The Heroic Legend of Arslan
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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- About time Shagad shows his true nature.. Too bad for him, Narsus had his own strategy. Good action for a penultimate episode. I feel like Narsus and Shagad has more a personal rivalry now with their ideals clashing. Hope he learns the errors of his ways. One more episode left :< |
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| Despite it feeling quite face-paced for a penultimate episode, I'm glad they were able to have a contingency plan (thanks to Narsus) for dealing with Shagad's betrayal. Very good episode, onwards to seeing how this will come to an end next week. |
| Don't believe the hype. |
| Wow, Shagad went down quick and easy in a single episode. XD Only shame was Narsus needing that bird's help, Narsus shoulda beat him 1 on 1 but it was pretty obvious he woulda lost without the bird's help...oh well. Etoile's here! Finale next week...hope it's about their romance! XD |
| Predictable episode....of course everything is under Narsus's control It's almost over already? Time sure goes fast....or the episodes are just too few. Season 3 of this is a must |
 (っ◔◡◔)っ 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓭𝓪𝔂 ♥ |
 Yup, 1 episode before final. Time for Shagad to be honest and begin the battle to test their "bond" and best friend. |
MasceraAug 14, 2016 3:43 AM
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| As much as I like Arslan Senki, this episode and Shagad were pretty underwhelming, especially Shagad as a villain. Consider how against it he is, seeing Arslan decide that punishment felt really unexpected lol Last episode is next, and I'm hoping we're lucky enough to get a 3rd season announcement at the end, hopefully Narsus also looked so feminine in that ending card |
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| Good episode again. Nice to see Zot clan was given some credit as well, good allies. Got two things they'll need to deal with then next week, Etoille story and Alfreed and her brother. Shame last episode next week, would've liked more. |
| Lmao now Shagad has to become a slave himself. Maybe he'll realize the error of his ways and change his mind about slavery during that time. If it weren't for that ending with Etoile, this episode could have easily served as the finale. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. Take me back to the days before MAL became infested with Twitter's favorite buzzwords. |
| This was about as predictable as it gets with Shagad being a villian and Narsus seeing through everything. I still liked how it was done. Shagad's punishment was perfect although 1 year does seem really short. An Arslan and Etoile reunion! That was a really unreasonable request but there's a good chance Arslan will do it anyway. Best part of the episode was this fight for me.  |
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| I must admit it's a bit hard to feel drama when you Narsus the all knowing on your side. It would do a world of good for this story to have him being wrong once. The punishment was quite fitting. Slavery is no joke. I would have perhaps made it a longer period of time so it really soaked into his bones what being a slave means. How can this end now? Is the budget that low? There's so much story left to tell. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| I have no idea how they are planning to finish the story. I guess they'll finish the 6th book in the next episode, but what about the 7th one? It's not big enough for the entire season, unless, of course, they'll want to go into the second part of the novels in the middle of the season. |
| So Parsians+Zot Clan vs Pirates.As always with Narsus'plan Shagad and the pirates were ambushed and lost.Shagad ends up as a slave for one year as a punishment.Now Etoile arrives at Gilan and asks Arslan to save Innocentis.One episode left and I wonder how it will end. |
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| That has to be the best episode of Arslan Senki. Amazing fight between Narsus and Shagad, full of intensity. The music was amazingly placed here, this season does what Shokugeki no Souma can't do in the 2nd season. |
| I was hoping that, as Shagad was escaping from the city, Ferengis would put an arrow through his chest :) But that's mainly because I'd like to see an episode where we focus a bit more on her, and get some more of her background. |
| The sword that takes life gives life |
| This show is so good. only worried how they'll wrap it up at this rate hope to see more soon. And agree with Fara, would help to see Narsus wrong for once but this was definitely his arc to shine so maybe in the future. |
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| First of all, given how Shagard revealed himself with that speech, it would be less believable that Narsus didn't figure it out. Second of all, the swordsmanship in this episode was atrocious, though that's pretty much the norm for this show. Third, [sarcasm]she isn't asking for much, is she? It's a completely reasonable demand.[/sarcasm] |
