that I didn’t care about them and the plot was so rushed. It felt like such a weird choice for the Tuatha De family to adopt Dia when it’s clear that she and Lugh are in love with each other. That’s going to cause some questions about that cover story later on for the family! |
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| @Solandri You're comparing a game development to a storytelling, 2 completely different concepts. I don't want realism in anime, especially one that's set in a world where god and magic exist like this. It's anime, storytelling is always the priority, not realism. I don't want long, drawn-out, exposition heavy fight either. In fact, my biggest issue with most anime fight is how they tend to either last too long or explain too much, or both. What I want is for something, ANYTHING, to not go according to plan for once. Since you brought up video game, what do you think is the most intense moment to watch in challenge runs or speedruns? It's when things go wrong and the runner has to adapt on the fly. No, that doesn't mean abandoning the run and spending the next 10 minutes trying to damage control. It just means that they have to react to what's happening on-screen and go for plan B C D F and so on. That's what I want, the "darn it my plan A failed, anyway here's my follow up" moment. I'm not even asking for some crazy back and forth Death Note-style of mind game. Just a simple "wait, that's not what I wanted to happen" would suffice. Not only would it give more intensity to the fight, it also would make the MC even more badass in comparison to what we get. Instead of just some mary sue who can read everyone and everything with 100% accuracy, he would become the 200 IQ guy who plans ahead and is ready to adapt to every possible outcome of the event. If you haven't seen it already, No Game No Life pulled this off perfectly. It's not about everything going as planned, it's about HOW you make everything going as planned. No one wants to watch, or to play for that matter, a game in which everything is predictable and everything plays out the same every single time. It's why RNG exists (and no, I don't mean the obvious bad game design like what you described) |
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| Este capitulo me dejó anonado, que fuerzas impresioanntes, como será la llegada del verdadero "Heroe", y entonces con este "Heroe" con el que pelearon quien era?? Y se viene también el Rey Demonio. |
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| Lets be honest, we all know that hero will prolly be a girl in disguise and will most likely be seduced by Lugh as well. Based from the second episode we know that his alternative end goal was to prevent the hero from rampaging after she defeat the demon lord so it all checks out. So his true win condition is to seduce the hero and make her sub-servant like Tarte and Maha. Also, dont think a cannon and a kinetic based space super weapon counts as assassination tools |
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| For how much the goddess seems to hate her job she puts quite a lot of passion into her little skits We all know that was not the hero because she wasnt a cute girl, and would you look at that the hero is an adorable tomboy alright. We got the kiss! Sadly no marriage though.. imouto route achieved .. This was both lamer and more solid than I expected at the same time. 7/10 |
Comander-07Aug 27, 2023 2:07 PM
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| I think they were brave for choosing this story and making this anime! The writer is a genius IMO! 10/10 |
| Now that's some United States of Smash spirit right there. 10/10 would watch the hero turn to paste against glorious rods from kami-sama. I mean you all saw the smirk that Goddess gave right? She knew. She def knew what a freedom stick from orbit looked like. |
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| Lol, what did i watch. No action and he just throw that nuclear to the outer space for one hit. Also hero in his kingdon territory? Daheck. That's why the goddess smirk, she's really sus. Feel rushed episode and it didn't make sense half of seaoson. Need season 2 for real. |
| I had a feeling it was rods from God when he created that big piece of tungsten but didn't realize he would actually deploy it. Gae Bolg vs Gungnir, two legendary/mythical spears against each other. I guess the Norse wins this time over the Irish. ...and our closing episode's villain is not actually the Hero anyway. sigh 7/10 I actually liked it somehow. |
| You see there's no need to wonder where your god is, Coz he's right here! ...and he's fresh out of mercy. |
| Started off interesting then nothing really happened and then towards the end he's suddenly in love with his COUSIN while he goes to save her cause apparently there was a rebellion in her country in which that ended with a big ugly cgi battle and a quick death. We just gonna ignore all the fan service of the emphasized fact they all 13 year olds and two of em were hand picked to be used as tools cause they had high mana? |
Reply to BromWalar
I liked this anime more at the beginning up until mabe episode 6 when I would give it an 8/10 but now it kinda devolved to the fine category of 6/10. The last episode, as someone has already pointed out, felt rushed.
