#banished from the hero's party

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January Anime Releases 2024

Classroom of the Elite S3 - January 3rd via Crunchyroll

Chained Soldier - January 4th via HiDive

Delicious in Dungeon - January 4th via Crunchyroll

Demon Prince of Momochi House - January 5th via Crunchyroll

The Unwanted Undead Adventurer - January 5th via Crunchyroll

A Sign of Affection - January 6th via Crunchyroll

Blue Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati Saga -January 6th via Crunchyroll

Kingdom S5 - January 6th via Crunchyroll

MASHLE Season 2 - January 6th via Crunchyroll

Solo Leveling - January 6th via Crunchyroll

The Apothecary Diaries Cour 2 - January 6th via Crunchyroll

Tales of Wedding Rings - January 6th via Crunchyroll

Banished from the hero's party - January 7th via Crunchyroll

Mr. Villain's Day Off - January 7th via Crunchyroll

One Piece Egghead Arc - January 7th via Crunchyroll

High Card S2 - January 8th via Crunchyroll

Tis Time for "Torture" - January 8th via Crunchyroll

Tsukimichi - Moonlit Fantasy Season 2 - January 8th via Crunchyroll

Metallic Rouge - January 10th via Crunchyroll

Delusional Monthly Magazine - January 11th via Crunchyroll

The Witch and the Beast - January 11th via Crunchyroll

The Weakest Tamer began a journey to pick up trash - January 12th via Crunchyroll

Bucchigiri - January 13th via Crunchyroll

Let us know what you guys think of the shows and be sure to share what animes you're looking forward to this season. We will keep you updated on any others that may drop after the 15th!

[hikari-ni-naritai]

Emily Isekai Momence: Banished From The Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside

The (four) people have spoken, so we are going to start this review series off with, ironically, a Not-Quite-Isekai I refuse to apologise for enjoying. As I will be including a good number of pseudo-isekai anime in this series, I will also be explaining why they find their home in the Isekai genre (as opposed to the Isekai trope) as a whole. This one features the bog-standard isekai trope of Hero Adventurer Vs. Demon Lord, but more importantly, character abilities manifest in gaming abstractions including levels, skills, and blessings, which are essentially RPG classes. With that out of the way, let's get into it.

In Banished From The Hero's Party, the main character, Gideon (center left), is banished from the hero's adventuring party by the party caster, and moves to a town at the edge of the country that's strategically unimportant. Here, he decides to change his name to Red and live out his dream of running an apothecary. He runs into a girl he'd met in his time with the hero's party, Rit (center right), who is similarly laying low in this town while her brothers settle a succession debate, and she decides to move in with him and help with the apothecary. Despite how it sounds, the two of them do have a decently well-written, nicely paced romance arc before they get together.

Meanwhile, the hero, Red's younger sister Ruti (top), has no idea where he is and why he left, and the adventuring party is falling apart at the seams in his absence. She sends two of them to go find him before eventually going off herself with Red's replacement, a little assassin girl named Tisse (TRAGICALLY not pictured). During their travels, the two become friends, with Tisse working to overcome her fear and hero-worship of Ruti, and Ruti working to overcome her inability to read emotions and her inexpressive nature. Maybe more than friends? I can dream.

The core conceit of the world as presented is that each life form is born with a Blessing from god that determines their role in life. Red has a Guide blessing, which doesn't give him any powerful skills, but does allow him to become proficient in numerous common skills. Ruti has the Hero blessing, which grants her monstrous strength, immunity to poison and disease, insensitivity to temperature, inability to taste, dampened emotions, and a host of other abilities meant to improve her capacity for heroism. Blessings also influence your thoughts. Ruti is compelled to protect those in danger. A local adventurer with the Champion blessing feels a need to prove himself. A local boy with the Bar Brawler blessing starts a fight with another boy for no reason.

The exposition of this system neatly avoids the "As you know" trope by having Red explain it to the boy who got beat up. It feels very natural, and it's done over several episodes as the boy's story continues. An important point Red stresses is that, while your Blessing does influence your behavior, you are ultimately still in control of yourself. You have the freedom to choose to follow your urges, or to do your own thing. This, as we learn later, is heresy. But it's important heresy to set up early for the events that occur later. Because you DO have a choice, whatever Blessing you may have.

