| momma comes in and tries to prevent Anis from building her yuri harem. Not sure I've seen a yuri harem show yet... |
| Mom can't stop the yuri harem. |
| Episode 6 Here comes Tilty, who is quite the expert on curses to do something about the one she got from that dragon, and to do that she gives her a tattoo on her back to help maintain her humanity. And as for the real reason why the engagement was cancelled, Lainie comes in as she is the one who Algard is in love with to the point that not only did he dump Euphie, but accuse her of bullying her to submission. But after Anis hears the full story from her in private, it turns out that she seduced Algard without even realizing it, and thus Anis vows to protect her knowing that she has no romantic interest in Algard, as well as to help her control her charming powers. While that's going on, Chartreuse is up to something. This pretty much confirms just how messed up Algard is. |
| So her parents aren't even going to mention the dragon? Good episode but still. |
Yeah, I expected this episode to start with the fallout from the dragon but I guess everyone forgets it happened. |
| Well, maybe Anis isn't building a harem, seems like Ilia might have claimed Laine |
| Episode 7 This show is progressively more enjoyable. As usual though, the villain lacks motivation: I liked Algard when we first met him—he clearly had something in mind. I hope that's actually the case, and he's not simply evil for no reason, just so there's an antagonist. And while I guess the show isn't going full Maria the Virgin Witch given that Euphyllia wants to integrate Anis's heretical lesbian technology into whatever their magical theology is, that will remain a band-aid as long as we don't actually talk about that theology and just bash the tradition. If the show is smart it won't just run on bad tropes. |
| I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? – for he wants to perish. |
auroraloose said: heretical lesbian technology Good band name. |
zkeleton said: There's no way they can do high speed maneuvers on that broom without magically cancelling some inertia. On the other hand, catching someone at the last second like that is something that's a bad habit in media and should be avoided.LouieGrandie said: Except they went out of their way to explain that the dragon was too big to really be able to fly so it must use magic generated by it's wings. Why explain one physically impossible thing--that Euphie really shouldn't know enough about to be able to explain anyway--just to completely ignore another when it becomes inconvenient. I could accept that the physics of this world are different than our own--they would have to be for magic to work. But to act like they're the same in one instance just to ignore them in another? It's just bad writing where they're trying to be clever one minute only to be dumb almost every other time.You just had a dragon with no visible means on support floating in air and now you're worried about the law of physics? This is an anime series, all that goes right out the window |
I admit I spent a couple minutes deciding the best way to word that. |
| I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? – for he wants to perish. |
RMikami said: Agreed. Haven't watched the last few episodes. Have they said anything about the broom being equipped like that? Would be nice if they did. (Why mess with a flying broom anyway? She could have used anything.) But it just comes down to them trying to be clever with the law of gravity in one instance while completely ignoring it the rest of the time. Either act like the laws of physics are so different in this world that dragons can fly and crashing at relatively high speed isn't life threatening, or go all in that they're basically the same. Switching back and forth between the two is just a sign that the author will just make up the rules as needed and the MC's will never come close to being in any real danger.zkeleton said: There's no way they can do high speed maneuvers on that broom without magically cancelling some inertia. On the other hand, catching someone at the last second like that is something that's a bad habit in media and should be avoided.Except they went out of their way to explain that the dragon was too big to really be able to fly so it must use magic generated by it's wings. Why explain one physically impossible thing--that Euphie really shouldn't know enough about to be able to explain anyway--just to completely ignore another when it becomes inconvenient. I could accept that the physics of this world are different than our own--they would have to be for magic to work. But to act like they're the same in one instance just to ignore them in another? It's just bad writing where they're trying to be clever one minute only to be dumb almost every other time. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
LouieGrandie said: Are we really having this discussion again? It's about internal consistency. Just look at Kaina of the Great Snow Sea. The people who live way up high have specialized equipment that makes sense for the environment and the people who live close to the surface have their own kind of equipment that also makes sense for the environment. And it's done in a very economical way so they don't spend a ton of time explaining everything. Overall it's a mediocre show, but the world building and internal logic of the show puts this one to shame. zkeleton said: Except they went out of their way to explain that the dragon was too big to really be able to fly so it must use magic generated by it's wings. Why explain one physically impossible thing--that Euphie really shouldn't know enough about to be able to explain anyway--just to completely ignore another when it becomes inconvenient. I could accept that the physics of this world are different than our own--they would have to be for magic to work. But to act like they're the same in one instance just to ignore them in another? It's just bad writing where they're trying to be clever one minute only to be dumb almost every other time. You should get use to the fact that nothing makes sense in anime. How are the girls private parts not frozen after flying at high altitudes wearing skirts. Why does no one ever need to use the toilet. How are there children when no one seems to have sex. