This anime: *No matter your calibre of magic, there's always a rifle calibre above you.*

The only respectable isekai protagonist, Itami Yuuji.

As a NSFW artist, I'm surprised by how many military operators are just like Itami Getting followed or commissioned by dudes in active military service is always so funny to me, mad respect to those guys

Ya know, Itami makes a perfect SF soldier. He looks inconspicuous, the last guy you expect to be hold valuable information, therefore, the most effective. Hollywood has people thinking SF has to be super macho and handsome. But people forget that the best infiltrators are the ones that can pull up a chair without raising your warning flags.

Tbh we all have a friend who just somehow gets into the best places without even trying

Funny thing is that the only reason he got those ranks is because nobody can catch him, dude is a literal master of running away

The fact that he's so relaxed and a slacker, in my opinion, highlights his qualities even more. If being a Ranger means he went through hellish training in the military and yet he's still an otaku pervert, that means his mind is made of fucking titanium and nothing can traumatize him. I would want a guy like him by my side if apocalypse happens.

This dude was forced to do all those thing and survived just to do his hobbies.

I just believe that Kuribayashi isn't breaking down over the fact that Itami got into any of those prestigious ranks, but for the fact that a guy like him, most likely the type she hates the most is able to achieve such feats before her or she ever will.

Itami was actually thrown in ranger school on purpose because his superiors hated him and somehow Itami survived it.

His S qualification is more badass when you understand what SERE training entails (his most noticeable expertice that contributed most to Itami's S qual, aside from passing other basic requirements). I've never been in the military but watched a lot of youtube vids so take this with heaps of salt tho. You're actually not supposed to escape in SERE. If you go out of the training area, the instructors will get serious and smoke you afterwards. You're supposed to survive as long as possible inside the training area, and get captured. You are meant to experience the torture that comes afterwards too, to learn the stress and mental toll of the whole ordeal. Meanwhile, Itami was stated to hide long enough that the instructors gave up the search. He is so OP that he broke the training program lol

His senior ranger said himself that No one can catch him if he on the run. That mean he got 10/10 on Rescue, Escape, and guerilla

Actually, he is the perfect example of a Ranger and Special Forces: They are, after all, infiltration personnel and trained to blend in inconspicuously. Just your average joe. Their training, however, their ability to act bad-ass when it counts is what sets them apart from everybody else. I lived next to a guy for 12 years as a kid, never imagined he was in the special forces. But he was.

The thing is, if you look at Itami's track record so far, it's not all that surprising. When the gate opened, he responded without hesitation and showed great CQC skills even in odd situations. He has great situational awareness and a keen response to action, leading him to kill dragons. He acts aloof and relaxed to raise morale and make friends, but when shit hits the fan, he focuses up real quick. He may not have the best skills out there, but he's a good fit for what he's earned. I can't remember if it was his ranger certification or his S certification, but I remember reading somewhere that a group of (I think) special forces members were sent out to find him and they couldn't find him for a week. He ended up coming out on his own and no one knew where he was despite their best efforts in tracking. He was commended for his incredible ability to get tf outta dodge and stay far from trouble, so they went ahead and certified him because anyone that can elude special forces alone for a week is a monster in their own right.

Ironically, men like Itami are actually perfect Commandos because they can work in secret without being suspected.

Yea I almost had this reaction - was taking care of this military vet in the hospital. On break I overheard the nurses talking how he was a badass in Vietnam, trained in both army and marines, been court martialed for striking an officer (the officer wanted a salute, this guy refused as snipers were a thing, officer raged hell about it, in coming fire, and this guy straight out hit the officer to the ground out of harms way and this officer STILL court martialed him…the vet refused to apologize as to do so would mean his action which saved this officers life was wrong) and I swear they were adding more to the story I came back to the room and saw the vet going through channels looking for something specific - seeing me he said “I’m looking to what my grand children introduced to me…it’s not a cartoon…Hentai? No no…anime, I can’t find anime on here. You know where we can watch anime? Or better yet, what was it…vocal bot? Vocal Ade? It’s the singing computer person.” Me: Siri? Him: no no… what’s her name…long pig tails nearly ankle long… and those blonde twins… Me: VOCALOID!!!!!!! Him: Oh you like them too? Edit: I had plenty of Vocaloid on my phone and we shared our favorites - he was overjoyed to find out there were English and Polish Covers. He did not know there many more vocaloids, he only knew of Miku, Len and Rin, Meiko, and Kaito He was also surprised to learn I was a former Gravy Corpsman and ALSO loved Vocaloid

The fact that he joined the army was to fund his otaku hobbies 😂

Read the manga. In the part the agent meets the group and describes Itamis' achievements that got him his title, Itami explains that he's there by the anthill method: in a colony of ants, around 30% are lazy. Even if that 30% is removed, after a while another 30% appears. So the army decided to have him as the lazy one to keep the whole JSDF at full strength. Later on, some other superiors say that Itami is an expert at hiding and running away. Examples followed by him disappearing during some exercises and only finiding him when the exercises are over.

bros a marine hes the dumbest, bravest, goofiest crayon eater I know

Once you see Generation Kill, you realize Itami really is your typical modern soldier.

