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Record of Grancrest War (TV).

It does seem a sad case how this show has ended up. It seems to be that they think that going through the material is enough, but that is not how an actual good adaption works. You have to make the audience feel, and for that we need a good idea of motivations, which this show speeds through too much. It is getting to a point that they no doubt are making good progress with story beats, but am actually finding myself care less about the main duo. I think that they would have done better if they did not worry so much about getting to some plot goal post, and just focus on making what is here good.

Episode 19

Alexis was pretty awesome in this episode, with him in action he has shown himself to actually be a very talented tactician. Does feel like they woke up a sleeping lion. Still, is annoying that Marrine is still being pushed as a sympathetic character. She was questioning why he would get involved, but did she perhaps think it had something to do with all his people she kept slaughtering.

Marrine is a monster, she has committed war crimes, rejected peace because it did not give her the optimum power or murder someone that dared to face her, showed no mercy while abusing agreed upon rules, and sought the aid and services of other monsters so that they can do terrible things. She is acting like it is nothing personal, that she wants to give peace to someone like Alexis, but she has also brought personal grudges into conflict, that she is one big hypocrite. She says she wants peace, but refuses anything but slaughter, and that the slaughter of his people could be of any help to Alexis. She might think she has noble causes, but her actions are the exact sort of chaos that humanity in the show is itself facing. Not even sympathy for her crying from killing her cousin, because it was she who decided to solve it on the battlefield rather than talk.

Siluca is most certainly correct that the mage academy is responsible for the attack at the beginning of the series, and thus the current conflict. They likely feared that if the grancrest was made, the demons could be stopped for good, the lords might no longer require the mages as advisors, and the academy would lose its sway over all the nations. This seemed rather evident earlier on when the academy were way to quick to attribute the head demon assassination at the beginning of the series to the witch, dolling out rewards to Theo as a way for him to not think about it. It may have been the academy that turned to witch into who she was, to make her into a scapegoat. One would wonder if Marrine might see that the academy has played her for a full in causing so much slaughter. Wonder if Siluca's father is aware of it, or perhaps even involved, despite how he looks he has acted as a bit of a scumbag in how he has sort of undermined Siluca wanting to solve things without bloodshed.

"Both my sons were lost to the war, along with thousands of others, because some bitch was afraid her boyfriend would get assassinated if she didn't go to war with him."