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Sep 1, 2021 10:32 AM
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The animators were just flexing at this point
such a good episode. watching any episode with Kanna in it is just free therapy.
elma finally got an episode with her as the main focus. it is shown so beautifully- the love/hate relationship between elma and tohru; enjoyed every single bit of it.
Sep 1, 2021 10:34 AM

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Sep 1, 2021 10:40 AM

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Just KyoAni showing off their animation with that fight scene between Tohru and Elma. KyoAni is still levels ahead of other animation studios.

Can't believe there are only 3 episodes left of this. I'm gonna miss this show :(
Sep 1, 2021 10:40 AM

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Hooooly shit that animation was absolutely amazing!!!! Loved when Elma said that it was delicious because Tohru was with her, so sweet. I liked the first part as well, seeing Kanna, Saikawa and Shouta go on a trip was fun.
Sep 1, 2021 10:41 AM

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Elma demanding for worker rights and improvements? HELL YEA SHE IS!

This episode is all about the Harmony Dragon Elma, and her efforts are all but naught in the workplace, sad sad Elma working VERY, VERY hard to improve their working lives. And apparently Shouta's dad is their director, this has come full circle, and he knows about Lucoa and their whole dragoon origin. Nonetheless, Elma works SUPER hard, and even asking for Tohru's help. Ludicrous Black Company working conditions...

Elma spending her day off alone and snacking on sweets, but Kanna, Shouta and Saikawa asking her to accompany and spend time together for a picnic. Shouta is skillful enough to block Elma's clairvoyance, woah. And that leaves Elma frantically trying to find these 3 kids with Tohru grinning at the back of her mind. Lucky Shouta was able to stop Saikawa from realizing Elma's true nature of a dragon from being found out.

Elma requesting training with Tohru to exercise their dragon powers, while Kobayashi and Fafnir looks onward on this intense fight coupled with KyoAni's spectacular and crisp FLEXING of animation. Setting their grievances and grudges from before, once and for all, for as long as they could beng renewed friends.

Smooth Operator of a fight. Looking foeward to Kanna in New York next week!
Sep 1, 2021 10:46 AM
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another beautiful episode (especially with Elma and Tooru) 🔥
Sep 1, 2021 11:10 AM
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Loved it! Elma is the best character, she deserves a spin-off
Sep 1, 2021 11:16 AM

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Poor bear, lmao, what did you count on, entering into a battle with a powerful dragon? Shouta is a talented boy and nothing scary would happen with the kids but Elma kinda lost her composure and would even transform a picturesque forest into a "ground zero" only to find them.

That friendly fight struck right in the kokoro, man. When I saw Tohru and Elma lying on the grass and swinging four limbs it was a great relief. It's good that disputes between cute death bringers can be solved through finger flicks and tickling sessions.
Sep 1, 2021 11:21 AM

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This was one of if not THE BEST episode of the Series so far. yeah I said it. I know I am biased because Elma is my favorite Dragon but Jesus dude this episode had literally everything.

The fight was so good and I actually cried a little bit after what Elma really wanted from Tohru.

Now I just need that GIF of her waiting in line Happily for those sweets.
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Sep 1, 2021 11:25 AM

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What, I didn't expect him to be Shouta's father, he seems to be aware of everything, but he's not easily convinced heheh
So it was all for some sweets..... Not gonna lie, if it happens to me I'd do the same thing xd

Poor bear and snail.... They didn't do anything wrong :c

Nah, the fight was a joy for my eyes. I can die in peace now
I'm so glad they made up. Excellent episode
Sep 1, 2021 11:30 AM
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damn kyoani flexing their animation
Sep 1, 2021 11:37 AM

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Elma is such a talented and dedicated worker, her doing analytics, reports and writing within only a day or two is just such a speechless thing to do for how no humans can ever achieve that aside from dragons.

Her going crazy around the forest was funny

And Take can't take his eyes off of Iruru xD

But wow the animations once again are stunning! And I thought they were slightly toning it down bit by bit each episode. And what an amazing way to end off the episode!

