This format is getting a bit hard to justify with most series already being up to six episodes....

So, "Starting life in another world with my big sister," yeah, another questionable title translation.

Opening scene is after the adventure is already established, but it then jumps back to the beginning of the setup. Which is pure Isekai Trope. Our hero, Ikusaba Asahi, pushes a little girl out of the way of a car and gets killed. Looking down on the scene from the darkness, he's satisfied that the girl is alright, is annoyed that the new game he was waiting for hadn't come out yet, and misses his sister, Maya. Suddenly a light appears that sucks him in and dumps him on a outcropping outside of a medieval town, and a dragon flies by.  Then they totally hang a lampshade on the fact that there are signs in English and everyone speaks Japanese. Interesting to me is the total lack of divine intervention - No goddesses to explain the situation. But he's played enough games to know what to do, he sells his non-functional phone to get his starting gear and shows up at the adventurer's guild. And of course, there's a cute girl receptionist. Everything is going according to plan....

Then when he goes on his first quest to hunt "Killer" bunnies, he randomly encounters a huge wyvern just as he leaves town....

In the pressure to not die, he finally pulls up a stats screen, and while most Isekai'ed heroes have SOME cheat skill up their sleeves, he's got Level 1 rock throwing, which is useless. Where most people might be crying for their mommies about now, he calls out his sister's name, and she is summoned. She suddenly powers up, and kills the wyvern with a single punch.

She has a massive obsession with her little brother, it seems. Turns out he's merely in a Coma. As she waited faithfully by his bedside, he talked about the other world he was in, so she decided to join him.... by bashing her head against the wall until she was out too! And it turns out she has no idea how to get back either.

The story then resumes where it was at the opening, where Maya totally steps on Asahi's attempt to defend a village from the Three Orc brothers. (BTW, Maya's adventuring outfit borrows a whole lot of cues from Yoko from Gurran Lagan, but with the middle ages twist.) Asahi may be the nominative hero, but the story is about Maya being the one who is totally OP (and perverted towards her little brother).

Unfortunately, Maya's power gets attributed to Asahi, so he goes flying up the guild ranks, which he can't really justify, and which could get him in serious trouble. And of course, rather than say, registering Maya with the guild and getting everything straight, they set up for future hijinks by deciding she needs to keep her skills secret and keep pretending it's really him.

The end scene shows the big rival, a hot demoness who is so overpowered she's bored. She sensed Maya's arrival, and hopes to fight to the death.

In the second episode...

The demoness basically one-hits the top adventuring team who left to take her on in the previous episode. Asahi sneaks out of the inn to try to take on quests on his own so he can gain EX and be stronger on his own. And Maya... she is seduced by Asahi's still warm blankets.... It's so over the top it's actually funny more than creepy.

The adventurer's guild girl is named Tanya. She has tanned skin and pinkish hair. She presents Asahi with two quests that his inflated "Ogre Class" rank qualifies for, which would surely kill him. He somehow manages to impress her by asking for something simple, close to town so that he can come back quickly just in case of an emergency, so she gives him a mushroom picking quest (with a beware of bear warning).

Of course the bear shows, and chases him, and out of the blue, a bolt of magic blasts the bear, and the shockwave sends him flying into a pair of breasts. Only it's not who he expected, it's not Maya, but the demoness. She seems tickled by Asahi calling her big sister. When a dozen bears show up, she throws him in the air, one shots them all, and catches him. Killing that many bears provokes the forest guardian, the Kaiser Bear, and he's heard of her, referring to the demoness as Kilmaria of Corruption. After she one-hits the Kaiser Bear, she identifies herself as one of the Demon King's six generals. Then she reassures him that she won't hurt him, because she has zero interest in fighting weaklings. But then she asks if he's heard of an adventurer named Ikusaba Asahi, because she's heard about this guy flying up the guild rankings and all the one-hit kills he's made, and she'd love to fight him to the death.

He tries to sneak off, but he drops his ID/rank coin from the guild, and she sees it, and reads his name... Seems like the jig is up....

But Maya has a flash of Spidey-Sense! Will she get there in time?

Of course, it's only episode 2.

Kilmaria is flying after Asahi as he's running away ("That's cheating!"), and a sudden blast splits them up, sending Asahi into another pair of breasts, but there's no mistaken identity this time.

Kilmaria comes over to confront whoever interrupted her fight with this legendary hero. Maya says she felt that Asahi was in danger, that his virtue was threatened....

The look on Kilmaria's face is priceless!

They come to blows! They are both shocked that one hit didn't end it!

Their epic battle is totally off the scale, and they're evenly matched! But eventually Maya prevails. However Asahi won't let her finish Kilmaria off (After all, she saved him from bears several times).

The episode finishes with them returning home, having dinner made from the mushrooms, and Maya taking a bath that might be more visible on a BlueRay.

All in all, I found it funny, and the OP promises lots of cute girls. That they drop to a lower art style for reaction shots is a little cheap, but okay. And they managed to set up the series in two episodes, which is rare. I imagine that some people might be turned off by Maya's over the top brother fixation, but it's played for laughs rather than being as creepy as some other shows.

Posted by: Mauser at May 14, 2023 12:20 PM (BzEjn)

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