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Edjwald
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Yah, I was trying to be sarcastic about the attempt to make Sion sympathetic. For some reason, when this anime gets heavy handed and transparent, it genuinely irritates me in a way that most bad anime don't. Maybe because it's got so much going for it...Dan Machi's writer, arguably the best animation of the season, the fantasy genre that's my go to...this should be one of my favorite anime of the season.
But you know, even with those horrible bargain bin isekai that just recycle the same old tropes and barely bother to animate them...of which there are an abundance and most of which I drop...somewhere way back behind those soulless productions, I still sort of feel like there's an amateur light novel writer who really loves the genre and really loves those tropes. Maybe that writer isn't very innovative or skilled, but they are genuinely trying. Here, I feel like I'm being treated like a walrus, and I'm supposed to bark and clap my flippers when I get tossed a herring by people who could do better but have an underlying contempt for their audience and are just trying to create a hit for creating a hit's sake. They can't be bothered to bring in any subtlety or originality or nuance because those aren't on a check list. Even if I bought the rationalization for Sion attacking his own teammate in the middle of a public event...which would be like an Olympic relay racer who's very self-conscious about their image suddenly tripping and beating their own teammate with a baton...the Snapes clone who is an announcer looks like he's about to have an orgasm behind his stand. Last week, I half expected that sneering ice guy to rush back into the inn and say, "Dammit, I forgot to kick the little crippled girl and kill the puppy!" . But maybe that's me projecting because I'm going through something or this anime has hit some button that I'm not even aware of. Anyway, I legitimately tried to give it another chance because I wanted to like it, but I won't keep hanging around trying to ruin it for people who are enjoying it after this. |
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smurky turkey
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I am still enjoying it (enough to keep watching anyway) but the constant usage of overly evil/cruel magicians who have a broom or two stuck up their arse is grating. The setting is interesting and I would like for Will to learn more about it yet all we are seeing is the bully of the week on repeat.
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smurky turkey
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And that concludes the tournament/event. While it was animated amazingly well and it was nice to see another bully bite the dust after a hectic fight... I do hope that it was the last bully for at least a fair bit. If the upcoming arc is another bully popping up and needing to be dealt with then I might seriously consider throwing in the towel.
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DuskyPredator
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Episode 8
I was kind of just appreciating that a gay character just existing, even if treated a bit like a strange spectacle, until I noticed it. The character bio said that his roommate is called Rosty Nowman, and dislikes fire. This comes right after last episode explained that a certain character indeed thinks fondly of him and is a genius at spoiler[creating ice clones]. I guess kind of leaves open whether he is spoiler[an independent thinking creation that was made to love him, or if he is just a male vessel for his female friend to act through]. |
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smurky turkey
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Man, am I glad for the dungeon exam arc. Sure, we have the elf being a bit hard to deal with at first but no bully of the week this time. The group has been split up and needs to work together to survive and it seems like we are gettings some proper villains.
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smurky turkey
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I am very glad that there is a second season announcement since the first one ended just as things were getting interesting. It seems the story has moved past the bully of the week and instead we get actual villains and a central story in regards to the swords/wands plus whatever Will his role is.
As for the season as a whole: the presentation was amazing and the setting interesting enough though heavy with cliches. Some of the characters were decent though we had way too many one note bullies with a fragile ego. |
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smurky turkey
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S2 E1:
We are back in action and we start the season off with dunking on the non magical kid some more. Honestly, at this point it feels so spiteful that even Snape would raise his brow about how unfair it all is. Because of that my reaction to the army of monsters appearing was not so much one of worry but rather one of excitement with the wizards hopefully getting to eat some humble pie. |
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smurky turkey
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S2 E2:
Yup, plenty of humble pie for all. The baddies have a decent plan this time and the end result is an overpowered monster immune to magic. I did not expect Rosti to die. The dwarf thing is still awful, they are basically enslaved and treated as inferior but when the chips are down they are ordered to march and save the magicians. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Man, I will never get over the hero trope of slamming a non-invulnerable character into or through a stone wall(s) and the stone breaks but not bones or internal organs. I imagine it's rationalized by theoretically upgrading the karate stunt of breaking boards and concrete blocks barehanded, but it's not at all the same thing, and it annoys me every time I see it.
Without some sort of magical fortification, Will would've been dead after being blasted through the walls of several buildings the first time. After that, the multiple bashings just seemed like overkill, and yet still non-lethal, non-incapacitating, barely an inconvenience. Did Rosti or somebody give him some magical artifact to protect him from shit like this and I forgot, or is it just the trope on steroids? |
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DuskyPredator
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Will can without realising use magic with his sword, right? I have presumed that he fortifies his body using that ability without him realising in a similar way. The only way flesh and bone can be stronger than stone. |
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Thesarum
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I guess what Rosti technically did was disintegrate into crystal fragments... which isn't exactly inconsistent with the theory that bounced around last season that he was actually some sort of Elfaria projection. |
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smurky turkey
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S2 E3:
Anything is possible given that Workner had a hole put in him but can apparently regenerate from it just fine. Given that Rosti may have indeed been a projection or construct of some kind. Besides that the episode was one big cliche yet really nailed said cliche. Things felt desperate with both mages, dwarves and ctizens dropping like flies and with everyone just running around without a clear plan. Will getting a power up was to be expected but it was presented so well that I got giddy over it and want to see him kick some ass. |
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DuskyPredator
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I am going to be real, I didn't think at all well for the teacher telling the dwarves to lay down their lives. It didn't matter that he said it was for the "children" or that he would pay the same price. He was still telling a people, who already treated as second class citizens to go die, and for people who primarily were already those that mistreated them.
It really feels like a case of willing to mistreat others, and then expecting those others to be graceful when they are needed. |
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Thesarum
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That, I think, possibly is the take you're supposed to come away with? Professor Not-Snape has never exactly shown himself to be particularly likeable or sympathetic. At best, he could be described as "paternalistic". He maintains a strict magical-supremacist viewpoint, but does want "what's best" for those he views as lesser. He just thinks he gets to decide what that is as one of the "betters". And right now his "rational" value chain is tomorrow's magical leaders > people who can fight the monsters threatening them > people who can't fight the monsters. And everyone not at the top of that pyramid should willingly give their lives for those who are. And maybe that is rational, but I don't think we're supposed to like it, or the way he goes about it. |
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DuskyPredator
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It would be nice if that is the intended reaction, because a lot of my thoughts was that he should be happy that the dwarves are even putting themselves are putting themselves on the front lines. He is simultaneously saying magic is the be all and end all, and then relying on people without it. |
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