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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Somewhat of a slower paced episode but it's interesting to see more of Stella's past. I expect the bigger fights to break out again soon. And in the meantime, hopefully Stella can keep her own emotions in check especially after one of teammates caused her to punch him. |
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| Really enjoyed the Stella arc. This anime has been very enjoyable thus far! |
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| Every time there is a Stella episode I find my self wanting to know what is happening with Yuki. I really can never predict where this Anime is going to go next. Every time I try, it just leads you down a different direction. I wonder how Yuki is going to get her self back into this story. |
| So more about Stella's background, it was already clear during the previous Stella episode but this is pretty much reeducation in a horrible way. Basically abducting them and placing them in a foster family. And even getting some of them to willingly fight their own country, their own family. Anyway the thing that has been bothering me when it comes to Yuuki's side is their lack of tactical ability or better said they seem to be making a lot of tactical blunders. If we look at Stella's unit flanking attack it looked like the rearguard was almost non existent, there was the elite soldier but besides that they had a pretty easy time outflanking the enemy. I find this strange because not only did they leave their rear almost unguarded it was also their supply line, you don't wish to be attacked from behind and you always want to keep your supply lines open. Usually when you see a encirclement of siege being formed the most fierce fighting often takes place on the supply lines for obvious reasons. Which makes it looks like someone is deliberately making those blunders i also suspect treason, which we saw before during the second episode. One thing that's also a possibility judging from the end of the episode is that Yuuki's side has changed tactics which wouldn't be weird after having suffered major loses. What i mean is the attack on the convoy my guess is that Yuuki's side is opting for guerrilla warfare which makes sense seeing they are outnumbered but know the terrain. |
| Again, continue to be impressed by the writing and the way the characters are handled. I feel like it's just getting better and better as it's becoming more focused. They have the drama, but don't lay it on too thick and it is decently powerful. Quite a bittersweet feeling seeing the invaders going through their plunder. They're shocked to see the results of the shelling, but profit from the to be discarded wine. But, they enjoy hometown delicacies. They do have great chemistry though, not going to lie. Finally, someone from Stella's milieu is dead. Her side did destroy a civilian transport earlier in the show so, what comes around... I'm still unsure if this anime is going for a feeling of moral ambiguity or not, because Stella and her people are written to be way, way more sympathetic than anybody else. Will have to wait and see. |
| This episode felt really short lol I prefer Stella's team story slightly more than Princess Yuki's team tbh I'm really enjoying this series so far. |
This has to be one of the saddest smiles I've seen I should have seen it coming, the death flag was there and all, but... Poor Pierce ;_; This anime keeps getting better and better. I wonder what's Yuki doing now. |
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Aversa said: So more about Stella's background, it was already clear during the previous Stella episode but this is pretty much reeducation in a horrible way. Basically abducting them and placing them in a foster family. And even getting some of them to willingly fight their own country, their own family. There's no indication Stella was abducted. Remember she was in the town that was destroyed, killing Yuki's parents and Joshua's dad. She is Layla's daughter, and when that roof collapsed, Layla thought both her husband and Stella were killed, and she stumbled out and was picked up by an ambulance evacuating Yuki. Stella was probably found by a Grandigan and evacuated (good chance it was Gale Owens who saved her). They probably had no idea she was from Soleil, and I'm pretty sure Stella doesn't remember either. In this episode she said she only has vague memories of her childhood. The foster family wasn't brainwashing her. It seemed they were caring for her like good parents until the baby was born, and probably the resource crisis that Grandiga was going through made it hard for them to raise two kids. Their attitudes became surly, but it still looked like they were doing their best to raise Stella. Stella ran away from them because she didn't want to be a burden, and she probably joined the military because she had nowhere else to go. |
| So Gail is opening up an orphanage, I guess it's his way of making up for the parents being killed in the war . welp too bad for Pierce, he just got killed along with the other WIA soldiers. I guess we now know hoe Stella came to be. |
