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Dec 10, 6:57 AM
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That's Alicia alright, the girl who is constantly seeking to make history in her world. It's part of her character.

Damn Jane. I knew she had some problems but didn't expect her to actually use scissors in that way. This anime still haven't forgotten about Alicia's relationship with Duke either.
Dec 10, 8:29 AM
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Alicia was so cool this episode.

Also the Liz corruption getting worse due to jealousy
Dec 10, 9:23 AM
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Lmao so the facade has finally officially broken down with Liz. She not even trying to keep her powers under wraps anymore. Mind controlling Gill is her boldest move so far and I’m very confident that it’s not subconscious like I thought in the beginning. She’s doing this intentionally because she herself was bullied and now she can make anyone like her, but the one thing she wants the most, Prince Epstein aka Duke, continues to evade her. I think she’s reaching her breaking point and these last two episodes will be really good.

Speaking of Gill, the 3 stooges who keep talking shit about he and Alicia really need to fuck off. Like being surprised that Gill is smarter than them and can answer all the same questions in class.. why do you think Alicia keeps him around, dumbass. Of course he’s smart.

LMAOOO Jane cutting Carol hair out of vindictiveness just for Alicia to show up and show solidarity by cutting hers was brilliant. Now the whole school rocking short hair and her little bullying failed. Idiot. But fuck the student body for no one stepping in to stop Jane or even after she cut Carol’s hair no one showed any sort of empathy besides Alicia. Idc if Jane was bullied honestly she’s a bitch and needs to fuck off.

Alicia does look great with her short hair though honestly. Only time I’ll agree with Duke is gushing over how cute she is..

We didn’t get any Will in this ep although we got the roana mentions earlier. I still think he and those other mages might be planning a coup, plus everything with Liz’ saint lore and her jealousy is gonna come to a head too soon so the last couple eps should be dope.
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Dec 10, 9:39 AM
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I’ve actually really appreciated that this show flips the script and is actually supposed to make you hate the saint/heroine character
Dec 10, 9:54 AM
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I honestly love it every single time they just teleport.

Gill got to experience the invisible aura thing. Also apparently she is getting so extremely mad caused that person to resort to violence. As someone with long hair, getting it cut is so evil.
Once again we see that our villainess is the heroine and the heroine is the villainess. Also once again rather than becoming enemy, she is becoming loved with people copying her style. I love the yellow and green hair hotties the most <3 Duke comes in 4th after Grandpa Will or whoever.

Ali-Ali RECHARGE! Happy to see Duke save Gill, it would have been so painful otherwise.
edti: wow a lot of other people are giving 5/5s. I loved it because of the teleports make me laugh everytime, Gill being saved, people seeming to be freeable, yellow and green hair prince people, and Alicia fighting back and continuing to be the "villainess" (heroine*)

Dec 10, 10:04 AM
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Liz has finally succemb to her jealousy and starting show her colours. Duke came in the right time to save Gill. I think he has caught onto her facade. He is getting better as a character, his teasing is more cute and entertaining now.

Due to Liz Jane got influenced real bad and went full crazy. Hair cutting plot is really dumb and funny ngl. Poor Carol though. But Alicia turned the situation into her favour. Self proclaimed Villainess became the heroine again.
But still she just didn't gave a fk lol.

Gonna say she looked cute with short hair when she was little bit now long hair looked better, whatever. She also started a fashion trend too and this stunt perhaps broke more people out of Liz's clutches.

Idk why Jane didn't get punished but she got what deserves. Atleast she has the spine to be a goodish bad guy doing openly rather than influcing people like the bitch Liz. Maybe she gets redeemed.

Ah yes my girl Mel uncovering the reality of Saint. My only concern with only two episodes left can/how they gonna wrap up.
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Dec 10, 10:55 AM
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After this episode, it doesn't seem like Liz's manipulation is completely unintentional.

From what I can tell, when she tries to influence someone "positively" (emitting light), she does so intentionally. However, when her manipulation turns "negative" (emitting darkness), it seems more like an unintended reaction tied to her emotions. Whether this is temporary or tied to Duke's role as the chosen one, it raises the question of whether it could potentially override Liz's control over others. Regardless, each episode makes me dislike Liz more.

On the other hand, Alicia keeps getting better. She helped Carol find some confidence and even set a trend with her short hair, though I still prefer Alicia with longer hair. She's also starting to gain her own following. In your face Liz.

Mel found something about the legend of the saint. It seems the saint might not have been as pure or benevolent as everyone thought.
Dec 10, 12:36 PM
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Huh. Thank God Gill could be saved from the influence. I guess it's easily canceled if it's in the early stage.

2 episodes left and we might learn about the saint's power from Mel in the next episode.
Dec 10, 12:45 PM
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I feel pretty bad for Jane, just another victim, now the real question we have is if Liz is doing all of this consciously or is she another "victim" of her own powers instigating all of that unconsciously, but there is no question she wanted to have Alicia getting stabbed. And hey, Duke was rather cute this episode instead of being the usual creep.
Dec 10, 12:45 PM

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Yay, finally some progress with the whole "Liz's hypnotizing magic".