Itami is probably the most realistic depiction of a soldier with those kinds of achievements I've ever seen in an anime. Everyone thinks they're buff badasses but they're almost always geeks.

Yeah people tend to forget that special forces, military commanders, rangers, est est, they are still normal people in the end.

He's proof that sometimes the laziest soldiers are the best because they'll find the quickest way to sort shit out so they can go back to being lazy

It's not even the best part: He's actually buddy-buddy with the PM. They're both huge weebs so the PM actually had him run manga runs for him

I can understand that he got into and passed both tests of skill and he specifically said that he passed because he wanted to focus on his hobby.

I love the idea that Itami went to Ranger/Special Forces school to either A) be petty B) out of spite or C) to be spited

This is hard to believe to people outside of military, i was recon so the 3rd elite force in my country but not classified as special forces. But we are goofy as hell one of the guy in my platoon said if he was to die before me I need to say something from Pokémon for his eulogy, I told him to sing let it go from frozen because my daughter loves that song, we are just a bunch of kids with weapons but when the need arises we mature within a min

Bro has that willpower to finance his waifu collection

In the US, of which both JSDF Special Forces School _and_ Ranger School are based off of, both schools have an interesting contrast: Special Forces school is designed to make you an extremely technically competent soldier. Ranger school is designed to *suck,* and many a candidate has died or suffered permanent mental and physical consequences as a result of the nightmares endured there. To have completed Special Forces school, you will have proven that when it comes to soldierly tasks, you execute them with razor-like precision and consistency. To have completed Ranger school, you will have proven that your force of will is as strong as any mountain. And Itami has both.

From what I've heard, there's a bunch of dudes in the US SF apparatus that are huuuuge into anime and shit. Like, these guys would go and stack Taliban by the pallet load, rotate back to their PB or FOB, and queue up fuckin Sailor Moon or One Piece or something. The least likely dudes ever are always the hardest.

Well the joke about Itami was that his superiors wanted to tortur-erm, correct his lackadaisical attitude by sending him to take very difficult special training courses one after another but he ends up succeeding. In the end, prior to the start of the Gate, whenever his unknowing superiors would joke about him having amazing x skills in this and that field and wrote those down on his qualification papers, the result turned out that he actually is.

Itami with the spirit of slouch. Always reading light novels under a shady tree, being 'A Mighty Warrior'.

in the second season they said that every S member has a special skill. the defence minister asked if Itami is the same as the dudes that they are comanding at the moment, the S commander said "Itami's skill is running away. He's so good at it that if he tries no one in the S can catch him."

to give yall her perspective, this is like finding out that weeb you call slurs on cod lobbies is actually in the secret service.

Imagine if you were working with this airhead super dweeb who loves My Little Pony and Barbie dolls, and then it turns out he's actually a highly decorated Navy SEAL. XD

Ranger, SF, and his marriage ended amiably. He's such a chad and yet fills all the loser stereotypes XD

It's even better when the whole reason Itami kept up with his job was to comfortably fund his otaku lifestyle; he was just good at being a soldier so he stuck with it lol.

The bet part in my mind is they kept putting him in harder and harder things to attempt to drum him out... but he just kept passing.

He basically took the adage of never giving them 100% and ran with it, meaning he is a LOT more capable than he appears, he just doesn't want to show it cause it feels it'd be more trouble than it was worth...IE being given more work and the like which would further eat into his otaku time. Actually, a legit thing for some, since if you show you're capable then your higher-ups often will give you more and more work both in the military and corporate or retail worlds.

Hilarious moment I remember from the manga is when Itami was recalling how his drill sergeant basically forced him to get the parachutist badge despite his fear of heights. And he's got a point though - I mean, a ranger who cannot parachute?!

