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Edjwald
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Roll Over and Die (TV) Source: Light Novel (completed @ 8 volumes, written by kiki, illustrated by Kinta [vol. 1–4], kodamazon [vol. 5–8]) Demographic: Animation Studio: A.C.G.T. Genres: action, drama, fantasy, psychological, romance Themes: aristocracy, betrayal, bullying, conspiracy, demons, factions, gore, knights, magical items, medieval, monsters, religious sect, revenge, slavery, sorcery, superpowers, tragedy, trauma, yuri Plot Summary: Flum has been chosen by God to be in the hero's party despite having stats of zero across the board. All she has is the "Reversal" ability that she still doesn't fully understand. Predictably, she proves useless in battle, but she refuses to give up and continues to do all she can for the party. Her partymate Jean, a genius and renowned sage, picks on her at every opportunity and eventually sells her off into slavery. Even as a slave, she's treated as incompetent and persecuted, and ultimately thrown to monsters as bait for her master's entertainment. Flum is left with two options: take up the cursed sword that inevitably brings death to its wielder, or be eaten by monsters. The moment she chooses to fight back is when the "Reversal" of her life begins... Air Date & Platform: January 08, 2026 (Thursday) Available on: Crunchyroll Episode Count / Runtime: Pending [EDIT: Fancy opener stuff edited. -TK] |
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smurky turkey
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That sure is a premiere with a lot of edge to it. Basically every cruel event you could think of happened to Flum in a short period of time. I can begrudingly accept cruel events happening to a character when it fits the setting but when it is over the top and feels artificial or mean spirited I am out. Roll Over and Die very much feels like the latter to me.
I suppose wanting to see her get revenge is a reason to watch more but I am just not feeling it. |
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Edjwald
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Yah, it's the whole Failure Frame syndrome.
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Eilavel
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Exploitation Yuri is a less common flavour for this kind of fairly standard fantasy piece, gives it something of a twist. I will probably stick with it with modest expectations, the execution was reasonable for what it is.
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rapata
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Ep 2: The bad guys are more or less moustache twirlingly evil, and everything is a bit edgy, but I still like it. But I also liked Failure Frame, or more precisely its overall air and the parts that weren't stupid, as there was quite a lot of poorly thought out stuff in it. This one seems a bit better in that respect so far.
Also, this is the first female MC I've seen who got banished from hero's party. Even though the hero's party seems to be going down in the usual way, there's at least something new in the setting in addition to the banishment being done in a very nasty way. The battle that took most of Ep 2 was a bit weird with strange abilities, I wonder how the MC wasn't more surprised about what was going, and not WTF'd out from the situation when stuff started "rotating". Ultimately it was weird in a good way, something new also here. Animation quality well acceptable. I'm not really appreciating the narrator voice here. It's only saying pretty cliched things, and probably could be just removed without losing anything important. The scenes where it speaks seem visual enough that viewers could get the point without the extra voiceover. |
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Eilavel
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MC and future girlfriend escape slavery together. OK!
Future girlfriend talks like she's still her slave. Ah, well, a misunderstanding. Having literally just been a slave and desperately tried to wash off the slave brand, they'll clear this right up. Oh, no, she's going to be a good master instead.... Why, why, why do these choices get made. Otherwise fun designs and amusing edginess. I'll probably still watch but I've no confidence at all in it rising above exploitainment. |
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rapata
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Ep 3: As a nun, your job is to hunt scoundrels? OK. Very sudden appearance of a character who I guess is going to be sticking with them from now on. The narrator voice was a bit less overused, but still some of its instances feel pretty unnecessary. Second strange battle coming up, this time the MC decided to bail out at first contact, which makes sense. Also, appears that the heroes vs. demons setup has some hook, probably the church/state is up to no good.
I'm not really seeing signs of any romantic tension between the characters, based on the tags it will come? |
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Greetings, my fellow revenge-mongers. I wasn't going to sample this, but it started to niggle at me so this morning I dove in and enjoyed the first 3 episodes. Banished from the Hero's Party used to be a mere premise, but there have been enough of them now I think we can safely designate them as a new fantasy sub-genre: fantavenge? reventasy?
