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| Ye, that monster is giving the whole party a run for their money and perhaps more. One of the toughest bosses Sunraku has ever faced easily. Loved the intensity and momentum of this episode. But knowing Sunraku, he seems to enjoy the challenge. Can't underestimate Emul in this episode either. He had an important role and made an impression. |
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| New OP! And I mean, in terms of music, it's probably the weakest one for sure. Visually, it's up there for sure. Think I just need a bit more time getting used to it. Straight back into the action with Rei being thrown around by Lycagon and ALMOST FUCKING DYING??? Thankfully, Akane comes in just at the right time and saves her, and yeah, she's a favorite already just because of that. But clearly she ain't a favorite to Lycagon lmao. I mean, girl was PISSED because she took Sunraku's attention off of him. Poor girl got NTR'd xD But yeah, I assumed that Akane was gonna be someone from another game that Sunraku has played, I even went as far as to think it was actually Rust, but nah it was that one guy who found that bug in Berp when Sunraku hopped on in season one.. lol. Anticlimactic but yeah. Most of the episode was just setting up the plan and Sunraku's resolve for this fight, which means the next episode is boutta be CRAZY. |
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| Sucking up that dopamine~~ Kinda doubting the ultimate is gonna slap that hard now, unless its a non-physical attack... |
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RegiOliveira said: wait, where is released ep13? Crunchyroll screwing up once again when it comes to releasing episodes, maybe? Not sure if it works, try VPN to SEA region and check it out on YouTube. It’s there. |
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| AHHH AWICH ON THE OP?!!? Ok they’re cooking! Love the ED as well. Shanfro just don’t miss with their songs. Great start to the first cour, battle with Lycagon reaching its climax and Sunraku and Rei finally have reinforcements! Ceecrue and Akane came in clutch! Love how Rei is worried about Akane and Sunraku relationship mid boss fight 😭 that girl is such a simp and maiden in love it’s crazy. Whole time Akane is just a Sunraku stan and wanted to get closer to one of her fave gamers. Nothing romantic.. for now lol Lycagon aggroing Rei and ignoring Sunraku is so damn real. Anyone who’s done co op raids or co op boss fights knows that pain of the boss just hard keying the host and ignoring everyone else. It’s so annoying. Luckily Emil was able to help out a bit, felt bad for Sunraku using her as bait though lmao. I’m excited to see what attack Rei is cooking up next week and if this’ll finally be the conclusion. Think this’ll be episode 5 or so of this fight so it’s been a long one! I need more Arthur, Katzo and Red haired girl from the guild meeting lol |
Marinate1016Jan 5, 3:26 AM
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| anothere great ep i keep loving it, ep after ep reading it and see how the adaptation is so good is a pure pleasure... |
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| RIP Shangri-La Mini |
| Her ultimate is going to be insane I think... |
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| Another banger OP by ShanFro, but I am definitely going to miss the FZMZ vibes. And was that Rust and Mold I spied on the opening? ED was also great, I will always like 8-bit music for video game related shows. Did not expect AkitsuAkane to be that player in BERP from season 1, even the side games are important in the whole grand scheme of things, like Nephilim Hollow, we met Rust and Mold who has information on Ctarnidd. Let's fucking go, can't wait to see Sunraku and Psyger-0's ultimates and if they're enough to beat Lycagon. |
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| Didn't expect Lycagon to be a ghost type pokemon. Also look at that, the newbie from one of Sunraku's games lol didn't he also taught her a bugged attack in that game? |
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Reply to lingojk
RIP Shangri-La Mini
| @lingojk I'm hoping they'll come back after the fight. I feel like they wouldn't fit in the middle of an epic battle anyway, so it's probably for the better. Can't say I don't miss them though... |
