Yuusha-kei ni Shosu: Choubatsu Yuusha 9004-tai Keimu Kiroku Episode 3 Discussion

The anime started with a bang 9/10

then episode 2 came out 8/10

by this episode, episode 3 it's 7/10 to me

I just don't like the monsters Skittles design it's very out of theme and the characters are quite very predictable....

if episode 4 continues the same things I'd drop it

Holy shit! Tatsuya and Norgalle character moment are amazing, Norgalle especially, even if it just delusion, his personality and character is true enough to inspire those around him and himself

The episode isn't complete without Teoritta adorable antics, such a gaki.

Wait so is this going to be a Thursday show going forward? I thought this was Saturday.

Good episode. Intense fight, but did anyone really die? Many got hurt but there were a lot of last second saves. Didn't expect that after episode 1 death count.

King may be crazy, but totally respectable guy worthy of the title. Tatsuya was also MVP.

I was delighted seeing the priest guy humbled. F off dude! Was getting sick of his arrogant smirk all the time.

Knights showed up but AS USUAL did abso-fuckin-lutely NOTHING! It's beyond pathetic at this point. Miners with enchanted tools did more than Kivia and her trash knights. Were they this f-ing useless in the novels too, I wonder? I mean, they came to help but Xylo ended up saving their asses almost immediately after.

Number of people, including Kivia look at heroes positively now.

Glad for that girl her dad was one of the few who returned.

@king3580
Totally agree.
This is a generic and uninteresting fantasy slop which had an interesting but not-mattering set dressing and a really good first episode, but it is starting to show its real colors.

The show's source material is on 6.6 on MAL, there is nothing of note behind this story, no good characters, Worldbuilding or story, only a well-animated first episode, but otherwise this is empty, and will get worse and worse.

The people who are still glazing the show, are the exact same kinds who were coping under the Lazarus forum, which was another shit show, but a few still tried to believe that it is good or will get better.

Unfortunately it looks stupid. Like, knights seem to be elite forces with best gear (certainly better than levy troops we saw charging the enemy with spears in ep1), but they're basically stormtroopers from star wars. May look cool but absolutely useless and die just as easily.

New unit or not, they should perform better than regular fodder troops. Unless their gear is from TEMU, and unless they make knights out of nobodies, there's no excuse to such poor performance. If they're "numerous pawns" it makes little sense to give them fancy gear. This may be anime-only thing, but if it sucks, it sucks.

No one says that. The problem here is, we're yet to see a single knight who's stronger or more competent than heroes. Dotta doesn't count lol.

Judging by OP, we'll see a couple more heroes. One with dragon-thing, another with a sniper rifle or something. Hopefully there'll be someone "cool" from non-hero side too.

i dont know it was just really boring for me this time

@deepole You're not the only one who thinks this. This anime suffers from content creator hyping it to oblivion and people like mindless zombies propping it up. This latest episode was no different than the average fantasy slop.

Still not getting why these people hate these guys. They all just had their lives saved and yet their families are like "but aren't they criminals?" Huh? That's what you are focused on? Same with the knights who see these church guys are useless rats. It's coming off as a little too forced. Same with him trying to keep the goddess away. "Oh but you could get hurt" Isn't that a given for someone fighting on the front lines? I realize he had a bad experience but that doesn't mean it ill happen again.

@MenchiK1

The people in the setting have been subjected to propaganda about the "heroes" being terrible, vicious criminals their whole lives, and most have probably never knowingly interacted with one until now. Even if they see one or two do something good, they'll think it's just an outlier since decades of propaganda are pretty hard to deprogram.

It's hard to call it unrealistic when the exact same dynamic is currently playing out in the contemporary U.S. (and, tbh, such parallels would be present for any time or place where groups were wrongfully demonized with the full propaganda apparatus of the ruling class), even though it correctly looks illogical from the viewers' perspective.

As for the part about the goddess getting hurt--it remains to be seen, but from these few episodes I get the impression she has a finite amount of power, and the moment she runs out she'll be vulnerable to corruption. In the first episode, he only started calling on her to help once it was needed to finish off the demon lord. He's probably worried that letting her do anything too early could leave her without enough power for a crucial moment like that. I also wonder if maybe the goddess' power is irrechargably finite to some degree, which would make him even more hesitant to let her join the battle.