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Episode 7 So it turns out that Lainie is a vampire, and she's not exactly in control of herself. But with help from Anis that she's able to somehow curb her charm ability, though her thirst for blood spikes. So with Lainie now under their protection, the next order of business is to convince everybody that the inventions and what not Anis have been building are the way of the future. Given that the audience in the lecture are all nobles who reject her research without a second thought that there was bound to be quite a lot of criticism and blowback. And it's Euphie to the rescue as she's an amazing public speaker unlike with Anis and understands noble language. Lots of chatter here, but it's all building towards something big. |
LouieGrandie said: You're the one who brought up people going to the bathroom not me.zkeleton said: you mean that show about the guy who fell in love with the girl after he saw her poopAre we really having this discussion again? It's about internal consistency. Just look at Kaina of the Great Snow Sea. The people who live way up high have specialized equipment that makes sense for the environment and the people who live close to the surface have their own kind of equipment that also makes sense for the environment. And it's done in a very economical way so they don't spend a ton of time explaining everything. Overall it's a mediocre show, but the world building and internal logic of the show puts this one to shame. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
RMikami said: There's no way they can do high speed maneuvers on that broom without magically cancelling some inertia... There's clearly some Lensman type technology around ;-) |
| Quantum ille canis est in fenestra |
auroraloose said: Episode 7 This show is progressively more enjoyable. As usual though, the villain lacks motivation: I liked Algard when we first met him—he clearly had something in mind. I hope that's actually the case, and he's not simply evil for no reason, just so there's an antagonist. And while I guess the show isn't going full Maria the Virgin Witch given that Euphyllia wants to integrate Anis's heretical lesbian technology into whatever their magical theology is, that will remain a band-aid as long as we don't actually talk about that theology and just bash the tradition. If the show is smart it won't just run on bad tropes. I always thought Algard was a pawn, I hope he's not the primary antagonist because he's actually pretty lame. Or maybe the show doesn't need a real antagonist because it's just about one girl who's already in love waiting for the other girl to realise she is too ;-) |
| Quantum ille canis est in fenestra |
borderliner said: I always thought Algard was a pawn, I hope he's not the primary antagonist because he's actually pretty lame. Hello darkness, my old friend Yeah he seems to be taking orders from the fat chancellor in green with the eye piece. Why the crown prince would be taking orders from a chancellor is yet to be seen. |
HOOfan_1 said: borderliner said: I always thought Algard was a pawn, I hope he's not the primary antagonist because he's actually pretty lame. Hello darkness, my old friend Yeah he seems to be taking orders from the fat chancellor in green with the eye piece. Why the crown prince would be taking orders from a chancellor is yet to be seen. Well, there's a welcome you don't get every day. Seems that way, though frankly they could just have the male cast drop out of sight and I'd be entirely happy watching this odd bunch of girls do their thing. |
| Quantum ille canis est in fenestra |
| Vampire vs. Dragon fight. Taking bets now. Lay down your money. |
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| The rift between commoner and commoner? Someone goofed on the subtitles |
HOOfan_1 said: I was wondering why he kept referring to himself as a commoner.The rift between commoner and commoner? Someone goofed on the subtitles |
| Episode 9 With that, the siblings square off against each other as both of them want to revolutionize the world, but in much different ways. Anis is all about innovation to make life better, while Algard wants to tear this world down and rebuild it from the ground up starting with the kingdom. Those ideals come to a clash, and in the end Algard finally sees the error of his way. Seeing Anis relinquish her throne wanting to just focus on making gadgets and stuff to advance the world got him to think that inheriting the throne was not exactly the thing he wanted to do. And then the minister of magic and his son were the ones who set everything into motion by researching vampires, then using that to turn Lainie into an unwilling charmer and conspiring with Algard to bring down the kingdom. This felt like the end of the series, but there are still three more episodes left to go as while Algard has been exiled, there's still the matter of who takes the throne since the heir apparent just got disowned, all while Anis has no interest in taking it. |
HOOfan_1 said: Well, maybe Anis isn't building a harem, seems like Ilia might have claimed Laine Yup...Illia definitely claiming Laine So was Al's plot supposed to be like the Lion General guy in "Realist Hero" where he was just going along with the other plotters to draw them out and eventually force Anis to be the heir to the throne? |
| Seemed more like an attempted suicide to me. I'll be honest i found that whole thing with Al kinda boring. Maybe i was just distracted by a thought i was having but if it wasn't boring i doubt i'd have been distracted. With that said, even paying half attention, the plan didn't seem that deep. "You did a terrible thing to me but..." No idiot. He put a hole in your chest and stole part of you. Spare me your bs please. |
More yuri on the side than the main course. |
