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How long has it been since i last saw 'W'? The character design with white hair is truly beautiful; she is such a war-crazy girl. There are so many new characters i've just seen, like Theresa, she is truly captivating in both personality and design. Is 'W' still working for the Reunion? Talula makes her first appearance in the third season. The fight between Talula and 'W' is rather insignificant; i thought there would be a nice battle scene, but a boss type like Talula is just too overpowering. Okay, I don't understand this episode. |
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| Bro this show is so beautiful and well animated, I just wish I could understand a damn thing that’s going on. How’d we go from Ch’en to this W/Ines arc lol?? And it bouncing all over the timeline didn’t help either, it’s like impossible to actually discuss these episodes because I can’t get enough of a grip on what’s going on. All I know is they found W, she kinda worked her way up the merc hierarchy, became a leader, her OG friends died and she betrayed the other queen? Don’t understand the why for anything lol Edit: apparently this adapted the dark memoirs side story or some shit but it condensed the arc tremendously |
Marinate1016Jul 11, 10:21 AM
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Bro this show is so beautiful and well animated, I just wish I could understand a damn thing that’s going on. How’d we go from Ch’en to this W/Ines arc lol?? And it bouncing all over the timeline didn’t help either, it’s like impossible to actually discuss these episodes because I can’t get enough of a grip on what’s going on.
All I know is they found W, she kinda worked her way up the merc hierarchy, became a leader, her OG friends died and she betrayed the other queen? Don’t understand the why for anything lol
Edit: apparently this adapted the dark memoirs side story or some shit but it condensed the arc tremendously
All I know is they found W, she kinda worked her way up the merc hierarchy, became a leader, her OG friends died and she betrayed the other queen? Don’t understand the why for anything lol
Edit: apparently this adapted the dark memoirs side story or some shit but it condensed the arc tremendously
| @Marinate1016 I also think about this, the Ch'en arc is still interesting but why this change into W arc |
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Bro this show is so beautiful and well animated, I just wish I could understand a damn thing that’s going on. How’d we go from Ch’en to this W/Ines arc lol?? And it bouncing all over the timeline didn’t help either, it’s like impossible to actually discuss these episodes because I can’t get enough of a grip on what’s going on.
All I know is they found W, she kinda worked her way up the merc hierarchy, became a leader, her OG friends died and she betrayed the other queen? Don’t understand the why for anything lol
Edit: apparently this adapted the dark memoirs side story or some shit but it condensed the arc tremendously
All I know is they found W, she kinda worked her way up the merc hierarchy, became a leader, her OG friends died and she betrayed the other queen? Don’t understand the why for anything lol
Edit: apparently this adapted the dark memoirs side story or some shit but it condensed the arc tremendously
| @Marinate1016 Ok, so it's not just me then. The whole episode felt like it was trying to tell, idek, a range of events that'd make up an entire season?? In several segments, literally every scene was a change of location and/or people and/or even a timeskip - EITHER forward OR back. Like we're looking into... the past? I couldn't even tell that! through a crystal ball or something, and only seeing fragments of what happened. From beginning to end. I thought I had my player set to 1.2× or 1.5× speed and checked multiple times while watching. Not only was it confusing, it got exhausting quite quick to try to keep up. No idea what they were thinking while putting this episode together, but it's just too much. |
yellowheartrenJul 11, 8:51 AM
| I never liked W that much. But she just looks so cute when holding that camera. Especially when she sneaks behind theresa. The way i see it. Because some of the reunion soldiers are sarkaz, they wanted to briefly touch upon the civil war in kazdel. But i guess it might be confusing because they condensed an entire arc of darknights memoir into one episode. |
| When you know that this was an important episode lore-wise, but didn't felt any excitement because you don't have any attachment for most of them. Like "Yeah, sure. They are doing things, now where is the arc I'm invested on." OG Doctor: super serious vs Doctor after I take control: goofy horrible strategist. |
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| Ok that was a very big curveball of an episode, so I don't blame anime-onlys from being slightly confused. To summarize and explain a little, what we got in this episode was an unexpected adaptation of one of the Intermezzi events from the game, Darknights Memoir, which delves into the past of W and her connection to Babel, the precursor organization to Rhodes Island. The latter half of the episode then showed us some things from S1 (specifically when Rhodes Island goes to Chernobog to extract the Doctor from their coma right at the start) but from other characters' perspective, and finally a glimpse of a confrontation between W and Talulah (which I did not expect we'd get to see this soon at all). As someone who already knows the story, I absolutely *loved* this episode. It was amazing and tied together certain threads of the story that were a bit scattered before in-game. The pacing was a little fast, but they got all the important parts down, and I am happy that Darknights Memoir got any kind of adaptation at all, since it is a pretty important "prequel" to the main story. This was also a pretty clever way to introduce the audience to Theresa. Remember that name later down the line!! |
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| Banger from Reona as usual. Have to be a hell of a war for merc groups to get bounties placed on them. Complications like succession wars always complicate things. So the cargo was the landship that eventually become RI's main base huh. W sure ended up getting quite the following among the mercs. This ep did well to showcase the events of the past and how that affected the present. Not to mention the brutality of what being a merc can be like on the field. Nice to see some depth added to W's character. Pretty grand ED though. |
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Bro this show is so beautiful and well animated, I just wish I could understand a damn thing that’s going on. How’d we go from Ch’en to this W/Ines arc lol?? And it bouncing all over the timeline didn’t help either, it’s like impossible to actually discuss these episodes because I can’t get enough of a grip on what’s going on.
