Discussion Even Given the Worthless "Appraiser" Class, I’m Actually the Strongest

Episodes: 12 | Source: Light Novel | Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Synopsis​

In a fantasy world where "jobs" are god-given from birth, heroes are born, not made—and Ein's job of "Appraiser" has put him about as far from the "hero" pedestal as possible. Used, abused, and eventually abandoned by his fellow adventurers, Ein decides it just isn't worth going on. Lucky for Ein, though, the end may just be the beginning, as well as a new lease on life. Turns out, his "worthless" job may just be the key to becoming a hero after all.

(Source: Kodansha USA, edited)

 

Episode 1 was good. Seemed to show Ein jumping to his death. A male party member Zoid was keeping a monster busy while the female party member Jolene was casting her spell, which took out the monster. They argued a little about who took it out, but ended up saying it was a joint effort.

Ein is treated like shit by them due to being a low common class, an appraiser. Hi job is to collect and appraise items in their party. The Goddess of Light gives people jobs at birth and The Goddess of Darkness grants skills. Those jobs are passed on through generations and can't ever change. There are three job classes: Rare classes, which are basically merchants and military strategists. The second tier (high common class) are swordsmen, mages, etc. Finally, the low common class are people like Ein who appraise items or peasants.

Children are forced to carry on their parent's trade. Due to Ein's parents dying early on, he couldn't take over the family business, so became an adventurer for hope. But parties seem to rarely w ant appraisers, so as bad as it is for him, he is almost lucky.

Zoid and Jolene force him to collect the teeth from the giant rat. They trash talk him a bit for wanting some help with opening the mouth, but he ends up doing it all himself. A little into the dungeon, they find the corpse of a hell hound. Ein is wary, but they force him to collect materials. They spot another corpse so continue deeper where they find even more. Ein is very on edge at this point, as these corpses shouldn't be there. Zoid and Jolene continue to belittle him.

In the end, Ein's worries were right. A group of hell hounds cornered them. They had killed the other hell hounds. To get away, Zoid had Jolene use a paralysis spell on Ein to use him as bait. Zoid and Jolene ran away, leaving him for dead. Ein managed to break free after attacking the hell hounds wildly, and after his pack dropped some stuff. Unfortunately, Zoid and Jolene blocked the exit by bringing rocks down to seal him inside. This led Zoid to the edge in the decayed building, so with nothing left but death, Ein jumped.

Ein survived the fall thanks to an Elf looking woman, but seemingly he couldn't see her. Turns out that was a World Tree, and he thanked it. Ein went into the dungeon to try and get out, only to be brutally attacked by an S rank monster, a Gremlin. This cut his ear off and some fingers. Right when it was about to kill him, it in turn was killed. A n S rank monster a Death Bear killed it, before attacking him. It sliced his eye to bits, and mauled him. Right as it was about to kill him, it was killed. After this, Ein awake with injuries healed but a different looking eye, and finally met what seems to be an elf lady.

 

Episode 2 was good. So the elf looking woman isn't an elf, but is the spirit of the World Tree. There's also a total of 9 World Trees, and the guardian of it Ursula is the one who saved Ein. She didn't want to, but Yuri the World Tree spirit wouldn't stop crying about it. They even gave him a prosthetic spirit eye, along with healing his injuries. Again, this was thanks to Yuri. Yuri treats Ursula like her mother, giving them an interesting dynamic. It also makes Ursula really protective, and she lashes out at Ein.

With teleportation magic not working, and Ursula unable to go far from Yuri, Ursula finally relents and agrees to train Ein so he can get back to the surface. The training has Ursula pushing Ein beyond his limits, using his appraisal skill to strengthen himself. Appraisal can appraise the monsters attacks, basically reading its attacks. He can also use Super Appraise to slow the target's movements down to an extreme degree, allowing him to counter attack with much greater strength. Eventually, Ein even killed a Gremlin with a wooden sword gifted to him by Yuri. He even took out a whole group of Gremlin.

Ursula put Ein through the ringer training his body to get it far past its limits thanks to continuously tearing and healing his muscles. He even used his appraisal skill to learn her skill allowing the learning and use of any magic by thinking about it, along with her fireball spell. After all of this training, he was able to also take out the Death Bear.