| Episode 9 Granting that that was melodramatic and confused, I'm impressed: Algard was exactly what I'd hoped, his own brand of villain. He just came off as too driven and independent in his lunch with Euphyllia back in the beginning to end up boring. Not that that was actually enough to predict he'd be interesting given how badly these things can be written, but the show set up an aspiration for his character that it ended up achieving. Good job, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, or whatever this thing is called (oh, I got it right). I was definitely not expecting an installment in the mouthful isekai genre to end up this good. Though I was kind of hoping Anis would nab Algard as her butler or something, so she can continue enlarging her harem house. I don't see how that'd be against yuri law. Also, I haven't come up with a full characterization of the yuri formula here, but it seems like dispensing with the angsty aspects of discovering one's lesbian feelings, or reducing it to the clinical, and just starting out with an absurd character everyone clearly loves anyway so the show can just stick in yuri scenes without trying to justify them, works a lot better than the Citrusy stuff. borderliner said: auroraloose said: Episode 7 This show is progressively more enjoyable. As usual though, the villain lacks motivation: I liked Algard when we first met him—he clearly had something in mind. I hope that's actually the case, and he's not simply evil for no reason, just so there's an antagonist. And while I guess the show isn't going full Maria the Virgin Witch given that Euphyllia wants to integrate Anis's heretical lesbian technology into whatever their magical theology is, that will remain a band-aid as long as we don't actually talk about that theology and just bash the tradition. If the show is smart it won't just run on bad tropes. I always thought Algard was a pawn, I hope he's not the primary antagonist because he's actually pretty lame. Or maybe the show doesn't need a real antagonist because it's just about one girl who's already in love waiting for the other girl to realise she is too ;-) I had meant to reply to this last week, but waiting an episode helped I guess. |
| I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? – for he wants to perish. |
auroraloose said: Episode 9 Granting that that was melodramatic and confused, I'm impressed: Algard was exactly what I'd hoped, his own brand of villain. He just came off as too driven and independent in his lunch with Euphyllia back in the beginning to end up boring. Not that that was actually enough to predict he'd be interesting given how badly these things can be written, but the show set up an aspiration for his character that it ended up achieving. Good job, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, or whatever this thing is called (oh, I got it right). I was definitely not expecting an installment in the mouthful isekai genre to end up this good. Though I was kind of hoping Anis would nab Algard as her butler or something, so she can continue enlarging her harem house. I don't see how that'd be against yuri law. Also, I haven't come up with a full characterization of the yuri formula here, but it seems like dispensing with the angsty aspects of discovering one's lesbian feelings, or reducing it to the clinical, and just starting out with an absurd character everyone clearly loves anyway so the show can just stick in yuri scenes without trying to justify them, works a lot better than the Citrusy stuff. borderliner said: I always thought Algard was a pawn, I hope he's not the primary antagonist because he's actually pretty lame. Or maybe the show doesn't need a real antagonist because it's just about one girl who's already in love waiting for the other girl to realise she is too ;-) I had meant to reply to this last week, but waiting an episode helped I guess. It was a good episode, I have reappraised my opinion of Algard, he's not very smart but he's at least not lame. And I do always like to see a reconciliation via beating each other up. I'm also rather impressed that the two actual villains of the piece didn't get to vanish into the night, and were simply executed. |
| Quantum ille canis est in fenestra |
| There's some OK ideas here, but they're very poorly executed. I'm not sure if it's due to laziness, lack of talent, or a bad adaptation. It's most likely a lack of talent with some laziness, but it's also, for sure, a lack of courage. A more respectable story, one not trying to be the typical soft and fluffy anime, would have had Euphie kill off Al so Anis didn't have to do it herself. Even Naruto, the ultimate 'I'm going to save everyone show' killed off their version of this character. The fact Naruto laid out the blueprint for how to do a character like this well leaves no excuse for this show to do it so poorly. They tried so hard to set up Al's motivation as a surprise that they ended making him a completely uninteresting villain until it was too late to care. He also never felt like much of a threat. It seemed like Al was planning to get killed, so how was he going to out all the other conspirators? Oh well, just another of the many oversights in this story. Also, another isekai where the isekai part is barely relevant. I think I'm done with this one finally. I kept hoping it would live up to the potential it had, but I see now that it won't. Xuhybrid said: Since they went that route they should have just had her forgive him instead of her throwing out that stuff at the end about never forgiving him and always despising him or whatever it was. That made no sense with everything she said before that."You did a terrible thing to me but..." No idiot. He put a hole in your chest and stole part of you. Spare me your bs please. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
zkeleton said: . It seemed like Al was planning to get killed, so how was he going to out all the other conspirators? Oh well, just another of the many oversights in this story. Also, another isekai where the isekai part is barely relevant. They haven't mentioned it was an Isekai since the first episode....they need to do this more like Chilin in My 30's, not bother with it being an Isekai. I think the Al just figured as long as he was dead everyone would have to deal with Anis being queen, or maybe the coconspirators would just be rooted out. |
