ここは俺に任せて先に行けと言ってから10年がたったら伝説になっていた。

“oh no, the fighting for years before returning trope!” “it begins! he can’t even see his old friend!” “that statue actually rather looks like the blonde guy? Shenanigans!” “….oh, the brawny guy might be okay…?” “sudden appearance of the other guy! masked! with the gruel?? The gruel is poisoned!” “…oh the statue was a game of Telephone... And I guess it’s legit to think he’d have died... And for them to be rewarded upon their return... And now they’re respecting his wishes, not being envious about his youth, and sending him off with gear? I… I guess…. wow, these are actual trusted teammates and friends.” Had to pause the episode for a minute to reset my brain lol. All those revenge stories really twist expectations.

Meh, you're in the middle of a horseshoe. When you watch anime at first you're an open book ready for any experience. Then you watch for years and you get jaded and expect all the tropes. But eventually you horseshoe back around to being an open book ready for any experience. If you want to be. Been watching anime since Vampire Hunter D and Ranma 1/2. I've got all the tropes down pat pretty much, and each era of anime has/had its own popular tropes. Our current era is not special or somehow worse about it. Just enjoy anime my friend. The only one who can ever truly get in the way of you doing that....is you.

At least so far his party has one dude in it already. And his original party was a sausage fest. They did say he should build a family when they get back. I hope it's not the blonde girl who I think is Goran's daughter. (she's blonde, young, living at his place and he said he had a daughter) Imagine your bro disapeers for 10 years, comes back YOUNGER and then starts dating your daughter. That's a huge violation of bro code.

I went into this pretty skeptically based on the name but was surprised how much I liked the setup. This could be quite fun. I agree the ten years thing still feels a bit extreme. But with how he came out of the ground in his young form I’m presuming he had some lost time with that last imprisonment spell he used. Either way, it all held together more cohesively than I expected and I like the characters. Hopefully it’ll hold up but I’m good with watching a secret veteran having a “vacation” starting over and grouping up with some youths he can protect. Better setup than many of these shows I can’t resist watching. 😅

You know that's the difference between good shows and great shows. Shows that accurately represent the accumulating psychological cost seriously like for example Sakura in Fate/Stay Night Heavens Feel Movies or Subaru in Re: Zero. Are often relatable and we can connect with them despite the distancing that entertainment purposely instills. But there's a lot of room for shows like this one as well. Not everyone wants to get into a show and be traumatized 😂

No, they explained it very clearly. He slept when he needed to sleep and used drain touch to constantly restore stamina/mana. He was basically on autopilot for 10 years with magic constantly replenishing him. Then the ultimate drain touch at the end not only fully restored him it made him younger (which presumably would also fully heal any mental damage) Assuming normal humanity mental issues for something like that just doesn't work. It was exactly what they said it was. Don't over think it.

I think maybe we’re underestimating just how much of the 10 years was him under marionette. He likely was only at it for a few hours before the general showed up. After getting drain touch he accidentally set himself on autopilot. The most likely scenario is that he was restoring resources via drain touch, but was at a near constant state of unconsciousness as any mental energy or reprieve he got was going right towards the marionette spell and drain touch. It’s possible he only truly ‘woke up’ when facing changes like generals or unique mobs and finally when he sensed the demon lord return … which tracks with the generals blade breaking from overuse (he attributed it to the hex blade) It’s also possible he could have been out for a few days or so after absorbing the demon kings life essence … but chances are he spent maybe a few weeks at most awake, and grossly underestimated how long he was out for between bouts of lucidity.

I think to an extend it makes sense that time doesn't flow differently, that it was whole 10 years he thought and because he was continuesly fighting living and doing the same thing non-stop the same place with nothing changing, your perception of time really do warp as you won't be able to distinguish the memories of your past 10 years as they all feel the same making you think not as much time have passed.

I thought we'd see an older looking protagonist, but nope, he's even younger than how he started lol. That's a little unfortunate, but I am intrigued by the setting. It's nice to see his party members so happy to see him again that they were crying. Hopefully they don't just disappear from the story.  It would be interesting to watch him teach new adventurers, it'll depend on the characters. It seems like Goran's daughter will build an interest in him, so that's going to make things awkward.

Sure, Luck would probably be fine, but it would still build up some resentment towards the king; and that's if they even believe the truth at all. I mean, think about it. The great Saint sorcerer Luck is back? He defeated the Demon Lord and is sudden 15-20 years younger? The statue doesn't even look like him as an adult The far more believable story to the nobles' ears, is that he is actually just the secret kid of the real Luck, or some other imposter, and this is just an attempt by the King and Guildmaster to gain more influence and power by secretly training him and propping this guy up as Luck. All it would take is for one person to put that out into the nobles rumor mill. "Disgusting really, disgracing the great hero's memory like that. What scumbags!" "Weren't they supposed to be his friends?" "Maybe they sacrificed the real Luck so that they could get away!" You get the picture. Way too much of a headache to put on King Eric.

I appreciate that there wasn't a hint of betrayal or anything, just a group of friends off to kill the demon lord and the single one sent the other two home once they started to send up too many death flags. And they were very welcoming too once he came home. Small party of newbies going off to hunt goblins, I feel like I've seen this before somewhere. Fortunately this time the experienced dude went with and didn't show up a bit later. The siblings have pretty good designs but they're nowhere in the key art so I imagine they're more temporary side characters than long term party members. Beast girl and sword girl are clearly in this for the long run though, they're definitely the inevitable harem if this goes that route.

It feels very much like "I can't believe it's not reincarnation". Protag is thought to be dead by the rest of the world, 10 years have passed and he's no younger and pretending to be a low level fighter rather than high level mage. I suspect this will be following the exact same formula as all the other power fantasy shows. I fear the de-aging is to make his love interest(s) being young more palatable as well.

It wasn’t so much the fame I think people have misunderstood this. It was that because the hero became king and luck had ‘died’ he made him a gran duke which is a noble title and the reason the aristocracy allowed a commoner to become a noble as high ranking as duke (they still as a whole have more power than the king) is because he was dead this was stated by the hero himself and the issue now is that if they find out he’s alive they might actively try to turn society against him and possibly go against him (try to kill) which he doesn’t want.

Yeah. The last thing Luck wants is to put all that weight on Eric for no reason. This way, he gets to help his best friend avoid any backlash, the kingdom is safe since he killed the Demon King so he doesn't have to reveal himself because of that,, and he gets to relive the good old days while still doing some good out in the world, all while avoiding having to learn a bunch of new crap about being a noble or taking on a noble's responsibilities? Makes sense to me!