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May 3, 2015 6:00 AM

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Another amazing episode :3

Narsus got owned by Elam there XD He's totally the Yun of this group. Food is important lol

The Shapur part was really nice. He went out like a warrior. Dat Gieve doe :O An arrow in the head. Dat accuracy!!

Liking him a lot so far. The way he trolled a woman and slept with her and was a bit pissed at only getting 200 pieces was lol. Hopefully he'll join Arslan. That should be fun :P

That was one awesome idea at the end. The slave system is about to backfire on Pars. Great thinking there.
May 3, 2015 6:07 AM

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Right in the head, ouch
May 3, 2015 7:02 AM

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Meh, only reason i'm watching this show is cuz of Maaya. Hope she appears soon
May 3, 2015 7:12 AM
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I thought they'd bring Andragoras to break the morale of the rest of Pars soldiers, but nope just some general.
Already liking the Oud musician.
Can Pars just fall already?
May 3, 2015 7:19 AM

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great episode. but.. i rlly wanted to see Shapur Vs Kubard.. :( . poor shapur
May 3, 2015 7:22 AM

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This gets better each episode. Gieve seem interesting.
May 3, 2015 7:33 AM
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And we have yet another playboy to add to the future gang lol....I love how these guys are so smooth with everything that they do xD Gieve is way too awesome xD Honestly when I saw that general guy ask someone to shoot him with an arrow, I thought that it would have been the hot chick in the OP that would have done it so I was surprised there

The beginning scene was great and I really liked seeing Elam prove his worth and earn his place by their side (This has serious Yona vibes here but I think what most people forget is that things like Yona ripped these elements from this series) I also enjoyed the talk that Arslan had with Narsus because everything that he said was true and knowing the kind of person that Arslan is, I can't wait to see how he applies this new wisdom

The stuff at Pars was brutal as fuck....Dying by headshot is a brutal way to go and I really liked that guy too....May he RIP. That priest guy was a cunt but their army does have a point and I really like that because even though they are the antagonists, they understand just how evil the system of slavery is so I wasn't even mad when they convinced the slaves to fight back because that is the right thing to do

Overall this was a great episode and this show just continues to get better and better....I still have doubts about the queen though so hopefully whatever is up with her gets answered in part 2
May 3, 2015 7:34 AM

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This anime gets better and better. RIP Shapur, man, that was a tough scene to watch. But at least he went out like he wanted to. Gieve reminds me a lot like Lavi from D. Gray Man, just like how Arslan reminds me of Allen Walker... Once again, this anime pulls off the war and medieval feeling greatly. The CGI was bad though
TyrelMay 3, 2015 9:12 AM
May 3, 2015 7:34 AM

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I like the story and characters but animation and colors of this anime makes it really hard for me to watch and enjoy it
I don't care if I lose my mind. I'm already cursed.
May 3, 2015 7:38 AM

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Theorder14 said:
Meh, only reason i'm watching this show is cuz of Maaya. Hope she appears soon

Lol, you're only watching this because of a fanservice character. You're disgraceful. Just drop this anime. This isn't an ecchi anime and we don't need weird otakus around wanking to everything they see
May 3, 2015 7:42 AM

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The use of cgi is sometimes jarring but c'mon it's understandable since its for all the soldiers in war. We don't want blurry blobs of people.

That aside, episode had some deep insights onto both sides along with a character introduction. Curious to see how Gieve will join Arslan since Arslan is miles away while the war is going on. Nice war tactics too, pretty rare we get some decent strategies that make some sense. Hopefully we'll see that when Arslan starts fighting too.
May 3, 2015 7:48 AM

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CGI =/= bad. Do you really expect ufotable's or KyoAni's level of CGI? Give it some slack, it looked really decent.
May 3, 2015 7:51 AM

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I liked this episode, using slaves to go inside is genius ;)
What can Arslan & Co do about this? Isn't it too late?
May 3, 2015 7:56 AM

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lol at the cgi hate.. kingom s1 have the worst cgi ive seen yet i enjoy it because of the story.. XDD

and im liking arslan too for the story
May 3, 2015 8:05 AM
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Good show so far. I really like the slow pacing.
May 3, 2015 8:22 AM

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robis798 said:
Lol at people taking the bait. That post doesn't even feel legit by how factfully wrong (and stupid) it is.

