Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shimashita

With fantasy and isekai being a dominant force in the anime industry these days, you'd have to stop yourself and ask when enough is enough. With an anime title this long, sometimes, it feels like we're reading a meme. For the sake of your sanity and this review, I'll just call this show Banished from the Hero's Party. And you may have guessed it, the hero gets banished from a hero's party. As the premise detailed, we follow protagonist Red, a D-rank adventurer who was banished from a party. He was formerly known as Gideon Ragnason, before being banished by his party members when they surpassed him in skill and level. The general premise sets up for his adventure and life in a fantasy world although his past continously comes back to haunt him. Meanwhile, we also meet Rit, a young charismatic woman who has developed feelings for Red during their time together. Of course, she has her own reasons to live such a carefree life and we find out more about her identity and past later on. For now, let's just say that the anime subscribes to a charming couple together. Yet, I don't want to call designate this show entirely as a romance because at its heart, the show is more than just about Red and Rit. Treat it more as a blend between slice of life, romance, fantasy, and adventure. When we first meet Red and Rit though, it's obvious they have a mutual attraction towards each other. The anime makes it pretty much straightforward and doesn't do the usual ship teases. It's right to the point early to mid-season with Red and Rit admitting their feelings to each other. In essence, it's doesn't hold back establishing Red and Rit as a character pair bought together by different circumstances. And personally, this stands out as the best way to create a couple. It doesn't make the viewers wait or ask the 'what if' question. Plus, their personalities are compatible with their kindhearted yet also courgeous nature. On the other hand, we meet also meet Ruti, a prominent hero and sister of Red. Being perhaps of the most emotional prone character in the how, as well as having a tragic past, she represents the darker side of the story. However, Ruti still holds a strong love towards Red, and her actions speaks louder than words. Ruthless and intimidating, Ruti carries an emotional burden on herself. Red seems to be the only light in her dark tunnel, who is able to suppress her emotional outbursts. The show offers a platonic relationship between the two built on trust. Because let's face it, Ruti never wanted Red to be banished by their hero party, namely Ares Srowa. And speak of the devil. Ares Srowa serves as the antagonistic foil to Red. I can easily say that he is borderline psychotic fueled by jealousy. You ever played an online MMORPG member before and got scammed by one of your own guild leader, then banned forever? That's pretty much how Ares treated Red and banished him from the hero party. It's harsh but also reveals Ares' true dangerous nature: a selfish, greedy sociopath driven by his personal agendas. When we see him meet Red later in the story, it really shows how deeply resentful he is towards him. So yes, the show makes its a priority to make us hate Ares and succeeds. He is easily the least likable character for his actions, personality, and just about every single damn deed he's ever done in the story. Watching Banished from the Hero's Party feels like it knew the type of anime it wanted to shows to us from the beginning. From background stories to the main character relationships, it's about as crystal clear as it gets. On the other hand, I am also somewhat disappointed by some episodes with its story pacing. There are a few episodes mid-season that drops in us in complex society conflicts, that feels needlessly rushed. Other times, you may also be bored by Red and Rit's relationship, especially if you're not a fan of fairy tale-like romances. However, at its core, the anime maintains a stable balance of storytelling and knows what the audience wants. I won't be the first to say it or the last, but it appears the anime feels very JRPG-ish, in terms of its world setting. The towns, adventurous landscapes, magic, swordsmanship, battles, and overall, characters look like something that came out of an JRPG game. Hell, there's an actual game to be released on Steam although that has no ties to this story. Studio Flad and Wolfsbane combined their talents together to draw us into its fictional world. The visual quality overall looks colorful, vibrant of fantasy elements, but also contains darker tones of violence. Character expressions also play a key role in showing us emotions, most noticably for Ruti. However, there are some noticable drop in key animation in some episodes. Overall however, it's an anime that used its visual quality to success. Fantasy adventures are usually a hit or a miss but it can even be more risky when you add in romance or slice of life. However, I can say that after these 13 episodes, Banished from the Hero's Party is without a shadow of a doubt one of the better light novel adaptations of the year.

This is the most boring anime I have ever watched. It has no real plot and half the time makes no sense at all. It has all the worst tripes with some new lows thrown in like villains diatribing, pointlessly endless self justications and explanations, and for good measure, the good guys are doing more damage to each other than the villains 99% of the time. Every one almost dies at least once but then magically gets healed to new as if it never happened. The story extols the virtue of abdicating responsibility. From the heroes brother who leaves the party to live the boring life (emphasis on boring), to the hero herself who forsakes humanity to selfishly just be a normal girl. There are no repercussions at all. Can they really live in lala land forever like the inevitable war won't ever destroy everything they hold dear? We have no idea since the story comfortably ignores that elephant in the room. Or does it really not matter, in which case, what was the point of being a hero in the first place?! I've watched hundreds of animes but never one this bad. Mind numbingly bad in every possible way.