 

Episode 3 was good. Finally, it was time for Ein to get out of the Dungeon. As part of that, Ursula upgraded his eye with the spirit core, which put Yuri in it, so she can travel with him. Wherever Yuri goes, Ursula can too, so she can also travel with them. To get out of the dungeon, Ein had to defeat the boss. Ursula gave him permission to use the ultimate spell she taught him, which one-shot the boss! Once the boss was defeated, he got the labyrinth core from the dungeon, which allowed Ursula to upgrade his eye to level 2.

On the flip side, Zoid was playing it up like Ein was a hero who sacrificed himself so that Jolene and himself could get away. Things were pretty quickly blown open when Ein showed up. The reveal of the truth caused the other adventurers to start beating up Zoid and verbally harassing him, but Ein stopped them being thankful for meeting Yuri and Ursula.

The group left to find more World Trees and get more Labyrinth Cores to keep upgrading Ein's eye to level 3. They managed to get one mroe so far, although we didn't see specifics. When they were looking for the next World Tree, they heard about a carriage being attacked by monsters. Ein stepped in and took out the monsters while Yuri healed them. Turns out he rescued the third princess, Claudia who sees him as her hero and wants to marry him. Yuri even said she was Ein's wife to try and dissuade her, but Claudia just said she'd be the second one.

Jasper who was guarding Claudia even asked to marry Ein lmao. He's been looking for the World Trees, so was fortunate to find Ein. They'll work together as friends for now. Seems like Jasper has clues on a World Tree.

 

Episode 4 was good. The group finally made it to the next dungeon which Yuri's little sister Pina is in. To enter the dungeon, it required touching a wall which teleported them in. There also wasn't real danger, as if they were in real danger, they'd get teleported back out. The dungeon was pretty much a cake walk for Ein.

It switch to Zoid for a bit. Jolene betrayed him too, by making it out that Zoid forced her to paralyse Ein, so all of the blame is on him. The guid kicked him to the curb and he wants to win back their favour by clearing a higher lever quest alone. He is also blaming Ein. Coincidentally, Zoid ended up in the same dungeon, and tried his best to get through it but kept getting teleported back out. Zoid came across some dragon or giant lizard looking monster, and Ein ended up saving him. It made him mad. Ein had Yuri heal him, before he knocked him out and had him teleported out.

Ein took on the boss which was a giant tortoise. But, turns out it was an illusion and actually small. With Pina giving up, Ein was successful in clearing the dungeon. Pina requested to go with him. It also turned out the tortoise was actually Kurohime who is basically like Ursula is for Yuri, but for Pina, and she'll go with them too. With this, Ein's eye got upgraded again.

 

Episode 5 was good. Jasper took Ein to sell all of the loot he gathered from the dungeons to a guild. He went there too, so they didn't think the items were fake. When Ein showed his guild licence with his F rank and appraiser class, he was mocked. They immediately thought he was trying to con Jasper. When he brought out the items, they were even more distrustful, thinking he stole it or they were fake. They were all immediately shot down and lectured by the guild master, Meegan. She immediately saw Ein's full potential it seems. She's also interested in him and gave him an invitation to the guild. He basically bolted after this, due to being overwhelmed by the people.

Meegan gave him a task, to investigate and take down the Behemoth. An ancient dragon spawned by the demon lord, that had been in hiding. It's now attacking merchants in the area. The Behemoth is a double S rank creature. Venturing out into the area where it is, it hides in the sand. It's a massive serpentine dragon creature with multiple eyes on its head that is extremely powerful. Ein cut off a limb before it fled underground to surprise attack him. This was perfect, as Ein cast an illusion spell, intentionally entered the inside and set off his most powerful spell, basically exploding it from the inside.

After this, Ein met back up with the princess Claudia. She even introduced him to her father, the King who is quite an imposing man. But he is very kind and thankful to Ein. Not at all bothered that Claudia wants to marry him and even calls Ein his son in law. The King also gifted him a watch with the royal crest engraved on it, allowing him to freely go anywhere.

Meanwhile, Zoid is despairing over Ein, before a spirit revealed itself to him. She's Echidna, who looks like a very busty dark elf. Strange she'd pair up with Zoid.

 

Episode 6 was good. Yuri and Pina went into town to get food to make breakfast for Ein as he passed out and has been deeply sleeping due to over exertion. In his sleep, Ein was having some nightmare due to his own insecurities with his power and how he achieved it, thinking he should have been dead.

