Eminence in the Shadow.Where The Joke Turned Real.

I recently, I watched this anime titled The Eminence in Shadow and honestly, the way the story carried me....I was seriously just shaking my head and laughing at the same time.

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The main character, Cid Kagenou, is not your normal kind of anime character that wants to save the world or be the best fighter, No...., this one has his own special madness, Cid doesn’t want to be a hero, or even a villain.

His goal is to be a shadow you know those mysterious, untouchable characters working behind the scenes pulling the strings? That’s exactly who he wants to be.

From the beginning, even when he was still in the real world (before the reincarnation part), this guy was already doing serious training , like hitting himself with iron bars to build resistance. Who does that?

Then like that, something happened and he died.....But guess what? He got reincarnated into another world, this time, one filled with magic and sword fights. And just like that, his dream of being the ultimate “eminence in shadow” starts becoming real.

He forms a secret group called Shadow Garden with these girls he saved (but to him, he was just role-playing). He tells them there’s this evil cult called the Cult of Diablos, and they must destroy it. Funny part? He made the whole story up from his head like freestyle ,only to later discover that the cult is actually real!

That’s where the madness starts, he is out here acting like he is in some drama skit, meanwhile real enemies are fighting him left and right, and people in his organization actually believe in the mission more than he does.

The anime is packed with so much action, serious sword fights, dark twists, and plenty of funny moments , especially the way Cid just does the most outrageous things and still comes out clean. .

One minute he is pretending to be a weak schoolboy, next minute he is destroying powerful enemies and walking away like nothing happened.

Not gonna lie, the whole setup is something I really didn’t expect. It is not your regular “hero saves the world” anime. It's more like “I’m just doing my thing, but somehow I am the strongest and everyone thinks I planned it.”

If you do like anime with a lot of dark fantasy vibes, action, comedy, and characters with too much main character energy, this is for definitely a must watch for you.

Images are Screenshots from Imdb

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