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| Yuuhi in a state of depression after the recent events.... Pretty interesting episode though, especialy with how he reacts and the way his personality is protrayed. It's exactly how a guy like him would react after witnessing a brutal death. |
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| As much as likable Hangetsu was, his brother really doing everything he can to make us feel exact opposite about him. Like do your damn job instead of asserting others to beat your ass. Also really thankful to Horse knight coming in and explaining few things up. Yuuhi on the other hand, being treated like a deadweight and moreover developing another PTSD, but atleast he tried to redeem himself in those last few minutes, which btw would've been more impactful if there were some professionals handling the animation here. |
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| Shinonome "the Whirlwind" Hangetsu is gone, and most especially Amamiya and Asahina are feeling the pain. But there's another group: Hangetsu's younger brother the Crow Knight Mikazuki and crow Mu, and he becomes a sensation rightaway in school. Though between him and Amamiya, Mikazuki was felt as the inferior Ring Knight between both brothers. And yelp, one more crew: Horse Knight Nagumo Souichrou with Dance Dark, and this officially opens the plot for the 12 Beast Knights (minus Hangetsu) to save the world from the Biscuit Hammer. The usual golem-of-the-week approach, but plus the Beast Knights to work together with, except for Mikazuki who's very adamant on challenging Nagumo, and Amamiya still facing deathly traumatic shockwaves whilst being taken care of by Snake Knight Yayoi Hakudou and her beast Sia. At this point, Amamiya is only but a liability that he continues to push himself beyond the limits, and the only way he can overcome this trauma is to embrace all that he's worth, together with Noi. Looking forward to his long-overdue development after being stuck in a rut for so long. phantomfandom said: At this point, next episode (Episode 7) would complete the adaptation of the 1st 3 volumes of the 10-volume manga, so it's pretty safe to assume that they would not be doing just 12/13 eps of this. Either a continuous 2-cour season or a split-cour is the more feasible option for speculation.3 more knights suddenly appear, I'm wondering if we'll get to see all twelve knights in this season (judging from the poster, the answer might be yes). Talking about season, I still don't know how long it is. Could it be 12/13 episodes or 25/26 episodes? |
KANLen09Aug 12, 2022 12:32 PM
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| So this episode was basically 20mins of MC constantly yelling, although we met a kinda cute sword girl, at least there's that |
| This continues to be probably the third worst show I’ve ever seen. I really just wanna see how bad it gets |
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| What happened? I really enjoyed the first 4-5 episodes of the show, now I can clearly tell the quality is deteriorating :/ Felt like a super rushed episode, everything happened and went by so fast, sudden skips to another place and time before I got to process what was even happening at present. |
| Looks like we're moving onto a bigger battlefield now. Still a slideshow and holy crap, Mikazuki is such an annoying character, on top of making no sense whatsoever. |
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| That was bad. Really bad |
| What a weird episode from a pacing aspect. I'm not sure how I can describe it exactly but that's the closest probably. Things happened in this episode, several related to previous events, but none of them felt all that cohesive to one another. Everything felt so random, even Yuuhi's character development at the end. On the surface it made sense but...it just failed to gel or click, making it feel unearned. And that transition from Yuuhi in bed to the sighting of the two golems the following day felt especially abrupt. So much so that I wondered if it was a dream sequence. As I said last week I'm an anime-only, but I can't help but wonder if some trimming of manga material might not be behind some of this awkwardness. |
| Wow!!! NAZ really must write a book on "How to ruin an adaptation 101!" |
| They seriously cut out half the character moments for the rest of the story, so the pacing is literally so awful. I expect it'll only get worst from here on. |
| Great episode, still can't comprehend the hate, lol |
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| It's getting cringier and worse by the week. Episode felt all over the place and suddenly they're upset Shinonome is dead. So stupid. Then Yuuhi calls Noi his best friend. Come on man I can't take this show seriously. Trash anime. I thought since the manga had so much praise even with it's severe flaws in animation the story would be great...nope...trash. |
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| First time seeing a horse? I think I loved him? Why is shit so dumb? And I love how they think I'm supposed to care about Shinowhathisname's death, like his character had any emotional depth or relatability. You can definitely tell the original source is pretty old, this adaptation doesn't belong in 2022. |