And this was good to see Alicia gaining more support by helping others.
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Dec 10, 1:49 PM
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Alicia's her character development just gets better as she gets older, and she's finally starting to overcome whatever it is that Liz is doing to everyone.
Dec 10, 1:55 PM

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A lot of talk about dotten sickness and Laval.
Liz has a dark aura that's been spreading for a few episode now and it's seems to be about to explode.
Alicia was a great villainess with the Jane & Carol moment.
Looks like Mel finally found what Duke wanted.

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Dec 10, 5:44 PM
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I love this series <3 and by far Alicia’s character and personality are just amazing. 😍 Oh my, I’d really love to have a second season of this series! By the way, I’m also curious to learn more about the world Alicia is in, like Laval, for example. Ahhh, this is just so amazing! ✨

Dec 10, 6:53 PM
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This show is really carving it's place in being something quite special and very decent.

the large scale world building is it's glaring weakness but I don't mind them bringing it up here and there as padding, much better than some trope/fanservice scene.

couldn't Gill at least felt the effects of the hypnosis? no need to retain full memory but at least feel creeped/grossed out and hazly remember??

The student body generally never stepping in/ showing empathy makes total sense to me.. except some key cast members from the game and show, it just makes sense they are complete NPCs, at least until said key members really interact with them (for plotting something or whatnot)

I don't understand how Duke is seemingly soooo never effected by hypnosis, is it really just love for Alicia that's at work? is it that even in game he's notoriously supppper specific and need to be won over? Did he destroy the blue rose or whatever that connects him to the saint by fate?

I think I read the manga a bit years ago but this show is really something else in story progression.

One of the best written non super high profile studio type fantasy in recent memory
Dec 10, 7:17 PM

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kitoha said:
I love this series <3 and by far Alicia’s character and personality are just amazing. 😍 Oh my, I’d really love to have a second season of this series! By the way, I’m also curious to learn more about the world Alicia is in, like Laval, for example. Ahhh, this is just so amazing! ✨


I completely agree. I really hope this story gets the Overlord treatment, with detailed world-building and deeper development.

I’d also love to see more of Mel and her daily life. One can dream.
Dec 10, 7:20 PM

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First, she lost an eye, and now her hair. Alicia really seems to enjoy pushing her physical appearance to its limits.

This was a pretty cool episode. Duke and Mel are getting very close to uncovering Liz's secret power that sways public opinion in her favor.

I think this is definitely one of my top five favorite shows of the year. I just can’t get enough of it!
Dec 10, 8:43 PM
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I would love to notice Liz 😍 powers almost got him I know she got me!! (Play on the anime.... Alicia loved the villainess of the game and I love the saint of this anime.)
Dec 10, 8:57 PM

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Liz is the one looking more and more like a desperate villain wanting to hog the spotlight all to herself. I wonder when everyone will realize that it was Liz who's brainwashing everyone at school? Duke suspected something was off with Liz, but never did it even occur to him that some form of brainwashing might be at work. Oh well, can't wait to find out what Mel found out; she seemed real happy & excited at the discovery.
Dec 10, 8:59 PM
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I remain unconvinced that Liz's power use is intentional, rather than simply triggered by strong emotion/desire/jealousy/etc. It could be intentional, but I personally don't feel it's been shown conclusively either way.

It was interesting that Duke can reverse the effect, and I get the impression that he ALSO doesn't realize he's doing it. We can see this by the fact that, even after he reversed the effect on Gill, Duke still wasn't even sure that Liz was actually doing something or not during his conversation with his spy. He certainly suspects, but hasn't figured it out.

Initially I thought that resistance to Liz's power was simply due to certain characters like Duke and Alicia being extremely powerful, but the ability to interfere with Liz's power could change this...or perhaps not? Maybe the reason Gill hasn't been affected by Liz all this time is because being near Alicia stops it?

Except we also know certain people who hang around Liz are not fully indoctrinated either, despite NOT being super high level or around a high level person, I think (example the white haired girl and Alecia's brother).

And then near the end we apparently see that something is causing Liz's influence to be counteracted at a broad scale over the entire school. Could Alecia's evil aura actually be real? That really would make her Liz's nemesis.

So I'm just confused. Luckily, it seems like Mel found the answer, so we'll find out next episode, perhaps.
Dec 11, 12:39 AM
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Can't tell if Liz knows she has the powers she does, or she doesn't. If she does then she's the worse, and if she doesn't then thats actually kind of sad. Also Short hair Alicia is best pulls that style off easily.
Dec 11, 7:00 AM

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Looks like Alicia has groupies of her own now.