Ending has spoiler about party that will do quest discovered by Rust I believe. Sunraku, Saiga and Akitsu, other 2 probably are rust and mold, as well as another emul brother, also we can see tentacle so it's indeed some octopus aka Ctarnidd of the Abyss |
VizvezdenecJan 5, 7:31 AM
| Yeah... 1% HP left, tanking a boss he doesn’t even know if he’ll encounter again if he loses, no healing or MP potions left, and only in moments of desperation does the player turn into a legend just to avoid losing a rare drop. Let’s go, King! Slash that Shikamaru pet with your blade! And as for Sunraku, do you think he’ll sacrifice Suzaku by throwing him at Lycaon’s head? |
| Since when does 8 equal 10? It made me question myself, like, "Am I dumb and just can't count properly?" At the end of the previous episode, there were 5 hits left, but in this episode, Psyger only hits Lycagon 3 times and then says the conditions are met. |
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| Lmao, substitution Jutsu was and will always be op. Loved the episode. Such a banger. |
| That was awfully polite of Lycagon to stop attacking to let them have a little meeting/reunion in the middle of their fight. |
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| I'm being honest, I'm not feeling the same excitement and grandness as in the Wezaemon fight. Also, never been a big fan of deus ex machinas, even tough it was announced and not an ass pull. And my engagement temporarily dropped to zero after Rei was questioning Sunrakus relationship with dragonfly. But I very much liked how Sunraku found out about Lycaons Nature/Type of not "bleeding" polygons when getting hit with an attack. Also really love the color choice for Rei's ultimate incantation circle. Looks great.  |
| Damn devs are gonna be pissed once sunroku furthers the story line ROFL. |
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| New OST for the 2nd Cour, and Avich's OP does feel the most different of the pack, giving almost a Harry Potter-ish vibe. cvLTe's ED with its 8-bit visuals and cool vibes definitely makes this one of the best EDs of the series to date. Akitsuakane tagging along with Emul and Ceecrue to rush to Sunraku's aid, as much as Rei is into her Ultimate cycle for the 3rd time of 5, but finding much more difficulty having to play defense against Lycagon. That's where Akitsuakane comes in to swap and save Rei's life, as well as the Rabituzas' reunion at the worst possible time. Even worse, Rei going out of her way to question Akitsuakane's relationship to Sunraku, who is acknowledged by another fellow Seven Colossi of Siegwarm of the Sky Ruler, and quite honestly, they need all the help they can get while Lycagon focuses its aggro attack on Rei. It's only when Akitsuakane reveals herself as BERP's Dragonfly that he knows her true colours being in the same-same-but-different skin, they're at least peas in the same pod being given massive help with her Utsusemi substitution logs. But with the new skill Mana Shaker. Sunraku at least found an exploit that he can take to his advantage with Lycagon switching targets to draw its aggro on Emul, leaving the others open to deal with it as the aggro switches from person to person. As the powerful Ultimate spells get activated, it's time to ring the bell on the climax once more, will Lycagon win in the darkness, or will light prevail on Sunraku and the gang? |
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Reply to amf85
I'm confused by the whole Lycagon is made of magic thing. It's an interesting mechanic, but it seems to create a number of contradictions.
1) Sunraku says that it explains why Lycagon doesn't bleed, and seems to imply that Lycagon doesn't take damage (or takes minimal damage) from normal attacks. As a result, he's unable to gain agro (because he's not actually doing damage) and Emul's mana destroying attack is super effective. HOWEVER, that seems to contradict the prior statements that Lycagon is going after Rei because Rei is the bigger threat...which shouldn't be true since Rei isn't doing any damage, right?
2) In fact, Sunraku says that Rei's attacks HEAL Lycagon...that part really confused me. Where did that come from? And why? And if Rei's attacks heal Lycagon, why is she still attacking? Is her ultimate somehow different? Seems like the Attack Master's ultimate would be a super strong sword attack...wouldn't that have the same problem as all her other attacks if Lycagon is immune to physical damage (or even healed by it?)
