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Nov 17, 7:03 AM
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Damn, this battle quickly went South for the hunters. One thing to also note is never to underestimate the power of magic in this show.

Krai had a key role here too as he began making his moves. Sitri's intelligence should also be noticed this episode. Feels like this anime is giving the main cast different ways to shine.
Nov 17, 8:08 AM
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Sitri Smart and Tailia Wydman.
Nov 17, 9:17 AM
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It takes me a while to say this with confidence but I think this anime has the best OP and ED of this season. Obviously they're not the best song, they might be even below average, but just like the protagonist of this anime, it comes with many tricks, it's not just the uninterrupted 1:30 minutes sequence like other anime.
Nov 17, 9:51 AM
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Huh... I can't believe they made Sitri show her sadistic and somehow lewd behaviour in this episode... 🫣🫣🫣
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.
Nov 17, 10:03 AM
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Tino Q_Q
So Red haired girl is in fact Sophia Black, or rather multi-personality disorder hence why herself and Sitri don't appear to know.
Sophia Black is a force to be reckoned with, but luckily for everyone, the disciples are self-destructive.
Yeah... Lvl 2 Hunter my ass. Also faith that our Lvl 8 God will be Lvl 10 soon enough...

I'm actually shocked, I think Krai is carrying a lot of the show for me because I didn't really like this episode even though was fine, even though find the Krai thing SUPER annoying.

Nov 17, 10:07 AM
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It takes me a while to say this with confidence but I think this anime has the best OP and ED of this season. Obviously they're not the best song, they might be even below average, but just like the protagonist of this anime, it comes with many tricks, it's not just the uninterrupted 1:30 minutes sequence like other anime.
@phantomfandom Yeah, I think they did good job with opening/ending too. As someone who rushed to 100 and retired IRL the ending's lyrics fit for me [Krai's peers and maybe Krai]. The opening lyrics more so fit the show (Krai).
The way it transitions: before, after, middle of; opening is nicely done.

Nov 17, 10:45 AM
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@phantomfandom Yeah, I think they did good job with opening/ending too. As someone who rushed to 100 and retired IRL the ending's lyrics fit for me [Krai's peers and maybe Krai]. The opening lyrics more so fit the show (Krai).
The way it transitions: before, after, middle of; opening is nicely done.
@LilyVarbik The OP is fine. I guess the ED is ok, but personally it grates on me a little. Just not my style so don't read anything into that. LOL
Nov 17, 11:06 AM
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LilyVarbik said:
So Red haired girl is in fact Sophia Black

I think not, Sitri is. Both Sitri and Sophia black used the " ...Lack what we call imagination" line. I do not think it is a dual personality thing. I think Sitri infiltrated the Akashic tower for investigation purposes and is manipulating them both for tactical purposes and as part of some sort of plan to influence the The Hunters Guild and Krai. I think the sort red headed assistant is a red herring.

"I do have a resistance to colored water"
So do I.

Sheol01 said:
I guess the ED is ok, but personally it grates on me a little

I like Tino's pastel colored dancing butt.
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Nov 17, 12:27 PM
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Yeah I'm not sure who Sophia really is but she is definitely within the group that Sven and the other hunters are in so she can easily get updates as to what the group is doing. On that note I wouldn't be surprised if Krai somehow stumbles onto that mystery and inadvertently figures it out and is then deemed even more amazing and wise beyond his years haha.
Nov 17, 1:04 PM
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If the whole show ends up being "The adventures of my hardworking, OP friends," I don't think I'd mind that.
Nov 17, 3:01 PM

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Lmao Sitri makes war crimes look so kawaii. You can’t just test your experiments on prisoners 😂. I’m thinking that she’s actually Sophia black and that would explain them having similar personality traits and using the same imagination line. I don’t think the red haired girl is her.

She could have multi personality disorder, but it feels like a literal red herring. Sitri is pretty cold and calculating so I can def see her infiltrating the Akashic tower and sowing discord

I’m again asking for no Liz in this show lol she’s so annoying and cruel to Tino and it ruins every scene.
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Lmao Sitri makes war crimes look so kawaii. You can’t just test your experiments on prisoners 😂. I’m thinking that she’s actually Sophia black and that would explain them having similar personality traits and using the same imagination line. I don’t think the red haired girl is her.

