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Completely sealing off every good route for the heroine. 😏

I also don’t remember why Meili is on Subaru’s side now, and who her mom is. I feel like they have too many things to explain and didn’t have enough time.

Season 2 is wiped from my mind… I looked back to remember what happened with Meili. As far as I can tell she was rescued/captured by Frederica in episode 48, very briefly shown passed out in episode 49, and that was the last of her. There are a couple of Break-Time episodes with Elsa and Meili talking, and one with Meili looking at the burnt ruins of Roswaal’s estate. Perhaps there was dialog afterwards that explained it later, but I think not.

I’ve been looking through the wikis, trying not to spoil myself too much (though I ended up spoiling myself on the mom part a little bit, because of the way character wikis are laid out). To avoid being spoiled, it’s probably better to just stick to the Arc 1-5 story recaps and avoid character wikis altogether. The way the anime portrayed Subaru’s and Meili’s interaction made me think that I was supposed to know more, but I think most of the details around Meili – including events that happened in season 2 – are supposed to be vague at this point and we’ll get more details now that she’s part of the cast again. There was a 1-year gap between season 2 and season 3, so perhaps we’re to conclude that some development with Meili happened during that time.

It would be pretty crazy if the story gives no explanation as to why Subaru can trust Meili now.

Well now I’m properly excited for this series.

From the title I thought this was going to be about making hats for magicians. I love the world building (A+ so far, though the idea of being able to keep magic secret is little hard to accept. I doubt that the series will focus on that so I think that I can lock in going forward.) and the fascination with the magic system (B to A+, depending on how well it explains advanced magic). The pacing so far is great: fast but doesn’t feel rushed. I suspect that this will be my favorite show of the season.

I went back to look at the easy-to-see magic circles. It seems that there is a wide variety of sigils. The signs around the sigils seem to have less variety. And there seems to be some variations on the enclosing circles. The floating carriage and the forbidden spell appear to have 2-levels of nested magic circles. If this was a re-incarnation power-fantasy show, the protagonist would probably immediately aim to create 3±levels of nested magic circles… but judging from the forbidden spell, 3-levels might have the potential to instantly destroy cities.

How the magic circles function with stone formations is a little bit of a mystery for now, I guess you could just say that there’s durable special ink (or whatever the ink’s made of) in the cracks.

I liked season 3’s talking around a table more than season 2’s talking around a table, for the most part.

But if things finally shake out in the next season, that sounds like a lot of fun.