HOOfan_1 said: The only relevance it has to the story is that it's the reason she doesn't have magic. Or at least that's my assumption since the show has spent literally 3 seconds on the isekai in this isekai.zkeleton said: . It seemed like Al was planning to get killed, so how was he going to out all the other conspirators? Oh well, just another of the many oversights in this story. Also, another isekai where the isekai part is barely relevant. They haven't mentioned it was an Isekai since the first episode....they need to do this more like Chilin in My 30's, not bother with it being an Isekai. I think the Al just figured as long as he was dead everyone would have to deal with Anis being queen, or maybe the coconspirators would just be rooted out. |
| Episode 10 With Al now disowned, only Anis can take the throne, and while she accepted it, she's not happy about it. Euphie, on the other hand, doesn't want her to take the throne knowing that this isn't what she wants. So she meets up with Grantz to talk about it, and it turns out that there's an alternative to this as a new dynasty can be started, but it's not without its consequences. However, Grantz knows how she feels seeing that her father Orphanse was in her shoes as he didn't care about ruling and just wanted to live his life for his gardening hobby. But he accepted the throne and the stress of ruling the kingdom has taken its toll on him. So that's where things stand as a big decision is coming. |
| Introducing a new character and new concept at the end of episode 10 of a 12 episode series...that's a bold strategy Cotton. I'm pretty sure they haven't mentioned spirits until now. I really don't see this getting another season, but who knows, so it seems weird to introduce this stuff now. |
HOOfan_1 said: Introducing a new character and new concept at the end of episode 10 of a 12 episode series...that's a bold strategy Cotton. I'm pretty sure they haven't mentioned spirits until now. I really don't see this getting another season, but who knows, so it seems weird to introduce this stuff now. They've talked about spirits before. Honouring the spirits was part of the traditionalist guys argument. Contracting with them is new though. I assume it's just starting a new arc from the source material and we'll get a too be continued. |
| Episode 11 As for the downside of making that spirit contract, that means Euphie would maintain her youthful appearance forever and she would be asking for a long life of misery if she did make the contract, but as things stand that would be the only way to get Anis out of her obligation to succeeding the throne since there are no other heirs. And having somebody who can't use magic taking the throne leaves quite a bad taste with the citizens. So for the same reason why Euphie doesn't want Anis to take the throne, Anis doesn't want Euphie to make that spirit contract for the same reason in that it makes the other quite miserable. One more episode left to go as Anis and Euphie duel it out to determine the figure of the kingdom. |
| the show has gotten a little too talky recently. I guess Euphie doesn't realize her becoming a Spirit Contractor and the Queen won't make Anis any happier. |
HOOfan_1 said: the show has gotten a little too talky recently. And a little too melodramatic. <soft piano music plays over crying teenage girls> |
| This episode had too much angst and not enough planning for the revolution. A mopey and indecisive Anis is out of character. |
| Episode 12 (Finale) To end things, Anis and Euphie have their duel seeing that somebody needs to carry on the throne and neither girl wants the other to have to be stuck with it. The duel was mostly chatter, but in the end, Euphie wins after showing off her amazing skills that were unlocked thanks to her friendship with Anis. As such, Anis relinquishes her claim to the throne and Euphie goes through with the spirit contract that will allow her to get adopted by the royal family and become the new queen, and seeing that she's much better versed at running a country than Anis will ever be it was the most logical of outcomes save for there being a third person who will rise up to the throne instead. Not to mention, the citizens will be much more at ease not having to put up with a ruler who can't use magic. It's going to be a difficult path for Euphie, but she's prepared to face it head-on. It was a rather predictable ending, but nevertheless it's the most logical outcome and anything else just wouldn't exactly stack up well. Final Thoughts This show had its fair share of ups and downs, but it had more ups, especially in the second half when the story became much more focused. The show does a great job in developing the characters and bonds between the two leads, and the plot construction is well-planned even if the story writing wasn't the most ideal. While the plot and character focus are great, the story writing is inconsistent as sometimes it's great, and there are episodes where it's a lot of chatter and info dumping that can get really dull and test the viewer's patience. The animation also isn't the best, but it's sufficient. In any case, an enjoyable show, but certainly with parts that are not well-written. Grade: B (8/10) |
| I think the show was great up until the last couple episodes, which were anticlimactic and not very satisfactory. But at least it came up with a decent conclusion to the dilemma. |
| another teen girls crying and babbling episode. I'd like to say it started out with a lot of potential, but I'm not sure it really did. It was fine though, just fine 6/10 |
| 5/10 but I will bump it up to a 6/10 for actually following through on the yuri. Though wouldn't the yuri solution be that they just get married so they're both Queen? Then they can just adopt some random kid for an heir. |
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