The Ossan Newbie Adventurer, Trained to Death by the Most Powerful Party, Became Invincible Discussion

Well, that's a title and a half. I do appreciate have an older MC though.

At some point he's going to connect on a hit with someone and just turn them into a fine red mist.

Two back-to-back series featuring an over-30 protagonist. And in both cases though poking fun at their age they've gone out of their way to make the protag the strongest character. Interested to see if this trend of not-teenage protags continues or will just be a short-lived blip.

Two back-to-back series featuring an over-30 protagonist. And in both cases though poking fun at their age they've gone out of their way to make the protag the strongest character. Interested to see if this trend of not-teenage protags continues or will just be a short-lived blip.

I thought the MC in that one was still in his twenties? Doesn't really matter since it was a terrible bore anyway.

So...somehow he feels confident in his abilities in the end after thinking he was going to get stomped?

They've been playing a little too hard on the "don't know your own strength" trope a bit much. Was it "Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moves to a Starter Town" that did that last?

Did they really need an entire episode just to set up this next fight? Half of that ep felt like it was there just to stretch the run time. All that stuff with the other instructor was just a waste of time and should have been cut. We get it, he's a cartoonishly bad, bad guy. Just get to the fights already.

I enjoyed the episode, but it did feel like it got dragged out a bit because they didn't have time to for the next fight. At least, I hope that's what we find out next week and Rick doesn't steamroll North.

There is something to be said about the uncertainty and sense of being behind when you take up a new hobby or career later in life. Particularly one dominated by people much younger than yourself. Though with how young the A and B-ranks appear to be I have to question the ranking system or the gap between A and S rank. In most fictional worlds magic users grow progressively more powerful with age as they learn new spells, etc. Unless the world has some mechanic where magical power decreases with age, and we've gotten no indication that's the case here, older magic users should be more powerful than most younger ones.

It's starting to feel like the series is working a bit too hard to make anyone over thirty "over the hill" and incapable of progressing in order to make Rick seem even more exceptional.

I'm also starting to wonder where the series is going to go after the exams. He's already showing himself to potentially be equal to an A-rank. I worry this is rapidly going to turn into a standard Shonen only with an older protag.

I liked it, it was a good introduction to his semapis. And big brother blonde Ahole's shenanigans gave a good explanation of the social dynamics of this world. Plus I am really enjoying the red eyed, strong, silent, dark elf. Hot blonde elves have been done to death (looking at you fat elf) and you rarely get to see dark elves in the spotlight outside of hentai. ;)

Okay, good. They're not going to make him daft about his own strength for the entire show.

So, the dark elf is only 17 years old....

also...he single handedly defeated a monster that would normally take a full team of A Ranked or better adventurers to beat...but he still doubted that he could fight an A ranked adventurer....

@Domvina



In truth, it'll probably be both. Japanese tropes tends not to see those things as mutually exclusive; one of their major tenets is that working hard enough will reveal the secret cheat you had all along.

She's only 17 and he still just straight up asked her out?

Yeah. Have to admit I'm really disappointed. Feeds into the idea of "you can only be special if you're born special". Is that something the Japanese really believe? That you can't just be an ordinary person who through hard work and sheer determination achieves? You have to have some secret power deep within that must be awakened?

I'll keep watching, but it feels like now it's just gonna fall into the typical shonen tropes much like Kaiju no 8 did by the end. Hoping I'll be wrong.