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Apr 9, 2016 10:27 AM

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Could probably skip this entire episode and you'd miss just about nothing, or could be summed up in one sentence eitherway you'd be better off, was 2/5
Apr 9, 2016 10:35 AM

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Nidhoeggr said:
The shitty loli maid has an annoying voice...

Yes, yes she does, my ears fcking hurt whenever she fcking talks (not joking)
Apr 9, 2016 10:40 AM
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I liked the maid's voice .-.
Apr 9, 2016 10:48 AM
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The Maid's voice was seriously annoying. But the episode broke even with Irene being a touch deredere when talking to Ayato, and the background on what happened to Haruka. Since that is going to be the pay off later.
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Apr 9, 2016 10:50 AM

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Decent episode I guess.
Flora. .uh .. well she's something. Her voice is not fitting at all imo, and it's just trying way to hard and is too squeaky. Kind of ruins the character, which is sad since her design is pretty cute.

Highlight for me was Korona. Now SHE was adorbs! aaaaaa
Apr 9, 2016 10:51 AM
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Surprisingly they are progressing rather steadily, i thought they are going to finish volume 4 in 3 episodes but looks like it could very well take 4 episodes and continue on to the next volume (it's quite easy to do as well). I hope they don't shorten the next fight and keep up the same quality like episode 13.

Also lol at the complains at this being a boring episode because it focused on the main characters inside of the less important ones or random fanservice. We get more insight on Julis and some cute moments from her (and still no violence........other tsunderes should learn from her) and also learned more about Haruka's situation and that she could have involved in something very dangerous. Also Dirk is as awesome as ever and it was pretty cool as how Ayato and he handled each other instead of either side getting heated. Now what could he be planning next?

Well Flora's VA choice isn't really good tbh........she was supposed to be rather polite in the LN unless i am remembering wrong. Guess they just wanted to portray her as a very energetic kid...........

Apr 9, 2016 11:02 AM

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Oh, so I'm sooo not the only one who had painful time having to listening to Flora's voice.
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Apr 9, 2016 11:10 AM

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Pretty boring episode tbh. Flora sounds like she had a dick stuck in her throat the whole episode. Like how do you expect me to listen to that?
Apr 9, 2016 11:12 AM

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Looks like we all agree that Flora's voice is a drill that pierce our ears.

Rest of the chapter kinda meh, it always seems funny to me when adolescents go this "mafia" kind of mood talking, for the rest not much to say.


BTW the "colling" part almost killed me, and now that i recall, animes don't seem to be good at making english signs xD
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Apr 9, 2016 11:20 AM

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Julis' brother is a Wing-King. Always wanted to say that :P
And seriously, like others have mentioned, Flora's voice was godawful on the ears. Nothing in the LN stated her voice was suppose to be this shrill. As a fan of the novels, I really think they picked the wrong Seiyuu to do her voice.. I wish they would have used Uchida Maaya instead...

Overall there wasn't much to say about the episode in general. This wasn't even the calm before the storm. If I were to describe it, it should be... the calm before THAT calm.... We get to learn a bit more about the Eclipse, a bit about Julis' background and then of course Dirk finds out about Flora (with implications of course).... For the preparations for the JieLong match, that'll come next week. Once again, I'm glad they're taking their time to adapt as much as they can of this show. another 3 Volumes for 12 Episodes suites me just fine.
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Apr 9, 2016 11:22 AM

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I'm not gonna bother complaining about Flora's annoying voice because everyone has already said what I wanted to say. All I can say is that I agree with everyone else, that voice is beyond frustrating to listen to.

We got some hints about Ayato's sister possibly being alive, but other than that, I didn't find this to be an engaging episode. I was quite bored at times, and I spaced out a bit. I'm sure I didn't really miss anything of major importance though.
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Apr 9, 2016 11:53 AM
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I might have to agree, Flora's voice is one of the most annoying voices I've ever had recently, and last time I had an annoying voice bleeding my own ears was a year ago. But oh well. It's a matter to get used to it.

Surprising the episode got to the second half to explain about Ayato's sister. Finally I've been waiting for this, and no wonder, that compared to the Phoenix Festa, the first glance of Episode 1 of Season 1 had much more of a violent vibe to this, which explains why in Phoenix Festa nobody gets badly injured. The other festa has no rules, which results to the options explained by the fat guy.

Quite decent episode, not gonna lie. Although I did laughed when Flora was offering the parfait to Ayato after Julis ate it with the spoon Lmao. Tsunderes never changes.
Apr 9, 2016 11:58 AM

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Flora is adorable, but damn, that voice had a high pitch. Slower episode this time, but I didn't mind. Second half got really interesting.


