English Dub Review: The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat “Magic of Bonds”

Overview

Lugh’s magic teacher is a pretty girl named Dia. Being a few years older than Lugh, Dia treats him like a younger brother and sneaks into his bed every night in order to sleep next to him. Because he needs her to teach him magic, Lugh can’t complain, but gradually he and Dia grow closer–


Our Take

The first half of this episode was a bit dull in places. At the very least, The magic system in here is super interesting and was honestly explained well. Having Dia come around and teaching Lugh magic had some interesting moments. Although it was cool seeing them firearms weapons, there was a scene with a cannon that felt hilariously excessive. Then the spell creation montage has them wowing at the most obvious possible hypothesis that you can use other people’s spells whereas before, letters appear in the magic user’s head making them recite incantations while their eyes were closed. What I also found strange is a scene where it’s heavily implied that the goddess implanted a mental block in all the people except Lugh that pops away once suggested? It’s either that or we’re saying the culture prevents people from ever trying someone else’s spell, which is hard to comprehend.

The ending was also a nice transition into the darker aspects of the show as well. Once Dia leaves, Lugh learns the secrets of his new family and what it means to be an assassin by killing his first target an inmate at a prison meant people on Death Row. In the process, his father is teaching him principles he previously wasn’t instilled with long before his reincarnation which is a contrast from how Lugh was betrayed by his organization in his previous life.

Overall, this was an excellent episode that did well to expand upon both Dia and Lugh’s skill with magic aided greatly by his magic capacity and intellect. So far I’m actually liking the pace of the series as it takes great care in ensuring that the proceedings are easy to follow. For a middle-aged hitman who was reincarnated in the body of a 7-year-old, Lugh really is pretty damn skilled in both martial skills and his capacity to learn. But being able to apply that knowledge to innovate was the key shocker here. And the twist ending really played with my expectations but in a good way.