It's just that, my dude thought it was best to live a quiet life. It was amazing to watch said quiet life. I thought I'd get into this seasonal because it looked good despite it being a "generic isekai" which is somehow synonymous with modern fantasy, but that is a debate for another time. Anyhow, Shin no Nakama is an exceptional anime with the correct amount of everything mixed perfectly enough for it to be taken seriously without any kind of creases being visible enough for it to tumble on itself as quickly as it started up. It's even good enough to come up with some thought-provoking ideas. What may look like a run-of-the-mill story is actually a genuinely developed work featuring a detailed plot, enough so that there is a substantial amount of info and lore to at the very least keep you immersed. It's true, that relative to other fantasy anime out there, this one fails to bring out some kind of unique content (although, more on that soon), however with the story managing to make use of literally everything you'd expect in a grand story, this just comes across as surface-level masterpiece, or in other words, it is there on the ground waiting to take off as other supposed masterpieces out there in the medium. What makes it a little faulty was the start-up mix between the slow life side and the fantasy side of things having awkward match-ups with easy transitions that'd kill the former side with boring content of the latter. Boring is a little harsh though, it is more, ironically enough, slow. This all changes around episode 7 onwards, however, where the quality drastically improves as every set-up piece serves its purpose well enough to enhance characters and the setting. That for me, not only improved the watching experience but also brought around some nice philosophy I wouldn't have really expected to see here. Truth be told, such ideas come later in the series so I have no intention of spoiling them in this review, but the questions that arise here are interesting to even reflect on in reality as you watch it. It's a good idea. What honestly made me want to watch this was how this was a romance (who doesn't like wholesome love??). I have to say, in a series as Shin no Nakama, the romantic chemistry is indeed amazing, literally chef d'oeuvre relationship between Red and Rit, I haven't seen something this natural in a long while, and it isn't the kind of romance to shoujo its way to a *confession* in the final episode. It is like, already happening. Happening well. It's a healthy relationship between two individuals who actually understand each other and indeed do love each other. It's one of the selling points in the series and if I had to suggest this for fans of the genre, this is a real go-to if anything. I wouldn't even advise being cynical about the relationship, I really mean it when these two characters love each other, it is a truly wholesome bliss that doesn't find its way into the medium without something drama or the likes taking place. A very natural bond that can only be equally as loved as the couple are with each other. The production values kinda annoy me here. It isn't bad, it's baseline, but this really tried to push itself to the point where a few awkward moments would show up. Of course, this is a minor complaint, but it kinda ruins some intense scenes so it isn't something that I can honestly praise in a down-to-earth fashion. But honestly, this looks pretty good for a fantasy anime and ignoring the imperfections, most scenes here are something that even impresses its own standards. Otherwise, I wouldn't expect the world here, that's also true for most of the OST. I do bang on about how sometimes memorable stuff makes the moments and what have you better, because it is true, and whilst I would like to say that something simple doesn't necessarily need a true punch in the memory of you to like something, I've seen actual good simple anime manage to pull off some amazing OST regardless. Kinda a shame the same is true for this anime but hey, it is what it is. So, would I recommend this? 100%, stuff here is truly amazing, and nothing like the other fantasy anime that I've seen before. It's a dark horse in my eyes, in this dry season with literally 3 good shows and that is it. I am happy that this fantasy anime, overshadowed by the garbage history of Japanese light novel copypasta, is actually something very decent and worthy of immense praise. It's a blessing this has come to be, being very serious here, and I wish to see more as such in the future.

Ah god, the sadness, this time I do not have anyone to blame The studio that made these anime are incredibly new with only 2 titles to their name, So I must say do not expect to be blown away, But I would still insist on watching it, because by no means is this a bad adaptation or anime Alright think about it this way, When was the last time we got a fantasy anime that is not an isekai anime, had an interesting premise, and also a good source material? The immediate one that comes to my mind is plunderer and sadly this anime has also followed suit and become morphed from an awesome premise that had immense potential to a mediocre adaptation. This anime suffers from a low budget so much so that sometimes you wish they had started crowdfunding. At first one would believe that This would fundamentally stick to its Slice Of Life origins and that it does execute pretty well. what I was most impressed with is the fact that this is a slice-of-life anime at its core, yet it has a story in the making, with a very competent World Building power system and characters that are well written. Red was kicked from the party because he was not an OP power fantasy isekai protag Kun and was average but had all the experience of a head knight (obviously he was fucked over). the party he used to be in have still not forgotten him and are also a part of the story, so the dialogue and conflicts that will ensue after it is certainly Add a twist and leave something to look forward to because get real would a medieval setting with magic and monsters really make for a fun story? And sadly after a clearly well-made first few episodes, the budget started to hit……………. The animations are bad, the characters are sometimes stiff, too many still frames when they even attempt an action scene, reuse of the same sound pretty much everywhere. This would definitely be noticeable if you are beginning the show if I could notice it weekly. The decision to make it a 24 episode anime surely would have helped the pacing is a bit off and we are suddenly thrust in and out between slice of life and action, this is a really bad combination if not done properly because take for example Rit, we don’t know when to take her seriously and when not to since she switches from champion rit to must proteccc waifu way too fast. But on the bright the studios behind this do deserve all the credit since they made it a very digestible work even with the very bad hand they were dealt with, I must appreciate their ambition to take up a unique and challenging project rather than go with sure hit moe or ecchi shows. Now coming to the individual scores Story[6/10] The plot and setting are great. the anime, strictly speaking, suffers from severe pacing issues and shoves action or slice of life at random intervals on your face[this is not a problem in manga or LN]. The romance in the anime is really mature and properly done, all I can say without spoiler is, no more 12 episodes for a confession or handholding. The fanservice is also very tasteful and well-executed. sound[5/10] sound is a clear weakness of this anime , from a Slice of life you would expect good relaxing music the kind we see in yuru camp. The music is there but isn't the best and most of it is reused way too many times. the Op and Ed aren't bad but I like the OP and ED art better than the song themselves. art and animation [7/10] The art is pretty good NGL for a slice of life it has invested well, make sure the scene is relaxing and beautiful nothing to complain about here. The animation however is very lacking, any action scene is straight-up boring with too much dialogue and still frames. A good Slice of life that actually has a story! a big surprise and might get better in the long run, Now that the whole Hero incident has ended I can totally see that there will be a much better focus on the Slice of life aspect of this show with many opportunities for action as well (the demon lord is still out there). I wish I could recommend it to everyone since there is always something to like in this anime, be it characters, romance, or the story in the making, but even if I want to believe it people prefer style over substance (as demonstrated by takt op destiny which I just cannot stand). Hence I would only recommend it if you are into mature romance, Slice of life, or fantasy anime in particular.

