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Jul 26, 2024 7:58 AM
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Time for Belle to prove herself.

Belle has an audience with King Rawhide and is ordered to duel with one of the Four Great Swordsmen. However, Belle's method of shattering his opponent's sword, a weapon as vital as a limb to a swordsman, angers the spectators. Despite this, the king acknowledges Belle and instructs her to await three missions necessary to become a Nomad. The first mission she receives is to protect the city's people from an attack by the evil swordsmen led by Jinbuck. Belle then realizes that the targeted location is the town where her adoptive parents live.

You know, up til now I found these stupid background characters just annoying and racist, but this time, it was pretty warranted I'm ngl. Granted, the swordsmen dude only really cared for his sword getting cut in half for legit less than five seconds, but these annoying background characters over here acting like it was their sword getting broke and shouting about "tHe hAmMeR Of fEaR' .... That aside, nice to see that there are some people out in this world that aren't blatantly racist for no reason, that being Belle's parents. And looks like our little rabbit furry is gonna be joining the party.

Rabbit got the necklace back for Belle, thankfully. That's another person that isn't racist to Belle added to the team.


Jul 26, 2024 9:36 AM
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Time for Belle to prove herself.

Belle has an audience with King Rawhide and is ordered to duel with one of the Four Great Swordsmen. However, Belle's method of shattering his opponent's sword, a weapon as vital as a limb to a swordsman, angers the spectators. Despite this, the king acknowledges Belle and instructs her to await three missions necessary to become a Nomad. The first mission she receives is to protect the city's people from an attack by the evil swordsmen led by Jinbuck. Belle then realizes that the targeted location is the town where her adoptive parents live.

You know, up til now I found these stupid background characters just annoying and racist, but this time, it was pretty warranted I'm ngl. Granted, the swordsmen dude only really cared for his sword getting cut in half for legit less than five seconds, but these annoying background characters over here acting like it was their sword getting broke and shouting about "tHe hAmMeR Of fEaR' .... That aside, nice to see that there are some people out in this world that aren't blatantly racist for no reason, that being Belle's parents. And looks like our little rabbit furry is gonna be joining the party.

Rabbit got the necklace back for Belle, thankfully. That's another person that isn't racist to Belle added to the team.
@IzanaSolos Belle taking all the hate and laughing in their face was pretty hardcore. I think she'll be all right on that score.
Jul 26, 2024 10:23 AM
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If not for the amazing music I would have dropped it this episode. But well the music is that good to keep me going.
Jul 26, 2024 10:49 AM
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Looking forward to 1000+ episodes from now when Sian uses groundwavesattelite5Gwifihaki from super far away to completely disable super strong high up military official.

We no longer get cute Rabitita or whatever, but this one talks which is kind of nice.
No idea what's going on at all, and have feeling I never will, but 3/5, I chill with it

Jul 26, 2024 11:31 AM
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3 episode and I still have no idea how to feel about this. Idk if I should drop this or not so I guess I'll just keep watching. Still I think every episode is more confusing than the next. Well at least the teacher guy is still alive. So he was the king's little brother? Also scared ash or whatever that heals very well problem some very messed up process to make it I guess.
Jul 26, 2024 12:05 PM
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Belle becomes a soloist and her teacher is...actually a bad guy? Also....Kitty lied to her...I wonder why? I wonder where that stone came from. Things are only getting more interesting as we go. It sucks Belle didn't tell Bellein she was her big sister but it was nice to see her reconnect with the people that raised her. I also love how she took out that dude and soak in al the boos. It's wild how breaking a sword in this universe is like a death sentence.
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Jul 26, 2024 1:34 PM
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I'm so indifferent about this. I love the world and music but the story feels random and disconnected. I get what's happening but at the same time, I don't. Everyone is talking about concepts like we should know them. The kanjis aren't enough. I didn't feel anything when she got her pendant back or when she met her parents. Belle destroying swords and laughing about it was peak
Jul 26, 2024 2:06 PM
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Can't wait for the OST to be released. It was a pretty good episode and the reunion with the family (finding she has a sister) was sweet.
Jul 26, 2024 3:20 PM
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I'm so indifferent about this. I love the world and music but the story feels random and disconnected. I get what's happening but at the same time, I don't. Everyone is talking about concepts like we should know them. The kanjis aren't enough. I didn't feel anything when she got her pendant back or when she met her parents. Belle destroying swords and laughing about it was peak
@NeedANap I totally agree. I want to like it but it feels off.
Jul 26, 2024 3:53 PM
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This story & World is really quite dense. I don't think 12 episodes will cut it. I like it, but see a lot of confused people here.
Jul 26, 2024 4:38 PM
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The story is so confusing, what is even going on?
Jul 26, 2024 5:50 PM
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This was a cool episode! There is a lot that is left unsaid, so you have to really work to understand the story. Quite a refreshing change of pace, even if it doesn't always do a great job of showing off the worldbuilding that it doesn't tell.
Jul 26, 2024 6:07 PM
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Terrible.

