I had to go back to the manga to check and the pocket horses show up there too. One panel shows that only the generals are riding while the other soldiers are on foot and then a couple pages later, it is a horse v. horse race (made it all the way up to chapter 85 in this episode btw).
This episode definitely felt a bit janky, though I think most of that (apart from the horse animation) is down to the source. Looking back, this plays out exactly the same in the manga. It really doesn’t make a whole lot of tactical sense. I think this series does the politics/negotiation side of things a lot better than the actual warfare. The tough thing about writing characters like Rosell and Mireille that are supposed to be geniuses is that they can really only be as smart as the author. So, too often, authors will just make everybody else act dumber so that they look smart.
Mercuri@ani.social 2 months ago
Look at you doing all the detective work once again!
Neat! How many chapters have been released total?
Very true. I was reading the Destiny’s Crucible series (which is not a Japanese LN series… crazy, right?) and the author did a good job with this particular isekai because the MC is basically a smart Earthling placed down on a Medieval Times planet so he’s constantly like, “I THINK this is how stuff like this works, but I’m not sure.” It allows him to get things wrong. Unfortunately things got really boring in the 4th book and I haven’t gone back to it.
But back to Aristocrat, the strength really is in the character development and political intrigue so I can let some tactical buffoonery slide. I mean, one battle basically boiled down to “My mage is better than your mage” so it’s whatever XD
wjs018@ani.social 2 months ago
Looks like there are 145 chapters available in both English and Japanese. Checking my Mangadex library, looks like I had stopped reading right around chapter 100. Not sure if we will get to new-to-me material this season or not.