The way this sequence of events plays out feels a little weird when it is animated like this rather than written out. For example, pretty much everybody in the stadium has had time to evacuate, meanwhile the VIPs have just been sitting there watching everything the whole time. Similarly, Makoto’s students just stand by and let Ilumgand simply eat all the bodies of the fallen fighters before actually doing anything about him. When things are written out, you can imagine a lot of these things happening concurrently.
Also, I don’t remember exactly how these monsters were described in the text, but I thought they looked pretty goofy in the show.
e-five@kbin.run 8 months ago
To me that was fine, like I sort of interpreted it as: first they tried to let the professional (purple coats) handle things. When that didn't go well it cut to the students pointing and discussing, so I would imagine they were strategizing / buffing. Though I guess it is weird to let the enemy (supposedly) power up as well, it did work out in the end, so I'm like, you can't really blame them, maybe they needed that time to win too, we can't say without knowing what would've happened if they didn't prepare.
I guess I saw a lot of hate on that other site for this episode but, perhaps it's because I've read the source material, nothing here really surprised me, all those scenes (the sisters, merchant, king/prince, etc) happened in the novel, which is kind of why last week I said "just one more episode, and then another and another" because I don't really expect the climax of this whole thing any time soon.
The monsters do look a bit goofy, well Ilumgand looked a bit intimidating in some stills, maybe it's just the ED effecting us.
e-five@kbin.run 8 months ago
I guess this series has always grappled with people really not liking when it spends time on other characters, like the students here or on the heroes before. I never really minded that too much, like in Overlord my favorite volumes are 7 or 12. Think it helps keep things fresh seeing from another perspective as long as the characters are relatively important, though I guess we haven't really seen any reason to care too much about the students besides the sisters so far.