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| Gawd DAMN, studio did not hold back this episode, they dropped a full-on EIGHT MINUTE FUCKING FIGHT SEQUENCE. Seriously, that fight legit took up half the episode.... Like holy FUCK. Safe to say that Queen did more than just redeem herself after the absolute humiliation X handed her. Like she fucking LOCKED IN here. The sheer number of combos from both sides was insane. Honestly, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say this might not only be the best-animated episode of the show so far, but also a serious contender for fight of the year.  And that cliffhanger... man what the FUCK. How are we just ending Queen’s arc like that, of all things lol. Queen’s arc was slightly above Cyan’s for me, but I’m very excited to see what Loli’s got in store for us next week |
IzanaSolosJun 21, 5:44 PM
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| queen's dad is my goat, good backstory to before the cyan usb conversation, and that fight scene made me cry icl |
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| Queen stans check in!! There was always only gonna be one way this arc ended, a Bowa x Queen fight, but holy shit, I didn’t think we’d get 8 minutes of pure unadulterated sakuga with some of the best storyboarding, framing and attention to detail you’ll ever see. This episode was the stuff of dreams and in my opinion, a perfect conclusion to the Queen arc. Hate seeing pretty girls fight, but it had to happen. Seeing Bowa’s backstory really made this even more painful because Bowa worked her ass off to get where she is, but she doesn’t know Queen had to do the exact same. Nothing was handed to her, she’s certainly not a “cheater”, she faced skeptics and criticism as well, but pushed through. Instead of appreciating that and finding common ground, Bowa let her insecurities and social media chatter get to her, pushing her over the edge. I love how this arc seamlessly flows with Cyan’s. For example, we get to see the Cyan x Queen meeting from Queen’s perspective and how Queen was fighting her own internal battle at the same time as Cyan. It makes their meeting and Queen encouraging her that much more poignant because she herself found inspiration in Cyan’s performance. Cyan didn’t even know how many lives she touched that day. These two arcs had the best flow and really feel like one big Cyan-Queen arc so it’s fitting they end it with a little date. Two best heroes idc. It’s unfortunate Queen missed the hero ranking matches, but realistically she wasn’t beating X so I mean.. nothing was really lost. I ain’t want my girl taking another L lmao. It’s sweet that cyan’s there to boost Queen up at the end of this arc in contrast to the ending of Cyan’s own arc! Definitely gonna feel weird not seeing cyan/Queen in episodes after basically a month and a half of their arc. Hopefully the next hero is good! |
Marinate1016Jun 21, 9:30 PM
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This episode was so unhinged |
Ahohite-killerJun 21, 6:29 PM
| This was an isane battle holy shit, for long it is its crazy that they could mantain that level. |
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| Queen reading those social media reactions at the beginning of this episode shocked me because I could have sworn I saw similar posts in real life too. (Then everyone rewatched the first X PV and felt more sympathy for her.) The writers put a lot of thought into their fame based power system! Queen vs Bowa was fantastic. Eight minutes of brutal combat with loads of shipping containers being wrecked in the chaos. A shame that her injuries from the battle caused her to lose another chance at becoming X. I'm sure she could have figured something out against the nameless rank 1 hero. The giant dog cliffhanger is rough! |
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| Woah woah woah. Is this a taste of the hero tournament? The battle between two potential X's are crazy!! wooo. Also the heroes in this universe are insanely durable Queen took so much beating and still kept going. |
| The Bowa vs Queen battle was like something out of the fate series. Overall, I liked the episode. Investigations into the identity of x are still ongoing. |
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| That fight was even better than those of ufotable. |
Reply to Asa07-SalihG
The Bowa vs Queen battle was like something out of the fate series. Overall, I liked the episode. Investigations into the identity of x are still ongoing.
| @Asa07-SalihG I was thinking the same. But it felt bigger in scope than fate fights. |
| Damn! God tier animation with the fight. I couldn't avert my eyes for a bit. Btw, what's with the car? It looks like a straight png  |
| Great ep What an amazing finale to Queen, a quick but sweet arc. We start with a depressed Queen, but the beautiful voice of encouragement by Cyan is enough to help her make her comeback as a hero. We learn more about Bowa and her tireless struggle and obviously she thought that Queen has never trained to get to where she was despite Queen being gifted. Though, Bowa thought it was through her father's connections. Ngl, thought she was gonna kill the father, but it was just a simple fact realization (put 2 and 2 together). A lab researcher who has let fear consume him, turns into a monster with missiles or sum and she swiftly defeats him. She also saves and protects the people of the city. They start tracking X's hero file and we see Rock who is normal, a strong alien girl with "multiple ability?", nine with "create", wreck once again, etc. Later a day before the 19th hero tourney, Bowa ambushes her at a shipping dock and we see, if not the best animated fight currently in to be hero x, which was surprisingly 8 or more mins. The 2D animation is once again, phenomenal and doesn't miss a beat. They look even for some time and instantly Bowa continues to get even stronger. Queen is able to defeat her with "Rush" by bending the rules that fear applies (assumption). Sadly, she faints after taking such a larger beating, after narrowly winning. Tournament ends and X keeps his rank. Bowa succeeds in stopping her from achieving her goal, but Queen must have figured she can't beat him based off his profile ranks in SSS. Weirdly enough, blondie glasses tells Queen to take a vacation, and a large demon dog appears ?? Maybe something is happening that blonde doesn't want Queen to be present for? Queen's decent development with learning to trust others helped her for the better and their relationship gives a cute older sister and younger sister vibe. A queen certainly cannot stand alone on her own two feet. Though, the arc should have been a ep or two longer. Kind of lacked umm substance, but kinda enjoy it more than Cyan’s arc. Maybe more info comes out with Loli's arc, which is up next. 9.5/10 or 10/10 very hard to rate ngl |
JayDaAnimeLordJun 21, 11:29 PM
 "Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves" - Naruto Uzumaki |
| This might be a new standard for animations |
Reply to Shiro_Asaigawa
That fight was even better than those of ufotable.
