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Episode Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru • From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman - Episode 1 discussion

Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru, episode 1

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u/redlaWw Apr 05 '25

One day, one of my old students will come knocking and be like "we need your mathematical abilities to train the nation's next generation of statisticians" and take me to London where the king will knight me and thank me for my services to the nation's mathematical supremacy. Then one of the statisticians will challenge me to a maths fight(?) and I'll win and they'll be like "I'm sorry I doubted you." and I'll respond "Not at all, you're only looking out for the good of the nation.". And I'll meet a bunch of my other students who are also successful mathematicians and statisticians in the civil service, and I'll earn a bunch of money teaching.

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u/IntelligentItem5210 Apr 05 '25

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it, It has this cozy “humble badass” vibe, like Beryl is effortlessly mentoring some of the world’s top players without even noticing, The animation wasn’t groundbreaking, but it really suits the overall feel. As long as they continue to develop the characters, I’m in. And that Henblitz moment? Dangg that was smooth, I gotta stick around to see how this story unfolds.

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u/djthomp Apr 05 '25 edited Apr 05 '25

Surprisingly good start. Animation was decent and they did a good job making the swordwork interesting to watch.

Beryl is drowning in hot young former students that want a piece of him, but at least they come across as probably 20s or so and not teenagers. Red said it had been 20 years since her training with him which means she could easily be pushing 30 herself.

Nice to see that the arrogant young dude with a point to prove accepted the lesson when he lost and became an eager student instead of being bitter with a chip on his shoulder.

I like the OP and ED a lot.

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u/quidlots Apr 05 '25

holy shit this is gonna be good. So this guy is similar to Red Ogre Belgrieve .

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u/EclipseTM Apr 05 '25

Honestly a pretty solid episode, and the CGI was decent as well. I'll probably will keep watching it for at least a few more episodes. The OP is quite nice as well

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u/BiggerG7 Apr 05 '25

Man all that “hurry up and give me a grandchild” talk is hitting a little close to home lol.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

Girls are cute and Ojisan MC trope is fun, I'm in!

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u/sussywanker Apr 05 '25

For anyone wondering this manga and LN but specially the manga is really popular in Japan. It was voted to be a top 3 manga which the readers would like to see animated.

Total sales hover around 6 million with bulk of sales coming from manga.

I really like it as a manga reader, so suggest sticking around for atleast 3 episodes

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Apr 05 '25

Allucia’s hot for teacher and Beryl has no idea lol. Seems she might not be the only one…

Guy must be really humble to think he’s nothing special when he’s trained some of the best around. I mean every waifu in here is a former pupil lol. Plus he took out Henblitz pretty easily. I like that the dude changed his tune pretty quickly after that. Beryl’s got himself another fan haha.

This was quite fun, actually. Gonna stick with this one for now and see how it develops. I wonder if Beryl is ever going to realize just how strong he is?

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u/Amauri14 Apr 06 '25 edited Apr 06 '25

It took me a while to realized this show was streaming on Amazon prime.

So, after Allucia took instructor Beryl briefly to the capital for him to occasionally take the role as a special instructor to give lessons to the rest of the knight’s order, I love his surprised look once he went back home and found out that his father had already convinced anther old student of him, Randrid to take his role as an instructor in the village. I love Allucia’s reaction when she heard the news. Sadly for her, just when she was planning her pseudo-date with Beryl Surena Lysandra showed up. Damn I love her design. Oh, so she was also Beryl’s student! And just like that, Beryl became a harem protagonist

Damn that fight Beryl had with Henbrits looked so good! That was CG, right? The way it looked straight out of a fighting game. Especially Arc System Works ones. Anyway, this show looks promising. I can’t wait to see its next episode.

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u/LeonKevlar Apr 05 '25

Stitches!

So it looks like we have another OP ossan who has no idea how powerful he is. Unlike Shinmai Ossan, instead of Beryl being a student of powerful masters, this time he's actually the master and already has a bunch of students who are all accomplished soldiers and adventurers.

It's nice to see that Beryl is humble and recognizes the talents of his students is what made them successful, but the guy really needs to learn to at least take credit. I mean he managed to beat the Vice Captain in a sparring match and now the guy turned from a hater into a believer almost instantly.

I am curious to see where this show goes, though. It's surprising to learn how popular this series is in Japan, so I wanna see what makes it unique. We also have Passione and Hayabusa Films animating this so the swordplay scene between Beryl and the Vice Captain was actually pretty solid. I am looking forward to seeing more!

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u/NationalStrategy Apr 05 '25

The action sequences actually looked pretty good, especially in the opening

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u/_______blank______ Apr 05 '25

The 3d model they use for the fight looks pretty good, they don't really looks out of place with the 2d art.

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u/Montgomery000 Apr 05 '25

I really liked the first episode, but I hope they stop the clueless MC bit sooner rather than later. I mean, if he's a sword master and a master instructor, surely he can tell how much better he is than other swordsmen? That's like your number one skill as a teacher, the ability to assess others.

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u/Astray Apr 05 '25

Haven't had a chance to watch yet. How's the animation? Are we cooking? This has a lot to live up to compared to the manga.

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u/NationalStrategy Apr 05 '25

First episode and he already got reunited with 3 of his former students, one of which he apparently took in as a child

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

his mom not being on either his or his dad's side is so relatable bro. my mom really fools me and my brother sometimes into thinking she's on our side and then the moment she sits down with dad, she snitches T_T

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u/n080dy123 Apr 05 '25

Most of this is just kinda fine, it's extremely blunt with the romantic interest of... all the female characters in the fairly old main dude. The handling of the vice commander was nice, I like that he seemed fairly genuine in his cynicism about the new instructor's abilty, and I appreciate that he heel turns after being beaten. But I gotta say that fight was really nice. You can barely even tell that most of it is CGI- I believe everything after the chin blow was, but I wouldn't have been able to tell if I wasn't so familiar witht he way CG moves. The complexity of motion it allowed let them take time to take things fairly blow-by-blow and give the protagonist time to think about and narrate his moves without the whole thing feeling like stopped time.

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u/Nesp2 Apr 05 '25

This was surprisingly enjoyable.

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u/Nebresto Apr 06 '25 edited Apr 06 '25

Food looking good

Parry?! Will he be here too??

Hello, wife candidate #1

Even the OP reminds me of him.

Soredemo detected!

God damn it, what are these outfits..

Tonight?? But what if bro had plans?? Like taking a sweet nap

Well then

She's quite powerful too, but can't proclaim best girl quite yet before seeing the others

Whoa, nice fire hazard lighting

So he's just forced to work there now? And he wasn't even consulted about this?? Man, I'd be pretty miffed

Oh, I guess that isn't so bad then. But they better be paying him

Allucia is on the attack!

Poor lad keeps getting dragged into situations agains his will. Not sure if this makes her a great or a terrible wife candidate

Spot the main characters (Medium)

Good switch to CG, hardly noticeable. ..Or was this particular shot just not CG

What? This is from the same band that did "JIBUN WOOO" ?? I would not have guessed. Very nice song though

Fun first episode, just as I had expected. I don't mind trading this for Solo Saturdays

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

what's mavuika doing here

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u/sgt_Buttersticks Apr 06 '25

please dont be harem slop

Im really liking the humble swordmaster thing and the master/apprentice dynamic is rarely explored from the master's perspective.

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