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Jul 31, 9:56 AM
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Advanced alchemy sounds like something they could find to be useful.

Man, this episode was chaotic. What I did not expect was a full scale attack from the goblins. This had a war like vibe but the humans stood their ground. How this anime changed so much in just a few episodes...crazy imo. I'm impressed by what the humans could do though. They used more than magic and fought together like a collected unit to survive.
Jul 31, 10:37 AM
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A blonde elf named Sera who will likely be the MC’s main travel companion? Close enough, welcome back failure frame lol. Everyone’s excited about the great tidal bore starting and I’m just here hype af to finally get Sera in the show. She’s so pretty of course Ryo falls in love at first sight. It’s also fucking hilarious the town could be destroyed by the goblins and Ryo, the strongest person, is just on a date 😭

As for the great tidal bore, I feel like there’s no coincidence it hits right after Ryo encountered the akuma last week. What’re they planning tho? 🤔he’s gonna have to come clean with Abel, the guild master and presumably sera soon. No point keeping such an important thing secret. Like I get not wanting panic to spread, but how else are they going to formulate a plan? Seems really short sighted on his part.

Anyway, was nice to see crimson sword get some shine today in the goblin king fight. Abel and Lyn were so badass! I like the show, but I really would like to see the pacing improve here. Feels like everything moved at a snail’s pace.
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Jul 31, 12:29 PM
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bro they need to step it up on the fighting animation its just a little better then your typical isakai trash.
Jul 31, 12:35 PM
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bro they need to step it up on the fighting animation its just a little better then your typical isakai trash.
@Ahohite-killer the Opening had more animation than this episode itself
Jul 31, 12:44 PM
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This episode was a powerpoint presentation.
Jul 31, 12:46 PM
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There's a mismatch in atmosphere. On one side, the whole guild is fighting a goblin stampede, on another side, Ryo is dating with a cute elf in a library.

This anime may not be as peaceful as I want it to be...
Jul 31, 12:47 PM
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Kyotofox said:
@Ahohite-killer the Opening had more animation than this episode itself

ya opening has amazing animation it really gets you hyped up for 🥱
Jul 31, 12:48 PM
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Man it's to soon to be downgrading the animation quality this hard, hope they can catch up in the future
Jul 31, 12:51 PM
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Yeah, I hate to also dump on it, but the battle was your pretty standard cut-scene, still shot nonsense. This show has been pretty good so far, please don't let me down hard like this. And just when Sera showed up, too!
Jul 31, 1:08 PM

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Things get tense as Abel and other adventurers face a swarm of monsters and gobelin generals and a king in a serious fight.
Meanwhile, Ryo and Sera have their first proper meeting, it's very chill and cute.
The contrast between these two atmospheres was amusing.
Jul 31, 1:12 PM

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Even Queen Bee's porn is more animated than this episode.
Jul 31, 1:13 PM
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Man, this episode was rooooooough. I had really high hopes after the first 3 episodes, but if it keeps going down the "we're out of budget" rabbit hole like this I may have to call it quits.
Jul 31, 1:40 PM
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why is episodes is are so shorts
Jul 31, 1:42 PM
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Well this is new. Attack from dungeon and our MC is not there in last second to save the day. Nice.
This anime actually might be very good.
And i dont care about animatoin quality, go watch DS or Fate for that...
Jul 31, 1:43 PM
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Yikes... that was really, really bad animation, especially that fight scene. I'm still willing to give the show a chance because it was fine before. Let's just hope this was the episode they rushed so the important ones look good!
Jul 31, 2:10 PM
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The MC wanted to research mainly about Devils/Demons.
He did not do that.

There was a catastrophe in town. Even a basic fire has an alarm that alerts town folks.
Not this town. If an unknown enemy or fire occurs, the whole town is supposed to die.
Literally no one was running to safety or even working on supplies other than the same old characters.
Did they not even have budget for new random faces of townsfolk?

Even during this fight, if anyone attacked south side of town, they would have massacred the town folk until they came face to face with Ryo and his new female elf friend.

It was plot convenience that they were able to defeat the current threat.
If there was a Goblin SuperKing or a Goblin God or any other strong enemy, Abel was okay to let people die but did not summon Ryo for help despite knowing Ryo could have made beating this enemy much easier.

Even in a supporting role, Ryo was still stronger than Abel's remaining party.

This episode was a sheer disappointment.
Even if Ryo had learnt about Akuma or golems in this episode it would have been some plot progress.
But all he had time for was blushing around the elf.
Seriously? It wasn't even an official date.
Jul 31, 2:26 PM
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On the one hand, you have the whole tidal bore and the battles which were decent, and on the other side you have the MC who kind of acted like a deer in the headlights this entire episode.
Jul 31, 2:27 PM

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If they are so tight on budget they could cut this episode leaving only 2 minutes of relevant content.
And go straight to next episode fight.
Jul 31, 2:37 PM

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Damn, where is Goblin Slayer when you need him?