It's unfortunate if Alicia can only go to Laval in a hypothetical season 2. I don't think we can wrap this arc within 2 more episodes.
Dec 11, 6:44 PM
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Damn Liz almost went cougar mode on our Gill there lol, thank god for Duke being there at the right time, and I’ve seen some varying opinions on it but I don’t think it’s clear that Liz is intentionally brainwashing people or not even after that, if it is intentional she’s doing a pretty good job of hiding it but there’s still not enough to conclusively say so, I almost wish she would slip up so I can confidently hate her but here I am still in limbo lol. One thing that was clear tho was that Liz’ frustration caused Jane to go mad, sad to see her driven to that point but thankfully Alicia once again masterfully finessed her and turned the bad situation into a good one, and it was funny how Jane unintentionally gave Carol the character development cut which ended up backfiring when Alicia cut her own hair lol, the long hair was nice but I love seeing the return of short hair Alicia again like when she was a kid.

And because Jane really is a victim in all this too, I was happy to see Alicia help her out, yeah realistically she probably doesn’t deserve it but this is a magical fantasy show so we know this wasn’t all her doing, hopefully Jane will turn a new leaf after this one. And it also looks like Alicia is turning a lot more people to her side too, I’m glad that Liz is losing her supporters and looking more and more like a villain, but it makes me wonder if she’ll cause something even worse to happen because of it.
Dec 11, 7:51 PM

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only 2 more episodes ;-;

Let's gooo Gill, little smarty pants!

Liz's jealousy of Alicia and Duke is starting to seriously take over. She's becoming bitter lol a saint shouldn't hold grudges or resentment towards people. She has resorted to taking over Gill's mind too /: AND she transferred her negative energy to Jane who took it out on poor Carol. Its hilarious that everyone falls over Liz but talk shit about Gill even tho he's a commoner too. Why has Liz stopped standing up for her minions and preventing arguments and bullying amongst each other?

Idc what anyone says, Duke truly loves Alicia. Alicia cut her hair a little too short :( but she started a whole movement lmao

Damn...the cliffhanger, what did Mel find?!
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Dec 12, 6:05 AM
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JFC, someone needs to stop Liz before her jealousy kills someone. She’s fucking nuts. It’s a good thing Alicia is there to counter her bullshit, if not it would've escalated badly. I can't believe Jane has the balls to blame her for her bullshit acts. I guess Liz’s influence makes people meaner, and stupider at the same time. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣
Dec 12, 2:06 PM

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Short hair Alicia is adorable.

Funny how she's the "villain" but ends up being a pretty good person even to the people who hate her
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Dec 13, 10:40 AM
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A lot of talk about dotten sickness and Laval.
Liz has a dark aura that's been spreading for a few episode now and it's seems to be about to explode.
Alicia was a great villainess with the Jane & Carol moment.
Looks like Mel finally found what Duke wanted.

@DolFunDolphinVT I wonder if Alicia is on Laval's influence or it's all her own deeds.
Dec 14, 6:41 AM

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Long hair Alicia no! She still looks really cute, agree with Duke. More Liz and her follower bs. Good thing Duke was there to take back Gil. I think Duke is immune to her for being a royal. Though I'd like to know whatever the sus is going on with her. Mel have found something it seems. Also wow Alicia actually got back many people through her charisma after what she did infront of em.
Dec 14, 2:02 PM

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thank god duke came in and stopped whatever happened with gill and liz. but why didnt he explain the whole thing to alicia instead of just popping out of existence?
that short hair makes her really cute looking.

to be honest im quite confused about whats going on anymore
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Dec 14, 8:48 PM
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I guess it's abt time since this is close to the end... but going all-out Mary Sue is still gross

short hair + eyepatch is a poor combo
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Dec 15, 4:09 AM

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I'm really loving this anime so far! I didn't expected anything from it, just gave it a try (must admit with the intention of dropping it) but after the episode 3 it really catched my interest and now I'm constantly waiting for the next episode!

Big fan of Alicia cutting her own hair + keeping Duke around her little finger ⸜(。˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡
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Dec 15, 12:27 PM

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another episode of us hating on liz and her brainwashed puppets of dumbasses. bitch would've gotten gil if duke hadn't come along. alicia have more and more followers now after the fiasco in the cafeteria and she did it w/o any brainwashing powers unlike a certain saint. mel continues being mel here lol jane gone even more boinkers thanks to liz's powers. she better be appreciative of alicia for what she did to help her in the end there.
Dec 23, 10:10 AM

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Gill is improving thoroughly, and Duke is also making Alicia's heart flutter all the more.

The Dotten Sickness issue is quite the significance towards Roana Village, because it's a wonder drug that works when no doctors and the like are housed there, with people dying from the plague. And Liz taking advantage of the situation to convince Gill for a study session, he may rebut her advances, but with her aura to mind control Gill unconsciously, Duke thankfully saved him out of her control. Not even Mel's investigation could uncover anything, as the search for the Laval drug is pretty much underway.

The wretched Jane back at it again to put the blame on Alicia by cutting Carol's hair out of spite, jeez, does this girl don't know the limits of her debauchery. Instead, Alicia cutting her hair to match that of Carol's, it's making Duke all the more infuriating because he didn't see it first and foremost. With more followers on Alicia's end, and more chances to play the villain to her likings, Alicia doesn't hold back, be it for or against her enemies, like Jane being at her wits' end hurting Liz's reputation.

The villainess becoming the heroine is justified at this point, there's no debating.
KANLen09Dec 23, 10:14 AM

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