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Feb 10, 2023 8:54 AM
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Got some more lore and story building in this episode relate to the past and experimentations.

I wouldn't say it's surprising that there's unusually powerful beasts appearing at this stage in the show. This episode was pretty tense, and ended on another cliffhanger. Yikes.
Feb 10, 2023 9:28 AM
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The entire side business of this show's worldbuilding is slowly being built, and at the very least, is what makes this show interesting. With Zen avoiding a calamity with a few stan users, Melan takes up his training with Jiro, and the Mountaineers breaming full of life, eager to fight against the giant red-eyed beasts. Thsis has got Kumi concerned because right as she emitted miasma, one such beast appeared.

With the speculation to find out where the giant beasts come from, it's a dangerous expedition from Jiro's intuition and hunch to reach the summit and find out who's responsible. Meeting his old comrade Facade , to whom the latter cannot remember, Jiro engages his Paladin powers. But against the other Kumi specimen, it's too dangerous to call, and Babban while temporarily distracting the specimen for both Jiro and Kumi's escape, faces them head-on to their deaths.

Kumi's memories slowly surfacing, it's a premonition of the cursed omen that follows her wherever she goes.
Feb 10, 2023 9:36 AM
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Yea Chaika was an alright anime.
Feb 10, 2023 12:59 PM
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Pretty meaty episode for once, also, press F for Baban and her loli? Hope they make it. lol
Feb 10, 2023 1:40 PM
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That was pretty intense with jiro fighting his old friend but he is not the same and kumi is seeing herself.
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Feb 10, 2023 1:57 PM
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Damn. They killed BAban and his wifu. That was to much for me. But at least we got more interesting action this time and quite a bit of plot.
Feb 10, 2023 3:09 PM
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Damn man starting to get a picture of who’s pulling strings behind the scenes.

Seeing kumi shaken up like that was tough. You could really see all that PTSD bubble up. Guessing Jiro’s old buddy could be a clone or perhaps even had his memories altered thru some inhumane experiments. Really messed up stuff going on behind the scenes here

Nooo. Can’t believe they took out my boy Baban :(
Feb 10, 2023 4:18 PM
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So Jiro has come face to face with his old friend Facade from the past who doesn't remember him. Turns out that Kumi found that she is a cleric clone after facing herself and all of her memories of her being in the lab came back to her along with the belief that she is the one who is causing all the red eye monsters to show up. Next episode is going to be about Jiro's past as a paladin and his former lover.
Feb 10, 2023 5:49 PM
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Now that's the stuff!
I hope the second half of the show will be on the same level as this splendid episode.
Feb 10, 2023 5:50 PM
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Holy fuck it looks good again, maybe I'm not dropping this
Feb 10, 2023 8:22 PM

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Interesting episode with Jiro fighting a friend that doesn't recognize him and a clone of Kumi. Did Baban and his wife die? Damn hopefully not.

I'm trying to figure out everything that is going on and right now it looks like the old white dude that was feeding the giraffe-type animals is the main villain and Tsurugi is an oppnent of his and presumbly a good person. On another note Jiro will visit a lover of his in the next epiosde and I'm thinking we'll get more information on what's going on (or at least more background on Jiro).
Feb 10, 2023 9:19 PM

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baban went super saiyan. his loli tho. kumi was really shaken up for the first time.
Feb 12, 2023 3:16 AM
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Finally real plot.
Bakura thoughtful twisted schemer, even Mezami cant stand him.
scary giraffes!!
So ship runs on biofuel + coal?
Fights awesome today. Jiro's friend Facade got amnesia?
DarkKumi vs Kumi, unclear what they're on about
hope Babban ok...
Feb 12, 2023 6:48 AM

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RIP Babban and his wife, they were great people. Kumi's mass produced, if it already wasn't obvious from her serial before.
Feb 15, 2023 4:11 AM
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While I've enjoyed the show, this is definitely the first episode to reach the promise of the opening episode. Loved the little scene where Bakura is basically letting Mezami know he knows how much Mezami has fucked up but he's not going to say it out loud. Felt like something out of a period drama. 

And then the broken dialogue of the "evil" Kumi as she loses control suggests that he's in fact fucked up even more than he's letting on, as our Kumi may not actually be an escaped prototype and is in fact the finished goods.
Apr 2, 2023 2:53 PM

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Poor Kumi. I wonder who the blonde girl is in relation to Kumi. Also the subtitles for the version I'm watching are so bad lol especially when it comes to what the evil kumi says. I wonder who Facade is. Also don't understand any of the background info. What are the green crystals and who is guy eating them? Who is the queen/princess?
cooldogmomApr 2, 2023 2:58 PM
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