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It's fine, maybe it's better if you go into the episode blind. In my case it was beneficial to see that, I got more hyped and was looking forward to the episode more.
I read your post, it felt pretty generalized, nice overall.

I know, it's good, but a bit different. I didn't expect to hear more about demon king, I expected it always to be vague.

"it would take me years to finish tho lol." I don't like seeing it that way, first One Piece arcs are so memorable. I wouldn't care whether I finish it or not, I'd just approach it as one arc at a time. Like I picked up Tower of God pretty late, and had a lot of chapter to get through, but I never thought about that, I didn't care about all that, I was just enjoying myself in the moment, the current arc. If anything I liked some of the older arcs better.

Now, about the episode. Took me like 2 hours yesterday, episode + 2 mal posts, remembering everything, trying to put it into words, gave me a legit headache. I actually watched it with a friend over discord. He doesn't watch Ishura and is quite grumpy and doesn't like much, but I knew that he'd like Linaris and I wanted to show him Toroa. So while I showed him Linaris (who he liked, as I expected), ep 3 came out, and I thought might as well watch it with him. It seems like somewhat liked Toroa's part, but the episode took like an hour to get through as I talked... a lot. Explanations, and what I've mentioned in my mal posts. I wonder if I bored him lol. But it felt good venting it all out, cause that Toroa's part..................................... well if you've read my post, then you probably know. I'm mostly upset over the adaptation of his past, motivations got messed up, his personality too.

But if I was an anime-only, I'd enjoy a lot of this episode, but I would've liked Toroa less. Like I mentioned, it was 9 minutes for 30 pages lol. Linaris got 17 minutes for 32 pages.
Gray-haired child's part was 7 pages, but he got 3 minutes and it was quite perfect. Mestelexil's part was 20 pages and he got 11 minutes and it was also perfect. Totally satisfied.

I'm sure i'll be talking about it all week, but i'll leave it at that for now. Don't wanna make the message too long. Also some scenes were skipped in its entirety, I didn't feel like posting them in the episode discussion, cause its weird to talk about a missed scene. I don't mind that they skipped them btw, saving time for better scenes. But i'll share those scenes with you, in later posts.

I usually am the same, but it's Ishura ._. From what I've seen, Ishura' pvs have no spoilers, but yeah, going in completely blind is nice. Btw did you watch it in the end? it's fine if you didn't.
Have you seen s1 criticism? You weren't a seasonal watcher right? I don't usually read anything when i'm watching off-season, so I won't know other opinions.
I think the story needs to be simple or simple to follow(with MC for example) to be mainstream. Basically ishura is a hidden gem. But, you should save your opinion, until you see more of volume 3 adapted, as volume 3 onwards it gets slightly different as we follow the main story, learn more about True Demon King and the Hero. I still like it.
Good to know that you liked it from ep1, for most people I believe, it takes time to get hooked on Ishura.

Since you haven't watched One Piece, I'd recommend Black Clover as next best thing. Also One piece might have a lot of episodes, but most episodes are 17~ min long and i'd say, only first 550 episodes are a must.

I'm glad you like it, because I was worried that i'm boring you. I don't know anyone else who likes Ishura, and I'm quite a fan of it, so I got no one to share it with, and if you keep things inside, you'll feel unsatisfied. Like letting out rage.

PV for next episode dropped! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GptBo7tlqSQ

at least you went back to check ishura out, I was kinda upset how under the radar it was back in s1. Lots of people complaining that there was no main protagonist and there is a new character each episode. I swear, the same people who are complaining that every anime is the same thing is upset that there is a different formula/structure. Season2 was received much better, probably because those who stuck through are already used to the style. I think I started liking Ishura from ep2, that's when I picked up the novel. There've been many times when the anime didn't hit it for me right away, sometimes it took a few episodes, sometimes even more... like black clover, I somewhat liked it, but only after like 45 episodes I realized how great it was. Gotta have some patience.

I know about Misfit, not the biggest fan. I thought everything was too easy for him, I liked Sasha from there

Btw, Torias the Awful that Yuno mentioned, was actually Toroa, it was probably a mistranslation in there. And she probably mentioned all of them because they are like living legends.

