Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru Episode 5 Discussion

I guess it was pretty obvious that Vera was a villain, the first time she appeared it didn’t seem that way but it was all too clear she was behind the Garuda in the previous episode, and now we know it was her that messed with the troll. But even if her being a villain isn’t a big surprise, her character just got a new layer of intrigue, so she’s a monster rights activist that is engaging in inhumane experiments on said monsters to allow them to be more intelligent, but what she does is looked down on by other activists, very interesting. And that’s not even counting the tease at her past with the weird Medusa eye she has, so I’m guessing the reason she’s so content with her actions is because of how her own parents treated her, sad but this battle is about to be sick, no time to be sad lol.

On a lighter note, the kiss bit was really cute earlier in the episode, wasn’t expecting much romance in this show but it looks like Nanao and Katie are gonna be players for Oliver’s love interest, or at least I think Katie will eventually be roped in with those reactions lol, for now tho Nanao is being extra apparent about it, it’s just unfortunate her kiss was cut off by Oliver’s cousin randomly showing up, cool to see her but I would have liked a bit more of her before she dipped. I also liked the alchemy class bit a lot, I wish there was time for more of the class stuff but I get why it’s not in the forefront, I’ll take what I can get of it, I guess even Pete can screw up catastrophically lol. Oh and apparently no one died during the Garuda incident, that’s pretty insane considering how bad some of those hits looked, but good on them I guess.

And I guess the next episode is the end of Volume 1, 6 episodes isn’t bad for a whole volume, and much better than what a lot of LN adaptations can ask for, but it’s unfortunately not as lucky as Ishura and it getting a whole season for its first book.

@TheColonel76
"I guess it was pretty obvious that Vera was a villain" was it really? I guess someone excepted it more than me lol. She wasn't really a villain though, but it does seem like it by the end of the episode, I guess. But really, that's how mages are. She didn't want to harm Katie, as a magical biologist it makes sense for her to analyze someone's brain to understand them better. And she specifically said she won't harm her, she also had no ill feelings towards Oliver or Nanao and didn't want to harm them. And went easy on them in a fight next episode, basically just protecting herself.
" so she’s a monster rights activist" demi-human activist. Like elfs, centaurs, dwarves aren't monsters. Trolls aren't considered monsters too.
She is a bit different from other activists, as she actually puts her hands inside of those whose rights she wants to alleviate, you can see why it'd be looked down upon.
They cut it from the anime, Oliver thought about it. It was because of how she was raised. Her parents gave her the eye, while knowing that there is 90% she is gonna die and Miligan considered it as love. Thus, she showed her love for demi-humans the same way. Believing the results of her research would ultimately save them, even if many of them are gonna die.
The other part they didn' mention is that there is an exteremely small chance for basilisk eye to accept you, and you only can do that to a child, where the chance of rejection is at its lowest. There is another case of it later on, where a grown body would reject a foreign entity getting into it, immune system trying to fight it.
Also mentioned that magical eyes implanted into someone isn't uncommon. (so maybe a hint that there would be more?)

Classes are always the most fun, yeah.