Enen no Shouboutai Episode 6 Discussion

-Stray said:

Yeah but, I expected at least one heavy hitter on their squad if they were full of non combat types, their whole squad got took out by literally 2 2nd gens and 2 rookie 3rd gens. But this is just me being too nitpicky.

TsukuyomiREKT said:


Her falling for Shinra is mostly treated as a joke. I'm 90 chapters into the manga and it's never been taken that seriously. In fact, the series doesn't really have any romantic elements to speak of.

MonkeyDHunter said:


Truth to be told, I never expect romance in a battle shonen. I just found the moment itself cringeworthy because of how cheesy it was lol

Mei-o_Scarlett said:


and how is being taken out by 2 2nd gen weak?
nvm that the entire point of enen like all series is that just because they're both 2nd gen doesnt mean they're weak
its literally this same attitude that got the 5th division ass whooped

-Stray said:

Considering their attitude beforehand and how cocky they were about themselves I expected them to at least back that shit up, 2 2nd gens literally took out more than 10 of them effortlessly, if that aint weak I dont know what is, its not that deep, and Im not saying just because they're 2nd gens that they're weak, dont put words in my mouth, Im saying 2 people taking out more than 10 people with little to no effort makes those 10+ weak.

photophobic said:
mc harem continues

Mei-o_Scarlett said:


> literally 2 2nd gens
then the 2nd gen part is literally uneeded and just implies something else
also given that these 2 2nd gens can beat the shit out of our mcs at least
it should already be enough of an indicator that yknow
maybe they arent your average fighters

-Stray said:

Thats quite the reach you've got there, why would I even say they're weak when my first post had me saying Maki could have beaten Hibana as well and how Maki had Arthur and Shinra call it quits? quick advice, dont assume stuffs just because I've added what their power category is and jump to radical conclusions.

TsukuyomiREKT said:
@MasterHavik Don't see how the amount of posts someone has matters in any way. People just have different opinions and like the show more than you. Not that hard to understand.

Mei-o_Scarlett said:


gomen this was my bad
just assumed cause power lvl :disappointed:

but back to the orginal

they, heck
most of them havent actually fought real people, much less maki
and most infernal could probably get wiped by the 5th division
add on that the 8th division is recently formed
and led by a dude who isnt even that strong(to them anyways)

AdoraWeeb said:
GUYS GIVE THIS SHOW A CHANCE PLEASE.

Jorden_625 said:
Around here is where I stopped reading the manga. Everything about this arc felt off for me and I just wasn't invested enough in the characters to continue. The anime is slightly better, in the sense that some of these characters have a bit more of an impression on me(like Maki for example). Other characters still bug the shit out of me though(fucking Arthur).

I think animation and voice acting really elevate the things that felt boring or cringy in the manga. Shinra's whole thing with the different superhero names still irks me. Also Hibana's change in character. However, the actual fight is far more interesting with color, animation, and music.

I'm going to keep watching, even if this anime clearly does have several issues(mostly with pacing I feel).

PS: It's insane to me that this series' score has gone down so drastically. At the beginning of the season, it was at like an 8.32 and it dropped with every consecutive episode.

Sarnlest said:
To those that have read the manga... Does it get better?
The art is great, and some of the characters are interesting, but the last couple episodes have been big letdowns.

Hibana clearly had stronger abilities, and should have wiped the floor with Shinra. He just suddenly becomes immune to her abilities (for no reason), he empathizes with her (her backstory has to be pretty common in this world, so finding someone with a similar one really shouldn't be unusual), and then beats her with a single punch because of plot armor/hero (nakama) power. Then she suddenly becomes a good guy, gives up on what defined her character for the previous years of her life, and falls for the main character because he punched her in the face. Did she have a major concussion that altered her personality? That seems to be the only explanation.

This was painful to watch. The action was the equivalent of Byakuya using his Bankai, and Ichigo beating it with Shikai by just walking through it (not dodging, not slicing it, nothing) and punching Byakuya a single time.

So... In the manga does it get better? Or is this par for the course in this series?

