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Aug 9, 2024 8:01 AM
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The first battle.

Well that went to all hell pretty much immediately lol. I don't really blame that one girl with fish fins as ears tbh. She came in here thinking that it'd be pretty much smooth sailing going in, everyone seemed to have thought that it seems lol, but then she saw that one guy die in front of her face and yeah.

Let the final act of the battle begin!


Aug 9, 2024 9:40 AM
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This is definitely a turn-based JRPG material.
Aug 9, 2024 10:07 AM
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Fish eared girl was freaking out because she based her whole personality on bull dude and lost him. Once she imprinted on someone cool like Belle she was alright.
Aug 9, 2024 10:08 AM
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This World is SO complex. Definitely not your typical D&D Fantasy World and I love it for that. Never Thought I'd see Martial combat formations arranged like a symponthy orchestra. It didn't work so well, though. The perceptions of good and evil are definitely different too.
Aug 9, 2024 10:59 AM
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This show remains middling at best. This was okay, but but I hate setup episodes, and I still don't understand the name of the show. This feels totally disjointed and honestly it's extremely forgetable.
Aug 9, 2024 2:38 PM
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It's not as bad as the recent Unnamed Memory, but it gives me similar vibes with it's quick, disjointed and weird showing. The only reason I haven't dropped it, is because it's got cool/interesting concepts. I don't mind being left in the dark for these sorts of things initially, but I would at least appreciate some time to breathe. The fact that it's only ten episodes long, we're already half way through the season, I can already tell it's gonna stay a disappointment.
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Aug 9, 2024 9:04 PM
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I like the idea that mermaids have minds that reflect those of others, seems like Benedictine picked up on Belle pretty quickly and that was cool. I suspect something similar happened to Tiziano.
Aug 9, 2024 9:37 PM
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I'm gonna watch it when I have time
Aug 9, 2024 11:34 PM
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Bruhh 5 episodes in and i have no idea where The PLOT gonna go.
LMAO
Our boy Kevin Penkin back must been hurt carrying this Anime.
Aug 11, 2024 12:57 AM

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The Schwert Muzik gets going against the monsters, though they soon get overwhelmed by Tiziano, as is the case for Benedictine trying to come to terms with the loss of her fellow partner Gordon, and Kitty the Cat making a way for Belle to use her sword and cut down monsters. Despite mermaids being akin to mental parasites, she thankully recollects her soul and moves on with the gang, though Adonis has quite the heat that their one and only enemy is the god that they need to defeat.

Within the midst of finding the exit route with the help of Underdog conductor Gin Buck, him and Tiziano joined hands not just to teach the Topdogs a lesson, but also to Adonis for past regrets. But joining hands between the Topdogs and Underdogs, that's quite the approach to taking down Tiziano, and Gin assumes his conductor role while he holds Kitty the part of director, and Gwyn the Libretto a.k.a scriptwriter, for another round to face evil.

We're officially halfway, but the plot is the only thing being of disjoint.
Aug 11, 2024 5:24 AM
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I like this show, but the battle set new levels of "WTF is going on" for me. Lol
Aug 11, 2024 7:46 AM

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Hoping Belle gets a Harem of Mermaids

The show must go on!

Aug 11, 2024 10:37 AM

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This world is so bizarre. But especially so in regard to its concept of 'good' and 'evil'.
Aug 12, 2024 1:02 AM
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I'm starting to get used to the setting and dreamlike style. This was a pretty interesting episode.

I was fascinated that while the English translation says Top Dog and Underdog on the name labels, the kanji very clearly say Justice for the Top Dogs and Evil for the Underdogs. And when they're talking to/about each other they keep talking about good vs evil. I wonder if the Top Dogs/Underdogs thing was invented for the translation? Or chosen in order to make some other play on words work in a way that it normally wouldn't in English?

