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| i hate if when they try to redeem unredeemable TRASH characters like that chick with the book. |
| well, the pacing a lil bit but in the positive side it keep every second interesting. op are good and ed kinda ok. yo this guy is not boring and not so plain ass generic who easily can be self inserted like the black swordman so the girl who keep mocking does that to keep motivate her? im intrested to read source material, i hope it is a 2nd person perspective writing |
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| Is it me or it does feel horribly rushed? Also wtf is with this bully girl who just turns 180 in a second to best friend? The hell is that? |
slavemaster_1991Oct 17, 2019 11:36 AM
| I haven't read the source material but damn is the pacing fast, it's very disorientating. |
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| I just realized that Elli really looks like Tobichii Origami from Date a Live. This second episode was ok, but I'm a bit disappointed that we did not see a SINGLE second of Melida's training. Dunno if it was a directing decision or just a copy of the original chapter. |
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| I'm enjoying this but it's clearly rushed which is a shame because I wonder how good it would've been without it feeling rushed. That being said, I still really liked the episode. The only thing I didn't like was when the red-haired psycho girl gave her back the book and now they're gonna be friends 4ever! But credit to the animation and arts team because they're doing a great job |
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| Oh man, Kufa is a sharp dude. Before the event when she was down without any confidence, he intentionally incited that bitchgirl to attack him to make Melida jump into some confidence and clear her head a bit. I appreciate authors that know their psychology. Melida is so gewd! If anything it's a shame we didn't get to see any of her training. Nerva's emotions are a bit difficult to parse... I guess she's supposed to be a bit of a yandere that was emotionally attached to having Melida as her venting doll for her comfort. This is some pretty sophisticated psychological stuff, dang. I didn't expect this anime to have this layer to it. Even her father was a pretty sensible man, like an unexpectedly decent father, he warned her not to get full of herself too early (because this is dangerous), and to build her integrity with more experience and accomplishment. One thing this series did mistake, is the nature of samurai. The true bushido would not resort to traps and manipulation tactics like using sand, that is more a shinobi's style. A show like Toji no Miko is a better sample of girls with genuine samurai spirit. Ashhk said: Loli? Where?So much loli everywhere Nepkyuun said: Yeah i see your complaint here, as i said it's unfortunate we didn't get that in order to feel the payoff in this tournament. What they choose to adapt is a bit off-kilter i see, but what they are presenting is still pretty well crafted if you ask me.They skipped everything in-between Melida acquiring mana and the tournament. Omitting explanation on some world-building, explanations on how mana works, and just Melida's training along with the work she put into it in detail. The fight itself would have been much better with more context on what has been skipped, but err, whatever. Rushing a lot of character building and going straight into more.. heavy scenes is really killing the impact they have. I really felt a bigger impact when Melida fought Nerva with the scenes omitted, so seeing this rush straight to the tournament was absolutely disappointing. I suppose with how the characters acted differed greatly to the manga, it would also be affecting how I see the scenes. (ps: you used the word omitted wrong here) Nepkyuun said: I disagree here. I'm someone who is normally unable to empathize with male characters much if at all, but i felt something from Kufa. Understanding him requires some more indirect sympathetic comprehension; reading between the lines is key.Kufa is just.. emotionless. Explaining it as "I don't feel anything from him." would be more than enough. If Kufa's character had more emotion in him, then his would be perfect as well. |
GenesisAriaOct 17, 2019 12:08 PM
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| Well Melinda was finally able to kick Nerva's ass, but unfortunately Pricket was a much better teacher than Vampir so that's why her student won after only 13 sec. |
| What the nani? There's a non-flat girl in the opening, that's impossible. On a serious note, liking the opening visuals, the transitions are pretty cool and like the bits with text in the beginning of it and repeated again with added visuals part way through. It seems they're going a bit fast with the pacing, at least skipping some smaller details like explaining how the mana works and it didn't show her managing her mana in the fight to counter the other girl. |
| That bully girl who ended up being a friend who become a bully to be a friend???? WTF??? God that shit was stupid. |
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| This is more a girl's drama than an action fantasy. The driving point of the show in the first 2 eps have been to fight bullying which is somehow stupidly allowed. That girl had the intent to seriously harm Melida and I can't fathom how that's allowed in "school competition". |
| I think this series is nothing special but I’have to admit I liked this first two episode. I was thinking I wouldn’t like too much the series but I was wrong until now. |
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| Awesome episode! Pricket and Vampyr's moment was really awesome and funny! I am glad Melida won courage to confront Nerva, it was so much satisfying to watch melida defeating Nerva... And their last blown was just awesome, she managed to use a phantom blade, and she learned that by watching Vampyr and trained secretly, it expected Vampyr's expectations! Elise is really awesome, she just won the next battle in 13 seconds! I would like to see Melida and Elli geting along with eachother, but both are kinda bad expressing their feels to each other! That guys in pos ending might be a problem! |
