Alright. Not another one. Oh you know, that abandoned from the hero’s party genre. However, unlike many animes of this category that I have seen in the past, Omae Gotoki Ga Maou Ni Kateru To Omouna To Yuusha Party Wo Tsuihou Sareta Node Outo De Kimama Ni Kurashitai aside its long ass title (or we can shorten and call it as Omagoto – Oh Mah God what???!!!) has the unlucky main protagonist a female. Yeah, mostly they are all guys who have this ‘useless’ power and the excuse some arrogant party leader-cum-jerk kicking him out. So to have a female protagonist getting kicked out, that’s pretty rare. I suppose we’re gonna have a yuri theme instead of the usual harem one? And of course the rest is pretty basic or predictable. Her powers aren’t really useless, she tries to rebuild her life while the hero’s party is slowly crumbling without her. Who is it that is really going to roll over and die?
Episode 1
Well, looks like Flum Apricot has been exiled from the hero’s party. Now a slave and thrown into prison with other slaves. She notices Milkit nearby because of her beautiful eyes. But the slave trader finds these slaves as useless and have no value. Faulting them for wasting his money, he unleashes a few ghouls to eat them as part of his entertainment. If they manage to defeat the ghouls, he might reconsider putting them back on the market. Of course there is a sword to help them fight. But this sword is cursed and anyone who touches it melts into nothingness. We see snippets of Flum’s story. She was chosen by Origin the Divine Creator to be part of the hero’s party. However later when the rest appraise her stats, all her skills are zero! It is believed this reverse affinity skill of hers is locking her stats behind the zeroes but since she couldn’t draw her powers out, she is left to do menial chores. Unlike her childhood friend, Cyrill Sweechka who is a polar opposite and is way more powerful and useful than her. One day, Jean Inteige decides to sell Flum as a slave. He claims all especially Cyrill wanted to do away with her. All will be glad never to see a burden like her again. With that, Flum stopped her resistance and accepted being branded as a slave. Now that she believes she is trash, she doesn’t want to live anymore. In a race to grab the sword and melt away, the ghouls are now devouring her. Eventually she manages to grab it and relishes her suffering is over. However something strange activates. She didn’t melt and in fact all her wounds heal. She uses the sword to kill the ghouls and then break free. Now the slave trader begging for his life? STFU! She kills him! With that, she now resorts to want to live. She takes Milkit with her as they are the only survivors. However Milkit has been a slave her entire life and is lost if she doesn’t have a master. Thus Flum becomes her master.
As they head out to town, many guys bully them because of their slave crest but Flum stays wise not to pick a fight and goes away. At a back alley, Flum takes a look at her sword again. Despite all the negative results, it is all reversed in Flum’s hands. Then she realizes this is reverse skill does. It turns negative effects into positive and vice versa. This means curses makes her stronger as she never knew this affinity could be used this way. Now all they need to do is earn some money for food and shelter. Meanwhile Jean tells the rest of his party that Flum has decided to go back home on her own accord. Cyrill is lamenting some mean words she said to Flum only because she didn’t want to burden her with the pressures of being a hero. Now she rues being ungrateful and she can’t consider herself as her friend. We hear this is all part of Jean’s plan to get rid of anything troublesome. He wants a union with Cyrill as he believes gifted people must be together. Flum is at the guild trying to register for a guest although the receptionist, Y’lla Jelicin denies her. Until Dein Phineas uses his authority to bulldoze the approval and let Flum take the quest. Flum is grateful and makes her way. Then we see Dein’s true colours to have them get killed by monsters. He is scumbag who uses whatever underhanded means to get what he wants and rank up even if he is very well not qualified for it. Y’lla feels sad that 2 good lives will be wasted.
Episode 2
Flum tries to wash off her slave crest but Milkit says it is impossible as a special paint was used. As for why she just didn’t sell her to get a better slave, Flum believes she did this all for her own ego. She was a useless person so she thought by taking her in, she’d make herself happy. Meanwhile Dein learns that some slave trader is killed. Well, nothing out of the ordinary as that happens sometimes. However, church knights were investigating the scene and thus he believes some illicit medicine trade must be involved. He is thinking of blackmailing and thus orders his men to find out more and this might help them gain a foothold at Central. Flum and Milkit being their werewolf quest. However they see one killing the rest to devour them and then grow stronger into some chimera. Flum tells Milkit to run while she fights this thing alone. Although Flum has confidence fighting it, it seems this chimera can also regenerate. Her arm gets infected and turning into a werewolf so she has to forcefully cut it off to avoid spreading it to her. Don’t worry, she too can regenerate. By now the chimera has evolved into some hideous creature. Flum wants to run away but she realizes she is not who she was before. If she dies, what would happen to Milkit? Thoughts of her give her the much needed strength to continue fighting this monstrosity. Meanwhile Milkit reflects on Flum’s words about being useless. She remembers her own case where pervious masters told her that her existence was to make him rich and thus sold off as a slave and other mean stuffs. Flum was the first one who said all those kind words. When Flum reunites with her, Milkit tries to convince her to sell her. It is then she unwraps the bandages all over her face to reveal hideous toxin scars. This face will only be a burden to you and might even spread. However Flum doesn’t care and hugs her. Is this enough proof that she wants her as her master? She promises to get her out of a dark and build a happy life together. Milkit doesn’t understand and in some ways Flum too. But don’t worry, they can search for it together. Meanwhile Jean is complaining nobody here cooks good food. Well, Flum was the one doing all the cooking, right? Worse, everybody knows that relations among the members are souring and Jean is furious all everybody talk about is Flum, Flum, FLUM! Flum returns to the guild to show proof of completing her quest. Dein’s guys thinks she is bluffing but she shows them her cursed sword. You better believe it now. Now that she is paid, they can order some decent food. Flum is glad to feel like being treated like a human again. Tomorrow, we go shopping for clothes!
