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Aug 26, 2022 10:24 AM
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Pretty chill episode but Animus' presence made the episode feel much creepier. Despite his laid back personaliy, I find Animus rather creepy but also a very interesting character.

Really curious to see how the rest of the series will protray his character. From the way he talked and personality, he's also somewhat sadistic.
Aug 26, 2022 12:08 PM
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Kirito seiyuu might have the busiest workload in the business. Dude just doesn’t sleep
Aug 26, 2022 12:25 PM
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the animation was different right?
Aug 26, 2022 12:28 PM
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Yayoi's an otaku through and through, though Sia Moon is just playing through with her interests, and how they met was like Amamiya and Noi, but less violent and more understanding. But for the unemployed Nagumo whom still has money to eat an extravagant meal with Amamiya and Samidare while having a wife and a kid, meeting the horse Dance Dark in his workplace line of detectives, it's a cruel world out there to enforce the law as a hero of justice, but the job got too demanding so he quit.

For Shimaki, having conversations with Animus just because he's the closest to a mage, it's still a fuzzy feeling that both him and Animus have the same common interest. But still, a god descending to an ordinary human, the latter has a goal that's different from Animus, one that can create golems. To see Akane and the Owl Knight side with Animus, it's a prospect to keep thinking.

Fight for justice or side with evil, that's the question.
Aug 26, 2022 12:51 PM
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I'm not the only one who noticed something was off during the physical fights, right?
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Aug 26, 2022 12:51 PM
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Really adopting the episode title name and focusing more on some of the beast Knights rather than Yuuhi and Samidare. Yayoi, Nagumo and Shimaki all get considerable screen time to show more of their characters. Yayoi not being afraid to die at all, knowing death is inevitable so she isn't scared. Using her wish to ensure her family dies with smiles no matter when that is. Nagumo previously being a police officer until he saw how corrupt things are in law enforcement. Becoming a true hero of justice now with the Knights. Shimaki being the most similar of the Knights to Animus, the main villain himself. Animus wants to recruit Shimaki to his side since he believes they both want the same thing. Animus already has the owl Knight on his side and another Knight we know is dead. Its a numbers game between Animus side and Samidare side. Plenty oppose Animus so we have to stay banded together against him.
Aug 26, 2022 12:54 PM
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Easily the best episode in awhile, not that that's saying much. I'd say at least the last 3 or 4. And really all it was was getting to know some more on some of the beast knights, with some bad guy info sprinkled in, but given how rushed the last few episodes have felt we were definitely in need of at least one slower episode like that, probably more honestly. Plus now I actually kinda like the horse dude and definitely like the fat guy. So there's that. Not that I expect either of them to have much of a role given they're not really prominent in the op or ed if there at all, but we'll see.
Aug 26, 2022 1:11 PM
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Marinate1016 said:
Kirito seiyuu might have the busiest workload in the business. Dude just doesn’t sleep


Maybe because he's done the role of Kirito for a decade, but it is funny how despite Matsuoka doing many roles in his career, Kirito is what he's most known for :P

Waking up in a police box with a talking horse. what a way to wake up. same with the cute snake girl.

I like how each knight has their own agendas, not just blindly following their god/queen for the sake of it.
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Aug 26, 2022 1:33 PM
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This was among the better eps so far. Some of the knigths would make a way better MC than Yuuhi. Heck, even Animus is more interesting.
Aug 26, 2022 3:39 PM

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OMG, I just saw that it was 24 episodes, ugh... Am I really going to slug it out for another 16? People somehow love this manga though, so I am kind of curious as to how it progresses, even though the first 8 episodes have been utterly pathetic and boring, not even counting the animation problem.
Aug 26, 2022 4:04 PM

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I don't now how i made it through 8 episodes of trash and yet here we are. I feel like it's now my duty to finish this but jesus lord this episode was a snoozefest.
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Aug 26, 2022 4:54 PM

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I don't know if the manga was like this, but I really hope how the episodes are structured get better soon (I doubt it though). With all the jumping around to different things, it can be really hard to understand where we're at.