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Jul 26, 2024 6:39 PM
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I realize this is supposed to be a Serious Story, even if I have no effin clue what the plot is going on around here, but I can't help but laugh every time I see a new backward name introduced: Enola, Erewhon, Lived... it's a good thing that only appears to apply to swords or there might have been some questions about Gaff.

It reminds me of someone I used to know who wrote stories using the same 'clever' naming convention because it seemed cool. In middle school.
Jul 26, 2024 7:15 PM
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I wasn't prepared for how moving this episode was. Well done.
Jul 26, 2024 8:49 PM

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idk how to feel about this episode; part of me though it was really touching but another part felt confused...like is it a problem with storyboarding? It really didn't feel well put together.
Jul 26, 2024 9:00 PM

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I realize this is supposed to be a Serious Story, even if I have no effin clue what the plot is going on around here, but I can't help but laugh every time I see a new backward name introduced: Enola, Erewhon, Lived... it's a good thing that only appears to apply to swords or there might have been some questions about Gaff.

It reminds me of someone I used to know who wrote stories using the same 'clever' naming convention because it seemed cool. In middle school.
Tarrian said:
a new backward name introduced: Enola, Erewhon, Lived...

I feel dumb not recognizing that sooner.

It does feel like the story is just bursting with ideas that the writer has no clue what to do with, but I give it points for trying to be original and elaborate. I'll also give it a few more episodes, but I'll have to lower my expectations.
Jul 26, 2024 10:00 PM
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I don't normally read or comment in forums but I had to know if I was alone in my confusion of this anime. I'm glad I'm not.

The story seems great I just wish they did more explanation of what is going on. I can't shake the feeling like if I want fully understand, I would have to read the manga or a light novel for all this to make sense.

This 3rd episode is what is making me continue watch for now, it's by far the least confusing. Happy the plot will be moving forward, I mean it kinda has to since they don't explain much. Hopefully next we will see Belle on her adventure to a new town, expanding the world. The cute bunny boy is also a bonus in the episode, can't wait to see more of 'Kitty the All' and his whole backstory if they can get to it.
Jul 26, 2024 10:49 PM

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Anyone read the LN to know if it being confusing is just them cutting stuff?
Jul 26, 2024 11:18 PM

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It's almost like it wants to be some sort of Alice in Wonderland thing, but also wants to beat you over the head and not explain anything.
Jul 26, 2024 11:55 PM
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I really love the world, but in this episode we had quite a lot of fighting, and you could see that animation isn't the greatest. Better Animation would've give so much to this show!
Jul 27, 2024 12:39 AM
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When Belle found out her little sister's name was Bellein ("Belle's little sister"), I cried. Especially since she's been constantly rejected time and time again for the past two and a half episodes, I was so happy to find out her parents she'd run away from still loved as much as they always had.

Then I cried again when the Solist sang a song to Belle about her name, which means "little one", and it was once again related back to her parents.

This anime has been so good so far.

I'm also glad the story isn't spoon-feeding us a lot and instead leaves us to figure stuff out whenever possible. It only explains something when Belle is thinking about it or when she learns about it. We're very much limited to seeing the world through her eyes and (almost) no one else's. And Belle isn't narrating to the audience at all, either. We're simply silent observers whom she has no knowledge of. She's alone even in the sense that doesn't have an audience, unlike many other anime that have the main character narrating to the audience.
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Jul 27, 2024 4:35 AM

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Sian really trusting in Belle to change the landscape, it remains to be seen of how she'll do that.

Belle facing one of the 4 Solists of Kir Royale with his Lived sword to play Schwert Musik, even when her sword is affected by Sian's curse, she's determined to make victory happen, even if by any means of shattering his sword, to the decimation of the audience givng her the booing as the Hammer of Fear, destroying the source of life of a solist. But more than most of Sian being exiled from Rawhide's world, the rabbit evolving into a human only makes the situation much worse, as evil solists attack Park City capturing innocents, which included her anthropomorphic parents, who has an actual child of their own taking after Belle's name.

The Rabbitia, Kitty the All, knows that Belle's looking for her pendant, who knows that she is looking for another Rabbitia, Kitty the Nothing. Though he brings her to a pub for her to listen to a wandering troubadour sing a nostalgic song of her, because she too, like Belle, are nomads who cannot speak unless they serve their purpose. And the pendant that he got back from Mist in exchange from a time clock, her roots are only just beginning.