Episode 3
A maid outfit for Milkit! Yeah! Flum also buys her a lot of stuffs. This is for her to be happy. In the streets, they stumble upon a couple of Dein’s guys stealing something. Flum goes into pursue and manages to apprehend one of them. The other one by this church nun, Sara Anvilen. Returning the item to Leitch Mancathy, he hopes they can take a request from him. Despite being only F-rank, Leitch has seen her abilities and all the more he needs to ask her help. You see, his wife is really ill and in the past, illnesses were treated by medical practitioners until the church started using their healing magic and banned the use of all herbs and other medicine. As some cannot be healed by magic but via herbs, that is why he needs them to find this kialahri flower that is able to treat that illness. Flum will help but hopes the church guys won’t hear about this. Even Sara wants to help and doesn’t care about all those protocols. She just wants to save people. Of course she too can’t let those church folks know or it’s big trouble. After all, she learnt a lot from Sister Maria Afenjuns. Meanwhile Dein hears some of his guys got captured so it’s time to teach that Flum her place. Flum is feeling down because Maria is in the hero’s party. Milkit talks to her so Flum reveals the truth about being banished. She also remembers fellow members, Gadhio Lathcutt and Eterna Rinebow who taught her a lot of things. Really good people.
Meanwhile the hero’s party are fighting against demons, Tsyon and Neigass. With the rest failing to do as Jean instructed, the demons escape as they’re not here to kill humans. Jean blames some of them for this failure. Next day, Flum, Milkit and Sara take a ride to the countryside to find kialahri. Noticing a mark behind Sara’s back, she explains that is the sign of her faith as her hometown used to worship a different God other than Origin. However, demons destroyed her hometown 8 years ago. She was only 2 then and couldn’t remember much. Maria saved her and doted on her as her village too suffered the same fate. Flum wonders if this is the reason why Maria hates demons so much and wants them all exterminated. Sara even notes that every now and then, demons continue to invade and attack human territories. Many towns have disappeared off the map but the church isn’t making it public. Strangely, no deaths. The girls stay at an inn and the next day, Flum and Sara head to the cave to look for kialahri. However they soon realize some of Dein’s guys have sealed off their only exit. Worse, there is a spiral faceless ogre hunting them down. It has a message addressed to Flum, telling her to die. As they cannot beat it, the only way to escape is jumping into this hole. Better take your chances with this pit than the monster.
Episode 4
Following the path leads them to a huge underground secret lab. Lots of experimented freaks in chambers and a pit filled with discarded corpses. What the f*ck is happening down here?! Sara then finds a book in which somebody wanted to gain true wisdom and true peace but something is not connecting. At the end of it, Flum’s name is written there too. Hearing someone’s voice pleading for help, they follow it to a bright room with pillars. Turns out to be a spiral faceless woman as she tries to absorb her arm. Oh, that ogre is here too! Flum forces Sara to heal her so she could break off her arm and break free. They run back to the lab and down the pit of corpses. But the ogre follows them here too. No choice, they attack but the ogre regenerates each time. Time to remember Gadhio’s teachings on how to defeat enemies stronger than you. Yeah. Whatever this Cavalier Arts thingy. Clear and focus your mind, blah, blah, blah, then swing with all your might. With Sara buying her time, this allows Flum to release it. It deals a substantial damage but not enough to destroy it. Weakened, but Flum’s perseverance to return to Milkit has her summoning up all her strength to finally pierce its core and destroy it for good. Oh sh*t, you mean there’s another ogre?! F*ck! No more strength! Luckily this one is taken out by Neigass. Both girls are shocked by this as Neigass assures that she is not here to harm them. In fact, demons do not kill humans out of pleasure! Sara doesn’t believe her but is asked if she has seen it with her own eyes. Nope, but those guys at the church said so… Neigass then asks what about the church doing shady experiments down here then? Yes, you do recognize the church’s logo on the ceiling, right? Sara has to apologize since she saw the signs but couldn’t bring herself to tell Flum. Neigass is here to investigate since whatever the church is doing will be posing problems for demons later. Neigass learns what happens to Flum and Sara apologizing for acting out of emotion. Yeah, we’re all good friends now, right? Flum and Sara ponder if the kingdom is involved due to the size of the lab. The church can’t build it by themselves, can they? And with demons don’t really kill humans, everything is so messed up that they don’t know what to believe in anymore. But they find the flower so that’s good enough. Time to go back to Milkit.