Banished from the hero's party Red, who is formerly known as Gideon became a prominent figure in his fantasy world in assisting his sister the hero defeat demonic entities. After a party, Gideon's comrade forces him out of the hero party and surrenders his fate to live in the countryside. Under a new alias, Red decides to start an apothecary where he can relax from the high profile life in the hero's party. However, drama brews when his comrades actively seek him out even the hero; All while this is happening a dangerous presence has befallen the party. Will they be able to uproot the source of evil plaguing the party or will they lose each other before they succeed? Story & Characters: 5/10 Banished from the Hero's Party takes a slice of life approach to the fantasy RPG world; Unlike series that focus on a main character and accumulation of their party, this series focuses on the disintegration of the party while also dealing with overbearing adventurers and demonic entities. As a result of the slice of life approach, the story tanks in development and entertainment because the world feels very vaguely developed; Principles aren't explored beyond explanation and even the antagonists dive in and out of the story from time to time. An example would be the blessings: A lot of the world's characters especially in the Hero's party use the power of blessing but it isn't explored outside of what is mentioned in the beginning about how younger generations accumulate their blessings. In a way, it feels haphazardly put together in order to add convenience for the Hero in the end. The main character and his apothecary is a nice touch although not new and the inventions could have been utilized for a potential end goal but it appears to be a minor element to Red's character to pass time in his quiet life. ​ Art & Sound: 6/10 The art isn't the best nor is the animation; Banished from the Hero's Party has a more vibrant and saturated color palette with lack of shadow or textured undertones. This gives it that plastic-ish visual appearance which I personally am not fond of - In some moments of the series it feels budget especially given moments where the character profile shots/long shots deteriorate in quality and consistency. It's not necessarily a bad thing but it does feel distracting to watch. The sound was fairly simple; The same light hearted melodical tones were played while Red is in the village. Same with the suspenseful background music on scenes involving controversy among the Hero Party's members or Village conflict. Voice actors were fairly suitable to their characters. Overall & Enjoyment: 5/10 I was expecting a series where the main character hides his powers until trouble finds him; And although it did start that way in the beginning. Suspense was killed at every angle with small-fry enemies that could have been dealt with in the beginning but just got out of hand because they didn't get focused by characters. The ending was also a nice slap in the face with sentimentality among characters we barely understood or had a meaningful build up with Red/Gideon in the beginning. All of it is surface level an d slice of life style which I assumed would not resulting in it not being my particular type of series.

Usually a bad show just ends up being boring or uninteresting, and I drop it before watching too much of it, as it's usually obvious from the start it has nothing to offer. This show started off on course to be another normal, generic fantasy show jumping through the usual hoops I've seen many times before, which is fine. These kinds of shows can be enjoyable enough in their own way, so I kept watching. Slice of life and fantasy are both genres I generally enjoy afterall. But quite quickly this show devolves into some of the worst shit I've ever had the misfortune of sitting through, and by the time I'm at the last couple of episodes I feel like a fucking idiot for having watched it all. I can't think of a single redeeming factor of this show -- the story and characters are just so unbelievably stupid and disingenuous I find it hard to even understand how a whole team of real people could have produced and released this. The characters are incredibly shallow and it's like they've been written by an individual who has no idea how people act and is just going off of written references of how different anime archetypes behave. The story could've been such an incredibly simple springboard to just launch a slice of life show off of, but instead they revolve almost the entire show around this generic demon lord plot and the MC's momentary insecurities. The only meaning one could possibly derive from this show is how a person is free to live their life how they see fit, regardless of what they are inherently talented at. They spend the entire show shoving this simple rhetoric down your throat, as if anyone was under a different impression to begin with. There's no mention of how authoritative figures in your life, such as parents or teachers, might pressure you into pursuing something you might not be all that interested in at a young age, which I think is a far more prevalent problem in the real world -- here the sole focus is the persons own perceived obligation to the world. I wholeheartedly recommend you do not watch this anime. This is the kind of handiwork that etch me closer to being disenchanted with the industry as a whole. When something shows such a fundamental lack of humanity it really makes me reflect on the writers. It makes me wonder just how bad are all those shows that I didn't complete? How much of this garbage is out there and is pumped out every season, and is it more than before? It makes me wonder where we're headed, because thinking about that after watching this anime makes me depressed. I'm glad there's still a lot of shows released I enjoy, and I can only hope they continue to survive in an environment where a show like this one receives a score of 7 out of 10.

