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| Senraku has a lot of guts in this show, facing off yet another boss character. He's also a daredevil too for trying to use his new skills. I do find his character kinda crafty for using himself to full potential. Also, Arthur seems to have some plans of her own. On the other hand, I hope Rei's personality improves in the real world. I find her scenes rather cringe whenever she's interacting with Senraku/Rakuro irl. |
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| The spider spared the female players because it was a polite creature ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). Sanraku challenges the area boss Crown Spider in the Prismatic Forest Grotto. Declaring a no damage, no death conquest, he utilizes the new skills acquired in the arena to engage in battle. Meanwhile, Pencilgon summons Sanraku and the pro gamer OiKatzo to a different game world. With the two, who have just begun their journey in the game, she presents a surprising proposition. You know, when Psyger-0 turned out to be a girl in that massive and mysterious armor, it got me thinking. The fact that we only ever saw armor and no face for OiKatzo, unlike Sunraku in the other game, kind of hinted that OiKatzo might also be a girl. The whole idea of permanent death for NPCs feels a bit goofy, doesn't it? I mean, unless they're just generic or expendable characters. But what if those essential NPCs kick the bucket? Do their storylines just go down the drain? That seems a bit unfair, don't you think? Will Emul meet her demise? How will our trio face off against Wezaemon the Tombguard? This arc is shaping up to be crazy. |
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| Here's the official video for the full version of the opening btw, it's good so watch it!: https://youtu.be/O-TXKdMFkfc?si=uy5kEWkXUAHyHSvc Oikatzo is here finally! Rei is making more progress! Her finally telling Sunraku that she is Psyger-0 will be the best moment of the season lmao. So NPCs don't respawn in this... I wonder what Emul's dad will do lol. Looking forward to the fight! |
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| While this episode didn't have crazy animation (still pretty good), this might be my favourite area boss fight. It really felt like some real speedrunning tactic you could see some games. Also Pencilgon blowing whole castle sounds pretty rad. |
| The area boss of the Prismatic Grotto Forest: the Clown Spider, both Sunraku and Emul had their chance to see adventurers who've gone before them suffer in faulure, and Sunraku wants to 1CC without death, which is a rather ambitious feat to pull off given his skills accumulated and bring it down to ground level for a better chance at defeating it. Though the boulders from the roof that which its hiding, also provides an attack of sizable range that Sunraku takes advantage of and doesn't let up in its eventual defeat. Indeed, Sunraku 1CC-ed with no issue and damage at all, while Rei Uomi a.k.a Oikatzo finally makes his/her long-awaited debut. Back IRL, Rei shares her accomplishment to Mana that she managed to befriend Rakuro in-game, though she was about to miss him when he was reading up on SLF's Summer update from an email sent by Pencilgon herself. Indeed, Katzo Tataki was also parading together with Arthur and Sunraku in Unite Rounds, though she wants to target the next boss: the unique monster Wethermon the Tombguard, one of the 7 Colossi of SLF with the 3 of them: a PK-er, a trash and pro gamer. But when Rei shows herself in front of Rakuro, she can't bring herself to admitting that she's also playing SLF with him, though Pencilgon's messages keep him busy. Not to worry, she has many chances as Psyger-0, as Rakuro goes back into SLF and reports the agenda to Emul, though she freaks out and went back to tell Vysache as he wants to keep her out as once NPCs die, they will never respawn again. It'd be frightening to have Emul in the fight with Wethermon...best to keep her out of it. |
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| I like how Sunraku defeat the Clown Spider here, use their own weapon to damaging you. Thought at first he might do something with those previous player corpses. But nope lol he just casually ignore it like nothing happened in the first place even though i am kinda curious how the area boss still had it in the first place.... So, Pencilgon invited them already to join party and defeat those tombguard. She sure hiding something, but i hopes she'd be honest to the whole gang so their party can't get any bad taste afterwards their first assignment together over. Emul worrying is my worry as well, she even don't hesitate to flee that fast to her dad after hearing Sunraku intention. So its better for both to disband the relationship for a while. I just wish Rei just said her in-game name tho, so their progress can a be a lot more faster. But, i guess, this is already good enough for them, at least for now! |
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| The spider boss fight didn't last long as Sunraku used those rocks to do most of the work. But Wezaemon fight is almost here. Really hyped for it. Also Rei actually did well trying to talk to Sunraku this time. Would have been fun to see his reaction if she told him her ign but well that'll have to wait. Wonder when it'll happen. |
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| Seems like He didn't remember Her after all XD |
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| Vash knows who Wazaemon is? I feel like he will play a big role in the future seasons. Ah yes the death cries of dying people, who doesn't love to hear that in every game they play. |
Reply to IzanaSolos
The spider spared the female players because it was a polite creature ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
Sanraku challenges the area boss Crown Spider in the Prismatic Forest Grotto. Declaring a no damage, no death conquest, he utilizes the new skills acquired in the arena to engage in battle. Meanwhile, Pencilgon summons Sanraku and the pro gamer OiKatzo to a different game world. With the two, who have just begun their journey in the game, she presents a surprising proposition.