| Shagard was so close to killing Narsus for good, it was so damn close T_T Hope the fucking hawk dies horribly. The outcome of the battle didn't surprised me AT ALL. It was so painfully obvious Narsus would have predicted everything I even laughed a bit when he appeared with the Zot clan. And, again, any of Arslan party has been killed when they even confront alone entire groups of enemies, let alone being even injured. Oh, I forgot, they have a plot armor bigger than the whale from Re: Zero -_- You know a series is doing something wrong when you were rooting all the time for the greedy dude who wanted slavery rather than the good guy who want good things, but it's so painfully OP and idealistic it makes you sick (not that I agree with Shagard's vision, it's just I wanted to see Narsus dead). Well, at least Shagard put one hell of a fight before being defeated (I was surprised they didn't kill him). I'm not sure if I want a third season of this shit if we will have the same scheme in the battles again and again. For me the ending could be a rushed trainwreck and end this already. But, well, it's my fault for expecting anything of this. |
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| I loved this episode with this impressive sword fight. Good job Arslan :D. He was calm during the whole battle and Shagad's punishment was well chosen. I wonder how the last episode will end :/ |
| As always Alfrid was the best xD I'm hoping she will marry Narsus for real soon. One ep left... |
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| Shagad got rekt by Arslan's bird, and I'm just laughing at him. I actually wanna see Narsus taste defeat for once, and it's pretty funny the Zot Clan calls him boss. I do hope Narsus and Alfreed get together in the future, because why not. |
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| Nice episode. But as much as I like all the politics and adventure in this series, I have to admit the biggest weakness it has - everything is a little too one-sided. Even a guy supposed to be smarter than most people can't make a single right move without Narsus being 10 steps ahead or something. Narsus is basically a god who's not only able to see the future, but also makes the perfect move to deal with that every single time. I think a lot more people would enjoy this series if there were little more chaos to everything and things went south sometimes. It would make things a lot fresher. Aside from that, it's a pity this is almost over. Despite everything I mentioned above, I still enjoyed it quite a bit and I really want to see this series properly wrapped up. Hopefully, we'll get one more season and that'll be enough. (Also, it would be awesome if Arslan actually made a move on Etoile. Not that I think this will ever happen though... lol) |
| The biggest problem I have here is that this is yet another conflict that was resolved by Narsus predicting everything. I'm glad that there was something personal about this conflict though, but I kept hoping that maybe Arslan would be able to "do something". The other problem that I have is that this is ending in one more episode! |
| I wonder how will this series end or will we have another season coming out edit: I also kind of wonder about that dark magic guy considering him, I kind of doubt this all can end in one episode |
evyyyAug 14, 2016 2:01 PM
| As some people are saying here I'm getting a bit tired of Narsus seeing through and predicting everything, even though Shagad's plan was kinda bad I'd hoped they'd do more with it, but of course Narsus comes in and saves the day again for what feels like the 100th time I guess there's only so much you can do with 8 episodes though, it's almost over now but I hope we can get a season 3 to get some closure which I doubt will happen in 1 last episode |
 *whispers* Gaaaaay I'm making this my background. I love all the little moments Elam had through out this episode.  Like this scene where it looks like jealousy but it’s actually just Elam seeing through Narsus' charade. But this exchange had to be my favorite |
JotakakAug 14, 2016 6:03 PM
| Although Arslan pledged to abolish slavery, I doubt he could accomplish that unless he was on the throne, and even then after a few years...hence the reasoning why Arslan must have used that opportunity to make Shagad's punishment be to know of the hardships of slavery; before it's made illegal in the kingdom, and hopefully learning compassion at the same time. Considering he would normally have had the death penalty for treason and conspiring to kill the crown prince, it's quite the lenient punishment, though not surprising considering Arslan's personality. Next week's episode is apparently the last, and I have only one question: WHY!? Tohka_Yatogami said: "Shahad got owned" ...I see what you did there.Shagad got owned. Now he has to become a slave himself! |