The spirit Echidna gifted Zoid with a spirit eye to "get revenge" on Ein. This turned him into some chimera monster thing. He tore the head off both Jolene and her boyfriend before attacking Yuri and Pina. Ein arrived right in time alongside Ursula and Kurohime. Ursula and Kurohime tended to Yuri and PIna while Ein confronted the monster, before finally realising it was Zoid. He was still torn over what happened, but eventually Ein accepted his abilities becoming a guardian after Yuri defended him and spoke about how he is as a person. With this, he can finally use his full power.

Ein was able to return Zoid to normal after purifying him, and Zoid accepted his hand to change. Echidna was just after studying Ein's combat abilities. Seems she is planning to revive the demon lord.

 

Episode 7 was good. To solidify Ein's guardian role, he had to kiss Yuri. He tripped and it ended up being on the forehead.

Echidna visited Baron Falco and told him the demon lord ordered him to take out Ein. Initially Falco declined, but she easily goaded him into it. He arrived quickly in the middle of the night, only for Ein to take him out without much effort.

Ein requested Louise to allow him to look at the forbidden library, so he could research books mentioning hidden dungeons. To enter, someone needs permission both from the king and the librarian. Ein was allowed to enter, but none of the spirits could. Ein met and caught the librarian Alice when she fell. Turns out she's another spirit but seems a it fragile. She's also hesitant to go outside. Her mother/guardian is Akahane.

Ein eventually got Alice to agree to go with him.

 

Episode 8 was good. Ein got a personal request from the King via the guild. Ein is to investigate and deal with every demon causing havoc in the Rayshik Domain.

The villagers have some sacrificial agreement with a hydra. They let it devour a girl and in return it won't attack the village, and even wards off other monsters. Mia is the little girl being sacrificed this time, it sounds like her mother was already sacrificed. The father pretences it as them going to meet the mother. It seems the girl knew all along, and agreed to "go to heaven" with the hydra. In the end, the man begged for it to eat him as he didn't want his daughter to die too. The hydra was angered so poisoned all of the people, then started to attack. Ein entered at this time and killed it while also healing all of the poisoned people. The people were thankful, but their tuned changed when he requested to meet the lord of that domain. They all quickly rushed off home.

Ein met the lord named Nigun who was originally fairly nice to Ein. When Ein mentioned killing the Hydra he was angry and asked him to leave because of the deal he struck to sacrifice females to keep the village safe. Without the hydra monsters will attack the village. It seems that Nigun is being controlled/mislead by a demon Viscount Shadow who plans to take over his body.

When leaving, Ein saw the awful state of the village. Half destroyed, with no real guards. Not to mention, monsters went through after the hydra was killed, so their crops were trampled. Ein recrew crops, which has given some hope back. An army of monsters is approaching the village now though, and Ein plans to stop them.

 

Episode 9 was good. Ein took out all of the monsters, although he ended up going unconscious due to the way he used his abilities beyond his limits. He saved all of the villagers at least.

The villagers announced they were done following Nigun, at which point Nigun arrived. Nigun tried to say that Ein was the demon, but at this point, the villagers didn't care, even if he was, because it was still better than the current rule. At this point, Nigun was begging for help from shadow, and it seems like he'll be taken over.

Shadow detailed how he was the demon, not Ein. He had been using Nigun all along. He had Nigun kill his own father by tricking him into poisoning him by thinking the poison was a cure. Seems kind of retarded though, while the villagers loved Nigun's father, he wasn't treated the best by kids, and they even gossiped about him not being the real son.

 

Episode 10 was alright. The demon Shadow the Enticer knew that Ein didn't want to kill Nigun, so used it to his advantage trying to take Ein out quickly. Ein tanked the blows, but can't keep it up forever. After calling out for Nigun, he took back a bit of control of his body, and stabbed himself to try and kill himself and take the demon with him. Shadow fled trying to get away, but Ein threw his sword, pinning him. Ein was exhausted at this point and begged Yuri to heal Nigun.

The villagers appeared after deciding to want to help out. It was made clear to Nigun that sacrificing his life (killing himself) was the easy way out and they wanted him to atone by helping them. Nigun relented after being healed. The demon almost got away, but it was contained. When they tried questioning it for answers, specifically who gave the orders to attack Ein, it died.

In the end, Nigun gave up his position to Ein, so he could protect the region and rule it. This allowed the king and princess to get closer to Ein without any political issues due to him becoming a lord and also slaying a demon.