Arifureta - Episode 11

"The Monsters' Day Off" (化け物たちの休日) is the eleventh episode for Season One of the Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest anime adaptation. It aired in Japan on September 23, 2019.

Synopsis
After returning to Fuhren, Hajime heads off on a date with Shea, which comes to a sudden close when they stumble on a kidnapped merfolk girl.

Summary
A slavery gang captures a rare mermaid child named Myu and decide to sell her. Hajime returns Will to his father and collects his fee. Deciding they need a break they explore the city as tourists. At an aquarium they meet a sentient talking fish and decide to free him. As thanks he passes on a rumour of a captured mermaid child. Deciding this bothers him Hajime and Shea wander the city until he senses the child in the sewers underground and rescues her, enraging the slavers boss.

Hajime and Shea keep Myu safe but struggle with what to do next. Elsewhere Yue and Tio discuss sharing Hajime between them. Hajime decides to give Myu to the city guards, despite her begging to stay with Hajime.

After handing a tearful Myu over the guardhouse is attacked and Myu kidnapped again. Enraged, Hajime begins systematically executing known associates of the slavers looking for the upcoming auction. saving many children along the way. Locating the auction in a noble’s mansion Hajime executes the boss, rescues Myu and blows up the mansion along with the auctions customers. Myu decides to start calling an uncomfortable Hajime “Papa”, which causes Yue, Shea and Tio to demand Hajime get them all pregnant with his children.

Characters
Characters in italics debuted here.
 * Hajime Nagumo
 * Yue
 * Shea Haulia
 * Tio Klarus
 * Myu
 * Hansen
 * Will Cudeta
 * Ilwa Chang
 * Lehman
 * Kharga Klarus (flashback)

Locations

 * Fuhren
 * Adventurer's Guild
 * Meerstadt Aquarium
 * Northern Mountain Range (flashback)
 * Dragon Kingdom (flashback)

Types of Monsters

 * Fishman

Differences

 * Hajime driving up to Fuhren and causing a commotion due to people being unfamiliar with his vehicle is omitted in the anime.
 * In the light novel, Hajime remodels Shea's collar, as well as giving it new abilities.
 * The light novel goes further into Hajime's companions obtaining their status plates. Ilwa is shocked after seeing their incredible stats and skills and vows to offer Hajime all of his support, as well as a room at the best hotel in Fuhren.
 * The hotel that Hajime and his companions stay in is a lot bigger in the light novel.
 * In the light novel, Will and his parents visit Hajime at his hotel room to thank him for saving Will, to which Hajime uses this visit as a chance to curry favor with Will's family by acting uncharacteristically polite around them. His new attitude scares Shea and Tio and become hysterical to the point where Hajime throws them out of the window in front of Will's family in an attempt to lessen the tension.
 * Hajime observing the two men from outside his hotel room does not occur in the light novel.
 * In the light novel, Shea and Tio spy on Hajime and Yue having sex the night before Shea's date, to which they are discovered by Hajime and punished.
 * Yue waking Tio up with a riding crop does not occur in the light novel.
 * In the light novel, Shea wears a white dress on her date with Hajime. In the anime, she wears her regular outfit.
 * In the light novel, Shea is shocked to see Lehman at the aquarium.
 * In the light novel, Hajime and Lehman talk via "Telepathy". In the anime, they speak to each other normally.
 * In the light novel, Hajime frees Lehman by using one of his "Cross Bits" to break him out of his tank after he and Shea leave the aquarium.
 * Lehman does not warn Hajime about the slave auction in the light novel.
 * In the light novel, Yue and Tio talk about Hajime while they are window shopping for clothes. In the anime, their conversation gets dragged out while they shop for food and then drink some tea.
 * Hajime and Shea do not talk about Tio joining them in the light novel.
 * In the light novel, Hajime and Shea take care of Myu in an alley. In the anime, it is in a mill.
 * In the light novel, the slavers take Myu after bombing the city guard's building leave a message for Hajime and Shea to meet them on a piece of paper. In the anime, the message is written on the wall.
 * In the light novel, Shea and Tio attack the kidnappers' headquarters. In the anime, they attack one of their prisons.
 * In the light novel, Hajime keeps Ilwa appraised of his rescue mission by using a one-way communications Artifact after having another adventurer deliver it to him.
 * In the light novel, Hajime and Yue rescue a group of children in an underground prison before Hajime saves Myu.
 * In the light novel, Myu is naked and shackled while she is being actioned. In the anime, she is wearing the clothes Hajime gave her.
 * In the light novel, an unknown masked man is the one that tries to auction off Myu. In the anime, it is Hansen.
 * In the light novel, Shea kills Hansen in his office. In the anime, Hajime kills Hansen while he rescues Myu.
 * In the light novel, Hajime kills many bodyguards at the slave auction after he frees Myu.
 * In the light novel, Yue is the only one to greet Hajime and Myu. In the anime, Shea and Tio accompany her as well.
 * In the light novel, Myu wants to call Hajime "Papa" after he decides to take Myu home while they meet with Ilwa at his office. In the anime, it is right after Myu is rescued.
 * In the light novel, Yue, Shea, and Tio ask Hajime to get them pregnant the night after he rescue Myu. In the anime, it is right after he rescues Myu.