Ore wa Subete wo "Parry" suru: Gyaku Kanchigai no Sekai Saikyou wa Boukensha ni Naritai

Noor's sheer stupidity is maddening. Despite his obvious power, he remains clueless about his abilities. This lack of self-awareness isn't endearing; it's rage inducing. Watching Noor struggle to understand his own strength is a test of patience, and his character fails to develop throughout the series. The anime's excessive use of recaps is another major issue. Every episode spends too much time rehashing previous events, which drags down the pacing and makes the series feel stagnant. The storyline has potential. The action scenes are decent. However, these positives are often overshadowed by Noor's frustrating behavior and the repetitive recaps. The first episode was quite ... interesting, but it fell off extremely by Noor being an idiot. If you can handle such annoying main character give it a go.

I parry everything.

I can parry at my braincells more like.

Though for serious, for it's first three episodes of it's lifespan, it's produced quite a promising product, and only time will tell if it actually parrys itself into a decent and solid product overall. It's not without it's hiccups though, that is for sure. Let me explain.

Story and characters: 6
The story can really make itself stand out as different compared to how others of this particular power fantasy genre go about things. Instead of simply being better cause we're gifted. How about we train instead? Work for it all? It's quite a refreshing take which does ... deserve some credit, along with the start seemingly signaling that if he wants to get any where, he'll have to work for it.

Who is he might you ask? We have Noor. The sane village idiot. Though while he isn't a complete stupid character, but more that there is more likely gaps within his logic. Which could be down to his up bringing if anything. Which he can't be faulted with in fairness. However it does leave some questioning moments throughout the show. The biggest annoyance for me, is more how seemingly while he could think things aren't going his way, but almost all other character seemingly make it so, as if he's some chosen one that deserves all the spotlight and everything handed to him on a silver platter. It's not bad, but it can come across as a bit one dimensional if left unchallenged by it.

The story itself is nice, but wouldn't stand out and call it ground breaking, or super engaging. It's solid don't get me wrong, but unless a major twist happens, then it might come into some struggles in enjoyment as we go along.

Art and sound: 7
This part I have zero issues with really. You can see throughout the training moments, how everything flows and is animated nicely. It's not a breathtaking style, but it certainly does it's job,and does it's job well. Matched with a good solid sound department, that really make it out for what it is. A solid product overall.

I might've parried too much harshness into this pre review, but it's mainly what I got from the first few episodes. For the record, Parry isn't a bad show at all. More just solid, will be enjoyable, and that can work for a number of people. Give it a try, and see how you think.

A lot of people want to pan this show because of the MC being dense, but that’s not actually the issue here. Noor has been secluded and hardly educated his entire life until 14 when he was left on his own to do nothing but training for a decade, the guy has no reason to know damn near anything at all except for how to tend to animals and whatever odd jobs he picked up. Him being a complete oblivious idiot is expected given the setting.

The problem is that so is everyone else.

Adventurer’s guild: the guild has a policy of ranking capability simply by what ... skills someone has, with no apparent assessment aside from that (or even any confirmation of stated abilities - Noor could just lie to these people and be some SSS-class adventurer but he’s too dumb to do that). The guild master and everyone who works with Noor are constantly shown his abilities and just take it as “guess he’s a strong fellah” or something; word never gets around that this guy can carry tons of bricks all day without sweating.

The royal family: Noor literally saves the princess’s life by slaying a mutant Minotaur and doesn’t even get a formal recognition of achievement. The whole schtick could have been alleviated with a simple “For the grand achievement of slaying the demon…” or whatever but no. I could almost understand it from a position of good old-fashioned aristocratic condescension in forgoing formalities with the common man but the king didn’t know who he was beforehand. In fact, Noor wasn’t on anybody’s radar despite being a one-man any-job-you-want-done crew.

The people: Noor carries around the treasure of the country (the very distinct “sword”) and nobody recognizes it at all or says anything.

The princess: the final nail in the coffin, and the most damning. The princess forgets to speak aloud when naming dangerous monsters, refuses to actively acknowledge Noors abilities, and has taken to thinking “he must have sensed it even then!” and other such drivel the likes of which you get out of fanatical followers of characters like Shadow and Ains, without any of the irony.

It’s one thing to have an oblivious dumbass MC who doesn’t know their strength, but it’s as if every event and line of dialogue is crafted perfectly to maintain his ignorance of the situation. It is frustrating, and nothing else. It is not funny, and if you disagree just keep watching because unless it changes it’ll get old for you too unless you’re content getting to Ep 12 - “I parry any chance at a second season”

Also while the skills are interesting and the concept is good the action really isn’t there, you see a character jump and then the reaction of the enemy, that kind of “action.”

I can’t wait till Gaile the Cursificer gets the anime treatment cause at least the other people in that world aren’t as lead-dense as that tasteless dickhead.

TL;DR no Noor never finds out he’s any good.

I’ll keep it short, should you watch? Yes. But I’ll explain why I would recommend something I would give such a low score to.