The story does a really good job at weaving the Blessing system into every character's motivation and beliefs. Characters are not only driven by their Blessing; they also have their own ideas on free will in the context of Blessings. Red believes you can choose to do whatever you want. One of the hero's party members believes you ought to be beholden to your Blessing, as it is a gift from god. The local adventurer has never even considered that someone might not want to follow their Blessing.

Obviously I can't say that there's no problems with the show. There's more fanservice than you typically see (it's less of a problem than youd think in isekai overall), and the final battle is long and (while I'm pretty sure the moving parts all fit together properly) difficult to keep track of. It feels like the budget ran out near the end. It wouldve benefited from better production and direction. But I think the way the final arc, where Ruti fights for her right to give up the Hero's blessing, brings together a lot of characters from previous arcs is very well done from a narrative perspective, so I have to give it credit for that.

The climax of the story asks a singular question, the same one that's been asked from the beginning. When saddled with responsibility you didn't ask for, is it okay to just give up? Maybe it's okay for a young boy to reject his calling as a swordsman, but does the chosen Hero have the right to turn her back on saving the world? And the answer given is a wholehearted, unequivocal "Yes". No matter what it is, no matter who you'll let down, no matter how many lives are at stake. Nobody, not even the gods themselves, has the right to ask anything of you without your consent. And that, to me, is an important lesson.

If you need a refresher on how the gay ass weeb shit rating works, Gay is how much gay is in the show (10 is very gay), Ass is how much fanservice is in the show (10 is very tits), Weeb is how much you need to know about japanese culture to get it (10 is monogatari), Shit is how good it is (10 is a masterpiece). Slavery refers to the uncomfortable slavery elements present in a lot of isekai. Shinzo Abe Propaganda refers to the anime trying to convince you to have children.

Gay Ass Weeb Shit rating: 2/5/3/8

No Slavery

No Shinzo Abe Propaganda

[entrehormigones]

[giffypudding]

Another lonely night on the trail

[songweaver]

[toonabby]

Happy (late) 35th birthday, Naomi Oozora

Characters pictured above from left to right: (BOLD text means Star-Making Role)

Satanichia "Satania" McDowell Kurumizawa from Gabriel Dropout

Hana Uzaki (Monica Rial) from Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!

Jahy (Lisette Monique Diaz) from The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!

Kiriha (Sarah Wiedenheft) from Tsugumomo

Ruti (Tia Ballard) from Banished from the Hero's Party

Samidare Asahina (Ariel Graham) from Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer

Chio Miyamo (Mikaela Krantz) from Chio's School Road

Inari from Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha

Midori Kohakobe (Emily Neves) from Call of the Night

Susanna "Sue" Hopkins from Genshiken: Second Generation (Replacing Yuuko Gotou)

Keiko Tomioka (Rachel Michelle Thompson) from Remake Our Life!

Kanon Konomori from Wataten!

Chieri Ogata from THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls

Tamamo Cross from Uma Musume Pretty Derby

Perseus from Azur Lane

Patricia Abelheim from Atelier Ryza

Characters not pictured (in order of the work's release year):

Duvalie (Eden Riegel) from The Legend of Heroes series

Yuragi Hakoniwa from Noucome

Jessica Shannon (Danielle Judovits) from Marvel Disk Wars

Karen Bombardier (Molly Searcy) from Chaika: The Coffin Princess

SG-1000 II from Sega Hard Girls

Bal-chan from Robot Girls Z+

Noriko Mizuyama from Momokuri

Tellu (Laura Post) from Sailor Moon Crystal III (Replacing Chieko Honda)

Falcon and QJY-88 from Girls' Frontline

Yuma Kusanagi from Matoi the Sacred Slayer

Black-Tailed Prairie Dog (Sarah Wiedenheft) from Kemono Friends

Ylgr (Megan Hollingshead) and Lethe (Kristen Day) (from Path of Radiance) from Fire Emblem Heroes

Charlotte Anana (Madeleine Morris) from One Piece(*)

Yuki from PriConne (Princess Connect! Re:Dive)

Nikola Graf (Kate Higgins) from Valkyrie Chronicles 4

Michi Edogawabashi from Pastel Memories

Pan Dina (Nadine Russell) from Kandagawa Jet Girls

Marisa Kirisame from Touhou Spell Bubble

Mafuyu Kogarashi (Madeline Dorroh) from Maesetsu!

