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Review: My standing as an assassin clearly surpasses that of a hero.
This review provides a critical analysis of the anime 'My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's.' The show started with an interesting premise but failed to live up to its potential due to a poor storyline, sudden romance, and inconsistent character motivations. The reviewer expresses disappointment, giving the show a 6 out of 10, and concludes that it's a typical isekai storyline with wasted potential.
1. 🎬 Introduction and Plot Summary of the Anime
- ✅ This review covers the anime 'My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's.'
- ✅ Akira Oda and his high school classmates are summoned to another world.
- ✅ Other students are granted cheat abilities, but Akira gets the ability of an ordinary assassin.
- ✅ Akira's status soon exceeds that of the hero, the most powerful class.
- ⚠️ After suspecting the king behind the summoning, he is framed for a crime and forced to flee.
00:01 - 00:47
1. 🎬 Introduction and Plot Summary of the Anime
- ✅ This review covers the anime 'My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's.'
- ✅ Akira Oda and his high school classmates are summoned to another world.
- ✅ Other students are granted cheat abilities, but Akira gets the ability of an ordinary assassin.
- ✅ Akira's status soon exceeds that of the hero, the most powerful class.
- ⚠️ After suspecting the king behind the summoning, he is framed for a crime and forced to flee.
00:48 - 03:12
2. 🤔 Interesting Premise and Potential
- ✅ The show is an isekai following the edgy boy assassin Akira.
- ✅ The show started pretty well with great fight scenes and direction.
- ✅ Akira is passive, cautious, and tries not to stand out.
- ✅ He roams the castle to gather information and discovers secrets.
- ✅ I like the idea of having a passive and cautious character with an assassin job.
- ✅ He can be someone who can kill people if needed.
- ⚠️ However, not much happens in the show.
03:13 - 05:37
3. 🪞 Storyline Issues: Rushed Power Acquisition and Companions
- ⚠️ Akira is framed for a crime, flees, and enters a dungeon.
- ✅ In the dungeon, he meets a silver-haired girl inside a slime.
- ✅ Akira rescues her, and she accompanies him on his journey.
- ✅ He also persuades a monster to become his companion.
- ⚠️ After 3 episodes, Akira has an assassin stronger than the hero, powerful shadow abilities, a companion skilled in magic, and a powerful monster companion.
- ⚠️ Why rush the power acquisition in the isekai?
- ⚠️ Why does the isekai cram everything in at the beginning and then have no progress later?
05:39 - 08:14
4. 👑 Elf Kingdom Storyline: Poor and Unnecessary
- ❌ The elf kingdom storyline is really poor.
- ⚠️ The elves teleport in, ready to ambush us.
- ⚠️ The reason the elves are against us is because the elf girl is a princess.
- ⚠️ Her sister wants to eliminate her.
- ⚠️ This storyline could have been removed, and nothing would have changed.
- ✅ We learn that the elf princess can revive people.
- ⚠️ Other characters disappear in the next arc and are never seen again.
- ✅ Again, we now have an assassin stronger than the hero, super shadow abilities, a companion who can revive people, and a super strong monster cat.
08:15 - 10:17
5. 😈 Introduction of Graham: Villain and Moral Dilemma
- 😈 The story is mainly about Graham.
- 😈 Graham is a villain and a criminal.
- 😈 He kidnaps, traffics, sells, and drugs people.
- 😈 He has a drug trade and production line.
- 😈 People ask Akira to eliminate him.
- ⚠️ Akira has moral issues with assassinating people.
- ✅ He is not used to killing people and wonders if he can return to his family.
- ✅ The problem is that Graham is not hindering him.
- ⚠️ Graham is endangering everyone he knows and himself.
10:18 - 11:18
6. 👹 Demons and the Relationship Between Akira and the Elf Princess
- 👹 We are introduced to demons.
- 👹 We fight demons.
- 👹 They go their way, and we go our way.
- 👹 Nothing comes out of that storyline.
- 👹 We are introduced to the backstory of demons and the demon king.
- ⚠️ The relationship between Akira and the elf princess is a problem.
- ⚠️ From the beginning, the princess seems to like him, but he doesn't reciprocate at all.
- ⚠️ There is no development in the episodes.
11:19 - 15:35
7. 💔 Sudden Romance and Inconsistent Character Motivation
- ⚠️ The next big point is when she gets kidnapped, and he says, \"I have to rescue her. She is the most important person to me in this world. I love her.\"
- ⚠️ It comes out of nowhere.
- ⚠️ There is no development.
- ⚠️ There is no romance.
- ⚠️ They don't slowly get to know each other.
- ⚠️ It was done very poorly in the anime.
- ⚠️ There are too many problems with the show.
- ✅ The style art was good.
- ✅ The animation was solid, and the voice acting was natural.
- ⚠️ The story was too poor.
- ⚠️ The elf storyline destroyed everything.
- ⚠️ The romance relationship came out of nowhere.
- ⚠️ The demon story happens.
- ⚠️ He has trouble using shadow powers.
- ⚠️ The shadow powers are not explained at all.
- ⚠️ Everyone is telling him, \"Eliminate Graham Cracker.\"
- ⚠️ He says, \"I'm going to meet him to see if he deserves to die.\"
- ⚠️ A character that Akira is close to and considers a good friend dies.
- ⚠️ Graham says, \"Oh yeah, this character died over nothing, and I watched it.\"
- ⚠️ Akira thinks he should kill him.
- ⚠️ Not because of kidnapping, murder, or drugging.
- ⚠️ He mocked his friend's death.
- ⚠️ He deserves to die.
- ⚠️ Akira asks his girlfriend, \"If I kill someone, will you look at me differently?\"
- ⚠️ She says, \"I don't care. You are you, and I am me, and I will love you no matter what.\"
- ⚠️ There was a lot of potential, but it was not realized.
15:36 - 16:25
8. ⭐ Final Verdict: Potential but Disappointing
- ⭐ Any list gave it 67%.
- ⭐ My anime list gave it a 6.7.
- ⭐ I would give it a 6 out of 10.
- ⭐ In the end, it's just okay.
- ✅ The characters had potential.
- ✅ There could have been good development.
- ✅ He could have been an assassin helping his hero friends from the shadows.
- ✅ A lot could have been done.
- ⚠️ In the end, it's a typical isekai storyline with some poor arcs and a romance that came out of nowhere.