Episode 5
By the time they return to the inn, they see blood everywhere. Oh sh*t. Owners dead. Flum rushes to her room to see Milkit being assaulted. She becomes mad and kills that bastard. The other accomplice flees but she manages to pin him down. Before she kills him, Sara tells her not to and that the inn owners are still alive after she healed them. When baddie threatens to kill her by pointing his knife at her neck, in fact she lets herself be cut, shocking the hell out of him. She then kills him. This makes Sara sad as Flum schools her about such bad people will never learn their lesson. Flum returns to Milkit who feels bad because the clothes she bought for her is ruined. However Flum is sad because Milkit will not admonish her. Milkit still believes she is a slave and has no right to do that. Flum doesn’t want them to be in such a relationship. She wants them to live a happy life and she’ll do anything to grant her wishes. Flum breaks down but Milkit is still confused, unable to grasp all that concept. Next day as they leave, Sara buries and says prayers for the baddies although the inn owners don’t think it will do any good. Sara still cannot wrap her head around not being compassion to others but Flum doesn’t blame her. Meanwhile the hero’s party yet again fails another mission. It is no surprising given the state of Jean and Cyrill. Maria and Linus Radiants talk about Flum despite having no stats, was it a mistake to let her join the party. Maria believes Origin never makes mistakes and there was a reason behind it. Meanwhile Neigass reports back to Tsyon, Sheitoom and Dhiza about her investigations. It is believed some power is leaking from somewhere and perhaps the Demon Lord’s seal is weakening. They need humans to realize that demons don’t want war but to do so they have to fight them? Neigass also talks about Flum’s unusual powers and believes she can reverse the spiral created by Origin. Anyhow, they cannot risk her or the hero’s party get near the seal. Otherwise world peace will be under threat.
Flum and Milkit return to Leitch to hand him those flowers. They also meet his sister, Welcy who is part of the newspaper agency. She is investigating the shady doings of the church and as the rumours go around, the church is eyeing all the places with medicinal plants so as to monopolize them. She is trying to investigate people who are supplying those plants to them. She asks if Flum knows anything more so Flum says no and keeps her mouth shut on that lab. Welcy hopes they will be in regular contact and Flum can let her know any info so she can expose the church’s wrongdoings. As thanks for the flowers, Leitch gives them a huge house of their own. Can both of them live here normally? Well, they find the house strange because it is quite clean and with all the stuffs around, it is as though somebody is living here. As Flum goes upstairs to investigate, she is surprised to see Eterna doing her usual experiment in a room. Likewise, Eterna is shocked to see her here as she thought she has gone home. Eterna is angry learning the slave mark on Flum was done by Jean because had they all knew the truth, they would have put a stop to that damn mage. Flum breaks down in tears, happy to know that there are others who still support her. After Flum introduces Milkit to her, Eterna can work on a solution to cure her toxin. However Milkit still doesn’t feel it will change a thing. Because even her scars are gone, she will still be a filthy ugly being. Short snippet of some old b*tch telling Milkit she’s not ugly because of her scars but every inch of that was oozing out from within. Flum hugs her and assures her feelings are not that shallow. Whatever happens, she promises to be with her.
Episode 6
Milkit wakes up early to make breakfast. Flum doesn’t find her in bed. Goes down to hug her. Milkit startled. Butter all over. Messy. Licking it up. Is this the start of the yuri life?! We see them out enjoying themselves in town. They also bump into Sara and her comrades, Ed and Jonny. The guys thank them for helping to nab those thieves then because they got rewarded and now have some money. Meanwhile Dein and his buddies are stumped their comrades are dead but yet Flum lives. Dein thinks it is time to mentally torture her. When Flum visits the guild, Y’lla warns her that all the quests for her are traps. As Flum is not fazed, she hints to take out Dein if she wants to change this for the better. Eterna tells Milkit how Flum used to make the best cheesecake when she was in the hero’s party. Eterna now knows it was Flum who was holding the party together and it made Jean jealous. As Flum is a great girl, Eterna assures Milkit she won’t go wrong sticking with her. With Milkit making her cheesecake request, Flum is more than happy to oblige. Even Sara coming over to enjoy the delight. After that they talk business. It seems Sara found nothing about the lab and even documents of the flower had gone missing. They may have other facilities in other churches but Sara can’t access them all especially parts where the rich and powerful live. Eterna adds the roots of the research run deep. While it seem like the church and kingdom work together on the surface to maintain peace, there is a power struggle beneath this twisted relationship. Even if there are no active facilities, there might be ruins in the capital that might be worth investigating. Eterna begins to look into Milkit’s scars. It is probably given to her by her previous mistress who was jealous of her beauty. Milkit is still reeling from its trauma. Next morning as Flum goes out to investigate, she sees lots of nasty notices pasted over their house walls. Murderer! Get lost! Flum knows this is Dein’s doing but won’t let this get to her and tears them all down. Soon, she is surrounded by the royal guards who want her to come with them. She thinks they are in cahoots with Dein and hurting them is a serious offense.
