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Originally Posted by Pineapple924

That line in particular combined with Touma saying that he feels like he's forgetting "something very important" at the beginning already sorta tells me everything I really need to know.

Potential spoiler alert: Touma's actually from the world of books, and the reason why he's immediately good at fighting with a sword is because he actually was trained to use them, but he got amnesia or something after he landed in "our" world as a kid.

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Also, this is only a minor nitpick but after seeing the subs I really just have to say something about it:

Gee, Touma sure seems to make promises a lot, and he considers said promises extremely important. I wonder if there's going to be an arc or event where he inadvertently fails to keep one and gets depressed.

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Aside from that I thought this episode was fine, it suffers in the same way a lot of first episodes do with trying to introduce and setup everything it can in a few minutes, but other than that it was fine.

I haven't seen the subs yet since I'm still waiting for TV-Nihon. Who are you using? It can't be Over-Time.

Your theory regarding Touma's backstory is plausible but an alternative explanation for his mastery of sword is roleplaying. He's shown to roleplay with kids while reading them a book so he might have some self-taught experience using a sword while pretending to fight a bad guy which shows that books have educational value.

For a guy who values promises, Touma makes them too lightly. I value promises as well, which is why I hardly ever make them. A reputation for unreliability is better than a reputation for dishonesty. So unless Touma is that confident in his ability to keep them all, it's a dangerous risk and could come back to bite him.