There's a couple of things I like about this incarnation: 1) the MC is female. In fact, given that there is now a trio of cute girls, I wonder if this is actually a Cute Girls Doing Cute Revenge Things (CGDCRT) show? Yes, I know the revenge angle is not front and centre right now, but it's coming, I'm sure. 2) It's not like the entire party hated Flum's guts which makes it more credible. And even the a-hole that does hate her actually as a rationale: he was jealous of the time she spent with Cyrill. I have to say that Flum obviously isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. If you have a skill like Reversal, isn't using a Cursed Weapon pretty much the first thing you would try out? Anyway, pretty fun stuff so far. |
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rapata
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Ep 4: combat with spiral stuff, it's still weird but at least not the typical fantasy fare, props to the author for originality. MC is still getting some hard time, and probably more to come in next ep involving Milkit. However, maybe first signs of the yuri tag now? As a not very big surprise the church and the state are indeed shady, but still have to wonder how the demon folk have that bad PR if they're like that? Or maybe the final scene was intended to imply the demon lied, but I guess that'd be too subtle for this show.
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rapata
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Ep 5: Continuing to be about as subtle as a brick to the face, but I think a large amount of the ham is really coming from the adaptation. The underlying melodrama itself is just fine (for those who like it, and I do). No surprise, more hard times were in store for Milkit, but cleared pretty fast with a proper revenge attitude. Flum attempts to address the master/slave thing, not much success so far. In other news, I'm guessing the demon folk have sealed the god Origin away, heroes are trying to break the seal, and unbeknowst to the public breaking the seal would be: bad news for just about everyone. I suspect the merchant guy knew who was living upstairs there, and wanted them to clear some things up.
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Eilavel
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Minimal but not zero credit for at least having the MC try and reject slavery...
The thing that works least is the romance. Milkit has zero personality outside being the world's saddest girl. We don't even get the effect of at least them spending lots of time together. It's just a woeful romance so far- and that's with other similar isekai as the basis of comparison. |
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I was surprised that neither Eterna nor Flum said to the other, "what are you doing here?" which would seem like the logical question for both. Lead characters rarely baldly state a show's central narrative purpose, but Flum did when she told Milkit that she was going to pamper her to death and make her the happiest girl in the world. Yep, that's gonna be the show in a nutshell and I'm fine with that.
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rapata
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Ep 6: It's a problem that the romance stuff came out of nowhere, as it's now mostly just strange when they try to push it. I wonder if it's like this in the source material, or if they just skipped all setup in the adaptation. However, I'm sure all this goshujin-sama! problem comes from the source.
Not an action packed episode, and not a particularly satisfying slice-of-life episode either. However, the scene with Milkit and the mirror was a good one, illustrating her mental issues from her maltreatment, and the consequent alienation from the other two who are mostly trying to deal with the cosmetic issue. Or that's what I got out of it, but given this show's track record on subtlety who can say. Based on the end, next ep is going to be again more action and hard times for everyone. |
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rapata
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Ep 7: Somehow I'm looking forward to this show every week, even though it's more than a bit scrappy objectively... As one could gather from where the previous ep ended, troubles were to be had, but this time resolved quickly by another surprise character introduction. Other than the somewhat too convenient resolution, the action pieces and playing off Flum's near-immortaily work here OK. Based on the end, looks like the church probably has been up to no good lately, and Dein gets to join his comrades in a very nasty way.
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rapata
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Ep 8: another quieter episode, just setting up pieces probably to be kicked over in next ep, and some slice of life segments. Unfortunately those are again a bit off, it's not really clicking together probably maybe since there has not been sufficient setup. There's a viable attempt to set up some nice atmosphere at the end, but then the narrator just barges in again. The story itself is still not doing anything groundbreaking, but there's much worse stuff coming out every season...
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