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Nov 17, 2024 6:57 AM
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Welp, this conquest arc has reached its peak.

Ars using his improved abilties leads the army but they had fierce resistance. It was a risky and calculated tactic this episode but Ars wasn't afraid to exercise his skills. Kinda impressive really.
Nov 17, 2024 8:00 AM
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Lupa is hot but too bad he already has a wife, I still wish his wife survive though, but from the preview of the next episode it looks like someone died, I hope it's not him. Luckily this show still has a parade of other hot guys including the newly introduced characters: leader of mercenary group Clamant and the enemy's captain of cavalry Dan.
Nov 17, 2024 8:33 AM
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This is quite good episode but there is still one part that makes my blood raise. While Ars is doing brave actions here, but irritately Fam is making questionable decision there. Why did he let that lord's wife doing as she pleased without thinking it's inefficient under that situation? No matter how you look at it, letting the pregnant woman moves first is the only right decision, if the normal girl is last he could have mobilized normal girl way easily than pregnant woman, he is experienced in this kind of work but makes this simple mistake, i can't believe it. Yeah i know, this is just plot device/convenience or smth like that, but this is still stupid.
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Nov 17, 2024 9:04 AM
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Lupa is hot but too bad he already has a wife, I still wish his wife survive though, but from the preview of the next episode it looks like someone died, I hope it's not him. Luckily this show still has a parade of other hot guys including the newly introduced characters: leader of mercenary group Clamant and the enemy's captain of cavalry Dan.
@phantomfandom I commend you for your priorities and taste.
Nov 17, 2024 9:10 AM
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The direction of this episode is quite a mess especially during the battle scene and the retreat scene, character placements and movements are all over the place, it's really confusing to watch.

some of the action animations are pretty smooth tho, the tiniest compliment I can give.
Nov 17, 2024 9:48 AM
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This is quite good episode but there is still one part that makes my blood raise. While Ars is doing brave actions here, but irritately Fam is making questionable decision there. Why did he let that lord's wife doing as she pleased without thinking it's inefficient under that situation? No matter how you look at it, letting the pregnant woman moves first is the only right decision, if the normal girl is last he could have mobilized normal girl way easily than pregnant woman, he is experienced in this kind of work but makes this simple mistake, i can't believe it. Yeah i know, this is just plot device/convenience or smth like that, but this is still stupid.
On the other hand if they started arguing about that this would eat even more time. And if Fam decided to forcefully bring her first that could scare others.
Mainnus said:
The direction of this episode is quite a mess especially during the battle scene and the retreat scene, character placements and movements are all over the place, it's really confusing to watch.

some of the action animations are pretty smooth tho, the tiniest compliment I can give.

Yeah the backgrounds were really basic during some moments too.
Nov 17, 2024 11:28 AM
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The sincerely integrity and bravery, which inspires loyalty, you don't see that today.

While I am enjoying the amazing anime story, you judgmental people are nitpicking at the art / animation, which is the exact reason I don't listen to your opinions / reviews / ratings.

You all think that your unfair opinions are more important and you criticize only so you can stand out, rather than giving an honest critique of the overall anime.

The art / animation is more than fine, it is good for what needed to be shown, it does not need to perfect, no complaints from me.

ejleonNov 17, 2024 12:24 PM
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Nov 17, 2024 12:10 PM
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Charlotte my beloved
Nov 17, 2024 12:19 PM
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This is quite good episode but there is still one part that makes my blood raise. While Ars is doing brave actions here, but irritately Fam is making questionable decision there. Why did he let that lord's wife doing as she pleased without thinking it's inefficient under that situation? No matter how you look at it, letting the pregnant woman moves first is the only right decision, if the normal girl is last he could have mobilized normal girl way easily than pregnant woman, he is experienced in this kind of work but makes this simple mistake, i can't believe it. Yeah i know, this is just plot device/convenience or smth like that, but this is still stupid.
@shiro-seishun "plot device" maybe possible, but we need to see what happens in the next episode.

However in studying history, this is how good leaders, male and female / husband and wife, will conduct themselves.

Being the female leader over the people, her first concern is to save her people, even when the offer of her going first is suggested, she is willing to sacrifice herself to save her people, and this is only counterattacked by the insistence of the people to save their leaders, but the women did not speak up, they took the opportunity to escape first, even while knowing that she was with child. I'd fault the women for not speaking up to convince their pregnant leader to go first.

Look at how her husband responded, he ignored Ars' suggestion to stay out of the fight to preserve his own life, he felt compelled to assist the person that would go so far as to sacrifice his own life to save another man's wife, or to offer his own life up if he failed, the leader could not just sit by, because he felt it was the right thing to do.

It was really refreshing to see this type of writing, having good leadership and sincere integrity, which follows historical examples.
ejleonNov 17, 2024 12:26 PM
Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating.

Nov 17, 2024 12:39 PM

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I felt no real urgency during this scene. You are basically escaped or at least out of the castle, so why does it feel like a fight is going to happen next?

Nov 17, 2024 12:41 PM
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The battle is happening because of the premise that mages are weaker in close combat, but at 10:25 Charlotte could have just nuked the enemy force while they were standing still blobbed up almost ASKING to be nuked. Guess she couldn't break through their plot shield.

