Yusibu: I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job
| Category: | TV Series |
| Adult: | No |
| Native: | 勇者になれなかった俺はしぶしぶ就職を決意しました. |
| Romaji: | Yuusha ni Narenakatta Ore wa Shibushibu Shuushoku o Ketsui Shimashita. |
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| Runtime: | 25 minutes |
| Aired: | Oct 5, 2013 [11 years 3 months ago] |
| Ended: | Dec 21, 2013 [11 years 1 month ago] |
| Language: | Japanese |
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| Links: | ANIDB |
On the day before his Hero Exam, the Demon King was defeated, so now that Raul cannot become a Hero, he settles down to work at Magic Shop Leon, a small consumer electronics store in the Royal Capital. After leaving his heroics behind and becoming a store clerk, Raul has been busy every day. However, his daily life takes an unexpected turn when he meets a young girl seeking a part-time job. Her name is Fino, and she is the daughter of the defeated Demon King.
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Episode 1: I Couldn't Be a Hero, so I'm Working the Register
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2013-10-05
Raul Chaser was working towards becoming a Hero to defeat the Demon Lord, but just as his training was coming to an end the Demon Lord was unexpectedly defeated and the programme to train heroes was cancelled. With his original purpose gone he reluctantly has to find a job, and winds up working as a clerk in the Royal Capital store, which sells appliances and consumer goods. One day, Fino Bloodstone comes into the store looking for a job, and he sees from her résumé that she is actually the child of the Demon Lord, though he doesn't at first realise that she's even a girl. He has to teach her a lot of things about the human world in addition to her duties at the store, and is exasperated at her naivete and ignorance.
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Episode 2: The Demon Lord's Daughter Is Going to Learn How to Speak to Customers
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2013-10-12
Raul continues to teach Fino how to speak to the store's customers properly, giving her a set of eight basic phrases to memorise. On his way to lunch he meets Airi Oltined who was his friend during his days training to be a hero, and she chides him for seemingly abandoned his goal. Meanwhile, a masked man armed with an axe has come to the store, intending to rob it, but Fino treats him like a customer, not realising his intentions, which distracts him. When Raul returns, together they manage to subdue the robber, and are praised by Sarah for their efforts.
That evening, Raul joins some of his old friends from the hero training program and finds that they still haven't abandoned their dream of becoming heroes, making Raul reluctant to admit to them that he got a job. When he returns to the shop he finds Fino asleep, and from her notebook sees that she has been practising the phrases he told her to memorise. She wakes up and asks him to test her, and she manages to successfully say them all.
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Episode 3: We Should Be Careful When Handling Weird Products Sent to Us by Corporate.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2013-10-19
Raul is exasperated that Fino has suddenly moved into the apartment next to his at Sarah's recommendation, but he has to agree that it is a good idea. When a customer comes by to have a fan fixed, they see Lore Berefiral, who works doing deliveries and in-home maintenance in her rare visits to the store. Meanwhile, Sarah and Visor are called to corporate headquarters and told that although their store has the highest customer satisfaction rating however they also have the lowest sales, so they are to double their inventory, stock generic products, and conduct a major sale.
Later, Airi visits the store, and Raul's look on his face when he sees her makes Fino think that she's a complainer, and Fino lets slip details that give away her demonic heritage as he tries to restrain her. Just then one of the generic products that Corporate HQ has ordered them to stock arrives at the store, an air purifier that seems to be of rather dubious quality. Elsa also comes by to visit as it is the end of her shift at the convenience store, and they decide to try to test it as the store has no other customers besides Airi. The air purifier malfunctions spectacularly, the magic gone awry producing Witch's Arms that entangle Elsa, Nova, Lore, Fino, and Airi as their attempts to shut it down are frustrated as there are too many arms. Raul finds his old magical sword and uses it to cut Fino free, and together they manage to finally turn off the defective device.
