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Aug 20, 5:00 AM
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Alicia should have killed that freaking bastard Maynard, not just knocked him out.
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Aug 20, 5:38 AM
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And the battle of Meynard and Alicia concluded, he may be a powerful wizard but also a one-power-pony wizard, pathetic. That been said, Alicia's new treasure sword is far more powerful than I expected holy shit!

Points to Meynard for making an actual terroristic economic threat with those forest devouring larvae, using it against the village whose youths use economic rhetoric
against Alicia heroic duty, the irony.
Why make people just suffer now when you can make their children and their children children suffer too. Vile.
Aug 20, 6:09 AM
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Meynard was a challenging foe full of bug surprises, but once Clevatess gave Alicia back her regalia, they were just another stream for her stream splitter to split!

I'd be surprised if getting swallowed whole by those creepy crawlies didn't add another tally to Alicia's list of unpleasant experiences...
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Aug 20, 6:23 AM
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One of my petpeeves is when an anime will have a metric fuck ton of enemies, but only a couple attack at once. No reason why that swarm shouldn't have been on Alicia the entire time while pressuring the house more instead of just buzzing in the air the entire time. Happens all the time in anime. Show did do a good job though at making the Insect dude the most punchable character ever.
Aug 20, 6:24 AM
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Alicia what a woman, a true hero. Stood her ground and defeated them. Glad she got back her Regalia. She could have easily dealt with them if she had it from the begining. Her speech was very touching too. Also the elders aren't fools like the young ones from the village.

Clevatess is still stuck though and there's another dark beast behind Drel.
Aug 20, 6:26 AM
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This episode was fine, but the manga wasn't really any better for this part. That was a crazy boob shot, though. I don't remember that in the manga; maybe it was, but just less glaring. Animation is above average compared to the dogshit most shows have, but still noticeably not great.

The VA work is massively carrying weight, whether it be Klen, Alicia, or someone like Meynard
Aug 20, 6:34 AM
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Kari's husband is a stand up guy, would've sucked to see him die at the hand of Meynard and his bugs. The whole family is more than aight.

Meynard's past is hilariously clichéd. "Heroes failed me, they're just frauds" Sit down, you're not Stain, not even remotely lol.

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Aug 20, 6:42 AM
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Drel did seem too OP to be true and now it seems he has had the backing of a dark beast lord all this time, and characters who lord it over others with burrowed power disgust me.
But lets talk about Stream Splitter, because WTF the weapon is way too overpowered, all living creatures contain a significant amount of water so Alicia could just explode people for days ( 0.0 ) I've a feeling though there will be some convenient reason why it won't work on humans or they'll just hope we quietly forget she can do that.
@Mainnus on a positive note the rain of bug goop will actually do the forest good so it should recover pretty quickly.
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Aug 20, 6:46 AM
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It was so badass when Alicia use the sword. I felt like i was the side characters seeing a hero true power for the first time.
Aug 20, 6:50 AM
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Animation quality was kind of meh. Was hoping for a little more effort/budget on the action scenes...
Aug 20, 6:59 AM

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Anime of the season with another banger ep. As someone who hates bugs, thank GOD that mf Meynard got his ass beat and we’re done with that 🤣.

Nice to get an episode that’s essentially all Alicia! She finally got to try out her new sword that she was so excited to use and it quite literally saved the day. But wtf, Clevatess is somehow not completely sealed? Was he able to restore himself as a clone from the bit of himself in Alicia or was the version that fought Drel just a decoy? Speaking of which, it looks like another dark beast is using Drel to stir up shit so the dark beasts are not much different from humans after all. Plotting behind each other’s backs, betrayals, manipulation, etc. Quite ironic.

The way the show throws in random Alicia fanservice always makes me crack up, like did we really need the 5 second thigh and tit shots 😭

Seen some people complain about Alicia not killing Meynard, but if she killed him, she wouldn’t have been able to use him for info like I’m sure they’ll do next week.
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Aug 20, 7:15 AM
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Alicia should have killed that freaking bastard Maynard, not just knocked him out.
@AkeZZZ At least she shut him up and broke the source of his magic control. That counts for something, I think she is too weak from all that venom to kill him at the moment.
Aug 20, 7:54 AM
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One thing i gotta appreciate is the unique sound design they use in this show.The sword "roaring" for example was so sick.
Aug 20, 7:54 AM