| I wonder how they'll make a decent finale, it all still feels like build up to something more. The first season at least had that big battle to end on. Unless more gets announced sometime soon it'll just stay feeling like an unnecessary addition, despite some pretty big events having happened this season. |
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| This was a bit anticlimatic to be honest. I mean we could see that the Treasure stuff was bullshit, but I thought Shagad would be a better strategist. He had serious muscle backing him for real, but I wanted to see a more tactical confrontation up. That being said the 1on1 between those two was really good and the exchanges of words were also good. Liked how Elam and principally Alfreid told him that he was a shell of a man and Narsus just poured even more salt into that wound. Lovely was that Azrael scratched his darned face, it was symbolic of Arslan keeping watch over his subordinates which is nice. Arslan himself keeps a delicate sense of kindness and authority but given his personality we see that his intentions are just noble in nature. Shagad condemned to 1 year of slavery.........clearly this is the end of the story for him since it is unlikely he ever returns at some point. The intriguing part is Etoile's message. Now now.....what will Arslan do with this information? I mean his original "order" by Andragoras was to bring an army of 50k men (basically facade for exile) in order to recover Ecbatana, but Ecbatana is in shambles, Guiscard undersupported and if he ever saves Innocentis may even gain an ally he can use.........basically this is just setting the stage for Arslan to STAND UP against Andragoras. Now how will he react to that in just 1 episode left? |
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| We better get another season if they decide to cliffhanger it and send troops. I hate the fact it's only 8 eps ;_;. |
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| This season is getting better and better ! I loved the battle between Narsus and Shagard ! But next episode is the last ... I hope for a 3rd season ! |
| ''I'm fine with being a beast, I neither want nor need anything to protect. I just want to destroy everything, until the beast stops whining.'' Takasugi Shinsuke |
| Anime adaptations leave off at really dumb points all the time, there's no reason to expect a third season. If one happens, that's great. But where a show leaves off doesn't matter in the slightest in terms of whether another season happens. |
Illyricus said: Shagard was so close to killing Narsus for good, it was so damn close T_T Hope the fucking hawk dies horribly. The outcome of the battle didn't surprised me AT ALL. It was so painfully obvious Narsus would have predicted everything I even laughed a bit when he appeared with the Zot clan. And, again, any of Arslan party has been killed when they even confront alone entire groups of enemies, let alone being even injured. Oh, I forgot, they have a plot armor bigger than the whale from Re: Zero -_- You know a series is doing something wrong when you were rooting all the time for the greedy dude who wanted slavery rather than the good guy who want good things, but it's so painfully OP and idealistic it makes you sick (not that I agree with Shagard's vision, it's just I wanted to see Narsus dead). Well, at least Shagard put one hell of a fight before being defeated (I was surprised they didn't kill him). I'm not sure if I want a third season of this shit if we will have the same scheme in the battles again and again. For me the ending could be a rushed trainwreck and end this already. But, well, it's my fault for expecting anything of this. Yeah, you'd have to be an idiot like Elam if you haven't figured out Shagad was the bad guy all along. It would be more atrocious if someone like Narsus can't figure it out. Out of all the plot convenience that you could point out you chose the one that's most likely to occur *facepalm* And also you can rest easy because |
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MoeGod said: Don't worry about that, because I knew Narsus would have predicted all of Shagard's moves and would defeat him, like he always done with all the enemies so far. But, like I said, I don't blame the show, but myself, for expecting the most small posibility of having a surprising outcome of the battles involving the good guys. It was a rant more than anything.Illyricus said: Shagard was so close to killing Narsus for good, it was so damn close T_T Hope the fucking hawk dies horribly. The outcome of the battle didn't surprised me AT ALL. It was so painfully obvious Narsus would have predicted everything I even laughed a bit when he appeared with the Zot clan. And, again, any of Arslan party has been killed when they even confront alone entire groups of enemies, let alone being even injured. Oh, I forgot, they have a plot armor bigger than the whale from Re: Zero -_- You know a series is doing something wrong when you were rooting all the time for the greedy dude who wanted slavery rather than the good guy who want good things, but it's so painfully OP and idealistic it makes you sick (not that I agree with Shagard's vision, it's just I wanted to see