Mizu Zokusei no Mahoutsukai Episode 6 Discussion

Plenty of people are fine with that, but you actually have to have writing that supports an ensemble cast of characters. So far the most “interesting” thing to happen is that for some reason the mage in Abel’s party is flip flopping between not believing Ryos power, then believes it, then is suspicious if it’s possible so she asks someone else that isn’t Ryo, then she’s uncertain again which is even more comical when you realize Ryo was literally in the room with her 20 seconds prior to her questioning this random water mage messenger. Hey, if you’re so damn curious about this amazing water magic that as you say “any mage would be curious about” then just ask Ryo, he’s probably just a few feet down the road by now. It’s just sort of ridiculous.


The only other semi interesting plot point is this new noble that was complicit in the cold blooded murder of 5 town guards who really didn’t do anything all that deserving of death. They were jerks to a woman and then were implied to have been stalking the noble for revenge but the writers never let either of these things go so far that we can actually tell if these guards are evil or if they are just jerks. If the noble is shown as anything other than the villain it will be very strange and hard to believe

@ShiroAlex just because they would be alive if they hadn’t followed him doesn’t mean their death was justified. All I’m asking for is that their deaths be made justified beforehand. If the noble is meant to be a good guy then show these people actually attacking and trying to kill him before he kills them. I have no idea if he’s supposed to be good or evil but i suspect he’s supposed to be at the very least not evil.

As for the magician, you just prove my point. At times she’s shown as very interested in this and at others shes not interested. This usually aligns with Ryo being absent and present respectively. If Ryo is out of reach she’s burning with curiosity but the second Ryo could answer these questions she’s perfectly content to leave the subject untouched. It’s just ridiculous for someone shown to be a curious scholar, but when a potential wealth of knowledge regarding unheard of and extremely powerful magic is mere feet away and she’s not the least bit interested in learning of it from the source. And yet is perfectly happy to ask random passers by their opinion on the matter. It’s bad characterization because her behavior makes us think she must be a different sort of special than is implied by the show

I like worldbuilding, but man I wanna get into the meat of the story. It just seems like we’re constantly going in circles. Ryo still hasn’t told anyone about the potential world ending threat and other than going down into the dungeon today, what did this episode actually do?

We saw Shenna take out some guards(wtf) and met Natalie.. but the story is just moving wayyy too slow for a one cour anime. Even two cour I think it wouldn’t work because this is anime, not the LN so you need something to keep people hooked. The closest comp to this I think is Saihate no paladin, but that had more happening and frankly Will was a way more interesting MC.

The lack of communication from the MC and supporting characters is probably my biggest issue. No one tells each other what’s going on lol