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Edjwald
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Dad is a Hero, Mom is a Spirit, and I'm a Reincarnator (TV) Source: Light Novel (completed @ 9 volumes, written by Matsuura, illustrated by keepout) Demographic: Animation Studio: J.C. Staff Genres: comedy, fantasy Themes: isekai, medieval, reincarnation, sorcery, spirits Plot Summary: Ellen is a young girl reincarnated from modern-day Japan as a half-spirit. Her father, Rovel, is the legendary hero who saved the kingdom, and her mother, Origin, is the primordial queen and ruler of all spirits. Furthermore, she possesses an overpowered ability to manipulate the elements. While looking absolutely adorable, this perfect little girl will fall back on her past life's knowledge and the power of the spirits to protect her precious family. Air Date & Platform: October 05, 2025 (Sunday) Available on: Crunchyroll Episode Count / Runtime: Pending [EDIT: Fancy opener stuff edited. -TK] |
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Eilavel
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So, seemed to be a fairly average child isekai without many stakes, but doing a better job of developing its side characters than usual, especially the dad seems like something resembling a person. Not super inclined to pick it up but its a maybe.
Then the last 2 minutes just hits the oh no, a very unattractive and stalky female trope as hard as possible. I guess for comedy? I did not laugh. Don't think I really want to watch episodes 2 and 3 with them centred on that even if theres other promising elements so drop I shall. |
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smurky turkey
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Not an amazing show or anything but the premise is a little different from usual. Unique in particular is the reincarnator not being the sole focus of attention (for now). That said, I can already tell that nobles and royals will become a major hassle and I am generally allergic to that. As for Agielle... hopefully she is out of the story. |
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Gina Szanboti
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So mom got essentially jailed, but what happened to her Honey Boo Boo daughter? Kid never stood a chance, with a mother like that, doesn't know who her real father is, and now mom is on ice. She's hardly equipped to engage with the world on her own.
At least little brother, whose name just won't stick, got a happy ending (so far - now, to get rid of that wonky beard...). But I'm not sure evil Prince knows just what he's up against. |
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smurky turkey
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The dad and mom are impressive but Ellen is crazy powerful with her combination of modern education and creation magic. She can create anything she wants resources wise and with her knowledge that includes some very dangerous elements. She is also quite the schemer at times. As for the prince, I suspect that his family very much deserved their curse and him acting like he does only showcases that they have not become deserving of mercy. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Oh, you go, Ellen!! I've been wanting Sauvel to lose that scraggly beard since we first saw him. I don't like beards much anyway (or maybe it's just that too many of the people I don't like these days have them (and don't take care of them)), but when they're as hideous as his, they gotta go. If he'd shaved earlier, maybe all this trauma could've been avoided. But considering her position, Aria was certainly lacking in contrition when confronted. Maybe Sauvel just has lousy taste/luck with women... Do I detect some sparks between Ellen and the prince, who seems like he might not be a bad kid? Maybe he'll save them from the curse once he knows what it is. The king being a jerk who deserves being cursed aside, I'm not much of a fan of generational, sins of the fathers type curses. Especially when the accursed don't know what the original sin was. How do you atone for something when you don't know what you're atoning for? |
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Yttrbio
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Potential sparks with the prince would be a lot more pleasant if Ellen wasn't actually an adult. And unlike, say, Dark History of a Reincarnated Villainess, it's completely unnecessary to the story. It only adds problems and makes interactions weird.
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DuskyPredator
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The thing about the generational curse of the royal family is that the argument against it should be an argument against the royal family in the first place. If they should not be cursed for the actions of their ancestors, then why should they have power because of the actions of their ancestors? In a way, it seems kind of fair that the institution of a human rule can have a limitation placed on where they have a history of thinking that authority extends to where it does not belong. Chances are that the series doesn't actually see that as a point though. |
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smurky turkey
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Though they only described it as ''forcing the spirits to aid in the war'' I get the feeling that the curse being so strong and that one spirit reacting so furiously means that what the royal family did in the past is pretty heinous. If they were sacrificing the spirits they forcibly summoned or something similar I can understand said spirits being so wrathful that they want the family to suffer forever.
The king being as shady as he is makes the redemption matter tricky. Sure, he does it to aid his kingdom but he is still trying to manipulate the spirits into giving aid when that is the very sin the family committed in the past. Kind of hard to argue that they have learned their lesson. |
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smurky turkey
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Yup, spirit sacrifice it is. Given the short flashback not very painless sacrifice either. The only thing all that sacrificing got the kingdom was a visit from some powerful and very pissed off spirits and for the sacrificed ones to stick to the royal family acting as a curse. The punishment for the king was a fitting one, it likely drove him mad over time. Given how the people do not give all that much attention to the spirits it makes sense why they have not been aided. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Kind of a vicious cycle of belief and aid they've got going. "You don't worship us sincerely so why should we help you?" "You don't help us, so why should we worship you?"
You'd think that after witnessing the original sin and hearing the agony of the spirits, they'd want to try to atone now, but apparently only elder son gives a shit. The idea that those spirits have nowhere to go now seems a bit problematic. I think we need more details about what this world has going on re an afterlife, because I don't get why they don't have anywhere to move on to, even if appeased. They're begging for help, but apparently there's no one who knows how to help them? I'm sure prince and Ellen will solve this together, but more lore needs to be filled in before I can even guess at a path to how they'll do it.
