Zefyris said:Here we go again, instead of skipping the fan service scene to concentrate in everything else remaining, they skipped/shortened stuff to leave place for fan service, as usual.
Bad decision, as usual.
Lol at that scene with Bete. That wasn't like that in the LN, it was far less comical, but that way to do it was Hilarious so why not xD.
So the direct effect of includign that bath scene shows right afterwards, with Ryu's background being shortened.
I'll leave this here for peoples interested in Ryu :
She's serving the God Astraea , a goddess of purity often associated with Dike, god of Justice, in the Greek mythology. As a matter of fact, in danmachi,
Astraea is a god with a very strong sense of justice, and her familia was the same .
They were acting as bringer of justice in Oratorio, stopping criminals and bringing them before the law . Astraea familia was really liked from the regular peoples due to this.
But,
because of this, they were massively hated by criminal oriented familia that had to deal with them . One day, the whole group was ambushed by some of those familia, killing all but Ryu.
Ryu came back alive, and
asked Astraea to leave Oratorio. The true reason behind Ryu asking this, that she didn't said to her god, was that she didn't want Astrea to see what would come next.
And what came next was said in the anime too: revenge. She hunted down every single person who was involved with the extermination of her familia, assassinating, massacring them all rather than bringing them before official justice.
As a result, she was blacklisted by the guild. Since Astraea leftthe town prior to this incident, Ryu's status as an adventurer wasn't deleted, and she is still de facto as powerful as before. Simply, if she wer eto be recognised as the "shippu no Lion", she would be arrested immediately for her crimes. The restaurant where she works, who seems to have an heavy relationship with the most powerful god of oratorio, is keeping her identity secret. It seems like all but Syr have some kind of "circumstances" with the law of oratorio as well.
DarklordVor said:
Hestia is a godess, so how can she got captured so easily? If she don't want to break a rule, I can understand that, but in the end she still used it. If it's for plot convenience, I think Lili can fill the spot. Hestia looked better with her hair down lol.
Tokoya said:
Hestia going in like a boss like holy fuck WHAT WAS THAT POWER?!?!?!?!
pervertedelights said:
Based on the timing of the skull, what with Hestia temporarily releasing her divine powers, .
Actually,
she didn't release her power. This is a burst of "Might of Heaven" (神威 in japanese) ( Or "God authority" if you it better that way). Every god has it as a natural aura. In the anime, it was completely skipped, so obviously you don't know that, but in the LN, it's often talked about. That's the main reason for why in danmachi, you can recognise if someone is a god or not by his sheer "presence" and "authority" (think of it like an absolute charisma emanating for them, overwhelming for mortals). Usually, gods are just radiating a little of it. When they entered the dungeon, Hstia and Hermes made sure that they completely cut it off compeltely to avoid being detected by the dungeon. What hestia did was simply a burst of it, suddenly releasing 神威 to convince the mortals to obey her. She didn't use her divine power. If she did, that would be back to the heaven afterwards and forever for Hestia, end of danmachi as a story.
They exaggerated it clearly in the anime. Shin'i (神威) is something that's completely natural from gods in danmachi~ As a mater of fact,
when Bell reunited with Hestia on the 18th floor, he asked her why she was "different from usual". That's because gods usually release an aura of "God Authority" at all time, whereas she wasn't in the dungeon. What Hestia did there was just stopping restraining it, and maybe releasing more than usual on this, but that's about it.
Damn, they skipped almost completely the fight from Bell's allies (and that was supposed to be in a forest too :x ), and skipped the joke of Hestia saying "bell kuuun!??!" when seeing the rabbit and being tsukkomi'ed by the two adventurers guarding her. As well as that bug bear leaded here by Lili to chase the two, as well. I was looking forward to that scene, too :"(.
Welf losing his sword from that cliff isn't supposed to happen. He was supposed to threw it away at the end of the battle, not wishing to use it.
I clearly didn't like the way the end was done. That supposed to be a shadow appearing in the crystals light, like a shadow of someone suddenly looking at that from a window.
Episode finished exactly wher eIthought it would anyway.As expected, next time is the final battle only.