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Aug 20, 8:01 AM

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lol Meynard be like "I'm not done yet!" then Alicia be like "oh god damn it. you're done. *smash*"
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Aug 20, 8:18 AM

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fine, you can use the fancy sword now. Just hurry up and get me
Aug 20, 8:41 AM
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I actually really enjoyed this mainly cause i love the anime lmao. For fantasy anime this is i would say pretty good animation there were some scenes that definetly could have been a little more animated but its whatever. And the sword its kind of ehh idk all beings are made out of water i thought she would actually use it to make a river of bug goop instead of just exploding them i thought like a bug goop tsunami couldve been cool. Meynard as a character is also kinda yea cliche i guess is the best way to put it. I thought the moths as a concept were pretty cool but the sheer amount of them confused me cause wouldn't Meynard need an absurd amount of magic to control all of them idk seemed like a huge step in magic but so is the sword so it sorta makes sense. Overall a good episode with the little bit about Drel having aid from another dark lord I thought was pretty cool little nugget of info for the next ep.
Aug 20, 8:46 AM

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As far as getting ragdolled by the demon king and realizing all hope is lost goes, a stunning glimpse of the world's horizon sure is an unexpected silver lining.

Clevatess could have handed over the Regalia sooner but imagining he purposefully withheld it for maximum dramatic effect is so funny that I don't mind it that much.
Aug 20, 9:02 AM
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Finally, finally Alicia unleashed her "power".. not sure if Clevatess helped her in some way, but I am sure he was the one that summoned the sword, or otherwise everyone's deadmeat
Aug 20, 9:34 AM

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Alright, Another week another Episode

I gotta say though this weeks episode is supposted to be the big pay off from last weeks build up.

and I believe my guess from last week weren't off, at least not by that much.

I guessed

"1. I think Clevatess will come back and will probably be weakened
Clevatess, comes back only to be discovered by one the soilders.
the ladies will probably be helped by the villagers.

2. Clevatess, comes back then kill the general and they end up having an all out battle
the ladies will probably be helped by the villagers."

ok, I was very admit that the villagers would help. A bit of an obvious choice considering if felt very cliche. and the other things I said was that Clevatess would return in front of the soldiers that were trying to stop Drel or come back and fight Drel. HALF right. He came back as a pup from the hero's ICOR blood.

Ok, I couldn't stop yawning, and also feel as though my anticipation was building up. Which had been a great pay off the first 3 episodes. But I kept seeing that the writing was just getting intense, which felt as though only a cool looking scene would save the Main cast. And as cool as the premise might have been the execution is lacking. No hate to the animators, if this was a LN I would have stopped reading about at this point or taken a break from reading it. The story writing at this point is not as satisfying but only because it feels like an Isekai and those facker have ruined a great premise that would have wowed 14 year old me.

I gotta say seeing that Clevatess know that another dark beast might be the mids of all of this makes me extra proud. I also predicted that. But Tbh, if youre a novice of story telling you can make out what they are talking about no problem

Regardless, it rating time.

Plot: 8/10
winning a sticky situation

Theme: 7/10
Isekai/Shonen fights where the MC pulls off a cool move


Characters: 6/10
I am kinda getting annoyed how naive that clevatess being. The Hero is cool... sometimes


OST: 8/10
the only thing I liked about this whole thing BEEP BOOP


Anyway, I am done talking about this show. Hopefully it gets cooler by the end or when it gets closer to the end that would be AWESOME to see what that would look like. Considering we're only a MONTH?? holy away we should be find

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Aug 20, 9:40 AM
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this show feels like it's straight out of 2007 or something. kinda love it.
Aug 20, 9:44 AM

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Alicia is incredibly tough; even when she temporarily lost her immortality, she still fought through it all. She's very powerful and even more so with the relic Klen gave her (by the way, that angle when little Klen spoke to her was essential to the plot), there's no doubt she's a true heroine. The only thing I wanted is for her to have killed that bastard Meynard.

So now another Beast King is stirring things up with the humans. I guess everyone has their own motives and aspirations-Klen with his crossroads of trying to understand humanity, the Bird Queen who wants humans to stop hunting magical beast cubs, and now this new king, who clearly doesn't mean well if he sides with Drel.
Aug 20, 9:49 AM

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Did she seriously not kill that annoying wizard? We could've had one less blabbering psycho, but no, let's just knock him out...
Good to know that about Drel. He felt unreasonably strong, making whole power structure questionable. But if he is connected to another lord then it makes more sense.
Aug 20, 10:09 AM

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The bugs don't even like the light of stream splitter, but seriously being able to use the water inside the bugs is OP.