All I know is they found W, she kinda worked her way up the merc hierarchy, became a leader, her OG friends died and she betrayed the other queen? Don’t understand the why for anything lol
Edit: apparently this adapted the dark memoirs side story or some shit but it condensed the arc tremendously
All I know is they found W, she kinda worked her way up the merc hierarchy, became a leader, her OG friends died and she betrayed the other queen? Don’t understand the why for anything lol
Edit: apparently this adapted the dark memoirs side story or some shit but it condensed the arc tremendously
| @Marinate1016 It is not arc based, this ep is just too rushed, it shows how the story builds up to what is going to happen in the next few eps but it does so by packing 10 hours of side story reading into 20 min. |
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| I don't know why the studio is doing this. The first Ep was from the main story, and now the second ep was Darknights Memoir event, but they fit the ENTIRE story into a single episode without explaining anything for non players. I only understood some of cuz I used to play, but even then it's still bad how they quickly the speedran. |
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| It’s not surprising that Darknights Memoir was adapted, but no way did they just speedrun it in a single episode. The pacing was all over the place. They should have adapted DM and maybe Babel too in a separate season instead. |
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With this chapter it became clear to me that the only problem with this series is the number of chapters it has, since now they show us W's story as a mercenary in different fragments of the past and present at a fairly fast pace, although in my case, despite not knowing almost anything about the game's history, I did manage to understand for the most part how the scenes were presented throughout the chapter and I only have one question, is this entire chapter the complete story of W or are there still more things to show about his story?
P.D: Watch the episode at 0.75x speed, the pace is a little better.
P.D: Watch the episode at 0.75x speed, the pace is a little better.
| @Issac113234 What was shown to us was W's past, though some parts were skipped or rushed through, but the most important things - her meeting Theresa and the pre-amnesia Doctor - were there. She's a relatively central character in the coming arcs, though, as was alluded to by the snippet from her confrontation with Talulah, so her story is far from over and she has an even bigger role down the line, but I couldn't tell you about that even if I wanted to as I myself have not made it that far in the main story of the game. |
| "Such honors may please a weakling, but I am strong." "There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are (me), and those who are not." "The Sorcerer King is Justice and weakness is a sin. All hail Ainz Ooal Gown!" "Arrivederci." |
| yeah, episode felt rushed as hell jumping around scenes and timelines so quickly. I never cared about W much but I did get most of it about the time before rhodes island and how everything tied until the present and how W knew about Doctor. |
| backstory i was not expecting that but why not |
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| damnn, Darknights Memoir in 1 episode huh? I also think it couldve needed another ep. tho thankfully i still liked it since i had read the story already. I mean besides a very rushed adaptation of it, i really liked some of the adapted scenes! nice to see Babel and later on the W/Tallulah confrontation |
| What the hell was this episode even? I'm gllad I'm notthe only one who had to check if my player was playing at 1.5 speed. You know when you play a game where you don't care about the story so you just spam spacebar to skip the dialogue faster? This is the exact feeling this episode gave. The voice lines were almost literally playing one over the other, the framing of the characters were completely random and the timeline was incomprehensible. What the hell were the scenes with Scout? And what the hell was that scene with the kids? The worst part is that everything introduced here is supposed to be meaningful, but there's so little time to let anything sink in that nothing really feels important at all. I mean, how is this your introduction to Patriot (Was he actually introduced during the FrostNova fight in S2? I can't remember)? How do you drop the information that Tallulah is not herself like this? Theresa and whatever the hell is happening among the Sarkaz? The Doctor's past personality? Every single of those things got about 30 seconds of screen time. You can't even say they were trying to be expositive with this episode, because when you try to be expositive you actually take your time explaining in the simplest and most understandable way possible. This episode does the inverse; it says that not a single thing that happened in these 20 minutes will be important but they had to add it anyway to not upset the fans. |
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I never liked W that much. But she just looks so cute when holding that camera. Especially when she sneaks behind theresa.
