Forum - View topicI'm Quitting Heroing (TV).
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Stark700
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I'm Quitting Heroing (TV) Genres: action, adventure, comedy, fantasy Themes: Plot Summary: Leo is a hero who once saved the world from a demon army's invasion. However, he was feared and ostracized by people afterward, and ended up with no job. Feeling that his skills would be better appreciated elsewhere, he joins the demon lord's army that he once fought. Now in a new work environment, Leo strives to use his skills and revive the demon army that is on the brink of collapse. Apr. 5, 2022 (Tuesdays; HIDIVE) |
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Yttrbio
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Episode 4:
Yeesh. I think we're supposed to be sympathetic to demon queen's invasion explanation, but it's not meaningfully different than that given by Hitler or Putin ("Our suffering is correlated to the prosperity of our neighbors, so we must invade for our own people's sake"). I hope the show isn't going into yet another "now our main character participates in killing/enslaving/oppressing an entire society, and it's good!" path. But it sometimes feels like I'm the only person who gets antsy when shows glorify murder, so I'm definitely expecting to be disappointed. Everything else about the show I love, though. I will definitely be sad to see it go if it does. |
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Snake_snack
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Well she did make it a point to not kill people, and her only goal was their "power source". So she is infinitely better than any real world conqueror from history. |
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DuskyPredator
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Episode 12 (finale)
I do think that the show had some interesting parts when it got into the true nature of the hero, Leo, that he was more inhuman than most, and that he was afraid that his own nature would turn him into a threat to people in needing a purpose. He didn't get his sacrificial dying and leave everything to the others, would seem that they thought the sacrifice was not worth it. I do wonder if the show remembered that they are supposed to be on a time crunch with the portal closing. My rating is going to be Good (7/10). I liked all the sympathetic view of monster characters, and I think at an earlier time I might have been even more into it. |
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Blood-
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I'm Quitting Watching This Show!!!... now that it's over. Actually, that's not quite true since I read that HiDive will be streaming two OVAs and while I wasn't bowled over by this offering, I guess I'll check them out. Basically, the show managed to do the absolute minimum required to keep me tuned in. I actually did drop it at one point but then returned and barely liked it enough not to perma-drop. I give it a So-so rating. I might have rated higher if they'd given us some naked Shutina fan service, but they didn't, the bastards.
I give it props for telling a complete story with an actual ending in 1-cours, unlike many, many other anime adaptations. |
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InfiniteJest
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Wow. That was painful. It started weak enough. Generic OP MC and some nice cute demon gals. And then...it went NOWHERE. It wasn't even funny. Hope it's not a spoiler to say WTH with his got no parts twist? Then his I don't wanna be here twist. And then the Nice demons are all huggy the end. Blah. What a generic piece of dreck.
If I hadn't been watching it while I was working I'd have considered cancelling my HIDIVE account in protest of this crap. I have nothing good to say about it other than for a brief few episodes I thought it might end up being a cute rom-com kinda thing with Leo and Steina...but that's not happening. So literally...there was nothing I ended up enjoying about this show. I tried. I really tried. But it beat me. |
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Chiibi
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@InfiniteJest I don't agree that this was "generic dreck" in the least bit.
This show had a lot of surprises and was definitely one of the better fantasy shows featuring a demon world. I liked how not everything was so black and white...and the realistic theme that humans would be terrified of a hero that is TOO powerful. Leo's true story was quite profound and made me think about life. (and excuse you but Leo and Echnida are the obvious ship here) 
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InfiniteJest
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@Chiibi, All respect to your well written response. I understand that demons (others) aren’t uniformly evil. Just started World Trigger for instance and so far that’s doing it well. And I didn’t mind Echidna but Steina all the way for me. Maybe it’s the glasses..
To be fair maybe if I hadn’t just watched a bunch of other Isekai (mostly junk) I’d have been more forgiving. But Heroing just got released late into the cycle and didn’t bring anything gripping to the table. So it feels very typical and bland to me except for the twists which were not welcome. One twist sabotages shipping anything and the other seems contrived. If anything I felt like the show didn’t know what it wanted to be. It started as a traditional fantasy and had an emphasis on goofy humor then shifted to almost time traveling high tech angst. Maybe if it had been done over 3 seasons but all packed into 1 made it feel rushed, random, and frenetic. All IMHO of course. I will say that once I’d decided I was finishing it though I will admit I kinda liked the two *bonus episodes for their light hearted tomfoolery. Still not seeing any reason to return to this world. Unless of course it is about Steina, then sign me up! All that being said it’s way better than My Isekai life which I couldn’t even finish. |
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Chiibi
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Well, I CAN sympathize with you on "Isekai/fantasy burnout". Because while a handful of them are unique, a LOT are very similar....and when I preview each new anime season, I'm constantly going "OH NO. NOT ANOTHER ONE".
  And there were definitely some I dropped before the first episode ended.
Have you checked out 'The Executioner and Her Way of Life'? Without spoiling the first episode, I have a feeling you would love it lol. |
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InfiniteJest
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Haven’t seen or heard of that one but I’ll go find it and take a look. Thanks!
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