| I'm kind of glad Pierce died. Like it's been all blue team winning up until this point in the anime. So for the group to come across the loss of a close teammate it was well overdue. Stella having a bad relationship with her foster parents gives me more hope that when Stella and Leila meet it will be a more warm reunion then bloodshed. At least that's what I hope. neonie said: Every time there is a Stella episode I find my self wanting to know what is happening with Yuki. I really can never predict where this Anime is going to go next. Every time I try, it just leads you down a different direction. I wonder how Yuki is going to get her self back into this story. Yeah I feel like the story has no set route. Like Blue team is dominating and are probably going to win the war, however how will Yuki be affected by this? It's intriguing but in a sense it's kind of infuriating that the story is somewhat all over the place. |
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| Finally! Someone from the blues died and it hit them hard. |
| Damn it, Pierce was already out of combat. War is such an awful thing. |
| An attack on evacuated soldiers? o_o While I "liked" this eps and can see its place in the grand scheme of things, I don't understand how it can be the 7th out of 12. We're in the 2nd half of the series, the story should be more clearly progressing toward a finale (I guess it will be a single eps finale). 5/5 Lots of potatoes ⇒ +1 @imSOunique As long as we see that both sides are "equivalent", the show does its job. It doesn't care that we don't care about fictional characters. imSOunique said: I could have skipped every episode didn't have a single thing to do with the plot anything important I hope I didn't seem to take the defence of this show when I actually think that there is a big problem in story management for the half-length format with, indeed, so much time lost and so many "useless" episodes (that I wouldn't have considered useless in a 26eps series, where things turnaround only at the 12-13th). |
Rei_IIIFeb 25, 2019 10:49 AM
| So a crippled guy who is going home to take good care of orphans, plus many other unarmed men and women get murdered? The kingdom is starting to play dirty. :( |
| Saw Pierre's death coming from a mile off. Why else would they focus on him for the entire episode? I still want to know more about Stella though. |
| yeah the episode dedicated to him was a sure death flag for pierce |
| Why this show has such a comparatively low score? It's pretty good so far, isn't it? |
Liddo-kun said: So a crippled guy who is going home to take good care of orphans, plus many other unarmed men and women get murdered? The kingdom is starting to play dirty. :( They were using a military transport, the enemy may have had no idea what was in it. Grandiga has had no problems killing civilians so far. I wouldn't even be surprised if the Emperor killed his own people to blame it on Soleil so that he could stop any ideas of peace talk |
| Unfortunately, the anime wasted another opportunity to make Stella's team more likeable respectively likeable at all. Instead we only see them running around collecting supplies for the farewell party of a character, which I hardly care about. It was long overdue, that they are facing the harshness of war. That they got away unscathed every single time until now became ridiculous. At least Pierce's death, as much as I hate to say it, wiped Stella's retarded smile from her face and she finally showed an actual reaction. |
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| episode served for the biggest development of stella's persona wonder how she will carry herself after that fucked up ending. |
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| I have to say this was a good episode. It really did a lot for Stella. We got to see not only her squad mates bonding, but we also got to learn more about her and even saw a shift in character. It makes sense that the death of Pierce (which was predictable) would cause some reaction and moreover Huey's, another squad mate, could get under her skin. I'm glad the captain finally voiced his opinion of Stella to her face and the Yuki indirectly caused Stella to change. This episode was a great payoff. |
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HereticHunter said: This has to be one of the saddest smiles I've seen I should have seen it coming, the death flag was there and all, but... Poor Pierce ;_; This anime keeps getting better and better. I wonder what's Yuki doing now. Kinda reminds me of Edward’s painful smile in the first ED theme of OG FMA. |
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| The cycle of pain, suffering, hatred & sorrow never ends! 4/5. |
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| Glad Pierce got it, hope all the invasive scum get mecha stomped. |
| I am liking Stella a lot, her past was sad! I am glad that Stella is understanding that the ideology of always smiling is wrong! |