Yeah, he is in the new episode. Toroa's part was 30 pages, Mestexil's part was 20 pages, and gray haired child's part was 7 pages. 57 is kinda a lot for 1 episode. Btw Linaris's part was 30 pages and they adapted it 17 minutes. I really hope most of the episode will go to Toroa and not much to Mestexil, but we'll see... In any case, i'll fill you in on some stuff that they missed. Also describe all of Toroa's enchanted swords, if they don't do it well. I'll mention the one that was shown in the PV. Nel Tseu the Burning Blade(had to look up the name).
I only remember Ketelk and Lance of Faima. Ketelk has a funny name and Lance of Faima is my favorite enchanted sword, it acts as a shield and protects the user to an unexpected attack and looks like a sword connected by a chain, I actually learned that it's called kusarigama and was even shown in naruto.

Which specific ones did you like? I can't really remember all, but the one that comes to mind is Instand death, which btw aired at the same time with Ishura, I remember it well because I stopped reading Ishura for a while, because I wanted to check Instant Death out... the world is filled with such terrible assholes, that you hope that someone powerful takes them down.
Do you mean you are weak to waifus? and that's your priority? Or is it synopsis? was a little confused there. I sometimes read the synopsis, sometimes not. Usually the front image catches your eye and you feel interested. I can watch pretty much anything as long as it's interesting.
Yeah Cote should be something you'd like. Also, Openings are pretty good there.

Never understood why Zizma just drew his blade, Kuuro basically approached him, because he was part of Lithia's forces and he wasn't cooperating, and since Kuuro is his acquintance, he could talk some sense into him.
I see your logic why you'd think Shalk is someone she can't control. Speaking of which, Shalk has such an interesting story in vol3.
I don't really understand what Thrall means, but it sounds cool.
" I like that even in a world with such powerful characters, the political leaders are very relevant" Oh boy, wait until gray-haired child is introduced(he actually should've been introduced before Linaris, but oh well). I'm more scared of him than of any shura. Linaris is also very very scary.

Glad you like Ishura names!

Btw, remember the scene with Yuno thinking on who can kill Soujirou? I remember rereading that page from time to time. I was curious on who she was talking about, I only recognized 3 characters, but not so long ago, I learned about the other 2 as well. It makes sense why she mentioned them, those were all popular names, even legends, who even a girl like her would hear about. There were no TVs, so she probably heard about them from someone else's mouth. The great thing is,we'll see everyone this season!
That's who she mentioned

I liked season3 of classroom of the elite, season2 was also fine except for final episodes. Also I heard that Lerche the studio behind it, didn't want to make s2, but was kinda pressured by the community, since cote is the most popular novel of all time maybe. I'm a fan, but not the biggest fan. I don't really like OP protagonists, or if he's OP, at least make everyone around him OP as well. Or those too perfect characters, that can do anything. I like cote for girls, I got at least 3 favorites, and there are even more great ones.
Forgot another character's design I really liked. The ogre, zizma the miasma, he looked WAY TOO GOOD for a minor character who wasn't even given an appearance in the novel
Btw, back when I read cote, it wasn't even on mal and I don't think there was even wiki, I read it like 6 months before the anime, crazy how it became this popular. I never read after that tho, haha

Thanks for sharing, was interesting to read your thoughts about her. I don't think there is anything that can counter her to be very honest. But to begin with, we don't even know how her power truly works. Obviously she isn't gonna fight by herself. There was a certain description in the novel of her. How her hands never touched the weapon, and yet...
Oh, one more thing I forgot to mention. For some reason, they are called corpses in the anime... but in the novel they were called thralls. It's whatever, not a complaint, but why did they change the name? I can't understand... Also I don't like this name cause that assumes they are already dead, but I think her influence can be broken(but I don't know, I haven't gotten there, actually I doubt if it even is shown later on)
If you liked Enu, you would like other officials even more. I only didn't like Kaete the Round Table who will appear later on with Elea, you'll realize why I didn't like him.

Kia and Yuno will appear shortly, I can tell you that and Alus next episode. Well, Hidow,Harghent obviously. And Shalk, don't think anyone else does...

I like mentioning titles, makes them cooler. Especially Mele the Horizon Roar. Shalk The Sound Slicer... Some names are better than the others. The best thing about Ishura is that second name isn't your family name, but a title given to you after you come of age. Some names make no sense. Like Sirok the Sextant, why Sextant?
Oh, jsut remembered that Yuno was the one who name Soujirou. Willow sword, that's a good name...