A long road to roots, this is only just the beginning.
Jul 27, 2024 9:11 AM
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Sensei is still alive? WTF

It feels like every episodes we just got more questions and it felt disconnected from each other??
I thought i am the only one who confused but looks like there is a lot peoples here also.

Well, I'm still giving it a chance just for our boy Kevin Penkin.
Jul 27, 2024 12:20 PM

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Some parts were really well made, some - not so.
But the main issue here is effing plot...

3 eps are out and the damn thing still feels like Alice in Wonderland remake written by stoned-to-death screenwriters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How many episodes more it will take to have some clarity of what is happening? :D
Jul 27, 2024 12:47 PM

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It's absurd to sub her name as Dram when we clearly hear LaBlac saying Drambuie. What do they think? Kids are going to run out and start drinking it if they read the name?!

I think I'll be naming the kitten I'm looking for Kitty The All.
Jul 27, 2024 3:16 PM

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I am confused why other people seem confused about the story. Is the story really that hard to follow? I can't think of anything that I didn't understand while watching.
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Jul 27, 2024 10:26 PM

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Kinda reminds me of Dead Mount Deathplay and how you never really fully know what's going on, but this one's a bit too fast imo so far. It's throwing a bit too many random words at us. That said still enjoying it so far. Hopefully all the buildup leads somewhere satisfying and doesn't just trip over itself.
Jul 28, 2024 1:00 PM
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There are ways to be cryptic and still maintain the audience's interest, and I could name anime that have done this well, but so far this show hasn't explained much at all, and it's also just boring. I should drop it, but I also really want this potentially interesting sci fi world to come together.
Jul 29, 2024 12:13 AM

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I'm getting lonelier each episode... 😭😭😭

P.S. That rabbit character is a helpful one, finally.
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Jul 29, 2024 5:44 PM

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Writing for the show leaves something to be desired, if I'm being completely honest - but MAN is the worldbuilding compelling! I really want to know more about these tree swords, Yggdrasil, and this messed up Law of Themes that exists.
Jul 30, 2024 9:46 AM
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This is growing on me. The music is amazing as always. I'm still not super connected to Belle as a character but the world and lore continue to intrigue me. I have so many questions, and I generally like when a story puts me in the position to wonder like this.

What is up with Kitty? Why did he say Belle is his love, what does he want from her? So the Enola survived, but then he had the G-d make it so that he will "live as the dead"? And he was their little brother? Did he escape his status as a G-d by becoming an Enola? It seems so. The way he talked to that woman, it almost felt like he viewed Belle('s development) as a product of their union. Not that they are actually a couple, but they gave off the energy of old partners. I'm sure Belle will have to interact with her at some point.

I can't remember, is Belle not allowed to tell other people about her curse? I thought it could be beneficial for her to discuss it with Gaff but maybe she is not allowed to. The preview says you can't grow as a solist without cutting others down so I wonder what she'll do. Maybe she will find a way to kind of do it? Like she said she was able to cut that rope but was surprised to do so. Maybe she can only cut inanimate things.
Jul 30, 2024 10:32 AM

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This is growing on me. The music is amazing as always. I'm still not super connected to Belle as a character but the world and lore continue to intrigue me. I have so many questions, and I generally like when a story puts me in the position to wonder like this.

What is up with Kitty? Why did he say Belle is his love, what does he want from her? So the Enola survived, but then he had the G-d make it so that he will "live as the dead"? And he was their little brother? Did he escape his status as a G-d by becoming an Enola? It seems so. The way he talked to that woman, it almost felt like he viewed Belle('s development) as a product of their union. Not that they are actually a couple, but they gave off the energy of old partners. I'm sure Belle will have to interact with her at some point.

I can't remember, is Belle not allowed to tell other people about her curse? I thought it could be beneficial for her to discuss it with Gaff but maybe she is not allowed to. The preview says you can't grow as a solist without cutting others down so I wonder what she'll do. Maybe she will find a way to kind of do it? Like she said she was able to cut that rope but was surprised to do so. Maybe she can only cut inanimate things.
@Fairytelly I don't think there's anything preventing her from talking about her Curse - but it would be one of those things you don't want to advertise to just anyone lest people start using it against you.

It doesn't help that the rules of engagement for this duel weren't specified to us beforehand. No one ever said that the fight was "To the death" or even "first blood", Belle just got to a point where she had clearly won and still had to deal with the crowd expecting her to do more.
Jul 30, 2024 6:17 PM
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@Fairytelly I don't think there's anything preventing her from talking about her Curse - but it would be one of those things you don't want to advertise to just anyone lest people start using it against you.