Completely unrelated and speculative, just me thinking...so Sunraku and AkitsuAkane both have the vorpal bunny secret quest. Apparently it's from ANY boss battle, not just Lycagon. It also seems related to their agility-based playstyles, which makes sense as a mechanic limiting to "vorpal soul" type players. But wouldn't that imply that there should be similar secret quests for other players who meet conditions for other playstyles? Obviously not to Rabitzua, but shouldn't there be a secret quest of some different kind for players who are equally impressive in their own specialties? It would be strange game design for a game to reward only one playstyle. Shouldn't there be other secret NPC kingdoms which are based around other "soul" types?
1) Sunraku says that it explains why Lycagon doesn't bleed, and seems to imply that Lycagon doesn't take damage (or takes minimal damage) from normal attacks. As a result, he's unable to gain agro (because he's not actually doing damage) and Emul's mana destroying attack is super effective. HOWEVER, that seems to contradict the prior statements that Lycagon is going after Rei because Rei is the bigger threat...which shouldn't be true since Rei isn't doing any damage, right?
2) In fact, Sunraku says that Rei's attacks HEAL Lycagon...that part really confused me. Where did that come from? And why? And if Rei's attacks heal Lycagon, why is she still attacking? Is her ultimate somehow different? Seems like the Attack Master's ultimate would be a super strong sword attack...wouldn't that have the same problem as all her other attacks if Lycagon is immune to physical damage (or even healed by it?)
Completely unrelated and speculative, just me thinking...so Sunraku and AkitsuAkane both have the vorpal bunny secret quest. Apparently it's from ANY boss battle, not just Lycagon. It also seems related to their agility-based playstyles, which makes sense as a mechanic limiting to "vorpal soul" type players. But wouldn't that imply that there should be similar secret quests for other players who meet conditions for other playstyles? Obviously not to Rabitzua, but shouldn't there be a secret quest of some different kind for players who are equally impressive in their own specialties? It would be strange game design for a game to reward only one playstyle. Shouldn't there be other secret NPC kingdoms which are based around other "soul" types?
| @amf85 1) Rei was the bigger threat until Emul appeared, since Sunraku dealt way less damage. Lycagon being made of magic probably will have high resistance against physical damage, not nullifying it (which Wethermon had in phases 1 and 2). 2) No, at the moment you are talking Lycagon is healing from Emul's attack and what Sunraku says is that Lycagon has been getting a passive heal that covered most (if not all) the damage Rei was dealing with her attacks. Considering how much time she takes between one hit and another, justificable, she seems like one hit wonder. Doesn't seem related to agility based characters, although I can understand were you are comming from since Wethermon fight was clearly designed to be cleared by a dexterity build and not a full fledged party or a traditional composition. The condition to trigger this unique scenarios seems to be arbitrary, but mainly clearly to be considered a threat by the Colossi AI to a point that you are marked as a worthy foe. That said, yes, it seems a strange game design and I've been saying it since late part of S1, this "god tier" game is unbalanced af, a few lucky people get to enjoy a completely different game with loads of broken characters and access to enhanced versions of jobs/shops the other players can't even think about and the only trigger is you being lucky, nothing to do with skill or engagement. |
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| Damn, why are the episodes so short? The new OP is amazing—maybe not as explosive as the previous ones, but it holds its ground and I absolutely love it. The ED also caught my attention with its retro game-style visuals. Akane showed up at the perfect moment to save Rei! It’s funny, though—I initially thought Akane was a guy based on the fighting game she played with Sunraku. Turns out she’s a girl, and poor Rei was worried her chances with Sunraku would be ruined. Thankfully, Akane only sees Sunraku as a mentor. Lycagon vs. Sunraku is heating up! The fight just got even more intense now that it’s revealed Lycagon is some kind of spectral beast that can only be damaged by specific attacks. |
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| It's now 2025 and that means new cour and specifically new OP. I'm not quite digging it yet maybe because the song isn't as punchy or the animation sequence didn't stand out to me at first watch, but at the very least the ED with it's pixel art more in tune with the video game theme was better though not as stylish as the other one. We now know 2 things: that the newcomer is the same player from BERP who also shows a lot of promise in quick learning and that they are indeed going for the quest at the sea like Rust had told them about before. How successful it will be we'll have to see for ourselves. |
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Reply to amf85
I'm confused by the whole Lycagon is made of magic thing. It's an interesting mechanic, but it seems to create a number of contradictions.