Rush part: The problem is the main villain came out of nowhere and was just bland. We never encountered people who could oppose Luig so it felt kind of out of place to just introduce and kill one of those people. The plan of killing him really did not have any foreshadowing and was just quickly explained after the fact, not counting the as there was the time counting stuff I felt no tension whatsoever. And the aftermath was just quickly brushed of and the real hero could have at least have a scene or brief dialogue; not just face showing.
All in all, above average isekai, but definitely not comparable to better ones such as Re:zero, Mushoku tensei, youjo senki, Grimgar, Bookworm, Konosuba....
Rush part: The problem is the main villain came out of nowhere and was just bland. We never encountered people who could oppose Luig so it felt kind of out of place to just introduce and kill one of those people. The plan of killing him really did not have any foreshadowing and was just quickly explained after the fact, not counting the as there was the time counting stuff I felt no tension whatsoever. And the aftermath was just quickly brushed of and the real hero could have at least have a scene or brief dialogue; not just face showing.
All in all, above average isekai, but definitely not comparable to better ones such as Re:zero, Mushoku tensei, youjo senki, Grimgar, Bookworm, Konosuba....
| @BromWalar Last episode felt rushed because Japanese anime writers/directors have a hard-on for wasting their limited 12 episode run with stupid sauna and "just chill" episodes that don't fit. This anime did the same with that pointless hanging around just an episode before. I've said this before so many times, 12 episodes are NOT enough to flesh out a world and characters, especially when you have Japanese writers in charge who can't help themselves but put stupid pointless sauna/beach episodes to waste time. Make it 24 episode season at-least if you're going to add fillers, else don't do it in 12 episode run. The last episode was fine, but re-watching this, I lowered my rating for this anime from initial 9/10 to 7/10. |
| Judging by that conspicuous sinkhole left in the crater where the magic nuke landed, Setanta might've survived that. |
  ｲ乇刀乇乃尺ﾑ乇 ╔⏤═⏤╝   ╚⏤═⏤╗☽ Shaded Horizon ☾ |
| The premise is interesting, but sadly can't say I found this particularly well written. Show tries to build up things from the very beginning, but the problem is most of the time the things Lugh need to do to become a assassin are nothing exciting to watch and they try to portray him as a character who doesn't want to live his life as a tool anymore, but he's still as interesting as watching paint dry. This last arc, with the whole saving dia felt extremely rushed and thus I couldn't care less about the conflict. Doesn't help that Dia herself is extremely bland like most of the characters. World building is nothing special either. Still will probably watch the second season if it comes out, hopefully the arrival of the real hero will lead to something more interesting than this whole tampering. Goddes best girl btw. |
| I got to say... The instant he summoned the Tungsten Rod, I knew what he was going to do. I always wanted to see a series do something like that by combining magic and science to create utterly devastating spells. I actually even wrote in some personal notes how I would imagine the skill sets to work. There's so much creativity you can do with just some basic generic spells like alchemy, levitation, and more. I just never expected a series to really pull a "Rods from God" on us. I always thought it was a bit too nerdy of a thing for most people to think about. And besides that, I would consider it a ultimate ability of sort tied with some other theoretically plausible spells. Definitely pleasantly surprised by this anime. But seriously, if Setanta wasn't the hero, and he survived a 'Rod from God', wtf is the hero then?! Rods from God IRL had comparable energy as a very small tactical nuclear device. Think Davy Crockett small. I guess you have to use a strategic nuclear weapon then? Maybe even one step above... Mass annihilation?! Or do the sneaky way. They all follow basic biology. Radiation since we are already on this line of thinking. Unlike poison or something else, there's really nothing you can do against high dose of radiation. Like imagine just creating Polonium-210 in the dude's bedroom. Dude be vomiting and skin falling off not too long and no one would know what happened. Considering he can just unsummon it, one doesn't have to worry about long term disposal. |
zcv45Sep 17, 2024 12:03 AM
