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

Can He Really Parry Everything... But Can He Parry a Serious Review? I Doubt It! The story follows a classic adventure setting, situated in a fantasy world filled with monsters and magic. The main character has lofty ambitions, but they are quickly dashed due to his lack of, if not complete absence of, talent in various combat skills. These skills are essential for him to achieve his dream of becoming an adventurer. However, through time, hard work, and sheer determination, he manages to reach heights never before seen in this world. The protagonist is well-developed, both in terms of personal growth and how he evolves over the years.His motivations and inner reflections are also carefully explored. However, the main issue lies with his intellect. Sure, there are plenty of protagonists who are naive or not particularly smart, but this one aims to be an adventurer! He should at least have a basic understanding of how the world works—the guilds, the politics, or at the very least, the kingdom he lives in. Yet, he's depicted as a strong-hearted character with no real deductive skills. He constantly falls into clichés, with misunderstandings and missed cues leading to lucky resolutions. The supporting characters, surprisingly, are well-developed and quite well-characterized, which isn't always a given in a mid-tier anime. Each has their own motivations and backstory, revealed through various flashbacks that help explain their choices and why they follow the protagonist. This is a positive aspect of the show. Overall, these characters are reasonably intelligent or at least average, which only makes the protagonist appear even more foolish and unprepared. The narrative itself feels flat and lacks dynamism. It's obvious when something important is about to happen or when a high-stakes moment is approaching. This gives each episode the feeling of a standalone short story rather than a continuous narrative, which significantly diminishes the viewer's desire to keep watching. Furthermore, the approach to combat, which should be the highlight of any adventure story, is a repeated series of tired and overused scenes. There's no innovation or alteration in the fight patterns, and even though the animations are fluid and the action sequences well-constructed, they eventually grow tiresome. The combat system is practically non-existent. The protagonist easily deflects attacks from basic weapons one moment and then effortlessly blocks magical strikes from heavy weapons the next, with no real explanation or context. The only reasoning seems to be: "because he's the protagonist, and he can." Because of these significant issues with the storytelling, by the middle of each episode (if not earlier), it's already clear what will happen next, completely eliminating the curiosity that should be at the heart of an adventure series like this. In conclusion, I wouldn't recommend this anime—not because it's a terrible product. It clearly has a well-constructed world and solid supporting characters worthy of a sequel. But unfortunately, the protagonist, who should be the cornerstone of the narrative, falls short, as do the battles and their execution. For these reasons, I consider it a time-passer rather than a must-watch, given the sheer number of flaws. It's a mid-to-low-tier seasonal anime.

In 1959, the sociologist C. Wright Mills published a monograph titled "The Sociological Imagination." The titular concept purports to draw a connection between the individual's personal experience and the social world—that is, how the social world affects the individual. Noor, the protagonist, is viewed by many as a bumbling idiot who parries everything, brain cells included. Some see this as charming gag humour, while others see it as a trope that wears out its welcome in a few episodes. Everyone is right. But I'd like to expand upon this and invite the enterprising viewer to approach the show with Mills's concept of the sociological imagination inmind, especially for anyone who might be turned off by the idea of a "stupid MC who never learns." Have you ever had your world-view absolutely shattered overnight? What about your sense of identity? Yes, this is anime, so unrealistic things are allowed to happen, but still: place yourself in Noor's shoes. He yearns to become an adventurer and live the tales he's read about, but all his life he's known nothing but failure. So when he finally achieves something—becoming an adventurer qualified for only the most menial tasks—he latches onto this identity like a starving leech. It's honest work, and Noor is well-appreciated by the people he helps; so, for him, it feels right. Suddenly he's thrown into insane situations for which he feels entirely unprepared. The reality is that his extreme training regimen and subsequent aptitude for his limited skill-set has made him more than qualified to handle everything that comes, but he has no reason to think this. He lacks context and perspective that we (and the other characters) possess. He doesn't even have the arrogance or narcissism to recognize his own strength or consider alternatives that would place him at the top of the food chain. Consequently, Noor is very slow to expand upon his old identity as an exceedingly low-rank adventurer who's failed in every way to advance. "I Parry Everything" is not a show for everyone, but if you are able to look past Noor's idiosyncrasies (and the rather standard story and animation), then I would encourage you to approach the show with an open mind and willingness to see the protagonist as more than just an idiot. Doubly so for those who enjoy an older protagonist + teen girl having a wholesome relationship without a shred of romantic subtext, something that is far too rare in anime.

