English Dub Season Review: Ningen Fushin: Adventurers Who Don’t Believe in Humanity Will Save the World Season One

Overview: 

Misfortune hits Nick when he’s fired from his adventurer party and dumped on the same day. Needing new partners, he drowns his sorrows at the local tavern but sees betrayal everywhere. He catches a break when he chances upon other jaded souls sharing their tales of treachery. Wait! They can form a new party, united by their hatred of humanity. All they’ll need is to trust each other—good luck!

Our Take:

You’d be forgiven for thinking this is another isekai series based on the title alone. It always seems that the long wordy titled series are almost always an isekai. But luckily this is just a pure fantasy series and it was a breath of fresh air. I love isekai but I’ve been really into fantasy lately and this scratched that itch for sure.

What was also refreshing was the voice talent in this one. It felt like the perfect mix of VA veterans and others who are young in their voice-acting careers. I always worry that when I say that it will offend someone who has done extensive work but with my limited connections I just go off of what I can find online. Kieran Flitton is one that I haven’t really heard of in any anime roles but I hope I do more in the future, I really liked how he did the role of Nick. It was really nice to hear Christina Kelly in a Crunchyroll show because she usually does Sentai dubs so I hear her more on HiDive.

The characters are some of the best around but when it came to the “betrayals” they all suffered only some of them actually felt that way. But other than that I enjoyed getting to see these characters move on from the negative things that happened to them and become better for it.

Don’t let the title mislead you because I think that is something that will come into play much later in the story. This is something we may never get to see unfortunately because getting a second season for an anime is no walk in the park. That doesn’t mean that the lower stakes of this season make it bad by any means. We don’t always need the world to be ending to get good stories and that is no different here.

The animation was bad at times but for the most part, it was serviceable. Not too good and not too bad, just right. The fight scenes were done especially well so it was just some of the random scenes that weren’t always done the best.

If you’re looking for a fantasy series with good characters that isn’t an isekai you could do much worse than this. In fact, it’s almost impossible to find as I’m starting to realize. I would just say we need to hope for a second season to see these characters live up to their world-saving moniker.