Anywho, best episode so far, I was wondering if we will get to see more action in the capital and we got it. I love how both sides have things that they are doing wrong. The borderline insane religious fanatic remind me of Berserk quite a lot. Gieve seems also very interesing and witty, just like Narsus. The queen voiced by Tanaka is bliss.

Love it.

Sums up my thoughts exactly.
I found the torture a bit too "Akame ga Kill" though...this show shouldn't rely on shock factor as it has enough other strong points like it showed this week.
Brutality is okay and needed(for a show like this) but please not this way,no edgelord pandering.Gieve seems really interesting,gives me some Kingkiller Chronicles vibes.

Lol at the cgi hate,that's all what matters in an anime nowadays,right?
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May 3, 2015 8:26 AM
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Smudy said:
Man, Gieve sure can play music, accompanied by a great OST.
I'm thinking that he might join our crew in the future.

R.I.P. Shapur, your suffering has ended.


Hes in the opening with the others, of course he will !

Theorder14 said:
Meh, only reason i'm watching this show is cuz of Maaya. Hope she appears soon


gtfo
May 3, 2015 8:54 AM

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Good episode. At the beginning I was cheering for the guy to meet a more satisfying demise, which I was glad for the character introduction to be accounted with. Overall I feel comfortable with the direction this is going. Gieve hasn't really made much of an impression on me so far, except the fact that he's voiced by KENN.
May 3, 2015 9:10 AM

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robis798 said:
Lol at people taking the bait. That post doesn't even feel legit by how factfully wrong it is.

That's the main problem with MAL's forums. They take the bait EVERY.SINGLE.TIME

Anyway QFT on your thoughts on the episode again. Arslan is an anime slow to pick up pace since it is it's author style.
May 3, 2015 9:12 AM

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Wow, this anime is so brilliant and coherent, I'm loving this! There is not a single protagonist I dislike right now. Probably favorite anime of the season.


<In the ghost town of our love
there is a player piano
trying to prove it can make music
without being touched.
My fingertips miss her so much.>
May 3, 2015 9:15 AM

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I feel like the Queen is a traitor. She seems too calm with everything going on around her and she never really got along with the King Or the Prince.
May 3, 2015 9:21 AM
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Such a garbage tier CGI. The animation was kinda bad in this episode.
As a manga reader(and lover), i recommend you to read the manga,its so much better.
May 3, 2015 9:24 AM

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The Royal Capital getting invaded, it just makes me think about possible reinforcements, such as from fortresses, outposts, and other sort of military camps. If the center is lost, everything breaks apart, would these support army come in time. I mean, they are also good targets for Arslan to gather people of Pars from different fronts.

Shapur was pretty cool, makes me look forward to many of the Cavalry Captains out there.
May 3, 2015 9:54 AM

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Great episode sans CGI. 2nd best episode this season after fate ep 15.

Anime is good, fucking deal with it.
May 3, 2015 9:56 AM

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lol for the one-night stand girl;D
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May 3, 2015 11:00 AM

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Hahaha, that musician was awesome :)
Hope this won't be his last performance.
Also, my favourite episode so far
and hooray for 25 episodes :D
May 3, 2015 11:00 AM

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Sonnetica said:
Gieve hasn't really made much of an impression on me so far, except the fact that he's voiced by KENN.

Characters voiced by KENN really shine when they have blonde hair.

May 3, 2015 11:12 AM

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Nice. Can't wait for more action next week. When is Arslan going to enter the battlefield?
But it's important to remember that a movie review is subjective;it only gives you one person's opinion.

http://www.classzone.com/books/lnetwork_gr08/page_build.cfm?content=analyz_media&ch=30

It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person.If elitist don't exist, casual pleb and shit taste also don't exist.
May 3, 2015 11:17 AM
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Elam secured his position in the group with his excellent cooking skills. Even Narsus couldn't reject him after that. XD

Shapur's part was brutal. Good thing that arrow took care of him before it became even more insufferable. Much respect for his honorable death.