Message got a bit longer than usual :(
Also, I know I might be a bit weird for the fact that I remember the full name of most characters :v even if most of them are unuusal like Iron-Plumesheade lol

I do like some designs, major characters are done pretty well overall. I'm very happy with Toroa especially. Most characters look 1-1. But since not all officials were shown and the author is not that descriptive when it comes to their appeareances, he kinda deserves that anime made some of them in their own way. And yeah, i'm very happy with the anime. Let's be real, no novel reader should have too high of expectations, season1 adaptation was pretty perfect in my eyes, but that's the ONLY novel that was adapted this well from what I remember. And even season2 at least doesn't change the story or character personalities or if you watched Classroom of the elite season1, they gave half of Karuizawa Kei's lines to Horikita, which is insane, robbing one character of her lines just to give it to another. Overall, yeah, must say, even if I forget about season1 (which was a perfect adaptation, can't ask for more). Season2 by itself was also close to perfect, haven't seen better. Even scenes that they skipped, I can stand by it. Even if I was an author, it would be bitter, but I would accept it, those were just buildup scenes after all, but at least that was more time for Linaris, and they even added some scenes like how Sirok got his assigment, that scene was animated, while in the novel we only got the aftermath of it "I got the assigment"

So far I'm only surprised by Auretia's officials designs. Hidow, Jelki, Harghent, Elea are well done. They are the most important ones so that's ok. Haede was done very well as well. Haede the Bullet Flashpoint. Mizial the Iron Plumesheade was also ok, well little boy is a little boy, nothing special.
Btw, since anime didn't explain it, I wanted to explain something, maybe you'll grow more familiar with some of them. Since they are overall minor characters than the champions, and given the limited time, there's no way this will ever get explained in the anime. It was explained in the novel, during their meeting about Particle Storm at the end of 2nd episode, so it's not really a spoiler. Not a spoiler if anime skips it entirely.
Basically Haede is second most important after Rosclai. There are 2 factions Rosclay and Haede, both are generals and compete against each other. Haede likes wars and fighting, and I think he himself can hold his own in a fight, so his choice for sponsorship is not that weird.
Mizial The Iron Plumesheade - one of my favorite generals, he is a 15? year old boy, always speaks what he feels, it was mentioned that he isn't as brilliant as Elea or Hidow, and is the youngest official.

The dark house gave it away? In the novel it also mentioned that she was so pale, almost glass-like, like she never seen the sun in her life. But in the anime, it didn't really catch my attention. That might have also given it away, had she been more pale.

Tbh, it's not really about her being a vampire, but about her personality. I never even think about a vampire when I think of Linaris. To me vampire is synonymous to biting, she isn't biting, so, not a vampire... in my eyes at least. If her power is how I think it is, it's too overpowered, if she can turn anyone, as long as they are in the same area. Btw, do you think she also controlled Enu with the letter? She said he did exactly what she wanted, so I always wondered if she took control of him even back there with the letter.
Also, really liked how they closed in on the gate, after Linaris mentioned that he was injured. It's still a big mystery into how exactly Sirok was injured, but the moment she mentioned, he thought that he scratched it on the gate or rose, and camera zoomed in on it lol, but some might not have catched it. The other theory is that one of her companions cut him when he wasn't paying attention.
Another big question is when exactly Sirok got under her control? When he first saw her? when she wrapped his wound? When she gave him the letter?
My theory(not confirmed) is that she truly takes control over someone when she mixes her blood with her target. Like when she treated his wound, the bandage must have had her blood in there, that's a theory.

About old characteres, you should see some this season, just some minor scenes, unless they skip them since they are minor, could also happen, would be bad, I really like them. Like Kia buying an ice cream lol

This time I watched even earlier lol. Kinda didn't feel like doing it, it always takes so much time, if it's an adaptation of what I've read, I'd watch slower than usual, while its easy to watch cause there is no new information for me, I stop many times and think back to what they changed/skipped. I also was stunnlocked several times through the episode due to how some characters look. Like Enu the Distant Mirror, in the novel it said his hair was combed to the back of his head and never said anything about a hat, and in the anime he is wearing a hat, it also said that he is always composed, but in the anime he looked like an alien lol.
Also Kayon The Thundering looks like a woman, when it was stated that he was a man. He is a one-armed general,you can see him in the opening with sleeping Mizial in the carriage. Also I've never seen them having this good of a relationship.
Also, please note, this is not complaint, I'm just trying to understand and am incredibly confused.