One of the worst anime I've ever watched. *Dumb character motivations *Zero character development *Senseless plot *Power system is inconsistent. Everybody except the so called 'apothecary' can heal. The MC seemed sociable, yet he leaves the party after being called 'useless'by a character who calls almost everybody useless. He banished without talking to his 'mentally unstable powerhouse' who doesn't have any emotional connection with anyone else but him. The so called main villain's character development is purely nonsensical. He goes from a egomaniacal high level mage to a useless clingy lifeform in 2-3 episodes. The ending feud could have been easily avoided just by having a conversation. Only good thing about this anime that could be stated is the main heroin. And definitely not a predictable anime (who in their right mind will predict such a dumb plot?) Don't know how it got a second season.

I was out of animes to watch, since all I do after studying is watch animes and play games. I saw someone saying that this anime was getting a second season and I wondered why the hell something so low rated and possibly very, very bad was getting more episodes. The thing is, I started looking for hidden gems and underrated animes about a week ago, since I started getting tired of many hyped up animes that delivers nothing at all. Some of them are always so well rated and they are so bad that I was even scared of picking low rated animes on MAL, because I thought they would be even worse. But I NEVER imagined that the risk of watching low rated animes in MAL could bring me something as good as this show. As I write this review, the score of this anime is 6.95, something to be very suspicious right? I can tell you, dear reader, that I have watched my share of anime already. I don't update my MAL list and I am not used to writing reviews, but I think I should do a favor to the community by sharing my feelings and my opinion about how good this anime is. After being severely broken by the frustration of losing what he you once believed was meaning of his life, the mc finds his new purpose. As the title suggests, we start with our mc being kicked out of the hero's party with the argument that his skill didn't scale as well as the other characters in the group and he started getting in their way, needing protection from other members and not being useful in combat. He then gives up on being an adventurer and to life in the countryside, in a place where nothing happens and he could live a peaceful life as an apothecary. Soon, a princess disguised as an adventurer that he helped in past adventures find him in this city and she is also seeking a quiet place to live, away from the intrigues of the royal family. These two have actually quite the chemistry together and it is very satisfying to see their relationship grow and they becoming closer and more intimate to each other. The history does more than just focus on the romance of the mc and the princess. That are mysterious events in town to shaking the plot a little bit, the dynamic of the party after the mc left and the feelings of his old partners about it. The anime also invested some philosophy concerning the blessing/skill each person is born with in this world. It can determine what your profession is going to be, what your personality is going to be like and the feelings that people have about their own unique skill. It doesn't go super deep about it, but it was pretty interesting that it brought to question people's free will versus their supposed "fate" and obligations to god and society according to their skill. It's a hidden gem of romance, adventure, slice of life and action. If I could, I would give it an 8,5, but since I cannot I'm rounding it up, this show deserves it. Try to stick with it until episode 4. If you didn't like it by then, give up and watch something else

Shin no Nakama is ground zero for the new subgenre of isekai shows in which a member of the Hero™’s party gets kicked out for one reason or other and has to start a new life on their own. Shield Hero is arguably the principal precursor of the genre proper, but Shin no Nakama is the first official title on the list. Nowadays I am often left to wonder why I decided to watch any given show, because from the moment I write down a title on my to-watch list, until the moment I actually get around to watching it, years pass – routinely. As such, I often forget what was behind the original impulse. Fortunately, I have a good idea how Shin no Nakama found its way on my list. The show was pretty popular in 2021, when it was airing, and plenty of people seemed to be very taken with Ruti, the Hero™ character, spamming my FB timeline with all manner of screenshots and memes of her. I vaguely remember thinking her design was cool, and so I decided to one day give it a shot. Watching this felt like rewatching Chillin’ in my 30s. If anything, Shin no Nakama felt like the beta version of Chillin’ – much of the same, just less polish and skill. As such, I really don’t have much to say I haven’t already, so I encourage you to read that essay for a more detailed analysis, for effectively everything I’ve said about that one applies here. The only real difference is that Shin no Nakama feels a lot more amateurish, as though the team behind it weren’t quite ready to put out a show for TV broadcast. A lot of the facial expressions looked rather janky and did not fit the voice acting, especially in the series’ more dramatic moments. Still, it’s a generally nice-enough looking show. Chillin’ also felt a lot more down-to-earth and believably wholesome. Not than Shin no Nakama isn’t also mighty wholesome – it is. It just feels less competently put together. A lot of the verisimilitude or lack thereof comes from the design of the protagonist. Dariel literally looked like a regular dude in his 30s. Gideon, or Red, as he calls himself since his exile, by comparison sports a much more LightNovelGuy™-type look to him, sharper textures, sleek eyes, spiky hair, the works. Shin no Nakama also attempts to create a bit more dramatic tension by way of a plot device that is supposed to pose a philosophical question to the audience. What is more important? To do what you choose of your own free will? Or to do that which you are destined for? I didn’t personally find that whole shpiel terribly interesting, but your mileage will vary. Lastly, while the romance was a welcome and important element of Chillin’, it was not the main element. Here, the OTP is put front and center much earlier and takes up a lot more oxygen. In some ways, this show doesn’t go as far with its romance. Yet again, in other ways – awesome ways – it goes so much further. What can I say? The Japanese government really wants weebs to leave their basements and have sex. Nippon needs babies!