She could have multi personality disorder, but it feels like a literal red herring. Sitri is pretty cold and calculating so I can def see her infiltrating the Akashic tower and sowing discord

I’m again asking for no Liz in this show lol she’s so annoying and cruel to Tino and it ruins every scene.
@Marinate1016 I love the abuse that tino suffers from Liz, I hope it continues like this. Tino is just a child compared to the other APs, she should understand her place in the hierarchy
Nov 17, 4:45 PM

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The Akashic Tower grunts are their own worst enemies, everything they did backfired big time.
Talia does look a lot like Sophia, could be alchemy, could be a family member, or could be just someone who looks like her without being related.
Sitri is quite a badass on the battlefield.

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Nov 17, 5:37 PM
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so Talia confirmed has similar physique to Sophia in story, since those underlings eyeing her like they know her.

either Talia and Sophia are same person or just relative. or maybe Sophia is Sitri's slime that mc lost? but thats probably not the case since Sitri called her rival and the slime only lost recently.
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Nov 17, 7:11 PM

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what a shame so much potential and we end up with slime content.... 1/10

This is the epitome of global chat mmo content anime... LOL
Nov 17, 7:48 PM

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"What you lack is what we call imagination"

Alr then
Nov 17, 9:50 PM

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Wait is Sophia actually Sitri in disguise? This episode is hinting at that too. Also I didn't think this raid thing would last so long. Good to see Krai is coming with Liz.

"If any hearts stopped beating, give them a kick" ~ Sitri Smart.
Nov 17, 10:00 PM

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Here I thought Talia is Sophia Black but it seems that she is not and Sophia Black is someone else. And from the looks from it, Sophia is just Sitri in dishuised. That line when she said that Flick lacks imagination was somehow a giveaway. Maybe that explains why the two captured prisoners keeps on staring on to Talia and she have no idea why. But I don't read the LN so I don't lnow.

Are we going to see the rest of the Grievers on this season and join the fight or it's just Krai, Sitri and Liz plus Tino?
Nov 17, 11:30 PM

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It's gonna be wild if Sitri is actually Sophia not Talia. Sitri is saving this show which Liz has ruined. Everyday poor Tino getting bullied for no reason.
Nov 18, 1:35 AM
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MegamiRem said:
Wait is Sophia actually Sitri in disguise? This episode is hinting at that too. Also I didn't think this raid thing would last so long. Good to see Krai is coming with Liz.

"If any hearts stopped beating, give them a kick" ~ Sitri Smart.

I'm pretty sure Sophia and Talia are the same person. If you look at the character list they look basically the same.
Nov 18, 1:49 AM

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MegamiRem said:
Wait is Sophia actually Sitri in disguise? This episode is hinting at that too. Also I didn't think this raid thing would last so long. Good to see Krai is coming with Liz.

"If any hearts stopped beating, give them a kick" ~ Sitri Smart.

I'm pretty sure Sophia and Talia are the same person. If you look at the character list they look basically the same.
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I'm pretty sure Sophia and Talia are the same person. If you look at the character list they look basically the same.
You can already see that during the episode. The two have the same seiyuu as well. Which I think is to intentionally mislead people. Specially after this episode which hints that Sitri's the one who is actually Sophia. She literally repeated the same line as Sophia to that exact same guy. "You lack imagination". Also the part with her not being able find Sophia even though she's always chasing her and doesn't know a thing about her and such doesn't make sense given how big and influencial her clan is she should have been able to dig some info about Sophia. So think she wasn't being literal there.
Nov 18, 5:35 AM
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that's it.
I'm done. Droped.
in a fantasy world they put lawyers and dialogs about humam rights, a bullshit noone likes.
that is the problem of the real world and they are doing in a fantasy world too?
criminals are having a easy time because government are more conserned about the well treatment of bad people in detriment of good people.
even in a calamity cenario!!!
Nov 18, 3:33 PM

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the pacing just feels to slow for what we're getting, I'm usually one who likes when anime take their time but we didn't really learn anything new or see anything that great, wish they would have condensed this episode and given us a bit more.
Nov 19, 2:33 PM

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Episodes in and still confused as to what is going on.