You know, when Psyger-0 turned out to be a girl in that massive and mysterious armor, it got me thinking. The fact that we only ever saw armor and no face for OiKatzo, unlike Sunraku in the other game, kind of hinted that OiKatzo might also be a girl. The whole idea of permanent death for NPCs feels a bit goofy, doesn't it? I mean, unless they're just generic or expendable characters. But what if those essential NPCs kick the bucket? Do their storylines just go down the drain? That seems a bit unfair, don't you think?
Will Emul meet her demise? How will our trio face off against Wezaemon the Tombguard? This arc is shaping up to be crazy.
Sanraku challenges the area boss Crown Spider in the Prismatic Forest Grotto. Declaring a no damage, no death conquest, he utilizes the new skills acquired in the arena to engage in battle. Meanwhile, Pencilgon summons Sanraku and the pro gamer OiKatzo to a different game world. With the two, who have just begun their journey in the game, she presents a surprising proposition.
You know, when Psyger-0 turned out to be a girl in that massive and mysterious armor, it got me thinking. The fact that we only ever saw armor and no face for OiKatzo, unlike Sunraku in the other game, kind of hinted that OiKatzo might also be a girl. The whole idea of permanent death for NPCs feels a bit goofy, doesn't it? I mean, unless they're just generic or expendable characters. But what if those essential NPCs kick the bucket? Do their storylines just go down the drain? That seems a bit unfair, don't you think?
Will Emul meet her demise? How will our trio face off against Wezaemon the Tombguard? This arc is shaping up to be crazy.
| @IzanaSolos The spider spared the female players because it was a polite creature ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). It's that season of the year again and spider-san is alone, gotta make do with that. |
| the 3 main characters are finally complete and they gonna take down a unique monster eh but emul might be in trouble |
| thought i got the wrong anime in the beginning when those random ass characters. saiga is cute but also cringe lol, sunraku irl is also a goof and awkward. animation seemed a bit off this episode but nothing huge really happened so fair enough. |
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| “Let me solo her” the anime. Spider fight was awesome, Sunraku managed to take it down first try with no problems. Cheesing the fight by having the spider fall and pounding it with environmental items reminded me of the fire giant fight from Elden ring lol Back in the real world, Saiga is adorable as usual. I love how literally a 1 minute conversation with Sunraku is enough to make her entire month lmao. Need someone to love me like that fr. Too bad Pencilgon double texted him so they couldn’t set up a time to link up in the game. Would love to see them take on a boss together. Speaking of Pencilgon, we’re setting up the unique monster fight and I can’t wait to see it. Added some stakes with the information about NPCs not being able to respawn. Given how close Emlu and Sunraku have become that’s basically the same as losing an actual friend. Nice way to keep things interesting |
Marinate1016Dec 3, 2023 8:27 AM
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If so far it was excellent 10 out of 10, now it's going to be perfection 1000 out of 10! Please Sanraku-san, protect Emul-chan with all your will <3 we entrust her to you. |
| Aaawww Rei-chan was soo brave! I'm proud of her. |
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Reply to IzanaSolos
The spider spared the female players because it was a polite creature ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
Sanraku challenges the area boss Crown Spider in the Prismatic Forest Grotto. Declaring a no damage, no death conquest, he utilizes the new skills acquired in the arena to engage in battle. Meanwhile, Pencilgon summons Sanraku and the pro gamer OiKatzo to a different game world. With the two, who have just begun their journey in the game, she presents a surprising proposition.
