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| It's very credible to believe that Mio is among the strongest spirit Shidou has faced in the franchise up to ths point. Maybe not the absolute strongest but definitely very powerful. Got some interesting background story about Westcott and his past. It had its happy but also dark and sorrowful moments. It looks like he dedicated his time to research magic, motivated by revenge. They definitely wanted to flesh out Westcott more. |
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| Mio's harvest arc continues. In the past, Westcott's suppressed childhood hatred, ambition, and efforts to achieve his goal of restoring the world come to light. When Shidou confronts Westcott, the latter admits he cannot afford to harness Mio's power yet and asks for Shidou's cooperation. Naturally, Shidou refuses, leading to a battle. Shidou summons "Zadkiel," "Raphael," and "Metatron," surrounded by swirling cold air, dancing winds, and wings of light. Meanwhile, Ellen and Elliot engage in a match. Ellen is defeated and prepares for her end. Then, as Tohka and the rest stand up against Mio together, Mio raises her hand and calls out a name, a giant tower appears, surrounded by flowers and branches, piercing the sky. Suddenly, the surroundings turn monochrome, reduced to cubes. The first victim of this being Yoshino Westcott discovers the joys of life...lol. |
IzanaSolosMay 15, 3:27 PM
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| I was really hoping for Shido vs Isaac this week but hey I guess I'll wait another week |
| Nice, we've got to see Elliot, Wescott, Ellen & Karen past, and we also got Reanimated Scene from S1 showing how Mio actually summoned into the current world, and i realise from todays and the last week episode, they using Less CGI for Main Character Battle which we can see today when Mio attacking Tohka, yea even though we can clearly see they still using CGI based for the character design for movement. |
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| So Westcott never had a sad supervillain backstory that flipped a switch in him, he's just always been that twisted. Damn. The tonal whiplash might've been too much but I half-expected Yoshinon to let out one last witty comment before Yoshino got axed |
| Imagine Westcott, Johan Liebert and Griffith in a single room. They kept us waiting for the fight of the season, but I am not complaining. The anime is leaving out certain details with both the designs of Ain Soph and Ain Soph Aur, maybe to avoid art direction complications. Talking about art, some CGI just felt... unnecessary. When a character is barely moving and you are doing this, it becomes very conspicuous. It's as creepy as one of the AI generated comments above. |
Laplace_kunMay 15, 9:23 AM
| "All truth is meaningless. In the end, 'meaning' comes from the mind of each individual human. Even when there is a single truth, it can mean different things to different individuals. The truth has no meaning in itself!" - Erika Furudo |
| Kaguya and Yuzuyu deaths have been the most brutal so far. I guess it's fortunate that Yoshino was only shot, not stabbed. Mukuro's sealing ability with Mikhail would have actually worked if Mio had not deployed her "territory". But now Muku is dead, so that option is out. I thought Elliot would be able to help against Mio. But looks like he's already spent on defeating Ellen. looking forward to next week! this is getting so good. |
| Westcott wasn't a good guy turned evil due to tragic past but he was messed up from the begining and just used the situation to fulfill his desires, truly trash. Wait so Ellen liked Elliot? Damn. Both sisters huh. Also Elliot dead? Mio killing the other heroines continues and that's four down now. Who's next? Mio's way too OP as expected. |
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| Damnn Mio fodderizes her "daughthers" hard...how will Shido even untangle this mess. He doesn't have Kurumi's full powers but the OP hints at him time travelling again. The "magi are real" and all this stuff started because Westcott was born a crazy fuck is still a bit hard to digest for me tho. |
Lol is Shido doing a Kamehameha in the preview  |
| Mio out here collecting the spirits like Thanos lol. I really like the story now, Very invested. So Ike started it all. Also seeing Domains being used here is really cool, As someone who enjoys JJK and Bleach xD |
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| Westcott is just a simple "I'm bad because I'm bad" character. In hindsight, he doesn't actually have any particular reason to do things which he did, and does, unlike his three other friends lol. Anyways, Mio actually is just beyond overpowered. Can't blame the girls for merely becoming a count for Mio to keep track of. |
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| i think ive never been less interested in the story of a villain than Ike's he so boring and uninspired, i cant be the only one that doesnt give 2 craps about him lmao question for my bros with better memory, how is it that this Mana is the same as Shin's sister but still remains so young? i forgor |