This is a fantasy anime with a familiar and presently popular premise: the protagonist of the story is dismissed by his heroic adventuring party for being more of a liability than an asset. Having been dismissed, the main character feels no obligation now to resolving worldly problems and has instead decided to settle in a quiet town far-removed from most walks of life. The premise of the story fails for 2 reasons almost immediately: the setting's hero is the protagonist's sister and never once mentioned her brother being a liability, and the second reason becomes unignorably apparent quickly, and that is that the main character protagonist is far from being a liability at all. Just the opposite, the writing establishes his competency as being head-and-shoulders above most of the rest of the cast. When working with this information one cannot help but cast doubt upon the narrative, regarding it as little more than being forced and not at all persuasive. The writing overall is bland, fluctuating from slice-of-life to having interludes of stakes and plot, which does little else but create dissonance in the tone of the show. You have nothing to expect from episode to episode. The viewer is not given anything to look forward to and because of this lack of promises and commitment to any overarching themes or ideas dissuades an audience from becoming invested in any of the characters or the things they are doing. There is a climactic ending which was rushed and haphazardly introduced seemingly for the sole purpose of saying the anime had a peak it climbed. The show is trying to accomplish too much and, as a consequence, ends up accomplishing little well. The animation is fair. It has some elements of CGI which are done as tastefully as could be expected for the scale of what is being animated. This is an unremarkable fantasy anime that does not have anything substantial going for it. It has a bushel of interesting ideas included in its writing but these all suffer from underwhelming execution. It is disappointing as the anime has enough visible effort put into it that one cannot help but speculate how differently it may have turned out had it taken its time with its themes. As it stands I cannot recommend this anime to anyone who values their time.

Without getting to in depth about the story and plot, give this anime a chance. Despite its rating it is definitely one of the better fantasy stories out there. The character development is stellar and the interactions between them is great. This anime feels like an isekai but all the characters are from this world which makes the story pure fantasy fun. One thing from watching this anime is it definitely starts off slow which is my theory for its poor rating. The story really ramps up midway through and episodes 12 and 13 feel like movies lol. Anyways, watch it you wont regret it.

Basic as basic can be. Not even worth writing a thought-out review. Don't watch unless you want to be bored to death. Unfortunately though, due to guidelines I must make the review longer. So why is it basic? Dude is op but is not seen as op, weaker people that are not op are mad that hes op. Big titty blonde girl knows hes op and wants his seed because hes op so they fuck. Dude is op so he does op things but hes also an alchemist so now hes op in alchemy and can do an mri, brain surgery, and the most complex of medical procedures in the 12th century. Can he really? No but hes just that op. The dungeons are basic cause they made them look futuristic in a world that is medieval-like all the bad anime with op mc do. Big battle at end but mc is op so it lasts 3 episodes but it could have been done in 1. Did I mention that the mc is op. The characters are boring as boring can be and constantly flip-flop from one mindset to another and act completely different in each episode. The art is lame and is nothing special, all of the actual action is done offscreen and what is on screen is basically just the standstills fighters have where they block each other's swords, grit their teeth, growl, and stare at each other. The anime almost showed some promise by the bestowing of gifts regardless of race, sex, or social status and could have led to some very interesting premises, such as expanding on the fact that the hero doesnt want to be a hero but is forced to because her gift forces her to act, but the amount of stuff they do with this premise is absolutely minimal. 2/10, train wreck.

So, Banished from the Hero’s Party had a great setup ,,dude gets kicked out of the hero’s party and decides, “You know what? I’m done saving the world; I’ll sell herbs and chill.” Honestly, that sounded like the start of something refreshing. Unfortunately, it ended up being one of those shows that doesn’t really know what it wants to be. It’s not a fantasy . the worldbuilding is paper-thin. It’s not really romance either Red and Rit get together early, and then… nothing special happens. It tries slice-of-life, but then it remembers there’s a demon lord plot waiting somewhere in the corner. Basically, it juggles three genres and drops all of them. The tone’s all over the place: one minute it’s cute domestic fluff, the next it’s dark hero angst, and neither side hits hard enough to matter. The “Blessing” system could’ve been cool if anyone cared to explain it properly, but nah we just vibe. Visually, it’s fine. Not ugly, not amazing .just “yep, that’s an anime.” The music’s there too, doing its best. In the end, Banished from the Hero’s Party feels like watching a chill show that accidentally wandered into a fantasy battle halfway through and decided to stay out of politeness. It’s not terrible, but it’s definitely disappointing if you expected anything deeper than comfy herb-shop moments. High hopes, low impact. Feels like fantasy, romance, and slice-of-life all applied for the same job and got rejected together.

