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EP. REVIEW: Izetta: The Last Witch

I do agree that the attitude of Germania seems more in line with the Empire of Germany than the Third Reich, except that a keen interest in the occult was much more Hitler's thing.

whiskeyii wrote:

Blindly devoted "friends" just don't work for me

What's blind about her devotion? You just spent a paragraph listing all the stellar attributes Fine possesses, which Izetta can see just clearly as you can. She's devoted to her because she's proved worthy of her devotion. If she seems too deferential to you, it's because she lives in a society where she and Fine are not equals (even if Izetta was not already looked down on for being an outsider), and I think it's asking a bit much of her to just throw all that social baggage off as if it had no weight. I doubt her grandmother taught her the kind of magic needed for that.

On a related note I hope we'll get to see some cracks on Fine's perfect character soon. Right now she's more like a pinnacle of virtue than an actual character, and that sort of characterization feels kind of empty to me.

However, in an adventure story like this, I have to admit, I don't really need deeply nuanced and pyschologically complex characters.

Agreed. And while attacks from the enemy seem to leave some actual bodies behind at the very least, when Izetta kills dozens, it just looks...pretty? We even get pretty music to go with it. Also her being troubled by killing people from ep.1 seems to have completely vanished within an episode...

whiskeyii wrote:

Not so much gore as stronger emotional investment. If I compared Izetta to its closest cousin, Alderamin of the Sky, Alderamin has a much stronger ability to make you care about the troops on the ground, and I just didn't get that with Jonas.

If you're referring to whom I think you're referring to then that's an unfair comparison, as the character you're talking about in Alderamin had multiple episodes to build that up, whereas episode 3 was the first appearance of Jonas.

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Raising the stakes somehow would've gone a long way to making me care, because as it stood, I was way more intrigued by the Lt. General who was preoccupied with evacuating the city. :/

Not really sure what you're wanting here, then. I thought the stakes were plenty high enough (the soldiers on the ground were facing being overrun if not killed off by the bombing strikes, and the lives of loved ones could be at stake if they didn't hold out) and the series conveyed that plenty well enough. I'll grant you that Jonas is pretty generic as representative characters go, but I also found that to be part of the point. He was supposed to be representative of Joe Solider.

Fair enough, though I do think there's a marked difference between the commanding officer's subservience to Fine and Izetta's "I'm not worthy to be your friend" shtick. For me, Izetta reminds me too much of what I disliked about Rem's hero-worship of Subaru in Re:Zero, so I'm basically in "here we go again " mode.

Fair enough, though I do think there's a marked difference between the commanding officer's subservience to Fine and Izetta's "I'm not worthy to be your friend" shtick.

In episode three, there is a reference to the Germanian "Emperor" in the CR translation. We also haven't seen any of the usual Nazi paraphernalia or representatives of the SS. It depicts WWII as more of the usual conflict among great powers like WWI rather than driven by a psychotic regime.

The CR translation was definitely wrong in episode 4 for dealing with Izetta's father. He's the ruling prince of a small Germanish principality, so either Prince or Grand Duke would have been fine, but not Archduke. Also "Your Excellency" was definitely wrong for her father (would only be appropriate as a prince consort from a non royal family, or a non-royal noble who married in), either "Your Royal Highness" or "Your Serene Highness" would have been fine.