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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:35 pm
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This was one of the season's strongest debuts, and after two episodes it ranks behind only The Apothecary Diaries as my favorite of the season. Alina is an immediately-likable and easily-relatable character, and I also find it interesting how they've made her quite busty but (at least so far) aren't acutely emphasizing that. If they make figma of her down the road, I'd get both the Guild Receptionist and Executioner versions.
In general, it's shaping up to be a fun series.
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FanGamer24
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:47 pm
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I'm still not sold on this show. I'm not sure what exactly is likable about Alina. All she does is get angry and complain, those are her only two states of emotion. The humor also seems to rely heavily on Alina's misery but the show has given me no reason to care. Her only goal is to live a carefree life because she's lazy but she's so bad at her job she winds up having to do a ton of extra work. Yeah, that's pretty funny for like a moment but this show seems to think it's really hilarious for some reason.
The only redeeming quality is that it's Cloverworks is doing this show but even then the animation hasn't really wowed me yet it's just passable.
Also what's the deal with the adventurer going on a rampage? Did the anime skip a scene or was his entire motivation really just to get back at Alina because she was a little rude? Seems like an incredibly lazy way for Alina to get exposed but if it means something interesting happens next episode I guess it's fine.
Overall I'm not impressed with this show so far and I'm not sure why people think this is one of the best shows of the season. Also the fact that Alina got handed incredible power on a silver platter for no reason outside of wishing really hard is more annoying than it is funny.
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TheReticent
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:08 pm
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FanGamer24 wrote: | I'm still not sold on this show. |
I'm with you there. The show is fine, and I can see the appeal, but for whatever reason it just hasn't grabbed me as others have. To me, it seems a little one-note: there's a boss causing her extra work, she gets frustrated, then one-shots it.
If I wasn't so busy this season, I'd probably keep up with it just for some easy entertainment, but this isn't a must-watch on my end. Hope the rest of you enjoy it, though!
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DarkAudit
Joined: 17 Oct 2020
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 11:10 pm
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I'm calling it Rieri Just Wants To Go Home.
They've nailed it so far. Alicia is oh so relatable, her receptionist outfit is adorable, and three anime_irl quotes in three lines to start episode 2.
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Mr. Mosty-Toasty
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Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 3:49 am
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The first two episodes are a good start to the show, as far as I'm concerned. Fun, relatable, and silly, and I always appreciate a good Rie Takahashi character. I'm optimistic about this one.
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TJ_Kat
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Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:25 am
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I'm a little surprised Alina got found out so quickly. I was expecting the first part of the show at the very least to be mostly about her trying to make sure no one found out. But the pacing so far has been one person finding out after another.
I am looking forward to the duel... and what it's going to cost Alina for the guild master to keep her secret.
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Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:47 am
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This show is a very pleasant surprise. I went into it assuming I'd be slumming, but it is legit entertaining. The only reason I decided to sample it was because the premise of a guild receptionist - which is a total staple character of fantasy/isekai but usually relegated to either secondary or tertiary cast status - being a hero amused me. So far, I like what the show is doing with that simple premise.
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Zefram
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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 12:40 am
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The appeal of that show is for those of us who had to suffer through working overtime, nowadays unpaid for salaried workers (since annual salary is supposed to cover both 40 hr weeks and 80 hr weeks). Until you experienced that rage where your boss gives you unreasonable amount of work to do and very short deadline, you cant understand the appeal of Alina taking that giant beautiful hammer and smashing everything on her path: unending documents flow, unreasonable customers, and monsters (ie project itself). Alina is our secret ID that just want to smash everything preventing us from leaving work on time and getting home to veg out.
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FanGamer24
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 12:48 pm
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Personally, I found this to be an improvement from the first two episodes. Alina is still annoying, and most of the humor is derived from her complaining or threatening people, but this episode at least gives her something more interesting to do.
I do hope we get an interesting battle next episode that isn't just Alina one-shotting the guy. At the very least, this episode seems to imply that Alina's combat prowess has less to do with actual skill and more to do with the fact that Dia skills are unbeatable when up against anything other than other Dia skills.
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Hellsoldier
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:29 am
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Alina is so relatable for many of us, specially for her desire to balance work and life. Millions of us are Alina at heart.
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dreamingsamurai
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Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:43 pm
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Lol. I couldn't take ep 4 seriously at all. I kept wondering why they hired Rob Liefeld to design that dungeon boss.
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Troyen
Joined: 22 May 2024
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Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 6:32 pm
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I like the two leads of this show even though this episode and the last were a bit weaker than the first two.
How to be a top-ranked adventurer party:
- Choose your party based on who whines the most, even if they're emotionally unstable and insulting your current party members.
- Make sure you stand still in open spaces when defending against ranged attacks. Don't try and use the terrain for cover, even when there are conveniently placed obstacles all around you.
- If you're told your opponent has strong regenerative abilities, it's OK to leave him in a corner while you have your heart-to-heart discussion.
I also think that since the dungeon exploration was at the guildmaster's request, she shouldn't have to be using her paid time off to help out. It would be truthful to say she's away from the counter on guild business without having to elaborate on the details. Same when approaching the portal guards, since she has the glowing emerald in her pocket.
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TJ_Kat
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Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2025 12:30 pm
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I think the paid time off was more of a cover to explain to her coworkers why she wasn't at work that day. Yes, she could have said she was away on guild business, but that would have still posed questions - like what kind of guild business would a receptionist be on. On the other hand, I'm sure everyone know how much she hates working overtime, so I doubt anyone would question her taking some PTO. Plus I'm sure whatever adventurer pay she got exploring the dungeon would have been better than her receptionist pay.
As for the portal, she was in a hurry. Even with the emerald, there would have been questions like a)why does a receptionist have that, and b)why should a receptionist be allowed to go to a new dungeon that pretty much only the Silver Sword is allowed to go to. The warhammer expedited things; if it wasn't enough to get them to move out of her way on their own, it would quickly move them out of the way forcibly.
I like that it now seems that Alina is more than her overpowered warhammer, she actually seems to have some skill too.
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The Scream Man
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Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2025 12:57 pm
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One animation touch I liked in this weeks episode was the way that Alina and her hammer hit the ground when they fell. It happened twice I think. The hammer hits and just stays still, but Alina, still gripping the handle. bounces a bit when she hits the floor. It shows the WEIGHT of her hammer, and I thought it was a really nice, Subtle little touch
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Key
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Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:33 pm
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The Scream Man wrote: | One animation touch I liked in this weeks episode was the way that Alina and her hammer hit the ground when they fell. It happened twice I think. The hammer hits and just stays still, but Alina, still gripping the handle. bounces a bit when she hits the floor. It shows the WEIGHT of her hammer, and I thought it was a really nice, Subtle little touch |
Agreed. That's not something you commonly see in series like this. Liked the way that gave her the impression of still being human even with a badass skill.
And as much as I like Alina as a character, Jade is really growing on me, too. He's got just the right balance of charm to be likable as a potential love interest.
I'm also loving both the OP and the ED, though for entirely different reasons. The former gives more of a grand, wistful sense, while the latter is supremely cutesy. Both are catchy enough that I watch them each time.
The English dub also seems quite solid, though it's disappointing that they only have ep 1 dubbed so far. (They seemed to have missed the release schedule for ep 2.)
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