Biggest Disappointment of the Season?

Jbhannibal67 said:
Anis changed because of the situation with her brother al . She was free at the start of the show because al was the next king but with him getting kicked out anis is feeling guilty that she might be the reason for this . Also she does not want to disappoint her parents i firmly believe this has something to do with her previous life! Euphie was a mess at the beginning of the season but anis helped her now it's anis's turn to get helped . This is nowhere near being a disappointment

TFNMG_Xevna said:
Certainly not the first or last to throw my trash opinion in the ring but here goes:

I agree that it had a strong start, plus it was nice to see that Anis's reincarnation backstory wasn't the forefront of her character and was more a light coating to her motivations for wanting to free everyone with magic. Brother-kun going absolutely crazy because of sibling comparison and "unintentional sexy vamp powers" was...a choice to make for what could have been a rather cool antagonist/anti-hero before being like "you are stripped of all importance, please don't come back for the rest of the series thanks :)". Best girl of the series is definitely Tilty, sees through all the bs and just *gets it* like no one else; Ilia is close second.

I now further have to agree that the final episodes...do indeed fall off. I mean, like most drama-related...well drama, a lot of problems are created artificially because no character wants to talk to another about their problems/feelings; yes I am aware that they eventually do that, but it happens a bit too late imo. It starts with Anis deciding to kill her own happiness to be queen, which LITERALLY EVERYONE is against for one reason or another; Euphie's obv distraught from Anis holding it all in (duh drama), and so she determines to annul Anis's right by... completing a magical ritual à la the first monarch to live forever and eventually lose everything that made her make this choice in the first place. Anis is, very rightfully so, absolutely furious at this.

Now I just want to take this time to mention that the reason Euphie does this is to establish an olive branch to the "spirit-faithful" to accept her since magic is a classism tool (which by the way the nobles mention is what keeps the masses trust in the nobles and they fear giving them magic undermines that but also we see in the fight that pure magic+magicology is more powerful than magicology by itself also also you don't think the monarch enriching the lives of the people and therefore the kingdom WON'T keep the masses' faith? Either way what's the issue??), but then her and Anis decide *together* after TALKING IT OUT (and kissing 😲🤭🥰) to say "f u" anyway and just do their thing. So why then, pray tell, did we go through all that bs and fighting IF YOU WERE GONNA TELL THE NOBLES TO PISS OFF AND WATCH THE REVOLUTION REGARDLESS. No seriously, they're really trying to paint Euphie in the right here and it just...doesn't work! Because all the problems Anis and Euphie had with the others' resolve could have been completely avoided! Anis thinks she needs to be queen because she doesn't want to be useless or disregarded by her parents for not having magic, despite being a genius and wielding a different form of magic, and dreams of freeing the world with accessible magic; meanwhile Euphie doesn't want Anis to stop being who she is or stop the technological classism revolution she'll most definitely create, so she resolves to usurp her role (fine) but must also lose her humanity through immortality and eventually fade into nothing eons after forgetting that she forgot about Anis (not fine). Either way, the problems are alluded to being easily resolvable: Anis becomes queen and, JUST LIKE IT HAPPENS ANYWAY, tells the nobles to piss off and watch the revolution OR Euphie becomes immortal but Anis is gonna research undoing it or becoming immortal herself. So what was the point of these last few episodes; to draw out a point that could have been made in a single, still emotionally raw, conversation? It's lazy writing, and I have better standards.

Also a final aside, the handling of the Yuri was...weird. It felt like being gay was a foreign concept to the show's world, like no one talked about it aloud and it felt very strange. But that's the thing with fantasy stuff like this: even though you create a wholly new world to play and create stories in, that doesn't inherently have to have the problems ours does, you wanna speak so much on contemporary issues that your new, unadulterated world must now as well. I dunno how to phrase it, I just want the characters to be openly gay without the whole subtext of "well it's based on European noble life, so heirs and courting balls and no gay"

Anyway, 5/10, not worse than Eiyuu-ou thank God but also not much better. I was hoping for more 🤷