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Average 4.3
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| An important episode as it explores the character story of Ivy and what she became today in this society. It seems whatever the case, she did have a loving family but when she was 5 years old, her life took a big change. Meanwhile, I think her personality is relatively the same since she was born - kind and gentle. Seems she also figured out what she wanted to be at such a young age which led to her job as a tamer. |
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| Very interesting yet a sad backstory. Poor Ivy. She definitely doesn't deserve all that crap. :( That fortune teller was the only good person in her life. I'm glad she has Sora now. They are so cute together. And aww, Sora can even talk a little bit now. :3  <3 |
SerafosJan 27, 2024 1:46 AM
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| Even knowing what was going to happen. Some of those lines hit pretty hard. That comment at the end that she's fine with dying is pretty rough. They took the whole episode to go over a lot of the backstory and worldbuilding that was skipped over in the earlier episodes. With this, they basically have covered the LN pretty closely, minus one village and some minor event shuffling. We learn some important worldbuilding things this episode. The existence of basic magic on top of skills, water, fire, and probably a few others. Skills are one and done things. Skills didn't exist at one point in the world. Starless people are, at least according to the village church, people abandoned by god. Some things to note for Ivy. Ivy has extremely low mana/magic capacity as she faints at the use of two small fire magic attempts. As magic is needed to tame monsters, as noted in EP2, this means she is basically limited to things like kuzure slimes (if there is anything else as weak as kuzure slimes that is...). We also know why Ivy was pursued as vehemently as she was. Ivy's past memory put it, witch hunt. The village chief looked pretty happy to have something to use in order to get the villagers hanging off his every word. Sora looks a lot more shapely now. No longer drooping. And, to very little surprise, eating blue healing potions seems to have given Sora the ability to heal. With pain and suffering out of the way, Ivy can only go up from here. We are now also caught up with the pre-screening crowd who got to see episodes 1-3 in Tokyo back in November. All that comes next is new ground. Some super minor LN notes: |
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| Well, i was afraid of the backstory episode, and here we go ... I find it utterly pointless, you see it adds absolutely nothing to the character, we knew already shes starless ... we knew already she was abandoned, we knew already that this world is unfair to those without stars ... we knew all that, and we were supposed to be sad for her because of all that. And now that they have showed us, we are supposed to be even more sad for the main girl. Sorry, but this is the third episode, and the heavy reliance on the pity points is a bit much already. Is this a Shield Hero spin-off or something ? I've had expectations for this one, but i'm left quite disappointed. |
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| Ah the flashback episode, adds little inconsequential detail and probably help affirm Ivy resolve to survive. Sora can make noise now, a very interesting development indeed.  |
| Such an awful past for Ivy. |
| It was heartbreaking to see Ivy go through all that just because she is starless no child should have to experience that pain |
| oh gosh!! another wonderful episode! We now saw how it unravelled or what we call on how it started for Ivy "Femicia". Her family was too harsh! at front it looked like a good family but they treated Femicia like a terrorist the moment they knew she was starless! that is really infuriating! good thing mistress Luba was there for her but she suddenly died off-screen!? what!? seems like a plan solely to oust Femicia! those bastards! hang in there Femicia you'll eventually find your salvation and happiness! 5/5. |
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| Ivy's backstory as Femicia, going back to the very beginning of the story (of which this would always be placed in Episode 1 or 2) that was skipped, it's infotainment for the worldbuilding that sets itself as it as with Ivy going solo. Femicia's family, as to be expected, have skill blessings from Stars, and said girl's about to get her blessing once she turns 5. Her wish to be a tamer, with the fortune teller Mistress Luba's meet-and-greet of her early since the age of 2, she knows that Femicia is a reincarnated otherworlder, which is kept secret against her own family. This, with the official blessing and reveal that she got her wish...and being the starless girl, it certainly brings about shock in the family to abandon her then and there. What happens thereafter is what we have learnt of Ivy in Episode 1, with the entire Latomi Village expelling her straightaway and Femicia having to survive on her own with the little limited mana she has, confirmed by Luba as she takes care of her in the woods. The magic bag and grimoires that Luba hands her will prove essential in her journey, teaching her the ways of survival, which brings to the years of growing up outside the village, plus the death of Luba, which the village manipulates it as a threat from the starless, leading to her extradition of her getting killed if captured. Since Ivy's an unwanted child anyways, with Sora by her side and finally started talking, she can move on further with no one stopping her. The world's essentially her oyster. |
