Reviews for The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids -A Tank with a Rare 9999 Resistance Skill Got Kicked from the Hero's Party-

TSTLR is not a bad anime. It's just painfully generic. It's still an entertaining watch. The premise is that in an MMO like world (complete with skills and stats) a guy who plays the role of a tank has an ultra powerful magical shield with 9999 defense In this world they raid labyrinths that appear and the goal is to defeat the boss who will grant you a wish upon defeating them The main character Rud has no personality whatsoever or charm. He does have a sister complex however and his wish is for his sister to feel better because she suffers from some ailment. Hispersonality is simply "i am a strong leader"

The other characters are a mage, two twin assassins (who are way too close with one another) a humonculous Loli, a samurai demon and a loli vampire whom join him

The anime has a LOT of fan service and is basically a harem anime.

It isn't bad but there's just nothing really of substance here. Everything is copied from another anime or done better elsewhere it feels like.

It really just all feels generic though and though

There's no dub available so you'll have to watch it via sub.

The animation is decent but also looks painfully generic.

Im not going to bash it and call it trash. It has some value of entertainment but it isn't a masterpiece or even remarkable.

I still recommend it because it's a good time waster and you can do worse.

Don't go in expecting something grand or unique. Go in expecting a guy with a giant magical shield to form a harem and raid labyrinths.

This is probably one of the weakest shows airing this season. It is not enjoyable to watch. It does not give any emotions (to me) other than annoyance. The story and the world could be interesting but as of episode 5, I have seen nothing good/interesting other than our MC’s sister has moving ahoge due to lore. This could have been better without the direct mention of RPG game elements. For example- skills and unique skills, HP number, Shield Number, Cooldowns etc. But it feels worse than RPG games because...well, it’s not a game but a story set in a fictional world where people aresupposed to live. Would you like to live in a world where your items never receive any physical damage despite having zero points shown in the U.I.?

The animation is basic and matches the quality of the show. In intense fighting scenes, there are a lot of close-up scenes to avoid showing the overall fight scene. Soundtracks are nothing notable. VAs did a good job despite sacrificing their voices for this bad show.

I cannot recommend this show as it’s boring and does nothing to stand out but does everything to make you waste your time. But if you have a lot of time like me, you may watch this show.

But I can recommend other shows airing this season that are better than this and are not seque-

Sasaki to Pii-chan, Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids - The stereotypical below-average generic fantasy with an objective, but not with a purpose. For every good fantasy work, be it underrated or overrated, there're more than 10 times as much average works as uninspiring authors can chunk it out of the oversaturated genre. And one such work is novelist Ryuuta Kijima's Saikyou Tank no Meikyuu Kouryaku: Tairyoku 9999 no Rare Skill-mochi Tank, Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou sareru a.k.a The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids: A Tank with a Rare 9999 Resistance Skill Got Kicked from the Hero's Party, part of the "Shin no Nakama a.k.a Banished from the Hero Party" sub-theme,but worse.

The story about a hero party's strongest tank character, this is Rud's way of burning through a smorgasbord of dungeon labyrinth raids, all in the pursuit of finding the cure that would help to alleviate his sister Manicia's illness. But just like Shin no Nakama's Red, he was ousted for his "rather unimpressive" tank abilities, all in the while that Rud himself isn't even aware of what he himself and his big-sized shield is capable of. That would come as a coincidence when he finds a girl of unknown origin escaping from a group of people, which he carried her to safety, only realizing that she has a rare Appraisal skill, proving that Rud indeed has his tank powers unimaginable, but at an insane defense level of 9999 HP along with skills that he learns from this girl: power capable to find that cure for himself as the unknowingly strongest tank ever. And yeah...that entire premise sounds just as tropey as the last Isekai/fantasy show you've just watched, that leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

To be fair, a lot of authors like Ryuuta Kijima who just want to profit from the "Japanese don't care if Isekai/fantasy is good or shit", they're free to do so on their own regard. But a workaround like this sure only laments the fact that these "up and coming" authors who think they have the capability to write a "decent" fantasy, it's not helping the people who has to take that job and say, turn it into an anime. Heck, giving this assignment to a new and unproven animation studio just shows the lack of attention that the Japanese will never learn from their mistakes.