Gieve seems to be amusing character so far; conned that woman with his story and finding it confounding how weak they are when it comes to the word "Ouji." Totally relatable in today's society too!
Really liked his little performance. Looking forward to see him join Arslan's crew soon.

Lusitanian Army thought of quite a good method of breaching Ecbatana's gates. Those slaves are about to rebel soon. :O

Good episode. Endcard is nice as always.

May 3, 2015 11:29 AM

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damn that was a brutal torture and the slaves thing remindes me of Game of Thrones
May 3, 2015 11:41 AM

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alpha_shadow said:
holy shit the Beginning of the episode WAS SO FUCKING BORING, i just skipped that shit, damn


edit 1: the cgi looks like ass

edit 2: this is so fucking boring, i think i am going to drop this shit

edit 3: dropped, TOO BOOOORING, fuck this

edit 4: watch Akatsuki no Yona or Kingdom or Juuni Kokuki or Seirei no Moribito instead of this mediocre anime

someone wanted some feedback regarding my opinion on Arslan Senki, here:

It's writing is terrible, it's animation is inconsistent and mostly looks like ass, it's cgi is also terrible, the color palette is incredibly bland and boring, featuring colors that remind me of shit, the characters are as interesting as rocks, they get little no development and the pacing is as slow as it can get. Everything about this anime adaptation screams mediocre. After seeing this anime's superior counterparts and giving it 5 episodes, I couldn't care about its characters, world and story at all, which is quite sad. We get some deaths of insignificant characters and shit, and I should care about that? Yeah, right, I'm out.


> implying Akatsuki no Yona was good

May 3, 2015 11:58 AM

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alpha_shadow said:
holy shit the Beginning of the episode WAS SO FUCKING BORING, i just skipped that shit, damn


edit 1: the cgi looks like ass

edit 2: this is so fucking boring, i think i am going to drop this shit

edit 3: dropped, TOO BOOOORING, fuck this

edit 4: watch Akatsuki no Yona or Kingdom or Juuni Kokuki or Seirei no Moribito instead of this mediocre anime

someone wanted some feedback regarding my opinion on Arslan Senki, here:

It's writing is terrible, it's animation is inconsistent and mostly looks like ass, it's cgi is also terrible, the color palette is incredibly bland and boring, featuring colors that remind me of shit, the characters are as interesting as rocks, they get little no development and the pacing is as slow as it can get. Everything about this anime adaptation screams mediocre. After seeing this anime's superior counterparts and giving it 5 episodes, I couldn't care about its characters, world and story at all, which is quite sad. We get some deaths of insignificant characters and shit, and I should care about that? Yeah, right, I'm out.

TBH, Akatsuki no Yona is just as bad.
I'd go with emobubbles, but someone else already had it, damn bastard.
May 3, 2015 11:59 AM

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Before this episode, I thought Gieve was a girl the whole time because of how feminine he looked in the OP and ED
I'd go with emobubbles, but someone else already had it, damn bastard.
May 3, 2015 12:34 PM

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This episode was great. Shapur's scene was intense.
May 3, 2015 12:35 PM

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cgi was ass, like first berserk movie bad


pretty good episode, shaping up to be quite interesting


i guess the capital will get taken and the queen imprisoned and arslan will travel the land finding allies and amassing an army
May 3, 2015 12:42 PM

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Really enjoying this every week. The visuals are a bit bland, though. The CGI is pretty average and there are way too many stills, like when the gates were being closed.

Dude could have easily shot Bodin the inquisitor with that accuracy
May 3, 2015 12:43 PM

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It's getting better and better!!

Poor shapur...but then again, it's better to be saved by being killed instantly than to be tortured to death slowly.
May 3, 2015 12:53 PM

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LauraBirdie said:
Dude could have easily shot Bodin the inquisitor with that accuracy

He had armor.
May 3, 2015 12:57 PM

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Great episode! I am just dying to see one of Narsus's paintings...
Shapur was great 'til the end.
Gieve seems pretty cool. Can't wait to see how he'll turn out.
May 3, 2015 1:09 PM

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robis798 said:
LauraBirdie said:
Dude could have easily shot Bodin the inquisitor with that accuracy

He had armor.


