Chillin' in My 30s after Getting Fired from the Demon King's Army is just another mediocre light novel anime adaption. That’s it.
From the Beast Tamer-like start of having our Mediocre Protagonist fired from his job that he’s good at in the mediocre Demon Kings army by a bunch of mediocre higher ups who will come to regret it later, to every other fantasy/isekai light novel anime you could think of having a love interest sporting plunging cleavage barely held in by tissue paper clothing, who immediately want’s to jump of the protagonists rod as soon as he said anything, there is literally nothing in this anime you haven’t seen in similar shows of it’s type.
Even with how thoroughly pedestrian it is on the whole, I will admit there are some things I like about it. I like that the demons are basically just humanoids who can use magic, making them a bit more relatable that your usual demon king army, and I like that the protagonist takes a pacifist approach to resolving conflict. It would be really easy for main protag-kun Dariel to just wipe all his enemies off the map because, y’know, it’s a male power fantasy light novel anime. Of course he’s secretly overpowered in some convoluted way thanks to the human side of the power system. However, he does his best to resolve conflicts through talks and reasoning, bringing both the demon and human sides together to mutually benefit from each other without the need for bloodshed. It’s a nice message.
Unfortunately, whilst Dariel is good at solving problems, he's dense as fuck and it’s get annoying quickly. You’d think being constantly grabbed and openly flirted at by the giant pair of breasts called Marika would tip him off to the feelings she has for him for some undisclosed reason. But nope, not Dariel. He is a member of the 24/7, 28-31/12, 12/1 no-nut-november club, and no mommy milkers are getting his way, no matter how plunging the cleavage is when you push those melons together (as of episode 4). He’s also just not very interesting as a character to follow either. Another protagonist with barely any personality so the viewer can live vicariously through him. That can be said of all the other faces in this show. There is nothing here you haven’t seen before.
What really seals the mediocre deal on this show for me is it’s below average art and animation. The art looks like a quick rush job, it’s barely animated and when it is it looks cheap. I’ve seen a few pages of the manga because I like to read along with new shows when they’re airing, and the artist style for that has way more personality and character than this cheap looking imitation of something like Sword Art Online.
In conclusion… I get kinda see way people would like this show. Despite it’s glaring flaws and rip-offs of other fantasy light novel concepts, it is nicely paced and I like the over-arching theme of the story. I probably would’ve kept watching it if I had the time, but I don’t and I’m not wasting it on another cheap, mediocre light novel adaption of a mediocre story I’ve seen multiple times before, containing somehow less interesting characters. Your *sigh* light novel fantasy needs to do more than just having a clingy waifu with plunging cleavage always on display to keep my interest.
4/10 Disappointment.
