That’s right, everyone! We’re diving DEEP into the dumpster today!
‘The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar’ is a prime example of everything you shouldn’t do with an isekai story. A boring plot with flat characters. Terrible animation. Fan service bordering on hentai. It’s all here.
And the cherry on top: one of the most cookie-cutter and boring isekai protagonists ever. One Yuto Suoh. Prepare yourselves, everyone! It’s time to examine every inch of this plank of wood!
His story is simple. Yuto is sucked away to another world with nothing but his phone. In this world, clans are at constant war for supremacy. Using his access to Google, as well as the usual isekai protag plot armor, he takes charge of a clan and rises to global supremacy.
Just who is Yuto? What does he believe in? What are his likes, his dislikes? What gets him out of bed in the morning to conquer the world?
Well… he wants to go back to his world and get together with his childhood crush. Okay, that’s something! That’s decent enough motivation! Now we just need a good personality and some interesting character flaws and we should… be…
Oh. There’s nothing. Kid is a cardboard cutout power fantasy.
Not because he has godlike powers, mind you. No, it’s because every single woman ever wants to do the naughty with him. Literally all of them. Including his adopted sister.
Thank you, anime.
This actually could have been kind of interesting. Yuto is sixteen years old. Kid’s hormones are on full blast. The girl he’s always liked is a literal world away, and he’s surrounded by beautiful women who are literally throwing themselves at him. That could have created some interesting emotional conflict for him. Does he choose true love and grow as a person? Or does he give in to lust and temptation?
Oh, but that would be a character arc. That would be too interesting and might make the audience think. Can’t have that. It might distract them from the power fantasy.
Even Yuto’s design is as bland as it gets. Man is just Kirito but slightly purple. How very creative.
Just as the Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar (Jesus Christ, that title) is isekai at it’s worst, Yuto is an isekai protagonist at it’s worst. Dude is so flat and lifeless that you could not find depth even if you tried. And believe me, I tried.
Congratulations, Kirito! You are relieved of the bottom spot! I am now legally obligated to stop making fun of you!
- Natsuki Subaru (Re:ZERO)
- Kazuma Sato (Konosuba)
- Ainz Ooal Gown (Overlord)
- Arc (Skeleton Knight in Another World)
- Kirito (Sword Art Online)
- Yuto Suoh (The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar)
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