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Hiroki not Takuya
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I'm with the others and really appreciate your additional details, please keep them coming! The anime has hinted at the dark underbelly of Noble society but this reveals a whole new level of danger Myne is in and is important to appreciate the story. I'm with Gina that ignoring the end of S4Ep1 seemed very odd as well as Ferdinand's Noble Life Tip 2 the last episode seeming out of character and quite ominous from nowhere. With this additional info, it all makes sense and should prove important to keep in mind that the "friendlies" may not be all that reliable. |
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Panino Manino
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I give up. For those that read the LN there's nothing to enjoy. For those that didn't read the LN there's everything to confuse. It's just a sequence of scenes with all context and reason between them removed. And that's not the only problem... tone and mood all removed also, with subpar animation. I say again, Prism Rondo was the worst anime of 2026, but at least it had good character animation. Where is that character animation, Wit? The nobles are not behaving like nobles. Ferdinand is another character, he is emoting too much. Myne isn't acting. There isn't a "battle of wits" going on between the two. I was very surprised and baffled during the "magic scene" that created the Monastery. Wit showing Ferdinand up close and what he was speaking! This is a faux pas Wit! A bit of "lore". spoiler[ The other where flying high above him to not listen to the incantation. "Building Magic" (Entwicken) is of exclusive use for the Arquiducal Families. In the Royal Academy the Archiduke Children have an exclusive Course. To perform Entwicken they need to use the names of the Supreme God. During the series they are only referred as "God of Darkness" and "Goddess of Light" because their names are a secret that are "revealed" in the Archduke Course. Everyone gets a different name and if the person speaks one of the names and other person listens to it, the person who heard the name dies inconstantly in an horrible way and the one who spoke loses all "Blessings" permanently. Wit killed the audience... Little details like this are important, the names of the Supreme Gods will be relevant in beginning of Part 5.] The colossal amount of cuts and lack of context, the low attention to details... I can't even imagine how the episodes will be. Maybe it'll make more sense in the end for people who don't know the story? Maybe, it's possible. But still, for me is confusing because these episodes chose to not cut and even include details that will only be relevant in Part 4 (Hartmut at the Baptism, Lamprecht having a lover from another Duchy). |
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Panino Manino
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Another discussion, why can't the subtitles follow the official LN translation?
In both english and portuguese that I see the adaptation is so bad! In this episode Myne became a "Princess". No, she isn't! |
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smurky turkey
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@Panino I think that you are going to have to decide whether the adaptation still offers enough for it to be worthwhile to you or not. It is unlikely to drastically improve given that they supposedly need to adapt 5 chunky volumes in 24 episodes. I find it amusing enough with this week being interesting in that such grand scale magic has not been shown a lot. It is quite the contrast with how the show started (as in very low fantasy). |
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Panino Manino
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"Showing the Events" vs "Telling a Story".
Don't know which one the production choose, but for now I feel it's the first option. Again, at least if the translation and adaptation was better! People are discussion now and realizing how good the adaption on the oficial LN are. One detail related to this (and the "unreliable narrator nature) is that Myne has three fathers and she calls each one in a different way. "Daddy", "Father" and "Sylvester" for both emotional and political reasons. |
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rapata
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Rewatching now in S3 and the pace has been rather breakneck speed already in S1, as many parts that took long time to go through in the WN were passed with just stating "that happened" or just skipped, or were referred to only later. From the above I guess speed goes up even more in S4 and there are other problems, but I guess I have to see once I get there, not really an option to not watch it.
Adaptation problems aren't really surprising, as the length of the WN is counted in wheels of time (a quick word count gave something like AoaB = 0.3 WoT, but probably not very accurate, different language and methodology). Anyway one of the better things to come out from narou, even though it's not high literature things were interesting to the end, and it actually has an end. |
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Eilavel
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Yeah, this thing is flying, I almost wondered if I had somehow missed an episode for a moment at the start.