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Episode 4: The Daughter of the Demon Lord Will Be Working at the Convenience Store.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2013-10-26
Elsa comes by Leon and asks for help as her convenience store is short-handed for the day, and Sarah gives permission for Fino to work for them temporarily, despite Raul's misgivings. Fino begins training to work at the convenience store and Ram shows her a trick for how to use the store's magical appliances without the disaster that usually entails when she tries to use any such devices. Fino mixes all sorts of strange ingredients into the store's oden, and this unexpectedly comes up to be delicious, but they can't sell it since it's not the store's standard recipe. They later offer this to everyone after their work is done.
Meanwhile, back at Leon, Raul starts to notice Nova in spite of himself, and since there are so few customers in the store that leads to some awkwardness. This is made even more awkward when the dirty old man who always comes by to touch Nova's behind comes by, and after he has bought his light bulb Nova says that Raul can touch her behind too if he wants, although Visor warns him that sexual harassment will not be tolerated.
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Episode 5: I Couldn't Be a Hero so I Snuck into a Rival Store with the Daughter of the Demon King.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2013-11-02
Visor is shocked that there seem to be no customers, and while at first it seems that it's because of the poisonous pond Fino put in front of the store, after they fill it in they realise that it is actually because Amada Magic, the largest chain of big box stores of magic items in the country, has just set up a branch nearby. Fino and Raul investigate the new store, and find to their dismay that it has a much a wider selection of goods and lower prices, so much so that Leon cannot profitably match them. They suddenly run into Airi who seems to be working there.
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Episode 6: She Couldn't Become a Hero, so She Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job, Too.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2013-11-09
Raul and Fino find that Airi has begun working at Amada. She is resentful at being forced to have to take such work, unable to find the same kind of pride in her work that Raul and Fino have. There is a misunderstanding as Fino declares, according to their cover story, that she is Raul's girlfriend. They meet the branch manager and one of the store clerks, who already know who they are, and gloat at how they will eventually destroy Leon, which angers Fino and Raul, who declares that they are not to be underestimated.
Meanwhile, Sarah and Visor visit the manufacturer of a manufacturer of magical appliances attempting to get a deal enabling Leon to distribute their products. They see that they are able to get their costs so low by using monsters as slave labour, which is troubling from an ethical standpoint. They are then informed that Amada has just bought their company so they cannot agree to a distribution deal, and they were allowed to visit so that they would understand what they were up against.
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Episode 7: The Demon Lord's Daughter Visits a House
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2013-11-16
Fino and Raul have managed to sell an air conditioning unit to an old lady who was overwhelmed by the technical jargon and overly large selection at Amada, only to find that her son-in-law has at the same time purchased a different air conditioner from Amada himself, so they are now double booked. Raul decides to concede the sale to Amada as that is what the customer seems to want, but as they are about to leave the son-in-law stops them as now they are having trouble as their appliances have stopped working. The tech from Amada examines the place, and determines that they might have faulty wiring, which will be very expensive to repair. Further examination by Lore however uncovers a massive infestation of magic eaters, slime-like pests that consume household magical energy. They use Fino's immense magical power inherited from her father to draw out the magic eaters, and manage to eliminate the infestation. Their efforts convince the son-in-law to take Leon's air conditioner instead of Amada's, despite the penalties that will be charged.
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Episode 8: The Demon Lord's Daughter Is Tending to Customers in a Swimsuit
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2013-11-23
The city has been struck by a heat wave, and the air conditioning at Leon has failed, and Raul and Fino arrive at the store to find that Nova has collapsed from heat exhaustion. They try to help her, and Raul is found in a compromising situation as Sarah and Visor arrive.
While Lore attempts to repair the air conditioning the store conducts a summer sale with the staff dressed in swimsuits. This becomes wildly successful, and after their work shifts Elsa, Ram, and even Airi are encouraged to participate.
As the day ends the son-in-law to whom they had sold an air conditioning unit comes by and tells Raul how he is a journalist for an important business newspaper and that he has written an article praising the excellent service that he received from them the other day. Amada's upper management has also seen the article and calls in the manager of the capital shop near Leon and admonishes him for failing to destroy them.
