Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Pedang_Katana
What I Watched: "I'm Quitting Heroing"
What I Expected: "The Devil is a Part Timer"
What I Actually Got: "How a Banished Hero Rebuilds the Demon Lord's Kingdom"
Before it aired, just from the title I thought it’s going to be another Banished From The Hero’s Party, and was lowkey hoping for a chill show. Then, after the first ep I was like “Oh so this is more of a goofy comedy” Then next few eps, “Ah so this is another Rebuild the Kingdom type of show. Showing how to manage an organization. Manpower, admin, logistics. Ok I’m on board” Then came eps 6 and this show finally "turned the corner" from "reasonably okay" to "damn right it's worth following". The story isn't always subtle. In fact, subtlety occasionally gets thrown out of the window, tied to a rocket, and launched into another d…
Read at the sourceLberondroth
At first glance, this looks like just another “Banished Hero” imagination churned out by the industry. But if you stick with it, you’ll find a diamond in the rough that hits way harder than it has any right to.
Synopsis:
Leo Demonheart saved the world, but instead of a parade, he was exiled. He is too mighty for man to master and is cast away by the ones he saved. Where else is an unemployed overpowered hero supposed to go? Straight up to the demon queen he just killed and asking for a job.
Of course, she refuses him. But Leo is relentless, and he goes undercover to fix her crumbling army from the inside.
Why it gets an 8/10:
The biggest strength of this show is that it’s not just a comedy about workplace management in a dungeon. It tricks you.
The Shift: After a few episodes, the tone s…
Read at the sourceRigga
As you watch the show it quickly becomes apparent that the plot primarily focuses on the hero's efforts to manage the recovering demon empire, bringing stability and structure to its ranks. We don't learn the backstory of too many of these characters in depth, and there isn't much to be said for the usual themes like romance. As the plot unravels, the show's true focus on the hero's personal journey becomes clear. Leo is most certainly not just a jaded hero, and the concept behind the show mostly revolves around discovering why he is the way he is now. We learn most of his backstory in episode 6 and from that point on the ultimate climax that the viewer should expect seems clear.
Each character went through their arc, except perhaps for Echidna, who doesn't learn anything of substance. Th…
Read at the sourcesharfpang
Watch episodes 1-7 then quit. These first 7 episodes is a fun, quirky anime with likeable characters, interesting challenges to overcome with wits and experience, the hero's role is "a competent manager". It's lightweight, humorous, and very enjoyable. 8/10
Then, starting ep 8, we're getting a completely different anime. The protagonist stops being smart, fun and competent, and suddenly turns into an edgy idiot with martyr complex. All the fun is swapped for cheap drama, all the smart decision-making is replaced with a massive and completely pointless battle because MC picked an enormous idiot ball. 3/10 and a lingering bad taste,
Animation, production quality, art - all mid, passable, nothing to write home about. The cast - likeable, and a little deeper than what you see at a glance. Th…
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This anime is more about being a good company employee. Aka a company drone.
While the context is about demon and so on, the MC (but not the whole cast) is a typical person who suffers from a mental illness knows as workaholic.
However, since this is a fictive work, of course the MC shows 0% issues of why workaholism is a mental illness. Well, at least not directly.
So what does indirectly mean?
1: lack of self ASIDE from "I want to be recognised by boss and make my company the best" that on it's own is of course, not an issue, but the idea is that this is the only exception, nothing else.
2: While in the anime, the MC organize things to work as best as possible, if you where to ignore that the author intentionally made things to work out, you essentially have someone who constantly…
Read at the sourceZegion_Sama
The show has a great plot/story to tell but it's heavily ruined by a bad writing. There are so many things that could have been written better and to add up with how the characters feels so bland. When I try to find it from a comedy side, there is not a single joke that's funny. I also tried to be positive that maybe, MAYBE the fight scene would be good but, NO. For the animation and art, it's below average. I found myself quite often multi tasking while trying to finish this show because it come to the point that "why you feels the need to write this scene? What does it contribute to?". There are like so many scene that are being tell at the wrong time as if it trying to give "hint" to the audience. This is one of the show that is trying so hard to be great but failed at it miserably.
IMO…
Read at the sourcefujodesukedo
Unexpectedly a nice series!
