The Eminence in Shadow (light novel)
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| Cid does have his sense of pride after all, and of course, so does Rose. I don't think we saw the full extent of either of their abilities in their sword fight. Ugh, I can't stand some of the other guys in this show though. They just seem so cheesy with little personality beyond especially this episode. Not sure what direction this anime is going yet but it seems they're trying to introduce all the prominent characters from the story. That cliffhanger though, yikes. |
Stark700Nov 16, 2022 6:58 AM
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| Cid doesn't want any attention in school, but he sure isn't interested in the fencing tournament, all part of the Cult of Diabolos in an effort to drive Shadow Garden out of the darkness. That said, the Third Children may prove to be a threat, but if Cid plays his pieces right, he can come out of this crisis. The fencing tournament heats up because of the student council President Rose Oriana, and Cid...tries his best to be the best mod character there ever was. Fighting her takes milliseconds for Cid to show off his strengths in this clichéd event, and (not really) as badly injured as he is, Sherry chancing upon him to hand him a bag of cookies for friendship starts, grabbing attention for her dad's upstanding position in the Academy. Sherry looking for Princess Alexia to talk about Cid in the romantic sense, and man, Alexia almost had a heart attack with Sherry taking on the chance to further her relationship with him. And finally, the terrorist attack on the Academy that has Cid not able to acrivate his powers, with the fake Shadow Garden taking over. A cruel death at the most unexpected. |
KANLen09Nov 16, 2022 8:33 AM
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| The Alexia-Sherry scene was a good improvement, but the rest I feel it was a big downgrade from the manga approach when doing the comedy parts. |
| Cid with more of his mob events, the scene at the end is surely one of those too. Sherry going to meet Alexia was amusing. |
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| I hope Cid will be ok? |
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JanWiller06 said: nope, he died all other 15 eps gonna be about his funeral.I hope Cid will be ok? |
| What an annoying place to end an episode aaah! |
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| Can someone explain to me what Nu was talking about in this scene? and who is this guy?   |
probjodyeNov 16, 2022 8:07 AM
| Anything to be in the character, even a punching bag is fine. Though as if once wasn't enough, that Cid went on to give the perfect "getting in between the attack" tutorial at the last minute. Cid making blood flow like sweat. Damn. |
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| This show doesn't know what it wants to be. Mundane episode for the most part but with yet another cliffhanger. I think am gonna give it one more episode and then drop it. There doesn't seem to be road to redemption. |
| I don't know what was in those chocolates, but Sherry was enjoying it way too much |
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| an ani-dramatic ending. we all know that slash is nothing to him. still that was quite a pool of blood damn. this episode actually had lots of comedy. many scenes were funny. sherry is starting to fall for cid and honestly that's not surprising at all. the coffee scene was gold though haha. i don't understand what was going through cid's head when he jumped in front of the sword. didn't he wanna remain as a background character? what bg character would jump in front of a sword to save someone? pretty great episode overall. 5/5. |
 The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama. Feeling half happy, half sad. Kawaii waifus and precious best girls <3333 |
probjodye said: Can someone explain to me what Nu was talking about in this scene? and who is this guy? The vice captain dude, called marco i think |
| The intro really made Sherry's lips feel like a lewd scene... lol How many times did I get to see Cid playing as a mob, those scenes were really quite something to enjoy. What I really love and appreciate about this episode is the scene where Sherry asked Alexia about Cid. Both of them were quite adorable while talking and the animation is great as always but Alexia getting somehow jealous was really quite entertaining and lovely.  AND FINALLY, Rose Orianna? has finally been revealed. There's something off about her character design, let me see how they'll make her character bloom from the following episodes. |
CrazyButNot4UNov 16, 2022 9:23 AM
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
Tatsuke4 said: probjodye said: Can someone explain to me what Nu was talking about in this scene? and who is this guy? The vice captain dude, called marco i think And why was Nu dreaming of herself with him? |
Did you really watch the episode? I think not. This is her dialogue. She's probably just imagining things (and probably because the guy was close in proximity to her and used him as a guinea pig?) lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
CrazyButNot4UNov 16, 2022 9:12 AM
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| god that was a dog shit episode besides the last few minutes. no reason that pink haired annoying chick needs to exist. |
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| Lmao alexia’s face when sherry started talking about cid had me crying. Poor Alexia, must be hard to have never not got what you wanted and be struggling to deal with that. Pretty slow episode but seems like we got a lot done with the fake fight, the sherry stuff and then the terrorist attack on the school which I can’t wait to see play out next week |
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| This was my favorite episode so far. I loved the little scene when Cid tried to drink the coffee but realized his mouth was full of bandages. TsutanaiFuun said: i don't understand what was going through cid's head when he jumped in front of the sword. didn't he wanna remain as a background character? what bg character would jump in front of a sword to save someone? pretty great episode overall. 5/5. I dunno how it is in the novel, but Cid has some monologue before jumping for the sword in the manga So basically, his scream was genuine lol. They cut most of his inner thoughts in the anime, but maybe they'll show some of it in the next episode to explain it. |