Curiouser and curiouser.
Aug 12, 2024 2:58 AM

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If you ever thought line infantry formations were stupid, you have freaking orchestra formations here!
What's the purpose of this circus again? Line infantry at least made sense due to poor accuracy of guns back then. What is the excuse here? The show makes a big deal out of who is doing what in orchestra even at the end of the episode? But WHY? They can't cast spells without music or something? People like Belle rush out and slash and stab like usual anyways, and I didn't notice them getting "buffed" or something so wtf? It took a swarm of spiders to dismantle the entire thing, and supposedly disciplined troops began to rout and get slaughtered like untrained peasants. What a shitshow that was. Makes 0 sense why they can't do the fighting the normal, traditional way, without high heels and dumb light uniforms.
I don't know how well this was explained in the novel but anime does a terrible job here IMO. It's like they're trying to look special and that's precisely why the whole horseshit orchestra thing was implanted.
Aug 12, 2024 11:11 AM
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I actually think Benedictine imprinting on Belle is pretty cute! The thing that stood out to me this episode is once again, the world building and magic system. They really carry this show (and the music)!
Aug 13, 2024 2:22 PM
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This is the first episode I would classify as genuinely good. I have the feeling that even the formation the army was in was planned from jump to fail. The moment a fight came up the formation broke... against some spiders of all things.
The Tiziano issue of playing god makes so much sense considering it was confirmed before that she was a mermaid. We saw what happened to Benedictine and how she broke, then re-imprinted to Belle, and it's such a nice parallel to Tiziano, considering Tiziano didn't seem to bounce back quite the same. Who did she re-imprint with?
The minor twist with Adonis and his family being outsiders. Of course he wouldn't have as many qualms teaming up with evil. The question I have is, why couldn't his family repel the evil people from the Katakombs before all this mess happened, or are they opportunistically allowing them to stay for protection?
Lastly, this ploy to kill Belle by the god, sending her into a losing battle, seems to have backfired. How much will this experience speed up his downfall?
Aug 15, 2024 1:15 AM
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Please don't name your character Adonis 😭😭😭
I immediately thought of the Adonis vs Joffrey thing from Hamza that was like "Joffrey wakes up late in the morning jerking off and cumming all over the wall, then doesn't clean it up"
Aug 24, 2024 11:34 PM

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Dungeon ni Deai vibes. ⚔️
Sep 1, 2024 10:04 PM

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For some reason seeing Gordon like that reminds me of Michael Jackson's Thriller.
I'm looking forward to the battle with Tiziano next time.

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Sep 2, 2024 3:37 PM
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This show remains middling at best. This was okay, but but I hate setup episodes, and I still don't understand the name of the show. This feels totally disjointed and honestly it's extremely forgetable.
@StateofOhayo Bye Bye Earth. Away from Earth. The storybook nature is alike in man ways to Alice in Wonderland, hence the presence of the rabbit boy with the watch. And she wants to find her way back to her "people". I.e. Earth. So to me the tittle is a testimony to the fairy tale dream like world we and the protagonist find ourselves in. And it feels disconjointed because it wants to tell more self contained episodic stories more than some grand interconnected narrative, again like Alice in Wonderland.
Sep 2, 2024 3:51 PM
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If you ever thought line infantry formations were stupid, you have freaking orchestra formations here!
What's the purpose of this circus again? Line infantry at least made sense due to poor accuracy of guns back then. What is the excuse here? The show makes a big deal out of who is doing what in orchestra even at the end of the episode? But WHY? They can't cast spells without music or something? People like Belle rush out and slash and stab like usual anyways, and I didn't notice them getting "buffed" or something so wtf? It took a swarm of spiders to dismantle the entire thing, and supposedly disciplined troops began to rout and get slaughtered like untrained peasants. What a shitshow that was. Makes 0 sense why they can't do the fighting the normal, traditional way, without high heels and dumb light uniforms.
I don't know how well this was explained in the novel but anime does a terrible job here IMO. It's like they're trying to look special and that's precisely why the whole horseshit orchestra thing was implanted.
@Sigmar-Unberogen I think the dreamlike and storybook parallel's in the show stand as self evident.

The fight that we see, as I see it, is very "March of the Toys" from Babe's In Toyland. Or as a grand orchestrated march and fight with pompoms orchestral backing as if its guided by a kid playing with toys- God driving his loyal soldiers forward as a unified element with no individual figures. Save that for the main characters the kid plays with, the "hero" in the fight. This is also pretty apparent when one of the battle roles is to write the script. Because they're reenacting what a battle "should be"

The more theme side of things aside, what we see on the ground is a large force that was expecting conventional warfare. They where ready to meet a large army, and NOT a ambush my small creatures. It seems to me they expected to fight men and not monsters. They made magic wards but the amount of small spiders and the use of water made it so they slipped past the wards and destoned them. The Evil faction used strategy to destroy the enemy force.

The army itself seemed to know it would be a tough and costly fight, and where driven by duty and devotion. After all the task was bestowed on them by God. And the role of a soldier is to fight with utmost strength even if it looks to be a loosing battle. Because that's largely war. And as we see, high command was unprepared and overconfident.
Sep 12, 2024 2:24 PM

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So they just fight like a band which is just basically a formation with people in different roles. Benedictine imprinted Belle's personality it seems? Is she gonna be Belle's companion.
Sep 15, 2024 10:58 AM

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So they just fight like a band which is just basically a formation with people in different roles. Benedictine imprinted Belle's personality it seems? Is she gonna be Belle's companion.
@MegamiRem as i got it mermaids do it with life companions, hinting to potential girl on girl love
Sep 15, 2024 11:23 AM

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@MegamiRem as i got it mermaids do it with life companions, hinting to potential girl on girl love
@Sugram22 Ye you have another thing coming for you, gl.
Sep 16, 2024 1:17 AM

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@Sugram22 Ye you have another thing coming for you, gl.
@MegamiRem i think it will go harem rout, Bi harem rout (2many chars that are sus in that way) :D
Sep 27, 2024 11:10 PM

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why do they need to prepare like a musical theater when going to the battle?

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