English Dub Review: No Longer Allowed in Another World “Don’t Kill Yourself”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Sensei and Ysha battle Suzuki to save Annette and the rest of the village from his wrath, though Sensei is more interested in making Suzuki the subject of his next novel.

OUR TAKE

And that wraps up the Suzuki arc, I guess! I genuinely thought it would last at least another week, but this definitely ended where it needed to. Suzuki is not exactly main villain material, but he is good for highlighting some of the more interesting ideas this story has about Isekai genre tropes and how to view them differently, namely that not everyone who gets new powers from being taken to another world will necessarily be using them for good. This isn’t as rare as I made it seem in last week’s review, as evidence in another notable Isekai show “The Rising of the Shield Hero”, but it’s certainly not common either. Also as mentioned in last week’s review, this helps to show the contrast between someone like Suzuki, who adorns himself to look like a traditional hero and someone like Sensei, who is just in his old robes like a normal guy from the time period he came from. Suzuki was, expectedly, treated pretty bad in his old world and now wants to pay that back in this new one, especially now that he has a power to make anyone follow his orders, but it only shows his lack of self-esteem.

And again, while he simply wants petty revenge and more power to enact it, Sensei is a simple man with only a few desires, namely finding his love Sacchan and writing books. It’s interesting then to see his interest piqued in Suzuki not because he is an evil to be defeated, but because he is an interesting and flawed character who would make a good protagonist for a messed up story like the ones Sensei used to write. Oddly enough, this ends up being the catalyst for unleashing Sensei’s own big finishing move, “No Longer Allowed in Another World” (title drop!), which actually gives Suzuki another chance and transports him back to his own time. In addition to already being able to absorb poison and kill creatures that attack him, it seems that Sensei may be able to free otherworlders of their fates in this fantasy realm and return to start over. I can’t imagine it’ll be that easy to do this for every bad Isekai character they come across, but the ending of this episode does give me hope in what this series may ultimately be trying to say about the genre and life itself. Stay tuned for more!