Sekai Saikou no Ansatsusha, Isekai Kizoku ni Tensei Suru

[Kraco]

"The greatest assassin on Earth knew only how to live as a tool for his employers—until they stopped letting him live. Reborn by the grace of a goddess into a world of swords and sorcery, he's offered a chance to do things differently this time around, but there's a catch...He has to eliminate a super-powerful hero who will bring about the end of the world unless he is stopped. Now known as Lugh Tuatha Dé, the master assassin certainly has his hands full, particularly because of all the beautiful girls who constantly surround him." -Yen Press



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I suppose most isekai reincarnation series will have a younger original character to avoid an older person mentality, but this isn't particularly novel either. At least it's easier to explain why he would have good skills if he was a real veteran already before dying. Other than that, it seems strange to take down a whole airplane full of civilians to kill a single person. We know from the incident when the Russians shot down the airplane above Ukraine that the investigation will always be beyond thorough. I wouldn't want to be the pilot of the fighter plane. That dude would soon be neck deep in shit. It would have been much easier and less of a headache to assassinate just the old man and nothing else. The author clearly got ahead of himself here, right at the very beginning.

Hard to say anything much about the story otherwise. It seems to be bloody. It has an annoying goddess. That's about it.

[neflight86]

I'll give it a go later, but from what I remember of the manga, this is paint-by-numbers generic isekai with a side of edgy. That's not a bad thing per-say, especially if you like those kinds of shows.

[Kraco]

I'll give it a go later, but from what I remember of the manga, this is paint-by-numbers generic isekai with a side of edgy. That's not a bad thing per-say, especially if you like those kinds of shows.

This looks very generic. I've read a huge number of isekai manga, although I've also dropped a bunch, and this doesn't honestly seem unique in any way. I'm far from sure I'll keep watching this, but I decided to give it a try because I haven't read a manga adaptation of this, assuming this has one. I haven't read that many LNs in general, and only a couple of isekai LN, partially.

[Kraco]

Episode 2



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This isn't, for far, as terrible as I expected it to be. Maybe it's the lack of comedy, intentional or unintentional, that manages to keep this flowing. Some authors have little gift for comedy and ruin their works because of it, by still trying to incorporate it. It also feels like the author of this story is trying to keep things a little under control by not throwing every isekai trope in immediately. Although there are still a bunch, now with the token loli included. I especially enjoyed the interaction between the no-nonsense old man and the goddess. He simply totally ignored all of the goddess's quirks and proceeded to sort out the things he wanted to know. I'm going to miss his voice, but at least the younger voice is also trying to stick to the same personality, within reason.

[neflight86]

1,2

It's better than I remembered. That his target is much more imba than himself is interesting, and the usual handicap of getting ridiculous blessings during reincarnation itself are (slightly) tempered and he is instead born into an ideal assassin household. Que rolling eyes, but it serves the story well and felt kind of tender, in an Addams family kind of way (is the mother even part of the family business?). I'm curious if they are going to touch more on the other child who allegedly died. The flash forward at the beginning of the first episode (slave auction) made me feel old, but once it transitioned to backstory, it felt much better. He didn't even spare a thought for his cute kouhai dying in the plane with himself, lol (I don't even think she was in the manga). Perhaps she was reincarnated, too? Another child mage (looking) prodigy teacher? Nice that pops is looking after the boy. Whatever- murder harem action squad, go!

[KrayZ33]

It's a bit stupid and the typical "I'm this OP guy" trope.
But the setting is interesting and the animation is above average.

I like it.

I think killing the "hero" is a great idea.
Although that depends on how they will portray the hero. If he just turns out to be a villain even pre-demon king defeat, then that'd be boring.

[David75]

Well, MC already asked if killing the Hero was mandatory, or just preventing the end of the world.

[neflight86]

I think the implication was that without the Demon King to take his focus, the Hero becomes blinded by his unopposed power, eventually. So he isn't allowed to kill the hero before the demon king is dealt with, and perhaps it won't be necessary at all depending on how things play out.

[Kraco]

Episode 3


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I feel like it was strange to say nobody had ever tried to use spells written down by someone else. Under other circumstances you might just say Dia didn't know what she was talking about, but in fact she's supposed to be a genius hired by a nationally important noble family to educate their son. So, there's no way she wouldn't know. Why didn't the script have her say that it just doesn't work. Because it wouldn't work if the spell wasn't written by someone with a special skill. People would most certainly have tried in the past, countless times. This is similar to the worn-out trope of a fantasy world missing exceedingly obvious everyday things, like soap, before the mighty Japanese man teaches the hairy barbarians something that should have been invented a thousand years earlier.