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| A bit of a meh ending, the foreshadowed "hero" turned out to just be a really angry off knight tweaking off his roids which everyone seemed to have gotten wrong which is also pretty wild too me. Lugh throwing a magic Tungsten spear he was training for in the Bahamas was kinda cool as well. End of the day, Lugh kills an honorary knight, save's the princess, gets the princess as his legal little sister and probably gets to confess his love and marry her getting a happy ending. Until the Goddess or someone tells him he killed the wrong guy lol. Overall the show was OK, i thought the concept and idea was really interesting just maybe the execution wasn't the most appealing or hooking. The show had it's moments, but i felt like i personally didn't feel as hooked on the plot or characters later down since not much seemed to be 'moving' right until the last few episodes. Honestly i thought we were getting like "Isekai Hitman 47 anime" and see some of the most diabolical and insane assassinations stunts with the added depth to story and character, at the end it wasn't entirely what i envisioned but i didn't completely hate it i guess, like the prologue was such a cool introduction to what felt like we didn't get to see a lot of later on. Story was pretty straight forward in it's plot. The early episode's i think were fine, watching the MC train, applying his knowledge and skills from his previous life to gain advantages in his new life was cool, and the possibilities and ideas they hinted at with the Hitman being an MC was my main excitement. I think some of my issues was how much time was spent on the merchant arc and i guess maybe some of the pacing and the ending. I understand the value of the merchant arc and what it brings to the story and characters, but man, for a show focused on a "hitman" theme MC the last thing i'd actually expect him to be doing is business management, on top of that, a good 80% of it i want to say was taken up with Maha's character story but that isn't to say the 20% of Lugh actually doing merchant role play wasn't interesting. Speaking of Maha i still really struggle to see a lot of her value towards the show, her backstory was kinda there for the merchant arc and wasn't even the main aim of the arc and more of a side quest, and her character after it i just thought wasn't the most interesting i eventually chalked her down as just another member of MC harem at later stages. They also i felt like left a lot of unanswered questions, namely the Goddess, no real goals besides the "kill hero", no "who, what, why, how's" towards her and almost completely shrouded in mystery for future seasons. And to end it all off again, i thought we'd get a bit more action all i all, probably my mistake, but yeah again when i read hitman isekai i think of the merge of Hitman 47 / John Wick style idea's now with magic thrown in the mix with fuck tons of thriller action. Characters were also ok. I'll give points for them presenting the idea of the MC facing a change of heart from his previous life and wanting to act on it, and honestly i'm surprised they managed to include that plot point as many points as they did in the show. The MC also was somewhat likeable so i'm also thankful for that at least. Side characters were a bit rough, Maha as i already mentioned before, but Tarte and Dia were at most interesting with Dia a bit more then Tarte personally cus i liked her more. They had their basic plot points and structure but idk they didn't really feel unique or very rememberable to me. The animation was meh, i didn't really vibe with it. I thought it was kinda consistent but the overall style or quality i didn't really enjoy. OST wasn't the most exhilarating and the opening and ending were ok as well i guess. Honestly the biggest shocker for me was realising that this show was written by the same author as "Redo of Healer", i've honestly yet to fully digest this information nor know what to do with besides pass it down to others in hopes i can find an answer later. |
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| Goddess on a mission to kill that Hero |
| Anybody else old enough to remember the "Project Thor" name rather than "Rods from God"? |
| Lord Cruelty V "But my Dreams they're not as empty, as my conscience seems to be" |
| Bunch of things lined up perfectly that's why that attack worked but it could be summed up into to two First, spear guy, for some reason, didn't move an inch lol. He stayed in one spot during the whole thing. Second, Lugh has been wearing that Kirito jacket thing for a few episodes now so he's probably absorbed some of this gary stu powers or something lol Overall an entertaining series, got some cringe moment though particularly when it comes to romance or ecchi shit but that's just probably me getting older 7 |
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