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。

I wish I could say Solo Leveling was a low tier power fantasy, but the bar for that is just so abysmally low. At least Solo Leveling has a somewhat satisfying power up progression. So many works out there just immediately give the MC OP powers and then also proceed to do absolutely nothing with them. Usually by coming up with braindead lame excuses for why the MC just won't use his power, if they bother with excuses at all. Kinda like Luck in this episode tbh. You can't really expect us to believe that the hero that battled an entire demon army including the commanders and the demon lord himself, while getting stronger the entire time, would have any trouble at all against some vampire scrub.

I specifically said mid to low tier because people value different things in shows so depending on what you value the show is either mid or low or somewhere in between. The MC in Solo Leveling only did 90% of what he did because the system forced him to. Including crossing the line to murder. Making money to cure his mom was a motivation but the system was pushing him up the power tiers regardless so him going for her cure was only really going slightly out of his way in the direction he was already headed. Kinda like Luck in this episode tbh. You can't really expect us to believe that the hero that battled an entire demon army including the commanders and the demon lord himself, while getting stronger the entire time, would have any trouble at all against some vampire scrub. No, that makes perfect sense actually. With drain touch he effectively has infinite hp if you cannot hurt him faster than he can heal and its explains it sustained him too. So the number of demons literally didn't matter, none of them had the ability to hurt him and indeed mostly just served as sustenance. Much the same way normal humans can't beat vampires regardless of numbers because of charm. In fact it only makes them stronger. As far as the Demon lord goes, its heavily implied the demon lord came back to kill him before reaching full strength after they heavily injured him. And he was able to beat him by essentially using two opposing spells simultaneously. The demon lord, caught by surprise, couldn't defend vs both at once...only one. It was likely a desperately last stand trump card which would have left Luck drained and helpless had it failed. This Vampire appears to have regeneration far beyond what was expected and the dark gods (above the demon lord) have been mentioned as his patron. So there is no telling what magical blessings or curses the vampire may have received from their evil gods. We don't know how well the vampire lord does again magic yet.

Feels like this doesn't follow the usual plot progression of "starting at F-rank but secretly OP" shows. Other than the guild lady who was worried about his safety, I don't think there was really any moment where anyone doubted his abilities (other than calling BS when he claims he's F-rank). And we're just 5 episodes in, and they've already decided "screw it let's raid the boss' castle". Which probably means the High Lord isn't the real final boss, or it'll be a "the princess is in another castle" type scenario.

Feels like this doesn't follow the usual plot progression of "starting at F-rank but secretly OP" shows. I don't usually check out these sorts of shows, but I'd say it doesn't. He was already a powerful veteran at the start of the series, and he's only 'starting' at the lowest rank because after reconnecting with his buddy, he wanted to conceal from the general public that he was back and a low rank cover story would let him operate without scrutiny. So the people in charge know who he is and what he can do, and obviously won't hesitate to call on him for anything serious. Otherwise he's not interacting with any high level people not in on the secret.

My favourite thing about this anime continues to be how Eric and Goran are just total bros. Not only did the anime not fall to the now-tired "banished from the hero party" trope or be totally different now that they're famous and successful, both of them readily volunteered to party back up with Luck. Both of them even made a great callback to how Luck held up the demons for them to go ahead and did it for him this time. Celiss is hilarious, but Eric and Goran surprise me everytime.

I love how this keeps mixing up what you'd think would be the harem adventure story formula. Go off to confront the big bad with the party that has collected up so far? Nope, king and the guildmaster go with to bring the overwhelming force and they leave most everyone else behind to defend the castle while only taking the wolfgirl since she has charm immunity and will help with interacting with the wolf tribe forces already in the field. That said I'm not sure leaving Celliss behind to cover the castle with just the instructions to kill the vampires quickly before they can charm anyone is the best of plans, but they just don't have enough people who are immune. Though maybe they should have brought in the lady who I suspect is the hero party member and queen, since she probably does have the mental resistance the rest of the hero's party does. It got kind of dark when Luck broke the medallion and we heard the screams and then when he found the dead bodies those screams were from too, honestly good thing he didn't have any of the kids with to experience that.

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I really wish they'd spent more money on this one. Great episode, but there's a clear pacing issue (probably dictated by the point they want to reach for the season climax) and the animation could be a whole lot better. But these characters are very well drawn, there's lots of gentle, situational humor that doesn't rely on stupid cliches, the MC is OP without the other characters being merely decorative, and they take dangerous situations seriously and make smart decisions. I'm enjoying it a lot.

I was wondering why all the villagers turned to dust, turns out they were turned and killing the sire also kills their progeny. Rather convenient way to wipe out vampire threats. But that would only account for the 6th Lord's vampires. I guess that's why MC is going after the High Lord - would that take out the entire species or could there be thousands of vamps not in the current High Lord's direct line of descendants? Also why were newly turned vampires just sitting at a table with empty plates, carrying baskets of fruit, etc? So, um, if all three heavy hitters are going after the high lord, then they're leaving the castle vulnerable to a vampire attacks. The two girls are certainly not enough to protect it against anything more than low levels. What if a Lord shows up? Also, the girls are vulnerable to a simple backstab by a charmed human. Well, at least they knew enough not to leave the chicken behind. Feels weird that any vampires would be vulnerable to a sleep spell, though maybe I'm just used to games where all undead are immune to that type of thing. I'm surprised Luck couldn't just nuke the 30 lords with a single spell. And that he insisted on fighting the High Lord with the sword, rather than his specialty which is magic. Couldn't he have simply used the hellfire/drain combo that he did on the Demon King?

I'm a bit late to the party, but that holy chicken took me by surprise. Is this the sequel to "Rooster Fighter"? In any case, I'm generally a fan of stories that involve a character who stays behind to stall/slay the enemy's army. Honestly, the biggest problem so far is the daughter. What was her name? Celiss? It makes sense that she thought of "Lock" as her father's secret child, but it really makes a dent in a series' quality when characters are THAT difficult to talk with! Even after having been told the truth, she just replaced one delusion with another. Well...She doesn't seem to be a bad character, just annoying to deal with.