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Jul 4, 8:19 PM
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Another great episode 10/10 I hope the pace improves even more in the next ones!
Jul 4, 8:24 PM
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great episode very intriguing
Jul 4, 8:36 PM
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bruh, another mid episode. is this going to be mid throughout season?
Jul 4, 8:38 PM
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Back for more and what an action packed episode this was. From start to finish that fight was beautiful i really like the gun play in this show along with the swordsmanship. The first part of the fight against the dead soul was it? Was nice and I really liked Dunns display of power. The animation for both fights was once again beautiful.

The second fight was most definitely the highlight of the episode. The showcase of the suited clowns power was great and him dodging everything was nice to see animated, I really like his design. Also sealed artifact 2049 was kinda funny especially in its introduction with it following Klein around though when it was released in the fight it looked crazy. We also got the introduction of Mr Azik, someone I cant wait for more of.

I still cant get over the ending song, truly special.

Overall the show so far has been great but I'm still kinda iffy on pacing but either way great episode.


Jul 4, 8:41 PM
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last episode of the three episode rule so the episodes from now on will be slower and easier to understand. will have to rewatch this episode again since i still didn't fully understand the clown guy and his purpose, although now he's dead so there may be no point in doing that.
Jul 4, 8:49 PM
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love this it's awesome but just curious am I the only one who has a hard time keeping up with everything, theres just so much happening
Jul 4, 8:56 PM
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No problem with the pacing, but the action is *INSANE* at times. And man, that Man/turned Monster was disturbing, much more than the flying abominations from last week. It still retained enough humanity to be truly disgusting. And somehow reminded me of the monsters from H. P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror". And clowns are always unnerving. LOL
Jul 4, 8:58 PM
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Back for more and what an action packed episode this was. From start to finish that fight was beautiful i really like the gun play in this show along with the swordsmanship. The first part of the fight against the dead soul was it? Was nice and I really liked Dunns display of power. The animation for both fights was once again beautiful.

The second fight was most definitely the highlight of the episode. The showcase of the suited clowns power was great and him dodging everything was nice to see animated, I really like his design. Also sealed artifact 2049 was kinda funny especially in its introduction with it following Klein around though when it was released in the fight it looked crazy. We also got the introduction of Mr Azik, someone I cant wait for more of.

I still cant get over the ending song, truly special.

Overall the show so far has been great but I'm still kinda iffy on pacing but either way great episode.
@bubba460z And that puppet was the 2nd most disturbing thing in this episode, after the Dead Soul.
Jul 4, 8:58 PM
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bruh, another mid episode. is this going to be mid throughout season?
@ifhateanime Yes 🫡👋
Jul 4, 9:04 PM
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I don't like that this anime force Klein to kill another person, even if it's a villain like secret order. At least he's kinda feel bad about it.
Jul 4, 9:14 PM
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Daddy Azik introduced!
The fights this episode were really good. We also get more more information, hints, and foreshadowing for future episodes.
Rating: 4.5/5
Jul 4, 9:21 PM
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This episode was amazing. The best of the 3 so far for me. Here goes the last rushed episode. From now on it will be slower and greatly paced. Cannot wait for more
Jul 4, 9:23 PM
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bruh, another mid episode. is this going to be mid throughout season?
@ifhateanime Nah bro. Director said first 3 were rushed. These 3 are the worst. From now on pacing will be fixed. He is very pleased for the rest of the season.
Jul 4, 9:43 PM
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i don't care if there is still people calling it bad episode. for me it was a banger . 10/10.
Jul 4, 9:53 PM
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the pacing got absolutly good the fights were great the cinematics looked amizng and the new character is great too cant wait for the next episodes!!!!!!
Jul 4, 10:02 PM

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That Clown must be the most retarded clown in existence.

How retarded could you be to ended up getting killed by a Sequence 9? While you're a sequence 7?

