e-five@kbin.run 3 months ago
I thought they would actually go back to the fight in Kaleneon this episode but, nope, fast forwarded through it. I still really don't understand what Mio did to make the demon general a smol lizard... I assume it has to do with his reflection skill but... I didn't remember or expect Mio to have won the fight by eating.
Mondo and Lime best bro duo this season.
They kind of glossed over it but the prince(ss) was expecting Makoto to be normal and like... blackmail her. That and Makoto turning down a full time teaching position shows it really does help to have a pocket dimension where all your needs are met.
What I was wondering if would get adapted last episode was (I wonder if we were talking about the same thing, wjs018), and Sofia is shown to be still alive! Oop, nevermind. Hard to not feel bad for her, Root definitely comes off as the villain here with his blasé attitude towards life, but perhaps that comes with living a very long time and losing everyone you get close to by being functionally immortal.
I had a moment during the party where I was thinking "Wait, is this the scene with... Right Mio won the contest... so will they adapt..." And yep, I feel like that's kind of a bad scene to end on, as Makoto brushes her affection aside, comes off as prime dense protag to me, but at least they all get a last name so they're like family, right?
I wanted to spend some time reflecting on the entire season, but doubt I'll have enough time to go through it all to collect my thoughts. Overall I didn't find the adaptation disappointing, but that might be because I have a lot of context with the WN, manga, and soon LN to fill in the gaps. I do wonder if things would be better if they went even more cut-heavy. Like people complain the students aren't fleshed out in the anime, but are in the manga (so go check it out if you want to see more), but I wonder what if the anime just completely cut them out? Nah, that's impossible, but what if... I'm not sure I've seen anything make that amount of drastic cuts though.
It was a fun ride, surprised it got a 2 cour episode season, and even more surprised it's getting a season 3. I think over time this became my favorite isekai, though it's very slow going there's so much character and relationship development, as well as crafty antagonists and allies, that I couldn't think of anything I'd place higher, so even though the anime adapation itself has been a bit iffy, another season is still something I look forward to
wjs018@ani.social 3 months ago
We were! I remember this interaction between Root and Sophia being kind of shocking when I read the WN because of how different he seems throughout the whole rest of the story up to this point. He is not the silly, flirty, carefree person that we normally see when he is talking to Sophia, but a cold, indifferent, ruthless immortal being that has determined she has outlived her usefulness.
Something that happened during that interaction that I didn’t remember was him noticing the katana. Is the implication that Lancer turned Root’s former husband (an isekai’d Japanese person, thus katana) into a sword and that is why it is so powerful?
I don’t remember this either. I did find the image of her munching on the spear really funny though.
I agree with your assessment that Makoto doesn’t really come off the best in how he continues to brush off Mio’s (and Tomoe’s) obvious affection. If they are family now, does he see them as sisters or as wives? He really needs to clarify things, with himself more than anything else. Also, does that make Shiki a brother, or a husband? If it’s the latter, Shiki better steer clear of Root, because the jealousy is likely to get him killed.
jherazob@beehaw.org 3 months ago
If i recall from the manga Makoto mentions he CAN’T see those two in that way no matter how hot they look because he cannot forget their true forms, which honestly is something i can understand
wjs018@ani.social 3 months ago
Yeah, I have read the source, so I am only going to talk about what we have seen up to now. The anime is ahead of the manga at this point, and characters can change over time. Makoto is about as late a bloomer as you can get. He gets flustered any time he sees some exposed skin or a woman makes an advance on him (the brothel, the medusa, Hibiki’s new outfit, the students that propose to him). In the past he had even blasted Mio and Tomoe with magic to escape them as they made an advance. So, his kind of fumbling around about what to say to Mio this time is a tamer reaction than we have seen from him in the past at least.
As a side point though, I do understand not being able to see past the fact that the person you are considering becoming intimate with was at one point a giant spider that came close to killing you. That would be traumatic. It certainly was for Hibiki’s party. However, an “invincible” dragon that proved to not really be a threat? Where do I sign up?