| @Shiro_Asaigawa the fight animation might as well be better than Mid leveling itself too |
| That was insane, half the episode of crazy animation, somehow felt like a fight straight up from a fate series (I swear Queen feels like a combination of Jeanne Ruler + Gilgamesh) I really love this friendship between the 3 heroes (Queen, Cyan and Little Johnny), how they casually cares and look out after one another. The people really thinks Queen lost because of Cyan's misfortune... when in truth X is just really him lol. Not so much lore drop for this episode, but there was a mysterious female hero(?) besides Rock's data when they were investigating X, somehow looks really important. The Dog Unicorn Kaiju in the last scene, what are the chances of that being Little Johnny's or somehow related to him? Coz basing on his character trailer, those Kaiju-like Animals are kinda like his powers. |
| Beautiful episode to look at but yeah, still not feeling this arc, and definitely not feeling the character. |
| The sakuga fest and action choreography, holy damn! One of the best 2d animated action sequence ever, such high quality. Was decently long and straight up action without much dialogue and other bs. It's sad Bowa turned out to be such a low esteem sore loser. Both of them reminds me of the valkyries, specially Queen. But yeah the amount of episodes is definitely affecting the character depths. Specially this one with just two episodes. Also cliffhanger ending again, like come on man. |
MegamiRemJul 15, 10:16 AM
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Reply to IzanaSolos
Gawd DAMN, studio did not hold back this episode, they dropped a full-on EIGHT MINUTE FUCKING FIGHT SEQUENCE. Seriously, that fight legit took up half the episode.... Like holy FUCK.
Safe to say that Queen did more than just redeem herself after the absolute humiliation X handed her. Like she fucking LOCKED IN here. The sheer number of combos from both sides was insane. Honestly, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say this might not only be the best-animated episode of the show so far, but also a serious contender for fight of the year.
And that cliffhanger... man what the FUCK. How are we just ending Queen’s arc like that, of all things lol. Queen’s arc was slightly above Cyan’s for me, but I’m very excited to see what Loli’s got in store for us next week
Safe to say that Queen did more than just redeem herself after the absolute humiliation X handed her. Like she fucking LOCKED IN here. The sheer number of combos from both sides was insane. Honestly, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say this might not only be the best-animated episode of the show so far, but also a serious contender for fight of the year.
And that cliffhanger... man what the FUCK. How are we just ending Queen’s arc like that, of all things lol. Queen’s arc was slightly above Cyan’s for me, but I’m very excited to see what Loli’s got in store for us next week
| @IzanaSolos Wait you mean after this is gonna skip to the next char arc (Loli's)? Aren't there supposed to be 3 episodes per arc? I mean Cyan got three ep right? |
| That was a nice episode. The fight was pretty neat. Queen's also going on a vacation! I wish Queen got explored more as a character. I know she has struggles, but I just couldn't become invested because emotional scenes got squeezed out by the mostly pointless fight that took up half of this episode. Hopefully we'll see more of Queen in the Johnnies' arc. |
| absolute cinema wow, this fight was so good... |
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Reply to EarlThe2nd
Wth with this episode? Ofc the graphic,the batlle all top tier, but the story? Meh... Nothing interesting. After lin ling arc, and e soul, the story become predictible and boring. We dont want story about hero , its too cliche, we want to expose dark secret behind hero system, the politic,. I can see next arc.boring too. Pls Association arc and X as someone who know association dark secret. The story itself is dystopia, world with rep as power, so i hope we crush association and all hero management corps. And where is our dark heroes/villains. 7/10 for this episode.
| @EarlThe2nd The last 2 arcs were about downsides of a hero society and a trust system. In Cyan arc we see that people are able to influence the trust system simply by being superstitious idiots, and in Queen arc we find out that the hero society is highly competitive and unfair. For example, Bowa was used as a stepping stone for a nepobaby Queen. |
| Imagine normies saying: "Peaky Blinders is mid and overhyped. Just another typical crime drama show. Breaking Bad is much better lol.". |
| E-soul's Arc > Nice's Arc > Queen's Arc > Lucky Cyan's Arc |
Reply to Rom-Com_lover
Damn! God tier animation with the fight. I couldn't avert my eyes for a bit.
Btw, what's with the car? It looks like a straight png
Btw, what's with the car? It looks like a straight png
@Rom-Com_lover I love how you complained about this car and forgot that they made a 2D animated car which is a rare thing to see these days. |
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