Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho Episode 3 Discussion

clannadlover said:
Actually if you read between the lines, the wolf doesnt actually believe that Zero's a witch. He seems to think she's a high class slave, evidenced by the fact that he doesnt believe that she's Youhei'e employer. At one point he even says thats its "a shit joke". I get where you're coming from though, I was thinking that they'd have to make another run for it as they get reported by wolf until I realized that wolf was an idiot halfway through the duel negotiations.

As for the slaves thing actually, again its reading between the lines. Wolf clearly insiniuated that he intimidated the village into giving him "witches" the village didnt want to but more likely were forced to give up the women because the couldn't really fight the wolf dude.

That fourth wall break though after the fight, really Zero?

Cirris said:
THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Almost spit out my drink when Zero called themselves "sex slaves" at the gate.

Albus was being his cliched usual self. Rather just have Zero as the sole companion. Albus is a nuisance to me.

Nice outfit change for Zero.

It then segues into an episodic story arch with actual sex slaves and the beastfallen wolf that owns them.

A nice ending to the little story. Still the Wolf beast could have used Zero's true identity as a bargaining chip.

It's like that they try and create a setting where stealing, manipulation, thievery, snitching could be a thing. But in some situations that type of plot movement isn't used. To the point where you go, "how did wolf not extort them there?"

The other annoying thing is that the 3 slaves just go away. Where would they go? they were obviously taken from a village that accused them of witchcraft. They have nothing. glad you took them out of their situation. But now they're homeless.

It just seemed to bit of a contrived of a story arch. I Still enjoy the interactions between Zero and Youhei.

Cirris said:

A nice ending to the little story. Still the Wolf beast could have used Zero's true identity as a bargaining chip.

It's like that they try and create a setting where stealing, manipulation, thievery, snitching could be a thing. But in some situations that type of plot movement isn't used. To the point where you go, "how did wolf not extort them there?"

forexjammer said:
PLEASE SOMEONE GIVE ME SPOILER.
ALBUS A TRAP OR NO??

Zarator said:
Sad to say it, but I'm gonna drop this.

I'm rly disappointed because I thought this could've been good, and refreshing in a way. But apparently, the creators decided it'd be better to just go down the path of sex-related jokes, rather than focusing on making original or interesting chars. Frankly, with the amount of anime which did NOT have sexualized chars in the past, I just can't get my head around why we can't have an anime where I don't have to hear the words "hentai!" or "ecchi!"

Jack_Corvus96 said:
sorry but lot of anime considered Masterpieces does have aswell "Sexualized characters" and sex jokes and I didn't see anyone complaining about it, i mean, is not like the whole anime will consist of it, this episode was more of a "rest" for the characters, is okay to have fun once in a while

Zarator said:


The point is how you're having fun. I don't mind having comedy scenes in such a show - indeed, I believe having both comedy and drama scenes in such stories is absolutely required. But the point is, I really hoped the source of comedy would not have been, say, little blond kid shouting some crap like "This is impure!" at Zero sleeping atop Mercenary... or Mercenary getting flustered at Zero's antics.

On a similar vein, this episode rly ruined Mercenary's image for me. From the first two episodes, I had the hope that, for once, we'd have a different sort of MC from standard anime stories. Which basically meant two things:
1) An MC which is not necessarily nice but also has a pragmatic or blunt side, which does not reduce simply to have a blunt personality;
2) An MC who does not care about the "high-school-esque" crap we're used to in other shows, from fantasy shows like Grimgar to the SoL like Masamune-Kun no Revenge or Seiren
But this episode shot down both hopes hard. I was severely disappointed from the beginning of ep. 3, when he took Zero on her shoulder... just because? And as the episode went on, he kept acting less like a toughened mercenary and more like a flustered tsundere who pretends to be cold but actually has the heart of a middle-high schooler.

I'm not saying this show had to be like I imagined it. I'm just saying that I hoped it would've been different in these respects. In particular, I have been longing for a long time to see (in recent times, at least) a male MC who acts in a more mature or interesting way than a generic high-schooler. I was hoping Grimoire of Zero could be that different thing.

But it wasn't, hence why I'm dropping it.

GangsterCat said:
an episode of literally nothing happened and half assed sex jokes
this is the pinnacle of light novel guys

dropped

Jack_Corvus96 said:

I think I've got your point But...

You have to take in consideration that he has 2 witches walking with him, in a city were they despise witches, would be bad to bring bad impressions on him, also he stated that other "beastfallens" acts bad and ruins his reputation as a Beastman, I think he had no choice but act "friendly" (just exactly at what happened on last episode, he brought attention and he got trashed away from town

as some people said above, its more like a filler, I don't think that he will act the same during the rest of the series (that would be really monotone) and not really enough to drop it, but well, if that's your will, who am I to stop you?