YUUSHA NI NARENAKATTA ORE WA SHIBUSHIBU SHUUSHOKU WO KETSUI SHIMASHITA.

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NOVEL ComedyYuusha ni Narenakatta Ore wa Shibushibu Shuushoku wo Ketsui Shimashita.
OVA ComedyYuusha ni Narenakatta Ore wa Shibushibu Shuushoku wo Ketsui Shimashita. OVA
SPECIALYuusha ni Narenakatta Ore wa Shibushibu Shuushoku wo Ketsui Shimashita. Specials

REVIEWS

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  namv22

  6/100
  I would say the start is quite good but the way the story develops is too predictable

  This must be the type of anime you can call: Cliches

  The begin was quite a good start, trainee heroes, destined to fight the demon lord and POOF, the demon lord is dead

  Now the hero works other job to support his own life but doesn't feels right because that's not what he wants, but when his friends ask, he just make that uncomfortable face like of he talks it out, he's gonna die

  Etc, etc, the story now develops to how he has to take care of the demon lord's daughter and deal with her and work his job as the same time because that girl is a pain in the ass

  And because she's the demon lord's daughter so she must have a great power that the other bad guys want to exploit and in the end, the hero will come and save her and bring her home and they live happily ever after

  For the character:
  Our main hero, who somehow have emotional issue because he can't become a hero who defeats the demon lord

  The main girl, aka the demon lord's daughter, a kinda dumb girl who always make a fuss about everything, because every ecchi harem anime needs a dumb girl

  The girl who is the mc's colleague, very kind and cute and has big boobs, because every ecchi harem anime needs a kind girl with big boobs

  The manager, a very sly and witty character who somehow always know how to solves everything in her way, has big boobs, because every ecchi harem anime needs a sly girl with big boobs

  The vice manager, who always complain about the mc, like the manager very much

  The straight face girl who seems to doesn't give a shit about anything but actually is a very good person, we don't see this type of character much in ecchi harem anime

  The former classmate who is a tsundere, always make a fuss about what the mc is doing, nice body, because every ecchi harem anime needs a tsundere

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  HeartbreakRebel

  36/100
  An interesting story concept ruined by fanservice.

  My Review of "I Couldn’t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job."!

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  As one of my first ever reviews, this is quite something.....

  ____Story____

  The story follows a character by the name of Raul Chaser. His dreams of being a hero ended up falling short due to certain problems with hiring that led him to reluctantly work as a clerk in a magic electronics store. After the daughter of the demon lord got hired to work at the store, things have gotten harder for Raul than he could ever think of.

  ____Visuals____

  The visuals aren't anything home to write about. However, they aren't necessarily bad. Each character is drawn in a somewhat attractive way, which is how it should be since this is an ecchi anime.

  ____Characters____

  The cast is full of many silly characters, ranging from the daughter of the demon lord who acts like a complete child to the MC's boss who acts cute in almost every scene they're in. There aren't many serious characters in the anime, showing how the anime attempts to capture a comfy vibe with its people.

  ____The Good____

  I really enjoy the concept of a failed hero who works a "regular" day-to-day job. To me, it feels a bit relatable to how we may fail achieving our dreams and goals and having to settle with what we can have in the moment. I also found the idea of regular electronics being powered by magic interesting. In most of the animes I've watched including electronics, they're usually either some creative new product or electricity is discovered and implemented into their society. However, this anime chooses to create a somewhat similar environment by including earthly electronics. I really enjoy the characters and their sort of... gimmick. Although there are a few problems (which I will discuss in the next section), their personalities do stand out where you can differentiate them from each other and find some sort of entertainment no matter who's the focus of the story. I must say that I did find the last two episodes to be greatly enjoyable compared to the other episodes, which felt a bit like a reward for watching the previous ten episodes.

  ____The Bad____

  There are a few issues I find with how they executed this anime and story in general. One of the problems that I find is that plenty of the stories feel like filler to the few amounts of important information and character development. In most of the stories, it's just the company or the MC going on some short adventure with the Demon Lord's daughter and ending up falling into trouble in some sort of way. These end up being resolved quickly through different methods, but each situation features elements so indistinguishable that I feel numb to almost each story. Another problem is with how the characters are presented. Sure, I mentioned that they have personalities that stand off, but the anime chooses to really exaggerate these personalities to a point where in the later episodes, most of them are pretty annoying.