Also, the plan makes no sense. The majority of Ars' troops are infantry and cannot possibly outrun the enemy cavalry to the forest. They would be slaughtered in the retreat, meaning that the "ambush" would be 5000 new troops attacking a numerically far stronger enemy which had already wiped out half of Ars' entire force. The anime just seems to conveniently forget the infantry even exists all of a sudden, making the chase scene entirely cavalry, but at that point they should have already lost. They didn't need to be saved by Lukas because the plan fell apart, they needed to be saved because it was a terrible plan to begin with.
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Nov 17, 2024 12:42 PM
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Pretty good episode, with a decent amount of suspense. Those horse jumps though by Dan & Jean. Well, it is a Fantasy series I guess. LOL
Nov 17, 2024 1:15 PM

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If everyone he meets is superhuman, does his appraisal skill even matter?
Nov 17, 2024 1:15 PM
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The season was going well, but this episode is complete crap. Everything after the retreat is meaningless garbage. The direction from which the arrows arrive (which by the way pierce heavy armor as if it were nothing) makes absolutely no fucking sense, the speed with which the enemy reached the main character's army, the places from where the enemy appeared, the times between one event and another. In conclusion, it's complete crap.
Nov 17, 2024 1:16 PM
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Pretty good episode, with a decent amount of suspense. Those horse jumps though by Dan & Jean. Well, it is a Fantasy series I guess. LOL
@Sheol01 WTF are you talking about!!! After the "retreat" the episode is hot garbage.
Nov 17, 2024 1:58 PM
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I like Ars’s determination. Even though everyone believed that the battle is over and they were going to be defeated, Ars still had a flame burning inside and something did not let him give up!

Ars is so lucky to have Rietz, Charlotte, Mireille, Rossel and others by his side!
Nov 17, 2024 6:14 PM

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MunaXs said:
The season was going well, but this episode is complete crap. Everything after the retreat is meaningless garbage. The direction from which the arrows arrive (which by the way pierce heavy armor as if it were nothing) makes absolutely no fucking sense, the speed with which the enemy reached the main character's army, the places from where the enemy appeared, the times between one event and another. In conclusion, it's complete crap.

Yes, I have to agree with you. I’m watching this with my brain off, but even then, it gets annoying. What’s the point of wearing armor if arrows can just pierce through it?
Nov 17, 2024 6:18 PM

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amf85 said:
The battle is happening because of the premise that mages are weaker in close combat, but at 10:25 Charlotte could have just nuked the enemy force while they were standing still blobbed up almost ASKING to be nuked. Guess she couldn't break through their plot shield.

Also, the plan makes no sense. The majority of Ars' troops are infantry and cannot possibly outrun the enemy cavalry to the forest. They would be slaughtered in the retreat, meaning that the "ambush" would be 5000 new troops attacking a numerically far stronger enemy which had already wiped out half of Ars' entire force. The anime just seems to conveniently forget the infantry even exists all of a sudden, making the chase scene entirely cavalry, but at that point they should have already lost. They didn't need to be saved by Lukas because the plan fell apart, they needed to be saved because it was a terrible plan to begin with.

Yes, that’s one thing I feel needs improvement. Charlotte is heavily underutilized in the story. Rietz and Rosell play important roles in battle after battle, but Charlotte has mostly been sidelined. Aside from breaking a castle’s barrier in a past episode, her offensive magic is rarely used—except for the occasional small fireball.
Nov 17, 2024 6:42 PM
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Lupa line was so timely. Or maybe it's just always significant.

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Nov 17, 2024 7:48 PM

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If everyone he meets is superhuman, does his appraisal skill even matter?
@Sokah You mean the literal generals of armies and their right hand men? WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?!?!?

Besides that stupid comment, this episode was great. No idea why the hostages are moving slower than molasses.
Nov 17, 2024 8:57 PM
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Looks like there's a red flag raised there
Nov 17, 2024 9:58 PM
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@ Studio Mother just don't do big battles your animators clearly have no talent for it. Also get them to reference some real life armour. No helmet EVER exposed the ears like that. It looks so stupid.
Nov 18, 2024 12:45 AM
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If the protagonist dont use mercenary in the next episode, i will be piss off and drop this anime! More I watch, clearer it becomes. The protagonist is useless, because of being too nice aint realistic. The director also didnt do a good here, the battle doesnt make any sense strategically and visually and because of this Ars seems stupid and wasted his troop for nonsense.
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Nov 18, 2024 10:06 AM

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This episode was really good; there was more blood, and it felt more like a war, unlike other episodes where Ars' group's plans always went smoothly and without injury.

Ars can be very naive when it comes to battles, but he always gains allies because he prioritizes others, like Lupa, who will be a great ally. I just hope in the next episode they ask Clamant for help, who is really strong.
Nov 18, 2024 11:41 AM
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amf85 said:
Also, the plan makes no sense. The majority of Ars' troops are infantry and cannot possibly outrun the enemy cavalry to the forest. They would be slaughtered in the retreat, meaning that the "ambush" would be 5000 new troops attacking a numerically far stronger enemy which had already wiped out half of Ars' entire force. The anime just seems to conveniently forget the infantry even exists all of a sudden, making the chase scene entirely cavalry, but at that point they should have already lost. They didn't need to be saved by Lukas because the plan fell apart, they needed to be saved because it was a terrible plan to begin with.