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| I keep reading about the training between Melida getting mana and the tournament here, As I like some proper build-up, I would have rather them to take their time with the pacing, I hope we still get to see the training in the next episode. But I enjoyed this episode eventho the pacing was very quick. |
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| About time those girls stopped bullying Angel when she used her mana. She still has a long way to go so Vampyr is going to continue to train her. |
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| I'm glad they skipped training and went right to the tournament. Pretty good fight. Ms. Prickett is pretty funny and apparently she's amazing! I like her though and her pouty face. Looking forward to seeing what Ellie can actually do. Opening was pretty good as well. |
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| I see that many LN and manga readers complain about lack of comedy but I must say that at least for me as non-reader I really enjoy how serious this anime is. Now if only Rosetti was more serious... |
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| I tought Melida was going to be one of those characters that only get bullied but she stood up for herself and I felt very proud wen she fought the other girl. Diden't expect Vampyr to be that funny, I'm glad that he actually has a personality, he also defended his loli and if he protec I respec. I haven't read the light novel but I'm glad they skipped unnecessary exposition about the mana, if you watched any shonen or played any RPG you don't need much explication |
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Nieznajomy43 said: I see that many LN and manga readers complain about lack of comedy but I must say that at least for me as non-reader I really enjoy how serious this anime is. Now if only Rosetti was more serious... The thing with those comedy moments is that most of them give more personality and expressions to Kufa, who in the anime is just.... as plain as it can be. Notice how the only comedic moment they didn't cut (shuting up Nerva) gave him some type of emotion for the first time. He even has quite a childish side (he's not that old after all). He was supposed to show Melida a smile like a 5 years old at the end of the match... But well. We can forgive that. If only that was the problem... First episode was arguably rushed, but this second episode was just stupid. They cut lots of content related to the mana and Melida's training. The win feels empty. The sudden improvement feels empty. In the manga we see her struggling again ang again, and training really hard. We come to hate Nerva twice as much, and we feel the same happiness and PRIDE as Kufa experiences watching the fight (that was cut too). In the anime, she magically has mana and magically defeats one of the best users in her course just because, no explanation whatsoever. The manga clarifies why Melida is capable of winning, even though she has just started using mana. I honestly don't know what do they want this series to be. If you want to take the develpment of the characters' relations and the comedy off, at least focus on the magic and world building... Don't throw both away. I don't get it. This was a big disappointment for me to be honest. |
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| I thought I was wrong, but as the comments and discussion follow, it's like the story and plots were NOT even considered by the production team to showcase, getting into the results without showing the evidence of all the effort. What a way to butcher the manga. Guess we'll be watching another Arifureta once again, but with a tad OK animation. Nerva just sounds like Anne from Granbelm, just a much less refined character that is as bitchy as I'd thought. As for Melida, getting her mana back is but the first step in this travesty. In just 2 episodes, this has become from average to just straight-up trash. Guess I'll be reading the manga to catch up on the insane amount of cut content (which is a lot), which amps the enjoyment more than this lifeless show. |
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FireFistYK said: I'm enjoying this but it's clearly rushed which is a shame because I wonder how good it would've been without it feeling rushed. That being said, I still really liked the episode. The only thing I didn't like was when the red-haired psycho girl gave her back the book and now they're gonna be friends 4ever! But credit to the animation and arts team because they're doing a great job Sums up my feelings as well. I think they rushed into the tournament. Would've loved to see at least a training montage, missed opportunity there. It would've made the scene where Melida beats the other girl much more compelling. Nevertheless, I'm still liking this. Not even sure why that dude at the end is taking issue with Melida. |
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| I'm annoyed that they just straight up skipped the training and explaining some important facts like mana or what can the samurai class do so that we can understand the classes better. Yeah sure, the same things I liked about episode one (the animation and Melida) are still intact but they are just rushing through this with no context or explanation. It's the same problems I had with episode one except it's more noticable this time. |
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| I watched Mother's Basement's video on the Dad's Guide to Child Neglect... Her father is doing an amazing job. Anyway, seems like according to the comments here they skipped a lot of important stuff that would have been nice to see since I didn't know anything about this series at all up until today but oh well... |
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| Honestly enjoying it a fair bit so far. I love the really serious tone it has. |
| while i enjoyed the smack down as much as the next person , i dunno about this show still everything seems to be moving fast and the whole shows vibe feels lifeless it's hard to put into words |