You know, when Psyger-0 turned out to be a girl in that massive and mysterious armor, it got me thinking. The fact that we only ever saw armor and no face for OiKatzo, unlike Sunraku in the other game, kind of hinted that OiKatzo might also be a girl. The whole idea of permanent death for NPCs feels a bit goofy, doesn't it? I mean, unless they're just generic or expendable characters. But what if those essential NPCs kick the bucket? Do their storylines just go down the drain? That seems a bit unfair, don't you think?
Will Emul meet her demise? How will our trio face off against Wezaemon the Tombguard? This arc is shaping up to be crazy.
Sanraku challenges the area boss Crown Spider in the Prismatic Forest Grotto. Declaring a no damage, no death conquest, he utilizes the new skills acquired in the arena to engage in battle. Meanwhile, Pencilgon summons Sanraku and the pro gamer OiKatzo to a different game world. With the two, who have just begun their journey in the game, she presents a surprising proposition.
You know, when Psyger-0 turned out to be a girl in that massive and mysterious armor, it got me thinking. The fact that we only ever saw armor and no face for OiKatzo, unlike Sunraku in the other game, kind of hinted that OiKatzo might also be a girl. The whole idea of permanent death for NPCs feels a bit goofy, doesn't it? I mean, unless they're just generic or expendable characters. But what if those essential NPCs kick the bucket? Do their storylines just go down the drain? That seems a bit unfair, don't you think?
Will Emul meet her demise? How will our trio face off against Wezaemon the Tombguard? This arc is shaping up to be crazy.
| @IzanaSolos Pretty sure Katzo is actually just a guy, when Hizutome was looking at the interview you could see his chest and the subs were saying he. He's just using a female avatar in SLF. MAL's character page for him says this too. |
| That "pRo gAmEr" dude could've done better than playing with such an avatar. I'm pretty sure it'd just make time for some unneeded misunderstandings later down the line with that girl who's head over heels for dude... for reasons still unknown. Can't wait to see the logic they'd throw to explain how just three individuals took down an unique monster, which no one has yet in this game. Of course given they'd actually defeat it. |
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| Another great episode. Please do NOT risk Emmy! |
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| I quite enjoy this series. I think it's quite colorful and fresh for some reason. But I gotta ask, am I the only one who has to like turn down the volume whenever Emul speaks? Her voice is so extremely high pitched that it hurts my ears. The other voices are normal and the regular audio is normal but that high pitch is a pain. |
| "You only realize the real value of something you discarded when you get the chance to pick it up again." - Rudeus Greyrat |
Azuchi said: I quite enjoy this series. I think it's quite colorful and fresh for some reason. But I gotta ask, am I the only one who has to like turn down the volume whenever Emul speaks? Her voice is so extremely high pitched that it hurts my ears. The other voices are normal and the regular audio is normal but that high pitch is a pain. Guess that's just you. Her voice sounds perfectly fine to me. |
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| surely wethermon isnt the bunny boss |
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| Good episode that felt mostly like a setup after Sunraku fairly easily handled the clown spider boss. When Pencilgon mentioned that NPCs die in SLF permanently I thought that was an odd concept but then I thought about Emul so I imagine she won't be around the unique boss encounter. Speaking of Pencilgon, the interview with her at the end was funny and she is kind of crazy (I mean she blew up her own castle in that trash game? lol), "The Perfect Beauty," right. |
| That clown spider got clowned on by Sunraku. Dude used the spiders own hanging weapons against him. On top of that Sunraku's got good intuition, knowing which webs are safe and cutting the spiders web before it could catch its fall. Good for the girl I guess she finally had a full conversations with Sunraku. Also Sunraku unironically wearing gamer shirts is the funniest thing to me. Like how else are we supposed to know that he's a gamer. |
| At this rate, Sunraku is going to have a decent number of harem members... in game... lmao She's so adorable...  |
CrazyButNot4UDec 3, 2023 8:37 PM
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| So, now we know the hard life of being a NPC... Who thought I'll have feeling for an AI. |
| Sunraku treating Emul like an actual player in asking Pencilgon if she can join in on the fight; like bruh sure it's an intelligent npc with its own personality run by AI, but it's still an npc... Well it's a good thing he asked, or else we might not have gotten some pretty important information revealing that npc's do not respawn. |
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| yes yes waiting for trio member team assembly !! |
| Emul looks too sentient to be a mere NPC to be honest that she feels like controlled by real human irl, unless she is a very very advanced AI Anyway the truth about NPC death raises a red flag, hopefully it isn't about her since she is my most favorite character in the anime  |
 (っ◔◡◔)っ 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓭𝓪𝔂 ♥ |
Reply to IzanaSolos
The spider spared the female players because it was a polite creature ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
Sanraku challenges the area boss Crown Spider in the Prismatic Forest Grotto. Declaring a no damage, no death conquest, he utilizes the new skills acquired in the arena to engage in battle. Meanwhile, Pencilgon summons Sanraku and the pro gamer OiKatzo to a different game world. With the two, who have just begun their journey in the game, she presents a surprising proposition.