Episode 7
Flum runs as the guards go after her. They are confused since despite Flum taking damage, she heals up and continues running. Meanwhile outside Flum’s house, Dein’s lackeys are hanging about. When Flum is cornered by Dein and his men, scumbag Dein picked up a blind girl and uses her as hostage. In exchange for her freedom, he wants Flum to drink this poison enough to kill a dragon. Flum does so. But Dein’s vengeance is short-lived as Flum soon revives. And you know Dein, going back on his words not to spare the blind girl. Flum starts killing some of his men but why isn’t Dein doing anything? Because here comes a high ranking guard and his men. Here is the murderer. Arrest her. However before they do that, Lieutenant General Ottilie Fohkelpi is here to weed out corruption in the army and takes down her men. Dein and his run. It seems Flum and Ottilie know each other as Ottilie was the one who escorted her from her home to the capital after she was selected to be part of the hero’s party. As the blind girl also has amnesia, Flum brings her home where Ottilie is also shocked to see Eterna who quit the hero’s party, living here. While Ottilie is mad at Jean for doing all this, her primary concern is now the corruption in her army. She enlightens Flum that Dein is a fallen noble and used his knowledge and cunningness to run his own band of thugs. With the church and royal army having growing conflict, Dein used this opportunity to bribe some of the royal guards under his influence. That is why General Henriette who is Ottilie’s older sister, ordered the matter to be dealt with swiftly. Oh, did I mention Ottilie adores her sister so much. See her squeal in delight while idolizing her!
Sara is also here to report an investigation she did in a remote mountainous village called Anichidey. She found the same abandoned church research lab and there was also a lady with a spiral face. Could it be the church is experimenting on orphans? They talk about Flum’s reversal power because there is no way she would have been chosen by the church to fight the Demon Lord if her stats were all zero, right? But if they knew how powerful it is, why did they not abduct her? Maybe they have other uses for her. The girls make a pact to share info like this in the future. When they take off the blind girl’s bandages, they see magic tattoos over her eyes. Did she run away from the lab? Eterna will take responsibility looking after her. Dein is hiding and nursing his injuries. He thought his buddy, Kahnis is here to see him but turns out he has sold him out to the royal guards. If Dein can’t handle a little girl, he is useless so Kahnis will be the boss of this district now. Dein makes a run for it and to his horror, there is this huge blob mashed with all his fellow bandits. Hideous. They look like in pain…
Episode 8
Blind girl is amazed as she feels the food she is given. After the rest introduces themselves, she introduces herself as Ink Wreathcraft. Noting that all are living together here despite not being family, she too wants to live here. After all, she doesn’t remember who her family or relatives are. Later Flum talks to Sara about Ink and it doesn’t seem she matches any runaway orphans. At least not from the orphanage under the church. She thinks Ink probably ran away from home. Flum goes to see Y’lla for a job but there’s none. Flum learns that with Dein missing, Kahnis is now ruling the place in his stead and all his lackeys lapping up to him. After Flum leaves, a seemingly rich woman sees Y’lla to request for a job to look for a runaway child. Ink continues to have fun living in Flum’s house. Uhm, is there some sort of rivalry and competition between Ink and Sara because they’re trying to eat Milkit’s food? Tastes good as always. Flum soon gets word that Dein is now seen praying at the church and became an Origin follower. Does he want to live so bad that he is willing to become the church’s lapdog? Flum goes to observe him and looks like he is like a zombie and having his own trauma. He’s like a psycho too. Ottilie advises Flum not to mess with him carelessly as now he has the backing of the church. She also mentions about that grotesque blob that was mixed with Dein’s guys and soldiers. So mashed up you can’t tell them apart. Of course the church swept it under the carpet and even ordered a gag order. Ottilie laments the king is now a puppet of the church. As they are making bolder moves, she feels the need to expose this to the public soonest. Ottilie gets her motivation to protect her Henriette and likewise she notes Flum being heroic in saving Ink. As Flum wants a normal life with Milkit, Ottilie prays their wishes will come true. More happy family-like shenanigans in Flum’s household. Until Ink remembers people telling her being useless. Now she feels down and laments nobody wants her. Flum digresses that nobody is unwanted. All assure that if anybody tells her that, they will kick their asses. Because we’re friends. Uhm, I thought we’re supposed to be family? Oh never mind. Eterna’s cure on Milkit’s scars is done. Flum unwraps her bandages. Looking cute. The only ‘scar’ both have on their face is the slave crest. So matching. Is it time to get yuri?
Episode 9
Although Milkit is healed, she wants to continue wearing the bandages as she feels comfortable with them. She only takes them off when alone with Flum. Flum acting like she’s a young maiden in love until she sees Ink getting too friendly with Milkit. Why does her heart hurt? Flum sees people gathering. And what’s with that foul stench? Oh, those giant grotesque balls. As the church guys take over, Ed and Jonny lament to Flum that they notice such high ranking guys from the church are always at the scene. It’s like they are trying to cover up something. Small fries like them know nothing. They also mention that witnesses have said a flock of eyeballs attacked the victims, turning them into this state. Flum is confused as she remembers she was the weakest in the party and Cyrill was always protecting her. Cyrill always managed it with a smile but Flum herself is worried she can’t live up to the task of protecting her own family. Speaking of which, looks like another failed mission for our hero’s party and Jean is furious. Is he blaming Cyrill now? Her morale is now so low and blames herself for being weak. Meanwhile, Linus thinks of leaving the party since Flum and Eterna are not around. But Maria can’t as she vows to exterminate all demons. She still remembers the night clearly when those demons razed her hometown to the ground and killed many. Sara explains how Ed and Jonny aren’t her real brothers but they’re like family to her. Flum remembers those guys telling her they promised to keep Sara safe. It is because they worry about her that they treat her like a child. Ink feeling down about this family and friends concept so Eterna talks to her about it. Because watching her reminds her of her old self and family. In town, Sara hears that Kahnis is going to have a showdown with Dein. Calling Ed and Jonny, they spy on the ruffians as they square off. Dein seems to be losing his mind as Kahnis chops him up. Easy. However Dein soon revives and decapitates Kahnis. He thinks he has killed Flum! Snippets of somebody giving Dein this strange power. Dein goes crazy upon realizing this is not Flum he killed. Suddenly eyeballs rain down on the ruffians. Coming into contact means you turn into that grotesque blob. They can even chase after you! Sara and her bros run but they sacrifice themselves to let her live. Sara in despair but Ed and Jonny have no regrets are happy to know they saved her. Sara continues to run but she has run out of strength and resigns to her fate.
