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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- William is all grown up now after the timeskip. He's still kinda sensitive at his age but also accepts the cruel reality of the world. Another interesting character is Augustus, who seems like a father figure for William. Mary and Blood are also back who maintains their relevant roles in the show. I'm more interested to see how much William grows besides just his age. |
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| The gambling scene was very funny, especially when it was found out by Mary. LMAO... She was like the mother of those three. |
何それ？意味分かんない  |
| Another timeskip, he sure is big now. Well, I loved the gambling scene. And he's pretty much grown up now. I can't get over Mary's design tho, it's just beautiful. Forgot to mention in the first episode that the OP is pretty good. Same goes for the ED. I've read a little bit of the manga but they're adapting it from the LN so I should be fine ig. Augustus was pretty nice in this episode. |
   “You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!” ' |
| Looks like the time skip is already here on our hands. Five years have already been passed and Will is now 13 years old. Looks like with time, the teachings have also gotten quite intense and tough for him, but he's doing great at it. Augustus feels more like a grandfather figure to me than a father figure, on the other hand, Mary and Blood are like his parents. He's definitely improved over these years but still has a long way to go. I'm more interested to see how William develops as time goes on in this show. One thing is sure that he loves his parents in this world very much as any other child would. The OP and ED are both really good in this show. |
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| Will is growing up within the teachings of Gus, Mary and Blood, and the timeskip is apparent that the story is flowing along nicely and doesn't like to waste time in needless expositions a.k.a cutting down unnecessary padding from the manga and expanding upon the LN (which is what the show is based on). Will sure is put on some extreme measures from Gus, both in theory (teaching knowledge) and practical (fighting combat). It tells us that to Will, Augustus has cast a big part of his life in regards to Will's family's disappearance that's shrouded in complete mystery, and on his own personal growth as well. Hah, a game of Backgammon, and Gus is pretty good at gambling lols. But Will is pretty hefty and won straight shots, and the men (plus Will) getting verbally hammered by Mary is worth a hint of chuckle. It's not good for children to gamble. Ooh, Children's Playground finally got some decent-to-good production values, this is a huge step up from the studio's previous works, and it shows. H-el-ical//'s OP is good, but Nagi Yanagi's ED is even better, really missed her voice. This is slowly hooking to be one of the better shows of the season, and I'm all excited for more. |
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| They definitely are hiding something big from him... Well in this episode Will continues to grow more and more, now he is nearly 15 and has already fought against real undeads, I was surprised how easy it was to kill one of them, I guess all his training made him that much stronger. Gus is being the most suspicious of all, I wonder why would he ask Will to throw the match. I think next episode might conclude the first volume or something, Will is already gonna be 15 anyways. |
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| Gus is acting pretty suspicious, I wonder what he and the others are hiding from Will that's making him act this way. The training sequences were nice and I like that we got to see how much Will's abilities have improved over the years. |
thebrentinator24Oct 16, 2021 8:39 AM
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| The lores were pretty interesting and I'm quite excited to know how it'll affect the story. The action sequence were okay, wonder what Gus is upto. Will's interactions with Mary were sweet once again. It'll be soon his coming of age ceremony, kinda excited to find out what oath he'll take. Thou I'm more interested in finding out what the three of them are hiding from Will. Pretty sure they'll tell him during his coming of age ceremony. Good episode again, ED is out and it's pretty cool. |
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| why do they feel the need to butcher latin words? Tacaere os ... silence bone. Or ignus instead of ignis i.e. fire and so on. Oh and mixing it with japanese words where they did not find the word. Cadere arachnus means falling spider not spiderweb by the way |
nightcrawlercypOct 16, 2021 8:45 AM
| Man that Nagi Yanagi ED song is really good, she's done a lot of great songs for anime and this is up there for me for sure. The rest of the episode was serviceable but I do feel like the series could have benefitted more from slowing down the growth over time and focus a bit more on his younger years and how he grows with Blood, Mary and Gus. It's not terribly paced as a whole, but still, a little rushed for my liking. Will's still pretty bland as a character and probably the most underwhelming aspect of the series so far along with his design, but hopefully, he does improve over time, especially since he's an adult now. |
| This feels a lot like Mushoku and Magus bride. I’m really curious about what Gus and the rest are hiding from Will. Nagiyanagi ED lets gooo |
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| It is seriously hard to watch when the MC is having a much much sissy drawing compare to manga. This episode was supposed to be emotion to me but what I feel was just some sissy guy begging to live. |
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| Another fantastic episode. Pacing feels super slow though even with the timeskips. Just goes to show it is a great show when you want more. P.S. I wish Yui Hor.. er..Mary was my mum too. |
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| didnt enjoy this ep as much as the first one |
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| Damn, I really hope his VA changes soon |
| Far better than episode 1. They should have done it like Takt (and Takt should have changed episodes 1 and 2 instead) - using this as the first episode and showing the background (where it was shown that it was Isekai) in episode 2 instead. Interested in how this will turn out. Gus has some secrets - definitely. And the main char noticed this. Something is going to happen in the next episode. Anime now made me look forward to this - with episode 2. (While episode 1 felt a bit boring.) |
| Man it's such a treat getting a quality fantasy anime after all the generic AF isekai. It honestly felt like a 5 minute episode and I want more now !!! If it wasn't for Mushoku, I'd say this would be AOTS. We are only 2 episodes in but the lore/story and the characters is so good. Hopefully the rest of the anime stays true to it's value. |