I'm pretty happy with Linaris's adaptation, nothing much to explain, I have some small complaints, especially with how rushed some parts looked, hence why some scenes might have felt unnatural, but overall it was solid, captured her personality and her powers quite well.

"And I can’t remember if Yuno said that already or not, but I wouldn’t consider that spoiler if she hasn’t, that dialogue goes hard tho." She said it in volume 1, but it was probably not adapted. See, even though the season1 adapted only 1 season, it's still impossible to include everything. Now imagine, adapting 2 now. But I'm happy they are adapting 2 volumes, because if they kept adapting just 1 volume, we'd have no viewers left by the time the tournament starts. But Ishura volumes are so long, vol 3 is like 400 pages, while every other volume in any other novel is like 200-250. The Author even apologized about it in the first volume, saying it is what it is lol. I'm not reading a hard copy, but I imagine a 400 page book is more uncomfortable to read than a 200 one

Tbh, I don't really like how deaths are done in Ishura, some of them might have been avoided, and some of them shouldn't have happened, and all of them just make you so sad. Like if only Dakai left earlier ...zzz.

Looking forward to your Linaris thoughts xD And then Toroa/Mestexil next ep, mostly Toroa tho. After that, I don't really care...
And the Opening, I'm a big big fan of this opening, already watched it a couple of times. Its' funny how it only contains new characters lol, I don't think there is a single one from season 1. But Shalk does appear in the ED

glad you liked it!

Yeah, weekly watching is great, I was talking about watching it right away, as it comes out.

Yeah, you are right, basically gods among mortals.
Speaking of shura shouldn't exist. Yuno said a great thing, but I forgot if that was in the anime

Nah, I'm pretty much never happy that someone dies, I was raised by One Piece and it had almost no deaths, even defeated opponents stay alive. The downside is that it adds to an already huge cast of characters, but the upside is that as a viewer, I still can hope for a better future for that character, especially if you like him. But when they die, all hope is over.

Nah, there are no spoilers, also Ishura isn't that popular in the west, so I doubt many have read it, only weirdos like me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLRWQDQNvuc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XpvZkUpz1M
there is also op 1 and ed1 for new anime. OP is actually being sung by Itou Miku, if you know her. Actually, I think Bang dream is when her career blew up and she gained popularity and then got other popular roles. I'm not the biggest fan of her, but I respect her nonetheless. Actually all voice actresses are pretty close, can you imagine? the project has been running for 7 years now, seeing the same people over the 7 years. There is a ton of funny clips with them. It's been a while since I've watched any though. I actually view Bang Dream similar to One piece, sure OP is longer, but the point stands, you see characters for a long long time, voices behind the characters ending up close to each other

Actually, I also forgot... I only remembered about it after rereading, well, I won't forget about it now. So if you think about it, NIhilo got 1v3d.
Yeah, look forward to it, I'm also writing out things that got skipped/unexplained. The only bad thing about all this, is because I'm forcing myself to watch it as it comes out. I don't usually like watching it in the same few hours after it's released, but I do it when I wanna leave an early comment.

Oh, forgot to mention, deaths in Ishura really hit hard. Dakai, Regnejee, Curte were all pretty sad, especially since they were all pretty cool characters that you'd wanna see, especially Dakai. But the one that hit the most was Lana's death, I still feel that it was bullshit and she didn't need to die, just don't show Kia to her and she won't find out anything, that's probably one thing I disliked the most. Back when I was reading it for the first time, I was rooting for them "please be friends, please be friends". And then seeing her death made me upset, sad and devastated all at the same time. But then when I've seen that in the anime, I didnt feel anything, I thought maybe the adaptation didn't capture the emotion, but then, a year later, I've reread the whole volume and that part and didn't feel anything. Actually I felt like the death was dumb.
And with Dakai, I was rooting for him to escape. "please don't pay attention to Yuno, just run away". Even though I knew what would happen lol, can't help but hope.

Btw speaking of Ishura comments, I don't usually like reddit, but I needed to see someone else's thoughts on it, and surprisingly reddit anime comments were very good. If anything it made me happy, someone likes it like me. Oh, and I've gotta tell you, back when I was reading WN's more, reading the comments was probably even better than the chapter sometimes, so engaging, so many people are really into it, you know? Especially spider, reading spider was something out of this world, unforgetable experience.

oh, I see, it's pretty unusual then.