I'll stick with it but my preexisting intention to ultimately pick up the novels has certainly solidified. |
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smurky turkey
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Things slowed down a little this week, hopefully it stays that way pacing wise. Ferdinand did not prove himself to be a very good teacher. It might have been handy to give instructions before starting an exercise with a valuable item. Given that Rozemyne did the seemingly impossible with repairing it no biggie though. Ferdinand will likely make for a better idol and rake in the cash supposing the paper side of things works out. |
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rapata
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S4E1-2: It's OK. Lots of details skipped from what I remember (it's been years...), but aside lacking proper follow-up for the Wilfred event, it felt self-contained. Although, lots of people introduced in a short time span, and unexplained twists (eg. why Main became the replacement high priest).
That Arno was betraying Ferdinand's interests and had animosity with Fran was fairly clear in the previous season (although details omitted). In S3E6 it was revealed Schicicoza was also killed, so some hints the noble punishments are tough. The translation appears to mix up the high/head priest difference. |
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Panino Manino
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It's still botching Wilfred with the "not fair" scenes and it's consequences.
High BISHOP, actually. The english subtitle says "Priest"?
There's a back story to why Arno disliked Fran, did I ever mentioned? Is very related to the very bad and justified bad reputation of the Temple. |
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rapata
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I think it's fine for an adaptation to deviate from the source, in particular I understand cutting things judged not that important, or leaving something for later exposition, given the time constraints in anime. The resulting story just should be internally consistent and stand also without the source. At S4E2, too early for me to say how that works out here, Wilfred will play a larger role only somewhat later.
The terms high priest & head priest were used in S1-3, now they seem to have changed them in S4 for whatever reason, maybe to agree with LN translation or for some other reason, I don't know. The Japanese terms in the WN don't correspond to Catholic or Shinto terminology so I don't think there's a particular right translation, the inconsistency in going S3->S4 just sounds like Ferdinand got a promotion. |
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smurky turkey
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I am starting to have severe doubts about how that concert is going to turn out. Somehow I am imagining a medieval idol concert with dozens if not a hundred plus ladies going completely nuts and assaulting the poor knights in order to get one of the limited edition drawings. That will surely rake in plenty of money though. The bit with sister was great while a certain unfair brat is likely to become a pain at some point (more so than he is now). |
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Panino Manino
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This episode was actually not bad, it was even less "ugly". Don't know what to write... maybe I could say to pay attention to a few things? Elvira mentioned that the Temple isn't as bad as she thought. Yes, NOW it isn't as bad. It's a good thing that she is being a good mother and checking on her daughter, but also that she went there is significant. The Temple reputation is worst than you imagine, and with reason. Elvira is a wonderful character, a wonderful woman. She is one of the actually "Pillars" holding this Duchy together. Now, about her son Lamprecht... ignoring that invited himself there not for his sister but for the sweets (btw, I tried making Langes de Chat after reading the LN, TWO times, only for very deep disappointment), don't forget what he asked from her, which made he being reprimanded by Ferdinand. What he did, going there, to ask his sister, another Archduke Candidate, for help with his Lord problems is absurd. This is one of the biggest and longest conflicts in this series and as the anime will have to cut so much make an effort to pay attention and think about this while watching. |
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smurky turkey
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That concert went about as wild as expected. The wands used by the audience at the end was a nice over the top touch. Money wise the event was a huge success and normally I would suggest to do more of them but Ferdinand looked ready for murder at the end (even by his sour looking standard). As for Myne her vehicle/creature that is not at all a Catbus reference from My Neighbor Totoro, it seems pretty practical. |
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Gina Szanboti
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He was practically playing to an empty house after his first song.
 Too bad we couldn't get the lyrics (thank goodness that wasn't an issue for Iruma-kun).
For all the talk about how swoon-worthy Ferdinand is, he's got nothing on the Duke. In fact, when they played side by side, you could overlay their profiles and get an exact match, other than hair color/style. |
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