The Hero King Reincarnated Etc #01 — Toddler Laser Cannon
January 9th, 2023
Way to make babies shooting lasers at dragons tedious.
Ayakashi Triangle did air first, but this popped up first, albeit in Chinese sub format. Oh well. Best to rip off this band-aid now.
Impressions:
I felt like making a backhanded remark about how this may be the best animated of the new cheat power things this season (Bofuri easily has them all beat on the animation front), but that feels like it would be giving this even a slight compliment in any way when its animation is still quite godawful. There were two fights, and they were almost all speedlines or just lines of light flashing over nothing. And even those were further destroyed by the nonstop internal monologuing absolutely obliterating any trace bit of pacing or story that there was. Oh, a dragon is attacking? Well, first, let's have three paragraphs talking about it.
It's the usual godawful cheat power reincarnation drek. The cheat power is so strong that as a toddler, she can shoot beam cannons from her head, completely obliterating the entire countryside. Of course, she uses this to swing her dick around and humiliate the local spoiled nobles who don't know their place, but nothing can pass without appeasing the ancient space goat of internal monologues. My god, she never shuts up, and worse, she is a complete and absolute bore. That's the real mortal sin here. The thing all these goddamned isekai things fail to grasp is that even if you have Superman as a main character, he still needs to struggle, even if the threat isn't directly to him physically. Just explaining how much you're swinging your dick around and are the ubermensch above all leaves it as another obnoxious power fantasy and absolutely nothing else going for it, not even animation. But I guess at least it wasn't gross about a dude being forcibly turned into a girl. Is that something? Doubtful.
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This made no fucking sense. If runes didn’t existed on his time how the fuck did he know what they are? If beasts didn’t existed in his time how he knew how to beat them or how they move.
Still any one of these that doesn’t have status screens are on the top of the pile for me.