Noor may well be the most oblivious/stupid MC I have “EVER” seen.

This anime has all the potential to be a real master piece. The elements of the story 9/10. Animation 8/10. Action Scenes 8/10.

But BRO!!… It’s insane someone can be that stupid and literally spend their entire life training for it. It’s like spending your whole life ... trying to be an astronaut, then asking what the sun is……

I’ll probably change my score if he gets a couple brain cells.

This show revolves around MC not being aware of how insanely strong he has gotten after dedicating years of hard training to perfecting the basic skills he has.

Every episode is spent around "misunderstandings" that go like this:
- MC does insane stuff
- Everyone is in awe at MC doing insane stuff
- Everyone tells MC hes doing insane stuff
- MC denies reality insisting that he is weak
Rinse and repeat.
The dialogue is written to further these misunderstandings in a way that makes you want to hit your head against a wall.
You know how in many Anime a single sentence could clear up everything? This is ... that but it's the entire premise of the show.

I don't know if it's supposed to be funny? I didnt see a comedy tag. It's just incredibly frustrating and aggravating to watch.

According to manga readers this continues on throughout the entire season which is why I dropped it after 3 episodes.

Maybe give it the 3 episode rule and see if you dont mind the below room temp IQ MC.

This show can't decide if it's a serious fantasy-action drama, or a comedic OP protagonist send-up.

What we have an OP protagonist fantasy, with an oblivious protagonist, which means this should be a comedy, right? Except this is all played completely straight-faced, and the larger story developing is very serious and high-stakes for everyone. But throughout all of this, our protagonist is oblivious to just to the danger he's in; how powerful he is; and what is really going on all around him. The thing is, Noor (the protag) isn't Forrest Gump: he does not have below-average intelligence making him see things in an overly simplistic ... way; rather, no one around him ever states the obvious thing like "holy crap dude, you just soloed an S-rank monster!"

This is where my frustration comes in: there's no reason for the protagonist to be this oblivious to his own power level for as long as he is; and there is no reason why no one points out to him just how incredible his accomplishments are. Quite simply, no one does the most obvious thing, and we're never given a reason for it. Noor's lack of confidence is the underlying cause of his obliviousness, but the thing is that lack of confidence radiates from him, so absolutely no one with half a brain is going to mistake that obliviousness for arrogance. Simply, the show needs a real reason that no one ever says "holy crap dude, you just soloed an S-rank monster!" to him, but never provides one (arguably the princess character eventually does have a reason, but it simply cannot be applied to everyone he encounters and she would not have had that reason when first encountering him).

Beyond that admittedly big problem the show has, there's actually a very intriguing plot about a war between two nations, and how Noor has gotten caught up in it. I'll also add, Noor doesn't seem so much like he's OP per se, but rather that everyone around him is simply under leveled in a world that seems to be balanced around his power level. Plus, OLM is going all out with the animation on this one: definitely one of the best looking shows of the season. If the show just dropped the oblivious to his own power thing and pushed on as a straight-up fantasy-action story, my current rating of 6 would jump to 8 easily; in that regard it's not the most original thing out there, but it's well done enough that it's worth your time.

It's watchable, but not very good. Characters are too unsophisticated and feel kind of flat, too many things are conveniently misunderstood, the MC is frustratingly dense and stupid. Other than that - this is your typical power fantasy, with decent animation and decent fight scenes, it doesn't bring much new to the table. There's a lot better stuff to watch out there, for example if you haven't watched Solo Leveling it kinda fits in the same bracket but does things alot better. I picked this up because this season is a bit of a drought to my tastes, but uhh... its aight to pass the ... time I guess. To sum it up... it's just very mid.

The biggest reason this anime falls into the fantasy genre isn't just the magic or monsters, but the fact that a healthy human so dense and oblivious as the MC is unrealistic. This trait is shared by many of the characters around him, making it a recurring theme. I must also correct the anime's assertion that the MC has only one strong skill (parry): he and the other characters possess an exceptionally advanced ability to "Jump to Wrong Conclusions"—some are so talented at it, they miss the mark by a mile.
That said, the plot is intriguing, and the MC is likeable. The side characters are ... not too shallow, and the skill system is reasonable. I also found the portrayal of how the MC got stronger quite interesting. The anime could be a lot of fun to watch, but it feels like the writers either lacked creativity or took the easy way out. The MC didn’t need to be so oblivious to justify the plot. I could see myself giving it a 7/10 if the dumb trope is toned down in future episodes, though it had the potential to be an 8/10.

When I first hear about this anime, I was really hyped. Like he's really really strong but not that overpowered and he trained hard for that. But the fact that he's so f*cking dumb really makes it so frustrating and tiring.
I'm willing to admit that he's ignorant on some points because he's lived alone in the woods for 10 years but , c'mon, even the other characters are of no use. The only potentially useful character is the guild master but even when he can help/give information, the storyline is f*cked up.

Couldn't get past the 4th episode, very big disappointment.