Back to Saikyou Tank then, the one constant problem that stems from these generic and tropey works is the plot. The summary: it’s all so generic — there’s your typical cliches and half-assed reasonings for the plot to progress, but it’s all not delved into, making the story shallow. Remember that I mentioned that the show "had an objective, but not a purpose"? The show is supposed to fixate on Rud getting his dear sister (which he has a siscon fetish to) with the rare medicine that treats her, barring her from death, but they treat it like "Ah, my sister has a disease that she will die if not being treated, but even if I have the treasure, we need to think of what to do next and keep the plot alive". Like hello, people's lives, loved ones especially, are not things you can toy and be not serious about. Plus, it's your own sister...who is nonchalant about her own peril and wants to keep being clinically troubled yet alive for the sake of her wellbeing. This is just terrible writing, not just on the objective part, but of the purpose as well.

Even worse, as a show that focuses on the development and introspection of characters, they need to be fundamentally sound. Too bad like the horrible writing that this source material gets, all of them are pitifully generic and uninteresting — there are some “emotional” chapters within the story, but it was forced before any interest formed in the first place. Let's take the girl that Rud found in the first place: Luna, the white-haired escapee/refugee with a gem encrusted on her chest, she's a breed of illegal homunculi created for slave labour, not to mention of her "training" to be a combat slave. Rud taking her in is natural progression, but when he faces more of the Hero's Party (i.e. healer Nin and twin swordswomen Lily and Lilia) and others coming after him which seemingly are all girls in that regard, they all fall victim to the harem genre, being in love with Rud. Outside of that, they don’t have much of a personality besides for the classic waifu traits. Even with the other dungeon guardians which Rud subsequently earns their respect and works with them to improve Avancia, this is about the best that he can do: a spokesperson for the small town. Talk about generic in the most general sense.

If the show does not get even more basic enough, look no further than its mediocre production, put forward by a very new Studio Polon, who is the embodiment of additions to "new" studios like Maho Film and Staple Entertainment of falling victim to being chosen to produce fantasy shows that are just plain bad. More people getting into the AniManga industry DOES NOT equal quality, and this show just made a fine example of how the studio's future works will be soldered by its third-rate and substandard quality.

You think the show's generic-ness couldn't be that bad yet? Nope, there's worse, and the music here is just simply forgettable. Both of Ireisu's OP and ED songs are just white noise at best, which once again, extends the fact that this show is just nothing memorable at all.

The very simple TL;DR I can give you: Shin no Nakama still stands alone as the best representation of the "Banished from the Hero's Party" thematic, while this show does nothing to serve its plot, or heck, even perform the MacGuffin effect correctly. Do not watch this show unless you don't mind watching something that's a perfect representation of a worthless time-waster.

If ever an anime was the epitome of "mid" or "average", this would definitely be up there. I thought, at least within the first 2 episodes, that it could potentially be a hidden gem of this season and turn out to be something good. However, as each further episode releases, this anime gets more and more generic, going much more into typical fantasy harem-bait and tropes. I will also say, that as of episode 3-4, the animation quality has fallen off a cliff, almost as if the studio has run out of budget, or doesn't care anymore. For an anime with a lot of fighting, the fightscenes are becoming poorer and poorer in their animation; Lots of 2D still-type images with cut-aways and pans and just generally not good.

The whole over-arching plot of "I need to find this special McGuffin to heal my sister" has now turned into "I need X amount of these special McGuffins to heal my sister", with no real explanation as to why, outside of the fact that this anime would have concluded as of EP3-4. The magic "wishing stones" were supposed to grant any wish, but apparently, they now only grant a certain % of said wish?

Now, I will say that I like the premise of this anime and quite like the diverse array of character-types here, but the poor portrayal of the story and the worsening animation is not exactly keeping me in the mindset of "OMG a new EP is out, I must watch it!"; It's more now a "I was already watching this, I might as well finish it, despite not expecting anything from it".

Mixed Feelings and a 5/10 at best from me. It's just average, bordering on bad.

Decent guy fighting the good fight to keep his family, his friends and his hometown safe. Generic? Sure. Bad? Not this time. Stories about the apparent underdog who discovers and evolves his skills just to figure out he was the hero all along are, for sure, a dime a dozen. Saikyou Tank fits the template perfectly. To satisfy his ego "the Hero" kicks the MC, Rud, from his party. But since Rud was only in the party to farm for a cure for his sister's illness, he recovers quickly and moves on. Which is followed by a satisfying success story built on self-betterment and compassion. To keepthings spoiler-free here's what you'll get from Saikyou Tank: a JRPG backdrop of swordplay, monsters, magic, dungeons, horse-drawn carriages and rural towns surrounded by palisade walls. Several detailed and all in all entertaining boss fights. Relatable and not too complex character evolution and relationship building. A few cute characters and monsters. Quite some little sister and low key loli complex by MC. Growing respect and admiration for the MC mixed with some subservience and some romance from the (almost) all girls party. While, in my opinion, avoiding full-on simping harem territory. Overall a relaxed, easy to follow and satisfying story.