Aug 20, 10:12 AM

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Alicia what a woman, a true hero. Stood her ground and defeated them. Glad she got back her Regalia. She could have easily dealt with them if she had it from the begining. Her speech was very touching too. Also the elders aren't fools like the young ones from the village.

Clevatess is still stuck though and there's another dark beast behind Drel.
@MegamiRem Well it looks like elders were able to to talk some sense into them liked you hoped they would last week. Although he still questioned Alicia to be sure, before making up his mind.
Aug 20, 10:28 AM

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i enjoyed the ep

she acted like a real Hero at the end!!!
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Aug 20, 10:44 AM

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and all this could have been resolved smoothly if Clevatess never nerfed her on the sword access in the first place lol, yeah I know it stands out, uhh just have a freakin scabbard for it?
Aug 20, 10:58 AM
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That brother reminded me Regulus from Re:zero, he yapped the whole episode, I wish Alicia had killed him. That aside Interesting episode per usual.
Aug 20, 11:09 AM

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Come one, I was hoping for that insects guy to die in a horrible way, kinda cool to reveal why that new treasure is so important, basically an anti life weapon, So Clevatess and the Bird grew tired of the humans but this other one is for some reason supporting them, we have yet to know about the 4th one.
Aug 20, 11:15 AM
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What a waste of time just because he doesn't give her the sword right away.
Aug 20, 11:27 AM

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All that wouldnt even happend if he gave her sword right away/
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Aug 20, 11:37 AM
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oh wow. That was some incredibly lazy and poor writing.
Aug 20, 11:41 AM
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crazy tit shot 10/10
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A veritable rain of bug-juice, the orange flavor.

Mucho cleavage shots, but not sexy.
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Aug 20, 12:25 PM
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Come on dude. I mean what the actual fuck is this? Meynard Swan's Anti-plot armour is just over 9000. But I guess that's what happens when a character is written to be too strong. The writer scrambles to come up with something, anything, that could be done to fix the damage done and this is what happens. Otherwise, this episode would have been over much more quickly.
Aug 20, 1:00 PM
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Good Anime, makes me want to cry.
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Aug 20, 1:33 PM
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The best episode of this season.
Production is insane, and they didn't use annoying CGI like they did in Togun Anki.
Aug 20, 1:47 PM

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Damn, the bug guy folded real quick once regalia came into play. unexpected. What's even more unexpected is seeing him KO'd instead of killed. Getting soft on characters are we?

Gravity magic girl is funny. I bet she'd rather be someplace else lol. Gave up after her soldiers were taken out by villagers.

I guess the show won't kill off those 2.

Another surprise is Clevatess staying trapped. I was sure he'd bust out of prison with ease but it seems he needs Alicia for that.

It seems like Drel sold his soul to a dark beast for power. So there's a dark beast fighting for humans? Maybe they want to use humans against other dark beasts? Makes you wonder if kidnapping happen because the dark beast ordered it. That was interesting. Alicia and Drel are Champions of Chaos Lords, from Warhammer universe :P Khorne the Blood God (Drel), Slaanesh (minus pleasure) the Dark Prince (Clevatess) :D Whose champion's gonna win?!

Can't wait to see just how powerful Drel is. If he has ichor in him too, then he's as unkillable as Alicia.
Aug 20, 2:40 PM

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Great ep

Those townspeople are so damn annoying, like they really piss me off by the way that they act. Those idiots are literally alive due to the hell that heroes go thru but alr.

Almost got mad about the chief. Thank God that he can use his head.

This goofy really thought he could even touch her in a fight. The delusion is crazy amongst there idiots🤣

Bug dude back on his bs, I just knew he wasn’t gonna keep his promise (obv).

Finally she gets her regalia back.

Should have killed dude, stop this mercy bs unless ur putting him up for interrogation.

9.5/10


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Aug 20, 2:44 PM
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Get f&#*ed stupid bugs!

I love how "ugly" the combat is in this, in that Alicia the Hero looks worn but rugged/powerful in fights, and the moment with the Regalia emerging was incredibly epic.

