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Nov 10, 12:57 AM
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Sunraku's work ethic is honestly admirable imo. He fought until he encountered a gold scorpion. Maybe part of it was due to luck but felt like he just didn't give up until he at least gained some xp. Classic RPG gamer move.

On another note, these latest episode has been following mostly on his journey like a gamer protagonist. He's improving everyday.
Nov 10, 1:55 AM
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That was the best fight of the series after Wethermon! Sunraku said so himself!
Respect to the Golden scorpion for fighting til the end. They were a formidable opponent.
C2C is showing the anime world what can be achieved if a studio focuses exclusively on a single series for a few years!
Both the 3D and 2D were great! The texture of the scorpion was a little busy but it works well enough.
The flaming scorpion was LIT (pun intended) and Sunraku's movements had a surprising number of frames.
The effects were decent. The 3D ones did stand out too much in some cases, but the 2D ones were great.
Overall, my favorite episode of the Season!

Also, SLF Theater is back!!! 🎉🎉🎉
It's a good one at that! (Not that any SLF Theater has ever been bad.)
Nov 10, 2:11 AM
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So that’s what Emul does when Sunraku’s offline
Nov 10, 2:11 AM
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It took a while, and lots of quick tactical analysis, experimentation, observational haki, kiting, cat's paws, and still data mining all that time but it looks like a good game indeed, Sunraku.

Hey the SLF Theater is back. Yey!
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Nov 10, 3:02 AM
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Man I swear every ShangriFra big boss fight is a must see event and spectacle and I LOVE how Sunraku has to use all his knowledge of the game mechanics, his abilities and learning his opponents’ tendencies to come out on top as opposed to the usual VRMMORPG anime with the MC being OP.

Golden scorpion fight was epic, I think it was just as good as weathermon tactically, but the animation didn’t look as good to me. This more so felt like your usual SLF episode production wise. Still, I love how it lasted the entire episode and every time Sunraku thought he had him finished off he’d just keep going, just like those souls multi phase fights. Took every trick in his bag(literally) to finish off the scorpion

It’s also dope that they incorporate the lore of the game into the fight mechanics, like Sunraku mentioned the moon playing a role in the enemy’s abilities. Small detail but if he can figure out what it is, he can find the best time to challenge enemies and know how to prepare. This anime is so cool cause it really is like a let’s play in anime format where we see a guy get better and better overtime!
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Nov 10, 3:44 AM
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Insta max-level.
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Nov 10, 3:54 AM
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GOD BLOW–

I mean how can you run from a rare enemy right? Would definitely want to try and beat it for the drops!
How did that gave him 20 levels!? What the hell, how much did he gain again with the Wethermon fight? Didn't know Shiny pokemons gives so much EXP.

+More lore, both Lycagon and Wethermon do be associated with the night/moon.
Feels like the game's final boss being in the moon would also be epic.
And something about it reminded me of Log Horizon once again lol

Im excited to see what kind of weapon/s will be crafted from those golden crystal scorpion!!
Nov 10, 4:22 AM
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At 12:25 they started playing a song that is hella plagiarising “ welcome to the jungle” 😂😂😂
Nov 10, 4:28 AM
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New nerf incoming-

Inventoria- can only be accessed out of combat.
Nov 10, 5:04 AM
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the level up was crazy
Nov 10, 5:09 AM
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The fight and quality just awesome 🔥🔥 C2C studio killing it with this anime
Nov 10, 5:32 AM
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very good episode
Nov 10, 5:33 AM
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That SLF theater getting a little meta at the end.
Nov 10, 5:35 AM
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Sunraku easy plan to get some crystal scorpions materials didn't go as easy as he thought it would. Who knew there was an even bigger enemy out there too. A legendary monster gold scorpion that even fights the crystal ones! Sunraku could barely handle them so its no surprise the gold scorpion is even worse. It jumping in to knock away the crystal scorpions should've been the indicator that this thing is no joke. Sunraku having to use everything he can to even have a chance of defeating this gold scorpion. Jumping back and forth to the inventory place they all got for defeating Wethermon. Only able to a number of times before running out of MP and having to face the gold scorpion. The regeneration it had was definitely the most annoying, Sunraku could've defeated it much quicker without that. He might've picked up on some connection the game has to the moon and certain monsters and quests. Even using the crystal scorpions to jump the gold on didn't work which of course it can't be that easy. Sunraku cleaving off the stinger setting the gold scorpion into a rage. Finally killing it and jumping up twenty levels is crazy! I can't wait to see how his skills evolve and which new ones he gets. Oooooo and the materials from all this scorpion fighting!
Nov 10, 5:46 AM
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it was so so good

i love the manga but the anime is doing an amazing job

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Nov 10, 5:50 AM
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lingojk said:
So that’s what Emul does when Sunraku’s offline

