Karasu wa Aruji wo Erabanai Episode 2 Discussion

Since I'm specialized in the relationship between men, I'd love to see more of the story about the Prince and his servant and less of the competition to be the Prince's consort.

Ep 2 was even more interesting than the first ep.

I don’t remember every characters but this boy got me.

@phantomfandom What a coincidence, so do I! We have so much in common! I quite like the consort plotline, so I hope to see more of it, just without the prince or his servant being implicated with anyone else.

@OnlyAraku Don't leave out Natsuka-sama, he may be a "monk", but really good-looking.
And there is also Sumio with brown eyes and weird hairdo.

They should've premiered with the first 2 episodes together. It's like they're two halves of a story; the rivalry amongst the 4 consort candidates plus the prince and his attendant navigating all of this together.

I wasn't expecting much, but the world looks pretty complex and interesting, the writing feels sharp, the characters look intelligent and intriguing, and the visuals look polished. Really interested now.

@perseii About your first point--I can imagine that they wanted to, based on how they later distributed the episodes to international viewers (two released simultaneously). But securing an hour-long episode in domestic broadcasts was likely too expensive for the studio/production committee, so they're two distinct episodes. The only example I've seen of such a thing (two episodes fused together) is Oshi no Ko, but that's very much an outlier in terms of monetary resources and production quality.

I didn't know that broadcasting multiple episodes at once cost a lot of money, interesting. Good on them to ask Crunchyroll to release those episodes together (assuming it wasn't just Crunchyroll messing up their schedule).

In addition to Oshi no Ko, Frieren had a 2-hour premiere recently, if I remember correctly, with 4 episodes back-to-back.