And lol, perfect example of we went so hard on the OP that we can't animate the show anymore. Honestly, for this level of this series I don't mind the lack of animation at all.

One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron


Jul 31, 3:11 PM
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Water Magician continues to be a mix of strong and weak scenes. The defense of the dungeon entrance was exciting. The idea of people setting up a fortified position around the dungeon door is smart. Ryo meeting Sera in the library and spending most of the time staring gape jawed at her, was annoying. Overall it is still entertaining for me, so I'll stick around.
Jul 31, 3:15 PM
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Waited a whole week for Ryo to not even fight, instead we got Ryo getting rizzed by an elf girl .....

10:56 Animators really thought they'd get away with the door.jpeg😭😭😭

Ryo’s gotten like 5 minutes of screen time. I thought this was supposed to be his story.

In this episode they avoid animating as much as possible 😔💔


The plot has more holes then my swiss cheese. MC encounters big feral demon with potential to destroy the whole city - doesn't tell anyone about it. Magical girl doesn't believe in our MC's ability - doesn't even bother to ask our MC for proof, reads some ancient texts instead (like that would help).

The Crimson party gets a highly dangerous mission to explore a potential stampede - Abel doesn't bother to ask our MC to help. Like WTF?!
Jul 31, 3:23 PM
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Dang that was an intense battle
Jul 31, 3:26 PM

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Waited a whole week for Ryo to not even fight, instead we got Ryo getting rizzed by an elf girl .....

10:56 Animators really thought they'd get away with the door.jpeg😭😭😭

Ryo’s gotten like 5 minutes of screen time. I thought this was supposed to be his story.

In this episode they avoid animating as much as possible 😔💔


The plot has more holes then my swiss cheese. MC encounters big feral demon with potential to destroy the whole city - doesn't tell anyone about it. Magical girl doesn't believe in our MC's ability - doesn't even bother to ask our MC for proof, reads some ancient texts instead (like that would help).

The Crimson party gets a highly dangerous mission to explore a potential stampede - Abel doesn't bother to ask our MC to help. Like WTF?!
@Ethercruiser Tbf at this point I do not even blame her for not believing Abel. If I was in her position, I would be like "if Ryo is half as strong as you say, why the fuck did you not ask someone to go get him?" He is an adventurer, it is his duty to help in this kind of situation, it's not like he would be doing them a favor.
Jul 31, 3:29 PM
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Got a good laugh out of this, half the episode was your standard dungeon wave defense war drama, the other half was mc having a library date. Just... pffhaha.
Jul 31, 3:32 PM

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This episode was a powerpoint presentation.
@matariel_ finally someone pointing out the obvious. People don't seem to pay attention to quality anymore when they score shows. This was powerpoint at best. Still images with 3 stage mouth animation.
Jul 31, 3:38 PM
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Sry but the pacing is all over
this ep felt extremely empty and skippable
not saying id want ryo to step in and save the day very cliche like but im honestly disappointed how theyre dragging some things, btw the last 3 eps they spent 12 minutes of screentime on the mage wondering if Ryo can rly do those things always ending uo brushing it "no way" and its getting on my nerves since she can literally ask him for a demo, hes not even trying to hide anything to lead a slowlife. Also his roommates are nothing, nobody cares, absolutely devoid of character and the most npc looking ppl ever why even spend time on them... also half the episode on a library... a very mediocre fight honestly to rky show them struggling while something worse is coming from the square hole next ep and theyll need help

Im not being an hater i just feel super scammed because the op is rly cool and the concept is there bit its being completely butchered both story and animation wise. Hope it picks up
Jul 31, 4:28 PM
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Fingers crossed for better fight animation and more impactful episodes. The Great Tidal Bore was mentioned earlier, so it feels like it should be a big issue. It was not only pretty tame, it was also pretty boring.

Having the MC as the B plot could have hurt things too. I thought the elf would leave the library to head to the dungeon entrance and Ryo would come along and they'd see something crazy (like blocking the whole entrance with a huge block of ice) but news of this big event didn't even reach the larger library.
Jul 31, 4:31 PM

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What a boring episode this week :b that fight had practically no urgency, and the choreography wasn't all that exciting either.
Jul 31, 4:36 PM

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an episode that showed at least that the city can solve its problems on its own, but I don't think the idea of Scarlet Sword literally knowing that the MC is really cool and simply not calling him, that's really inconceivable
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Jul 31, 5:00 PM
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boring and noting interesting
Jul 31, 5:30 PM
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Yeah I had high hopes but that's my fault, disappointing episodes, bad animation, bad direction, MC doing almost nothing like he lives in a different dimension, I had high hopes because the previous episodes were much much better... I didn't want to shit on this one tbh.😐
Jul 31, 5:37 PM
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Sera is so cute. I love elves.
Jul 31, 6:10 PM