Anyway, another good episode. The adaptation is great so far. I can only expect more great things for the upcoming episodes.
Go read 'Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece' If you like webnovel with historical, military and kingdom building genre.
Jul 4, 10:06 PM
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Clown fight absolutely hype. Love getting to see a few more beyonders in action, and more about how the Seer works. Hopefully now that we’ve reach ed this level,of hype, we can take a bit more time to get to know the world and characters better.
Jul 4, 10:13 PM
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@gryphonz He is, though klein doesn't realise it at first. The air bullets he was shooting are one of the abilities of sequence 7 of seer pathway.
Jul 4, 10:25 PM
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@gryphonz He is, though klein doesn't realise it at first. The air bullets he was shooting are one of the abilities of sequence 7 of seer pathway.
@Graphicol deleted, been way too long since I read
Jul 4, 10:31 PM
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Reply to ifhateanime
bruh, another mid episode. is this going to be mid throughout season?
@ifhateanime are you baiting?
Jul 4, 10:33 PM
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The new gritty story is a mix of isekai and reincarnation into the Bloodborne world of Victorian eldritch horror. It also features a "Men in Black "-style organization with its ranking system and superpowers.
3 episodes shine with amazing animation, but a bloated script. The showrunners spent too much time on chaotic, epic action scenes instead of building the world and atmosphere, making it hard to understand what is going on. The Isekai element of the plot seems unnecessary. There’s no need to make the main hero an average gamer dweeb to become relatable. Still, the series has huge potential to be one of the best shows of the decade. The visuals alone make it worth checking out.
Jul 4, 10:33 PM
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Reply to Jfs_
That Clown must be the most retarded clown in existence.

How retarded could you be to ended up getting killed by a Sequence 9? While you're a sequence 7?

Anyway, another good episode. The adaptation is great so far. I can only expect more great things for the upcoming episodes.
@Jfs_ that grey fog was the decider for Klein. Clown literally soloed the whole group until Klein pulled his hax called grey fog
Jul 4, 10:33 PM
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That Clown must be the most retarded clown in existence.

How retarded could you be to ended up getting killed by a Sequence 9? While you're a sequence 7?

Anyway, another good episode. The adaptation is great so far. I can only expect more great things for the upcoming episodes.
@Jfs_ that grey fog was the decider for Klein. Clown literally soloed the whole group until Klein pulled his hax called grey fog
Jul 4, 10:38 PM
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The new gritty story is a mix of isekai and reincarnation into the Bloodborne world of Victorian eldritch horror. It also features a "Men in Black "-style organization with its ranking system and superpowers.
3 episodes shine with amazing animation, but a bloated script. The showrunners spent too much time on chaotic, epic action scenes instead of building the world and atmosphere, making it hard to understand what is going on. The Isekai element of the plot seems unnecessary. There’s no need to make the main hero an average gamer dweeb to become relatable. Still, the series has huge potential to be one of the best shows of the decade. The visuals alone make it worth checking out.
@Ivan_Khudoy In the novel, they first introduce all the necessary worldbuilding, but such extensive worldbuilding and infodumping at the start of an anime would put off many new viewers, hence they decided to make the pace overly fast at the start in order to hook viewers. After this big fight in ep3, the director said the pace will slow down significantly and they will focus more on worldbuilding.
Jul 4, 10:48 PM

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Another episode that was too fast, even more for people who hadn't read the novel, at least they should have kept the process Klein had to adjust to that world, in my opinion the best from the novel is seeing Klein growth and they skipped him trying to act as a seer and talking about the diary with his club, and also his process in becoming closer to being the Fool and his goal of going back to his world, those 3 episodes make it look like Klein is just doing stuff, really, kinda seems like everyone is just doing stuff, i recommend everyone to read a bit of the novel up to ep 3, focus on Klein and his club, no need to read everything, just read as you like it, easily skip parts where the novel is talking about food, well, as you can see from this adaptation, there is no no problem in skipping stuff and reading only what you like... From what i have read, i have no idea why in the novel Klein says the potion is not fully digested and here is, and only he saw the blue dot. Bye.
Jul 4, 10:55 PM

