July 04, 2024
Mid-life Adventuring Crisis
Continuing the trend of stealing short titles from .clue. Because we ain't got time to keep typing Shinmai Ossan Boukensha, Saikyou Party ni Shinu hodo Kitaerarete Muteki ni Naru or "The Ossan Newbie Adventurer, Trained to Death by the Most Powerful Party, Became Invincible".
My god, that is the WORST OP song I have ever heard fifteen seconds of. Even muted, there were at least three WTF reactions elicited from me.... Fantasy world building, with RPGs, missile launchers, and a rocket powered scooter? I'm not sure a busty dark elf maid with really stickin'-out ears can redeem this.... But let's continue.
I'm sure the loli demon/succubus is going to annoy the fuck out of me.
Guild headquarters... that's a LOT of alcohol on the wall. Our Hero Rick is there to take his E-rank test, and look, it's his old co-worker, Nami from One-Piece! And a drunken adventurer is hitting on her! Oh No! And... nothing of note happens. He passes out before he gets a well-deserved beating from either of them. (Only it turns out later he laid a hurt on the guy without anyone noticing.)
But just as well, Reanette, the busty dark elf maid is outside waiting for him. We can tell because it takes quite a while for the camera to move up and show her face, concentrating on her more distinctive features instead.
Don't worry, he doesn't linger on it long before he stares at her tits again, and she calls him on it. I'm sure this is the start of a running gag. Or limping. There isn't any budget for Gainaxing, alas.
So, Testing sequence. Hey, it's the magic measuring crystal ball from the last show making another appearance. And the same gag about it cracking. Although our hero Rick measures an F-. Clearly there's something afoot magically.
At the punching bag test, enter antagonist #1, the Duke's 11 year old son who is tremendously full of himself. He casts a fireball that is barely a damp fizzle, and everyone's impressed. Then we cut to a flashback of Rick getting chased down by a bus-sized fireball the loli shoots at him for training.
The gimmick should be pretty obvious at this point. His trainers were so over the top that while he thinks he barely measures up to them, he's light years past everyone else. So when he goes to punch the green slime bag, after training fifty-thousand punches on a GOLD slime bag, he annihilates it, and the wall, and covers every horrified person in the room with slime. Same kind of thing with defensive magic. And then he aces a written test because he was a Guild Receptionist.
When Antagonist #1 finds him outside on a bench with Reanette, he starts crying about how he was supposed to make a fantastic debut and Rick ruined it by outshining him. Enter Antagonist #2, his big sister Angelica, who blames him for making Freed cry. (The smirk on his face when she turns on him makes it look like it was an act.) She challenges Rick to a duel. You can guess where this is going.
Yeah, she's overconfident, being the Royal Knights equivalent of a B-rank adventurer. She proposes that the loser be the other's slave for life. Rick is intimidated, still not believing in his own strength. Her skill is super speed, which seems molasses slow to him. He keeps dodging her attack until she trips on a rock and stumbles, and her spinning "attack" as she tumbles impresses him, although he still dodges it. The next time she trips and slides at his feet, he punches the ground and leaves a substantial crater. She realizes that if that had connected, it would be game over, so she surrenders. And then backs out of her promise by running away, at speed.
Okay, hopefully they've used up this joke by the end of this episode. We get it, he thinks he's e-rank, but he's actually a monster. Enough already.
Reanette is basically a piece of furniture, delivering supporting lines and has the camera focused on her bust about as much as her face is shown. She's busty, sure, but there's not enough there there to make her a character worth following. She's barely animated at all. But then, nobody seems to be. She doesn't move enough to dislodge a single hair, let alone jiggle.
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