Story: ❤❤❤❤ /5
Music: ❤❤❤❤ /5
Voice Actor: ❤❤❤❤ /5
Animation: ❤❤❤ /5
the series is slow paced at first but pick up after the 9th episode. which means you need to watch this atleast until the 9th episode!
at first i thought this is gonna be some overdone isekai, but the emotion it brought in the main problem and the closure are done surprisingly well. we as the watcher, we are learning about the character from zero, which give that pleasant surprise in a story.
i particularly love the tittle of this anime. i thought it's just a statement for his resolve in joining the maou army, but i realize that's not the case. (i can't tell u why tho)
It was a good watch! I don't know how it is for people who wait every week for the series, but for me, i got it done in a da…
Read at the sourceChaplin87
IMO this anime does not the attention it deserves. There’s a deeper meaning to the story with very relatable advice given on every episode. The animation may be subpar but I think the voice does does a great job is bringing across the emotions. It’s a breath of fresh air to all the boring isakai anime that tend to make it through each season. We have a hero who’s over his job after 3000yrs. He’s lost his sense of purpose and have decided there only one way to retire.
Which this anime is available more popular platforms than HDive.
Highly recommend. Yes it’s a bit of a slow burn but know it gets better as each episode goes.
Read at the sourceZasled
Honestly, skip the first 7 episodes and start at episode 8. The setup is so bad and doesn't really explore the populations opinion on the hero that has protected them for eons other than "booo hero strong he scary guy even tho he protect us from demons booo". Also, somehow technology has devolved to medieval ages. Needless to say, shit world building and dumb premise off the bat. The first 7 episodes are essentially a training video repackaged as a slice of life fantasy anime, where we the audience learn vicariously through the MC teaching the incompetent elite four basic management, leadership and communication skills. And I mean REALLY surface level stuff. Episode 8 starts with a backstory of the MC, and essentially builds up the context of the world and why there is a demon vs humanity…
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Premise: 10/10
Plot: 10/10
Execution: -14,408/10
It's 90% exposition. After the first two episodes it literally just becomes ten loooooooong videos of people blabbering on about how cool the premise is. There are some flashing lights, a couple battle scenes, but yeah, those ten episodes only serve to have people talking. Talking. Talking. Talking. JFC they're actually just talking. These twelve episodes are a one-episode flashback in a regular "isekai" (yeah...) stretched out to four hours.
I'm not even being facetious here. It's just talking. So much fuckn talking. Such an incredible buildup, such an incredible backstory that's revealed, so many cool characters (and by that i mean like five), but it's all given over to four hours of explaining WHY the story is cool. Yeah bitch, I know t…
Read at the sourceHikiNarou
Well maybe this is my first time watching anime and reading the novel which is a little different from the others, another isekai fantasy, it's like various references are used and make the author's own story, doesn't follow the same cycle of isekai fantasy as others.
the interesting thing here first is the character, the hero character and the demon queen, seeing them in the future it will be fun after the former hero (quit) officially joins demon army. ah btw this is a small spoiler but if it bothers you I'm very sorry.
Demon King Echidna's two underlings that attract all sorts of things, this makes me laugh even though I feel the same way or become a Leo character here. I understand Leo's annoyance with his Four Pillars underlings lol.
These two stories, like the beginning, seem to br…
Read at the sourceMoltenAshes
Heading into the season I had very little expectations coming into this anime. I'm Quitting Heroing was just supposed to be just another time-filler seasonal, wasting 25 minutes on something that wasn't going to be too impactful. And for the first half of this anime, it was exactly what I was expecting, just another time-waster seasonal.
Until it wasn't
The second half of this anime takes a dramatic turn, where it delves deep into the main protagonist's "broken identity", where the protagonist's personality flaws get thrust into the spotlight. The anime completely slows down pacing in the second half of the anime to completely focus on character development, making viewers emphasize with and understand who Leo is. Hell, there's even an entire episode that entirely focuses on one interact…
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I like to give almost all seasonal animes a chance, but funny enough I immediately dropped this when I first attempted to watch this show. I am so over this recently overused theme of government simulator. I was in no mood to once again learn about supply chain management, so I initially dropped this show because of the beginning plot and meh animation. But I saw people online recommending it, so I gave it another go and I’m glad I did. This show will not wow you by any means, but the characters are likeable and the plot twists are actually well constructed. There’s definitely much better anime out there, but this is far from garbage.
Read at the sourceYamI_SukeHir0
The premise of this series boils down to a single question: “What happens to the hero after they win?” You may want the legendary hero around when there's an army of invading demons led by an all-powerful Demon Lord, but the moment the hero is triumphant, the whole situation changes. Now you have someone powerful enough to take down the ultimate evil—without the evil part of the equation. This begets fear in the general population which then turns to anger. Soon they will want him gone—if not dead then at least out of sight and out of mind.