  ____The Downright Ugly____

  Let's get the cat out of the bag by stating the obvious: fanservice. There's just way too much fanservice thrown into each story that it's hard to really take interest into any of them. Sure, this is part of the ecchi genre, but there are even ecchi animes that handle fanservice perfectly and find a balance between creating interesting stories and filling the quota for ecchi. With each shot of a girl presented in an explicit way, the more I felt awkward in watching the story play out. Many of these fanservice scenes aren't even necessary as they feel thrown in just to keep the viewer interested. In reality, this made me less interested in the story or whatever was going on.

  ____Is It Worth The Watch?____

  I would say absolutely not. Even if you're that dedicated to ignore (or enjoy. I'm not judging.) abundances of fanservice, the story really isn't written well without it. The potential was clearly there, but the anime really focused in on the fanservice portion of the story than the actual progressions of the story. The fanservice even affected the quality of the characters, ruining whatever charm they started with in the first episode. I do enjoy the period where they do try to have fanservice take a step back, but the damage had already been done and I just couldn't get very invested in the story.

  Overall, "I Couldn’t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job." is something that initially sounded like a potentially good wholesome slice-of-life anime and ended up actually being an excuse for fanservice galore. All of the interest that I started with ended up being drained with the abundance of unneeded shots of fanservice. What a shame.

  Thank you for taking the time to read my review. I hope this helped you with your decision on whether to watch this anime or not! If you already have watched it, I hope that you can agree with me with some of the points I made. ^^

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  TheRealKyuubey

  60/100
  I Couldn't Become an Author, So I Reluctantly Decided to Review Anime

  In a world that’s full of magic, powering our appliances and enhancing our daily lives, there are few callings for an ambitious young soul to pursue... But that’s okay, because there’s only one calling that matters, and that’s the call of heroism! Driven by a desire to make something of themselves and a compulsion to improve the world around them and protect the souls who depend on them, heroes train day and night to battle it out against the Demon King! But what happens when it’s over? Where is a prospective hero to go, what are they to do, how are they to live, once the Demon King’s been killed and the call for heroes has ended? Well, for a hero in training named Raul, there really isn’t anything left that puts a sparkle in his heart, so he gets a dead end no-skill retail job. He’s doing okay, but he's not challenging himself, he’s content to just tread water... Until Fino comes along. Will this former aspiring hero be able to put aside his differences and work alongside the princess of hell?

  I Couldn’t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get A Job is a very long title, so it’s good news that the Japanese gave it a mercifully short subtitle, Yuushibuu, which I’ll be using for the rest of this review. However, the production side of things for this anime is somewhat less merciful, as it’s just unfortunate news all around. Yuushibuu was produced by Asread, a company that got their start by producing Shuffle, but don’t worry, it gets worse. They also produced Future Diary and Corpse Party, two shows I really like that are not especially known for their dazzling visuals, as well as Arifureta, which I did not like, and I genuinely don’t remember how it looked. Aside from production assistance and in-between animation for countless anime over the years, none of their primary production output has ever looked great, and while I guess Ga Rei Zero may have been an exception to this, they didn’t produce that one alone.

  Things get even worse when you look at the resume of the director, who is primarily known for titles like End of Summer, Legend of Lemnear, Plastic Little, the Queen’s Blade franchise, basically the kind of anime that I wouldn’t quite call soft core hentai, although they are mainly only sought out for the nudity contained within. Oh, and of course there’s a bunch of actual hentai on his resume, the tamest of which is probably two episodes of the four episode Kekko Kamen OVA. His most legit works are Arifureta, which might be the only anime in his resume that doesn’t contain any uncensored fanservice; Unbreakable Machine doll, which contained a little; And Yuushibuu, which is somewhere between the two. If I didn’t know all of this, and you told me Yuushibuu was directed by a guy who mostly worked on spank bank material with only brief tastes of mainstream success, I would believe you, honestly, because that is exactly the vibe I get from Yuushibuu.

