Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou. Episode 8 Discussion

Initially, I wasn't too fond of Yuu, but it turns out he's the only aristocrat with some common sense. I suppose I'm beginning to appreciate him now.

The Bauer Kingdom has long been governed by powerful clans who ascend to royal and noble positions, collecting taxes from commoners to maintain peace in their territories. However, with the rise of magic, this equilibrium has begun to crumble. Despite this, discrimination persisted, leading discontented students to initiate a movement seeking equality. Amidst the tension between nobles and commoners, Deed, a servant in service to Yuu, inadvertently inflicts a severe magical injury upon a commoner activist within the academy, further escalating the already strained situation.

Why should commoners bow to the aristocracy when, over time, the gap between the classes keeps narrowing? That's why we've embraced equality-based societies in most first-world countries today. It's unexpected that this yuri romance is delving into class issues. I'm not a fan of the current direction; it feels like the commoners are being unfairly portrayed as villains. Hoping Rei becomes more proactive, and the story takes a different turn.

Damn, this has turned into quite a thrilling narrative. And of course, can't resist those headpats, lol.

yet another anime that couldn’t help but add incest into it😪

@idrinkbeefywater gotta complain to the LN and manga writers though. The anime is just animating the already written story of the source material.

At first I'm quite disappoint that the church is behind commoner's movement, I kinda want to see the collapse of monarchy.

Anyway, it's very interesting that this episode gives incest a serious talk and not treat this topic as a joke like siscon/brocon you usually see in other anime. This is probably the boldest anime (in term of politcally correctness) I've seen this year.

WTF was that. They made such a point of having a discussion about how homosexuality is totally normal and not to be frowned upon, and now they're comparing it to incest? This plotline came out of nowhere.

They're not comparing those two. Putting something into a common category (forbidden love in this topic) isn't the same as comparison.

@TimeFliesAway Mm, I'm not sure I agree. I think the comparison is implied, exactly because they made it into a point about emphasizing that while "forbidden", homosexuality isn't something bad even if it's frowned upon in-universe. Talking about homosexuality in the same sentence and putting incest into the same category makes it seem like they're trying to present it as something other than messed up.

I did a little research to see how the show handles it afterwards, and even if it doesn't explicitly approve of it, this put me off so much that I'm dropping the show.

The animation quality dropped so drastically this episode I thought I was watching an anime in the 2000s. Interesting turn of events though.

This is a fantasy setting that is based off of olden times. Probably Victorian but someone more educated can say otherwise.

One thing about olden times is that both incest and homosexuality existed a lot more regularly then now. However both were still forbidden, but still happened, and would be frowned upon by most people.

If you hate the show to the point of dropping it, then cool. Too bad that a single line of dialogue with make you drop the show. Just know that this happened back then too.