I've actually been really good this season at keeping up with everything I are watching, so on the weekend, I get some progress on the back catalog. In this case I finished off Yuusha, Yamemasu or, "I'm quitting heroing". What started off as the hero, shunned by the humanity he saved, going over to the demon army to offer his services took a very different turn as it finally came out that he was a living bioweapon 3000 years old, with an indelible program to protect humanity, but then a feeling of purposelessness when he brought peace. He knew from observing Echidna when he defeated her invasion, and from working for her in disguise, that the Demon Queen was actually a good ruler and could make peace between the demon and human worlds. So his power core ("Philosopher's stone") would be in good hands and used to uplift the demon world once he forced her and her generals to kill him. Otherwise he might find himself compelled to nearly destroy the world just to imperil it again so he could follow his program to save it.

So yikes, he's got a suicide plan, but he can't just do it himself. Of course, he's made such good friends of them all, they can't really do it until he really forces their hands. And just when they have him laid out after a two episode battle, they come up with a disgustingly facile solution to his order, and everything is good again.

Then I discovered I only had the first half of the OVA, but I found the other half, which just has the main cast go to a haunted onsen resort.

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