Anime Information

Forums

Best episode so far.... I also thought the teacher was about to run infront of the train at the one part...

Insane to think his kids were sacrificed...

Mikuni = hawt!

Q and that pink asset reminded me a little of Beauty and the Beast with the way that they called Q Beauty. Mm, guess we'll have to wait to find out more about that.

Nope, that guy committed suicide by jumping in front of a train IIRC

Props to them. Not all anime nowadays can pair great action and psychological scenes that aren't complete bullshit in the same episode. They did it.

Mashu still needs a hug.

Wow. I wonder if those kids hang around as ghost-things like that, or if it was just an effect to help show the gravity of his loss...

Wow, who knew that losing a lot can cost you your future.
This series pretty showed a good amount of action, but things did get dark.

I don't agree. Summons are summons. Attacks are attacks. They are saving macroflation for some amazing battle time spot. Can't wait for that one.

The episode was brilliant. Not only did it establish the tarot symbols as something not mere coincidence, it also gave more gravitas as regards the title of the series itself.

Here are my thoughts regarding the episode. The tarot symbols are undeniably related to the series itself.

So much is at stake with being bankrupt. I'm glad the professor was a bro to Kimimaro.

Agree but the one pawned by Kimimaro, the one with the iron balls may have had his kid die by having the wife kill it. Since that guy was fighting for them and in the end he cared about his own life thus what he cared for got taken from him.You all need to give respect to this guy! I can verify with my vast knowledge that it is all good! It does teach a lot in this series. Last time I remember Ef had references with Tarots with Yuuko.

._. I don't recall Ef having any other references other than nice boat lmao. Please do elaborate, well, if you would so kindly to pm x.x since it would be off-topic here.

It was sort of exciting as an action anime. But the settings of the world are ambiguous yet. I don’t want unlimited inflation of offense and defense abilities. The rules of games should be clear and consistent.

According to the official site, the asset Mikuni summoned with flation “white knight” is named Aurore (spelling unknown). Aurore is his third asset and her flation is “sleeping beauty” that squeezes and nullifies the ability from the opponent. Usually Aurore takes Q’s hand and keeps her dormant so that she doesn’t go berserk and release her mighty power. In the show, Aurore was called “hime (princess)”

Although economic terms appear a lot in this show, they don’t have much relevance practically. If you want economic games, try “Spice and Wolf”.

While we're at it talking about figurative symbols and such, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the appearance of the sephirot yet. It's been seen a few times already through the show.


In this scene, Msyu told Kimimaro to sell her stocks and the most bottom symbol on the sephirot brightened. From what I've read on wiki, the most bottom symbol is Malchut, which is "kingdom" or "kingship" and whatnot.

I'm going to leave it at that and let all the other philosophers go deal with it. I dislike reading too much into things thinking it has some deep meaning and then end up having my brain run circles around itself and getting frustrated at the lack of a concrete logical answer.

Mikuni is ridiculously strong, Yoga is gonna have to win a lot of battle to match him !

Interesting remark Wasabi, I did not notice it is that diagram at first. Only thing I see making sense of that is selling part of the foundations of a asset is like thinking the asset is one's kingdom and that is like one's future representation. Selling stocks of that is like a bailout in when you are losing lots of money in a deal. So yeah it does make sense but I would check out the one made for hell, there variations of that diagram and I don't see the heaven's version holding much meaning in hell itself.

BTW: I also like philosophy.

Mikuni lost all my respect , sigh what is bad about crushing others.

I was going to mention that especially because I just saw the third episode and it reminded me of the Kabbalah from Evangelion. Thanks for the heads-up, Wasabi. I'll credit you - developing that write-up now. I think it's the Kabbalah more than the Sephirot.

I've updated my post, and used you as reference, Wasabi. I can say that while we arrived independently at our conclusions I needed to know about the Sephirot because I didn't know how it was called. Thank you!

it feels like they were rushing this episode.

Pretty decent episode ;D this anime getting more interesting form episode to episode ;] is Mikuni really fight to keep balance!? hmm ;]

finally a good episode .. i think this show is getting better & better :3

Yeah wtf? They can completely change reality? So who is behind Midas bank? God?

Seeing as Mikuni had more than one asset and hearing that someone can invest in someones else asset it makes me think that you can buy out the asset of someone else.

The fight at the end, although quite entertaining it's something i can't appreciate because well... There is no logic in this fights. They tried to combine Yu-ki-oh fights with financial trading and it just doesn't work together good enough to make sense.
The whole thing seems slightly idiotic to be completely honest.