Tsukimichi steps away from Makoto, Tomoe, Mio, and the Demiplane Gang entirely this week, instead focusing on the stories of the other two heroes from Makoto’s world. First up is Otonashi Hibiki (Kakuma Ai), who is actually Makoto’s senpai at their school. Raised by a powerful, successful family and hardworking and calculating, there’s nothing Hibiki can’t achieve with ease, which is her whole problem: she’s bored.
The Goddess summons her to eliminate that boredom by sending her to a world where she’ll face challenges as an adventuerer and one of two Heroes who will save the world. (Of course, the Goddess doesn’t mention Makoto.) And so, while she started the day in Japan, she ends it in the royal palace of the Limia Kingdom with a wolf familiar.
Joining Hibiki in her Hero’s Party is Navarre, a bloodthirsty ogre swordswoman; Woody, a powerful Mage; and a brawny blonde knight. On their first quest together they rescue the talented priestess Chiya, who cuts her hair and joins the party on the spot.
It should be noted that Hibiki does not have an easy time in this first battle. Her first slash of a kobold cuts too shallow and hesitates when it begs for its life. It then cries out for help, resulting in dozens of reinforcements. It’s then when Hibiki refuses to give up and rallies to victory. By the end she’s a sobbing mess, but Navarre comforts her.
The five-person party kicks ass in all of the battles that come, but all winning streaks must end. The first true defeat Hibiki faces, both in this world and the one she came from, is at the eight insta-regenerating legs of all-devouring Spider Disaster we have come to know and love as Mio.
I’ll point out that both her first battle and this defeat aren’t going to knock anyone’s socks off, but they are competently animated and feature some flourishes of style. Hibiki wakes up in her room surrounded by her bandaged but otherwise okay party-mates, but thanks to Mio she is determined to become stronger so she’ll never suffer such a defeat again.
The second hero the Goddess snags is Iwahashi Tomoki, who judging by the uniform is a middle schooler, bullied by the boys and loved by the girls for being a “fragile bishounen”. But he hates the way he is, and how he can’t even win at video games, so the Goddess lures him with the promise of a transformative new life as one of two Heroes in another world.
In addition to the physical and magical level-ups Hibiki gets, Tomoki is also given a magic eye that allows him to enthrall anyone, as well as immortality at night during the full moon, which sounds pretty lycanthropic. He’s also, as he specified, much taller and brawnier, and has silver hair instead of black along with heterochromia.
While Makoto started out in the wastelands and Hibiki arrived in the middle of an celebratory crowd, Tomoki appears in this new world in the presence of one person: Lily Front Gritonia, second princess of the Gritonia Empire (which is, for now, allied with Limia against the Demons).
He soon meets Guinevere, a lady knight, Yukinatsu, an alchemist specializing in golems, and Mora, the resident dragon tamer. All three women make contact with his magic eye, which he can’t yet control, and all of them fall madly in love with him, providing the motivation for joining his party.
Not to be left out, Princess Lily intends to avoid the effects of Tomoki’s eye while keeping him wrapped around her finger. Her late mother was a believer in the “capricious” Goddess, and Lily is ready to do whatever it takes to defeat the Demons. That includes stealing a march on the other women and taking Tomoki’s virginity right away.
Thus this episode ends with both Hibiki and Tomoki having lost their innocence and finding themselves firmly integrated into this new world. There are still other players in the OP and ED we’ve yet to meet, but for now they seem like decent new additions to the cast, and I’m excited by the prospect of Makoto crossing paths with them at some point.
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