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Guys, they nerfed 2049, in the novel they had to keep dancing through the whole thing, until they store 2049 back they kept dancing LOL
Jul 4, 11:08 PM
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Reply to deepdeeps
Another episode that was too fast, even more for people who hadn't read the novel, at least they should have kept the process Klein had to adjust to that world, in my opinion the best from the novel is seeing Klein growth and they skipped him trying to act as a seer and talking about the diary with his club, and also his process in becoming closer to being the Fool and his goal of going back to his world, those 3 episodes make it look like Klein is just doing stuff, really, kinda seems like everyone is just doing stuff, i recommend everyone to read a bit of the novel up to ep 3, focus on Klein and his club, no need to read everything, just read as you like it, easily skip parts where the novel is talking about food, well, as you can see from this adaptation, there is no no problem in skipping stuff and reading only what you like... From what i have read, i have no idea why in the novel Klein says the potion is not fully digested and here is, and only he saw the blue dot. Bye.
@deepdeeps the director literally said that tencent forced them to have clown fight in episode 3 and pacing will slow down from episode 4
Jul 4, 11:40 PM
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@ifhateanime are you baiting?
@Sahilnoor we're (not) gonna go fishing with this one. Dw man, we enjoyed the ep, people enjoyed the ep, pacing slows down, season 2 announcement with 20+ eps. Life is good. Tho there are some genuine criticisms (for everything, not just this one), there's also some bullsht that we're just better off ignoring.
Jul 4, 11:40 PM
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deepdeeps said:
Another episode that was too fast, even more for people who hadn't read the novel, at least they should have kept the process Klein had to adjust to that world, in my opinion the best from the novel is seeing Klein growth and they skipped him trying to act as a seer and talking about the diary with his club, and also his process in becoming closer to being the Fool and his goal of going back to his world, those 3 episodes make it look like Klein is just doing stuff, really, kinda seems like everyone is just doing stuff, i recommend everyone to read a bit of the novel up to ep 3, focus on Klein and his club, no need to read everything, just read as you like it, easily skip parts where the novel is talking about food, well, as you can see from this adaptation, there is no no problem in skipping stuff and reading only what you like... From what i have read, i have no idea why in the novel Klein says the potion is not fully digested and here is, and only he saw the blue dot. Bye.

tbh, now you are being overly picky. this episode was very good. fight was good. pacing was also good and lastly director has said everything will happen just in rearranged order
Jul 4, 11:43 PM
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Better!Keep it!!
Jul 4, 11:44 PM
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Reply to deepdeeps
Another episode that was too fast, even more for people who hadn't read the novel, at least they should have kept the process Klein had to adjust to that world, in my opinion the best from the novel is seeing Klein growth and they skipped him trying to act as a seer and talking about the diary with his club, and also his process in becoming closer to being the Fool and his goal of going back to his world, those 3 episodes make it look like Klein is just doing stuff, really, kinda seems like everyone is just doing stuff, i recommend everyone to read a bit of the novel up to ep 3, focus on Klein and his club, no need to read everything, just read as you like it, easily skip parts where the novel is talking about food, well, as you can see from this adaptation, there is no no problem in skipping stuff and reading only what you like... From what i have read, i have no idea why in the novel Klein says the potion is not fully digested and here is, and only he saw the blue dot. Bye.
@deepdeeps The divination club will actually be introduced in episode 4 according to the leaked script

Anyways Klein just started to digest his potion. And he only joined the divination club later to further digest his potion. So this is a reasonable development. It would have not made sense if he joined the divination club when his potion hasn’t started to digest
Jul 4, 11:46 PM
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Anyways I preferred this episode to episode 2. More of the mystery surrounding the notebook was introduced to us and I saw a bit of the organizations that ruled this world. More of the world building was explored too.

Azik introduction is pretty wicked. Now I’m torn between if he’s an ally or actually an enemy. Nice cliffhanger. Can’t wait for episode 4 if the previous episodes were the worst of the show so far
Jul 4, 11:54 PM
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It was an amazing episode & the pacing was also good.
5/5
Jul 5, 12:14 AM
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The pacing in episode 3 doesn't feel rushed. The action and choreography is outstanding
and several new characters were introduced and the clown fight was amazing. we also get new information about Antigunous family's notebook.
Overall it's a 10/10 episode.
Jul 5, 12:26 AM
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The fight scene with Ray Beiber was pretty good; however, at times it felt directionless and weightless. The fight scene with the clown was superb, without any of the previous flaws. The pacing improved a lot, but it still could've been slower. Gorgeous per usual. I really love the incantations in Hermes, both how they sounded as well as the invitations themselves.
Jul 5, 12:43 AM
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finally episode witch pacing doesn't feel terrible
Jul 5, 1:05 AM
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Shouldn't sealed artifact 0-08 already be mentioned or I didn't notice it.
Jul 5, 1:48 AM

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Very good episode. I loved the fight against the clown, although I do wonder how Klein was able to break free from his control, especially when all his companions, who are much stronger and have been Beyonders for far longer than Klein, couldn’t.