NGL probably what Hidaka Rina (VA for Emul) would do if Uchida Yuuma (VA for Sunraku) was sick or something 😂😂

context: they are married irl

additional context so people don't get confused: married to each other
Nov 10, 6:54 AM
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You know, we were kinda missing an episode dedicated to a full fledged battle against an enemy with that many tricks up its sleeve. Melee attacks, long range attacks, incredible durability, regeneration, it was nasty alright. Thankfully, Sunraku in his innate ability to react and adapt quickly to these scenario pulling off the correct skill, weapon and both dodge and attack strategy was able to overcome it and gain 20 levels in the process. What a deal.

This is way different from other animes that present you with a scenario like this and then the mc wins somehow. Here all of his tools have been already presented, what may be op in his reaction time maybe but you can still see it in a way as feasible.
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No comment, really!
Nov 10, 7:26 AM

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what a waste of an episode, noting burger fight with random miniboss and mc yapping for 20 min straight. amazing
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Nov 10, 7:31 AM

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the fight scenes are so well animated

Nov 10, 8:36 AM

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I didn't expect a golden scorpion showing up, but it was probable that they where not going to give our man a new weapon and make him progress the story of the show that easily, the fight was cool and him getting 20 lvls is something i actually predicted when watching would happen lol. From the story aspect was a nothing burger but for the gaming aspect it was really cool, its very hard to have anime that actually convey a gaming story properly, this is the type of stuff that is just pure gaming fun that you would do when playing a game like this. I think the only other MMO oriented anime out there that does it this well is kings avatar but it does it from the perspective of chinese and SEA style mmos which i'm not particularly a fan of.
Nov 10, 9:15 AM
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Great battle, all that to get capped lvl.
Nov 10, 9:21 AM

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Yay! Mini is back! Emul is so adorable.
I really liked the gold scorpion animation. Well done.
But going up 20 levels against just a rare boss and not a unique? Even with all those minions. Not buying it. That one's just broke, devs, I thought this wasn't supposed to be a trash MMO?
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Nov 10, 9:57 AM
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I dunno man, the golden scorpion looked kinda ass to me. The textures looked grainy, the design was too busy, and it was hard to make out what was actually happening in a lot of the shots.

Either way it was a great episode tho, the writing for the fight was good and otherwise the animation looked good as well. And like everyone else already mentioned, ShanFro Gekijou Mini we are so back bois
Nov 10, 10:09 AM

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Best episode after the Wethermon fight!!
Nov 10, 12:39 PM

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Legit expected a server warning "Unique monster, Goldy, has been defeated" (given the 7th unique monster is still unknown)
Nov 10, 12:46 PM
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I did not expect for that Goldy Scorpion to be as good as Wethermon. Sunraku managed to defeat him in an amazing way, even though it was not easy at all.

Can’t wait to see the party defeating Lycagon, this time they will succeed. The OP and ED themes are amazing and the animation is great.
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Nov 10, 1:51 PM

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What a fun episode that was, it was a great fight.
I liked seeing the strategy Sunraku used throughout it.
I'm sure Bilac can make some great equipment from Goldy.

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Nov 10, 2:47 PM
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Yay! Mini is back! Emul is so adorable.
I really liked the gold scorpion animation. Well done.
But going up 20 levels against just a rare boss and not a unique? Even with all those minions. Not buying it. That one's just broke, devs, I thought this wasn't supposed to be a trash MMO?
@joemaamah they're also way above lvl 100. Sunraku mentioning that just a rare version of them was almost on par with a colossus means they're some of the toughest enemies in the game, and should probably be counted as borderline-unkillable, especially solo. Having something that high tier give garbage xp would be more of a sign of a trash game to me. Plus, it seems plenty of players are at level cap, meaning it isn't even supposed to be some hard to reach goal anyway. Level cap is probably where the game really starts.
Nov 10, 2:59 PM

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kinda boring the scorpions were never more than time filler to begin with. More interested in the plot development than the typical battle Shonen filler.
Nov 10, 6:31 PM

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By far, this best episode of the season. This whole episode being just Rakurou is what really fleshes out the episode. Mainly because the skills he obtained from trash games and bringing them into a god-tier game, you get to see his creativity in trying to cheese the enemies.

