Sara Talks Anime

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Yet another Preliminary Opinion post where I have to rewrite the intro? Yup. Anyway, I don’t commonly pick up shows with super long names, but I decided to pick up this one because the concept genuinely sounded interesting. Did it follow through, at least in the first three episodes? Let’s find out.

The series follows Alina Clover, a guild receptionist who wants to break free from overtime hell and live a carefree life, only keeping the job due to all the security it provides. But this girl has a secret. To try and cut down on her overtime, she sneaks out as an adventurer named The Executioner, and solos bosses that are forcing her to work overtime.

However, during one of the times that Alina was soloing a boss to allow her to clock out on time, someone actually managed to figure out her identity…and now they’re trying to recruit her into a guild, even though receptionists aren’t allowed to be adventurers. This is the main conflict for at least this stretch of episodes: having Alina keep her job while still being able to clock out on time, and evade getting recruited into the Silver Sword due to her job as a receptionist.

Our main character Alina has a Dia skill, which is the top kind of skill in this world. These are actually especially rare, with very few having been awakened. While very few Dia skills have been awakened, however, there are still plenty of Sigurth skills and regular skills, and every adventurer (plus Alina) has access to one or more skills.

As of the first three episodes, the members of The Silver Sword, as well as the head of The Adventurer’s Guild know that Alina is The Executioner. That is all I will say on that front, as I’m not a fan of giving out massive spoilers.

While I’ve found the jokes in the series funny so far, nobody’s sense of humor is exactly the same, so just because I find the jokes funny doesn’t mean you will find them funny.

The animation also feels like it fits in with the world. It’s good when it needs to be, and the direction of it is clear. Not every single show needs to be Jujitsu Kaisen or Demon Slayer with colors flashing on the screen all the time…just from what I’ve heard, I’ve never watched either show.

And the theme songs! The opening is good, but not a song I am going to be actively searching for. The ending is also a great song. It’s a great up-beat J-Pop track that serves the purpose of an ending well. Heck, it found a place in my playlist, if that’s any sort of measure of how good it is. But considering some of the other songs in my playlist, I don’t know how valid of a measure this is.

This section was originally closer to the end, but I decided that I’d rewrite it and move it earlier because I didn’t like how small the word count was once I cut out all the unnecessary shit for a text post. The characters are incredibly developed, and I can definitely see any of them existing in the real world. Probably the only character that I can 100% say that I hate is that one guy who was all like “give me a secret quest!”, because honestly, that was just annoying. Though I guess he fulfilled his role well, so he’s still technically a good character.

The series streams on Crunchyroll, with the first two episodes currently being available to free users, and premium users will have access to episodes as they are simulcast! But just to try and make money, Crunchyroll will probably only make the first three episodes available for free users. I hate capitalism because of this.