GakutoDeathGlareAug 12, 2022 7:55 PM
| This series is so fast even Sonic is put to shame. Snek girl is cute at least. |
| The only thing keeping me from leaving is the OP. There were a few last season that I thought had terrible art and animation, but this tops all of them by a while. Along with the slideshow, the story seems all over the place. |
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| They actually cut out the famous "No looking at me with your back to the sunset" part... In general, lots of stuff was cut out, mostly comedy. They really want this to be no-nonsense huh? Which makes the fact they left out the return of the chains even weirder. Lots of other tiny changes, and the direction was just all over the place with the scene transitions and pacing. Overall a pretty bad episode, saved by the awesomeness of Mikazuki and the introduction of Nagumo and Yayoi. |
KushIsekai said: Okay so am I the only one completely annoyed by the fact the MC is a p***y. Like wow zero character growth. Cry’s and runs away every episode. This show is disappointing af God forbid a character witnessing a brutal death of his friend is a traumatic event instead of an instant shounen power-up. God forbid a character starts weak and develops slowly instead of having the first episode or two be all they need to fight a world-ending threat. By the boring every-shounen-under-the-sun standards, yes, Amamiya's a crybaby weakling like the sidiest of side characters would be in this situation. By the standards of this show, he's a crybaby weakling - like pretty much anyone would be in this situation. And the fact is, Amamiya does have development. He went from fearing human intimacy to loving a girl and wanting to protect her. He went from despising his abusive grandpa to using his once-in-a-lifetime magical wish to save his life. He went from assessing a future opponent to mourning him as a friend. Your standard of "development" seems to be "battles won" and that's not how that works. Now, notice how Amamiya's always been wrong before. Noi, the lizard on his shoulder has been acting as an angel on his shoulder - being the voice of reason and guiding him toward the right choices, though mostly getting ignored. But this time, the opposite is true. Amamiya's in the right. Being protected forever is not an option. The way to break out of a fear-induced stalemate is not to hide and wait for it to go away, it's to forcibly break through and fight. This is Noi's development in addition to Amamiya's, and a development of the two's relationship. It's gone from Amamiya hanging out with Noi because he had no other choice, to relying on him for his wish to, only now, being relied on back. Now they're finally partners, properly. This series has tons of that, that subtle, layered meaning to everything. Sure, the anime is rough and far from the adaptation this masterpiece deserves. But you judging the series with the milktoast-shounen standards isn't a problem with the anime, it's the problem with how you watch it. Which, you're allowed not to do. You can just not watch shows that don't match your tastes if you're not willing to expand the palate. I dare say, that would prevent you from wasting some time. |
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| Did not think Yuuhi would grab Hisame’s boobs haha. He saw a chance and he took it! Poor woman though, she really liked that dude huh? Hangetsu’s brother is a lot like him, kind of goofy on the outside. I don’t think he understands how to play “catch” though lol. I liked that “red thread of fate crafted for a third-date author’s convenience” line. Author calling himself out? Haha. But man, the little bro is kind of a psycho. For all that talk, he got chucked pretty easily by Sami lol. Looks like yuuhi has a rival in more then one sense of the word! I thought Nagumo was gonna throw down but nope, you just removed his jacket to run faster lol. Mikazuki is truly insane. Who tf just eats cabbage like that? Haha. But I guess Nagumo can fight if he wants to and apparently he strong af. It seems like Yuuhi is still effected by what happened to Hangetsu. I’m glad he kind of snapped out of it enough to help Yayoi and her familiar Sia. Those two look like they’ll be a fun addition to this show. |
eworm said: KushIsekai said: Okay so am I the only one completely annoyed by the fact the MC is a p***y. Like wow zero character growth. Cry’s and runs away every episode. This show is disappointing af God forbid a character witnessing a brutal death of his friend is a traumatic event instead of an instant shounen power-up. God forbid a character starts weak and develops slowly instead of having the first episode or two be all they need to fight a world-ending threat. By the boring every-shounen-under-the-sun standards, yes, Amamiya's a crybaby weakling like the sidiest of side characters would be in this situation. By the standards of this show, he's a crybaby weakling - like pretty much anyone would be in this situation. And the fact is, Amamiya does have development. He went