The way i see it. Because some of the reunion soldiers are sarkaz, they wanted to briefly touch upon the civil war in kazdel. But i guess it might be confusing because they condensed an entire arc of darknights memoir into one episode.
The way i see it. Because some of the reunion soldiers are sarkaz, they wanted to briefly touch upon the civil war in kazdel. But i guess it might be confusing because they condensed an entire arc of darknights memoir into one episode.
| @Jakkun Fr, what a W for the Camera. |
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While i loved the episode, it shows that they really needed an extra episode or two. I did not expect them to add in Darknights Memoir, but it’s very apparent that they rushed through it.
| @SoupandSalad404 I feel like Yostar might have a habit of doing that. They did the same thing to Go Go Loser Ranger S2, in fact that one was so bad it wasn't watchable, couldn't tell what the heck was going on. |
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| I think it's easy to get confused in the episode, but some things are made quite clear without being told. Everything takes place in the past, as we see a younger Amiya, and W's origins as a mercenary. They explain several things, such as why W already knew us when she rescued us in the first season. She was part of Babel for a time.  It seems that after Therese died, Babel ended up being renamed Rhodes Island, and she ended up being recruited again as a mercenary and joining Reunion. Then we see a flashback to the first season, where one of her old friends ended up hiring her to rescue us and in events that we do not see, Scout and Ines end up dying (Ines seems to be attacked by Reunion) but not before sending a message to W that Talula had an evil "Aura" as if she were not her, something that makes sense with the message that Frostnova tells us in the previous season where she tells us that we must save her. This leads her to confront Talula now seeing again that it seems that the latter is possessed by something since her main mission is to free her people from Reunion.  |
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| I was a bit confused during parts of this episode, it kept going to the past and then to the future. Maybe it's because I don't play the game and don't know enough about the characters, I just try to enjoy watching the anime. |
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| They released the episode on Theresa's birthday. They always do these kind of things to torture us. X.X For those who didn't understand the episode: Arknights is similar to Fate, it takes time to put the pieces together and understand the whole picture. We are not spoon fed. This episode shows the story of W and what she was doing while the main cast was on and about. We also see fragments from Rhodes Island's past. Main things to remember for anime-onlys: - There's a country called Kazdel with different demonic inhabitants(vampires, vendigos, banshees etc.) collectively called Sarkaz - Ines isn't a Sarkaz, she just cut her horns to look like one - There was a civil war in Kazdel between Theresa, the rightful ruler and her brother Theresis - Babel was supporting Theresa's side - The Doctor was an unbeatable strategic mastermind called the Ghost of Babel - Something happened and Theresa died, Babel lost the war - Babel was renamed Rhodes Island, much of the old crew left, the Doctor lost his memories and was placed into a sarcophagus for 4 years - W hunted down everyone involved with Theresa's death because she was her idol, the person she looked up to the most in life. She wanted Theresa to give her a real name - W cares for the Sarkaz race, this forces her to go up against Talulah who only wants bloodshed and destruction. And is sacrificing everyone in his army left-and-right Extra: If you're interested in W or simply want more Arknights, go to Youtube and search for "The Daggers' Inheritors". It's an official episode about W hunting down people involved in Theresa's death. Extra #2: We see W take up a camera and try to take pictures of Theresa. Some can be seen here: https://x.com/arknightsen/status/1853754129967104388 |
| I love the Episode (Played the game since 2020), but it does feels a bit rushed... Like there's no pause in-between every conversation. This Episode took an Event called 'Darknights Memoir' and it's one of the Prequel Event before Season 1 of the Anime happens./ For the one who already read/watch the Event in-game it's quite decent because they might already know the whole event lore, but for everyone else It feels rushed and all over the place. This whole episode/event took almost around 10 years timeline before the current Chernobog Incident (Season 1) as a whole. So It really needs maybe 3 or more episodes as OVA and it should be acceptable... There's also another Prequel Event called 'Babel' which took a lot longer than that, like 30+ years from Doctor, Theresa and Kal'tsit perspective. But let's not talk about that yet. For Anime-only watcher there's some pointers you should know to understand more of this episode (SPOILER AHEAD): - Sarkaz is a devil-like race from Kazdel (a nation like Ursus, but much smaller like Lungmen). And Sarkaz is one of the natives of Terra. This includes W, Hoederer, Theresa, Scout, etc... Mercenary culture is a common thing for Sarkaz because Kazdel always at-war and most of them are pretty nomadic in the first place. - Ines' Arts reads the shadow to read their minds. So when W said she's using it too much, it might cause her oripathy worse. - Babel was the name of the organization led by Theresa before it become Rhodes Island in the future and Amiya become Its Leader - The Doctor here is the one before the Amnesia during Chernobog Incident. Named 'Ghost of Babel' during this Event and Babel Event in-game for his brilliant strategy as a warmonger and took the war like he's playing chess. - In the last half of Episode when W met Ines and Hoederer again, W hunted down - Spoiler for Theresis: - W isn't her real name. She took it from the last Sarkaz she killed (also Hoederer's subordinates) before the beginning of the Episode. Also W is Illiterate (can't write but maybe still can read a bit) at this point. - All of the event W involved including the Reunion, is for Theresia... The True Crown of Kazdel. - The Paper W got in the end is one of the Photo she took and cherishes about Theresia. Yeah, she's pretty loved in the community because her lore is one of the most interesting one... Also she'll appear in the Main Story more often from this point. This Episode/Event is a plot point for her introduction. |
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| Wow did they just sped run Darknights Memoir into just one episode. I feel that if you're an anime only or you've never reached this part of the game, you'd be confused of what's happening. Well W is one of my favourite characters/operator from the game simply becase of her character design and back story. Also a bonus that she's voice by Ayachi. |
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How does this show look so God-damned good?!? 🤯
Is it just Yostar dumping a whole lot of money into it? Regardless, I've never gotten into the games but have been following this entire anime, and I have to remind myself to pick up my jaw off the floor after every episode. There's so many details and shading in the visuals, and it has a distinct art style. The show's a visual masterpiece!
