English Dub Review: The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash “To Those Remembered Days”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Ivy flashes back to her first years in this world, being born to a nice family in a village and learning about the star system while keeping her memories of her former life. On the day of her fifth birthday, she is taken to get her stars but is revealed to have none. Immediately, everyone in the village turns on her, including her parents, forcing her out, though she maintains the friendship of the fortune teller who knows she is reincarnated from a previous world. Later, the fortune teller is found dead and Ivy is made the prime suspect, putting her on the run.

Later, Ivy awakens after her injury in the last episode, finding out that Sora was actually healing her instead of eating her.

OUR TAKE

Well hey, guess that twist at the end of the previous episode turned out to be exactly what I thought it was going to be! Which is not really bad thing at the end of the day, since it’s more about if the progression of the story makes sense more than if it was unexpected, and thankfully this does. Sora is clearly going to start out weak and feeble as a monster but gain abilities and strengths as the story goes on, the first of which being that it can absorb certain healing potions and then use that to heal Ivy when she gets too injured. Glad we could establish that three episodes in, hopefully there’s more to come as things go on. Given that this series is pretty light hearted and hasn’t shown many violent monsters yet, I doubt we’ll be seeing Sora get any big attacks, but it’s certainly something that could happen. Maybe as it gets bigger, it’ll absorb something big like…a dragon, and gain its abilities, like in a certain other isekai when a character from a different world becomes a slime and gains other abilities. But nah, they’d never be so blatant as to take from other sources like that, right?

But the main focus of the episode is getting more context for Ivy’s early years and the reason she is traveling on her own. We basically already got these details explained to us in the last couple episodes, but this provides a bit more details. We knew already that she was banished for being born with a zero star ability and that the village rejected and then went on a hunt for her. Though what we didn’t know was that the local fortune teller was already familiar with people who were reincarnated from previous lives and maintained their memories, and so asked her to keep this a secret. She even stayed her ally after the banishment, but then was seemingly killed shortly after, leading to the bounty being placed on her. To take out my genre savvy hat once again, there seems to be more going on than is shown. The village chief seems very invested in Ivy’s capture, even going so far as to recruit her father, but it’s also possible the fortune teller is alive out there with plans of her own. But we’ll very likely see more of where this is going in the coming weeks.