from fearing human intimacy to loving a girl and wanting to protect her. He went from despising his abusive grandpa to using his once-in-a-lifetime magical wish to save his life. He went from assessing a future opponent to mourning him as a friend. Your standard of "development" seems to be "battles won" and that's not how that works. Now, notice how Amamiya's always been wrong before. Noi, the lizard on his shoulder has been acting as an angel on his shoulder - being the voice of reason and guiding him toward the right choices, though mostly getting ignored. But this time, the opposite is true. Amamiya's in the right. Being protected forever is not an option. The way to break out of a fear-induced stalemate is not to hide and wait for it to go away, it's to forcibly break through and fight. This is Noi's development in addition to Amamiya's, and a development of the two's relationship. It's gone from Amamiya hanging out with Noi because he had no other choice, to relying on him for his wish to, only now, being relied on back. Now they're finally partners, properly. This series has tons of that, that subtle, layered meaning to everything. Sure, the anime is rough and far from the adaptation this masterpiece deserves. But you judging the series with the milktoast-shounen standards isn't a problem with the anime, it's the problem with how you watch it. Which, you're allowed not to do. You can just not watch shows that don't match your tastes if you're not willing to expand the palate. I dare say, that would prevent you from wasting some time. Amazing response, but I do get why anime-onlys are having trouble understanding the subtleties with how bogstandard the facial expressions are. It's kind of hard to get emotionally invested in a characters story when they show next to no emotional response due to the lack of budget. |
RobinLopez said: eworm said: God forbid a character witnessing a brutal death of his friend is a traumatic event instead of an instant shounen power-up. God forbid a character starts weak and develops slowly instead of having the first episode or two be all they need to fight a world-ending threat. By the boring every-shounen-under-the-sun standards, yes, Amamiya's a crybaby weakling like the sidiest of side characters would be in this situation. By the standards of this show, he's a crybaby weakling - like pretty much anyone would be in this situation. And the fact is, Amamiya does have development. He went from fearing human intimacy to loving a girl and wanting to protect her. He went from despising his abusive grandpa to using his once-in-a-lifetime magical wish to save his life. He went from assessing a future opponent to mourning him as a friend. Your standard of "development" seems to be "battles won" and that's not how that works. Now, notice how Amamiya's always been wrong before. Noi, the lizard on his shoulder has been acting as an angel on his shoulder - being the voice of reason and guiding him toward the right choices, though mostly getting ignored. But this time, the opposite is true. Amamiya's in the right. Being protected forever is not an option. The way to break out of a fear-induced stalemate is not to hide and wait for it to go away, it's to forcibly break through and fight. This is Noi's development in addition to Amamiya's, and a development of the two's relationship. It's gone from Amamiya hanging out with Noi because he had no other choice, to relying on him for his wish to, only now, being relied on back. Now they're finally partners, properly. This series has tons of that, that subtle, layered meaning to everything. Sure, the anime is rough and far from the adaptation this masterpiece deserves. But you judging the series with the milktoast-shounen standards isn't a problem with the anime, it's the problem with how you watch it. Which, you're allowed not to do. You can just not watch shows that don't match your tastes if you're not willing to expand the palate. I dare say, that would prevent you from wasting some time. Amazing response, but I do get why anime-onlys are having trouble understanding the subtleties with how bogstandard the facial expressions are. It's kind of hard to get emotionally invested in a characters story when they show next to no emotional response due to the lack of budget. Budget, pacing and direction. They did cut some things who would make stuff more immersive. But, you right, while a shounen (with teen protags on school, on top of that), this should not be read as one Typical Battle Shounen TM. It's more a coming of age story, driven by chars development mostly. And no so much by Big Explosions, Transformation Power Ups and Arc Powercreep. |
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| oh god...why is the production staff getting worse... 2/5. |
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| another cringe episode... |
