Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 4 Episode 12 Discussion

What was that ?
Nothing make fucking sens in this bullshit end

rushed, no explanation for nothing, boring as fuck fight, stupid actions, Raftalia goes for empress but still ask every fucking time "eww Naofomi-san can if fight plsssss?", this later full useless, not even supportive or smth, juts hng ? yes! hooo <stupid unasked plot armor explanation>

Bad emperor mentor, villain of the season, killed off-screen, but no she can inhabit the stupid orca girl's body, but it's a ghost so Raftalia can fight her, but no again it's the old lady who beat her, so completely useless why not JUST killing her off-screen, establishing the strength of the old empress?
Non-nonsensical fight with her right after, no explanation, while it can be easily be made a clear challenge by her, like "i cleared the head of nation from the problem (besides, why now ? what you doing before?), so if you want the place beat me/prove me you're worthy"

The the fucking stupid yeah yeah we killed the emperor for rebels but it's fake, like it's normal when they were not hinted once before that he was a fucking child to just scold him like he had any info or liberty to take decision. Fucking buy some balls, RAftalia is the fucking empress, just announce his surrender and imposes that you'll raise him as co-emperror for while you'll have to fight waves and all, or something else but not this stupid shit

Very horrible ending. Make it the worst season so far for me, and probably the last because i just randomly gave it a chance that as been thrown after a not so bad start

Well, this episode was... something.

Let's ignore a bit the little to no context we got last episode. It does seem like the 3rd version of Raphtalia really is the previous Heavenly Emperor, that was probably tired of just watching Naofumi and the others not finishing this arc once and for all, so she took that task for herself, and literally killed Makina and a bunch of warriors that were by her side. Now, that was a turn of events.
Then Makina transforms into a ghost, does something, and then the Heavenly Emperor kills her once and for all.

For some reason the previous Heavenly Emperor then goes "you know about your friend, if Raphtalia doesn't win a fight against me she's dead". And so Raphtalia battles her. When the Battle started, with the opening as the OST and everything, honestly, it was quite good, even animation wise. Then the opening ends, and the battle still isn't nowhere of ending. Then Raphtalia just continues to talk about powers that either were not explained properly in the earlier seasons, or are outright new. Then she gets a bunch of powerups and wins the battle.
Ahmm, like, what was all that? I don't know if they skipped stuff from the light novel, or if it's just the consequences of those 2nd and 3rd seasons, but this whole segment was questionable.

And just like that, this arc ends. I honestly found it funny how this arc just ended because the previous Emperor decided to randomly appear and kill Makina.

They never really ended up explaining why the Emperor that was in functions did everything that Makina wanted, but ok I guess, at this point I'm used that the plot of this anime isn't the most solid thing ever.

Right after the conclusion of this arc, they literally jump to Motoyasu just being completely delusional, and killing Malty cold-blooded. Like, that was harsh and unexpectedly violent, but it is true that this character had to face the consequences of her actions. But obviously they bring the souls things, that were supposed to be explained in season 2, were shown in season 3, but never explained, and now here they are again. And of course he didn't destroy her soul, so y'all know what that means: Malty is making an appearance in season 5.

To end the season they just show the characters going back to the village, nothing too special. At this point, the characters aren't that interesting, considering they are barely explored. There are characters from the main group that never interacted with each other, and it seems that isn't changing.

But right before the episode ended, the anime confirms there will be a 5th season for this show, and actually reveals a bit of what's to come, and I'm actually shocked they basically just revealed a character from Naofumi's party is going to die next season. They really went "Please don't give up and watch the next season, someone's dying".
Someone told me that Naofumi would be getting a lot of development next season, and that shows! I think this is the first time a character from the main group dies ever since Ost in season 2 (and let's be honest, Ost didn't have that much impact on the story to begin with, at least not in the anime version).
I suppose Raphtalia and Filo are safe. I doubt it's one of the tiger siblings too (or did they just give Fohl all this character development, one of the few to have this privilege, and kill him off). So I'm curious to see who's going to be. Maybe Sadeena?
Or maybe it's just a random side character and they are just baiting us.

