English Dub Season Review: The Legendary Hero is Dead! Season One

Overview:

In a world of monsters and magic, Sion, the local hero, is on his way to save the world from demons. Well, that was the plan until he fell into a pit dug by a sleazy villager, Touka, and died! After hiding the accident, Touka goes to bed as usual but wakes up feeling…different. Somehow he’s in Sion’s body! Now, the fate of the world is in his hands. What could go wrong?

Our Take:

I have to admit that when I was assigned this anime to review I was not looking forward to it at all. After the first episode I still felt that way but as the series went on it got a lot better. This isn’t a masterpiece or one of the first shows I’d suggest as “anime is art” by any means. But it has a lot more to offer than that what it seems on the surface level.

Which is a great way to describe the main protagonist, Touka Scott. Touka was one of the most annoying things at first. A protagonist who gets put into the body of someone who has died while his body is kept safe somewhere else is a novel idea. What isn’t novel is the idea of a pervert protagonist. Sure his interest in thighs is a little unique but still it was annoying. But as the series goes on you learn there is a lot more to him.

In fact, it was the characters that really made this series better than it had any right being. Touka and his childhood friend Yuna were the real standouts. If you read any of my early episode reviews you would have seen that I didn’t really like her. But she gets a lot of good development as she comes to realize how she feels and might have been wrong about certain things.

Great characters need great voice actors and actresses to bring them to life. Ricco Fajardo voices Touka Scott and Alexis Tipton does the voice of Yuna. I adore these VAs but man this was some of the most fun I think they’ve had and when the VAs are having fun it comes through in their performance and it was all the better for it.

The animation and main story weren’t all that great but as I said early it’s the characters that got me interested and kept me invested. If you just want something to shut your brain off and have a good time then I think that The Legendary Hero is Dead! is a good anime to get in on. Sure, there isn’t much of a conclusion but unless this is your first anime then you know what to expect by now.