One of those cheese methods leading to the introduction of a rare boss. The gold crystal scorpion. This is not on par with the Wethermon the Tombguard in action sequences, length of fight, and creativity in cheesing, but this episode is still worth watching as a runner-up because the gold crystal scorpion is definitely a good fight.
Nov 10, 7:20 PM

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Sunraku lowkey has a PhD in metagaming, a dev's worst nightmare. I hope there is a dev character at some point so we can see their point of view during all his shenanigans.
Nov 10, 8:10 PM
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By far, this best episode of the season. This whole episode being just Rakurou is what really fleshes out the episode. Mainly because the skills he obtained from trash games and bringing them into a god-tier game, you get to see his creativity in trying to cheese the enemies.

One of those cheese methods leading to the introduction of a rare boss. The gold crystal scorpion. This is not on par with the Wethermon the Tombguard in action sequences, length of fight, and creativity in cheesing, but this episode is still worth watching as a runner-up because the gold crystal scorpion is definitely a good fight.

I thought this was shangri las worst episode lol it just felt like filler with some bs cgi monster
Nov 10, 8:31 PM

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Vebent said:
By far, this best episode of the season. This whole episode being just Rakurou is what really fleshes out the episode. Mainly because the skills he obtained from trash games and bringing them into a god-tier game, you get to see his creativity in trying to cheese the enemies.

One of those cheese methods leading to the introduction of a rare boss. The gold crystal scorpion. This is not on par with the Wethermon the Tombguard in action sequences, length of fight, and creativity in cheesing, but this episode is still worth watching as a runner-up because the gold crystal scorpion is definitely a good fight.

I thought this was shangri las worst episode lol it just felt like filler with some bs cgi monster
@Bustanut214 I can see how the CGI monster can be BS, but everything else about the episode really shows the type of skills that Rakurou can bring to the game. It seems like he's really testing the developers. Killing a rare boss using cheese methods at a much lower level than what the boss is. I would only see it as a filler episode if it offers nothing of value. Just like Naruto. I think this episode did. I also wouldn't be able to tell if it's a true filler episode because I haven't read the manga.
Nov 10, 8:37 PM
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I'm really glad they brought back the objectively worst part of Season 1, the multiple episodes of meaningless and boring grinding, in episode 5 of season 2 so that we could waste the entire episode on something that literally does not matter while the most unlikeable protagonist in the last 20 years of anime talks to himself about how good the game he doesn't care about is (he is utilizing exploits and bad game design to cheese high level enemies).
Nov 10, 9:48 PM
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Gotta grind those levels!🤣🤣
Emul is so goddamn cute! 🥰🥰
Nov 10, 11:51 PM
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that is an insane amount of levels, both that boss must've been worth a ton, and he must've got a lot of the regular scorpions in the process, including the ones taken down by the golden boi
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Cgi was a bit off but overall nice episode
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Was not good no story
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First of all, Emul is just too cute, anyone would fall asleep to that lullaby!

I honestly don't know if Sunraku is lucky or not to encounter such a rare monster, but that fight was fantastic, the second best, after Wethermon. The golden scorpion gave him a huge amount of experience to level him up to level 99. I can't wait to see OiKatzo's reaction when he realizes how much Sunraku has leveled up, and Bilac's face when he sees all the materials he has gotten.
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Only getting XP after defeating all nearby hostile enemies is a bit of a weird way for a game like this to function. Surely it'd make more sense to just get the XP once you finish an enemy... especially since I think it was mentioned earlier that some people just farmed Unique Boss encounters for XP. But oh well. Nice episode overall. Though considering the amount of time something inside of me got stressed about the materials of the other scorpions down at the bottom of the ravine de-spawning. But I guess that just doesn't happen in this game.
Also lol that comment at the end of "who is she my wife" is extra funny considering the VA is his wife I think.
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That poor golden scorpion is really amazing to fight till the end XD
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lol a whole episode just about fighting a golden scorpion 😭…also levelling up 20 levels at once is crazy bro 🧍🏼‍♀️
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SLF Theater is back. Today is a good day.

Also devs are gonna nerf Inventoria's usage so bad lol.

Pretty intense fight against the Golden Scorpion from the OP. Can't wait to see Bilac's reaction when Sunraku shows up with the new materials.

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