MasterHavik said:
I have survived somehow. I have to say this episode and last one was just a fucking shitshow. These were very bad episodes and when the people praising this show barely over 100 to 500 posts that tells you something ain't right. But like the last thread, let's review episode 6 in the same way I did episode 5. We can tell you why the show's MAL Score is falling into the toilet.

-Shinra is hamming up his role as the shonen main boy with his spamming of hero talk. He may not be whiny like the other main boys, but he will tell he wants to be a hero. If you have played wild Arms 2, you will hate this character more.

-Hibana shows up and she is looking sexy and pretty and fucking awesome. And I am like, "God, why does this character exist in such a bad show? She is awesome." Her backstory and reasons make a lot of sense. She lost faith and used her powers to do what she wanted to do. She embraces being a devil while Shinra rejects it. I got no problems with anything they did here besides making her look like a joke and wanting Shinra's cock after getting punch in the face. I will also have to note some of her dialogue heavily fell into the relam of twirling mustache villian. btw that as her backstory not really Iris's backstory. But we'll save Iris for later.

-Shinra keeps hero spamming and thinks being lightheaded is a state of mind. Uh...Shinra it's not. *Gets beat up some more.* Is he gonna learn it isn't? OH wait...I am getting a feeling. I can sense it. Ugh...what is this? Ohh....it is...

-THE RANDOM SHONEN ASSPULL HAS REVEAL ITSELF! Shinra ignores beign daze and confuse and power throughs her offense because fuck you the plot has given the power like He-man to defeat her and turn her into a babyface. She got the good guy punch in the face. Move over Naruto and Deku, Shinra is turning character babyface by punching the shit out despite being at a disadvantage! On a serious note, it makes zero sense why Shinra did that and it is an asspull. Don't defend it. You know the plot just gave him that power.

-The fight and overall aniamtion is pretty sweet even if the pacing is bizarre and the cuts are off at some points. But hey this piece of shit looks pretty. That's all you need, right?

-Oh...what about Iris? Yeah, she is there. She is just chilling and relaxing. Hmm...uh....so where that backstory? You gonna hide that you use her as a plot device by saying she isn't shy anymore when you have shown that already? You legit jsut blackball one of your own characters for the sake of plot and hero spamming as far as the eyes can see. Congrats Iris, you have upgraded to the role of cheerleader nun. She has been made so useless words can't describe.

-Oh the 5th division got job out by one dude? Welp we know the world is save when one of the divisions of it are made out to look liek jobbers. I know there are research team but to look like is jsut sad and just makes the 8th look like John Cena. The way they handle this made you really have to ask, "Are the really that bad?" Stop me for a second. Is catching Inferals and turning them into weapons relaly unethical? It seems more useful than bad. You can argue, "ThEiR GoAl Is To PuT To ReSt!"but that won't get them anywhere if they are just killing them and saying, "Latmo."

-Following up from this...they are just gonna stop looking into the "Shady practices" of the 5th and have a dinner party just makes this whole situation look dumb and makes the 8th look like bullies and what I said about this being a legal headache cleanup is going to be solve by Hibana working her paperwork magic. She gets off scot free for blackmailing her way to the top. Yay! Friendship baby!

-The closing scene is mildly funny but just seems pointless and that they are just gonna drop everything.

In closing, if this episode played out the same way it did in the manga, I have lsot a lot of respect for the author. His writing has really been on the decline since Soul Eater Not. It is really starting to show he is leaning on plot armor and asspulls to tell a story and it makes me wonder how this guy wrote Soul Eater. This episode was bad, and he just outright buried one of his own characters for no reason for the sake of a plot.

Gourmetforce said:


It goes better from this arc afterward, the plot thickens a lot more also in order to answer your question i may have to spoil something i think in the manga she said that she hasn't done any train with her fire powers and she just became a captain recently but only because she got the rank though those experiments she did so she is super weak in comparison to the rest firepower captains.

Sarnlest said:

Yautja said:
This episode really fell flat for me. It just screamed generic shounen to me shouting and screaming about heroes and ideologies that are all resolved because someone believed harder and shounen plot armor. It consistently looks great, but considering the author I don't see this going anyway any time soon.