He hit Shapur in the forehead, with that logic he could have hit Bodin in the face

At least that's what I had hoped
May 3, 2015 1:15 PM
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The real problem with that is Shapur was in enemy's hands and that was the whole army, not just Bodin. If Gieve killed Bodin with that arrow, Shapur would still be in their hands and they could still torture him to death, just putting another guy to do that in Bodin's place.
May 3, 2015 1:19 PM
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RIP Shapur.

The slaves are going to backfire on Pars.
May 3, 2015 1:32 PM

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robis798 said:
LauraBirdie said:
Dude could have easily shot Bodin the inquisitor with that accuracy

He had armor.

Still I imagine he could've shot multiple arrows. A arrow hitting a chain coif would probably incur a concussion at least.

Anime is good, fucking deal with it.
May 3, 2015 1:35 PM

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I just noticed in this episode that Pars has a middle eastern feel to it. I had to look up what an oud was.

This was one of the best episodes so far; I really want to see what happens next, but I'm pessimistic for both Pars and Arslan's fortunes.



The novels this is based on are still ongoing, right? So does that mean this entire series is just going to be an opening chapter to an epic? I'm worried that I'll be unsatisfied when it ends.
May 3, 2015 1:37 PM

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emobuttercup said:
alpha_shadow said:
holy shit the Beginning of the episode WAS SO FUCKING BORING, i just skipped that shit, damn


edit 1: the cgi looks like ass

edit 2: this is so fucking boring, i think i am going to drop this shit

edit 3: dropped, TOO BOOOORING, fuck this

edit 4: watch Akatsuki no Yona or Kingdom or Juuni Kokuki or Seirei no Moribito instead of this mediocre anime

someone wanted some feedback regarding my opinion on Arslan Senki, here:

It's writing is terrible, it's animation is inconsistent and mostly looks like ass, it's cgi is also terrible, the color palette is incredibly bland and boring, featuring colors that remind me of shit, the characters are as interesting as rocks, they get little no development and the pacing is as slow as it can get. Everything about this anime adaptation screams mediocre. After seeing this anime's superior counterparts and giving it 5 episodes, I couldn't care about its characters, world and story at all, which is quite sad. We get some deaths of insignificant characters and shit, and I should care about that? Yeah, right, I'm out.

TBH, Akatsuki no Yona is just as bad.


Akatsuki no Yona was just 24 episodes of collecting beautiful bishounen bois

tbh akatsuki no yona is shit

May 3, 2015 1:42 PM

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black1blade said:
robis798 said:

He had armor.

Still I imagine he could've shot multiple arrows. A arrow hitting a chain coif would probably incur a concussion at least.

But it really wouldn't have accomplished anything major.
May 3, 2015 1:55 PM

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Zeally said:
emobuttercup said:

TBH, Akatsuki no Yona is just as bad.


Akatsuki no Yona was just 24 episodes of collecting beautiful bishounen bois

tbh akatsuki no yona is shit

True. At least with Arslan Senki they're not going with a harem route.
I'd go with emobubbles, but someone else already had it, damn bastard.
May 3, 2015 2:15 PM
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cyclone1993 said:
If it helps Pars sounds similar to Persia, and Lusitania was a region in Rome, so it makes the comparison a bit more interesting, if you think of it in those terms.


actually no, it was in Portugal, where there was another civilization, the Lusitani; after it became a roman province, but it wasn't a roman's religion (sorry if my english isn't good)
May 3, 2015 2:17 PM
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LauraBirdie said:
Dude could have easily shot Bodin the inquisitor with that accuracy


Too much effort, not enough reward. Killing one gets him the money he wants, why do extra work?
May 3, 2015 2:41 PM

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The war rage on...
Many great warriors die because of a stupid king.
Rebellion from the slaves...
This just keeps getting better and better!
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