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

Overview

Lugh accepts an assassination job and heads to the merchant town of Pisear with Tarte in order to determine if his target is worth assassinating. While there, Lugh witnesses the tragic sight of people suffering because of his target. Based on information gathered by Maha, Lugh plans his assassination…


Our Take

This episode delves into the moral implications of murder which puts Lugh’s philosophy of assassination into question. To some extent, it kinda works as it feels very real on a psychological level. The idea of stealthy killing people has to be a mentally challenging process and its definitely not an easy choice when a person’s life is decided by your own hands.

While it can’t be sugar-coated that the count deserved death, it looks he was actually a decent husband despite being a real scumbag with less than noble motivations. Part of me kinda feels bad for his wife who most likely knew nothing about his dirty dealings behind the scenes. However, there was no justification for the atrocious things he did to his own town & people. We often see the opposite which is what made this juxtaposition quite unique to the audience. Usually, the cliche is that it’s a wealthy individual who’s a so-called “saint” to the public yet is an abusive monster within his own family and loved ones behind the scenes…

Overall this was a pretty balanced episode. The proceedings featured some decent action combined with nice character expansion not just for Lugh, Tart, and Maha (who we surprisingly see again), but also nearly everyone else. The Goddess recruits another “dud” of a person leading to a funny payoff, while Lugh has to learn at some point how to redefine his current relationship statuses with Dia, Tarte, and Maha down the line. It’s also clear at the end of the episode, that we can see how Lugh has changed compared to his first life, in which he was always a tool. But this time around, he made the choice for himself. There’s an emotional & psychological weight to carry in regards to pulling the trigger, but at the very least, it was tastefully handled…