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| I can just imagine Cid having 20 bottles of ketchup ready for use in every one of his 48 Background Character techniques lol |
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probjodye said: Can someone explain to me what Nu was talking about in this scene? and who is this guy? She was , she lived her life to the fullest as a young aristocrat and then was struck by a curse. Her life fall apart because of it. But Gamma finds her, cure her by Shadow magic, and now she is working for Shadow Garden. |
JanuszMaciejNov 16, 2022 9:55 AM
| An amusing episode for sure, with Sherry getting quite a bit of screen time this episode, for very interesting reasons, such as the closeups of her eating the chocolate, while Cid should be nominated for every Oscar award possible with his acting skills. It did get quite over the top for me though, so I'm not sure I enjoy all his antics. With the fake Shadow Garden infiltrating the school, Cid will need to pull off yet another masterful move to get out of this situation. |
| Great and hilarious tournament!!! kekeke |
| You know shits about to get wild when the MC says 'Here it comes!' and no other person in the room has the fainest. Did love his interjection into the situation but loss of his armour, this time for real real this eps looked like a decent amount of blood loss. Cant wait to see where this goes next week! |
 To have you, Id give a billion lives A-Chan best girl |
probjodye said: Can someone explain to me what Nu was talking about in this scene? and who is this guy? Anime is not very good in reinforce it but all named girls were cursed and Cid "saved" them. In the manga she talks about her past life as a student and noble who was discarded as soon the sickness showed up at some point she was betrothed of that guy. |
| Its cute seeing how perplexed Sherry is about the chocolate. Nu actually looks nice in uniform. The glasses especially really suit her. But this expansion upon the cult as well as the vile way in which they get new blood was insightful. In a way I guess Nu is still able to live her life as a high school student when in disguise. Hmm the school sure has quite a few princesses among its ranks. Cid's way of losing really is always so eye catching. Despite the loss looks like Princess Oriana would be keeping an eye on him. Sherry was so cute though. Looks like Alexia has got quite fond of Cid judging from that photo. Thats one crazy trend though having that much sugar in coffee and Alexia's reaction was priceless. So the overall goal of the fake garden was to take over the school huh. Curious at what Cid has planned though. Overall a fun ep that expanded a great deal on Sherry, Nu and Alexia while introducing Oriana into the narrative. |
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| Such an awful story that makes you question what's the point of watching this garbage. |
| The harem is growing and its only getting stronger, may the gods bless this child. |
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| So many funny parts to this episode. I especially love how all the Shadow Garden girls just put the most positive spin on Cid's inane ramblings, and of course their spin always comes true. But the best part of the episode was of course, Alexia's reactions to Sherry. My only complaint is the same as always, why are these episodes all only 5 minutes long!!?? |
| Quantum ille canis est in fenestra |
| The terrorists are starting up but Cid is really not sticking to his "average but secretly OP" character with that kind of fake sacrifice in the end, and not to mention all the girls falling in love with him xD |
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| So we got to see more of Rose as well as Cid's "mob-fu" abilities. We are on episode 7 and it's approaching the end of volume 1, so I have no idea how far this season will adapt. |
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Nyarly-kamin said: This was my favorite episode so far. I loved the little scene when Cid tried to drink the coffee but realized his mouth was full of bandages. I dunno how it is in the novel, but Cid has some monologue before jumping for the sword in the manga So basically, his scream was genuine lol. They cut most of his inner thoughts in the anime, but maybe they'll show some of it in the next episode to explain it. Yeah, the manga adapted both the tournament and the terrorist attack scenes a lot more faithfully to the novel than the anime. The whole classroom scene up to where the episode finished was presented from Cid's perspective in the novel, then the aftermath switches to the president's perspective so we can laugh at how badly she misunderstood his reason for "saving her". Hopefully they played it straight like this just to add a cliffhanger in there (as if anyone is seriously gonna believe Cid will stay dead at this point) and as you say, next episode replays it from his side to get the actual intended effect of the scene, albeit in reverse. Tournament bit didn't really need any monologue to get Cid's idiotic intentions across, but they really cheaped out making his 15 grand death techniques for mob characters look basically identical. At the very least, they could have used more than just that same shot of him with his ass up in the air for every single time he got knocked down. |
| The tournament match with the president should have been longer. Those were some serious techniques lol. Sherry's and Alexia's talk was amusing. |
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| Rose is here let's goooo! My fav heroine! That shock on her face at the end! The impression left on her of Kagenou from their match!! It feels like the story has finally properly kicked in with her here now :D :D :D |
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| I really love how oblivious and crazy Cid can get xd |
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