Sakuna (Laura Post) from Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin

Fenneca (Carling Doubt) (yes THAT'S her name) from Bakugan: Geogan Rising

Amanozako (Deva Marie Gregory) from Shin Megami Tensei V

Mogumogu Chō Higashisakura from Hanabi-chan Is Often Late

Lopomon from Digimon Survive

Ripple from Reborn to Master the Blade

Sayuri Osanada from Rokudo's Bad Girls

Panda Yanagiba from World Dai Star

Shizuka Futari (Robin Clayton) from Sasaki and Peeps

(*) = Debut episode

[faline-cat444]

Some new names,some long-awaited continuity

[weatherman667]

Banished from the Hero’s Party I...

Anime names have to be so long.  Anyways, a good, if disjointed story.

There are three main parts to the story:

Main character, whom was banished from the Hero’s party, wants to set up an apothecary.  His big-titty, blonde, patient childhood friend princess vagabond wants to join him.

The main character’s backstory with the Hero’s party.

The Hero’s party, now that they don’t have the protagonist.

The real problems is with number 2, as it’s told in flashbacks.  They will often run a flashback, have the main characters said two lines to each other, and then segue into another flashback, and then another one.  This part is essential to understanding the history the main character has with his waifu, along with aspects of his character that he always keeps hidden.  This is an element normally absent from childhood best friend love interests.  The story could simply have had her step into his shop, and then do a full episode flashback, rather than a disjointed one.

And this is the story’s true weakness.  It has a lot of really good element, but trying them together is the problem.

To understand the world, we need to understand Blessings.  Which ties D&D, Final Fantasy, and My Little Pony together.  Seriously.

Every living being has a Blessing.  This might be for standard RPG classes, like Fighter, Mage, or Brawler.  It might be for abstracted military classes, like General.  It might be Craftsman.

The Protagonist’s is Guide.  While militarily competent beyond the point of most knights, his combat abilities did not progress at the same level as the rest of the party, hence his banishment.  This abilities instead focus on more “common” things, like survival, navigation, herbalism, etc.

And this is because in most fantasy stories and games, things just happen to the party.  You don’t want your party to spend a couple years of game sessions wandering around in a forest, so they naturally stumble across it.

Banished from the Hero’s Party does NOT abstract this.  You need to find your target to fight it, logistics are important, (if only spoken of momentarily),

Without the main character, the Hero’s party finds itself lost, literally.  They have to make several journeys, because they search around, run out of food, and have to return to a friendly location to resupply.  No one in the Hero’s party is especially good at diplomacy, (not even the Crusader, apparently), which means they’ve been unable to come to any accords with the locals.

What the story does the best, however, is small, interpersonal interactions, which make the story utterly charming.

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“Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shimashita 2nd” The First Promo for Winter 2024

The second season of the anime series Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shimashita (Banished From The Hero's Party, I Decided To Live A Quiet Life In The Countryside) will premiere in January 2024, according to information released on the series' official website.

[revermbed]

Still one of the best anime couples, these 2 are adorable and deserve a season 2

[Banished from the Hero's Party]

[anime-of-the-day]

Anime of the day: Banished From The Hero's Party, I Decided To Live A Quiet Life In The Countryside Season 2

Alt title: Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shimashita 2nd

Released: 2024

This season takes a slightly new direction than the previous. Because Ruti conquered her blessing, a new hero arises. However, this new hero follows commands with the blessing a little too honestly.  

[thecakeisnotalie]

I started watching "Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside"

I love Red & Rit very much

[iftadwascool]

Banished from the Hero's Party is pretty cute

[a-titty-ninja]

[songweaver]

[faline-cat444]

Whether or not I did go out it was still a Tuesday...