Tensei shitara Dainana Ouji Datta node, Kimama ni Majutsu wo Kiwamemasu Episode 10 Discussion

Sylpha good, assasins guild and 2nd price boring.

@Ryoda- Yeah we don't want 1st price, 2nd price nor 3rd price. We want 7th price 😤

@Ryoda- Yeah we don't want 1st price, 2nd price nor 3rd price. We want 7th price 😤

@Nero_Moonlight At least I think the payoff will be good. This demon should be able to take quite a bit of punishment from Loyd. So we get to enjoy seeing him go berserk, which he couldn't do vs that 8th kyu demon before.

@Nero_Moonlight At least I think the payoff will be good. This demon should be able to take quite a bit of punishment from Loyd. So we get to enjoy seeing him go berserk, which he couldn't do vs that 8th kyu demon before.

How does this anime only have a 7.08 can't people see past the cringe shota? The animation, fight choreography, fan service everything is just so damn good. This feels like watching a Gojo/kakashi battle scene except in every single episode.

This episode was amazing, but I'm a little worried that they are going to rush over the big fight next episode, I'll let them cook.

Little fun-fact for those who have a keen eye, the Roman Numeral in Sylpha's Sword (XLVII) is 47, Dian's and Lloyd's Prince number combined (4 and 7), but furthermore, it is a reference to Silver's atomic element, which an element that Sylpha references the most. I didn't discovered this btw, it's explained in the manga itself by the author, but I wanted to share it since it's a very cool detail.

@glockenspheal Maybe next episode will skip the opening and ending again to fit the whole fight in it.

@Lakelago That actually did wonders for the episode they introduced Guisarme in, that could work.

tbh I was afraid this fight was going to get skipped back when the anime got announced, I dunno why but I felt the first major arc was way too long to adapt into 12 episodes, but so far only one tiny, non-important scene has been skipped which is quite nice.

I cannot wait for next week, I also wonder how they are going to handle the ending as well, the celebrations and set-up for the next arc are also a bit lengthy, but then again, that's just me.

Another change I noticed in this adaptation is that Humpty at least initiated his ultimate technique, imo the manga had a much more badass showcase of the Leading Tiger Bite, bro didn't even know what cut him. 😭

@Ryoda- You really hate the side characters huh? minus sylpha since she's the waifu I assume. The payoff will be good but the Llyod and Guisarme fight will last for 2 episodes btw, ep 11 and 12, most of it will be on ep 11 tho so next week should be hype.

@Aichi07 Not hate, I might come to like them eventually. But I hate their introduction and at this point even many episodes in, my annoyance with them won't go away until they get a more fleshed out character arc.
As for the 2nd Prince stuff in this episode, I don't even dislike that char but what was the point of that? Just them vs the zakō mobs. And why was the princess even there in the first place? Just to have a reason that sylpha and the prince believe the assasin guild? Doesn't that feel cheap?
My problem remains with how side characters are used in this show, not with them existing in the first place. Sylpha works cuz she fits the theme of this show. Badass borderline broken OP character plus great animation. She gets alot of love from the animators as well, so her moments are generally great.

@Ryoda- Why did the sister come to help her brother, hmmm? What was the point of showing us that the 2nd prince is not a cold-blooded murderer who kills without hesitation? You are calling the short scene where Babylon and Albert shows us that they have different perspectives on things boring and annoying. You literally don't take anything but the action seriously, and then you don't like that the secondary characters aren't revealed enough for you.

@Aichi07 Not hate, I might come to like them eventually. But I hate their introduction and at this point even many episodes in, my annoyance with them won't go away until they get a more fleshed out character arc.
As for the 2nd Prince stuff in this episode, I don't even dislike that char but what was the point of that? Just them vs the zakō mobs. And why was the princess even there in the first place? Just to have a reason that sylpha and the prince believe the assasin guild? Doesn't that feel cheap?
My problem remains with how side characters are used in this show, not with them existing in the first place. Sylpha works cuz she fits the theme of this show. Badass borderline broken OP character plus great animation. She gets alot of love from the animators as well, so her moments are generally great.

@ZoronCraft Yeah cuz it's so common for a bunch of royals to just randomly take a small army and move somewhere to fight. Especially princesses are known for this type of thing. In the end there's two reasons why she came along. A: So the character has more screentime since she's also barely developed. B: So she and her pet can prove the assasins guild innocence in a way that makes some sense, which I still think is lazy writing and turns the entire character into nothing but a tool to conviniently solve such moments if needed.
Then the author had the idea to make sylpha and co think the assasins guild kidnapped loyd, which is a sensible assumption, but then when the moment came where they confronted the guild, the entire setup was just solved within a minute and now the scene has even more useless characters in it who all want screen time of their own.
Makes me wonder what the entire point of all that was. If he wanted sylpha to fight another demon then why not just her? Why bloat the scene with another dozen characters?
Alberts behaviour is also very inconsistent. In one minute he wants heads to roll, and all the sudden he is calm and believes them.
Not entirely sure how your assumption about me only taking the action seriously is justified when I keep going into detail about why exactly I think some of the writing surrounding the side character is lazy and bad.

Nothing you wrote there went over my head when watching the episode. You just like multiple other people fail to understand my criticism. And you guys keep trying to explain to me what happened when that was never my issue in the first place.
You're not listening to what I am saying, so you end up writing a wall of text explaining very obvious things, missing the point of my criticism.
My point isn't that the writing is nonsensical. My point is that alot of it is lazy and cheap. You can very well use all these plot devices you just explained, but are they good?
In my opinion they're not good at all. Creating interesting setups and then doing nothing with them cuz they turn out to be inconvinient. So they get solved with equally cheap means just to quickly be rid of them. Shoving in tons of characters but not giving the audience time to connect to them. Yet expecting the audience to be full of emotions for characters they barely know.

As for Albert, he was protayed in the episode prior to this, as someone ready to start a war for loyd. Which is fine in my opinion. After all, they've shown how much he cares for loyd throughout the series so far, so it makes sense. But it obviously clashes with his normal kind attitude. Of course that is so the audience understands just how important loyd is for him. So his concern for loyd overwrites his kind and composed nature. And again, this is fine.
If the author didn't immediately turn back on it rather than exploring a more sinister side of this character. And with such an lackluster reason on top of it. Again, there was a build up, an expectation was set, and then it was scapped at the very last second. That's not good, not consistent, not very interesting.

@Ryoda- man, the problem is that you say that the writing is lazy, but in fact it turns out that you just don't like what events are happening and you would like them to go somehow differently. These are different things

@ZoronCraft The author is full of good ideas but fumbles the execution or landing pretty hard alot.
That's my issue. I don't understand why I should be happy when an interesting setup is just thrown away immediately in favor of cheap tropes.

@Ryoda- Yeah some scenes could have been done better. The anime version even added more scenes of the assassin characters then the manga did. But I think you're expecting too much from a show like this (This ain't frieren lol).

What I'm upset about is that we don't get enough waifu fan service in an ecchi anime.