Episode 10
Y’lla tells Flum that a woman showed up looking for ink. She is Satils Francois and the owner of a shopping district in the east. With Dein and Kahnis not showing up here, Y’lla says both entered a duel but she believes Dein won because none of Kahnis’ guys returned. Confused, Flum goes to the church to look for Sara but is told by the nun that she has been excommunicated yesterday. Orders from the pope to banish her for worshipping demons. She knows it is a lie but what can she do? Flum tries to look for Jonny and Ed but is told they got transferred out. Okay. Maybe Ottilie knows something. However Henriette doesn’t even know and laments she may have incurred the wrath of the church. She also laments had she not been a general, she would’ve been more responsive to her feelings. Wow. With everyone gone missing, a depressed Flum starts to blame herself for dragging all into this mess. Before she calls herself a useless master, Milkit reminds her how she did everything for her. If not for Flum, she will not be standing here today. Now Flum and Eterna goes to question Ink and wants her to stop lying. She still feigns amnesia but carelessly gives herself away, claiming Mother would never look for her. Is that what she calls Satils? Eterna also notes Ink has a heart condition and must take some medicine or she’ll die. However she has never seen her take it. Ink reveals Mother always told her take it but for the first time she has not taken it for a long time and is fine. She further reveals she and her siblings all take that medicine. She was told to take it because she is the first generation. It seems all communicate with their Papa whom they have never seen. Ink has been bullied by her siblings and when she met Flum and co, they were so nice and that’s why she wanted to stay with them. Eterna notes the strange method she addresses her parents. Ink doesn’t know Mother’s name but Papa’s name is Origin. This confuses Flum further but that night Eterna tells Flum another shocking secret: Ink’s heart isn’t beating.
Flum does her own investigations to trace what happened and learns Sara and her bros watched Dein and Kahnis’ fight. Then examining the spot where it is supposedly Sara’s last stand, there she also stumbles into Welcy. A huge fight has happened here with lots of different sized blade marks on the wall. Flum believes it is not Sara as she fights with a mace. Asking about the culprit smuggling herbs into the church, Welcy says she has found the culprit. It is Satils but she does not have solid evidence. Flum returns to learn magic from Eterna. As she sleeps after a tiring practice, Eterna and Milkit go out to do their errands. However they stumble into Dein who hints them about the secrets behind the children. They are monsters and got those dark crystals embedded in them. This means they are housing a calamity. Dein drops his eyeballs! Eterna lets Milkit run while she staves off Dein. By the time Milkit returns to Flum, the latter is shocked she is all drenched. By the time Flum gets a towel and returns, Milkit is gone. She tries to find her and even follow her water trails outside. Nothing. She returns home and finds something creepy on Ink in her room. Playing with those eyeballs and her face is that faceless spiral! Yikes! Nightmare has begun!
Episode 11
WTF this horror montage?! Then suddenly everything back to normal? Ink checks on Flum but the latter knows what she saw. It’s not a dream. It’s real! Flum thinks Ink is a monster and the medicine she took was meant to suppress her powers. She continues to add everybody went missing as Ink continues to deny. The last straw comes as Flum tells her this is not what a friend should do. Poor Ink. Running off in tears. However, Ink is soon kidnapped by Dein and confirms Satils was Milkit’s former master. Flum tries to give chase but is surrounded by Dein’s lackey. As she scans them, she is stumped that all of them are named Godin Torres. She is having a hard time until Gadhio drops in to kill them all off. He says Sara told him to come to her aid. Flum happy to learn Sara is still alive. Then a strange child pops up from a portal trying to hinder them. Gadhio will fight her so that Flum can go after Dein. Flum finds Dein at Satils’ mansion but he is not telling where her friends are. He only wants to kill her. Damn, Dein got tentacles for arms? Sorry folks, no tentacle rape. Dein brags how he got this power from the church and feels he can change the world’s laws. He adds he has orders not to kill her but screw that, he wants to kill Flum and then take over this kingdom!
Oh no, before Flum gets tentacle rape, she uses her reversal powers on him. Now whenever his tentacles touch her, it crumbles. Dein now confused and scared. Origin’s power not so mighty after all. Dein continues to hear voices telling him to kill Flum as he wonders why they are so scared of this girl. As he summons the eyeballs to do his bidding, Flum remembers Eterna saying that if Ink doesn’t have a heart, she must have core keeping her alive. When the eyeballs stopped attacking, Flum realizes Ink does have that eyeballs power but did not realize she was attacking people with it because that was Dein’s doing. Flum regrets saying mean things to Ink because even at this point, she is using her powers to protect her friends. Flum tells Dein off that he was given such powers only because to easily manipulate him. Dein starts to panic but continues to give excuses to justify his actions. Of course Flum lectures him that she is not like him. Even if she was in his shoes, she will never sacrifice people dear to him. Dein is just running away from the fact he betrayed his own friends. Dein tries to play up that she too was betrayed by her own friends and sold as a slave. But Flum is done taking pity on him. Dein’s power starts to go out of control. His face turns into that spiral. Flum strikes and breaks his core, turning his entire body that ugly grotesque blob. Final word from Flum: You sacrificed others for your dream so regret your choices that led you here and die! Brutal.
