Didn't think they would adapt an interlude chapter, not even a real chapter. Always thought that the tournament is not needed, seeing how it never even once gets referenced again in the later events. And we've missed some other better chapter that could've been adapted, like... an angry duke's son who wants Elise as his 15th wife and challenges Wend to a duel and then summons an ancient dragon, making it a 3rd dragon that Wend kills.
It wasn't mentioned all that well before but Er is actually a pretty decent swordsman, it's not really a surprise he went this far into the tournament, however in the novel his motif for entering the tournament was to get as far as possible, knowing he won't beat his future teacher. I now can kinda see how adaptation are made, the trope of: " I want to win no matter what" is really old, while author avoided that trope, showing his realisitc take on the situation, knowing he won't be able to win, else settling for just finishing as high as possible. But the anime creators really pushed this trope of " i want to win no matter what". Really goes to show how anime creators think.
Never remembered Er EVER being concerned over being kicked from the team and it's really easy to spot that it's anime original, given that never even once did they came back to it in later episodes...
Really like that the guy who beat him ended up being his sword teacher, now that's the best teacher to have...but again, we never ever are gonna come back to him, so he is kinda irrelevant, making you question the need of this episode even more...
As far as Wend losing right away goes... it was the same in the novel and a bunch of readers were upset over the whole need of the tournament if you aren't gonna show the fights, the author doesn't really like to show lengthed fights, even the battles with dragons were all 2 shots, and the later zombie subjugation too. Also makes you understand reasoning for short battles in animes, or why some protagonists are very overpowered. All because it makes it easier to not show the full fight, but rather just make him one shot, so it's easier for you, i can understand that... Then it comes down to adaptation and staff desire to expand on the fights, and they are like: "Eh? why bother..." so we have what we have.
Elise pulling up was soooo cute <3 one advantage over reading the novel haha. And you can't really see her cuteness, beauty in a bunch of letters.
Btw Armstrong is supposed to train Wend and Louise for like several years, until they turn 15, and Louise get very proficeint with magic herself and Wend gets physical training (which he will never use in the future haha), the training is rough, the Er's training is also about this long, in ep 8 they are already gonna be 15 and will move onward their adventure goal. Now that i think about it, what's the point of making them attend magical academy which was supposed to prepare them for adventuring if you are never gonna use it in the future...
winddevil1 said:i like how Elise, the all powerful saint healer, is worried about not being strong enough for a beginner's party :D was fun to see her and Well training, hopefully they will be better by next episode :v
the fights were funny, Well just got one shot by the champion, and Iise losing to the spear guy from before
i liked the lunch box, great idea , and the guy just ate himself and left HAHA
for someone who was not even going to participate, he actually tried really hard
Cause Elise is a cutie ^^ it was so cute of her to hang and try to do pull ups haha, too bad she didn't have more moments like this, but in the novel she never was the center figure of this tournament, given that she doesn't get to participate... btw anime did a way better job at portraying her than novel lol. Like giving her more cute moments, that's nice...
Of course Ina lost, Rhoderich is OP
Lunch box, right lol, really heartwarming, even saved it on my phone (but that's because it was that cute...) |