1) Sunraku says that it explains why Lycagon doesn't bleed, and seems to imply that Lycagon doesn't take damage (or takes minimal damage) from normal attacks. As a result, he's unable to gain agro (because he's not actually doing damage) and Emul's mana destroying attack is super effective. HOWEVER, that seems to contradict the prior statements that Lycagon is going after Rei because Rei is the bigger threat...which shouldn't be true since Rei isn't doing any damage, right?
2) In fact, Sunraku says that Rei's attacks HEAL Lycagon...that part really confused me. Where did that come from? And why? And if Rei's attacks heal Lycagon, why is she still attacking? Is her ultimate somehow different? Seems like the Attack Master's ultimate would be a super strong sword attack...wouldn't that have the same problem as all her other attacks if Lycagon is immune to physical damage (or even healed by it?)
Completely unrelated and speculative, just me thinking...so Sunraku and AkitsuAkane both have the vorpal bunny secret quest. Apparently it's from ANY boss battle, not just Lycagon. It also seems related to their agility-based playstyles, which makes sense as a mechanic limiting to "vorpal soul" type players. But wouldn't that imply that there should be similar secret quests for other players who meet conditions for other playstyles? Obviously not to Rabitzua, but shouldn't there be a secret quest of some different kind for players who are equally impressive in their own specialties? It would be strange game design for a game to reward only one playstyle. Shouldn't there be other secret NPC kingdoms which are based around other "soul" types?
1) Sunraku says that it explains why Lycagon doesn't bleed, and seems to imply that Lycagon doesn't take damage (or takes minimal damage) from normal attacks. As a result, he's unable to gain agro (because he's not actually doing damage) and Emul's mana destroying attack is super effective. HOWEVER, that seems to contradict the prior statements that Lycagon is going after Rei because Rei is the bigger threat...which shouldn't be true since Rei isn't doing any damage, right?
2) In fact, Sunraku says that Rei's attacks HEAL Lycagon...that part really confused me. Where did that come from? And why? And if Rei's attacks heal Lycagon, why is she still attacking? Is her ultimate somehow different? Seems like the Attack Master's ultimate would be a super strong sword attack...wouldn't that have the same problem as all her other attacks if Lycagon is immune to physical damage (or even healed by it?)
Completely unrelated and speculative, just me thinking...so Sunraku and AkitsuAkane both have the vorpal bunny secret quest. Apparently it's from ANY boss battle, not just Lycagon. It also seems related to their agility-based playstyles, which makes sense as a mechanic limiting to "vorpal soul" type players. But wouldn't that imply that there should be similar secret quests for other players who meet conditions for other playstyles? Obviously not to Rabitzua, but shouldn't there be a secret quest of some different kind for players who are equally impressive in their own specialties? It would be strange game design for a game to reward only one playstyle. Shouldn't there be other secret NPC kingdoms which are based around other "soul" types?
amf85 said: Rei isn't doing any damage, right? It heavily depends on the nature of her skills which they still haven't elaborated on (dunno if it's different in the original source material) but for many games it's not exactly uncommon that various physical skills also do mental / spiritual / spell damage and vice versa. Going by the names of her skills Rei seems to play some kind of dark knight class so it's possible that at least her ultimate has some kind of "soul burn" effect that also goes after the MP of her target but I guess we'll have to see and find out. |
| The new OP is cool, wasn't expecting a rap song. And I like the 8 bit visuals for the ED. |
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