It doesn't help that the rules of engagement for this duel weren't specified to us beforehand. No one ever said that the fight was "To the death" or even "first blood", Belle just got to a point where she had clearly won and still had to deal with the crowd expecting her to do more.

That definitely makes sense and is probably the case :( but that sounds so lonely, feeling like you have a curse you can tell noone about. I hope she's able to trust someone eventually!

And I agree, I thought it was weird the crowd wanted her to kill him so bad when he was clearly beat :P Maybe Belle will bring a new wave of duels not ending in death. But I'm positive she's gonna keep sword smashing which people are oddly treating as worse. It could be that she gains enough empathy through the series that she stops even that though (seems like she has some problems with it, considering how it was easy for her to cut down living beings before). We'll see!

Sorry if I went on too much, have a nice day :)
Jul 31, 2024 6:05 AM

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the story is somewhat confusing. it'd be nice if they gave some explanation for stuff but tbh the show itself is enjoyable
Jul 31, 2024 9:00 PM

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Lot of phrases and terms thrown around this episode that I have no idea what they mean. I'm sort of expecting most of this to still not really make a whole lot of sense by the end of the show. Plus I thought her curse was for killing her master, but Sian's still alive? And he's actually royalty if the king calling him brother is literal.

Belle's such a beast that even with the curse she can still just bludgeon enemies with her blade and take them out. Quick battles that weren't as well done as previous episodes but still decent and enjoyable action.

The bunny transforming into a powerful bunny person was a fun surprise. I guess that bath with Belle paid off.

I don't think I've ever been quite this lost but still captivated by an anime like this one. Still content just to float along with it and enjoy the music, the action, and the world it's laying out.
Aug 6, 2024 2:30 PM
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There are a lot of people complaining about nothing being explained. It feels like this episode just started spilling info all over the place, and I feel some things would have greater impact if left unsaid. Don't even get me started on those little subtitles for certain words, they were completely unnecessary.

They keep throwing Deus Ex Machina all over the place. OK, we get it! The enolA trained the one who will kill god. It seems he purposely misconstrued that detail to her, so she thinks that is the name of the god. Kitty probably knows all of this already considering he seems to be able to do whatever he wants with the brain and thoughts of others. I wonder what else is all an illusion...
Aug 21, 2024 3:20 PM

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This world seems cruel :/
Sep 1, 2024 9:55 PM

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Belle may not have the best relationship with her parent, but they all still love each other.
I thought it was great they named there 2nd daughter after Belle.

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Sep 7, 2024 11:27 PM
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Belle's curse Is like the worst curse for a sword user bc she can't cut down her enemies its like she said shes just swinging around a hunk of metal.

Its like if your an archer but your arrows don't go into someone's body
Sep 9, 2024 4:44 AM

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The onee san at the begining was Gram, she's pretty. So Sian is royalty? Emotional moment for Belle with her parents and imouto, wish she said to her that she was her big sis. Also knew that rabbit would turn into a rabbit boy, interested to know more about him. He traded his own pendant for hers. Btw I kinda don't get why she has to break swords if she can't cut the people. I get it that they are akin to their own life so breaking them is like taking their life but still.
Sep 12, 2024 3:53 PM
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I have no real idea what's going on. I don't dislike it, but I can't say I like it as of yet.
Sep 30, 2024 2:05 AM

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ticks me off , tch! bye bye earth!
Dec 6, 2024 10:50 PM
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I like the production values, but this show is really failing to captivate me. I think the problem is the audience doesn't really have anything to firmly grasp onto, leaving them confused and bored. Like it's okay for the plot to be mysterious in a show, but the audience needs to be given something else to firmly hang onto and be satisfied with in the meanwhile.

The problem here is the characters, while not exactly bad, are bland as hell and the MC isn't really endearing nor captivating...so she is failing to carry the show. To compound the matter, the audience can't firmly grasp onto the world because it's mechanics is so alien to anything else they may know, and the show literally is espousing definitions every few minutes of it's world trying to explain it's importance, but failing at it. So without anything for the audience to center and ground themselves on, they're left confused and bored.

This show really needed the MC to be a "fish out of water" stand-in for the audience by figuring the basics out about this world, like an isekai MC, but she really isn't despite being different than all the other beast people. So like what is there for me to care about when I don't know WTF is going on with the plot and character's motivations, don't understand the world because it's so confusing they have to give definitions of everything yet still failing to convey the importance, and the MC being bland thus not endearing and is relatively uninteresting? This leaves me un-entertained, which is a shame because I sort of want to like this show, but it's making itself too difficult to do so.

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