I didn't like that episode too much

It introduced so many characters, yet I'm completely uninterested in them.

The Demonlord dude, okay - he's fine. That's at least a goal and something that keeps the plot rolling forward.


But all of a sudden there are plenty of "otherworld"-kids, then there is the mysterious hero but not only that, there is also the girl that is traveling with the hero who was not mentioned or shown until Shizu was dreaming about her. Then there is this guild-grandmaster kid-orphan, that seems to have a really important position and she was like "oh, I know that dude btw".

I don't know how I feel about mentioning so many characters on the side. It's almost as if they felt the need to put at least some amount of story development/world building into it and if they did I wonder why they even went through the trouble of dedicating a whole episode to her dying and talking.

It almost felt like a preview of characters to come.