I try and be as spoiler free in my reviews as possible; I have now finished watching this as Season 2 is looming on the horizon; quite honestly, I don't get some of the extremely negative reviews this has. No, it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel and, well, going simply on the title, it also isn't some run-of-the-mill edgy teenage protag power fantasy - despite the very overdone "demon lord threatens world" plot-thread that does exist here. The thing is though, is that this is more a slice-of-life, self-discovery and romance story, with bits of action here and there and the whole "demon lord" thread is what ties huge parts of the story together. Now, I will admit that some parts of the negative reviews are correct in saying "well, if this happens at the end, what happens with the whole demon lord thing?", as it is a valid concern in regards to the plot, but - well - as I said at the start, Season 2 is upon us in a few short days of me writing this review, so I can only hope that it will get brought up, as Season 1 does leave it a little open as to what is going to happen to the world; it also leaves an opening for another plot thread of "what is going on with the god and the blessings?". I cannot hold this against the reviewers though, as for shows like this, it is rare for them to get continuation seasons and Season 1 did initially air just over 2 years ago. As for the main meat and potatoes of the review - I personally found this anime extremely enjoyable, as it was definitely a change-up from the typical "isekai trash" that gets pumped out (and that I watch). It's very wholesome, has an actual decent romance plot that isn't the MC getting a harem of 47 wives, has enough action spread throughout and was, in my eyes, just a nice, easy-to-watch anime. There's flashback scenes to explain how characters got to where they are and act like they do and there's also scenes that delve into world-building and setting up the plot. Each of the main cast has ample time to be developed, although I will say that one of the later additions doesn't really have much outside of "this is who she is", but maybe she'll be developed in Season 2. The romance plot feels quite legitimate and natural, especially when compared to harem stories - here, the MC has one love-interest and although he is a little bit clueless at the start, he very quickly catches on, without there needing to be 6 episodes of major fanfare or fan-service (although there is fan-service here). The family development and self-discovery parts are also, in my opinion, well done, with a nice ending-note to close out Season 1 with (although, again, it does leave the over-arching thread quite open). Lastly, art and animation are certainly nothing special, but serviceable for this type of show. I will personally rate this a 7/10 - Good, enjoyable and worth a watch - I probably would have given this an 8/10 had I not watched so many "very good" anime in 2023.

Score: 9/10 +Great romance +Good action +Dynamic story with plot twists and fantasy trope subversions as well as likeable characters +Colorful art with good opening song and passable soundtracks +More than meets the eye story and themes that may hit home to young viewers -Slightly rushed ending, but the show still ends on a satisfying note (read below for a more in-depth spoiler-free review) TL;DR - Show subverts expectations and slice of life tropes, tackling relatable dilemmas and themes that may hit home to many young viewers. The story actually moves forward and character relationships are masterfully handled in a mature, natural, and wholesome/cute way especially with regard to the romance. In addition, it is a fantasy setting and comes with good action. I don't like slice of life shows so I rarely watch them because I find them boring or too slow since usually nothing happens. This show is the rare exception. On top of that it's actually a fantasy show and not an isekai so it gets bonus points for being original. The Details: This show is misleading in the sense that it's a slice of life show, it's actually more than just living the slow life. It's a show about discovering what you really want to do in life, what you want for yourself, and how you want to live your own life. It dives into the dilemma of a skilled adventurer who tries to live a slow, relaxing life after retiring early after being kicked out of the Hero's party. Throughout the show, there are interruptions to his idle life such as events threatening the town, petty or jealous disputes from rivals, and old acquaintances asking for old favors. As a result, it also isn't boring, it actually has a dynamic story as well as enjoyable action segments. The ending was a little bit rushed, but aside from that the show maintains good pacing. Side characters won't be super memorable months after finishing the show but they weren't annoying or written in poor taste, they're actually cool neighbors. The MC and his lover however will be memorable as a testament to their spectacularly sweet budding romance. This show somehow doesn't have a romance tag yet it manages to build up a great couple in less than 6 episodes in a way that's done better than most other romcoms/romance shows. And the romance is handled wonderfully and realistically without relying on anime tropes such as tsunderes playing hard to get, or the generic nerd who turns into a handsome hero who suddenly gets all the girls by simply breathing or saying nice things about their hair from your typical power fantasy isekai. This couple actually has history as a couple and goes through things together as a human couple, blossoming with each further step they take with their love life. It's an equal relationship where both partners want and need each other in their life, as well as one where they don't shy away from holding hands and acting shy as if they were still middle schoolers. Essentially, it's an adult relationship, and we don't get a lot of those in anime these days, so seeing something cute, wholesome, and spicy definitely brought this anime up on my tier list.

