First impresion of the anime so far and why their marketing will backfire quickly

Kimurah said:


Sounds like you're just replying for the sake of just repliying having nothing congruent or relevant to say in this conversation. Yusha Yamemasu plays it's cards just like Banished from the Hero's Party did back in Fall 2021, both are just fantasy shows and there aren't convoluted settings in a checklist that would make either of them an isekai or anything more than just a fantasy title.

Back to your original topic, you're just jumping the gun with barely 2 episodes being released so far. You used "How not to summon a Demonlord" as some sort of benchmark, and personally don't think that show was that good, it was mainly driven by the more obvious fanservice and a typical harem setting with an OP protagonist that seems to be the "generic" drive a big chunk of the anime fanbase go for, but aside from that there wasn't an interesting angle to this run of the mill copy/paste setting, nor an interesting world or characters that made it memorable.

Not going to deny that Yusha Yamemasu doesn't bank on fanservice since it's quite obvious with a succubus on the sidecast along with a well endowed demonlord, but at least what we've seen so far it has an interesting/fun world in a management storyline with posibly also interesting variety of uses on magic without having to play the "boobs on your face" card. I'll also have to point out that since this title isn't as popular as demonlord was due to it's source readers, it's going to have to rely quite heavily in us anime only viewers to rack up it's numbers.

aziryn said:
Ainz is a good dude who cares about his people, so no.. he was not a very good bad guy..

Also the MC in this show was discarded by humanity, this was his last resort. Episode two gave me a few laughs but it wasn't a superstar show or anything, not yet at least.

Gazz said:
The secret of having fun watching this show is to just pause your common sense and just enjoy the show. Don't nitpick every small things.

Dark_Pride said:
Because the show actually got fucking good in the last 3 episodes. A lot of the early misgivings this show had in the early part can be recontextualized now that we've seen the last 3 episodes of the show (even the cringy English title of "I'm Quitting Heroing" is actually amazing in retrospect). Heck, looking again at the opening credits gave me more appreciation for Leo as a character.

RaidenSteiner said:
So basically this anime sells itself as "a hero that switched sides and wants to work for the demon lord", but in the end it's just the niche "i work for the demon lord" BUT "She's acutally a good guy and everyone else is evil" lmao, so basically nothing changes at all, it's peak generic with very little gimmick that will barely matter after few episodes, i can feel from ep 3 you will not even remember what is supposed to be special about this anime from the rest of isekais.

Tbh if you want to see a isekai where the mc is acutually morally questionable you can go for Overlord, first season is amazing and the rest are pretty good too, afaik there will be a new season soon too, from most isekais I know Ainz sells the best the image of a likeable main protagonist that's a villain.

Anyway back to YY, so far this anime seems like they didn't know How not to Summon a Demon Lord exist and tried to apply their gimmicks of having a supposedly "bad guy" protagonist that tries to act tough and such but he's one of the most generic main characters, the only difference being Diablo's niche is a comic relief, the anime doesn't take it seriously and even the characters don't really consider him a demon lord even if he's more op than anything in that lord, while YY tries really hard and takes itself too seriously on that very aspect, but executes it in a horrible way.

Though what are you thoughts, and if you're bold, what other animes do you think uses yuusha's gimmicks better than they? (since im sure the concept isn't really that new or unique)