Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru Episode 4 Discussion

Andrews getting off with no repercussion is cringe af

Katie is also a clown. It's one thing to be against torturing beasts for fun. But defending a troll that was going berserk after her life is another thing.

JC Staff can cook when they want to, damn that fight with the Garuda looked amazing, and not only that, the fight was just super cool too, Nanao really is a beast of a fighter, she needed help here and there but the vast majority of that was all her. I also gotta commend bird man, I wasn’t cheering for him but he was a bad mf, whoever set this situation up sent their best because damn was he strong (my suspicion is on that fellow student that helped Katie with the troll, I think her name is Vera). And wow they actually went and redeemed Andrews, I like that things played out this way for him, it woulda been easy for the author to have him get killed here but instead he’s getting character development, very nice to see, I hope he changes for the better after this.

Now despite all my praise, I did find the bullying bit to be kinda cheesy, like it doesn’t get more “give me your lunch money” than that lol, I don’t think we needed another example of Katie being a wimp either, but the rest of the episode was so fire that I can forgive it. Massacre of the students was also fun to watch, even if they were using monsters for sport I can’t say I wanted them to die, but it also helped in not feeling bad for them when their operation blew up in their faces lol, you get what you deserve I suppose.

And with that I can say I’m not gonna be taking anymore week breaks from this series going forward, I had some rewatches to get done before the spring season and kinda focused those down, but that’s all done now, I can finally focus back on this show and whatever else I decide to watch.

@TheColonel76 It was a bit unclear, but she would've never beaten the garuda by herself. Anime didn't mention how Oliver disrupted garuda's spells, it wasn't super clear in the novel either, but Chela described it well next episode . Basicaly Nanao is amazing, but she wouldnt' even last a minute against Garuda by herself. The other part that was completely omitted by the anime and Chela too, didn't mention it, was that Garuda was extremely weakened, in order to be controlled by a mage, it needed to be weakened. "The cruelly plucked patches of feathers were proof of this". Garuda's wings are attended by 2 elements, fire and wind, but he was weakened, and lost the ability to use fire element, as novel mentioned, without it they'd be long wiped out. Garuda is known as a divine beast, extremely scary. Other than their 2 elements, their bodies are also extremely sturdy and the spells were blocked by its wind barrier.

Garuda's fight was one of my favs in the anime, not to mention the part in the OP where Nanao charges at it, really cool.
"(my suspicion is on that fellow student that helped Katie with the troll, I think her name is Vera)"

They changed Andrews scenes a lot, like he didn't fucking cry, that still triggers me lol. Also made him look like the main bully when he wasn't. Basically he felt insulted by Oliver and his pride hurt. Also he felt like Nanao and Oliver were stealing the spotlight from him. He wanted to steal the spotlight from them and prove he is stronger(never mentioned in the novel, but that's what I concluded). Doing cobolt hunt is despicable, but I don't hold it against him since that's how mages are, it's a normal thing for them. But he never bullied anyone.
Btw, noone was killed in that fight, it lookedl ike there were multiple deaths, but it was confirmed later that noone died, saying how mages are surprisingly sturdy. And hence why they couldn't report it to the school, as there were no casualties.

I see what you mean about bullying, there was only one part of it that I remember, in the class, where Oliver ended up snapping.