  Okay, most of the time, Yuushibuu is not a bad looking anime. There’s some action... I mean fighting action, at least for now... And it’s usually pretty cool looking, really fast paced and fun swords and sorcery type stuff. It relies a little on the same kind of broken frame runny egg animation that shows like Sword Art Online made famous, but not to as egregious a degree. CG effects are well handled and smoothly integrated, especially when it comes to magic effects and the occasional monster asset, but this is mostly a slice of life anime, and it’s very clear that the budget was not managed very well, because when the animation gets cheap, it’s noticeable as hell. There are extended conversations where characters who aren’t talking just stand there awkwardly in suspended animation, neither blinking nor breathing, until it’s their turn to speak. Weird looking physical interactions, cheap close-ups on walking cycles, just about every budget saving trick is here, all so the animators could splurge where they wanted to and neglect the rest.

  The design work is okay, but a little on the generic side. There are multiple characters who look way too similar to each other, and I think the only character who really manages to stand out visually in any kind of memorable way is the mechanic character, Loa. The nudity looks good... It’s an improvement over Future Diary, at least... But with the exception of the OVA finale episode, at least sixty percent of the fanservice is censored in some way, and the remaining forty percent revolves entirely around only one character. The world the story takes place in isn’t worth writing home about either. It mostly just looks like modern day Japan, which I know was the intention, but just because it was on purpose doesn’t make it look any less boring or generic. The magical appliances still look like normal, basic appliances, and while I applaud the commitment to accuracy, there’s still nothing really exciting about it. Sure, the demon world looks really cool, but we don’t really spend all that much time there.

  Speaking of the Demon World, before I go any further, there is one question I have to find an answer for; Is Yuushibuu an isekai? That’s complicated. An isekai is defined as a story where the main character gets transported to a new world, right? Well, the main character doesn’t get transported anywhere, except for some fighting in the demon world in the beginning. Fino is from that world, so I guess you could call it a reverse isekai, like Dragon Maid and The Devil is a Part Timer? But that also really isn’t the same thing, because Fino doesn’t get transported to OUR world, in fact, both of the worlds in this show are fantasy worlds... The magical world and the demon world, which are kind of implied to have been familiar with each other for an undisclosed amount of time. Is it an isekai if the real human world isn’t part of the occasion? Does Fino running away to the magic human world count? I don’t fucking know, so I’m just going to call it an isekai for the sake of familiarity. If you don’t like that, well, I apologize to the six people who get to read this before it gets bumped off of the front page.

  All that aside, this is an isekai anime, and it’s a really interesting one, too. Is it interesting in a good way, or a bad way? Yes. It’s both, kind of. I already went over the core concept of this series in the plot synopsis, but basically, this world has all the comforts and conveniences of our world, except it all runs on magic instead of electricity. That’s a pretty out there concept, and since the main characters all work in a magical appliance store, that’s a pretty good sign that you’re going to get a front row seat to all of the wacky ideas the creators had for this concept, and they had... Some. They certainly had some ideas. I can’t fault them for that. When a product breaks, you don’t fix it by tinkering with it physically(although it does physically look like its real world counterpart), they fix it with magic spells and transmutation circles. When a product is defective, it basically just becomes a magical death trap that has to be manually deactivated to save the customer and whoever else is nearby.

  As part of the warranty on some higher end products, employees of the store will regularly visit you to recharge the magic in your device, and I’ll be honest, when this concept is introduced, it leads to the two best episodes in the series, where Raul, Fino and Loa have to go out and perform customer service for a family that just cancelled a purchase, leading to such a fun, exciting and heartwarming series of events that, I’m not going to lie, even if this overall concept is presented in underwhelming fashion the rest of the time, it’s worth it for these two episodes. If it wasn’t for these two episodes, I would be sitting here saying that this show would have been better in the long run if they had just scrapped the magical appliances idea and just set the story in the real world, with electricity and stuff. That’s not to say that this was a bad idea, hell it wasn’t even an uninspired idea, but it was an idea with a very clear ceiling, and the writing never really manages to find a way to break through that ceiling. If it wasn’t for those two episodes, I would question whether or not it was worth it, and if just having Fino react to our real world would be better.