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| well we saw what happened to her in the past was expecting this having watched the trailers overall still confused about her reincarnation are they two souls sharing one body or one soul not sure |
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| All the hinted at brutality in the first episodes is now brought into sharp focus. And wow, Ivy's father is a total piece of shit, of course this isn't a revenge story but I'd sure like to see him get it. |
| Quantum ille canis est in fenestra |
| A woman making idiotic baby noises. Exactly what the show needed. A "talking" blob of slime. |
| Wtf? It's hard for me to believe that a loving family (they couldn't have been faking all that, right?) can do a total U-turn on own blood just like that! I think it's more expected for the family members to go against the "decision of gods" and do all they can to save own child instead of disowning her in rage... Also, is it just me or was the star reveal a bit fishy? Does MC have 0 stars, or maybe she has more than 3 and that's why the bubble exploded maybe? Guess we'll find out eventually. For now I hope the family and village will one day SORELY regret treating MC like trash. Heck, they even want her dead so punishment better be severe (father in particular deserves slow and painful death)! |
| I understand people's dislike of backstory episodes or nonlinear storytelling, but I thought this was handled pretty effectively. It allowed the first two episodes to directly jump right into the main story (Ivy on the run) while also keeping it "in the present" so to speak (the backstory covered her entire life with three major time jumps). Learning the full backstory after the character has already been established to some extent seems like a way to avoid just triggering pity, per se. Because I know what her character is like now (resourceful, pragmatic, kind, etc.), it leaves me more impressed seeing the dire circumstances of her early childhood. And knowing how things turn out (fortune teller dead, exiled from village, etc.) only added to the tension as you know these things are going to happen at some point. I cannot say how it would have worked if they told the story in a more chronological order. (I might very well have liked it more; who knows.) But this still struck me as a very effective use of the "backstory episode", one that was quite emotional/engaging while also filling in some important questions I still had. I am definitely looking forward to this one going forward. |
Reply to CommanderZx2
@absolutelynormal This sort of story telling is also extremely common with adaptations. The first episode have minimal exposition and instead starts off part way into the story and then later episode does the backstory. Tons of highly rated anime have been adapted in this way, I have no idea why people are so bent out of shape about this anime doing it.
| @CommanderZx2 I honestly think much of it is just personal preference. Even something like story structure will elicit very different emotional response from the viewer. I thought it was pretty well done, but I can hardly fault anybody from finding the episode unnecessary or simply a suboptimal way to tell the story. Art is subjective, etc. etc. etc. |
| So who was the genius who decided to switch this with episode 1? I don't get why they do that, it's so fucking stupid |
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| I'm glad that Ivy's backstory was finally told to clear up a few things such as how she was able to survive after being outcast. I also think that the 3 stars burst due to Ivy having a special tamer skill beyond 3 stars and the priest guy misunderstood that, whether intentional or not is another question. |
Alfredo-SauceJan 26, 2024 11:17 PM
| I found it interesting that it looked like ivy was about to receive three stars but was cut off for some reason and got none. I wonder if that was intentional or maybe I’m overthinking it. |
| Something was sus both with priest and village head. And we pretty much devised whole story from previous episodes so long flashback just wasted screen time. |
| to pull a "life flashing before my eyes" episode after last weeks cliffhanger is excuse enough to drop this series, the only thing keeping me from doing so and reading the source material is the animation cuz seriously we already saw how she was treated in the village so what's the point in going into excruciating detail at the cost of the pacing. |
| Fuck those bastards!! |
| No tomo malas decisiones, solo me gusta apoyar causas perdidas. Disfruté Mayoiga, Ou-sama Game, Evil or Live, Mirai Nikki, Big Order, Arifureta, Ex-Arm, Tesla Note, Shuumatsu no Harem y Platinum End nope les falle con esa, lo siento pero todos tenemos nuestros límites. Así de jodido es mi gusto en anime, ¡Y estoy pinche orgulloso de ello!  |
| My thoughts on everyone in the plotting village including especially her family: |
| They really should've shown what it looks like to get any number of stars with another character, like one of the siblings...... Because seeing those 3 dots, I just assumed those were what the stars looked like. |
| 8 minutes of building up her back story (which we knew about already) in an effort to make her seem more desperate to keep going a SLIDE SHOW of her interactions with the fortune teller then Oh boi my slime buddy that i tamed didnt try to merk me, it healed me... the same slime that eats healing potions. And swag, now it can talk. Every time it talks, it describes the show. Pu Puu. This show leaves nothing to the imagination. It's like predicting 4pm at 3:59. 5/10. I will keep watching because MC is cute, the voice actor for her is doing a stellar job, in my opinion. and i will dunk on every episode. |