Episode 12
Milkit is in the hands of Satils who is going to torture her and make her uglier than before. Ink is also there but is unconscious. Milkit pleads for help from her master but Satils continues to torture her. You f*cking b*tch! How dare you rip her maid outfit!!! Meanwhile Flum is looking about and stumbles into Welcy who followed her trails earlier. She saw a secret chamber so it could be what she’s looking for. Milkit continues to resist and just in time, Flum barges in to give this fatty her beat down! The girls reunite. Flum apologizing to Ink for saying those mean things. Suddenly Satils is pulled downwards into the thorny pit where the zombies eat her alive! Then out of the portal comes Nekt and Mother. They are the ones who abducted Milkit as per requested by Satils. However they find Satils and Dein to be useless. Mother thanks Flum for taking care of Ink but now wants her to come back. Mother adds that all his children have their hearts replaced by a core and notes Ink is a useless failure. Ink denies and explains how Flum has been more of a family to her although Mother insists that they are her real family. Mother continues to mock her she can’t live without her medicine and can do nothing but spit those ugly eyeballs. As Ink is adamant to stay, Mother gets mad but will allow her to stay. She will soon learn she made the wrong choice. Mother won’t have Nekt fight or kill Flum because he is quite interested in Flum’s power as it could destroy a core. Mother and Nekt go away as a sad Ink wants to die as a human. Taking Flum’s sword to aim at her core, she wants her to stab through it and end it all. This is to atone for Sara and Eterna’s death. Milkit asks if this is what she wants. Because she too was in the same predicament until she met Flum. Ink realizes she wants to continue having fun with them. Emotional girl group hug interrupted as Welcy brings Gadhio in. More good news as Eterna is still alive.
Back home, Gadhio explains he was fighting Nekt but that kid escaped after being defeated. That was when Eterna showed up. It would take more than eyeballs to kill her because after she saved Milkit, the eyeball fury stopped and that’s when she ran into Gadhio who soon ran into Welcy. My, such a small world. Gadhio assures Sara is alive but is now staying in the demon realm. It was Neigass who came to her rescue, slashing away all the eyeballs. However, the same cannot be said for Jonny and Ed. Gadhio also met Neigass and thought she was trying to stop the hero’s party. That was when Neigass revealed the whole truth why the hero’s party was formed. Not to exterminate demons but to undo the seal on Origin. You see, Origin was a dream machine that produced infinite energy and gave humans wealth and prosperity. Of course humans got corrupted and all that hi-tech living and luxury came to an end with all the endless fighting. Then the world gave birth to a new form of humanity who could use abilities. The first hero then sealed Origin as the root of evil. As the demons are the ones guarding Origin for eons, the reason the church formed the hero’s party as a cover to bring back Origin. So, when Dein obtained Origin’s power, it proves there is a leak in the seal and that’s why Neigass was here to investigate. It is believed one of the demons is a traitor and worked with the church to orchestrate that village massacre in which Sara was a survivor. There was also a pregnant woman who survived and gave birth to 5 kids known as Children, all to be researched by the church. Not only kids but monsters too. It seems Gadhio lost his wife to one such monster and that’s why he joined the hero’s party to find info and get revenge.
Eterna has removed the core from Ink and transplanted it with Dein’s live heart. Now she gets to live like a human. Meanwhile Maria gives this spiral thingy to Jean as she has done the same to Cyrill. Now we see Jean drunk on such power as he turns the tables on while fighting Tsyon. Is he going Super Saiyan?! Cyrill is afraid and thus hesitant to use hers. Ottilie returns to Henriette’s side as she divulges she found the church’s hideout that contains a secret research team. By the time Welcy has garnered info to locate that facility, it is already abandoned. Nekt narrates in order to build Origin’s resistance to that reversal power, they have to absorb Flum without killing her. Which is hard. Because time is running out too. Meanwhile we see Flum and her happy friends living a happy life. Oh well, looks like Gadhio is replacing Sara’s place for now. Poor kid still in Neigass’ home and crying over Ed and Jonny.
You Gotta Roll With It!
Oh wow. The last episode’s big revelation of everything felt like they needed to rush things because yeah, time was running out. Before you folks fall asleep expecting nothing much would happen and our gang going back to their happy normal lives (for now), here it is, voila! The origins of Origin and how f*cked up the church really is. Now are you curious and interested to know more? Yes I am. So why not just make another f*cking season, won’t you please?! Or is it getting to dark and grimmer for you puny cowards to do one so this is where the adapted journey ends?! Continue via the manga, huh?! Oh well then, I guess I’ll just have to wait for the good news. Any moment now…
I have mixed feelings for the series. I was confused how this series was going to turn out as I thought since this was going to be that abandoned by the hero’s party trope, I was mostly resigned to the fact that the rest of this show would see Flum living a peaceful life with Milkit. Hence their struggles are everyday grapples from cooking to cleaning to going to the shop to do errands. Yeah. I really thought it was that. However, I wasn’t 100% sure it would be that way either because with the series themed as dark fantasy, it sounds awfully confusing to see these girls living a blissful life away from the stress of being in a hero’s party, right? Maybe there will be scumbags trying to harass these cuties because apparently Tinder platforms, Only Fans sites and TikTok videos don’t exist in this world! HAHAHA! So perhaps that was the dark fantasy and reality these girls will have to go through if they are going to protect their new normal life. Oh well, in a way thank goodness I was wrong.