Apr 9, 2016 12:05 PM
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Flora is adorable and I don't really mind about her voice.
Apr 9, 2016 12:10 PM

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Great episode. Each one makes me like Julis more and more. This episode had a lot of interesting set up. The mc's roomate obviously is with rewolf. There are a lot of theories i have about Haruka and what happened to her but i am too lazy to type it out. I know people have already said this but Flora's voice is annoying. She sounds like a robot programmed with a high voice
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Apr 9, 2016 12:17 PM

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jirachi3x said:
Great episode. Each one makes me like Julis more and more. This episode had a lot of interesting set up. The mc's roomate obviously is with rewolf. There are a lot of theories i have about Haruka and what happened to her but i am too lazy to type it out. I know people have already said this but Flora's voice is annoying. She sounds like a robot programmed with a high voice


Actually... it should be LeWolf. Subber's are getting it wrong.
Also, Yabuki doesn't work for LeWolf's intelligence team, if anything he works under Claudia as a part of Seidoukan's Intel team.
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Apr 9, 2016 12:30 PM

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It wasn't a bad episode.

That cliffhanger tho
Apr 9, 2016 12:47 PM

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Flora's voice really hurts my ears... I get that she's a kid, but maaaaaaaan

As expected of a low priority A-1 show... animation quality drops after first episode. Many derpy faces and there were barely any close-up shots where I could squee over Ayato </3

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Actually... it should be LeWolf. Subber's are getting it wrong.


I'm not sure why but they have officially changed most of the schools' spelling on the website (the old spelling still can be seen in each URL) and it might be the Japan side providing that spelling to the translators.
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Apr 9, 2016 12:55 PM

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Let's stop here for a second and think about how much of a better show this would be if Dirk was the protagonist... Oh well


Also, it amuses me how Ayato's cunning can go from To Love ru protagonist to Tyrion Lannister in a blink of an eye.. I guess the writers need the story to move along.


At least we got to see Irene this episode, she is one of the coolest character in the show for sure, wished she had more screentime
Apr 9, 2016 1:09 PM

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Good to see I'm not the only one who thinks Flora's voice is annoying af. Every time she spoke I pictured the ice cream truck for some reason... pretty boring episode but I guess it's just a build up ep. That whole indirect kiss thing is ridiculous at this point... anyway, More fights! And more Claudia PLEASE
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Apr 9, 2016 1:37 PM

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I thought the death possibility was for all the matches not just that eclipse one :(
Didn't Julis say that in S1? that the festa is dangerous or something.

Maid girl's voice is so high pitched :(
Julis being flustered so much gets on my nerves for some reason.
Le Wolf's pres will be a yakuza boss in the future XD savage.

Ayato should have gone to the apartment and tame her.
Apr 9, 2016 1:40 PM

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RayAdha said:
Ugh Flora's voice, it's like the voice actress was forcing herself too hard to be cute-voiced the whole time.


I agree. Her voice sounded ridiculous.
Apr 9, 2016 1:50 PM
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Patureau said:

Also, it amuses me how Ayato's cunning can go from To Love ru protagonist to Tyrion Lannister in a blink of an eye.. I guess the writers need the story to move along.


Ayato was already shown as being smart, perceptive and quick-witted several times. Just because he is slow when it comes to women doesn't really change that fact. Smart people doesn't always have be womanizers or playboys. Pay attention and stop judging characters solely based on their interaction with women......


jirachi3x said:
The mc's roomate obviously is with rewolf.


The first season already showed that Yabuki is related to Seidoukan's intelligence division not LeWolf/ReWolf.........his talks with Claudia proves that. He also has a cool title but that's for later times.

Apr 9, 2016 1:57 PM

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I don't like Julis so this episode is a bit hard for me to finish.
Overall episode is meh and hardly anything happen so far.
Apr 9, 2016 2:03 PM

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hmm...build up episode ? it was an okay episode overall imo. not really that enjoyable, but i enjoyed some scene in this episode...other than that was meh... or just okay....

At the end of the episode he wanted to hear more about the maid ? the maid is not just an ordinary human probably ? btw, her voice is cute but sometimes annoys me X3 :/
either way, her character design looks adorabe X3

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RayAdha said:
Ugh Flora's voice, it's like the voice actress was forcing herself too hard to be cute-voiced the whole time.

I agree. Her voice sounded ridiculous.

yeah i felt the same thing too...
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Apr 9, 2016 2:06 PM

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Floras voice made me want to punch her in the face, but all was forgiven when I heard that ED again.
Apr 9, 2016 2:21 PM

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Floras voice is so fucking annoying. I hope she gets killed somewhere in the following episodes!
Apr 9, 2016 3:54 PM

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I just can't stand her voice 'w'
Nothing happened in this episode :(
Apr 9, 2016 4:07 PM

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Oh no! You better not touch Flora-chan Dirk! Although her voice was a bit too high pitched for my liking.
Apr 9, 2016 4:42 PM

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Flora's voice is absolutely grating. It's a shame.

