Episodes 7 and 8 showed some hints of an actual bigger picture for this series, but episodes 9 and 10 show that, among all of the reincarnation madness, there may be some purposeful intent to what the protagonist has undergone.
Episode 9 features individual world gods assembling to complain about the world-disrupting antics of the protagonists and plead for something to be done about it with a god who seems to be the cosmic equivalent of a unit manager. That god choosing to take the more roundabout method of forcing the protagonist through a long chain of immediately-successive reincarnations in an effort to erode his identity suggests two things: that everyone is at least wary of (if not fearful of) Goddess and that the protagonist’s regular encounters with Goddess in between reincarnations are critical to retaining his identity through all of the reincarnations. The most interesting aspect of this, though, is who seems to be the one to interfere when this gimmick finally seems on the verge of succeeding: the Creator God himself. Episode 10 suggests that he may even have a motive for doing so: for some reason, the protagonist is crucial to a cosmic threat that the underling gods are apparently unaware is approaching. Exactly why he’s important for that isn’t clear yet, though it could have something to do with motivating Goddess to get involved against the encroaching threat. After all, if she was powerful enough to eliminate rogue gods, she should be useful against a chaos creature, too.
But this is still a skit show spoofing isekai reincarnations, so it’s not going to skip over including numerous crazy reincarnation scenarios. This time, though, a number of reincarnations presented in brief, rapid-fire mode accompany the five more developed scenarios scattered across episodes 9 and 10; those do not have separate producers and are indicated with an asterisk in the table below:
| Episode | Reincarnation | Animation Style | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Buddhist temple bell?* | traditional | none listed |
| 9 | Fireball spat out by a cat* | traditional | none listed |
| 9 | Locker the protagonist hides in during a horror game | LA, mostly | isai inc. |
| 9 | Robot driving intergalactic reincarnation truck | CG | Type Zero |
| 9 | Armadillo pet of a demon girl* | traditional | none listed |
| 9 | Potion bottle used by an adventurer* | traditional | none listed |
| 9 | Chair in a fantasy inn* | traditional | none listed |
| 9 | Child taken in by the hero | traditional | none listed |
| 10 | A boomerang which doesn’t return | Children’s picture book | Damian Sho |
| 10 | The explosion and smoke that appears when heroes strike a pose | tokusatsu | isai inc. |
As normal, here are some same screen shots from the developed scenarios:
Of the producers this time, isai inc. has become a regular, while Type Zero is a studio which has mostly done CG support for a variety of titles over the past decade or so. I could not find anything about Damian Sho, however.
Of these scenarios, the locker one was mostly live-action with just a little CG animation of the locker’s movements in a couple of scenes, while the sentai team scenario was pure, super-campy live-action. The robot truck driver one offers some of the series’ sharpest satire (as well as a few additional silly incarnations, though not ones involving the protagonist), while the “child adopted by the hero” scenario is easily the most serious one in the series to date. All of the other main scenarios feature the series’ trademark absurdity to some degree, with it arguably being the funniest in the locker scenario.
With just two (maybe three?) episodes left, will the series attempt to bring the mild plot elements to some degree of resolution? While I’d like to think those aren’t just a tease for a longer-term story, I won’t be terribly disappointed if the series just continues its normal antics, either.
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