It was pretty interesting and intriguing to see the dark secrets and conspiracy brewing underneath the kingdom. Something sinister that the church is trying to hide and even blaming the demons for it. For all you know, I can bet my ass 100% that the humans are the real demons and the demons themselves are the real saviours of mankind! After all, from what I have seen, the church and the kingdom have been piling on the lies and who are to question them? Unfortunately with only a dozen episodes, not much can be revealed in this adaptation so a lot leaves to be desired. It might get a bit boring once in a while seeing Flum living her new life but I suppose this series has to juggle between both plots of Flum’s new freedom and her misfortune of trying to uncover the schemes that is plaguing the nation from the shadows. We all know what happens to the curious cat, right?
Therefore by the time this season has ended, the plot leaves a lot more to be desired. Because like many other abandoned by hero’s party series, more than often the abandoned protagonist will get some sort of closure with the jerk who cut him/her off. That idiot will received the just desserts he/she deserves for kicking the main character back and even had to gall to ask him/her to come back just when the going gets tough. In this case, it was really weird not to see Jean get his fair share of retribution and while I believe he will receive justice one day in the future chapters, for now it feels like the criminal has been let off the hook. I believe this is to concentrate and focus on Flum rebuilding her new life without that asshole getting in the way. Yet. So once everything is mostly settled, then her past can come back to haunt her and she can face another round of sh*t which I feel is of course plot convenience for her character to grow and move on.
And you know the story that Flum’s ability is considered to be useless because it isn’t measured by standard means. That is your flimsy excuse for a person to be deemed useless and all the reason needed for the big dick to kick her out. Nobody knows the extent of her power or what it is for and even more so everyone is so puzzled that Origin the supposed God and creator of this world, chose her to be part of the party. It only shows nobody bothered to really study her strange power and kicking her out is like going against God’s will? But then again, with the church being really sneaky people, I won’t be surprised if this was all part of their doing in using Origin and then showing the fake prophecy, etc. In that case, why made her join in the first place if they’re to hide whatever conspiracy behind it? Oh, I don’t know, maybe some clerical error?! Oh right, final episode big revelation says it all blatantly to our face why Flum needs to be kept alive. What a shame. Now I can’t carry on expanding my crazy conspiracies!
The series focuses mostly on Flum and Milkit’s relationship. After all, both have been wounded and mistreated by their own circumstances. It takes a lot for them to get back on their feet especially Milkit who has been particularly brainwashed that she will never ever be able to experience such kindness. It took a lot of effort by Flum just for Milkit to finally open up her heart to her but it was all worth it. After all, Flum isn’t looking for the usual master-servant relationship. Yeah, because once Milkit’s mind set is changed, we can have some yuri fun! Wow. Isn’t that what this series is also about? Yeah well, don’t rush it. Things like this take time. So the important thing is to not give up especially Flum who despite feels weak at times, she is the strongest. Not because of this strange reversal skill she has. She isn’t perfect but we see what she has done for Milkit. Flum has her own flaws too but my guess is that this is for future character development. When she is down in the dumps and at her wits’ end, people she once help will come to her aid and lift her back up again. That is how it works, right?
So as not to look as an obvious yuri bait between Flum and Milkit, I guess this how is big enough to turn our girls into sorority sisters. Sort of. Sara sounds like she’s the comic relief of the group. Acting mostly like a freeloader because she can’t miss Flum and Milkit’s tasty meals, she has a good heart although naïve at most times. It’s like she has a strange rivalry with Ink whom the show tries to portray her as being suspicious. Like as though they want us to think that she is a traitor who will finally show her true colours. A spy to infiltrate Flum’s household. Thank goodness this curious girl is misunderstood, right? Finally rounding up the sorority is Eterna, the taciturn witch who plays the mother especially to Ink. Such nice happy house. The more the merrier.
Sadly, the other characters don’t really make an impact yet and the dozen of episodes do them no justice. For instance, we get to know Ottilie being a staunch ally for Flum and before you know it, she disappears. Welcy is still investigating so she is hardly making any impact too. Even the hero’s party leaves more to be desired. With Flum’s departure, it is slowly breaking apart and Jean the bastard is showing his true colours, getting more disappointed for each failed mission. This is also taking a toll on Cyrill who has been weakened mentally and blaming herself. With other members already leaving the hero’s party, at the end of the day there will be none. Wanna bet that they are just pawns in a bigger scheme? Yeah, they are. Otherwise, at least from what we are shown, nobody gives a damn when the hero’s party doesn’t perform well. Like it was all brushed off. Just a distraction to hoodwink the people. This include the demons whom I have already said may not be the real villains of the whole thing. Humans will always be humans, being the scumbag they are, huh? And to think the previous civilization was some sort of futuristic dystopia and then we downgraded to this backwater fantasy magic setting. Oh well, good times never lasted. No wonder some people want Origin’s power back to have all that decadence back.