My favourite part of the show is her reactions to itami, her world shatters when she learns he has those training

this is the same thing that happens when people find out spec ops are just normal dudes except they can kill you a lot better than others can

He also turned his team mates into weebs. Their call signs are saber, archer and etc from the Fate series.

nothing tops the cake when they all found out he was married though. xD that blew everyone away, even the guy who thought he knew him the most haha

Itami being in the rangers was a punishment but he managed to become one miraculously

When you wanna take it easy but the army foundout you're black ops material

one of his boss said to the defence minister 'If itami put all efforts in running away, NOBODY can catch him😂

I love how Kuribayashi throughout the show continuously undermines Itami’s authority and skill. Sure he’s an otaku, but we’ve seen that he’s only serious when his job calls for it. That’s what I call a professional.

I remember hearing during a podcast, a guest talked about the types of people who get through navy seal training in the US. The guest mentioned that it was people who can make it through the day, despite all the pain and suffering, and come back tomorrow and do it again. Most of the people were just nobodies in school. They weren't star athletes. They weren't muscular individual. Most of them were scrawny people. I guess Itami is just one of those people who can push on despite all the pain...then again, he is an otaku.

There's nothing in Itami's character that wouldn't allow him to be a spec ops (at least from an anime perspective): Sure he's a perv, nerd and lazy. But when it comes down to it, the man will put his heart and soul into accomplishing his job. Additionally he's a pretty good leader, he knows what each member of his squad is competent at and allocates them accordingly

I know a former Delta Force soldier so I can understand Kuribayashi's reaction. Even though he's retired he still keeps his body in peak physical condition. He had to rush me to the hospital because I tried to keep up with his regimen once.

One of the great things about Gate is how the other worlders respect the merits of the JSDF, Sure they have guns and explosives, but for someone like Rory, she could slay them all without blinking, yet she's written to admire their talent and strengths. That's cool.

While it's often played off in a trope-y way like this, it's still founded in truth. I've had the pleasure of meeting many people who are special forces (or various levels of equivalent) over the years, and they're basically always some of the chillest and most friendly people.

Itami is the most respectable for being the only HUMAN Isekaied person with no special ability or some magic shit. Man just relied on his Military Experience so yeah i agree

Itami isn't dumb or incompetent, quite the opposite, he just is unambitious and unmotivated, doing just enough not to get fired.

my own experience, My sector commander. he is a transport truck driver, when i was a jarheaad. He really easy going and give free candy (he don't smoke don't drink and jacked). later on we saw his car, a black skull wearing goggle with cross paddle. we still don't know and dont want to ask, but he wear Marine camo unlike the rest wearing jungle green. then graduation came, he wear in full suit, then we saw a special force badge and a Recon badge.... "Navy Seal have a week of hell but Recon is hell every week" we learned lateron, him and his mate was in marine and get IED flip his Patrol car. every bone shattered and he have a metal brace inside his leg and pain eat him alive every day. but he pass a Recon training. he said that his mate is a real superhuman. and a recent one that a jarhead was escape boot camp (my camp is in mountain covered in thick jungle). he saw a smoke and head count is missing then he prepare himself and 2 of the ranger guy go along with him but jungle is too thick and steep that he need to drop all the gear and 2 Ranger guy take role of a relay and fob. he founded the escapee and bring him back.

Proof that true badasses don't need to brag, because they let their actions speak for themselves. It's what makes a POG so easy to spot.

Remind me of my friend. He's passed the Special Force training , top rank in his squad too. In his civilian life, he is just a gamer who enjoys Left 4 Dead 2 and Company of Heroes 1/2. But back when was in active service, that bastard beats everyone in a Muay Thai training and last the longest in the survival training.

Can say that rolling around in a humvee talking about waifus has happened in my time in service.

A Japanese Rambo with his culture.. Itami Yuuji.

You can't mix brains, brawn, nerves, and commitment without getting some oddities thrown in.

The reason he is a ranger and special force because of the man he used to hang out with The leader of the country was his best otaku buddy

How ridiculous is Itami, its actually how every irl top tier private soldier lives, being the best, for thier own hobby and lives.

This only demonstrates that you can became a badass but if you are an Otaku no one will take you seriously

Man Itami doesn't look like it. But he's definitely a military genius. And he got a harem to boot with.

I remembered in the manga he was part of hostage rescue training exercise. Because Itami was so lazy he points a gun at his CO's head and demands a hostage exchange, what a madlad.