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| Asuna v Myne was dope, but what the fuck is up with the pacing? They’ve skipped so much shit from the LN |
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| This anime has some really unlikable and annoying characters |
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Tyleron said: as a light novel reader they left out pretty much all of the comedic aspect of the source, my guess was their trying to make it more serious toned?. it's a good episode overall but goddamn the pacing was definitely fast in this anime, i do hope that there will be a episode where they explain much more into the world building since its quite lacking in the first episode. soo much left out. but i can live with this. and yes not much curve to see. theyre re like Middle school guys. 14yo if i remember correctly. |
| i wish and dream for the Future where everyone i care can Smile happily from their heart. But no matter where i look. how ever i see... there s no me. im not there. Just like that. |
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| Melida kinda impressed me too when she defeated Nerva, the girl was a straight up bitch towards her. But I'm also glad they got to be friends, I kinda want to see more of her. It looks like the MC doesn't have that much presence so far. Can't wait for the Elise battle though. |
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| The plot is moving too fast. With the pace they're going, we might see next episode. |
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| The first few minutes were pretty trashy (the hands on the loli stuff) but the fight was pretty satisfying. |
| The anime is taking a political turn, which is refreshing and nice. It'd be cool to see both the social hierarchy and the battle-class system explained. The after credit scene was definitely foreboding. |
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| >Deadly assassin initially hired to kill this girl >"Whenever I think of causing you even the slightest pain, I can't sleep at night" Hmm... -Damn, did you guys see him shut down that girl he met on the train in the first episode? I didn't expect this guy to be a thot exterminator. -That scene where he sasses Nerva was so edgy. I had to pause for a moment. The way he goes from super polite to rude is something I would've eaten up years ago. It reminds me of those "I have 2 sides to me: "perfect angel" and "your worst nightmare"" posts. I used to imagine myself doing that kind of "personality-change" stuff in Middle School and early High School, hahaha. -The fight was alright. It actually surprised me in a few spots. I was constantly expecting Vampir to step in and save his "little lady", but she actually handled herself. That much should've been predictable, but I actually thought "she might lose" for a minute. Overall, it was a below average episode. Definitely better than last week's, but that's not saying much. Another complaint I have is that the pacing feels way too fast. I mean, that week went by in no time. To be fair, I haven't read the LN or Manga. I will say that OP is sooo good. I am downloading that, for sure. The weird thing is, the first time I heard it, I didn't like it, but then it ended up being stuck in my head the whole episode, and I actually rewinded a few times to listen to it. So good on the staff for choosing "Run Girls, Run!"  |
| Seriously I'm disappointed... the pacing is too damn fast, no buildup explaining what Melida had to do in order to get to where she is ( what the instructor put her through ). No explanation about the Mana mechanism and how it works ( it's in this battle where Melida shows that she has advance control over Mana therefore overpowering that girl in battle ). Not showing the MC feeling correctly, right now he is just a boring character while in the manga they showed that he still has mixed feelings about his decision of helping Melida the way he did. They skipped a lot of content just to get into the action... this episode made me lower the score from 8 to 6. |
lagendofdoomOct 18, 2019 3:53 AM
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| if L-Mo-Reppin said: asei said: This one is better than episode one. Probably because of fight scenes. You know, I have nothing against loli characters, but there are too many of them. And this inclination towards a romantic relationship between Melida and Kufa is unsettling. I am not a snob, I understand it is fiction, but while watching I see them as real people. I will explain if they both were the same age, whatever the author wants I am ok. But he is older. He is in early or late teens? asei said: This one is better than episode one. Probably because of fight scenes. You know, I have nothing against loli characters, but there are too many of them. And this inclination towards a romantic relationship between Melida and Kufa is unsettling. I am not a snob, I understand it is fiction, but while watching I see them as real people. I will explain if they both were the same age, whatever the author wants I am ok. But he is older. He is in early or late teens? I believe he’s 17 and I’m assuming she’s around 14 but who knows how it works in this setting If she is 14 then it is fine for me  |
aseiOct 18, 2019 6:49 AM
lagendofdoom said: Seriously I'm disappointed... the pacing is too damn fast, no buildup explaining what Melida had to do in order to get to where she is ( what the instructor put her through ). No explanation about the Mana mechanism and how it works ( it's in this battle where Melida shows that she has advance control over Mana therefore overpowering that girl in battle ). Not showing the MC feeling correctly, right now he is just a boring character while in the manga they showed that he still has mixed feelings about his decision of helping Melida the way he did. They skipped a lot of content just to get into the action... this episode made me lower the score from 8 to 6. Well I gave 7 to the show. It looks good, but otherwise, it is definitely a 6. |
aseiOct 18, 2019 6:49 AM
| her father is such an asshole |
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