I should mention first that the title of the anime is a lie. In a way it is very similar to the chilling in my 30s series, as both pretend to be chill/relaxing, but instead continuously have a LOT of combat/drama going on for the majority of the episodes. Most of it is low quality isekai template stuff, so don't expect anything. Setting In this world, god gives all living things something called "blessing". This is basically your "class" / "role" in role playing games. your blessing will actually affect your personality while giving you certain buffs and debuffs eg: a sword master blessing will make you feel happy when you use a sword and unhappy if you don't . And finally we can "level" up our blessing by killing someone with a higher level than you. there's also skills which are separate from blessing. Plot MC's sister is hero and they need to defeat demon king. One of the party members forces MC to leave (secretly), as MC is relatively weaker compared to other party members. MC goes out to a remote village and starts a pharmacy. meets a princess he helped in the past, and starts living together. pretty chill until now. and suddenly we have drugs, kids taking drugs, overdosed deaths, overdosed madness where people kill each other, kidnapping, blackmail etc.. well, you get the point. It escalates really fast after episode 3. Characters This is a generic show filled with generic characters. Usually, isekai uses some kind of past trauma to create drama, but this show uses the blessing concept. that a person struggling to not let the blessing affect their character. nobody will watch this show for characters, as none of them will be worth remembering even while watching. Overall The main problem is obviously the generic-ness of the show and how it drops all the pretense about slow life within the first three episodes. and even in terms of an average isekai, i wouldn't place it very high. Even after the whole season, i have no idea who the villain of the show is. people die, and smh come back to life by using heal -_-. In fact, in the climax arc there are 3 characters who died once (the demon, 2 members of hero party). So, i recommend not taking this seriously. just don't question anything or anyone. just accept that things happen and characters do stuff because we need to move forward until the next episode. If you are bored and just want something as background noise, this is an okay show. I literally mean background noise because if try to actually listen/watch, you might be enraged by all the plot holes and bad writing.

This was so fundamentally horrible that I just couldn't resist writing a review to recommend people not to watch it. I usually just write reviews for novels as far more time is dedicated to read through a novel and you truly get to get immersed in everything the story has to offer compared to the short-lived and often disappointing format of anime adaptations. This is... really, it's almost infuriatingly bad, yet you're left feeling more melancholic about how this garbage had resources wasted on it instead. The music is crap. The setting is badly executed. The characters can't make you give a single f*ck, not even one of them. The story is just childish at best and the animation feels both low budget and low skill. We have the protagonist, the dude lacking both will and motivation, who spends every day preaching how abandoning responsibility is great and clearly having no idea of his own worth, not even telling his "hero" sister that he was leaving because the most idiotic in the party chased him away. Now he just spends his time in some godforsaken land where he aims to be an apothecary and live every day the same. Then we have the big boobs that somehow found him there and forcibly moved in with no warning. This girl loves him and they quickly start flirting, kissing, hugging and whatever. We get some tiny snippets of backstory every now and then. Overall, she's also a boring character we have no incentive to like and that doesn't act human in the least. Go on and we have various villagers who are only there to be hurt, healed and be friendly. Not a single one of them has even half decent character development, they might as well be villager A and B. Villains in this story are either instantly finished off or easily screw themselves over, none of them appear particularly evil or interesting. Even demons are either soulless shells or morons that just seem to be yet another stupid human. His sister, the hero, and the entire hero party are also cardboard cutouts. The foolish half-evil but mainly stupid sage who apparently want to get into the hero's pants or something, some emotionless add-on heroes and then the hero herself, the emotionless brocon who can't do what she wants because the oh-so horrible blessing dictates she be a hero without feelings, completely unappealing. There's nothing happening in this story. Nothing. Just some forced events. It's painfully slow, every episode seems to be filler, nothing interesting happens and worst of all, none of the characters have anything resembling a soul, it's not funny in any way nor does it even have a real story. We don't get any build up, imagine suddenly starting an anime at the end of a story and just showing some filler episodes of the after-story. We're supposed to care about the characters with just some words. Life sucks for this guy because he doesn't have a good blessing, this girl is awesome because she likes the protagonist and has big boobs, this hero is pitiful because her blessing actually secretly sucks. He's done so much to deserve this now slow life. Nah, sorry, it doesn't work like that. If you don't show us gradually why we should like them and build their characters up by the actions they take, no one is going to care about them. This is a story of side characters that aren't explained properly, it's just shoved down our throat. Adding insult to injury, these characters are basically unlikable from the get go. They don't show much in the way of emotion, not a single one of them. All of them are painfully robotic in everything they do. The animation makes a great job of emphasizing their soullessness by being horribly bland, there's no real change in expressions, people are just static dolls, even supposedly emotional scenes are ruined by crap skills. They don't even properly animate a lot of stuff, like just making fluctuating brightness values for almost static candles, not showing movements, instead just the end position, cutting out most parts and for things like lightning, they just phase in and out 1-2 frames of yellow light at high value rapidly, it also does stuff like just moving around a static hand on a static map, not even changing lighting or perspective slightly. Everyone moves like some damn sloths at best. Truly, the animation serves to make this already bland show a disaster piece of shit, I didn't realize just how shit things could get if BOTH story and animation was this bad. Can only believe this was written as some escapist fantasy by yet another overworked japanese dude or just someone jumping on the bandwagon of that cliché. The blessings are just a shoutout to people's talents and fates to usually just be a cog in society and the protagonist is simply a burned out dude who has given up on life and is now avoiding reality. Not sure about the studio, but if this is their usual quality, they should shut down or boot most of the staff and hire people that actually know what they're doing and doesn't do everything they can to cut down on everything that makes an anime an anime, that is, animation. Not recommended, ever. This isn't a 7/10 show, this is a 5/10 show by skewed myanimelist rating standards, 2/10 or 3/10 at most by normal standards.

Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shimashita (2021) Honestly, Tisse is the only character that matters just saying. With the show, it is a bang on 3/10. It does what it does okay and what it misses out on badly. If they spent nearly as long a time developing the story without pointless action and a brocon sister then the story may have been more than mediocre. The art style is average and does nothing special whatsoever. The sound is meh, the OP and ED are a bit dull. They overuse certain sounds like the 'eh' when someone is embarrassed and hugs someone or the 'ahhhhh' in combat noise that is used far too much here. The characters are all so boring, apart from Tisse at least she had something unique about her with the inner voice. Everyone else is just dull and I cannot bring myself to care about them. The show overall tries to do too much in too little time and fails. It isn't the worst show ever but is one that can now just lay to rest for all time. 3/10.

At first, it seemed to be a promising anime that would provide many wholesome moments. And it does, but the amount of unnecessary plot elements ruin it all. Story: 3 The plot is the worst part of this show. If the main focus was on the development of the relationship between the main characters it wouldn’t be so uninteresting. Unfortunately, it strays away from the most important element all the time and provides an extremely boring plot. And as the show continues, it gets only worse. Episode 12 was such a mess, it is not even worth discussing. Art: 5 Art is far from beautiful. The characters are designed well but that’s the most positive adjective I can use. The animation itself is terrible, especially during fight scenes. It only gets better during wholesome scenes. Sound: 6 The sound is decent. The voice actors did their job well. I enjoyed the ending song. Very calming and suiting the relationship between Rit and Red. Characters: 5 The main characters, Rit and Red are likable. Their relationship progressed through the show, which is unusual for many anime. When it comes to side characters, Ares will be remembered for his pitifulness and Ruti for brother complex. Most of the side characters were unremarkable. Enjoyment: 6 I enjoyed the little moments between Rit and Red. They are very wholesome, and such relationships are a rarity in the anime industry. All the other elements are just very tedious.

HIDDEN GEM!!! A friend of mine recommended me this anime since I´m a fan of Slice of life, fantasy and romance genres and never would have I have thought this anime was gonna be this good. Now since this is a slow pace anime it doesn´t mean it won´t have action, which in this case it does and does a decent job of implementing it by the use of flashbacks or current events in the story., SO IF YOU ARE SOMEONE THAT LIKES FAST PACE AND ACTION PACKED ANIME PROBABLY ISN´T FOR YOU. Now the story is about a heroes party on a quest to defeat the Demon Lord, which is pretty cliche in most fantasy or isekai animes, however the direction that this story takes is non that I´ve seen in other anime/manga. The MC is part of the heroes party but for some various reasons he quits the heroes party to go and live a slow life in a remote backwater town. So far it´s not that interesting however once the story starts to dwell onto the power system known as "Blessings" you start to notice why the MC is the way he is and what his ambitions are because of it. As the story goes on we get introduced to the MC´s love interest (Rit) and let´s just say there´s MAJOR developments in their relationship unlike most MC´s love interest in other animes. My boy is the DEFINITION of CHAD at times you could say their relationship is too sweet but you´ll keep on wanting to see more as their relationship progresses. I just hope more animes/mangas would take note of how it´s done here. Instead of the usual MC that just gets flustered from just making eye contact with girls or is just too scare to even hold hands or have a normal conversation. The guy actually takes initiative in some moments and accepts the love interest feelings. The story doesn´t just focus on the romance of the MC and Rit. It expands it by having a series of events in town that creates drama to keep us entertained as well as showing us the dynamics of the heroes party after the MC left and the current state of affairs. As well as introducing us the MC´s sister which we come to find SHE IS THE HERO!!!. I will say the story does take a bit of a dark turn when it comes to explaining the sister´s backstory but that just builds more emotions with the charcaters. Further on in the story we see how the world works and why the "Blessings" are such a big important factor that affect daily life is!. Now I really like how the author makes these such "Blessing" seem on the surface to be this miracle from the gods but they are much deeper than we think. It does question "Free will" and "Fate" but is essential in my opinion since it explains certain actions and behaviour of the characters across the series. Overall, I highly recommned this anime, if you have some spare time or just wnat a purifying anime this is it!!! The story is definitely good enough to keep you wanting to watch more. Now at the time of this review the second season finished airing so.... I´m a watch that... PEACE!! (Inspired by Huang-Teizan) 10 - Bendicion de Dios 9 - Now this is Peak!! 8 - Bingeworthy! 7 - Good 6 - Enjoyable 5 - Either Echii or just enough to get by 4 - I´m just here to know how it ends. 3 - "Are you related to Rent a Girlfriend?" 2 - Que cojones 1 - My head doesn´t explode because it can´t. 0 - "Even a Hentai has a better story than you!"