This is doubly true in the case of Leo who is a hero so overpowered, he single-handedly took out not only the Demon Lord's army but the Demon Lord and her four generals as well. So what does he do when he is abandoned by all those he worked to save? He…
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The anime tells the story of a hero who is disappointed by humanity and wants to join the demon king's army. At first the plot seems very simple and boring but the anime shows you even though its plot is simple with good design and character development, it makes a very entertaining anime. The animation is quite decent, the soundtrack accompanies well and the best thing it has is the development of characters, it takes the time to constantly tell the comtives of each character, it takes its time to show you their motivations, it is very well done, it takes the time necessary and on top of that it is not boring at all. After all, the anime is a story of life, very well constructed, I recommend it if you like the genre, it's interesting, there are 12 chapters so if you want to see something…
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Yuusha, Yamemasu invoked a lot of mixed feelings, primarily due to the title called I'm Quitting Heroing. In my head, I assumed it would be a terrible show, and for the most part, I was right. While the contradictory characters and recycled isekai elements take the blame for that, at the same time, the backstories and narrative are much appreciated, especially the hero himself as it made him a lot more complex and exciting to follow through.
The hero, Leo Demonhart apparently got tired of doing his hero job, so what does he do? He waltzed into the hornet's nest, A.K.A The Demon Lord's castle and said 'I want to join the Demon Army.' without any sense of regret. While he initially got rejected, the so-called Elite Four (what is this now, Pokemon?) who he have beaten easily before, secretly…
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"Leo, do you have any regrets?"
-- the following is a brief paragraph or two on my overall thoughts, followed by spoilers about how twists can't always save a show and/or change their predictability. reader discretion advised. --
I have a few regrets in life, I think we all do. As you rack up years and that number since your birth continues to tick upwards linearly, more and more events get stored into your brain as something that could've gone better. The little things and the big things, you can reconcile with those demons later and soften the blow, but they always exist.
My point is that I regret watching Yuusha, Yamemasu.
I'm Quitting Heroing is a sub-par fantasy show that continues to bore despite throwing viewers on a makeshift rollercoaster. The want to surprise and stun the a…
Read at the sourceStark700
For those who has a lot of patience and tolerate the type of show with fantasy drama about humans, beasts, and demons, then maybe you've stumbled upon the right place. If not, let's just say that I'm Quitting Heroing is the type of anime that reuses many of the same elements in today's anime market, the very definition of trying the same thing over and expecting different results.
Trust me, with the amount of isekai these days, seeing a protagonist being banished from a party, kingdom, or general population is hardly a rare sight. That's what happened to Leo, the hero who gets banished from their kingdom after defeating the Demon Queen Echidna and her army. With the setting taking place in a futuristic timeline, you' expect the world to be celebrating peace and prosperity. No, instead, pe…
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“They had us in the first half NGL”
I tend not to rate an anime on “Last episode disaster”, hence this season I pretended that the last episode of Rikekoi and Yuusha yame masu does not exist (For good reason). However, the last few episodes of Yuuyame have much more effect on the overall story hence I don't think We can avoid including this (But I definitely wanted to say this once :D). This last episode in question drives the plot to a significant degree.
The plot twists and it twists hard, it's almost like Re zero episode one but extended to about the first 10 episodes, the twist isn't necessarily bad (lots of hints and foreshadowing did give it a bit of context). But certainly, if you are here for your nice laid-back slice of life ride with a bit of harem in the mix, well, the plot does…
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Hello? Realist Hero? Is this you again? What is the shtick this time round?
You've heard of stories where the Hero comes to help a fledgling friend or enemy in need, a setting and story that only now, has become its own sub-genre of all things. The oldies like myself will know of novelist Mamare Touno's Maoyuu Maou Yuusha which saw the LN ran from 2010 and 2012 and studio Arms' anime adaptation the year after the LN ended (damn, now I feel so old that this source is more than a decade old). The more recent mainstream ones are of course, novelist Dojyomaru's Realist Hero and Toru Toba's Tensai Ouji. And in this packed Spring season, there's one more to add to the mix: novelist Quantum's only work that is Yuusha, Yamemasu a.k.a I'm Quitting Heroing, a short 3-volume LN fantasy series that r…
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