Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! | The Eminence in Shadow - Episode 1 discussion

This episode gave me some bad vibes, especially with how it treated its female characters. Starting off with a panty shot literally as the first scene, but then also revealing later that said panty shot character was literally a victim of sexual assault in the past later. And then she's about to get assaulted again, and then it turns out that all of this doesn't even matter for her because she's not a character going forward, this was all to establish the guy as a fighter. And then when you cut to that isekai world and he's literally surrounded completely by all women, not even one guy among his group, this feels like the ultimate wish fulfillment trash that wants to have our main character surrounded by women at all times.

In a lot of technical aspects, the show is really good. The fight choreography was great, honestly I do like the main character from what we see of him, and it cutting to the credits 2/3 through was honestly great and I love the confidence, and even what little of the fantasy world we saw looked pretty interesting. But a lot of the choices here just turn me off, and while I'll probably give it another episode to see what it's like as we start the actual story, this did not do it for me.

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