Other than that, I wonder just how many keywords the world actually contains for spells. Could the dude somehow deduce the words for a nuclear bomb? That ought to be everything needed to defeat the hero. Even if the hero could stand the heat (fire attribute) and blast (wind attribute), I have never seen a fantasy world that would have protection spells against radiation damage, haha.

[David75]

I'd go antimater just to be sure. But I'd be careful to first be able to cast spells from a very long distance away.
Because 60 to 100kg of matter mixed with the same amount of antimater is alot of energy to dissipate.
Thinking about it, the head should be enough...

Black holes are too difficult to manage, haha.

[Kraco]

I'd go antimater just to be sure. But I'd be careful to first be able to cast spells from a very long distance away.
Because 60 to 100kg of matter mixed with the same amount of antimater is alot of energy to dissipate.
Thinking about it, the head should be enough...

Black holes are too difficult to manage, haha.

He would likely end up killing himself as well with antimatter. Delivering the device actually isn't a problem since he can simply create it somewhere where the hero himself will later travel, only needing to worry about triggering it at the right moment. That would work with an antimatter device as well, but it's still too huge of a safety concern to be worth it, in my opinion. After all, if the pronunciation was a little off, he could be dead. That's not really nearly as big of a concern with a traditional nuclear weapon.

All that being said, if there's no keyword for such devices, he might be out of luck, especially with antimatter. He might still be able to create the components for a simple fission bomb, at least. It would be a chore to build and get it working, though. For whatever reason, the world does have keywords for (magic) guns and artillery, so it's anyone's guess what else is available.

[David75]

Well, he's been shown managing incredible weapons and he's still young, so he can hone these new skills he combines with his past life knowledge.

I was a bit surprised he knows his Mendeleiev table so well, down to several decimals.
He also has a good understanding of matter and metals atomic structures.
I guess he's at least College graduate or even higher. For a tool, he had quite the education and gift for learning.
I would not be surprised he had quantum physics courses. That would go well with magic.
Antimater would then be trivial:
-coordinates 250km south, 320 km east.
-generate antimater

booooom haha

[Kraco]

We haven't seen them use any magic that could materialise a significant distance away from the caster. It seems like a magic circle will appear in front of the caster, and the object being summoned will then appear next to the magic circle. However, if what you say is possible, antimatter would certain solve all of his problems concerning the hero, very quickly. The whole story could be over by the next episode...

[shinta|hikari]

I feel like it was strange to say nobody had ever tried to use spells written down by someone else.

Lugh actually thought of an explanation of this during the episode. He said that the people of that world were made to not be able to realize that potential, and he is only able to think outside of the "box" because he is an otherworlder.

I guess he's at least College graduate or even higher. For a tool, he had quite the education and gift for learning.

He's probably far more learned than that. Being a tool for assassination, he didn't really have leisure or down time, so other than the times he is killing someone, he should be honing his mind and skills. He mentioned before that he did infiltrations as well, not just sniping, which is why he knows how to cook. That means he is sort of a jack-of-all-trades on steroids.

[KrayZ33]

I found the change from creating copper ore to fully functional rifles and bombard cannons to be kinda stupid.
Especially since the spell creation was the way it was.

[Kraco]

Lugh actually thought of an explanation of this during the episode. He said that the people of that world were made to not be able to realize that potential, and he is only able to think outside of the "box" because he is an otherworlder.

There's a specific skill that makes writing down spells and teaching them to others work. If what you (or Lugh) say is true, then it would be meaningless for anyone (other than Lugh) to possess that skill because they couldn't use it anyway. Why would such a skill even exist then?

[shinta|hikari]

For otherworlders.

[David75]

tama tama as the godess said...

[Kraco]

Episode 4


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Dude's pretending to be all cold and analytical, talking about brainwashing and whatnot, but he's obviously secretly very happy to receive boobs in the face wake-up calls.

Observing the 40 years earlier scene, I wonder if it was still about killing the same hero. Was the goddess originally granting the hero killer 40 years of time to get strong enough to slay the hero? Only when the earlier reincarnation turned out to be a waste of skin, she instead chose the MC, but there were only 18 years of time left for him.

[KrayZ33]

It's kinda weird that episode 1 spoiled basically all the important plotpoints of this season in such a detailed way.
Mage-teach gets the eyes through surgery from MC.
Tarte gets magic training
they develop new guns that don't require constant magic activations/magic-mags
And the third character is revealed as well and will most likely be more about information gathering.

And that's about as much as 12 episodes can take us.

And since from that episode I know how Tarte will turn out (visually), I kinda got a boner when she whispered in his hear ASMR-style.
I don't regret it though.