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EP. REVIEW: Tales of Zestiria the X

Careful Rebecca, your fujoshi is showing

I'm a bit surprised you ranked the episode so highly.

As it stands, Dezel's death feels hollow, as if it was orchestrated to deliberately up the emotional stakes before the final battle

Could it be because Symonne has become a dragon, since they seem to share a past? That feels likely, but it's also too out-of-the-blue to make sense in the context of the show. (The game may provide more context, but I haven't played it.)

the abandoned town they end up in is particularly beautiful, all wrought iron and ice. Seeing a normin with a strangely seductive voice waiting there feels like a nice bonus, though I can't help but feel that her name, Grimoire, might have something to do with the book on her back—and that it might be a helpful book if someone bothered to ask about it. The abandoned village is certainly a reminder of what the Lord of Chaos has done to the world, and the blood moon that rises above it, staining even the snow with a ruddy hue, works well with that symbolism, drawing a parallel to where Sorey and Mikleo started out, exploring the ruins near their home.

Two deaths in one weekend. First spoiler[Orga in Gundam IBO] and now spoiler[Dezel in Zestiria X].

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Could it be because Symonne has become a dragon, since they seem to share a past? That feels likely, but it's also too out-of-the-blue to make sense in the context of the show. (The game may provide more context, but I haven't played it.)

Unfortunately there isn't much context from the game either. Symonne, aka Evil Madoka, has literally no backstory to explore. You do see spoiler[some flashbacks about her history with the Windriders in the game], but it's flimsy as hell when it comes to explaining anything. What little background there is to her is some vague, non-spoiler stuff: Symonne had a hard life, misfortunes befell her constantly and she adopted a nihilistic view of existence, which caught the attention of Heldalf, aka Dark Leomon. We never learn what that hard life entailed or what those misfortunes were. She's just a lackey character they didn't bother to develop.

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the abandoned town they end up in is particularly beautiful, all wrought iron and ice. Seeing a normin with a strangely seductive voice waiting there feels like a nice bonus, though I can't help but feel that her name, Grimoire, might have something to do with the book on her back—and that it might be a helpful book if someone bothered to ask about it. The abandoned village is certainly a reminder of what the Lord of Chaos has done to the world, and the blood moon that rises above it, staining even the snow with a ruddy hue, works well with that symbolism, drawing a parallel to where Sorey and Mikleo started out, exploring the ruins near their home.

All of this can be understood more in Berseria. Some negative Nancies think they just hastily slapped in some references from the game to make the audience go, "Oh wow, look who/what is in this episode!"

You could have said that one of those spoilers was for a different currently airing show. I think most people when they see the spoiler tag assume that it is for this show probably have already watched this episode to be reading the review so they are going to click on the spoiler but might not have watched the episode of the other show.

Did you seriously quote my entire post just to point out one detail? And a spoiler tag is a spoiler tag. If people don't want to know, they don't look. That's your own decision to make.

though my beef is the otaku community comparing symonne to evil madoka cause to be frank those two are NOT similar at the slightest. at least madoka even in her evil state gave a damn to her best friend. symonne's case is all about numero uno.

belvadeer wrote:

Did you seriously quote my entire post just to point out one detail? And a spoiler tag is a spoiler tag. If people don't want to know, they don't look. That's your own decision to make.

Context is a thing. You can't just claim ignorance. You shouldn't post spoilers of other shows, that's just common sense. What makes me angry is that you're not even sorry. How horrible of a human being you have to be to mislead people into spoiling themselves and then feel nothing about it?

jr240483 wrote:

though my beef is the otaku community comparing symonne to evil madoka cause to be frank those two are NOT similar at the slightest. at least madoka even in her evil state gave a damn to her best friend. symonne's case is all about numero uno.

It's just a silly moniker based on the fact Christine Marie Cabanos voiced both Madoka and Symonne. It's not a comparison of character traits.

Anyone reading spoilers in a thread specifically for a series is not expecting to find spoilers for unrelated shows. So moving forward please refrain from posting spoilers to unrelated shows in series specific discussion threads. Thanks.