Aug 26, 2022 8:00 PM

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The sight of Sia operating a camera is hilarious, just the absurdity of it lol. Yayoi sure looks cute in her cosplay outfit though! How adorable she seems to have a little crush on Yuuhi.

Nagumo had a normal life and then Dance Dark showed up lol. Didn’t expect the man to have been a detective before. They’ve got some serious issues on the force. First Yuuhi’s pops gets killed by his dirty partner and then the dude finds out their serial slasher is the chief’s kid. They gotta clean the department up.

Animus is reaching out to Shimaki huh? Interesting. Wonder what Yuki and Subaru meant by “we are human” though. Shimaki wanted all knowledge to make the world a happy place for humanity huh? What a guy. I like this dude, man.

I didn’t expect the Owl Knight to be the Judas of the group. I wonder why the kid joined up with Animus. Honestly, Sami and Yuuhi should too. They want the same things, just join up and crush the world together!
Aug 26, 2022 8:02 PM

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interesting new twist with the knights going against the main story of being good and stopping the evil mage. other then that it was rather plain.


Aug 26, 2022 8:48 PM
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Will he join the wizard?
Aug 27, 2022 2:46 AM
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SHINOBI-03 said:
I'm not the only one who noticed something was off during the physical fights, right?

Yeah, it was the sound effects. Nagumo literally kicked someone, and there wasn't any kicking sound effects. The colour for the clothes are kinda off too
Aug 27, 2022 2:47 AM
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It was an okay episode, but they skipped an entire chapter and cut a bit too much of the snake knight's background
Aug 27, 2022 3:19 AM

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good reveals we had this episode, Yako looking hot as always
the VA did a really good job with Animus, he sounds as deranged as I imagined
Aug 27, 2022 6:25 AM
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Best comedy and insert very good new characters
Aug 27, 2022 6:29 AM
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a knight can summon a golemn????!!!
Aug 27, 2022 11:24 AM
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The animation are crap! Really crap! XD
It's so bad that it's good in some way! ^^;;;;
Aug 27, 2022 12:16 PM

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atrocious production staff studio
1/5.
a least good to know Hakudou is a cosplayer chick!


Aug 27, 2022 2:33 PM

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That Shimaki guy was actually kinda cool. Made the episode significantly better.




Aug 29, 2022 11:56 AM
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After glancing through the posts for this episode, and considering all the previous episodes. Why has so much content been cut if it's going to be a 2-cour show? Then also; the source material is only 65 chapters? I am so god damn bamboozled by seeing that "24" on the episode count of the MAL page. The way things were moving along I figured we'd get an open ended final episode -- or an anime original ending -- and then the show would be canceled. Why has it come off so rushed all this time if there was some wiggle room?

How'd this snake operate a camera?

Between this episode and the previous one, there has definitely been an upswing in the animation though. It's still pretty simple, but it's nowhere near as bad as it was initially. Then again, it's hard to tell if I'm just more used to it all by now. But, I still get the impression some scenes are looking better than others.

So the irony is that Animus doesn't, necessarily, want to destroy the Earth. But, Amamiya and Samidare do.

Not sure I care for this Cat Knight boy though. But, at this point, it seems like I say that about a lot of the knights. Maybe he won't end up being so extra after all?
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Sep 1, 2022 8:07 PM

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Wow, a second nicely animated moment in the series when Fatsuoka summoned a golem.
Sep 9, 2022 5:58 PM

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This episode made Shimaki a lot more interesting of a character.
Sep 10, 2022 11:49 AM

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nice ep, animus was cute lol


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Oct 8, 2022 2:28 PM
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worst adaptation
Dec 27, 2022 11:39 AM

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From all the things occuring this episode, I am the most impressed by Sia moon the snake operating a camera to take pictures of Yayoi in cosplay.

Mar 24, 2023 1:27 AM

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Lol, the horse just shown up when He work as a detective XD
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Mar 29, 2024 8:05 AM

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Gave those two the good ol' 1-2
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