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IKR! Too many secrets. After the caves I don't know how he went back to normal. Whateva Grandpa you just tried to kill me. All my sentences would end like that. Let's appraise the spear. Great, you tried to kill me Pass the salt Here you go; he tried to kill me Go to bed Nah cuz he tried to kill me |
| Death flags for everyone (except MC)??? This is odd... suspicious... I have a bad feeling... |
| Mary is the best <3 love her |
| It’s solid enough. Nothing too great, but offers enough to keep you interested and coming back. |
| Pretty average so far. Hopefully Will quickly grows out of being a drama queen. |
| Seems like next episode Bell, I mean, Will will finally get to choose his Familia. Jokes aside, this show is shaping up to be one of the sleeper hits of the season, so I'm hoping it can maintain this level of quality. |
| I'm curious what the mystery is. Might have something to do with them being undead. Like they agreed not to reveal something like a contract and if they breach it something bad would happen. I'm guessing this tutorial stage will end by episode 3. I hope they don't just say goodbye to those three once Will grows strong. They're on the cover so I hope they stay around. |
| Yuritopia FTW!!!!!!!!! BANZAI TO YURI !!!!!!!!!!!! |
| jeez 24 mins feature feels like 50 mins long which is a nightmare. |
| Not bad, but definitely not my cup of tea. I think what annoys me the most is the weird echo they put on MC's VA's voice whenever he's having a inner-dialogue. I know with LN adaptations, there are a lot of MC inner-dialogues and I guess they wanted a way to differentiate that in the anime, but the echoed voice just sounds really annoying, and not to mention it's not that difficult for the audience to differentiate between inner-dialogue vs. actual conversation. If they really wanted to do this, they should have just gotten a separate VA to do the inner-dialogue (see Mushoku Tensei). |
| Damn William grown up to be a fine warrior. One thing that worries me is Gus, why does he want him to lose the battle and why does he want to kill him in that tunnel? That Gambling scene though LOL I laughed so hard when i saw the dices. |
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| Yanagi Nagi ED is really great! A pretty good episode. It did have too many inner dialogues imo, but maybe it's because we're still in the opening of the story so they just want to give us as much info as possible to prepare us for the actual plot. I imagine the first 3 episodes to be the opening with each episode dedicated for each undead. Hopefully they will use a more "show don't tell" approach when the actual story begins. |
| This episode also felt very weak. The pacing feels off at times and much of the helpful dialogue and exposition is cut. Feels like stuff should've been slowed down with making Will grow and all, but it looks like this will be adapting all three volumes currently out right now (before the author suffered writer's block, apparently). The attempted pathos felt awkward, too, cause no proper sense of buildup was there. I couldn't exactly find myself getting attached to anyone in particular, though Gus is kinda fun, at least. My familiarity with the source material doesn't help, but I think my stances wouldn't have been much different even then. |
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| So this is basically a coming of age story (so far). Other than Gus acting pretty sus, nothing eventful happened really. |
| No homo, but Will's design looks really pretty lmao, especially with the ponytail. Really good episode! Time's passing by pretty fast, Will is not 13 years old. As much as I like the 3 undead parents, it's pretty exciting to think what happens once Will starts his adventure. Gus definitely sus, but I don't think he's hiding anything evil? The gambling scene was pretty funny, Mary is great. That spear is pretty sick, if that's gonna be Will's weapon then I am down. The pacing so far seems a little fast, but it's not bad, it's good enough. It would have been nice to slow down a little. Really curious what Gus is hiding though, looking forward to the next episode. |
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| God, the MC overreacted too much there. The confrontation scene in the dungeon with Gus felt too cheesy with all the unnecessary sobbing. Other than that, decent episode. Seems we'll be getting a good fight next episode. |
| Is this anime good? I'm thinking of dropping it because it's starting to bore me. All they do is talk about the history. edit: I stopped watching at the start of this episode 2, I didn't finish it. |
喜べ少年 君の願いはようやく叶う。 YOROKOBE SHOUNEN, KIMI no NEGAI wa youyaku KANAU. Rejoice, your wish will be finally granted. "THE RATE UP IS A LIE!" |
| Quite enjoyable ~ ~ ~ ~ ~waiting for next Episode for sure! |
Once a flower withered, it can never bloom again.. |
| Another excellent episode, particularly for Will's duel with Gus in the underground. I'm still not 100% sure whether Gus was betraying Will or just teaching him a lesson, but I think not telling us right now puts us in Will's position of uncertainty and makes the emotion land with all the more impact. It is starting to seem likely that Will's going to be forced into a very difficult decision when it comes time for him to become an adult and leave the nest: he may be under Mary, Blood and Gus's protection now, but will that really be the case once he's no longer their responsibility? |
| Some surprisingly lousy voice acting in both of Will's dramatic scenes. The abrupt way his voice went all screamy was comical. |
| Thats was a good build up to whats going to happen soon,I enjoyed watching that,esp the scenes with Gus and Blood and the gambling :) I don't care whether Mary is a mummy or not,she's damn hot imo :) |
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| More teachings from the trio of undead. Gus teaching always be intriguing cause its give me more of the world building. The virtuous and evil concept can be the opposite depends on how people have a faith over some aspects. Still, for the human sake and safety, it might be better to keep the faith as same as them, an oath for Mater, or Volt. However, is that really the right choice while having the journey alone? Gus kinda tried to give the young soul, Will that lesson, it seems. Especially with how the progress of development to the adulthood of him can't be stop, no matter what. Example of how good he was, defeating one and two undeads, and then dodging every child's play of Gus, even on that one last near-death experience. Forget about the gambling. Its really bad for you, kid! Remember Mary long and steady lecture for your good future! In the end, whatever it was, it will always right to Will, to choose the answer, on how own will. The payday. That's it all, and, yeah, lets see next.... |
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