English Dub Review: Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World With Garbage Balancing “The Liberated”

Overview:

One against a million. If Allen wants to even the odds, he’ll have to put his new Deputize skill to the test.

Our Take(Spoilers):

I always love it when a character gets a new skill that opens up new avenues of success for them, even if I don’t quite understand how it works. Allen is able to deputize some of his summons, and it seems like it gives them a flat boost to their abilities. It also slightly changes their appearance and makes them look a whole lot cooler. But that doesn’t help out the one summon that Allen sent to spy on the Demon Regent.

We finally get to see the Demon Regent through Ellie’s eyes. In case I hadn’t mentioned it before, Ellie is another one of Allen’s summons that has a humanoid form. Unfortunately, the Demon Regent is no slouch and noticed that Ellie wasn’t a demon monster. It wasn’t exactly surprising since she was essentially using a sheet as a ghost costume-type disguise. One thing that was kind of cool was seeing that Ellie had some personality, as she said that she would turn the Demon Regent into mincemeat if he kept talking smack about Allen. Sure, he disintegrated her a moment later, but he is the big bad guy, so that makes sense.

Helmios comes to aid Allen in his battle, and I think it’s interesting that he refers to Allen as his protege. I think it would be kind of cool if someone like Allen became a hero because usually it’s a sword guy, and seeing a summoner like Allen become a hero would be unique. I prefer sword guys, but spellcasters deserve some love too.

I’d say that the thing that Allen is best at isn’t his summoning. It’s the way that he builds up those around him to believe in themselves. Dogora was a little down on himself, but Allen let him know that his base attack strength is on par with his strongest summon. So if he could master one of his skills, then he would be up there with Krena.

There are a couple of episodes left, and I’m enjoying seeing how they explain the attrition of war. It’s not touched on much, but death is something that happened a fair bit in this episode. Rifol’s magic sometimes brings people back from the brink, but it’s hit or miss on whether it works. It’s nice to see that there are some actual consequences to war in this series.