Rukodaime91 said:@ejleon
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"0 Chance of wining" that is not true when you consider previous epodes."
Amazing argumentation from someone who "follow the anime" (cause I don't apparently). Yeah, it's NOT TRUE, because in prior episode, so, I will not give you even one exemple, but trust me, really.
Dude. Give me one example of Will tanking hits. First episode : He doesn't get hit. And in episode 2, he get hit TWICE by the teacher, and he's on the ground to the point he doesn't even try to get away when the teacher put his foot on his shoulder. Remember, the teacher was not even using his best spell, only two.
Now, because people were considering that ice guy is the "successor" Elfaria and the teacher is close to Magia Wende, we can assume there is no significant difference in term of magic.
So, how come the teacher get two hits with basic spell and Will is on the ground and the ice guy get a major attack and Will just break it 50 seconds later because reason when ice guy has finished his speech.
Also, I would argue, if ice work like Ice, when you're immobilized on your whole body, you can't even move, so, unless you can use magic, you are supposed to stay stuck in ice. Like in One Piece for instance.
"You are asking questions about the magic cast or not cast, but aren't you assuming someone created that type of spell? They can only do spells they know about from other magic users."
I don't understand what you mean.
"Wil's durability as a fighter, someone who works out his body, and seems to have a resistance to physical attacks, would not that not explain why he could take some hits without being taken down." -->
Except they spent the prior episodes explaining any race with no magic, even with significant physical abilities, could not win against a mage. To the point, 1000 dwarf can't win against a single mage. How come a very large zone spell can destroy 1000 dwarf but a very strong pinpoint accuracy spell can not even hurt Will in significant way when he could not avoid it and he didn't even break it when it hit him ?
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And he wasn't not moving, he was trying to read their movements"
How about you "follow the anime" instead ? Please dude. They used their spell at 03:44, then Will was thinking for 18 seconds, letting himself getting surrounded by 3 ennemies. And he finally moved after they attacked him at 04:11.
Almost 30 seconds later.
Any decent fighter would have been out of the way as soon as ice guy started to throw the spell (the "smoke" should never have ben able to reach Will considering it was the slowest speed used in the match), not waiting to be attacked AND not moving letting 3 people surround you.
If you can't even see the problem, I can't help you.
But, of course, the only reason Will stayed in the smoke has nothing to do about "reading their movements", it was just so the author could do the "reveal" about the clones and Ice Guy say "we didn't even move".
I shouldn't have to explain that... if you "follow the anime", you should have understood it...
Ok, let me tell you why this fight doesn't work because the author is not having a natural fight, but, a fight to "reveal" stuff in an unnatural way.
Will who is supposed to be really fast let himself get trapped in the smoke spell so... there is the reveal of ice guy.
Will who is supposed to be really fast let himself get trapped in a barrier so the ice guy can throw a very strong spell so that he can do his little speech when we can't see the real situation and then when everyone decide Will is actually fine, then, for no reason, the ice is broken,
Will instead of attacking directly the ice guy only attack the two other guys because they need to explain he "didn't fully mastered it",
And of course, the author snatches the victory at the end, because he can't let Will win because reason.
Instead of having a real fight, we have a choregraphed fight so the author can throw the lines he wants like "oh amazing but you know a two years old baby were doing better than you, like, sure a two year old baby... why not at 2 months old".
The only thing Will is supposed to have is speed and ability to break spell with his sword. Not being able to withstand hit after hit while telling us that species with low magic/no magic but amazing physical abilities can't stand up to mage.
From the start you have made a ton of assumptions about what you think the author / anime is doing, instead of paying attention to what the anime is actually showing us.
And no, you are not even trying to follow the anime’s story, you are just trying to find fault.
This is not “one piece” or another anime, the way magic works in this show is different, I can tell already that you are not following the anime’s story and world building, you are just forcing in other anime stories and magic rules.
I don’t even like this show, but I can tell when someone is assuming they know more than the writer or anime creators.
Everyone assumes in this world that magic rules, so they are bullies biased prejudice persecuting those without, this anime is trying to show that their assumptions are false, that they don’t have a clue what they are talking about.
All the students are learning spells that previous magic users established, people are still creating new spells, but if no one had frozen the floor before with a spell, these students would not think about doing that, they don’t think outside the box.
The teacher is obviously far far far more powerful than this arrogant Julius creep. This Teacher is considered the closest to becoming a magia vander and he mastered a specific technique with magic, Julius is nothing compared to him, that much was obvious.
Julius just did physical attacks which Will is durable against, and Julius had to cheat to use a 2 year old’s spell, then took all the credit, but he couldn’t even create as many clones as Will’s friend could without draining his MP very fast, proving him to be a liar and a weak mage.
“Will only has speed and ability to break spells with his sword”, if you had payed attention, Will has strength surpassing all of the students and the teachers and is a fighter class. Will broke spells with his arms and legs in the show already, plus he survived and pushed on through the teacher’s best attacks to get 1 hit on him (just like the dwarf leader), even the teacher was not surprised about Will’s ability to fight against Julius’ magic.
They all had assumed Julius was fit to be an apprentice, but none of them really knew how powerful Will’s friend was at such a young age, that was a reveal even to the teachers, this proves that Julius was nothing in the scheme of things, and that Will’s friend is a true powerful genius.
This was also the topic of discussion in a previous episode in the tower meeting, that there were few mages alive that could be recognized as being worthy of moving up to the next academy.
At this point I would consider Sion a better candidate for an apprentice than Julius, yet Will was able to survive and respond against Sion’s best attacks too.
In the Dwarves’ rebellion, all the dwarves fought till they couldn’t go on any more, it wasn’t just one hit and done, the mage used a lot of attack spells that hit many of them, but the main dwarf continued to fight until he hit the mage 1 time.
The anime obviously showed Will listening to there steps and tracking there movements, plus the mist didn’t do anything but obstruct his vision, he did not need to move, it did not hurt his lungs or breathing and did not poison him. If Will had jumped out of it, he still could not see what was happening inside the mist.
Will explains he lost composure because Julius mocked his girl, then Will thanks Julius for helping him to “cool down” (pun completely intended π).
You are missing the fact that nobody but Will picked up on the fact that Julius was using the two others magic users to help him cast and control the spell, hence why Will attacked them first.
And Will also could tell right away who was the caster because he had information on the spell, pointing out how he uses his exceptional study skills and knowledge of magic to help him fight.
After Will successfully provoked Julius he is no longer fighting with his head, he is fighting with emotion, which is always the enemy’s downfall in most stories, this one is no exception.
Will does not win, he loses the entire festival because he didn’t “grab the crown”, all Will did was survive and defend against attacks from jealous or arrogant people.
“Bullied by 8 clones” come on, that line even made me laugh after seeing Will’s friend reaction at the end, “Is there a spell to change the past or erase memories? π” Hahahahaha! π