#The Legendary Hero Is Dead

[my-anime-goods]

Yuusha ga Shinda! (The Legendary Hero Is Dead!) - Online Kujira featuring goods with new illustrations from 28 November 2023 to 16 January 2024. Release: Mid-March 2024

[tetrix-anime]

Megami Magazine July 2023 Issue (#278) - Yuusha ga Shinda!

[animehouse-moe]

Best Anime Openings Spring 2023

With the Spring season winding down, I thought it might be a fun time to share my favorite openings from this season (may or may not do an endings one as well). Initially I had thought about doing a tier list, but that's far too arbitrary for my tastes at this point, so we're gonna stick with the ones that stood out. I'll just go ahead and get started.

Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers - Magical Destroyer

I don't really need to say much about this one, I already wrote about it in depth once. But yeah, damn good opening that has the perfect mix of everything Inagawa, and tells a self-contained story about the journey of these magical girls and Otaku Hero. It's a wildly impressive affair from start to finish, though not quite for the faint of heart as the music choice may be abrasive to some (personally, I love it).

Heavenly Delusion - Innocent Arrogance

Really, this and MAD are interchangeable as my openings of the season/year. In most cases though I give the edge to MAD for the insane style of the latter half, but Innocent Arrogance is far tighter affair. Its themes and stories are more apparent and accessible to fans of the series, and it has a more unique style throughout with the harsh highlights and lighter/softer color palette through most scenes.

Hells Paradise - Work

I might avoid the anime like it's the plague, but you do have to give credit for the opening. Solid on all fronts, it has a unique style that sells the characters and world incredibly well, all tied together by very fluid and dynamic camera movements. Plus, Millenium Parade on an opening is always appreciated. I would still say it's comfortably below the first two in terms of quality though. The stories told through visuals in the above are just out of this world.

Skip and Loafer - Mellow

The song title for this one is very fitting. It's an incredibly comfortable, fun, and warm opening that does a lot with how little it shows. As expected, the color design is wonderful and has the perfect vibe for being a slice of life. The icing on the cake though is the dance sequence. Full of energy and joy, it tops off the wonderfully full feeling that this opening gives viewers.

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury - Slash

Potentially hot take for this one, but while the opening is solid, it's how it teases the story that allows it to be superior. The pieces that are placed in plain view that we're only able to understand in hindsight is where the appreciation for this one comes from. The pieces that aren't directly tied to that comparison are solid, but I wouldn't say they're amazing. The best non-teaser though has to be the scenes of Miorine underwater and in a fractured crystal, as they reflect her mental state without placing anything in front of the viewer to compare it to.

The Legendary Hero Is Dead - Shinda!

This one really surprised me, between Masayoshi Ooishi performing divorced from the other half of OxT and a relatively unknown pair of directors for the opening, a very impressive effort was given for something incredibly memorable. Aggressive colors and storyboarding, a campy feel that plays right into the spiraling shots and lower quality CGI. It presents something incredibly memorable but without an incredible amount of effort expended in pursuit of it. Great example of a solid OP on a (resource) budget.

Ranking of Kings: The Treasure Chest of Courage - Gold

There's not much to say here other than the geniuses over at WIT did it again. A wonderfully executed opening that chronicles the journeys of our various characters as they join Bojji on his adventures. It's incredibly cute and heartwarming, and one of these days I'd love to break down how perfectly it rehashes the story of Season 1 into an energetic and hopeful opening that punctuates the intermediate stories of this season. Also, WIT is yet to miss on song choices for these openings.

Dead Mount Death Play - Nero

I think this opening is the one with the most wasted potential out of the ones I've seen this season. There's some really incredible shots and ideas through it with stuff like looking through the eyes of characters and what they see, but at the same time there's quite a few bog standard pieces that fill out the build up to the crescendo of this OP. I wouldn't say I'm disappointed as I wasn't expecting anything out of this world, but I think if the team pushed themselves a little more they could have had a huge creative breakthrough.

Also, you should 100% go watch the MV that was made the song itself. It's animated by a single person and is entirely out of this world in execution. Amazing work.

And that's about all the very notable ones I have to talk about. There's some I was disappointed with like MahoYome's new OP that was rather restrictive, or the unremarkable nature of Demon Slayer (Zankyou Zanka >>> Akeboshi >> Gurenge >>>> Kizuna no Kiseki ) or Dr. Stone's latest openings. While there was certainly let downs and disinteresting openings, there was also evidently quite a few surprises and dark horses that appeared through the season. Overall, it's really enjoyable seeing how much a lot of newer shows are finding inventive ways to deliver creative and memorable openings.

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TV Show & Movie Collections for March 12, 2024

[misteria247]

Watch "死んだ!" on YouTube

So thanks to Crunchyroll, I'd been introduced to a new spring anime called The Legendary Hero is Dead! And holy shit it's wild. Yet I personally also find it really funny so there's that lmao. Anyways-!

The opening is a fucking banger.

[olberic]

the way this show sucks but the op is like. one of my fave anime ops

the colours! the song! the vibes! the bit (1:01 in the vid) where anri jumps up! the bit in the desert w the coffin! im so enamoured w this op and nobody else seems to have posted it

[chiisanahoshi]

Masayoshi Oishi - SHINDA! [Official Video]

[comic-bastards]

Let's Anime 185 - He's The Total Package

By Dustin Cabeal and Lindsay Mallard

Youkoso, Youkoso!! Well we're late this month again, please bear with us. Lindsay has school and I have... nothing but support for her education. We'll keep pumping out episodes whenever possible! This time around we talk about My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999, Demon Slayer, I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too and The Legendary Hero is Dead.

[my-anime-goods]

Yuusha ga Shinda! (The Legendary Hero Is Dead!) - Star Kuji featuring goods with new illustrations (Swimsuit) available from 23 December 2023.

[tetrix-anime]

Yuusha ga Shinda! (The Legendary Hero Is Dead!) - Thigh Knee Sock Visual of Milly Yunis.

[misteria247]

So I'm officially gonna stick with the anime The Legendary Hero is Dead! cuz like it's surprisingly good??? Like the characters while wild are intriguing and likable plus the comedy is pretty funny. Not to mention that the opening Shinda! is an absolute bop that gets stuck in your head.

Honestly I'm looking forward to seeing where the story's gonna go!

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Song: Shinda!

Artist: Masayoshi Ooishi

Anime: The Legendary Hero Is Dead!

Type: Opening

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[jaebird88]

Cross The Legendary Hero is Dead off the list. This show was just plain silly, even with all the gratuitous fan service. Would I tune in for a second season? Maybe. But I’m not going to make it a priority.