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| I don't think this dude knows how catch works. I will say, this Horse Knight randomly showing up -- unprompted -- for just a few moments to just insert information into the scene was not what I'd call good writing. Up until this point I really haven't had too much problem with any of the exposition. Maybe it's spun differently in the manga, like it might've just been how the anime chose to deliver it, but to have this character reveal pertinent information without pretext and say nothing else around it -- I don't know. It's beyond rushed, it's almost like they didn't even bother to try and try. Knights are just coming out of the wood works now eh? I guess I've said this with most of the knights, but I'm not sure how I feel about this snake lady. Anyway, that was a super choppy episode. |
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| Feels like this anime jumps around and skips things like crazy... Make's it hard to tell if minutes, hours, days or weeks are passing between every cut. Like when did Amamiya exchange numbers with the horse knight? When did those golems show up after meeting the crow and horse? and so on. |
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commonxreaction said: I will say, this Horse Knight randomly showing up -- unprompted -- for just a few moments to just insert information into the scene was not what I'd call good writing. Up until this point I really haven't had too much problem with any of the exposition. Maybe it's spun differently in the manga, like it might've just been how the anime chose to deliver it, but to have this character reveal pertinent information without pretext and say nothing else around it -- I don't know. It's beyond rushed, it's almost like they didn't even bother to try and try. He was supposed to share contact information with the others when he met them, but for some reason they skipped that... |
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Fun fact: the manga actually lampshades this. Mikazuki explains the "rules" of "catch" as "We take turns hitting each other without dodging. It's lots of fun. It's called "catch" in my country." and Yuuhi says something like "What country is THAT?". Small stuff like this is part of what makes the manga charming, and it getting cut out left and right (it's far from the only example, even in this episode) is definitely doing harm. |
grandy_UiD said: Fun fact: the manga actually lampshades this. Mikazuki explains the "rules" of "catch" as "We take turns hitting each other without dodging. It's lots of fun. It's called "catch" in my country." and Yuuhi says something like "What country is THAT?". Small stuff like this is part of what makes the manga charming, and it getting cut out left and right (it's far from the only example, even in this episode) is definitely doing harm. The humor that bleeds through and is executed well is definitely up my alley. So this seems like something I should enjoy. However, it's becoming more and more apparent the anime isn't doing the manga justice. Which is a shame, but it is what it is. I do intend to pick up the manga. At the rate we're going though I might as well pick it up sooner than later because I can't foresee a satisfying conclusion to this anime as things are. Tulicloure said: commonxreaction said: I will say, this Horse Knight randomly showing up -- unprompted -- for just a few moments to just insert information into the scene was not what I'd call good writing. Up until this point I really haven't had too much problem with any of the exposition. Maybe it's spun differently in the manga, like it might've just been how the anime chose to deliver it, but to have this character reveal pertinent information without pretext and say nothing else around it -- I don't know. It's beyond rushed, it's almost like they didn't even bother to try and try. He was supposed to share contact information with the others when he met them, but for some reason they skipped that... See the above. But yeah, if nothing else the anime at least brought this series to my attention. So at least there is that. |
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| the hell was that pacing? it felt so weird cause I am a manga reader, anyways, we got Yako, Mikazuki and Nagumo so that's a plus. Yako is so cute and Mikazuki is the same insane dude |
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| This episode felt a lot more rushed than the previous episodes. Yuuhi's little comeback at the end at least got me a little hype. |
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| love the deaths......... |
KushIsekai said: Okay so am I the only one completely annoyed by the fact the MC is a p***y. Like wow zero character growth. Cry’s and runs away every episode. This show is disappointing af well he is real with his fears and worries. it's not some stupid shounen character with annoying brave mc who is artificial |
| This might've been a decent series if the pacing wasn't so incredibly rushed. Unfortunately, events are just far too condensed to provide an engaging narrative. |
| With Hangetsu's death last ep, it felt weird and really inappropiate how Yuuhi suddenly groped Hisame there. So far I can see past the bad animation but the story also feels bad so far with how random things occur. |
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| Lot of new character but the MC still weak XD |
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