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Episode 9: How the Demon Lord's Daughter Spent Her First Paycheck
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2013-11-30
Sarah announces that Leon's sales have not fallen despite the opening of the Amada store nearby, as their salaries are paid. This is Fino's first salary and Raul says that she should buy something memorable with it. She convinces him to come with her as she goes shopping, and she winds up buying a lot of strange things and spends all her money before he realises it. She gives him a small charm with the hair of a hero who nearly defeated the demon lord as a gift.
As they are heading home and Raul goes off to buy some drinks at a vending machine, he hears Fino being attacked, but her assailants run off as he runs toward them. She tells him that they told her to become the demon lord, and change the world back into one that needs heroes.
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Episode 10: I Wanted to Be a Hero, but She Didn't Want to Be the Demon Lord.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2013-12-07
It is a typical day at work at Leon, and despite what happened before she is upbeat and buys even more strange things for helping attract customers by mail order, not realising that she'll eventually have to pay for them. She tells Raul what her father was like, how he tormented not just humans but weaker demons like her mother, and which is why she never wanted to become the demon lord herself. She would rather become a Leon branch manager like Sarah, of the first branch in the Demon World.
During lunch break Raul joins his old friends from the hero training program Ciel and Blaze, and they tell him that the hero system will soon be restored as there will once again be a new demon lord. They were evidently the same ones who attacked Fino the other day. They depart on unsettling terms with Raul warning them not to lay a hand on her.
Meanwhile, while Fino is having her lunch at the convenience store, she sees a customer who wanted to buy a refrigerator whose complete details she was unable to get. She chases after him and gets him to fill out the missing details in his order form, but afterwards she is abducted. Raul returns from his lunch break to find that Fino has not returned, and while searching for her finds the order form, and realises that she has been abducted.
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Episode 11: I Couldn't Become a Hero, but now I'm Going to Rescue the Demon Lord's Daughter
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2013-12-14
Fino has been brought to the former hero academy by a demon named Raid who is working with like-minded demons and former hero candidates like Ciel and Blaze who want to see her become the new demon lord. They have recovered the Bloodstone, which was the sign of the demon lord and was used by her father to subjugate lesser demons.
Meanwhile, Ciel has gone to the Leon store with a two-headed dragon and attempts to destroy it, only to be confronted by Sarah, who turns out to be ridiculously powerful, capable of turning any magic item into a powerful weapon: she was the one who managed to defeat the old demon lord.
At the same time, Raul has realised where they brought Fino, and he has a confrontation with Blaze, whom he quickly defeats. He finds Fino at one of the demon's gate mock-ups they used for practice, chained to a pillar, but is attacked by Airi before he can free Fino. Airi has a hatred for all demons as they had killed her family, and she and Raul have a bitter battle. Fino, unable to watch her friends fight that way decides to accept the Bloodstone's power and begins her transformation into the demon lord. She flies into the volcano where the gate to the demon world is.
Raul has by then managed to defeat Airi and convince her that what she is doing is wrong, and as they are about to chase after Fino, Raid tries to stop them, but just then Sarah, Visor, Nova, Lore, Elsa, Ram, and the old man Hiramatsu arrive, and Sarah fights Raid, allowing Raul, Airi, Lore, and Ram to leave on the old man's carriage.
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Episode 12: I Couldn't Become a Hero, so I Decided to Get a Job.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2013-12-21
The volcano begins to erupt as Fino attempts to open the gate to the demon world and complete her transformation, and Raul and his party have to fly through a deadly rain of volcanic debris to get to her. They are attacked by harpies and other monsters as they approach. Lore is injured as their carriage is damaged, she remains behind to try to repair it with the old man as Raul, Airi, and Ram attempt to continue the rest of the way on foot. They find a cavern that leads inside the volcano and are attacked by hordes of monsters. Ram and Airi make Raul to go on ahead to face Fino as they hold back these monsters.
Raul has a battle with Fino as he attempts to get her to return to the way she used to be, even as the gate to the demon world begins to open and her transformation is nearly complete. He manages to reach her by reminding her of the eight basic phrases he taught her when she was learning how to speak to customers, and of the order she worked so hard to fulfil just before she was abducted. This lets Fino break free from the Bloodstone's power and return to her normal state.
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