Summary
Livia in A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics has a difficult life under a bridge, unlike the devil in The Devil Is a Part-Timer! Inverted isekai characters like Livia lose their magic and face difficult challenges, unlike regular isekai heroes who gain powers. A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics focuses more on Sara's adventures, but touches on the harsh realities that reverse isekai protagonists face.
Warning: Spoilers for A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics episode 2 A good part of the new inverted isekai called An eccentric salad bowl is exploring one of the reasons why it is more difficult for someone from a fantasy world to survive in the modern world than vice versa. The Devil Is a Part-Timer fans! will definitely appreciate A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics for this reason.
The only character to follow in the footsteps of the eponymous villain-turned-hero in The Devil Is a Part-Timer! is Livia Do Udis, a female knight of the main character, Princess Sara Da Odin. Sara fares much better than her female knight as she almost falls into the arms of a private detective named Sosuke Kaburaya, with whom she soon lives and helps solve cases.
Livia is not so lucky because her main human contact in this new world is a mysterious man posing as a homeless person, so She spends most of her time living under a bridge. This shows that characters in reverse isekai series are in much worse shape than characters in “regular” Isekai.
A bowl of wacky salad that really puts the devil to work part-time! Looks easy
Based on the light novel series by writer Yomi Hirasaka and illustrator Kantoku
Characters from the usual reverse isekai series lost his magic and had to live off the land of the new world. Meanwhile, isekai heroes often have immeasurable power and are sometimes guided in the right direction, especially if they are specifically summoned by the citizens of that world to save them from some enemy or if a The god chooses them to live a new life. Even if the hero is rejected by the summoner, they still have their power.
Although a straight comedy somehow makes desperate situations seem light, An eccentric bowl of salad really gives Livia a hard time. She's actually worse than the main character in The Devil Is a Part-Timer! At least, the devil lives in an apartment. His biggest problem is that he has to budget his expenses as he struggles to pay his bills. He also has a personal henchman named Hiro Ashiya to share his misfortunes with.
Meanwhile, Livia not only lives under a bridge and has no interest in arguing with someone in her own world, but then unwittingly agrees to do a shady job that the police raid on her first day. Furthermore, even when Livia randomly finds Sara and works with her as a private investigator in episode 2, Livia is so bad at her detective work that she soon becomes homeless. Livia's bridge friend also won't be there to welcome her.
The problem for those who enjoyed Livia's story the most is that A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics doesn't focus on her journey. Much of the anime revolves around Sara as she becomes obsessed with Detective Conan and uses what she learned from the manga to help Sosuke in random cases. At least, episode 2 focuses more on Livia's problems than the first episode, which probably gives her five minutes of face time at most.
Even if An eccentric salad bowl wouldn't be able to devote an entire story to Livia's unique experiences, this new series at least partially explores harsher realities reverse isekai The main character must struggle.
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