If Claudia is only going to show up during the preview of each episode, this is going to be one lame season. At least the red-head sisters returned for a little bit.
Apr 9, 2016 5:21 PM

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That maid and her voice... I kinda remember an episode of sore ga seiyuu when hearing her voice...@.@

Nothing to talk about even if it is a setup episode 2/5
Apr 9, 2016 6:54 PM

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Just a buildup episode, Flora was more annoying than she was in the LN...probably because of her voice.

Really liked how they showed Ayato being in shock hearing about his sister's loss. Hope best girl makes an appearance soon.
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Apr 9, 2016 7:03 PM

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So we learned his sister is alive and thats it. Oh and the maid loli came. Not a fan of this episode and I am pretty laid back anime watcher.

Although I liked finding out about his sister I don't care that the President is going to target the loli now-easily what that episode was leading to at the end.
Apr 9, 2016 7:13 PM

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RayAdha said:
Ugh Flora's voice, it's like the voice actress was forcing herself too hard to be cute-voiced the whole time


Teeth gritting.

RayAdha said:
...and Dirk is a....lolicon? or has maid fetish?


He is supposed to be a bad guy and what could be badder than chasing children in subservient clothing?
Apr 9, 2016 8:23 PM

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>insert comment how Flora's voice is so annoying.
Apr 9, 2016 8:49 PM
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xSkipi said:

Nothing happened in this episode :(


- We learned more about Julis and her personality and about her acquaintances
- We had a glimpse of the personality of Julis's brother and he is NOT irrelevant
- Ayato found out more about Haruka and we got a glimpse that she may be involved in something big
- We learned more about Asterisk's dark side
- We saw that previous characters are NOT irrelevant and will play small part like this time to time

There was also the weird reason for Dirk giving Ayato one-sided information and getting almost nothing(from 3rd person's POV) in return and he may be planning something as well.

How does all this development and build-up amount no NOTHING? Not every episode is supposed to be mindless fighting.

Apr 9, 2016 8:54 PM

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Just a set up episode. Nothing interesting.
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Apr 9, 2016 9:09 PM

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It's still worse than Rakudai.
Apr 9, 2016 10:40 PM
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Flora´s voice was so good :)
Apr 9, 2016 10:54 PM

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Hmm... Nice voice
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Apr 10, 2016 12:36 AM

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I think Flora's voice is not done by voice actress but produce by some program?
Apr 10, 2016 12:44 AM

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surprised to see an episode with no fights, but the good thing is the buildup of the story......
our MC is getting a handful of Lolis in his harem atm :P
Apr 10, 2016 12:45 AM

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Mormegil said:
Flora's voice is absolutely grating. It's a shame.

If Claudia is only going to show up during the preview of each episode, this is going to be one lame season. At least the red-head sisters returned for a little bit.


i can't bear this idea of putting Claudia episode from the start of this season...at least she is one of the main casts...
Apr 10, 2016 12:52 AM
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fortuna89 said:

our MC is getting a handful of Lolis in his harem atm :P


Flora is a legit kid though........

Apr 10, 2016 12:54 AM

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Dragon_Slayer_X said:
fortuna89 said:

our MC is getting a handful of Lolis in his harem atm :P


Flora is a legit kid though........


i am glad to see some new fresh faces in this 2nd season ^^
Apr 10, 2016 1:58 AM

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Maid is annoying. I hope she won't get that much screentime in the future. Could ruin the otherwise decent anime. So far all the action was nice and the non-action stuff was tolerable because there weren't a lot of annoying chars with much screentime.

Dirk Eberwein seems interesting. Hoping to see more of him. He does not seem like a bad guy.
Apr 10, 2016 2:08 AM

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Milk_is_Special said:
Floras voice is so fucking annoying. I hope she gets killed somewhere in the following episodes!

But shes so cute D:
Apr 10, 2016 3:14 AM

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Robiiii said:
Milk_is_Special said:
Floras voice is so fucking annoying. I hope she gets killed somewhere in the following episodes!

But shes so cute D:
Nah, she's just annoying.
Apr 10, 2016 3:36 AM
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I really enjoyed the first two continuing episodes of this anime for the new Spring season ^^

I've been looking forward to the arrival and start of it so much ever since the end of season 1 last season ^^

I just knew I was gonna really end up enjoying it still and just as much as what I did the first season ^^
Apr 10, 2016 3:37 AM

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RayAdha said:
Ugh Flora's voice, it's like the voice actress was forcing herself too hard to be cute-voiced the whole time.

Nice to see Irene and her sister again.

...and Dirk is a....lolicon? or has maid fetish?


The voice could have been better.
Mormegil said:

If Claudia is only going to show up during the preview of each episode, this is going to be one lame season.


This was a pretty boring bridge episode with nothing much happening.


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