What you won't get: superhuman and decades long training routines to prepare for the next boss fight. Sugary romance or tearful tragedy. Constant yelling, screeching and temper tantrums. Force-inserted "comedy". In-your-face fanservice. Unless you count the, as usual, cutesy girls or Lilia and Lily's signature combat move. A 100% to the letter coverage of every rule in "the book" (of your choice). Genre defining story development, world building, art, animation or sound track.

Now, why would I recommend watching the show? Because it's entertaining and satisfying to see MC struggle and succeed. Because the show doesn't try, and fail, to be something it is not.

A Decent story, held down by generic adventurers and oversights. A few episodes are well-made, but there are also a lot of episodes that are boring and have obvious oversights. Sometimes watching cable news might be preferable to watching some of the episodes. These more mediocre episodes start at episode 6 and grow to be even more mediocre until episode 8. Of course there are decent scenes in these episodes, but that's it, there really isn't much outside of these fight scenes that drive the viewer to watch this anime. Thus, this causes people to drop it before coming to better managed episodes like episode 9.Episode 9 entirely kept itself interesting throughout most of the episode, only becoming more stale when there are long scenes with lots of chatting.

But then it gets even worse, after episode ten in feels like it's drawing the story out just to waste time. It's not fun if a few episodes are mediocre. But, when it gets to be boring, it gets worse than when it's mediocre and full of oversights, it actively makes you not want to watch the next episode.

(Small Tangent on this Anime's Oversights):

In episode 11 there are people who can raise stone barricades/defenses from the ground to protect their town, doing so they raise the stone barricades within the town's walls.... AND The wall is made out of wood..... do you see what I'm getting at? Why wouldn't they make stone walls to defend the town using these mages?

I know it is small, but when I noticed it, it bugged me. Makes you wonder if the writers or producers took the 20 seconds to think this through. I think it tells the overall quality of the whole anime from this scene. [Maybe I'm being too harsh?]

(End of Tangent)

This gets into another big complaint; The absolute amount of time taken up by conversations.

Ever hear of the phrase "Show, Don't Tell?", this is something this anime should've focused on, there's so much chatter about going into the dungeons, that the producers could've just shown a quick plan between the party and saved a lot of time each episode wasting time explaining the obvious.

Lastly, the ending is just bad. Has final fight has zero thought put into it, and the boss is incredibly forgettable, and some of the scenes feel cringy and quite generic.

Overall, this is kinda mediocre. So, this probably isn't worth watching over the good deal of other anime that have much better production and story, like Frieren.

But I wouldn't say that there are a lot of issues besides the oversights and boring scenes. This anime just isn't captivating (especially after the sixth episode).

🗿 5/10 It's Mid 🗿

It's a boring performance from an outcast Shield. It is said that MC has a shield strength of up to 9999, but when fighting against snakes MC are already overwhelmed, where does that strength lie? I think that when the MC is thrown out of the group, the MC will show his true strength and make the group regret leaving him. But apparently not! After discarding MC is still weak, 9999 resistance is just bullshit. Apart from that, MC turns out to be a Siscon, or an older brother who likes his younger sibling too much. Honestly, this is a bit disgusting considering that this anime is a fantasy andfighting anime.

But MC prefers to take care of his younger brother rather than fight.

The point is, this anime is not worth watching, even to fill your free time, it is very useless, it will just waste time.

It's painful. I feel so empty. every year or so, there will come out a show about shield/ armor user, and they will usually botch their sole hook. "yea he's a disdained shield hero who can only use a shield. But actually all the shields he gets are just flat disc shaped bazookas and laser emitters, see?" "that girl went all in with the defense stat because she doesn't want to feel painful when playing this VR game. But actually she will get a new ability every other episode that lets her use her full-stat defense as attack so she's basically invincible" I really hoped with this show. MC properlykept on using his shield and attracted aggro. Except he also discovers he has a skill that lets him reflect all the damage he's received back.

I'd love nothing more than to see a bloody, meaty anime where body slams and shield bludgeoning is king, laws of physics work the way they should and everybody feels the recoil of both given and received blows.

It's a fact though that it would take a scary amount of money to make it, and it's a big gamble if it would catch on and bring in profit for the studio.

So, this is what I subsist on. A harem-y anime with shouting friendship, nice guy protagonist, "kuh! our full power Anal Destroyer combined ancient sage magic didn't even make him flinch?!?" lines, and fight scenes where screen has to be at least 20% filled with shitty skill use lasers and lights because that's the cheapest way of animating heavy power.

It's not a bad show, I watched it until the end with no regrets. It's just not very interesting either.