They didn't forget the infantry existed. They fielded half infantry and half cavalry so that when the time came to retreat they could double up on the horses.

That's also why the enemy cavalry can get ahead of them; their horses are carrying less weight, both in people and in armour.
Nov 18, 2024 1:06 PM
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amf85 said:
Also, the plan makes no sense. The majority of Ars' troops are infantry and cannot possibly outrun the enemy cavalry to the forest. They would be slaughtered in the retreat, meaning that the "ambush" would be 5000 new troops attacking a numerically far stronger enemy which had already wiped out half of Ars' entire force. The anime just seems to conveniently forget the infantry even exists all of a sudden, making the chase scene entirely cavalry, but at that point they should have already lost. They didn't need to be saved by Lukas because the plan fell apart, they needed to be saved because it was a terrible plan to begin with.

They didn't forget the infantry existed. They fielded half infantry and half cavalry so that when the time came to retreat they could double up on the horses.

That's also why the enemy cavalry can get ahead of them; their horses are carrying less weight, both in people and in armour.
@Mirality Thank you. That makes the episode make a lot more sense.
Nov 19, 2024 7:24 PM

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Yo bro just keep your helmet on until the battle is over lol.
Nov 20, 2024 2:41 PM
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good, nothing else
Nov 20, 2024 9:33 PM

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While the battle scenes were not the best animated I thought that the suspense was great and I wasn't expecting Lupa to come out so that was a nice surprise. Unfortunately since the enemy saw that Lupa has switched sides they immediately gave the order to kill the hostages so hopefully Pham is able to get them out although it looks like he may have to fight for his life...
Nov 21, 2024 4:06 AM

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Is there even any point in asking why Charlotte couldn’t just wipe out their army? Like... why did they even bring her to the battlefield in the first place? The mages in this story seem so OP, but then they suddenly become useless for no apparent reason.
Nov 26, 2024 8:56 PM
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I don't know, I believe that the strategies are getting simpler, not that this is bad, but it is very easy to understand the continuation
Nov 29, 2024 5:00 PM

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Can't get "easy" (not easy, but lacking battle) victories forever. This is war.
ο»ΏI don't care what happens, as long as Fam is OKAY. This is making look like Mr. "just a scratch", his wife, and/or Fam might die (did wife and Fam last to leave).
ο»ΏWhere is my engineer >.<, also that mercenary guy went from dangerous mission person to spectator LOL.

Dec 3, 2024 12:40 AM

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time for the new battle

it was a good ep,it's all or nothing now
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Dec 8, 2024 12:43 AM
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It was thrilling. Also, the animation is so bad in this one. What was that animation for the army retreating lmao! Also, Lupa got that Husband and Knight pride moments. I hope Lupa's wife and others escapes!
Dec 8, 2024 11:55 AM
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I´m really enjoying this season and the action that the episodes have.
And we get to see Ars´s emotions more.
Charlotte can´t destroy everything in one minute, we know she can do it. But they have a plan to follow, not to mention they want to save as much as lives as possible. If she would bomb everything then all is over and it will go against Ars & company. And they still don´t know if all the hostages are saved.
This season has been great and I can´t wait to see more episodes!
Dec 8, 2024 2:20 PM

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They managed to fool the enemy to enter the battlefield, but Jean was smart enough to know it was a trap.
Pham and the shadows did a great job trying to rescue the women.

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Dec 22, 2024 1:10 AM

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Turning Lutz's lose-lose situation into a win-win for a hostage...Ars defintely did not have a plan ahead of him, but who exactly is this Calmant guy?

The head of the Maitraw Company of mercenaries, the 31-year-old doesn't mince his words when it comes to latent strength, and provides assistance for this dangerous hostage rescue mission. And despite the tall order of the mission, Castle Rolto and its Lord Jean Tendrie, alongside general Dan Alrest, will not budge and wait for the time to act. The plan is concise with Ars's 5000-strong Canarre army against Rolto's twice that, and this plan forces Ars to be on site for battle to see things through,

The unforgiving battle charges with the elaborate plan to see how Jean and Dan would act, and coming from a band of horsemen, these two are more fearsome than Ars and the gang initially thought. Still, the plan goes ahead until the last draw until they reach the forest, and even along with Rietz showing up to boost morale, Lupa being the unexpected one to show up only confirms their worst nightmares that the plan has faltered.

Better hope that the two-pronged approach to save the hostages still go as planned.
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This is the kind of warfare I'm talking about, almost like Kingdom, not quite there but almost
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One of the dumbest battles in anime history. They actually surpassed the idiocy of the previous castle "battle". I get that it's made for eight year old children, but still. Read at least a book about basics of medieval warfare. Or at least lean into the fantasy side and have mages annihilate everything... I'm embarrassed for the studio. Crap episode after crap episode.

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