He just said "Divination", created a piece of wood out of thin air, then suddenly, he was out of the clown's control with no explanation whatsoever. That was a bit weird, but I guess all’s well that ends well. I’m excited for whatever's next from both Klein & his hilariously narcissistic companion.
Jul 5, 2:16 AM
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Very good episode. I loved the fight against the clown, although I do wonder how Klein was able to break free from his control, especially when all his companions, who are much stronger and have been Beyonders for far longer than Klein, couldn’t.

He just said "Divination", created a piece of wood out of thin air, then suddenly, he was out of the clown's control with no explanation whatsoever. That was a bit weird, but I guess all’s well that ends well. I’m excited for whatever's next from both Klein & his hilariously narcissistic companion.
@Skuvan he was out of the clown's control bcz of grey fog
Jul 5, 2:27 AM

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@Skuvan he was out of the clown's control bcz of grey fog
@PraiseTheWorld Yes, I saw him mention that, I just don’t understand how some fog could have the same effect as someone slapping you to snap you out of a daze. You know what I mean? I thought that was what Klein meant when he said he needed something or someone to break the clown’s control and bring him back to reality. I just don’t get how some fog was able to do that, that’s what genuinely confused me, haha.
Jul 5, 2:57 AM
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too fast I don't like it
Jul 5, 3:05 AM
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i just hate how we have no clue what the fuck everyone is doing. and no thats not considered a mystery when from one episode to another our mc knows how to use his abilities and how to use the "fog". i really hope that we get some more info at some point cause this is just turning into god of highschool. animations are good even tho there are some problems with the 3d backgrounds and how 2d interacts with them but that was going to be the case with how ambitious the show is.
Jul 5, 3:20 AM
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i just hate how we have no clue what the fuck everyone is doing. and no thats not considered a mystery when from one episode to another our mc knows how to use his abilities and how to use the "fog". i really hope that we get some more info at some point cause this is just turning into god of highschool. animations are good even tho there are some problems with the 3d backgrounds and how 2d interacts with them but that was going to be the case with how ambitious the show is.
@GrdMysterion The fog won't be explained soon.
Jul 5, 3:28 AM
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man definitely still on the sasuga-train for another episode and we're given some world building in an appropriate show don't tell manner.
Great episode.
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Jul 5, 3:42 AM

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That was a nice episode ngl, the clown fights animation was stellar

Hehe azik!! he finally appeared, ive been waiting for him <3



Hmm, in the novel its described that he has bronze colored skin.. looks very bronze to me (china lmao..)

wow
Jul 5, 4:18 AM

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Lots of info are missing. Pacing still fast. Let's see if they can finish this season with higher note.

Fall 2022 is the most Unforgettable anime season of all time



Jul 5, 4:22 AM
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Ciezul said:
Lots of info are missing. Pacing still fast. Let's see if they can finish this season with higher note.

what are you talking. it was a very fine episode
Jul 5, 4:24 AM
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Skuvan said:
@PraiseTheWorld Yes, I saw him mention that, I just don’t understand how some fog could have the same effect as someone slapping you to snap you out of a daze. You know what I mean? I thought that was what Klein meant when he said he needed something or someone to break the clown’s control and bring him back to reality. I just don’t get how some fog was able to do that, that’s what genuinely confused me, haha.

ok, thing I can tell you is that the puppet were doing manipulation on soul not body, the slap was also too make the soul jolt up. it would be explained more in 3rd season. so I can only tell you this.
Jul 5, 4:39 AM
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bruh, another mid episode. is this going to be mid throughout season?
@ifhateanime nb forcing u to watch it g
Jul 5, 4:42 AM
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KingShisui said:
last episode of the three episode rule so the episodes from now on will be slower and easier to understand. will have to rewatch this episode again since i still didn't fully understand the clown guy and his purpose, although now he's dead so there may be no point in doing that.

the clown guy is from the secret order and he was also searching for the antigonus family's notebook.
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