Also, Sumire Uesaka, a voice of Ram is in one of the bands that covered the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRUFVQyKIG4

Yeah, Soujirou helped, but also mandrake poison, he snatched Higuare's dagger that was super sensitive for the spider's nerves.
To be fair, if mal had more favorite characters. Your profile visitors would only check the first 10-20, or only look for the characters they know.

Yeah, look forward to them. I'm looking forward to your ep discussion post.

I honestly get it, you'll always like the version you've seen first. I noticed it when I was reading one WN and LN at the same time. They are relatively similar, but mostly the translation is different. If I checked out the WN version first, then LN version felt inferior. IF i checked the LN version first, then WN version is inferior.
In my eyes the remake was very well done, it did the original justice. Wait... you did watch the original first right?

Lol, Himari from Bang Dream is my favorite character for the past 6 years and I always see her as protagonist lol. It's funny that there was an April Fool's event where Himari was the protagonist in the dating sim.
I mean, I didn't even watch D4dj anime... I just played the game cause its a sister game to Bang Dream, they share many seyuus.(thouh in the past 2 years, 3 of them left lol, because of overworking probably). I just play the game, not caring too much for the story. You can watch story at any time, there is no rush.
Speaking of Bang Dream, there are 3 Urusei Yatsura cover songs. There is also Project Sekai, Love live and Idolmaster which should be similar, but I never seen those 3.

Who do you think Nihilo can win against?
I see your point about Alus, agree that that makese him likable. And yeah he and Regnejee are like night and day. But at the end Regnejee thought that he was just jealous of Alus and he wanted to spread his wings and leave the pack himself.
Yeah, Alus appears briefly in 2 eps, that was one of my favorite scenes lol. And then in volume 3. In volume 3, everyone gets some screen time. And his match is also at the end of volume 3 (btw, I don't think I'm spoiling, but if you don't wanna want to know who appears when, i'll understandably shut up. Not everyone likes it, I personally like to know these things as it builds up hype, I just don't like spoilers like "this guy dies, this guy loses type of spoilers")
Yeah, I doubt many people like Harghent. You didnt watch one piece right? or read tower of god, (mentioned the 2 cause they have the biggest cast known to man lol). I'm sure you would've had some interesting, unusual takes about characters that you like. Because it's a bit disappointing liking some characters and then seeing them have 0 favorites on mal. To be fair I also didn't add any Ishura characters to my favorites. So far I like Kia and Toroa the most, but I don't have space. I have a lot of favorite characters from all kinds of animes, can't add them all...

I haven't seen the old version, I've seen the new (2023?) version. But I've seen some youtube scenes of the old episodes and they were pretty good. Old comedy is fun. Urusei Yatsura reminds me of Osomatsu-san, very similar, old-style humor.

That's why I like bang dream and d4dj games. Each character has pretty much equal amount of time to shine. I only follow the characters I like, and view their stories. There are event stories, and personal character stories. In a way Ishura also has many characters, and a viewer selects those he likes to follow. I think it's overall balanced and neither has more plot armor than the other, so nothing is predetermined and you don't know who will win or die at the end.

Nihilo... Nihilo... A revenant who used to fight in Demon King army and then became a prisoner of war who wanted to live with other minias. A revenant is made from different parts, if I remember correctly. She was very hyped, too bad she went out too early. But if I look at every character that is gonna fight in the tournament, they will all wipe floor with her lol.
Yeah yeah, Shalk was great, he is also one of my favorites. Even though he never had his own introduction, if you remember. Alus is too greedy and too shura-like for my taste lol. He doesn't care what happens to others as long as he gets what he wants. He also is a character who always gets what he wants. But I respect him and he is a good character. I especially respect that despite being a wyvern who everyone looks down on, he is behaving very unwyvern-like.
Yeah, Harghent is also really good, good taste. One of the characters I root for. It's surprising to find out someone else likes him though. As far as him not being an OP shura. There are a lot of ministers and generals that are gonna be introduced and many other non-tournament participants. In general the cast is pretty large.
I wonder if you'll like Linaris and Toroa and Mestexil. They should appear in the next 2-3 eps.

yeah, I liked your Ishura comments, so I wanted to add you. It's very underrated imo. You also like Urusei Yatsura that I am also a fan of.

And I like how you have an unorothodox favorite characters, most of them are supporting/secondary heroine characters. I usually like supporting characters more than main characters.

Btw which Ishura characters do you like the most?

Thanks for accepting the FR!