Narsus dead). Well, at least Shagard put one hell of a fight before being defeated (I was surprised they didn't kill him). I'm not sure if I want a third season of this shit if we will have the same scheme in the battles again and again. For me the ending could be a rushed trainwreck and end this already. But, well, it's my fault for expecting anything of this. Yeah, you'd have to be an idiot like Elam if you haven't figured out Shagad was the bad guy all along. It would be more atrocious if someone like Narsus can't figure it out. Out of all the plot convenience that you could point out you chose the one that's most likely to occur *facepalm* And also you can rest easy because However, now that you have bring that spoiler, makes me actually curious to see a possible third season and see that scene, because that could make things interesting. |
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| So Arslan has announced that he'll be sending Daryun and Narsus on the treasure hunt. And that gives Shagad the opportunity to raid the prince's office and take over the city himself. But his little outburst in episode five already gave him away and Narsus had plans made to counter any attack. The treasure map was a fake as there was no treasure there. And Shagad shows his true colors, again, as he attacks the place with his pirate army. And Narsus' plan gets kicked into action and Shagad is caught. And Arslan gives him one hell of a punishment – spending a year as a slave is a punishment befitting of a person who is determined to let slavery persist. Graze should hand him over to a cruel dude so he learns the true pain of slaves. And then Etoile shows up and asks for Arslan's help to save Innocentis. She just saw that Guiscard is unwilling to let Innocentis continue as king and wants to remove him and she doesn't want that because she is loyal to Innocentis. She should just let the two brothers fight it out because if Guiscard wins then Lusitania will be under a better king as Innocentis doesn't do things himself anyway. So, will Arslan go to Ecbatana for Etoile's sake to save Innocentis? Or will he go but with a different intention? And if he does end up going and then beats up Guiscard, then will this result in Lusitania withdrawing and then the two countries having better relations? Or will Arslan kick out Innocentis or imprison him or kill him? I'm guessing Arslan will go to save Innocentis and then things will end with the two countries having better relations, allies or something. But we still have Andoragoras out there who can send his army towards Ecbatana at any moment and if he meets up with Arslan, he's gonna fight because that's probably the whole reason why he exiled his kid. And we also have Hilmes but he isn't going to be any trouble since he's busy with Irina whom he just swiped from Guiscard. Interesting things yet to happen but we don't have enough time to give things a proper closure. I doubt they'll be able to wrap up the conflict with Hilmes, Arslan's past and him ascending the throne. At the very least they can kick Lusitania out in this one episode but more episodes would still be needed to properly wrap things up. |
ex_necross said: Anime adaptations leave off at really dumb points all the time, there's no reason to expect a third season. If one happens, that's great. But where a show leaves off doesn't matter in the slightest in terms of whether another season happens. You got that right, there are still many many shows out there that ended with a cliffhanger and never got another season. I really do hope this gets another season, otherwise I will have to spill some blood! |
AntonKutovoi said: I have no idea how they are planning to finish the story. I guess they'll finish the 6th book in the next episode, but what about the 7th one? It's not big enough for the entire season, unless, of course, they'll want to go into the second part of the novels in the middle of the season. Maybe this was planned as a full cour adapting 3 books so we might get the other 4 episodes from the blu rays perhaps? Whatever is the case I really hope we get more. |
 Anime is good, fucking deal with it. |
| Horrible ships CGI Also are they gonna play that damn OST at the end of every episode ? |
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| I seriously wonder how they will continue this season with the final episode approaching us next week. Great episode and Shagad deserved what he got. |
| how will this end?. Can't wait for the finale |
| Narsus too OP. pls nerf. |
| The whole Narsus and Shagad being old friends thing would have had much more impact if we had a flashback of their time together in their youth. As it is, its more like fck you Shagad. Your damn lucky your only getting a year, but honestly it was the right sort of sentence instead of death. Although too lenient since he gets to be free after 1 year--much better than how it is for real slaves who are slaves their entire lives. But how is this only going to be 8 episodes. Much will still be left undone. |
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