English Dub Review: A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special “Forming a Party”

Overview

With Pram and Romantica, Desir aims to win the ranking tournament to get promoted to the alpha class. Desir starts training his team to draw out their full potential, based on what he remembers.


Our Take

Desir, Romantica, and Pram meet with Brigitte to officially establish their newly formed party. Desir explains that he plans to get promoted to the alpha class by getting to the top nine of the ranking tournament, which is a big deal since it’s never been done before by a beta student in the tournament’s history. Brigitte gives approval in response to this, as she hopes to reform the academy’s broken & imbalanced system. Afterwards, Desir and his team clean up their new shared bedroom which i’m surprised how dirty it seemed to be.

Later on, Romantica begins her training by improving her magic accuracy, while Desir tells Pram that there is nothing he can teach him knowing that getting him to wield his signature rapier is the key. Pram shows Desir a rapier that previously belonged to his father, then explains his background which is equally tragic yet interesting in terms of compelling backstories. But before his mother slowly died from an illness, she had some cryptic & discouraging words to Pram not search for his father. Afterwards, Pram enrolled at Hebrion to find his father knowing that several nobles attend the school might actually know anything about him. But due to a nightmare that messes with his conscience, Pram ends up doing something unthinkable…

Overall, a good episode. After Pram’s introduction, we’re getting more backstory about him, along with some interesting developments. I also like how Desir is using his knowledge of the future as a guide of what not to do and not as some definitive map of events that should be left untouched. In so many fictional storylines involving time travel, the protagonist usually tries to preserve the timeline, However the only problem I have with this show is that it’s not clear if his current actions are different from his previous timeline unless it’s told to the audience. Hopefully things become clearer in later storylines.