Hoshifuru Oukoku no Nina Episode 6 Discussion

Idk man, they’re gonna have to show me something with sett. He’s been an asshole so far despite the Twitter hype. Left my Nina scarred and then stole a kiss too? 😡 I can’t quite get a read on him, very interesting character.

On the bright side, Nina was bad ass today. I love how she saved the handmaiden who was about to be assaulted by the guard captain and then lured him into a trap. Some great 4D chess from her today

Sett’s bird beating up Nina was hilarious lol they’re gonna make a fun duo

That cliffhanger(literally) omg please be ok Nina :/

That bird is like "I'm done with this Kingdom"

Chapters 11 and 12 today

Yeah definitely bias towards sett. His facial expressions look a bit more inline this week. They definitely are determined to make him a pretty boy though. His expressions are less smug and cold, more bishounen posing for the camera in an attractive way. Like when he says he didn't ask about Nina's and talks about the god of the underworld you just want to punch him in his smug face in the manga. However, still way more online with how he looks in the manga then whatever bs was going on with azure.

The pacing is still really screwing with the story. We glossed over the castle culture that really sets up the first half of this episode and I didn't really feel the impact that Ann chan was saying about the other princesses like I did in the manga due to the dialogue. Dub script or maybe original, the proper weight of everything still isn't being conveyed properly and we're now halfway done the season.

Sigh, but they at least can capture ninas many goofy expressions well. Which makes it all the more enraging that they completely ignored all of Azures during his interactions with her.

Don't really like the dub interpretation of her removing the feathers from her ornament. Manga wise it's about channeling her street smart outlook that even if something is valuable it's worthless if you don't use it


The impact of her confrontation of the guard captatin is significantly lessened when we barely got any build up. Same with the turnaround with how the servants refused to acknowledge her. This is such a great moment in the manga and while the moment itself anime wise isn't bad it suffers from having so much of the buildup in the previous episode (chapters 9 amd 10) removed.

Also fuck lazy animation. I wanted to see Nina tuck her hair behind her ear all sassy, revealing her face to the guard captatin. The animation of this anime really is a travesty. The series has very little action to animate. The fact so many shortcuts are repeatedly taken to reduce the movement of characters is absoutely ridiculous. The manga looks more dynamic and is entirely still panels. If they can't animate something as small as that what are they even capable of aniamting more significant movements? Just kidding we already know how bad that looks in the anime from episode 2 with Azure's fighr and the muhulumchase. They could at least try with these smaller character building moments. Which they also blunder after she nicks the guard captatin down

My assessment of this anime is that they'll skip anything they can, minimalism every moment, expression, movements pose that they can get away with losing. I expected very little from her actual match with the guardcaptain and that was the right choice lol. Literally the most effort they're gonna put in this episode.

The sett confrontation also falls flat. Show him in all his menacing glory lol. Manga wise he starts by looking like he could slash her again while the anime just portrays him as amused. Which he is, but the initial impression he gives is supposed to have a more menacing impact as he's toying with her and transitions to rasing his blade to her. The anime didn't deally portray any real threat level from him,

And yep skip over a lot of the humor of nina tending to neena. Can't bother animating that since it involves a lot of movement. Sucks cause it was really endearing. Neena is quite the hellion. She moves about rapidly. There's also a joke after sett talks about how lovely her voice is, where Nina thinks about how her voice roars amd echoes throughout the castle halls. Or Ninas view of him as a lazy slob. Instead we get a needless reminder about why nina is here and what he uses princesses for, sigh. I guess even Sett and Nina's relationship isn't immune from being remiss

Lol completely cut out sett being approached by an advisor and that being why he dissed nina. So very pointlessly lazy. Lol also couldn't bother to show sett's head leaning on his hand when he announced the trip to Galgada.

Not mentioning the fact Ann chan is now Alisha's personal lady in waiting. Yeah the dub script really is bad. They joke is Hikami tells Nina it's the moment of truth and Nina thinks that means she can't lie to Sett's family. Which literally setts up a joke with sett within the episode.

Sassy pretty boy Sett is so bland. Still more dynamic then anime Azure at least. But I want his epic faces that make him so hateable lol.. at least anime Neena captures her adorableness despite cutting so many of her fun moments.
Cutting some more of Nina's hunorous thoughts. Manga sett really does look like he wants to vomit at her devotion when he says it lol. Anime sett is too busy being pretty for the camera.

That kiss looked way to gentle. Manga kiss is way more sinister. And based on how it's drawn, gives the impression he both lunged at her and yanked her forward, keeping her head in place. What a miserable fail. Why is the anime so determined to soften his character? I'm also pretty sure he bit her lip in the manga. Also, really failed to show his surprise at her reaction to his kiss before he switched back to smug. Epic fail in not showing his shock at her calling him out too.

I feel like a lot of the irony and duality of her dynamics with sett and azure are lost in the anime. Nina thought Azure was a beast at first and he revealed himself to be gentle and kind, she thought sett would be interested in marrying her at first and he reveals him self to be a beast in their interactions aa if now

Not even bothering to show nina anxiously monitoring sett in town during their trip and him remaining stubborn that he will ride outside the carriage when asked by an escort.

Lol the carriage fall looked so bad

Yeah you know this anime is bad when they cut a significant moment that is suppsed to run parallel with Nina meeting the tiger and noticing his golden eyes. That's right folks. A significant moment with azure is supposed to be revealed at the same time as nina has a new encounter with a golden eyed beast. I'm hesitant to say what it is considering it has to be played at some point. If it's not in next week's episodes begining I'll say what it is then. If your ean azure fan and can't wait, I'll be uploading those pages tumblr later (and several others from last week's ep and this ep)

honestly, thank the gods, I was afraid about this episode from the preview and thought that was going to be a sinister kiss but was gentle. I really hate the whole rapey thing.
With that said, you're posts in short tell me "read the manga, it's much more detailed" so I will consider it though not sure when next time I'll buy manga or which from list I'll pick