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Aversa said: So more about Stella's background, it was already clear during the previous Stella episode but this is pretty much reeducation in a horrible way. Basically abducting them and placing them in a foster family. And even getting some of them to willingly fight their own country, their own family. Anyway the thing that has been bothering me when it comes to Yuuki's side is their lack of tactical ability or better said they seem to be making a lot of tactical blunders. If we look at Stella's unit flanking attack it looked like the rearguard was almost non existent, there was the elite soldier but besides that they had a pretty easy time outflanking the enemy. I find this strange because not only did they leave their rear almost unguarded it was also their supply line, you don't wish to be attacked from behind and you always want to keep your supply lines open. Usually when you see a encirclement of siege being formed the most fierce fighting often takes place on the supply lines for obvious reasons. Which makes it looks like someone is deliberately making those blunders i also suspect treason, which we saw before during the second episode. One thing that's also a possibility judging from the end of the episode is that Yuuki's side has changed tactics which wouldn't be weird after having suffered major loses. What i mean is the attack on the convoy my guess is that Yuuki's side is opting for guerrilla warfare which makes sense seeing they are outnumbered but know the terrain. That was really dumb tactic of them, having a higher ground and pretty sweet spot and still lose. When you have position like that you aways watch you rear and supply line and you keep it guarded at all cost you cant leave it wide open like that. They really lack in tactics area and they should do something about it or they never gonna win this thing. It makes me angry of seeing how easy they lost that advantage. Anyway this war seems pretty pointless to me, having in mind what kind of ruler Yuuki is I'm sure if they would just ask she would agree to have them co-op of the creation of the new chars(or whatever it called) and have a mutualy help each other. Without any of the sides losing resurses on man in fighting a pointless war. Hell she was even thinking that's its actually what happening until few ep back. In conclusion the anime had a good start but it really predictable and plot its not really a logical one I know people had started wars for less but they colonised a planet which means they have knowledge about history and that cooperation is always better. I guess I will keep watching it just to see how it will end. |
BastardNasFeb 20, 2019 2:34 AM
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| Ah, yes. Another episode with a downer ending. At this point, an episode with a happy ending would be the real shocker. |
Stark700 said: THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Somewhat of a slower paced episode but it's interesting to see more of Stella's past. I expect the bigger fights to break out again soon. And in the meantime, hopefully Stella can keep her own emotions in check especially after one of teammates caused her to punch him. I really really like this episode, I love how Stella teammates our not pulling any punches and see right through her, also she has really sad past which explains alot about her personality. |
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neonie said: Every time there is a Stella episode I find my self wanting to know what is happening with Yuki. I really can never predict where this Anime is going to go next. Every time I try, it just leads you down a different direction. I wonder how Yuki is going to get her self back into this story. Very true, I love the end predictable in this show!! |
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Liddo-kun said: So a crippled guy who is going home to take good care of orphans, plus many other unarmed men and women get murdered? The kingdom is starting to play dirty. :( I feel like this was not done in Yuki order though because her character to me, does not align to this conduct. I feel someone when rogue!! |
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| I feel bad for Stella. She does not deserve this. So, Pierce was killed at the end of the episode. RIP. |
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| Grandiga's Emperor sure looks like the kind of person who would kill his own soldiers in order to justify more war. That aside... Dude, you should just have used protection if you aren't able to keep a family with two kids... and the mother suddenly being cold and distant from one day to another was just hilarious. Honestly, I was expecting a better reason for Stella's trauma of always being smiling but well. I also wonder when they will finally explain how she ended up being taken by the Empire. In my opinion, this was the weakest episode so far. They tried to make me empathize with Stella's squad with some background information about them and some "happy" scenes of them making a meal with supplies from the palace they were invading but I'm sorry, it didn't work for me. |
| Stella had some harsh past, no wonder she is always trying to fake a smile. Kinda glad Pierce died since so far only Yuuki's side experienced some major losses, feels like a payback for killing those civilians in an earlier episode even though the kingdom may not have known who were in there. |
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| Poor Stella. Her forced smile looks so sad. R.I.P Pierce. |
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