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May 1, 2023
Mixed Feelings
If you’re excited for season 2 after watching the first, I’d suggest you wait, let season 1 sink in and enjoy it in all its glory, hide it somewhere deep in your brain, untouchable by anything else. Then if you’re still curious enough for more, put your love for season 1 aside, and settle for the decent shounen beyond. Let me explain why.

Season 1 started and ended with a certain charm, an exploration of meaning and purpose in life. I’m not sophisticated enough to put it in better terms. At the first bit of combat, introducing the Nokkers and the beholder, I felt disappointed. I ...
Feb 1, 2017
Fanservice? People should really read the description well...

The first episode is an animation for a bonus chapter. And if we've ever read/watched a bonus chapter it's only natural to expect there to be fancervice.
Isn't that what a 'bonus' chapter is about anyway? So I don't think it's really fair to rate episode 1 badly solely for this reason. Actually, there isn't as much fanservice as people claim there to be in the first case. Most of the episode actually focusses on more on Ki-ja's past.

And even if you don't like the first episode, the next two have much more of the seriousness from ...


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