Yuusha, Yamemasu

[neflight86]

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"After saving the world, the strongest hero Leo became someone who is not wanted in the peaceful human world. He was too strong. Exiled, he seeks a job at the Demon King's Army, which he had defeated and needs to be rebuilt. The Army had many problems: too much work, financial troubles, etc. Leo starts to make things better using his power. Leo encounters Echidna again, and asks her why she invaded the human world. There was an unexpected story...!

Source: Kadokawa"

Genre(s): Fantasy

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1-3

Out of all the swords and sorcery mush this season, this is the best, or least bad, depending on your preference. Hero beats the big bad, and humanity turns on him, because reasons... So he interviews for a place in the Maou's army to some comedic effect. This is a member of the growing sub-genre of 'medevil fantasy organizational problem solving' along the likes of Realist hero, Slime Isekai, and others, but minus the isekai. When you have it all in specs, what is left to challenge you? HR, of course! At least the storylines so far feature some rudimentary strategizing to bring forth some efficiencies to the all but destroyed demon army.

A few things that make this better than I expected: MC is a jerk, and owns that fact for some good jokes. The humor around his gall in seeking employment at the place he destroyed hit home for me. Secondly, Leo isn't perfect, as he is capable of underestimating at least one of the generals he is trialing under, so there is some room for creative diversions from his plans; makes things less predictable. Lastly, the supporting characters do get fleshed out enough that this isn't a one man show and I certainly appreciate some of that breadth in the storytelling. The power fantasy elements are downplayed enough to get my tentative approval. It won't rock your world, but I'd recommend an episode or two.

[neflight86]

6-8

So the 'twist' is that this isn't isekai at all, suckers! Don't we feel silly? The world building here is problematic at best: Essentially Gate happened, the demons were winning, and caused human society to crumble, meaning we invented/discovered magic? Huh? Then we made super 'living weapons' (also known as teenage angst accumulators) to finally destroy the invaders and just left them to their own devices? Huh? And the world just kept spinning for millennia since, reverting humanity to the actual fantasy middle ages even though there are literal robots buried under their feet?

I will never call this smart, but I'm still enjoying it as the characters are fun interacting, the problem solving is fresh (not just blindly requiring the hero's wisdom), and the pace isn't too slow. The goblin/imp character from the flashback might be the most fleshed out character in the series thus far, though his influence and message is the tried and true cliché of 'live for yourself', I still enjoyed his episode as their conversation was just half him stalling for time to not get killed, at first.

[DarthEnderX]

11

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This has a few unexpectedly interesting ideas in it.

[David75]

It feels like some KEI VNs
Let's see how they conclude in the last ep. If MC is not dead after all, meh. If he dies, depending on the narrative, it might indeed be interresting.

Shutina was right, with his vast knowledge of human nature, demon nature, and technologies/culture over several milenia, MC would be a key player in uniting Mankind and Demonkind.
But his mental state makes it impossible.

[shinta|hikari]

But his mental state makes it impossible.

Only when he was alone. Because of his programming, he thought that he needed to be alone and shoulder his mission by himself. He couldn't trust anyone else to do it or even help him because it was a mission assigned to him and his ONLY reason for living. That's why he never sought out companions after his original siblings died.

However, when he realized he was becoming evil, he decided to suicide and went on a mission to find a successor and kill himself. To do that, he needed to accomplish a few things, things he had never even tried before because he never really needed to in order to fulfill his mission. So he befriended the demon queen and generals, tried to understand them in order to help them, and in the process found a place to belong.

Even though he is artificial, he is still human as a base. The reason he was going insane is because he was stuck with his mission and never really tried anything new. He kept learning skills but never learned to truly socialize and care about the people he was protecting. Now he has. He is no longer just a machine with one goal.

If he does survive, he will likely realize his desire to destroy the world will be gone. He can continue to protect it with his friends through peaceful means, after all, and the void of his raison de etre has now been filled with something else, allies that he learned to care for.

Idealistic and cheesy? Yes. But it makes sense with what was explained in the previous episode and his internal thoughts.