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The guild is calling on all adventurers to help stop the monsters... Meanwhile, Ryou is busy flirting with an elf in the library. Priorities.
Jul 31, 6:14 PM
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Man.. the animation in this looked only ok and quite dubious in many fight scenes but looking back at the manga, I'll just settle with the current animation.
Jul 31, 7:14 PM
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Interesting that mc is with a cute elf in the library, while others are fighting for their life against whole lot of goblins lol
Jul 31, 7:20 PM
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Animation was fine but this seasons anime feels really slow with the plot like his journey hasn’t really started yet
Jul 31, 7:36 PM

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My water mage boy found himself a lady he likes, dude fell in love with her on the spot, how cute. I like how the guild defeated the goblins on their own. Instead of Ryo finishing them off in other fantasy or isekai anime. Goes to show why they've survived for so long, they know what they're doing. Again glad stuff is finally happening in this anime. Everyone had time to shine doing their own thing this episode.
Jul 31, 7:54 PM
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Interesting that mc is with a cute elf in the library, while others are fighting for their life against whole lot of goblins lol

yep, but then again. no way to say there is a attack happening right now lol
Jul 31, 9:00 PM
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very bad; slow anime; boring characters, super disconnected and uninteresting MC, they skipped important information like the development of the protagonist learning to use his power and kept extremely unnecessary information like in the 5th episode all the adventurers in the city fight and he goes to the library and does not participate in the fight, showed his classes learning about the Dungeons and did not show him learning to use the powers, in other words, terrible development
Jul 31, 9:37 PM
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yeah, someone should've gone to get Ryo. though I'm happy his date didn't interrupted, so 🤷‍♀️

really need him to tell someone about the demons tho
Jul 31, 9:54 PM

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i thought ryo would be dragged in to help out with the great tidal bore, but he was busy checking out books at the library and running into a somewhat familiar face. i wonder if he'll end up partying up with sera...?
Jul 31, 10:21 PM
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Should have atleast shown the conversation between Ryo and Sera.
Jul 31, 10:38 PM
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Crazy how the opening animation is a flex and that fight animation is struggling.

I was unsure how this show was going to play out, but the last two episodes were good (minus the rough fight animation).
Jul 31, 11:01 PM

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Pathethic episode. Horrible pacing, horrible animation (actually, you can't call it animation,) uninspired dialog, close-to-zero plot progression.
Aug 1, 12:15 AM
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this episode was so disappointing, the animation gets worse it felt like i was watching stills with mouths moving, recycled battle scenes. pacing was also atrocious. i love the opening but the anime is SOOO much worse than the first 3 episodes. did they run out of money?
Aug 1, 12:18 AM

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Loved the episode. First and foremost, I'm glad Ryō and Sera got to meet again, just as Sera predicted, for some reason, haha. In any case, I love the direction this anime is taking. It's deliberately keeping Ryō out of fights that have an audience.

Likely to avoid revealing his powers too early in the story. That just makes me even more hyped for the moment he finally shows off his strength in front of the Crimson Sword, the White Brigade, his roommates, Sera, and everyone else!
Aug 1, 12:41 AM

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That fight was too easy.....ok Ryo get over there cause they need some of your OP-ness.
Aug 1, 1:07 AM
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The show just went into Low Effort mode with this episode. Felt like they gave it to AI and said make a quick, cheap, vanilla story for this week, include every tired and worn out trope and be sure to use really poor animation, slightly above power point. If they did use AI, it definitely delivered.
Aug 1, 3:15 AM
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Honestly, every episode so far has been a banger. cant wait for next week!
Aug 1, 4:34 AM
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This anime is gradually but surely becoming very exciting to watch. In episode 5, the emergence of a massive wave of monsters seems to be connected to the appearance of a powerful demon that Ryo encountered in episode 4.

The adventurers and the security team fighting against the large horde of goblins were portrayed well—it was intense, and the goblins weren’t defeated easily. This shows that the power scale of the characters introduced so far in the first five episodes is quite grounded—not overpowered (except for Ryo, the main character, and the demon from episode 4).

I especially liked the scene where the mage from Abel’s group chanted a wind spell as support when they jumped down from the high spectator area in the coliseum. In most other anime, characters just jump without a second thought, ignoring logical consequences like getting injured from such height. Lol.

I’m also glad that Ryo didn’t participate in the fight against the goblins in this episode—probably because he would’ve defeated them too easily. This gave other characters a chance to shine on their own.
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