So, overall, this season was a bit inconsistent. The first arc (around the first 6 episodes) was really solid in my opinion. I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I found this arc good (not amazing), and finally brought back a lot of the feeling the 1st season had, with proper introduction of the setting, important character development and a well told story. This 2nd arc, the Q'ten Lo one, started off well, but then they just started to rush things off again, didn't explain properly a bunch of stuff either, and the whole resolution for this arc was poor, which was much more in line to what season 3 did. The difference is that season 3, overall, had a more interesting and promising story (even if it was butchered).

So overall, I ended up disappointed with this season, considering it had such a good start, but rapidly turned into the same mess season 3 was (season 2 is on a different tier by the way, that was even worse). It's sad, because I feel like the Light Novel is actually much better, even if it isn't as good as it was in the beginning, I feel like it's still quite enjoyable, considering what Light Novel readers say.
So I'm giving this season 4 of Tate no Yuusha a 6 out of 10. It was good at the start, but it lost itself midway.

That said, I will be watching the 5th season, now I want to know who dies.

Edit: Watched the teaser for the 5th season again, and noticed that we can actually see the shoulder of the body Naofumi is holding. And there aren't many characters that have outfits that show the shoulders. So maybe I take my comment back on it not being one of the tiger siblings... Also, just remembered that Naofumi as some business with Fitoria too, maybe she'll have a role in this arc too.
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it was alr. pacing was ass. plot felt pretty stale and the entire thing with the old emperor just came out of nowhere and felt kinda forced to clean the whole thing up easily. the fight was cool tho with great animation. why the fuck couldn't that fuckass whore die. decent season but quite underwhelming with how it could have been. pacing was bad and animation was mostly bad besides a few very well animated fight scenes. slightly better than 2 and 3 hopefully 5 will continue the trend of getting a little better each time and be a good season.

Solid finale, idc what anyone says, Shield Hero will always have a special place in my heart as my 2nd ever LN series. Seeing it get 5 seasons is mind blowing though, unprecedented for an Isekai series, but I’ll take it because peak shield hero hasn’t even been adapted yet. Next season is going to be an emotional roller coaster that I’m not ready for 😭 let the haters hate!

The way you can tell Kinema are massive raphtalia stans because they put 90 percent of this season’s budget into Raphtalia’s fight with the previous emperor lol. Longest and most well done fight we’ve had in a long while in this series, really cool to see Raphtalia access the hero menu as well! Oh and seeing Makina get packed up in arguably the single best animated scene of the season is fitting because she was the biggest bitch, more on that later.

Raphtalia and Naofumi are going to have their hands full managing the village, two kingdoms, being heroes, fighting dimensional threats, etc. I would NOT want to be them at all lol. Luckily they have an amazing support system around them and keep recruiting powerful allies.

THAT ENDING WE ALL CHEERED! But Motoyasu not destroying bitch’s soul is a huge oversight lmao. An evil bitch like that is fuelled by hatred, they don’t go down easily. She’s already recovering from that attack. But it’s funny seeing someone who was so wrapped around her finger being the one to impale her.

Overall, I liked this slightly less than season 3, but MAL doesn’t allow decimal ratings so I’ll just keep them both at 8s. First half had my Atla focus so that was really good, obviously season 3 introduced her as well so I liked both for that reason lol. I’m not a big Raphtalia guy tho so the Q’ten Lo stuff was meh for me. It’s always cool to see different parts of this world though and have the characters grow, so it did that introduced Shildina. I’m hype and not hype for the Phoenix arc at the same time IYKYK.

I really liked this season, I hope to see the next one soon. ( ^_^)

LMFAO MOTOYATSU AT THE END 💀💀💀

well serves her right, shouldve def destroyed her soul tho, 100% she'll be back to cause trouble but would be funny af if that was her permanent death XD