Maybe should have realised that another Demon King is apparently behind Drel, whereas I just assumed it was some kind of magic or weird hybridization (like with all the monsters that are being captured in the previous episode).

The fight in this episode was incredibly hype to watch anyway 🙌
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Aug 20, 3:25 PM

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Clevatess has unleashed Alicia's booba power, what a fight, Alicia is love and she's getting cooler with every episode.
Aug 20, 3:57 PM

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It was so satisfying seeing Alicia destroy the insect guy, he really got on my nerves. Nice boob shot too.
Aug 20, 4:16 PM

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and all this could have been resolved smoothly if Clevatess never nerfed her on the sword access in the first place lol, yeah I know it stands out, uhh just have a freakin scabbard for it?
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Aug 20, 4:20 PM
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As to why Alicia didn't kill Meynard right there. From a strategic standpoint, he's a high value target so she can interrogate him for intel on Drel. NTM, she could offer him to the town for compensation for all the trouble they have inadvertently caused.
Aug 20, 5:09 PM
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Another week, another episode filled with bad animation, directing, and story with people praising it regardless (despite 20 mins of shaky cam, no actual progression, a lot of stills, horrible shots, very bad fighting, etc.), and they also don't seem to understand what is actually dark fantasy. If the creators wanted they could've done Dark Fantasy right in this episode: they could've done it here by killing off Nell or Alicia permanently, letting Meynard succeed, eating the forest like Meynard suggested, and burning the wheel house killing a lot of the village that were inside so it ends dark and in despair with a lesson learned from the outcome; as you can tell this was not the case and invalidates the dark part completely. People say it's a Dark fantasy, but ep 2-4 is just an SA fantasy (somehow people defended this arc though🤦‍♂️), and eps 1, and 5-8 are normal fantasy that takes no risks or show the bad of humanity more than normal. Thank god there is only 4 more episodes left so I don't have to hear people saying this is a good show anymore. (if I'm gonna argue why this show is bad, I need to watch the show to see if it my pov stands up in new episodes which is hard, since every episode past ep 1 has been horrible)
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Aug 20, 5:49 PM

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Drel did seem too OP to be true and now it seems he has had the backing of a dark beast lord all this time, and characters who lord it over others with burrowed power disgust me.
But lets talk about Stream Splitter, because WTF the weapon is way too overpowered, all living creatures contain a significant amount of water so Alicia could just explode people for days ( 0.0 ) I've a feeling though there will be some convenient reason why it won't work on humans or they'll just hope we quietly forget she can do that.
@Mainnus on a positive note the rain of bug goop will actually do the forest good so it should recover pretty quickly.
pixelante said:
But lets talk about Stream Splitter, because WTF the weapon is way too overpowered, all living creatures contain a significant amount of water so Alicia could just explode people for days ( 0.0 )

The reason it worked was because it was a literal flood of insects, it isn't a "conceptual weapon".
Remember that she couldn't cut the Old One.
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pixelante said:
But lets talk about Stream Splitter, because WTF the weapon is way too overpowered, all living creatures contain a significant amount of water so Alicia could just explode people for days ( 0.0 )

The reason it worked was because it was a literal flood of insects, it isn't a "conceptual weapon".
Remember that she couldn't cut the Old One.
@thewiru oh, so you are saying it was like she made all the insects explode because by volume they made up a significant body of water? But that would still mean she could devastate a large army.
Aug 20, 6:41 PM
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Although only briefly, the backstory of the insect-controlling sorcerer Maynard Swan from the Boelate forces adds depth to the story about how others view heroes in this anime.
At first, Maynard admired them, but eventually he no longer did, because the heroes were not there to help when they were needed.

Meanwhile, from the heroes’ perspective, especially from Alicia, the mission they carried out was to expand the world that humans could set foot on.

On the other hand, some people also disliked the heroes, because their failures brought disaster, with the destruction of Hyden’s capital city.

What’s interesting in this episode is General Dorel—Clevatess said there was another Demon King inside his body.
Which Demon King was meant?
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@thewiru oh, so you are saying it was like she made all the insects explode because by volume they made up a significant body of water? But that would still mean she could devastate a large army.
@pixelante
I mean, an insect is much more fragile than a human.
But sure, if you packed a lot of armorless people like sardines, you could do that.
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