Kuribbayashi the "honey badger" is having a meltdown. Itami's attitude is in line with him living "The Way of The Warrior", and that most warriors hate doing bureaucratic paperwork...

i mean though he is lazy most of the time, there are countless moments where it shows his experience and training as both ranger and s did not go to waste, Its like the saying if the workplace aint a place to sleep then home aint a place to work

How people think the military personnel are: hardass, PTSD, no-nonsense, intense 24/7. How military personnel really are: *Itami Youji* Yeah, some ARE hardasses and the like, but they are still people with lives outside of the military.

They put a addict through several hell weeks and they ask why they can never find him when they call for exercises.

The ranger SF otaku that somehow scored with an ancient loli goddess of death.. guess he's doing fine then. Oh and he's beloved by all sorts of magical wamenz!

you summon fireball? cool I summon A-10

The don't judge a book by its cover legit runs with this man, and its down right funny. You'd never expect this dude to be A ranger and Special Forces given his demenor XD

While elite troops get a reputation of being supermen in human form and do have to pass the training it requires, they're still human and the most important part isn't that you're more built than a professional athlete, it's how well they can work as a team and how loyal they are to the group as a whole. It's been proven time and again that a well working smaller group can take on greater forces that aren't well organized.

Face it, woman. Don't get in the way of a nerd who wants his comics, they will pass everything just to prove it.

Her reaction was to be expected. Like somebody with a wacky hobby but has serious skills, talents and status. I'd be surprised, too.

It's always the unassuming you have to watch out for. Someone who does not seem so tough that have some hidden fangs.

one of the hidden gems ive watched the protagonist is both an alpha and a weeb this also is like an isekai without the protagonist being isekai'd (killed)

"Itami is a mighty warrior." Well yeah you can say that... In RPG terms he's in a high ranking job class...

He's a Ranger, he's an otaku and he doesn't hide it, he got married (though he also got divorced because of his wife when he passed through the GATE), in another world he became a nobleman, adopted a daughter, and is loved by the approximately thousand-year-old goddess of death.

When you reach a critical mass of badass, you stop caring if people see it or not. They’ll learn soon enough.

I do heard this from a retired military personnel (I won't say what branch for anonymity sake); he told me that most retired special forces personnel that he knows often never revealed their career as part of special force unit. They will usually say they're an engineer or some other roles, telling people that it's nothing special. So Itami being a special force and just kept quiet and chill about it is rather spot on according to what I was told.

This man represents the otaku in all Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines alike...

I love how Shino is freaking the hell out over the fact the otaku dork in front of her is both a ranger and special forces. It's honestly quite outrageous when you think about it. It's like a commander of an army besieging a city coming to negotiate, accidentally walking through an unmarked minefield and managing to (on an accident, once again) persuade the besieged that he is a god in flesh and making them promptly surrender unconditionally before his divine might. And then walking away, through that very same minefield again, further establishing the impression.

FINE!!! ill watch gate again

He 100% has a waifu rifle in his possesssion and you can't convince me otherwise.

Itami be like, "Well I just work smarter, not harder so I can have more time to read manga and watch anime." My favorite part of the anime is that during training no one can find him cause he's that good from running away from trouble.

Tags: Mind Break

This is such a fun anime. Fun fact(which you probably know now): in the manga they look WAY different. Almost every visual look and design i way different. In the manga the theme of the fantasy world is set on Greece.

Watching Kuribayashi freaking out makes me want to watch Gate again.

She's reacting like she found out her weeb friend was actually Master Chief.

Her whole world is crumbling before her and it's hilarious 😂. Also Itami a freaking Chad.

It's actually realistic how he's well trained, but doesn't look like he is. Majority of the guys who have seen some shit I know don't look like it

Another isekai : here your power of magic, here how to learning it. Itami and friend at another world : MY BULLET and My Rocket goes brrr brrrr

An Army Ranger+Green beret= One hell of a combination

Every human have soft side like itami Like itami said "I just need money to buy anime merchandise thats why i join military"

I'm honestly not surprised. Weebs are everywhere even in the military. There was a time when my Sgt and I talked about the best Isekai. Others came in and had their own opinion on the matter. People also need to remember that we have lives and it's not just hardcore, stoic life. It is a mindset should the situation calls for it

Not gonna lie, I've never been a ranger. But I've met Rangers and they told me that they went through the whole shitty motion to just get the fuck out of there with their tabs. So I imagine Itami went through the shitty motion to get the tab the same way.

0:45 “they have bodies and mind of steel”. Well, itami IS heroic spirit Emiya in another life. I am the bone of my sword Steel is my body and fire is my blood…

1:18 that mental breakdown she had was very hilarious, that even Soap is laughing in his grave 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