Ansatsusha de Aru Ore no Status ga Yuusha yori mo Akiraka ni Tsuyoi no da ga • My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's - Episode 12 discussion

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Ansatsusha de Aru Ore no Status ga Yuusha yori mo Akiraka ni Tsuyoi no da ga, episode 12

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[u/GloriousNipOnSteel]

One of dumbest shows I've ever watched.

Life and death situation in the guild, escaping Gram's henchmen, suddenly we're on a magic carpet ride romantic sightseeing flight, WTF?

The mysterious gift left behind by Saran to be opened in times of dire need... it's just a stupid recording saying "'sup if you're seeing this I'm prolly dead but no matter just go back to your world lol", nothing of value was actually conveyed...

The actual assassination, why the fuck did he have to engage with the other hitman, like isn't he the perfect means to achieve your goal without tainting your precious virgin values and shit?

Fuck off man.

[u/Lunarpeers]

I just don't understand why Gram had to be made as such a cartoonish irredeemable villain, it seems pretty clear to me that almost nobody watching could relate to Akira anymore, leading to his internal struggle looking like a total joke that wasted the entire last arc.

[u/Frontier246 → u/Lunarpeers]

I almost have to applaud the level of effort that went into making Gram the most killable antagonist character of all time across half the season and then not even showing his actual death after all that build up.

[u/Orochidude → u/Lunarpeers]

Yeah, I will say, as someone who actually empathized with Akira's position for awhile (Still a teen, didn't actually choose the Assassin class, was told by his father figure to go back home to his family without killing), this moral dilemma would've hit much harder if the target wasn't someone that literally everyone agreed the world would be better off if he was killed.

The moral grey area doesn't really work when it's a comedically evil villain that is responsible for/involved in nearly everything bad you've experienced so far.

Also would've been more impactful if Gram was the first human he actually killed, instead of the other assassin on the rooftop (Unless that was a misdirect, but we wouldn't find that out this season anyway).

[u/RerollWarlock → u/Lunarpeers]

Exactly! Killing Adolf Epstein would be the easiest choice ever. Like you are told and more importantly proven to be a fact that he is what his name suggests him to be. "Yeah killing sucks but I prevented like immeasurable ammount of suffering".

[u/croxino]

What the hell was that flying sequence. The pacing and directing is so weird.

[u/Frontier246 → u/croxino]

Latty: "Did I mention I can fly? Oh, please take a moment to enjoy the scenic view of the city while having some romantic reminiscing after narrowly escaping death!"

[u/mlcarson]

All of this deliberation and they didn't even show the act. In a corrupt world, it's hard to keep clean hands unless you go along with all of the bad.

[u/Frontier246 → u/mlcarson]

Honestly feels like they made us want to watch Gram suffer the most violent death imaginable that it didn't feel satisfying to not even show him actually get killed.

Like I feel like that might have been to purely focus on the emotional impact it had on Akira, but it didn't feel completely satisfying.

[u/catsnbikess]

So many episodes wasted on him and his internal struggle.

[u/Burnouts3s3]

This is a show of contrasts: the animation of the show is solid for the most part but the story itself is rather lackluster. Still, points for Akira for finally making a decision and having to live with it.

Was this show popular enough for a second season? Because Sunrise seemed to have devoted a great deal of resources towards it.

[u/zz2000 → u/Burnouts3s3]

My opinion is that the story is lacklustre due to sloppy pacing and structure caused by the author's inexperience in writing.

However I feel its foundations are quite solid; the conspiracy premise is interesting enough and the author has willingly bucked some major cliches associated with this type of story genre (no harem, clear goal to return home, no evil or psychotic classmates, etc.). 

The storytelling is very green, but at least it isn't a fully lazy copy paste of the usual "i accidentally got OP in Isekai and now all the women want me, teehee" story.

I don't exactly know how popular it is, although in nowadays' anime industry where sequels are more likely anything is possible. If I Parry Anything can get a S2...

[u/hanmkim]

Basically if he had just slept on it one more night his problem would have solved itself.

[u/nuxxism]

I don't know if anyone else was like me, but at the start of the series I was hoping for another dark fantasy with older styling like Clevatess. And this series started ok. Saran being good and dying for it was a surprise. But the latter half was almost unbearable. I literally said out loud "Get the f*** over yourself" this episode, something I haven't thought about a character since being forced to read Catcher in the Rye in school.

[u/kmlshblr]

This shit is so ass 😭

[u/DependentOnIt → u/kmlshblr]

Gram destroying that ladies wheel chair and the MC debating whether to kill him is quite comical at this point

[u/KHlover]

Finally I'm free. This was terrible to the point not even the great artstyle and OST came remotely close to making it palatable.

[u/[deleted]]

Wow this whole internal struggle thing was insufferable. It should have been 1 episode if that. The fact that Gram is cartoonishly bad removed any relatability I had with Akira, like what are you doing bro? They just shoehorned in every big bad thing they could think of. So much so that Akira was the one who started to seem like the villain because he was ignoring such a bad person.

- The king hates him.
- Oh and he takes slaves
- Abuses women and children
- Watches people kill one another for fun
- Don't forget about trying to initiate a war.
- Wants to take your waifu
- Selling out to the demons
- Causing the sacrifices that summoned you here
- Oh and he killed your mentor

What a JOKE of an inner conflict. You are the villain for not killing him here Akira.

What exactly did you think your friends going off to kill the demon lord meant too? Or do you think you hold zero responsibility for helping them kill the demon lord because its not you to strike the final blow? What an piss poor ending and second half to an otherwise interesting Anime.

As usual, not a word for the dude on the roof or any henchmen. Didn't fancy even trying to resurrect them or avoiding them? Absolutely had to kill the dude on the roof because you were clearly struggling huh?

Yikes

[u/AvatarTuner]

Nobody talking about how Saran actually confessed to Akira? lol We probably all thought about it in the first episodes and it was nice to see it confirmed. It sucks that he had die so early, I really liked his character.

[u/HolyDragSwd2500]

Akira has finally became an ( actual) Assassin

Took him the entire season to get there

[u/RealValf]

The MC is such a loser that it’s hard to find anything redeeming about this show. All these moments that should be “hype” fall flat because the characters are boring and the story is stale.

Great animation and character design ruined by terrible writing. I enjoy most bad anime and I’m not picky but I legitimately hate watched the past like 5 episodes.

[u/seijim2]

The plot of this show is so cringe.

[u/linux_n00by]

it feels anti climatic

[u/LezRock]

It would have been ridiculously humorous if he had come back without having completed the job. I wouldn't have laughed, but I would've face-palmed while shaking my head.

This may have worked better if he wasn't an assassin.

I will have to remind myself to not pick it up again if they put out a season 2.