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| Ah that was painful. Such a sad story. The village and family really sucks. |
| What bullshit lol, this author really expects me to eat up and believe what just happened with her loving and caring family prior to her skill awakening? I get that's it's a cult like village and the stars are the law of this world, but at least put some work into the resentment, maybe gradually building over time... All I could do was roll my eyes, not feel for her lol. Garbage, cheap emotional manipulation, very disappointing. And yes, I smell a conspiracy behind it all. |
GakutoDeathGlareJan 26, 2024 11:29 PM
| This is one of those cases where the 3-episode-rule really works- heck just 2 episodes in it already started to get interesting. It was just the first episode that perhaps would've thrown you off into thinking that it was just some cute adorable show with cute adorable characters. But no as it turns out, the backstory to it all is actually... quite dark. First off, yes may that whole village burn to the ground. Second, yes it was quite forced, but I'm willing to give it time to explain itself. If being starless really does bring about a world-ending curse (which, is probably not the case, or the answer isn't that simple), then maybe we can buy this 180. If the destruction-or-whatever of a starless had been witnessed in the past, sure. But if the villagers will simply told by the priest and headmaster that starless=bad, then yeah: NPC's. It's Femicia's, or Ivy's, family that will probably be the centre of discussion for this episode- especially the dad, damn. Maybe the dad has seen some shit- but again, if it's just brainwashing by the village leaders, then this is just dumb. Or just REALLY good brainwashing. I thought that at least maybe the family would stand up for her, and maybe they'd get hurt or even killed protecting her, and we'd get our emotions that way. But no they just immediately hang her up to dry. It's an effective way of eliciting some pure emotion sure, but that's not the way to go if we wanna be real here. While the mom tried to stand up for her daughter, the change in the rest of the family was too drastic. Like we see one big happy family, but then in another scene we see the village chief telling Ivy's dad to kill his own daughter. To which he responds "YEAH NO WORRIES FAM I GOTCHU." Like maybe, just maybe, for being her family, they should've shown some hesitation, some conflict within themselves? Eventually giving up on their daughter and sister, sure, I'd prefer they keep that in order for the story to hit the hardest. But to get to that point, to make it even sadder, would be to see the dad at war with himself on whether or not to disown, if not kill, Ivy. This would've made it better, but it's good enough how it is. Got most people's blood boiling including myself at least. The thing that really makes it fall apart is that if being starless was that big of an issue that it would turn a dad to execute his daughter.... why didn't the priest or anyone do anything about it right then and there in the church when they found out she was starless? They literally just went home and had dinner. So I guess it's a problem, but not big enough to not allow some time to like sit and talk about it? Huh??? For now I'll just believe that they would've allow her to stay in the village, but she would've receive discrimination by the loads. Maybe it's just the Ivy 'murdering' the old lady that is what pushed the dad over the edge to go and kill her. Whatever the case is, they all deserve to die. Mostly of their treatment of Ivy but also partly for just being dumb. That all said, this has gotten really good. This dark past has made for a good backdrop for the rest of the story. Let's just hope that this sob story wasn't just shoe-horned in here to make non-caring viewers care about the character, and then never have it addressed again, and instead just continue being cute adorable and wholesome. Ivy should one day return to the village and FEAST ON THEIR FLESH make them see the light, and perhaps even forgive them. Also kinda forgot what happened in the first episode, but I don't remember them hinting that this was actually a isekai. Don't know if the reincarnation aspect will add anything to the story (because it usually doesn't in your typical isekai), but the fact that she doesn't remember her past life makes it a bit unique, and adds an air of mystery to it all. |
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| Nice, we got the episode when she got her starless skills... still, that priest-character is a scumbag. Who in their right mind would swear in the presence of a child? That's not what a priest should be like! It's not just the priest, even her own father, big brother and sister (excluding her mother) wants her dead and out of their lives... how cruel. Now, I'm feeling more sad as I see Femicia's struggles.. 😖 but I'm still rooting for her nonetheless. |
CrazyButNot4UJan 27, 2024 1:23 AM
| 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. |
| How many stars does she really have? |
| This depicts of how cruel a cult is. 9/10 for this episode |
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| i noticed femicia is not zero stars , but in that sphere we see 3 stars !! this priest is very sus !! |
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