Endro! Episode 1 Review
We see to be swimming in stories that take place after a final battle in recent times, though here’s a twist… they went back in time to before they beat the villain and the villain has gone back to but remembers that final battle. It all sounds kind of cool and fun and then we realise it is a slice of life story featuring a quartet of cute girls with the demon being transformed into a loli teacher for whatever reason.
If we find out at the end that the only reason the heroes get strong enough to defeat the demon lord is because the demon lord was the one who trained them (though technically she’s trying to get them expelled), I’m probably going to be really annoyed at this.
All and all though, the first episode is pleasant. The characters are cute without becoming annoying and so far we haven’t had any random boob groping or the like (though we did get some ear nibbling and sleep talk plus the outfits of a couple of these girls are reminiscent of the uniforms in Akashic Records of a Bastard Magical Instructor).
What might get annoying is the demon as the loli teacher. While she has the potential to be quite interesting as the only one aware of the time travel and what happened when the heroes confronted the demon lord, so far she’s kind of petty and pathetic and her schemes are transparent and juvenile. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t anything to like here but she’s certainly the weakest link for me so far.
While I’m not 100% sold on this one if it comes down to a choice this season of watching this or Ueno-San I will definitely pick this without hesitation.
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SEISHUN BUTA YAROU WA BUNNY GIRL SENPAI NO YUME WO MINAI 1/8 SCALE PRE-PAINTED FIGURE: SAKURAJIMA MAI
- Endro Series Review
- Episode 1: Another Cute Girls Beat Demon With A Time-Warp Twist
- Episode 2: The Important Qualities Of An Adventurous Leader
- Episode 3: Now We’re Searching For Fortune and Glory – And Cats
- Episode 4: They Went On Vacation And Somehow Saved The World
- Episode 5: A Princess in Pursuit of Her Hero
- Episode 6: The Sickly Sweet With A Lot Of Heart
- Episode 7 and 8: The Princess, The Hero and Everyone Else
- Episode 9 and 10: Apparently They Do Grow on Trees
- Episode 11: Sometimes Endro Gets It Just Right
- Episode 12: A Time For Choices
- Images from: Endro! Dir. Kaori. Studio Gokumi. 2019.
“so far she’s kind of petty and pathetic and her schemes are transparent and juvenile”
Spot on… I may just steal this line.
Go for it. I think I could have gotten behind this if she’d actually had some sort of menace behind all that cuteness but mostly she’s just kind of sad.
I seem to have been much happier with this one than you are. . .
That wouldn’t surprise. Cute girls doing cute isn’t my thing and the loli-demon teacher literally set my teeth on edge.
On a note of only the vaguest and most distant relation (loli), have you seen this? https://www.theoasg.com/articles/please-save-my-money/kodo-mo-problems/12142
I had not but that sucks.
Moe and Hero are awesome
“If we find out at the end that the only reason the heroes get strong enough to defeat the demon lord is because the demon lord was the one who trained them” – Well, to be honest, I think you are better just dropping this because that’s what is going to happen… That or the demon lord ends up befriending these 4 girls!!!
I also don’t understand why he became a she… I understand why he has become a child, probably because he lost most of his power… It does not make a sense that it’s because of the time travel since they didn’t go that far into the past! 😛
I think asking for too much sense from this one.