Things do change after all holy cow i'm SURPRISED!!
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Sep 1, 2021 11:38 AM

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Elma getting the love she deserves this season.

KyoAni should just animate an all-action series already god damn.
Sep 1, 2021 11:39 AM

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Another Elma-centric episode was a surprise, but it made for another nice change of pace for sure. The presentation of Elma's campaign for better labour standards was kind of strange in its use of monologue over most of it, and I feel like that segment had the potential to be a full episode on its own.

And once again, Kyoani just absolutely flex on almost every other studio in the industry with that fight scene. God damn was that absolutely fantastic.
Sep 1, 2021 11:52 AM

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TFW a SOL's fight sequences have ten times more effort put into them than other action oriented anime airing this season. I'd rather not point any fingers, so if you know, you know.

Anyways, this week's episode was a significant turning point for Elma's character. After declaring themselves as sworn rivals, both Tohru and Elma refused to get along with each other no matter what. But as it turns out, that was a misguided judgement, and one that wasn't true to Elma's personal feelings. So after realizing this, Elma decides to come clean in hopes of regaining the bond that the two dragons once had. All in all, this was a great episode not only in terms of production quality, but also characterization too.
Sep 1, 2021 11:58 AM
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I love this anime sm ~_~ aaaaa
Sep 1, 2021 12:04 PM
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Haha, nice to see more of Elma, I totally understand her for the working part xD the fight scene between her and Tooru looked so great wow
Sep 1, 2021 12:13 PM
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each episode reassures me that it should be in category Ecchi and not in Slice of Life
Sep 1, 2021 12:21 PM
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The animation this episode was phenomenal.

Like honestly, I was blown away by how fantastic that fight scene was.

They be out be here making better fight scenes than most shonen anime have.

Can't wait to see more!
Sep 1, 2021 12:46 PM

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Elma completely lost her composure in the forest. If she only took a minute to sort things out she would've realized that the children weren't in any danger since Kanna was a dragon as well and could handle anything the forest could throw at them. She was too focused on what Tohru would say to her.

Damn the animators weren't holding back on this episode. Impressive!
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Sep 1, 2021 12:52 PM

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Amazing ep as always love the Elma focused part with kids…..AND FIGHT IS FKING INSANE KYOANI NEVER DISAPPOINTS
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Sep 1, 2021 1:01 PM

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More Elma is always welcome, great to see the way she adapted into this human world.
Her friendship with Tooru is something that she always adored as we can see in their fight, with some great visuals. Also it looks like there will be a new character next week,will see how it will turn out.
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Sep 1, 2021 1:18 PM

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Great episode as always, especially the fighting scene, such beautiful animation and just beautiful in general. Looking forward to episode 10.
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Sep 1, 2021 1:42 PM

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My eyes are blessed, my heart is cured, couldnt stop smiling throughot the whole experience. From labour union Elma, to Yuru Camp Elma, to Dragon Ball Z Elma. Masterful, vibrant, colourful, what an episode. A lesson of coherency, a payoff of build up, completely connected to every single detail. I'm not crying, I swear.
They did a fucking beautiful illustration that was shown just used to show a past experience, oh god



Sep 1, 2021 1:42 PM

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this is as good as a slice of life can get, masterpiece of an episode
Sep 1, 2021 1:45 PM

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I never would've thought that an Elma-centered episode would be the best episode of this second season and coming from someone who has a big soft spot for Elma and her love for sweets, I couldn't be any happier! ^_^

From seeing her doing her best to improve her working conditions, to having a hectic day looking after Kanna, Saikawa and Shouta during a trip to the mountains, she simply made those parts of the episode really entertaining. Same goes for when she was lining up for that limited edition sweets only for 3 customers in front of her to buy the same sweet. Kudos for the guy for leaving one sweet left for Elma after seeing her upset puppy eyes expression on her face as that made her day. =3

However, the best part of the episode was Elma having a battle against Tohru, watched on by Fafnir and Kobayashi. Simply typing words here describing my thoughts on the production quality for their battle doesn't do it justice at all. It's something that I just want to watch over and over again and I'll still be wowed by the pristine quality put into the fight from KyoAni. It's THAT good! If anyone thought that Magia Record Season 2 would have the best animated fights for this season (and year), you might want to think again.