Saikyou Tank, Simping Tank, It's Simply Terrible Chit chat, prattle, babble, tittle tattle, yakking, Oh boy! i haven't heard conversation so tedious, monotonous and insipid in a long time... I tried my hardest to finish this challenge, and thanks to God "episode 9" came along which gave me the strength to carry on until it's lackluster consummation. This ninth episode was a meagre glimpse of the type of show it could have been if it stuck to what it said in the title. All in all, Saikyou Tank is an uninspiring, unstimulating mishmash of sheer poppycock, which ends up completely disrespecting the general anime fantasy experience you'vegrown to love.

You know what? It could have been fine if he just sat in the dungeon for 12 episodes just tanking stuff but no, the writers/directors thought they were capable of writing decent non-combat character interaction, one look at it's current average score will show you how well that went.

I'll summarize the show's drawbacks.

- It's boring.

- Mc is insufferable

- Main cast is insufferable

- Side cast are literally NPCs

- They add mobile game gacha mechanics unironically.

- Dungeons are just barebones and boring.

- Too much explored in 12 episodes, but it's all surface level so nothing is memorable.

- His party is his harem.....

- The pacing is awful.

- Zero tension.

MC sucks, he's terrible, not believable, not tank enough, he charges into every situation headfirst with zero planning and ends up winning because of plot-armor and inventing new powers which break the rules.

I will split the show into two sections which summarize the experiences found within my observations.

The first section when he's inside a dungeon actually doing what the anime advertises.

The second section when he's not doing the stuff in the first section.

The first section is it's saving grace. 6/10 at it's best, and a 4/10 at it's worst.

Not only is the first section in short supply, it's full of asspulls, garbage choreography and having full blown conversations whilst your teammates are getting their ass kicked.

The dungeons themselves are an actual joke, both in their presentation, the mechanics behind them. We come then to the barely-sentient monsters inside them lead by these pathetic excuses for "dungeon keepers" just a comeplete letdown. Every dungeon raid is a speed run, he can't wait to get back to wasting our time.

Another thing is, I'm sick of you bastards complaining about CG this CG that. There was no CG for anything here and it absolutely sucked, all the non-dungeon keeper fights are forgettable, and poorly conceived. I love my CG however bad it is, at least we spend time fighting hordes of mobs instead of drowning in revoltingly bad dialogue borne from terrible writing.

Annoying stuff about this first section are:

- When his fragile allies randomly walk in front of his shield.

- When he starts a chat in the middle of heated fight.

- When he's tanking up a storm and his teammates are just watching.

- When his special move is an offensive move.

- MC Narrating his pain whilst he's completely fine and we know he will be.

- When the enemies are utter morons

The second section deserves maybe a 1/10 at it's worst. It consists of:

- When MC recites to you his motivations

- When the harem speaks.

- When the female main cast tries to show character beyond their surface.

- When he talks to his harem(clan/party).

- When he's dense for no reason.

- When the side cast "negotiates" with the MC like drone bots.

- When he's overly polite, and omnibenevolent because the writer can't manage depicting a realistic person.

- When he talks and liaises with side cast with the most cookie cutter boring uninspired dialogue.

Others have said, that this show lacks any depth, they introduce a concept and ideas and then drown you with pointless garbage so nothing ever gets fleshed out and you are frozen in mediocrity.

Final Ratings

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Animation 5/10

Sound 5/10

Story 2/10

Characters 2/10

Enjoyment 4/10

18/50 - 3.6 - 4/10 Avoid like the Plague.

Shows like this make me reminisce of brilliant Chinese 3D shows like "Fanren Xiu Xian Chuan" where the villains and monsters are absolutely terrifying, extremely intelligent and unforgiving. The tension is off the charts, the stakes are real and if you stop to chat you will be obliterated.

Unlike this show, with it's shameless direction where they managed to sneak in the obligatory hot spa scenes despite the main show being starved of substance.

If you're semi-addicted to fantasy experiences like these, trust me this one isn't worth it, I'm a heavy binger and at best i think i barely managed 2 episodes a day almost falling asleep at the end of the 2nd episode. To be honest this show did such wonders for my sleep, i was practically sleeping midday with the sun out. Might be a great alternative to sleeping pills.

Hope this helps.

they have some really nice characters and do a great job giving each and every one of them the attention they deserve, and will admit some story beats in this series are nice but in the end of the day it feels genric maybe it's cause this is the 3rd got kicked out of the heros party anime in a row that i seen, but outside of the first few epsiodes it became to predictable. did appreciate that the main character isn't the type to be op that he one-shots people and the need for genuint party formation and leadership but he stillop allways so strong with his damage conversion and his ridiculously high defense that he can clutch up fights and protect everyone don't know how to truely express my feelings but with his abllities gained after conquering his first dungion he is kind of to op for my liking that i just don't feel any tension oh no a strong threat that's threating to destroy something no worries cause he never loses.

but regardless for an anime im indifferent to They have really nailed characters and character development enough for me to watch it tell the end even if it wasn't my usual benge style and ended up taking days off.