You know, when Psyger-0 turned out to be a girl in that massive and mysterious armor, it got me thinking. The fact that we only ever saw armor and no face for OiKatzo, unlike Sunraku in the other game, kind of hinted that OiKatzo might also be a girl. The whole idea of permanent death for NPCs feels a bit goofy, doesn't it? I mean, unless they're just generic or expendable characters. But what if those essential NPCs kick the bucket? Do their storylines just go down the drain? That seems a bit unfair, don't you think?
Will Emul meet her demise? How will our trio face off against Wezaemon the Tombguard? This arc is shaping up to be crazy.
Sanraku challenges the area boss Crown Spider in the Prismatic Forest Grotto. Declaring a no damage, no death conquest, he utilizes the new skills acquired in the arena to engage in battle. Meanwhile, Pencilgon summons Sanraku and the pro gamer OiKatzo to a different game world. With the two, who have just begun their journey in the game, she presents a surprising proposition.
You know, when Psyger-0 turned out to be a girl in that massive and mysterious armor, it got me thinking. The fact that we only ever saw armor and no face for OiKatzo, unlike Sunraku in the other game, kind of hinted that OiKatzo might also be a girl. The whole idea of permanent death for NPCs feels a bit goofy, doesn't it? I mean, unless they're just generic or expendable characters. But what if those essential NPCs kick the bucket? Do their storylines just go down the drain? That seems a bit unfair, don't you think?
Will Emul meet her demise? How will our trio face off against Wezaemon the Tombguard? This arc is shaping up to be crazy.
IzanaSolos said: I get why the author is doing it from a writing perspective but from a game design perspective it's not just unfair, I would argue that it's flat out bad game design as it actively discourages players from takeing the NPCs into combat.The whole idea of permanent death for NPCs feels a bit goofy, doesn't it? I mean, unless they're just generic or expendable characters. But what if those essential NPCs kick the bucket? Do their storylines just go down the drain? That seems a bit unfair, don't you think? I don't even mind the concept of "NPCs dying for good" in general but once an NPC joins a player party then things like "auto revive after a wipe against a raid boss" or "a player character using a ress skill / item on them" should apply and if an NPC decides to bind itself to a player (e.g. a ranger class taming an animal companion or an engineer class acquiring a robot companion) then that player should be able to revive the NPC in question over and over again without much hassle. |
| They sure are taking their time with Rei's storyline, huh? And what's with NPCs dying permanently? That's odd. |
| lately i've had fun watching Wallensteins doing 1hp runs on genshin and other games, so hearing Sanraku saying he wanted to do a no damage run was interesting oh, he remembered her name, and they talked a little, very nice i wonder if she will end up telling him about her ingame name, i'm sure he would be surprised if he learned about her being a top ranked player lmao Emul being cute and funny as always, i always end up taking multiple screenshots of her now let's pray nothing happens to her in the future, since Pencildragon said that npcs can die interested to see how that trio fight vs the big boss will go i wonder if Pencildragon will hit Sanraku at her first chance, would be funny too Pencildragon at the end "player killing brings death tears" LOOOOL edit: oh yeah, i liked the spider fight, when Sanraku cut those rocks and stuff, always fun to see people using enemy words/weapons agains't them |
winddevil1Dec 4, 2023 3:42 PM
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| I drink a lot energy drinks so thumbs up from me. Sunraku gaming right. |
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| Honestly Rei is just a funny character as Psyger 0, she's so fucking annoying irl though. Anyways AHHHH next episode and so forth is prolly where this series gets pretty good. |
| The edgelord dialogue was a bit annoying but I liked that we got some human interaction, nice progress |
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