  Going beyond that concept, and looking at the wider plot, I’m sorry, but this show is actually pretty dumb... You could probably already guess as much from the fact that nobody guesses Fino is a demon at first glance despite her long pointy ears, but believe it or not, it gets dumber than that. So what we’re supposed to believe is that the heroism industry relied entirely on the war with the Demon King to be a feasible career, and once the Demon King was defeated, that industry collapsed. There was no more need for heroes, so once the immediate fighting stopped, all the heroes had to go their separate ways and get jobs, and I’m sorry, what? What sense does that make? Think about it, even during peace times, most developed nations still have militaries. Are there no more conflicts that heroes can fix? Are there no wars brewing among the humans in their world? Especially now that there’s no war with the Demon King to unite them all?

  There are clearly monsters in the human world, so why not have the heroes become guardians to protect people from them? Adventurers to explore their own world? The other half of the plot involves Fino refusing to take her father’s place as the new Demon King, which creates a conflict with some of the retired heroes, who want her to take over so they can be useful again... I’m sorry, who’s to say she can’t become king and then strike peace with the humans? Even then, maybe the Demon World would have use of heroes. Maybe Fino could hire heroes to battle other demons in the demon world who threaten the transition of power. Hell, what’s stopping another demon from becoming king? With Fino in the human world playing retail, wouldn’t that just create a power vacuum back home? Power vacuums do not remain empty for long. They tend to get filled by those who are ambitious and opportunistic enough to seize and consolidate power. But overall, I just find it bafflingly idiotic that the hero industry would dissolve overnight just because the Demon King was defeated, when a new Demon King and a new Demon Army could establish itself at any moment. What the fuck, you guys.

  I try not to think about all of this and not take the implications of the plot too seriously, but it’s kind of hard when it plays such a major role in the story, and you’re constantly being forced to think about it. I like the series when it’s not dwelling on all of this. For one thing, I work retail myself, and I do feel a significant bias towards stories about retail workers in general... Shows where a cast of characters from all walks of life put aside their hopes and dreams to coexist together in a dead end 9 to 5(or 9 to 6, if you get regular hour-long lunch breaks, which you should) and this show does that really well. As fish out of water characters go, Fino is a really likeable and charming ball of chaos, who is somehow(surprisingly) never annoying. Raul is a fairly well balanced straight man acting as her foil/victim. I like Loa, she works well as the specialized veteran worker who knows exactly how to do what she does. The manager has a really fun way of affecting the plot, and her support manager is appropriately direct and responsible, but less threatening. Again, I work retail.

  Then again, not all of it works. There’s some pretty mixed messaging about sexual assault and sexual harassment in the workplace. When it comes to grabbing the butts of female employees in revealing uniforms, it’s apparently okay for old men to do it as long as they get a light, semi-flirtacious scolding, but a drunk middle aged man must be told off for it. I’d like to think that all of this was coincidental, and the writer didn’t mean anything by it, because that would honestly be the best case scenario here. There’s a lot about the Demon World and monsters in general that is left frustratingly unexplored, and some related plot points get dropped and never resolved. The biggest problem, though, is that there really isn’t anything here that you couldn’t find better anywhere else. As an isekai, the concept is definitely interesting, but I’ve seen way more interesting ideas get explored and fleshed out to a much larger degree. As a show where a royal Demonic Figure escapes to the human world to work a normal job, you know where I’m going with this, The Devil is a Part Timer is basically the much better version of Yuushibuu.

  That’s not to say you can’t watch both shows, but if you had to choose, yeah, I’d recommend a trip to MgRonalds.

  I Couldn’t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job is available from Sentai Filmworks. A thirteenth OVA episode is included in all physical releases. The original light novel by Jun Sakyou and a pair of manga adaptation are not available stateside.

  I like this show, I honestly do. It’s pretty funny, to the point that I laughed at least a couple of times while watching most of the episodes, and there are at least two episodes that I genuinely loved. There’s a lot of fanservice, which I get can turn some viewers off, but it’s at least somewhat self-aware, and it isn’t just constantly being thrown in your face without restraint. On the other hand, the plot doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, the unique concept it’s built upon falls short in a lot of areas, and the visual quality is inconsistent at best. The characters are mostly likeable, but the circumstances that brought them together are hard to swallow and kind of ring hollow. Overall, this show isn’t good enough or bad enough to really stand out or warrant much of a recommendation, leaving it with the unfortunate designation of just being kind of mid. Still, I’d say it’s far enough on the positive side of mid that I don’t regret watching it, even a second time.

  I give I Couldn’t Become a Hero, so I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job a 6/10

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