It seems to me that these are two different things. If your father was a monster, that's probably not inherited, so unless you also become a monster, it's unfair to punish you further for something you did not do (I say "further" because having a monstrous parent would already be such a punishment). If you do become a monster, then you deserve punishment for your own sins. How royalty is determined speaks to whether that power should be generational though. If the first king was so chosen because they did great and beneficial things and were respected and loved by their people, such a monarch could/would be more likely to nurture those qualities that made them king-worthy. If, on the other hand, the first king was a vicious warrior who just conquered everyone else to sit above everyone else, their kids should not just inherit that, since they're likely to continue the reign of terror. Obviously, subsequent generations of royalty may be better or worse than the preceding ones, as people are usually lousy parents. Descendants could turn out to be entitled nepo-babies who haven't earned or learned a thing, or they could hate how their parents ruled and be great reformers. Also, until a reasonably sophisticated alternative is in place, as long as you have a monarchy (i.e., one all-powerful leader) generational rule is a pretty simple way of facilitating a peaceful transfer of power, though as history has shown, that's no guarantee. But without mass communication readily available, picking a new leader from the general population every time the old one died (which could be every 10-50 years, with little or no warning, especially back in the days when the king would go out to the battlefield) would have led to constant warfare among all the hopefuls. And finding one who had the first clue as to how to run a country would be even harder. The point is, there are pros and cons to generational power structures, but I can't think of any good excuse for generational curses. Judge each generation by their own sins. (need I say I'm not a fan of the religious concept of "original sin"?) Don't take all of that to suggest I'm a fan of monarchical government either. It's always baffled me how so many people, especially Americans, are so enamored of the "rightful ruler reclaiming the throne" storyline (see Lion King, et al). |
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The Scream Man
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You know behind its humor and simple animation there's a bit of an interesting tale going on here. The way that everyone judges others, for good or ill, is quite black or white, when truths are rarely that. It seems the royal family is cursed by spirits that slowly drive them mad for a sin that was so long ago they know longer remember what it even was.
The spirits won't explain WHY they are cursed, expecting them to just figure it out... but thats not what humans are like. For one thing they're shorter lived; 200 years probably isn't much of anything for a spirit, but for humans thats 5 or 6 generations ago. The currently family is being blamed for the sins of a man who lived so long ago they have concept of him beyond a name, but for the spirits its still fresh in their minds. So they feel abandoned, and don't know why. And the cycle continues. The Princes show us that this curses isn't really fair. The two boys seem perfectly pleasant, despite their father... and now that we know how the curses works, I wonder if he was once like them as well, slowly driven mad by a noise just outside his hearing. So they slowly become "Black Hearted" as Ellen puts it... but isn't that because the spirits are making them so? If Ellen were to simply tell the princes what happened, allow them to see he horror of what happened and apologize, the curses would (Or at least COULD BE) lifted... which would then make the royal family better people. We can see that the current King has a goodness in him; his care for his sons in Episode 6 is obvious, and the boys seem to well adjusted for their father to be outright cruel. And then we have Sauvel, Aria and Lafilia. Sauvel is clearly just used to being brow beaten into things by those around him, and even when given responsibility he seems to be scared of it. He seems to love Aria, and she him... but also she thinks Rovel is hot. Its never really shown as more than that; she just thinks he's sexy and has some dirty thoughts about it... which the spirits then punished her publicly for! Now I have been married 22 years, and I can tell you i have had many impure thoughts about other women. My wife has had them about men. We have discussed it. Its open. Neither of us will ACT on it, but its there. Humans don't suddenly stop finding other people attractive when hey commit to a relationship, the bond is that you don't act on these thoughts because the person you are with means more to you than the thoughts about another. And there is NO indication Aria has ever had more than just abstract thoughts... but she is treated by the spirits and even the FAMILY as if she has committed some grave sin that must be punished and purged. And while we haven't seen much of Lafilia yet it seems this might have carried over to her as well. She is Arias daughter and Aria isn't up to snuff. She also isn't perfect little Ellen. Therefore she is the dirty stepchild who then acts bratty to get attention and gets verbally slapped down for it. So far only the older Prince seems to have really caught on to that a little and is treating her like her own person! So again we have a cycle; people judged harshly and unfairly and treated poorly (Or at least less well) for these "sins." I suppose unlike the royal family they were at least told WHAT they were doing wrong, but that "crime" isn't really something one can control. Its quite fascinating actually. Alot of ideas swirling around. As I say, it keeps me coming back despite other things that would usually keep me away. |
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smurky turkey
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Given Lafilia's current life I can not blame her for being bratty at all. Sauvel is not there for her and keeps on comparing her to perfect Ellen and her mother has turned into an alcoholic due to noble society being harsh. Sending Lafilia to a school filled with nobles is the very worst thing Sauvel can do. He has to start communicating better and that message may have landed with several people chastising him. Ellen meanwhile needs to learn how to take thing more slowly, what she can do and should do are two different things. |
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Gina Szanboti
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I wish she'd also "invent" filter masks for the miners so they can stop breathing the dust that's made them sick. Not doing so kind of makes her like a pharmaco offering a treatment but withholding the cure so they can keep selling the treatment. Except I guess she's not charging for it. Just making Sauvel richer from their labor...
Hooray for the maid who took mom's wine bottle! I have one word to give Lafillia to throw back at everyone policing her behavior. "Why?" Why is it not ladylike to run? Why is it not ladylike to climb trees? Ask other questions? Just tie them in knots answering "why?" until they resort to "Because I said so." "Why?" 
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smurky turkey
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I agree but I am rather unclear on how much Ellen knows and can craft. She has made diamonds, metals and various kinds of medicine thus far but I am not sure what her limit is. There is also the issue about filter masks being a big step forward technology wise. Episode 9 shows how the new medicine are already creating big issues. Part of said issues is Ravisel meddling again. |
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