Although this episode was Elma-centric, we did get a tiny segment on Iruru and Take, where she knew he couldn't keep his eyes away from her huge breasts when she felt hot and ventilated herself by adjusting her shirt. The smug look on her face when she saw him looking at her while she did this was bloody amusing! Can I swap places with Take right now?! X3

I do look forward to a Kanna-focused episode next time, as the preview does looks rather promising.
Sep 1, 2021 2:06 PM
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Happy Elma bop FTW 😙

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Sep 1, 2021 2:21 PM

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Shouta’s father really was trying to save money xD. Elma crying this episode and Tohru also crying was quite an emotion moment also. Shows that though they ‘hate’ each other they need each other really. Looking forward to the next episode.
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Sep 1, 2021 2:32 PM

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I absolutely loved this episode, we got three chapters adapted from the manga and they were adapted very well. The first story followed Elma trying to achieve better work conditions for her fellow coworkers when in reality she just wanted to get her hands on a limited edition snack, and they ended up showing their boss. also shouta's dad and she roped in Takiya and Kobayashi revealing that Shouta's dad is well aware that they're aware that Elma is a dragon as well as all of the other magical influence on their world, it was just pretty nice to see all that. The second story was about Shouta, Kanna and Saikawa going on a picnic with Elma and though it wasn't very story driven like most of the episodes in this season, it's always nice seeing some wholesome slice of life moments in this anime and I'm glad we saw this, it was cute and also revealed the three kids relationship dynamic or at least gave us more of it. We also got a little nice scene between Taketo and Ilulu, I enjoyed it, this show is a fanservice show whether you like it or not and one of the things I look forward to is seeing Taketo and Ilulu's relationship develop some more and seeing little cute moments like this is nice. The last story in this episode was Fafnir and Kobayashi invited to see a battle between the two dragons Tohru and Elma, and not only did we get such an epic dragon fight between the two, showing off kyoani's talents, we also got an emotional talk at the end, between the two revealing that Elma really just missed Tohru and was upset that she left without warning and that it made her worry and It was honestly really wholesome and sweet, throughout the season we saw their relationship develop as well as how it was back in their world and we finally get to see Elma's true feelings and why she was so resentful of Tohru before. Overall it was a good episode, and so far I enjoy this season quite a lot.
Sep 1, 2021 2:43 PM
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Very good Elma focused episode.

Elma vs. Tohru was so awesome! KyoAni did a great job with the animation and choreography.



Reminded me of the end of Rocky iII
Sep 1, 2021 2:52 PM

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Spectacular animation and angles this episode. Men of culture surely didn't miss 17:29.

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Sep 1, 2021 2:53 PM
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Tbh KyoAni is just as good as Ufotable in terms of animation. I wonder what would a shounen look like if they picked up one. Amazing episode!


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Sep 1, 2021 3:17 PM
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The fight between Elma and Tohru was awesomely animated, with lots of destruction and impacts, it looked like a DBZ battle.
A good episode centered on Elma, hope we get more of this with the rest of the cast.
Sep 1, 2021 3:21 PM

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goddamn another amazing fighting scene kyoani!
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Sep 1, 2021 3:26 PM

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When they showed Elma putting her feet in the water, I was like damn that's beautiful, Kyoani flexing. And they hit me with the whole fight, probably the most beautiful looking fight this season and it's from a SoL.
Sep 1, 2021 3:52 PM

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Fuckin hell when Kyoto animation does action... Lots of Elma focus this ep and this season in general. Good thing since she was so late to the party in S1.
Sep 1, 2021 3:58 PM

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Why is it that this Slice of Life Anime provides us with such great and detailed fight scenes when most battle Anime these days have average fight scenes... KyoAni, you guys are phenomenal. Tohru vs Elma was incredible.

