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Nov 22, 2023 11:08 AM

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The regular episodes already randomly do stuff like shoving Beta's boobs or Delta's butt in the viewers' face pretty often, so this just feels like a regular episode rather than a fanservice heavy one tbh

I suppose the highlighs are bunny Eta and Mary fanning Elizabeth. Sucks to wait another week for the next arc though.
Nov 22, 2023 11:14 AM
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Reply to rijallconnie
Wasting times, no plot to the story just fan services. It should be separate to ova, now I have to wait 1 more week just to see story moving.

It's like a filler episode but more towards fan service, though it should be ova just like any other fan services anime
This episode is the author newly-written content and Nexus animated it. You can complain whatever you want. It's the author's idea for this episode and I respect it.
Nov 22, 2023 11:21 AM
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A surprisingly nice filler episode. Although I generally find such swimsuit fanservice episodes boring, this one got a few chuckles out of me. Maybe it has to do with the complete absence of the MC, the funny dynamics between the shadow garden members or the tidbits of other side characters thrown. Especially the scene with Elizabeth and Alexia in the sauna. They even included the towel slapping habit at the end, the one Alexia picked up from Cid in season 1.

The only thing that very much did go against expectations was Epsilon donning a bikini. I honestly expected her wearing something like a surfing suit to hide her usage of slime. Instead she sported a bikini and a figure not nearly as underdeveloped as described in the novel, manga and anime before.
Nov 22, 2023 11:50 AM
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Mar 2019
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boring episode, lame.
Nov 22, 2023 12:05 PM
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I love how they name their character. Like count virgin man, Po tato, ske letal etc.. It's just too funny.😂😂
@LaughingCoffin09 season 1 we already have Mr.Perv Asshat which is a very funny name.
Nov 22, 2023 12:08 PM

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A nice filler episode. This episode was basically just an excuse to see all the girls in swimsuits lol. Lots of material for all the artists out there. It was nice to see the reference to the first OP with the white outfits.

Not a single sign of Cid in this episode. It was nice to see some Zeta though as we've barely had any scene of her talking.
DarknessRealityNov 22, 2023 12:21 PM
Yuritopia FTW!!!!!!!!! BANZAI TO YURI !!!!!!!!!!!!
Nov 22, 2023 12:08 PM
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Filler from the game. If they had already added something, it would be better to have a battle with a dragon.
Nov 22, 2023 12:10 PM
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Useless episode, those 20 min could have been used to developp alpha vs shadow or something like fight iris/alexia development,
Kind of disapointed of this compared to what we had until now and what the studio could have worked on this season. Knowing that ep 20 of the first season "was not" in the manga and created by the studio, they should honestly do more of that. I hope we will get back into the cool atmosphere of shadow soon !
Nov 22, 2023 12:11 PM

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Despite seeing the gals in revealing outfits, twas the most MEH episode this season.

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But my feels.
Nov 22, 2023 12:27 PM
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It might be a filler episode but im a fan of some good PLOT
Nov 22, 2023 12:37 PM

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This was a complete waste of time. I don't mind episodes that have no progression to them or are breather episodes since they can still be genuinely fun or relaxing to watch, but this was just very boring to watch from start to finish. I'm not a fan of Cid much but the supporting cast surrounding him in this series aren't the best. Cid's friends suck so hard to watch, which did not help whatsoever. Just feel like this season has been much weaker than the first one and episodes like this don't help the cause.
Nov 22, 2023 12:44 PM
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Honestly.. What the heck was this episode? I get fan-service and I love the Delta ones kek. But this was just plain useless and dumb.
Is this in the Light Novel?
Dudes ate some shrooms and went crazy.
0/10 for me.
Nov 22, 2023 1:05 PM
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@rijallconnie

Run, if you value your life. The frenzy has begun. The moon is red. We're out of time.
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Run, if you value your life. The frenzy has begun. The moon is red. We're out of time.
Nov 22, 2023 1:15 PM
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Was this a filer episode?
Nov 22, 2023 1:18 PM