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| Gotta give Date A Live author credit for doubling down on Westcott being an evil pos rather than trying to make us feel sympathetic towards him. Too often do these stories give the villains a sob story backstory, fuck that, give me a genuinely evil villain who I can hate. Soon as buddy said his kind mother’s death made him elated I knew he was irredeemable.. then watching the village burn with a smile and even killing his adopted parents, just no room for saving him at all. Hope he gets the most horrible death imaginable. Need to see Shido destroy him. Back on the spirit side, things heating up with Mio and the other spirits, as if losing Kaguya last week wasn’t enough, Yuzuru too 😭 Mio is so OP and with things now happening in the neighbouring world and her only getting stronger as she defeats the spirits..idk how she can be beat. Probably some loophole in the “rules” of the world? RIP Elliot too. I feel like he was a good dude that just got roped into all of Westcott’s bs because of their shared trauma as kids, even when Mio was originally summoned you could tell he was a little hesitant. Fire ep as usual |
Marinate1016May 15, 2:01 PM
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Reply to Cestlavie_
Lol is Shido doing a Kamehameha in the preview
| @Cestlavie_ It looks like a combination between GT Goku's 10x Kamehameha and Vegito's final Kamehameha. |
| Well, that was a pretty grim episode. |
| And so Wescott casually murdered 150 million people... |
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| Basically Westcott's is just Kirei Kotomine whom has abnormal human emotion that enjoy other people suffers XD They are also both "magician" in their show too XD. And they both have a grand scheme of summoning something powerful but disastrous to the world. |
| I'm sick of seeing anime villains being bad only because they like to have fucking bonners. Also, people is dying left and right, it's not even impactful. All this war has been so weak exactly because of that, it's trying too hard to impact the viewers lol |
Sorry if my english is bad (っ˘▽˘)っ~~~ Btw, cry about it.  |
| I liked the backstory, but watching the girls fall one by one is just so hard to bear. |
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Ventus_S said: Basically Westcott's is just Kirei Kotomine whom has abnormal human emotion that enjoy other people suffers XD They are also both "magician" in their show too XD. And they both have a grand scheme of summoning something powerful but disastrous to the world. Interesting you brought up Kotomine, the fans often opine that Tachibana likes Type-Moon (he does have writing credit in FGO) . There is an unadapted part from DAL III where Westcott meets the one who wanted to kill him by dropping satellites. The guy was shaking, but Westcott instead praised him for devising something so wicked. In a way, Isaac also sees his own despair and pain as sources of joy. He's so dangerous because not only he can fall, he's the type to bring everything and everyone down along with him. |
Laplace_kunMay 16, 2:19 AM
| "All truth is meaningless. In the end, 'meaning' comes from the mind of each individual human. Even when there is a single truth, it can mean different things to different individuals. The truth has no meaning in itself!" - Erika Furudo |
| So Mr. evil Westcott was a psychopath since young lmao. And dang, those four were the ones that brought spirits into the world? Got a lot of past lore this season lol. Damn, Mio is easily taking down everyone. Really makes me wonder what will happen in the end. |
 Never ending plan to watch list... |
| Westcott is pure evil, but he doesn't do it randomly like many villains out there to demonstrate power. He aims for something bigger. That's why when he's about to torture Tohka in S2 he wasn't particularly happy about it, it was just a means to achieve his goal. He also has emotions, as he himself said he felt deep despair when his village was burned down. And of course, he looked out for his friends the entire time. Even in S4 while Ellen wanted to kill Elliot, he wanted Elliot to return to his side. Westcott is interesting, unfortunately the anime cut a lot of his screen time throughout the seasons. And finally, Westcott had never done anything evil for no reason, he craved despair, but he never did anything to cause it. Humans gave him a reason. |
| The scale of the explosion on the earth scene VS the tiny crater it made kinda irritates me. It showed a continental sized explosion and then this tiny ~2KM wide crater? you gotta be shitting me. aside from that it was a fantastic episode. bodies dropping left and right, some partial nudity from the spirits losing their saphirah (but of course yoshino wasn't shown.. grrr) it was slow getting here but now every episode is looking to be a banger. Great to have 4 seasons of bringing us to love these girls only to have them get one shot left and right. would be better if there was more of a struggle, maybe tohka's death will be impactful |
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Reply to SpiderMiles3523
@Mikarin_Enjoyer Ike is a very interesting villain and deadly one. He pretty much made the story happen
| @SpiderMiles3523 no, its awful, any type of villain would have made the story move the exact same way but you do you lil bro, i also like things that fcking suck |
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Mikarin_Enjoyer said: @SpiderMiles3523 no, its awful, any type of villain would have made the story move the exact same way but you do you lil bro, i also like things that fcking suck any type of villain wouldn't have the IQ, drive, manipulative power, charisma, self-destructive nature, apathy and alienation Westcott brings to the table. |
| "All truth is meaningless. In the end, 'meaning' comes from the mind of each individual human. Even when there is a single truth, it can mean different things to different individuals. The truth has no meaning in itself!" - Erika Furudo |
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