I enjoyed watching this season. The world is filled with interesting things and plot developments advance at a decent pace, it has been comfortable to tune in each week. I’m sure the royal academy will spark all sorts of fun events. I’m tempted to rush forward and read the LN’s.
For this episode… why did grandpa become comically dumb for that scene? That was a strange choice. It was nice to see Ferdinand and others caring for Myne. We got to see a rare sighting of an emotional outburst from Ferdinand. They did let the evil noble weasel away, but knowing this show he’s eventually going to perpetrate another evil scheme, get foiled, and get his entire bloodline extinguished. And I look forward to it. If I’m following correctly, I think the use of the secret passage is the first piece of evidence that specifically indicts Georgine as assisting in the immoral schemes of the pro-Georgine nobles. I think the previous schemes could be explained as the pro-Georgine nobles working independently from Georgine. I could be wrong, forgetting something, it’s not a detail that I’ve been tracking closely.
Also, I don’t think I understand why the evil noble has to sneak out to give Myne a poison and give the kidnapper instructions himself. Is it a needless event to implicate the evil noble and Georgine or perhaps there’s a good explanation? I don’t know what they were planning to do by poisoning, but not killing, and kidnapping Myne. To be honest, I don’t care about these points too much; the mechanisms of nobles in this world are strange, so I can imagine that there are many possible explanations. I enjoy the show nonetheless. The issue is that I don’t know if I’m missing something that the show has already explained, or if these are intentional points of interest placed by the author, or if these are details that the show/story/author don’t really care about.
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BillyClark@piefed.social 2 minutes ago
That’s a bit of wtf from the anime’s perspective, but Bonifatius is supposed to have always been like that. He’s a musclehead who doesn’t completely realize his own strength, especially when he’s emotional. But unlike, say Angelica, he’s not really even normally that much of an idiot. It’s just like he has this big blind spot, and that’s why you heard in this episode that he was warned off of touching Rozemyne, who would be easy for him to accidentally kill, just randomly.
In this episode, it wasn’t animated for obvious reasons, but when Bonifatius punched the attacker in the hallway, it actually bashed his head completely in, and IIRC, that guy’s body struck and killed another attacker. He basically just killed them because he was upset and there were enough of them that killing some wouldn’t make a difference. And again unanimated for obvious reasons, when he unmasked Joisontak, he is supposed to have accidentally ripped off part of his face.
That’s not absolutely proven to the Archduke’s family, so they don’t really have that evidence. If they did have the evidence, they’d have executed two nobles instead of one. So, really, the use of that passage is only a supposition that has been animated just for the audience. And from the audience’s perspective, we already have seen some of the immoral schemes of pro-Georgine nobles, like their plotting against Wilfried.