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EP. REVIEW: Reign of the Seven Spellblades

"So yeah, lemme just go alone to get some water...from somewhere deep in these very dangerous woods instead of from the river right here five feet away." That's not at all suspicious, right?

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"So yeah, lemme just go alone to get some water...from somewhere deep in these very dangerous woods instead of from the river right here five feet away." That's not at all suspicious, right?

That's something that the anime changed. In the LN, Oliver just communicated with Teresa telepathically while he remained in the same spot.

Yeah, the anime has some really weird adaptation choices.

But even that change would've been fine, if they hadn't drawn them having lunch right next to a sparkling blue river!

My headcanon is they assumed he was fibbing and needed to take a leak.

Others are simply mechanical, like Carste supposedly not being able to follow Oliver across the water despite Stacy and Lynette having no problem crossing it under their own power.

How old are the succubus lady and school council guy supposed to be in the flashback? I feel like he could pass for 12 and she could pass for a height-challenged 22 in that portrayal.

How old are the succubus lady and school council guy supposed to be in the flashback? I feel like he could pass for 12 and she could pass for a height-challenged 22 in that portrayal.

As critical as I've generally been of the show, I thought the succubus magic not affecting reversi'd Pete sort of made sense. I hadn't really considered Christopher's point, though; I guess, to think more deeply about it than I'm necessarily sure is brain-safe, the spell's genetically/biologically sex-coded rather than gender/sexual orientation/sexual desire-coded. Wonder whether it affects intersex people, or people falling outside the two modal chromosomal sex types. Although it's a bit weird; if school council guy can condition himself with pain not to respond, then desire must play a role, too, and I wouldn't expect a guy who is a pure 6 on the Kinsey scale to respond to it then, either.

That's only in the present, though, as coming all this way sees Seven Spellblades, at last, make time to glance back and expound on past details. Early allusions are made, as they get deeper down into the layers, to how the prevalence of Ophelia's perfume is…adversely affecting Oliver. Never mind that he had resistance to it and had no trouble sitting right next to her back in the eighth episode.

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Others are simply mechanical, like Carste supposedly not being able to follow Oliver across the water despite Stacy and Lynette having no problem crossing it under their own power.

That's another weird change the anime made. In the LN, Teresa had her own boat and told Oliver to regroup with her on the other side of the swamp.

Poor Katie. Thinks Oliver will be completely immune to Ophelia's charms but he's just trying to hold it together against Nanao!

Did Miligan imply Chela had some interest in Oliver and is holding herself back for Nanao's sake?

Oh, Rivermoore. I had totally forgotten about him since it's been like 10 episodes since he last showed up even though he's in the OP.

I really have to respect the lengths Godfrey went through and the pain he put his own balls under just to be able to properly interact with and befriend Ophelia, something she really needed. And to make her feel included and like she was part of something as they began their campus watch.

But of course all good things have to come to an end...the group got too big, people started accusing and bullying Ophelia for her closeness to Godfrey, and then she just couldn't hold herself back anymore and lost herself. Basically there's "Ophelia" and "Salvadori." I do wonder though if she had genuine feelings for Godfrey though (either way she seems to respect him a lot).