Is it just Yostar dumping a whole lot of money into it? Regardless, I've never gotten into the games but have been following this entire anime, and I have to remind myself to pick up my jaw off the floor after every episode. There's so many details and shading in the visuals, and it has a distinct art style. The show's a visual masterpiece!
| @NyanM0t0 The game already have a very good and detailed visualsa and Yostar is basically just animating an already good source. But still credits to them coz the animation on this adaptation is amazing. The game is really good and that's why I'm still invested into the game ever since it first came out in 2020. |
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| I didn't expect them to include the entirety of Darknights Memoir in this season with how few episodes we have. Definitely suffering from the problem that we had near the end of the previous season where it feels like the characters are talking at 1.25x speed to fit everything in. Hopefully this means they intend to keep the anime going and we eventually get to see Act II and Babel animated. |
| Pacing was a mess. I know most chunks of info so more or less tied everything, but for someone coming blind this has to be impossible to grasp. |
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| I had to check if I was watching at 2x speed because everything is happening so fast. The characters just keep talking and talking, literally no breaks between dialogues. But I'll take it. This is W's past I believe? The moment it gets back to the first season with Scout and Ace I was like "no wayy". Now I know Scout is just as badass as Ace. It's a shame he died off screen in the first season, but thankfully we got see him for the last time in this one. A question but please don't tell me if it's a spoiler for future episodes. Why is it bad that Irene used her Arts on Talulah? I want to choke W so hard too.  |
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I had to check if I was watching at 2x speed because everything is happening so fast. The characters just keep talking and talking, literally no breaks between dialogues. But I'll take it.
This is W's past I believe? The moment it gets back to the first season with Scout and Ace I was like "no wayy". Now I know Scout is just as badass as Ace. It's a shame he died off screen in the first season, but thankfully we got see him for the last time in this one.
A question but please don't tell me if it's a spoiler for future episodes. Why is it bad that Irene used her Arts on Talulah?
I want to choke W so hard too.
This is W's past I believe? The moment it gets back to the first season with Scout and Ace I was like "no wayy". Now I know Scout is just as badass as Ace. It's a shame he died off screen in the first season, but thankfully we got see him for the last time in this one.
A question but please don't tell me if it's a spoiler for future episodes. Why is it bad that Irene used her Arts on Talulah?
I want to choke W so hard too.
Yuu_Kanzaki said: Why is it bad that Irene used her Arts on Talulah? Irene? She's not part of the main story line the anime adapts. She's part of the sea terrors plot. If you mean Ines, then her Arts allow her to read people's personalities through their shadows. And Talulah had two shadows, meaning two personalities. In the previous seasons multiple people talked about how Talulah changed, she was a different person in the past, and she's just a tyrant now. |
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Yuu_Kanzaki said:
Why is it bad that Irene used her Arts on Talulah?
Why is it bad that Irene used her Arts on Talulah?
Irene? She's not part of the main story line the anime adapts. She's part of the sea terrors plot.
If you mean Ines, then her Arts allow her to read people's personalities through their shadows. And Talulah had two shadows, meaning two personalities.
In the previous seasons multiple people talked about how Talulah changed, she was a different person in the past, and she's just a tyrant now.
| @Yaggamy Whoops, sorry yeah I meant Ines. So that's why Talulah refers to herself in season 1 when she burns a butterfly landing on her hand. Thanks for the reply. |
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| Whole episode was terribly disjointed. |
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| what did I just watch |
| Yeah they lost us there.. a full W story recap in one episode?? Still that was too quick, lot of infos and I dont play the game |
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