It started off good, but I feel it quickly fell off. The anime is a classic MC get fired from party and then discover he have OP abilities. Which I feel for this one was quite captivating and interesting. But as I watched on the anime just felt very stale and boring. The later parts also felt very rushed. Especially the ending. A big turn off in this anime is the motion animations in fights. It has a lot of lazy animations, where they just show still images and then just shows the next sequence. Like they raise the sword and then suddenly the enemyhas been cut. Which actually isn't necessarily a problem, many anime does this. But I feel this anime does this a lot, like too much. Plus they do not execute this well, so it doesn't looks nice.

As for normal animations, no complaints. Like nothing spectactular, but also nothing bad that annoys you.

This is a fantasy anime I viewed from 22/3 – 23/3/25. It is about Rud, a defense-based (Tank) character who has a unique ability. Because of a miscommunication, he gets expelled from his previous team, and from there the real story starts. There are demon kings, dungeons, knight guards, adventurers, homunculi, and other creatures seen throughout the series. The central antagonist of this season is Greed, and by the conclusion, he is "defeated" but not depicted as being dead, leaving a very unsatisfying end. If he did die, then the writing was lazy and unoriginal. If he didn't, then the anime wasn't impactful enough. Overall, this isonly a once-watch anime. I would not recommend it to others, and I would give it 5 out of 10.

Endingnya terburu - buru. Sebenernya ga cuma endingnya, beberapa bagian juga di jelasinnya terkesan kurang lengkap dan karakterisasinya dari karakter selain mc jadi kurang bagus. Tapi gua kasih 7/10, sejauh ini masih bisa gua nikmati. Grafik dan art nya juga lumayan, cocok buat kalian yang mau nonton sambil santai. En: The ending part feels like it being rushed. Actually, not just the ending part, some part of the story also not incomplete and the characterization doesn't feel like they're alive. But I give this anime 7/10, so far I can still enjoy it. The Graphic and art is also not bad, I recommend this for you whowants a relaxation anime.

Enjoy your relaxing time !! 😶‍🌫️💤

This is a weird one. I see a lot of other reviews say this is painfully generic, I would disagree. A generic Fantasy would be more entertaining. First of all, I think what the show suffers from the most, is it's really awkward pacing. The producers couldn't seem to decide whether they wanted to introduce the whole world at once or try and stretch it out to fill more episodes. They end up cramming far too much into the last half of the season and jump around with no explanation, even introducing major key abilities as far as the last 2 episodes with little to noexplanation or expanding on.

In addition, while the characters aren't unlikeable they also don't stand out much. Half of them obsess over the protagonist, the other half don't and have slightly more character building but nothing that makes them more likeable from beginning to end. This show also seems to dance around wanting to have fanservice and wanting to stray away from it. One key ability in the show is a pair of twins who "fuse" by *usually* kissing intimately, and they pretend to just be "really close" while doing things that most would define as intimate activities done with a partner.

The story of the show and the major conflicts start off decent but fall apart quickly when they start rushing through things. After the first half of the show you can tell that there's not going to be any struggles with any of the characters. One example that comes to mind immediately is when the twins seem to have this internal struggle about dependency on each other, and it gets resolved in essentially a sentence with the protagonist for each of them.

In short, The Strongest Tank suffers from a muddy world that the producers couldn't decide whether to take their time in building a better world or to put out an entertaining, surface level, 1 season anime, and it results in a rushed mess of unexplained abilities and a protagonist with no skill building and an unexplained knack for mastering things he's seen once in little to no time with the insane tact to resolve any major internal struggle a character feels with one sentence.

Even though I read the manga, I will directly admit I do not like the Anime adaptation at all. I gave it a shot randomly since I didn't know there was a show...only to pull out at episode 5. There are several flaws with this show but there are 2 issues I want to focus on: The production in terms of art style and music is very generic. There's nothing unique or eye-catching about either, they are both very plain and forgettable. It's not possible to feel excitement or intensity of the sort when the design is not able to express it properly. Pair this with characters who seemto be reading or acting based on scripts...

I couldn't feel or see any unique personalities from any of the characters.

If I had to insert a personal comment, I did read the manga and in that case at least the story made sense.

It was more of a long-term story with gradual development yet the Anime just took chunks and skipped various parts.