Being a dark fantasy, there are some bloody, violent and gory scenes and probably the first episode was what draw me in when I watched Flum desperately fighting for her life. I won’t say it is the goriest anime I have watched but if you can’t stomach scenes like Flum cutting off her own limbs to save her own life, I can safely say this isn’t the show for you. But overall, the fight scenes itself are just average and won’t be putting you on the edge of your seat. Also, it isn’t the spookiest but I sometimes can’t help be spooked by those spiral faceless characters. Feels like a horror moment and I hope I don’t get any nightmares dreaming about it! Yikes. So far so good. Hope it stays that way!
Art and animation are pretty standard. Not the best there is but at least it isn’t the worse. In this dystopian fantasy, there are a lot of dark scenes so I can’t blame my hardware for failing. Character designs, I have to say that the first time I laid my eyes on Flum, I was wondering what the hell is that Biribiri AKA Misaka from To Aru Kagaku No Railgun doing here! Just less tomboyish! No more sequels so she’s moonlighting in other animes as part time jobs?! Just kidding. But I’m sure I’m seeing shades of other anime characters in the other characters here too like Milkit having uncanny resemblance to Rem of Re: Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu, Eterna an emotionless version of Denpa Onna To Seishun Otoko’s Erio (and perhaps Mushoku Tensei’s Roxy), Ottilie could be the long lost triplet of those red head twins from NieR Automata and Sara looking like your countless blonde anime lolis while Maria your countless blonde anime nuns. Yeah. Holy f*ck, is Gadhio a long lost brother of Guts from Berserk?! And is Cyrill’s design taken after Jeanne from Fate/Apocrypha?! Jean’s evil face mirrors that of Ares from Shin No Nakama!
As said, those spiral faceless characters do give me the creeps. But at the same time, they somewhat remind me of Tobi AKA Guruguru from Naruto. Only, even way scarier! And yeah, those grotesque balls of human clump together. Well, perhaps low quality visuals here prevented me from experiencing a full horror heart attack. I don’t know, is it kinda sloppy? Like Dein’s tentacle arms too. And those eyeballs! Please don’t unleash so many of the! This anime is done by A.C.G.T. who did Freezing, Boushoku No Berserk and Orient.
There’s a handful of casts here and some I recognized are Ami Koshimizu as Neigass, Eri Kitamura as Sheitoom, Yuu Kobayashi as Henriette (sounds so mild without her trademark crazy voice), Misaki Kuno as Eterna (sounds so different without her trademark squeaky voice) and Kikuko Inoue as the narrator (no dreamy voice here but modest and serious). The other casts are Ayaka Nanase as Flum, Miku Itou as Milkit, Machico as Sara, Ayami Fujino as Ink, Misato Matsuoka as Ottilie, Takaya Kuroda as Gadhio, Honoka Inoue as Y’lla, Makoto Yasumura as Jean, Masakazu Morita as Dein, Miki Kariya as Cyrill, Jin Ogasawara as Linus, Aya Endou as Maria (you mean it’s not Saori Hayami?!), Mariko Honda as Welcy, Eiji Miyashita as Jonny, Minoru Shiraishi as Ed, Akeno Watanabe as Satils, Yoshihisa Kawahara as Leitch, Tetsu Inada as Mother, Yuki Tanaka as Nekt and Ryouta Takeuchi as Tsyon.
From time to time, there will be a song that will always shock you when you first here it. That’s right. Liberator by Passcode as this series’ opening song will have you jumping out of your seats because you will be shocked at WTF this guy gradually screaming at the opening like as though it is some demon worshipping cult! I kid you not! This guy even continues to sing-cum-scream crudely like you hear those in heavy metal hard punk rock music! Yeah, the female voice which is the main singing voice of the rest of the song pales in comparison! While I believe this song wants to get you into the pace of this dark fantasy, sometimes I feel it is so out of place. I also feel my soul is in danger of getting sucked by Satan if I hear this song any longer!!! Oh sh*t! But it sure does make an impact. Because of that, the generic synth pop ending theme, I Need by Yuki Tanaka (you mean it’s not May’N?!) just doesn’t quite cut it. It is not a bad song but considering the punk-like screaming of the opener, it sounds just average in comparison.
Overall, I am having mixed feelings for this series. While I do not totally dislike it and would be interested to watch another season of it since it has the potentials and developments, at the same time I can’t bring myself to like it as much as other dark fantasy animes that I have watched recently like Clevatess and Yuusha-kei Ni Shosu. Perhaps the ‘slow’ pacing of the series got me a little impatient as I was expecting more from this. Yeah, that is the risk of setting high expectations. But considering this belongs to the abandoned by the hero’s party genre and trope, I guess this one is still more interesting than many that I have watched over the seasons because the rest just literally tries to lead a boring, normal and happy life without trying to be entangled with all the conspiracy sh*t. If I wanted to watch a boring, normal and happy life, I might has watch my own life! Sad. Hope I won’t roll over in my own grave for choosing the otaku life!
Chua Tek Ming~*Anime Power*~ !LiVe FoR AnImE, aNiMe FoR LiFe! 