The Executioner and Her Way of Life

The Executioner and Her Way of Life starts off with what seems like a pretty standard isekai premise. A 17 year old boy called Mitsuki is summoned into a weird new land filled with magic and all the usual isekai stuff.

Except… he gets chucked out of the castle pretty much straight away.

He is then approached by a priestess girl called Menou, who reveals that people from other worlds are actually pretty common here and are known as **"Lost Ones."**

Mitsuki quickly discovers that he doesn't necessarily have the massive advantage you'd expect from someone being transported to another world. He explains that a lot of the Lost Ones who came before him have already imparted knowledge from their own worlds, so the locals aren't exactly clueless when it comes to modern Japanese knowledge.

And then there's the slightly more brutal side of this world.

There are three social classes, and Mitsuki also discovers that he has a pretty ridiculous power that allows him to **nullify everything**. He demonstrates this power in the church, showing just how dangerous he could potentially be.

And then Menou straight up kills him.

Yep. That's one way to end the isekai power fantasy.

Menou is actually quite sad about having to do this because the Lost Ones themselves are innocent. The problem is that, according to her, the Lost Ones inevitably bring harm to the world because of the powers they possess.

It turns out Menou is an Executioner, and her job is to hunt down and kill people who have been summoned from another world.

Honestly, I really like the idea behind this.

Rather than following the usual isekai protagonist who gets transported to another world, becomes ridiculously overpowered and collects a harem along the way, **The Executioner and Her Way of Life** takes the perspective of someone who actually lives in this world and is sick of Japanese kids invading it and destroying everything with their magical powers and gifts.

The animation looks great, and the magic system and world building kept my interest enough that I wanted to crack on and watch the next episode. The Ether style magic system is particularly interesting, and there's clearly a lot more going on with the world that I want to find out about.

That said, while I think the story is reasonably interesting, I'm not completely gripped by the characters so far. Menou is an interesting enough protagonist, but after the first three episodes I wouldn't say I'm massively invested in her or Momo just yet.

On Anime Club, we watch the first three episodes of a series and decide whether we would recommend it or drop it. Personally, I think the animation is sound, the story seems reasonably interesting, and the world building is probably the thing that's keeping me around the most.

If you're a fan of the isekai genre, this definitely has a nice twist that avoids a lot of the classic harem tropes. The idea of looking at the genre from the perspective of the people who actually live in the world is really interesting, and the Ether style magic system gives it something of its own identity.

Would I recommend it after three episodes?

I'm not completely sold on the characters yet, but I'm interested enough to carry on watching purely to see what happens. I'm not necessarily invested in Menou/Momo just yet...

But... because of the worldbuilding ill stick around. I will put this on the palate cleanser series to stick on in between particular animes.

Finally, MVM Entertainment were actually kind enough to send us a sneak peek of The Executioner and Her Way of Life on Blu-ray, so I just want to say thanks again for doing so.