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Sep 28, 5:30 AM
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Exclusive iQIYI China streaming before dAnimeStore / U-NEXT / CR streaming and TV broadcast. 1st 3 Episodes air back-to-back.

With Athanasia being brought to her father's chambers with head Maid Lilian, the daughter can only think of escape most of the time, with the exception that he's going to personally take care of her now?

Once again, the father-daughter daily tea times get more elaborate with cakes and the like that's tempting to Athanasia, though playing Happy Family sure made her nervous all the time. And a boat ride in the palace waters for the two, the daughter has no choice but to comply with her father's request, even hering that she has to personally come claim her 2 bags of jewels from him.

Alas, while a charming lotus flower has Athanasia's attention, her drowning in the waters being dragged by an unknown entity, which worse still that she didn't know how to swim, gets saved by her father, cleansed and dry-cleaned thereafter with his magic, though it affects him quite a bit. Thankfully, while Athanasia gets off with a slight sickness, it's Claude who has to bear the same lotus flower's charms, with him ordaining Felix as her personal guardian knight thereafter. What exactly is happening here?

The father-daughter relationship is improving well, at least not to the level of hate incurred as is with Athanasia's past.
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Sep 28, 1:11 PM
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This anime is gonna fly under the radar of so many people, it's a shame because at the moment there are the premises for it to be something nice.

Sep 28, 1:31 PM
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Athanasia is basically helpless at this age. I hope she can do more when she grow up, otherwise that'd mean she was completely controlled by her father.
Sep 28, 7:37 PM
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I expected an anime with a rating of 9 or 10, for now the rating is 8
Sep 29, 4:19 AM
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i love it! You make the manga into anime. One of the best manhwa stories I read.
Sep 29, 2:58 PM
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I loved the pre-ending plot twist, though it wasn’t that big of one, haha. It was just Felix being provisionally appointed as Athanasia’s guardian knight instead of Claude’s. I do wonder who’s going to be Claude’s guardian knight now, considering he’s literally the emperor.
Sep 29, 7:26 PM
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whyy does the king always dress like that :> im sure there are much nicer clothes he can wear
Sep 29, 11:03 PM
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I really like it but still have the feeling that its kinda confusing.

I have the feeling that they changed sone of the original story but didnt pull through.

I read a lot of webcomics of this genre und this feels like the story should have been the following:
She gets isekait into the novel she read and thats why she knows how the story goes.

In the anime she can see the future with dreams and her book??
But she still says things like: "im just a supportive character"
Which makes no sense when she doesnt know she is in a novel
Sep 30, 4:27 AM
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so i'm pretty sure that the purple magic is bad, and it looks like claude has trouble managing or using it, so maybe it's him who actually uses black magic?? or the lake itself is evil. at any rate felix seems pretty worried about him. it's also a bit funny how they're all like 'yeah the emperor is a great man' but at the same time are anxious that he doesn't kill his 5 yo daughter on a whim
Sep 30, 1:56 PM
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I thought she will grow up fast and it gets interesting, but seems like she is going to grow up slowly, and there are going to be sweet and funny moments. It's not what I wanted, I am out.
Sep 30, 3:45 PM

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damnn i loved this show pretty hard !!

Oct 2, 4:16 AM

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Oh, it seems they are changing the story of the manhwa, or going by the novel (the novel and manhwa also differ a lot iirc). To be honest, I don't mind the changes for now. Makes Claude seem less of an asshole, and they hinted early at some important concepts that will be very relevant later (albeit with less subtlety than the manhwa).

Now, the change regarding Athanasia herself... Technically, there is still space for the story to go back on track, since her story is a bit more complicated than "she got isekai'd", but even if it doesn't, I am interested to see how this version unfolds. The isekai part doesn't contribute that much to the story in my opinion, except for her background explaining her actions more and one scene with Ijekiel later. But since anime probably won't reach that far, I think it's going to be fine as it is.

Animation is truly stunning. I have never imagined Felix being voiced by Kimura Ryouhei or Claude by Maeno Tomoaki lol, but it's always nice to see them working together.
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Wrathberry84 said:
I read a lot of webcomics of this genre und this feels like the story should have been the following:
She gets isekait into the novel she read and thats why she knows how the story goes.

In the anime she can see the future with dreams and her book??
But she still says things like: "im just a supportive character"
Which makes no sense when she doesnt know she is in a novel

That seems to be true. I found out in the synopses that she was reincarnated (or whatever, I haven't read it) in the original work, but it had to be changed because of China's policies. However, I'm fed up with all the reincarnations and this take feels so fresh and nice!

I have understood the anime so that Athy drew a picture book about her dreams as soon as she could hold a pen properly, perhaps as to keep her dreams in mind or arrange the timeline for the sake of her future. And because of her intelligence, which may be related to her ability, she has already noticed that she's not the main character in that book.

Also having her see those dreams makes me hopeful for her future despite that she can't use any other magic. This is more exciting than having read everything before, because there’s an actual reason now why the audience is sometimes told about the next future events so late. I bet that in the original one either everything was told to the reader right from the start – not very exciting for me anymore and would have taken a big chunk of the 1st or 2nd episode – or that she conveniently remembers some events at a time, which is honestly getting really old with all those isekais.

The only thing that doen't make sense is why doesn't she tell anyone about her ability? Maybe she saw that no one will care about her if not for Lillian and she doesn't want to make Lillian sad with the bad version of the future or tell anyone details of the future that might never realize. I'm still not sure if this is clever of her or not.

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Oct 3, 6:59 AM
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I have now watched the first episodes and it really took me those three to warm up to the story. But I think the surprise for Athy that she already changed her predicted time line has been properly conveyed so I expect some more plot to follow and will keep watching.
Oct 4, 11:12 AM

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I'm enjoying this more than I thought I would. It's cute how obviously pleased Claude is whenever Athy gives him a compliment. The only major problems I have with the adaptation so far are how they changed Athy's background from being reincarnated (from what I remember?) to being able to see the future. I especially don't like this change from the first episode, cause a baby wouldn't understand what the hell is going on. Also, Claude doesn't look nearly as good here as he does in the manhwa - which is weird, considering they got all the other characters spot on - btu I'll try to get used to it.


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Oct 5, 5:55 PM
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Whatever TV drama animation effect they used at 12:33, I hope they never use it again
Oct 19, 12:05 PM

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I really wish she would put her differences and preformed knowledge of her dad aside and focus on what's going on in present time. He clearly is trying to be present in her life lol and she's already changed her own fate.

If she doesn't stop saying the king doesn't care about her, I'm gonna lose my mind
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whyy does the king always dress like that :> im sure there are much nicer clothes he can wear
@bom- there might be some story to that

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