Sitri's slime is still on the loose.

No one knows why the dudgeon changed.

There is a secret enemy group that never established why they exist, why they are fighting, what their goals are.

Are Sophia Black & Talia Wydman the same person or related?

And where are the other party members, we have only seen two.
Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating.

Nov 20, 7:26 AM

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That's a drop from me. I was interested in the protagonist and the wholesome vibe of his party; but the anime would rather focus on the most boring plots and characters.

I'll probably have forgotten it all in a week anyway, but I'll miss the OP.
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Nov 20, 1:09 PM

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"Even if his combat ability was less than a sand rabbit,"

She knows. She definitely knows.

I'm getting the feeling that Krai will walk up to the group with this Owl Eye thing and see Sophia and be like, "hey what are you doin" and everyone will be like "HE FIGURED IT OUT WHAT A GOD"

It's obviously Talia. Not sure why people are confused when she literally said "why did they send them all at once." Also Stri saying the same line as her makes sense if Sophia/Talia was Stri's apprentice, as well as a reason why it would've been hard for her to catch her. That's my logic, anyway.

Joe_Zorah said:
in a fantasy world they put lawyers and dialogs about humam rights, a bullshit noone likes.
that is the problem of the real world and they are doing in a fantasy world too?
criminals are having a easy time because government are more conserned about the well treatment of bad people in detriment of good people.
even in a calamity cenario

I think a lot of people think that you shouldn't be tortured just because you did something bad. I agree with them. Your other point is also not true at all; people love stories about politics, human rights, etc, just look at Shield Hero or Tensura. Why do you think so many fantasy world stories are about aristocrat politics and/or slavery? It just depends on how it's written. If you don't like it that's fine, but don't generalize. One of the things that makes fantasy so compelling is the ability to draw parallels between it and real life. Worldbuilding matters. Granted, I did think the way those guys randomly started talking about the potion being illegal was a bit random lol

It would've been pretty funny to see Stri go yandere on them though, we can tell she's got a couple screws loose just like the rest of the party
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Nov 21, 1:32 AM

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Ahh hope we get to the next story soon, this arc is kinda boring me.
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Ahh hope we get to the next story soon, this arc is kinda boring me.
@Stardew The second arc is just a buildup to the start of the real adventure.
Nov 21, 9:09 PM
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For me since the first episode, it started so great with high expectation but it continue to drop in quality lately, lacks of details started to show and some stories were feel rush, got trim down or even got removed entirely because of time limitation and budget. Even that, I still enjoy it but not as much as early episodes.

For every animes need to be extended the runtime for each episode to 1 hour per episode to do the job and tell the story properly (just like TV series), not tiny-ass-less-than 30 minutes per episodes as I watched so many of it for decades. They need to improve in quality, use more budget for better quality work and take more care in the product or people will hate you for it and never came back to watch it ever again.

Also, I hate Liz atitudes since from the start especially what she did against Tino. It is just pure stupid, non-sense, arrogant, pure selfish, weak behavior, make her charactor like PoS and unnecessary in the story at all even it had been toned down from manga version for a bit.

She need to be learned in the hard way so no more bullshit behavior from her against anyone, seriously. No offence to VA as she did a good job for it, just the story and the charactor in the series itself. It is one of the worst aspect in the show that dragged itself from being the top. I really hate it deeply as it also reflected what happened in my real-life in the past too.
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@Stardew The second arc is just a buildup to the start of the real adventure.
@delta123456789 That is good, I can't wait then.
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LilyVarbik said:
So Red haired girl is in fact Sophia Black

I think not, Sitri is. Both Sitri and Sophia black used the " ...Lack what we call imagination" line. I do not think it is a dual personality thing. I think Sitri infiltrated the Akashic tower for investigation purposes and is manipulating them both for tactical purposes and as part of some sort of plan to influence the The Hunters Guild and Krai. I think the sort red headed assistant is a red herring.

"I do have a resistance to colored water"
So do I.

Sheol01 said:
I guess the ED is ok, but personally it grates on me a little

I like Tino's pastel colored dancing butt.
@LordCrueltyV Well, yeah, we can always use a cute, pastel butt walking away in an ED.

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