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Nice anime original kagejitsu ep. We ate good today. Fanservice was immaculate
Nov 22, 2023 1:19 PM
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This episode just proved the fact that cid carries this show big time
This would've been a much better episode had he been present not that i don't like the girls but it's way funnier with cid . Only 4 eps left is the next arc short?
Nov 22, 2023 1:25 PM

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people take things far too seriously, I enjoyed the episode for what it was though I'd preferred Cid was there. there did seem to be a few animation shortcuts this episode but back to the story next week.
Nov 22, 2023 1:43 PM
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Delta wa boss to onsen ni haeru no desu!
Nov 22, 2023 2:17 PM
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I have been waiting to see those white/red outfits be used since I saw them in opening in season 1. Nice to finally see them in action. Sadly the action lasted very shortly. Hopefully they make a return for a more fierce battle.

Would have been more nice to see Cid just randomly going there at the end though. But I guess he is on his mission for now.
Nov 22, 2023 2:42 PM
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WE LOVE BEACH EPISODE!!!
Nov 22, 2023 2:52 PM

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Well, all this bad filler episode really did is cement that this show only works at all because of Cid. Without him in it, it's just kind of bad and boring and the Seven Shadows are pretty damn boring when given more than 30 seconds of screentime at once. And Cid's annoying friends can just fuck off at this point, honestly.

I feel like, in attempting to give the girls more screentime and importance (a reasonable move to make, to be fair, and something I've actually wanted to at least some degree), the parody angle that makes this series funny and entertaining is more or less completely nullified: they take everything entirely seriously and play it all straight, so the show just becomes another unironic, self-serious isekai when they're the focus. That's exacerbated by Cid's heavily-reduced screentime this season as we only get a small few scenes of the parody stuff and, because it's so infrequent, it ends up feeling completely disconnected from everything else.
AtavisticNov 22, 2023 3:03 PM
Nov 22, 2023 3:06 PM
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Apr 2022
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Apaan ada episode filler gak jelas
Nov 22, 2023 3:09 PM
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Sep 2019
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filler hot springs episode with sub-par animation.
Nov 22, 2023 3:43 PM

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This episode was only worth to seeing the colleagues of Cid getting screwed, because the rest...
Nov 22, 2023 3:53 PM

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usually love hot spring episodes but this is one of the most underwhelming ones. that one scene with delta a few episodes ago had more fanservice than this whole episode lol. delta should've been in haikyuu though.
Nov 22, 2023 3:56 PM

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I want shadow coming back
 
Nov 22, 2023 3:59 PM

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May 2017
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Great episode! it's always nice to see characters just having fun like this
Nov 22, 2023 4:10 PM
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Nov 22, 2023 4:31 PM
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Sep 2017
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Totally unneccesary episode, so bad I had to do something else while "watching" it. Animation studios really need to stop these fan service episodes, they serve no purpose if it doesn't also advance the story. This season is so bad already, way to make it worse
Nov 22, 2023 4:34 PM
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Oct 2021
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Shoulda saved this trash filler for the last episode of the season.
Nov 22, 2023 4:49 PM
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Wow, how can the universe turn the events in shadow's favor? This is amazing lol
Nov 22, 2023 4:55 PM

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It looked more like and OVA, but don't get me wrong, I loved the fanservice episode.

So, apparently it was an original episode, but it was nice to see the Seven Shadows doing some stuff together.

Seeing Eta in a bunny girl suit was awesome! For more scenes like this.
Nov 22, 2023 4:55 PM
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Sep 2023
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Cid friends are annoying as hell, this episode had me irritated soon as they went in his room and took the tickets.
Nov 22, 2023 5:07 PM
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Uh huh. The fan service episode I've been hoping for. it was quite nice tbh. Cid keeps causing misunderstandings for the girls but hey, that's what he usually does so I can't say more. The episode was quite nice and relaxing. I was glad to see them have fun and enjoy themselves. Hell, even Yukime and the Vampire Queen were enjoying themselves.
Nov 22, 2023 5:41 PM
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maarda said:
@K_Abhishek in the last episode Cid said to Delta that he is going on a journey aka he is avoiding Seven Shadows cause he thinks they are mad at him about counterfeit bills. Well, I hope we will see him in the next episode c:

oh!
now I also remember that cider said something like that and was trying to avoid them.
thanks for telling me 😀
Nov 22, 2023 5:45 PM