I Parry Everything - 3 words, 1 show, simple to understand...except for the brain. I know, I know...long LN titles (vice versa on both Japanese and English titles) and the like bores us to tears, since most of them end up being at best decent to at worst, mediocre to plain bad. But there's a chance to think of a "what if" situation where one or the other could just have a short title and be very descriptive to the T. And my friends, that's exactly the scenario for novelist Nabeshiki's Ore wa Subete wo "Parry" suru: Gyaku Kanchigai no Sekai Saikyou wa Boukensha ni Naritaia.k.a I Parry Everything: What Do You Mean I'm the Strongest? I'm Not Even an Adventurer Yet!, or just simply shortened to "I Parry Everything". But hoo boy, there's a love-hate relationship going on for this series, and it all has to be blamed around its titular MC. There's always an unwritten rule when it comes to fantasy series, Isekai or otherwise: let your main character at least have a personality. Don't care if he's an OP god/spirit-given freak or a harem king/queen, at least let him/her be presentable to the audience to judge in criticism and likability, and at least have a trait that'll be representative not just towards, but around the MC to find interest and stick around for the long run. Yet, here's the series' forefront MC: Noor, a character who acts like an NPC being a village bumpkin, who suddenly got approached by a GM telling him that he can go out to the world and become an adventurer just because he's the strongest, who then vanishes out of sight and leaves him without a tutorial stage into the conquest of becoming a remarkable person. His only lone skill, "Parry," is essentially a OP-certified defence skill, but that's only when he tried to be like everyone else, and failed horribly to the point that he's a talentless person, with all that strength accumulated as he tries to be like the adventurers that he so admire, not realizing that it's basically a skill buff that constantly levels up his Parry skill. Worse, he lacks common sense and social cues due to his living conditions as a bumpkin, always causing misunderstandings to the people around him, even after trying to make some sense that he'll actually never get it. All in all, more than a literate walking plot device, Noor's a superhuman with an inept EQ, for better or for worse. But things change when he Parries his way to saving a girl and her guards out of trouble, and that girl turned out to be a noble royalty figure: Princess Lynneburg of the Kingdom of Clays. What was supposed to be the young princess's coming-of-age trial turned out to a "Opposites attract" of a meeting where Noor literally parries a fearsome monster to defeat it, and being nobility, Lynne wants to thank her saviour, but Noor doesn't feel justified and vows to work harder. Eventually, by hook or by crook, Lynne manages to force Noor into her bidding to see her father the King to grant him a reward, and the unkempt-looking Black Blade sword that he once used during his days as an adventurer was given to him, regardless of if he likes it or not. And even then, Noor remains humble that it's just perchance that he's able to save Lynne's life, which she thinks that Noor is more than meets the eye, and the King allows her to venture her coming-of-age journey together with Noor. Let's not beat around the bush: Noor is quite the idiotic character who has little to no EQ at all, and there's a limit to how far you can actually push a trope such as this, though in Nabeshiki's case, he was quite excessive with the trope enough since it actually makes for content farming. And as much as I would hate that this becomes an annoyance in the wrong situations, it actually works for some subtle humour coming from the airheaded question mark of an insanely strong MC. Where Noor may not shine in the intellectual department, he definitely does in the physical aspect, being too OP-ly strong to the point that while he's completely unaware of the insanity of his Parry skill, he more than makes up for situations that call for it, with kingdom wars and the like, because, let's face it: Noor literally CAN Parry Everything with the acid-bloated Black Blade of a huge sword. As if Lynne is any better, where Noor thrives on being braindead since he comes from the prairies, her royal upbringing practically shields her out of the outside world, becoming just as airheaded as the former himself. And the "Opposites attract" theming goes hand-in-hand between both characters enough so much so that wherever they go, misunderstandings always occur without fail, some to pure annoyance, and others to pure hilarity, such as with Noor and the spearman Gilbert testing his skills to see if his Parry-ing does come through in ability, though the assumptions quickly take over that Gilbert thinks he has the ego over the weak Noor who thinks that he cannot defeat the spearman with his inept strength, labelling himself as a talentless and someone who's only good at doing NPC-like jobs, like using Black Blade to clean the dirty sewers. I tell you, either this guy has a brain full of retardedness, or a heart full of compassion enough that he just fights for the sake of matching people's expectations. But if there's a commonality, Noor's a walking enigma, misconceptions and all. The production values are decent, as one would come to expect from OLM with basically serviceable animation and hints of Sakuga from time to time. The music is easily forgettable, as well as Utahime Dream's OP and ED theme songs, nothing is notable. What Ore wa Subete wo "Parry" suru a.k.a I Parry Everything is, will solely come down to this one defining trait: Will Noor's Forrest Gump-level of intellectually disabled dense/dumb stupidity, parry the watch factor of the series? That's not for me to decide, since this is more or less about the same "Comedy is Subjective" level of audacity that's all to say about the show and its literal character-driven plot. Like the masses, I did get annoyed pretty quick on Noor's level of studpidity, but it's also the same reason why this series even works at all in the first place. It's a give-and-take exchange of the immaculate kind that you can't explain why, but you just subconsciously want more of it to see just how much the sky's the limit when it comes to his Parrying. I Parry Everything is not bad at all, but it's definitely an exercise in frustration, and if this is your kind of show, I'd say: Go for it, you have nothing to lose. You'll end up learning Parrying a lot better,

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