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The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat is a show that is from the same author as Redo of Healer, and yes, the influences from that dumpster fire are seeping into this show as well.

The only positives worth mentioning are the sound and animation, which are pretty decent, with a couple of nice shots, but that's it. The characters and story are plagued with issues which prevent this show from being a good action show about the world of assassins. 

First off, the girls that the MC picks up eventually form a harem, where each of them are of varying ages and are all obsessed over him. One is his adoptive sister, one is his personal servant and the other his former teacher (you see the problem here?) Not only are they bland and boring, but they are so overly sexualised with weird naked training sessions and having a complusive urge to sleep with the MC. 

Speaking of the MC, he had the potential to be an interesting character, but that vanishes after the first episode where any cool scenes with him in his previous life are overshadowed by a by-the-numbers backstory once he is reincarnated. After episode 1, he becomes a monotonous, blank slate of a character and is so devoid of any emotion that scenes with him just become emotionless as a result.

The story is fairly standard - a man is reincarnated by a goddess, given a task that he has to accomplish, and is raised by a loving family that set him on his path to succeed. It's a formula we've seen a thousand times before, and so many story beats in the 7 episodes so far only serve to either recruit a girl to the harem, have a training scene (naked or otherwise) or progress the story ever so slightly.

This show had the potential to be one of the best this season, but is instead caught up in unnecessary fanservice, a by-the-numbers plot and an MC with the personality of a block of cheese. I really hope this doesn't get a sequel.