English Dub Review: Didn’t I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?, “Didn’t I Say Wyvern Hunting?!”

 

 

 

Overview (Spoilers Below)

Short on cash and fed up with working at the maid cafe at their inn, the girls go to find some lucrative work to move out. 

Our Take

For the past few episodes, there have been cold openings where the girls are shown working in the maid cafe at the inn they’re staying at. I never brought these up because they were just silly jokes that lasted no longer than a minute and seemed to only serve as a way to fill the runtime.

While that is probably true, all of those brief scenes have actually culminated in this episode. The girls have finally grown fed up with being made to wait on customers in maid costumes, and so have decided to make money to move to a better place. This entire maid cafe subplot is meaningless, but at the same time, I can’t help but give a nod to the consistency in building up to this episode. 

I was certainly not expecting dividends on this front. I was also not expecting said dividends would be so shockingly meager.

They decide to hunt a wyvern and the clerk at the guild spends a while telling them that they will have only one shot at it. The stakes of this wyvern hunt are made to seem very high when in reality they just end up spending most of the time goofing around. All of the effort and detail put into establishing this is worthless.

When they encounter this poorly designed wyvern, it flies out of the range and dicks around with them. Bereft of sense and logic, Mile counters this tactic but grabbing her friends and launching them at the wyvern. The sudden shock from how poorly improvised this plan is actually made it kind of funny at first. However, as each attempt fails, its effectiveness diminishes as well.

When they’re finally able to ground the wyvern, it strikes back by flipping up their skirts and revealing their underwear. This effectively stuns them even though nobody else is around. Mavis is immune to this attack, as she is wearing pants, so the wyvern has to rip her pants off with the sheer force of its screams. I want to ask the person whose idea this was if it was worth it.

Mile captures the wyvern with her usual shenanigans when an old man comes out of nowhere, claiming the wyvern to be his long lost boyhood friend. This devolves into a sob story flashback or at least tries to. Mile constantly injects her own inane opinions into this old man’s tale. The old man gets into a shouting match with her over this, as she is also obnoxiously getting everybody’s name wrong on purpose. 

This episode constitutes what is probably the most Mile has endeavored to be as annoying as possible. And it all falls so terribly, horrendously flat on its face. And then it ends with asinine bathhouse fanservice. 

I can only describe this episode as thoroughly unimpressive; 20 minutes wasted for the absolute minimum value. I thought we were past this phase of the plot, but I guess anything goes, including the quality.