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OP: 「死んだ！」 (Shinda!) by Masayoshi Ooishi
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「勇者が死んだ！？」 (Yuusha ga Shinda!?)
“The Legendary Hero is Dead!?”
For all fantasy is dominated by the cult of large transport vehicles running over NEET children these days, ‘traditional’ fantasy still has its place within anime and Yuusha ga Shinda is here to helpfully remind us of the fact. Morbidly so. Konosuba might be the comedic fantasy of choice this spring, but don’t think it’s only one on tap for your side busting requirements.
Per the RC Preview, Yuusha ga Shinda is effectively old-school fantasy-comedy wrapped in modern production. The world is at peace thanks to the legendary hero Sion sealing the demon gate – only for said seal to have failed three years later and requiring heroic intervention once again. Such intervention takes time, however, forcing the likes of local farmer Touka Scott (Toki Shunichi) to take defensive matters into his own hands, even though such preparation proves moot when Sion shows up to save the day. And die at the hands of Touka’s trap. Oh yes, you know where this heads next. Dead hero? Not happening, especially when resident kusogaki necromancer Anri Haysworth (Taketatsu Ayana) is around to ensure Sion keeps on trucking by literally sealing Touka’s soul inside his corpse as recompense for his actions. The quest for world salvation shall continue until victory is achieved, no matter how ludicrous the setup may be.
The key for Yuusha ga Shinda’s premise is of course the comedy. Besides the ridiculous nature of dead hero being remade from local farmer providing its own barrel of laughs, you can get the first whiffs of what’s coming thanks to Touka’s personality and his relationships. What’s that, lascivious interloper? Oh yes – but we’re talking a man of thighs rather than breasts this time around. Got to admit, while the pervy persona is cliché as hell now, having someone else appreciate the finer things in life (thigh highs are my demise just saying) is a pretty nice breath of fresh air, particularly when paired with Touka flipping the childhood friend script with his close confidant Yuna Eunice (Yamamura Hibiku). Girl chasing guy? Not this time around, here it’s all about the pesky radish lover wanting the little blondie to find love in the one location she hasn’t looked. Easy to guess just what scenes to look forward to thanks to this, but given then sheer chaos at work, I expect it’ll wring quite a bit of entertainment out of the concept before it grows stale.
Helping in the above too is the story at work. Although the objective of having Touka-as-Sion complete Sion’s quest is front and centre, there’s already some tendrils of conflict courtesy of Anri’s necromancy being universally taboo, Touka utterly lacking the magic power required to both maintain Sion’s body and perform basic hero actions, and former hero party members out to take advantage of the situation. Expect lots of struggle, lots of personal discovery, and with the whole ecchi arrangement, lots of slapstick comedy to tie it all together, especially once the real enemies start appearing and forcing Touka’s hand. In short expect plenty of insanity and once this one hits the gas.
While a few more episodes will be needed to see just how well Yuusha ga Shinda holds up, if you need a bit of good old-fashioned ecchi comedy to keep the season fun look no further than this. Cliché potentially, conventional sure, but I for one am quite interested seeing just where this show goes.
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ED Sequence
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ED: 「可愛くって意地悪しちゃう」 (Kawaikutte Ijiwaru Shichau) by Yurika Kubo
Preview
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Yuusha ga Shinda has a direct sequel manga which started last year.
https://urasunday.com/title/2035
Unfortunately it is now on indefinite hiatus due to mangaka’s health issues.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-04-04/the-legendary-hero-is-dead-spinoff-manga-goes-on-indefinite-hiatus/.196770
Ah yes, Yuusha ga Shinda. This series is supposed to be trash for trash lovers, but it has honestly great world-building and story, and its necromancers (the main villains of the story) are the most interesting necromancers I have seen in both western and Japanese fantasy stories due to how creatively they use their necromantic powers (so it’s not just raise zombies and send them to attack).
The opening worries me a little as it contains stuff that shouldn’t happen in the next 12 episodes, and that suggests that the pacing will be fast and a lot of stuff might be cut. Though maybe I should not complain, the Manga has ended years ago and one must always be thankful when a finished Manga gets an anime adaptation.
I expect some rushing just because adaptation, but given the manga is complete there’s some hope we get decent pacing, Will be interesting seeing how many episodes this winds up being.
The Legendary Hero Shion and one of his allies, Anri, are both jokes. I guess their success was due to educated guesses and luck. To me, “Yuusha ga Shinda!” almost seems like it will be another Konosuba. Which means we could see Touka save his own skin often when things get complicated.
I was expecting a more serious Anime based on the title “Yuusha ga Shinda!” and what AniDB said this Anime was—that’s my fault.
Considering the humour it will be like Konosuba, but IMO a better relation is Slayers or similar late 90s/early 2000s comedic fantasies. It’s not so much a parody as a basic slapstick which contains a legitimate plot.
Okay I didn’t think much of it from the key visual and the description but now that I see the thumbnails …….. yeah this looks REALLY funny.
Humour was on point this episode, just have to hope it keeps up!
That opening sure shows what this show is all about.
https://randomc.net/image/Yuusha%20ga%20Shinda/Yuusha%20ga%20Shinda%20-%20OP%20-%2005.jpg
That said, kinda disappointed that it was rather hard to see the thighs of the two thick thighs onee-sans. Had to rewind, and it definitely focused on the breasts. Episode director needs to get his priorities straight. XD
Though rather fast, the episode was a fun ride.
I’m already resigned to the number of full-sized images I’ll need to take because the thiccness is going to be ridiculous here lol.
Just like Gintama, this show quickly builds a story worth paying attention to in a well built world. But never stops being funny like some shows.
Likely down to the story. Since there’s a defined path with a proper end it makes it easy to keep generating situations which lead to humour. Slice of life or similar series often fall off because you eventually run out of scenarios which haven’t been seen before to put the characters in.