A nice episode centered around Elma. I laughed pretty hard at the moment that Elma lost the kids. The moment she went into Dragon form, Shouta with great reflexes though putting Saikawa to sleep.
Sep 1, 2021 4:10 PM
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when the next episode airs next week, I'll ask a question as to why Kanna hides from Saikawa that she's a dragon.
Sep 1, 2021 4:12 PM

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Kyoto Animation always impressed me with their Animation cuz damnnn, when they're decided to do the action in the cute show or any show they do it just so amazing, I mean Can you imagine if they do the 100% Action anime?? Anyway Great Ep as always
Sep 1, 2021 4:26 PM

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An Elma-centric episode. Gotta love seeing Elma's work ethic and, that camping trip was pretty swell as well. The highlight of this episode was definitely the fight between Tohru and Elma. The animation was amazing. On the other hand, I'm glad that they were able to put their animosity aside and make up.
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Sep 1, 2021 4:31 PM
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Great episode. Also, there was a suspicious amount of Elma feet in this episode.
Sep 1, 2021 4:35 PM
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Magnificent. Every single part of this episode is so amusing.

Easy 10/10. What a masterpiece.
Sep 1, 2021 4:42 PM
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many actions in the episode is with the animation fights is amazing Elma vs. Tohru These two could never understand each other more after that everything resolved that good.
Sep 1, 2021 4:47 PM
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The fight scene was so good thoo.
Sep 1, 2021 4:48 PM
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Definitely my favorite episode of Season 2 so far! Honestly, one of my favorite episodes of the whole series!

I think this episode's gonna set up certain arcs down the line, ESPECIALLY given the debut appearance of Shouta's dad and his son using magic out in the woods. And the manga, watching them come to life, let's just say it's gonna be a treat!

Also, the ending with Tohru and Elma being tickled whie trying not to laugh was SO wholesome and cute!

Here's the million dollar question though that NEEDS to be discussed:

Which is the better tickle scene from KyoAni? This or Chuunibyou with Dekomori and Nibutani?

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Great episode. Also, there was a suspicious amount of Elma feet in this episode.


I agree, and watching her splash her feet in the lake, is adorable to watch, only to realize the kids left.
Though as someone with a foot fetish, this was a jewel to watch.
Sep 1, 2021 4:57 PM
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Kyoto Animation always impressed me with their Animation cuz damnnn, when they're decided to do the action in the cute show or any show they do it just so amazing, I mean Can you imagine if they do the 100% Action anime?? Anyway Great Ep as always


I think KyoAni gives Studio WIT a run for their money with the fight scenes in Vivy.
Sep 1, 2021 5:40 PM

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Best episode out of everything this entire season.
Hands down
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Sep 1, 2021 6:21 PM

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THIS EPISODE WAS EPIC!!! So much things going on here.

First, Elma tried to have better job conditions, and told Kobayashi the way she felt, even though she knew things wouldn't change. After all, Shota's father bribed the cute dragon with candies xD
He was worried about Lucoa's influence towards his son, but accepted the consequences.

(Tohru supported Elma in the meetings at the sindicate - surprisingly)

In the second part, Kanna, Saikawa and Shota went to a camping right when Elma was in a candy-day at her house. Turns out that the kids disappeared at the florest, but they all met again for Elma's relief (that fight with the bear was awesome).

The little breakdown featured Ilulu feeling hot underneath her clothes 😏
Taketo's reaction was mine at the moment lol and she was teasing

The third part consisted of a nice fight between Tohru and Ilulu. Such great effects! Very impressive, especially the explosions and the somnoplasty of it.
I'm glad they made amends after all and accepted their past. Finally!

The last scene was hilarious with the "who laughs first" challenge.

One of the best animes of the year for sure. Can't believe we are already at episode 9.

Sep 1, 2021 6:55 PM

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Fine episode. Not much to talk about aside from the fight. The animation was good, but the direction wasn’t very good. There were a few points that I couldn’t instantly tell what was going on which is always a bad thing for a fight. Once that happens the immersion is broken and it affects the enjoyment as a result. The fight also came out of nowhere too. All of a sudden Elma decided to end their false hatred when it wasn’t connected to any of the previous stories in this episode.
Sep 1, 2021 7:11 PM

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This episode really deserves all the comments praising the animation, it was AMAZING.

Just KyoAni things.
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