Forum - View topic(The) World's Strongest Rearguard - Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker (TV).
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Edjwald
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(The) World's Strongest Rearguard - Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker (TV) Source: Light Novel (ongoing @ 9 volumes, written by Toowa, illustrated by Huuka Kazabana) Demographic: Animation Studio: Maho Film Genres: action, adventure, fantasy Themes: demi-humans, harem, isekai, medieval, mercenaries, reincarnation, sorcery Plot Summary: After living life as a corporate lapdog, Arihito is reborn in a fantasy world. Strangely, the class he's assigned is the very ambiguously titled "Rearguard." It seems weird, but Arihito soon figures out that, though it isn't flashy, he's gained the ability to do just about everything in battle, from assisting attacking and defending to healing. As he begins his new life, he quickly gathers curious companions: his "senior" supervisor who's younger than he is, a mysterious demi-human mercenary girl, and a gorgeous high-level swordswoman. With this bevvy of interesting ladies in his party, his journey as the greatest supporter who's ever lived begins. Air Date & Platform: July 05, 2026 (Sunday) Available on: Crunchyroll Episode Count / Runtime: Pending Trailer [EDIT: Fancy opener stuff edited. -TK] |
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Edjwald
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For years and years, every season had at least 5 isekai, and at least 3 of them were nothing but cheaply made, unoriginal rinse and repeat efforts. This one has the factory floor look, but it doesn't have the overpowered dude in a six-year old's body, and despite the title it doesn't look like the protagonist is the typical OP cut-out. If I'm gauging the trailer right, this is basically taking turn-based RPG games like Final Fantasy and putting the player on the battlefield, so to speak. A lot of this anime will be hinging on the world building if that's the case.
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smurky turkey
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I don't know man, I have watched and enjoyed a lot of mediocre to shitty isekai over time but this one is scraping the barrel. There is nothing interesting and it does not help that half the first episode consists of exposition dumping in a world and with characters you do not care about (yet). The only thing I do know about Arihito is that he is not sharpest tool in the shed with the way he went about facing dangerous monsters. I suppose some people might find the reborn slave mechanic interesting but that is a big nope from me. Add the slideshow animation and it is a drop. |
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Edjwald
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I know what you mean about the slideshow animation - the first time it hit me was when the dude's motionless cutout was superimposed over a posterboard illustration of a light. The rest of the animation wasn't quite that bad, but it wasn't that good either.
I also agree that the "mercenary" thing is just a cheap cop-out for another slave trope - they explained that humans who reincarnate into demi-humans can be enslaved directly. I thought maybe there was hope for some originality when the first monster wasn't a rabbit with a horn, but on reflection, making it a round "cottonball" doesn't make it seem like the author tried too hard to disguise the monster's inspirational origins. So, yeah, the only real things going for this are (1) it's one of the first times I've seen an en masse isekai where the protagonist wasn't crapped on, betrayed, and abandoned by the group and (2) It looks like the layout of the labyrinth county might have some internal logic and (3) the mystery of the blonde pigtailed girl, but that's not really a plus so much as a potential plus...she's obviously going to become part of the protagonists harem in progress. Not much to hang a premise or any promise on. |
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rapata
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Yeah, whatever isekai thras... connoisseur enthusiasm I had for this dissipated quite quickly. Plus points for reincarnating adults who know each other. Minus points for what felt like tens of minutes of explanations of clunky rules how things work, slave crests, bad animation, nonchalant attitude to danger, stilted dialogue. All good points were concentrated in the first few minutes, everything that followed is really not up to snuff. If the source material has redeeming qualities, the producers of this show have not found them.
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#yoobik
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Calling it "animated" feels generous. I know it's *technically* true, but I don't think I've seen a less animated anime. And the world he gets reincarnated into is so boring and bureaucratic it might as well be an afternoon at the DMV. Honnestly I'm pretty sure that if you assigned 10 random high school classes to each make 20 minute animation projects, this would be the 11th best show.
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