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loving the fan service...
but to be fair, the episode itself is a little bit bland i would say... i dont feel the same "confuse" like for other episodes so far. this one just got me "lost" lol

but, well again, appreciate the fan service... and just like alpha said, this may be just a way for cid to get us to relax lmao
Nov 22, 2023 5:51 PM
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Apr 2018
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Trash episode, it's better to reduce Skel & Po's screen time
Nov 22, 2023 5:53 PM
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Ayanokouji2017 said:
This episode is the author newly-written content and Nexus animated it. You can complain whatever you want. It's the author's idea for this episode and I respect it.

Are you seriously that naive to think this was the author's idea and not because the production committee told him to write it to sell new merchs and get new viewers?
Nov 22, 2023 6:12 PM
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"Delta isn't a mutt!" 🤣 Technically speaking yes you are😅
Me every time I hear the word "reparations": 🤣🤣🤣
Nov 22, 2023 6:13 PM
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Yooo! it was nice but I missed Shadow
Nov 22, 2023 6:13 PM
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"Delta isn't a dog!"........yet, she's such a good girl!
Nov 22, 2023 6:24 PM

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Man, if they wanted to make an anime original fan service episode they should've gone a lot harder then this. We barely got any decent shots of the girls
Nov 22, 2023 6:37 PM
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A filler episode with events that never happened in the LN.

It was nice to have Darling in the Night back on the ED...
@MadanielFL Well the Author written the story of this episode, so it's not quite a filler, but anime original only.
Nov 22, 2023 6:37 PM
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So, Eta is sexy and built...my sexual confusion has taken yet another turn.
Nov 22, 2023 6:46 PM
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I am gonna say it "Boring Episode".
Nov 22, 2023 6:55 PM
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Ayanokouji2017 said:
This episode is the author newly-written content and Nexus animated it. You can complain whatever you want. It's the author's idea for this episode and I respect it.

Are you seriously that naive to think this was the author's idea and not because the production committee told him to write it to sell new merchs and get new viewers?
@ShiroHachi I'm not naive bro, no one forced him to do this episode because of sell merchs or getting new viewers. Eminence in Shadow is already have tons of fans after season 1 ended. It's the author own idea from the beginning. Not many animes can have their anime original episode like this and we should appreciate it. If you hate fanservices so much then this episode is not for you.
Nov 22, 2023 6:59 PM
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This episode is ass

10/10
Nov 22, 2023 7:01 PM
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Honestly.. What the heck was this episode? I get fan-service and I love the Delta ones kek. But this was just plain useless and dumb.
Is this in the Light Novel?
Dudes ate some shrooms and went crazy.
0/10 for me.
@coldasicee Have you ever watch the PV trailer for episode 8 in Kadokawa, bro. They already said this episode is anime original content, never happened in Light Novel.
Nov 22, 2023 7:03 PM
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Ayanokouji2017 said:
@ShiroHachi I'm not naive bro, no one forced him to do this episode because of sell merchs or getting new viewers. Eminence in Shadow is already have tons of fans after season 1 ended. It's the author own idea from the beginning. Not many animes can have their anime original episode like this and we should appreciate it. If you hate fanservices so much then this episode is not for you.

You call yourself not naive but you prove it with your next sentences, we're talking about Kadokawa here, also no...they actually lost a lot of viewers during season 2 if you look at the streaming data in Japan, it's normal that anime sequels lose a lot of viewers, so they need a strategy like this. I like fanservice as much as the next guy, but I'd rather they not rush other arcs than 1 episode full of fanservice
Nov 22, 2023 7:29 PM
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Here My beach episode is done for "The Eminence In The Shadow".. Fact is I enjoyed
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