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Hello and welcome to a new episode of anime brain freeze.
We are your eternal hosts.
I am Jon.
And I'm CC.
When there's just too much cool anime to watch, we've got you covered.
Today, time is relative as we kick off the trio of reviews we are tackling today
by partaking in yet another grail war with a twist.
The first season of Fate Strange Fake.
After that, we return to the world of the immortal Fushi
to find out if the new age of peace he created is really all that he hoped for
into your eternity season 3.
Last but not least, we accompany our lovable elf and her two companions
on the next steps of their life changing journey in the second season of Feren.
So summon your friends and favorite servants to battle by your side.
Make sure the treasure chest that has peaked your interest is not a mimic
and definitely don't pause the pot, we'll be right back.
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Well friends, put on your cowboy hats because we're going to Murca.
Yeah, I mean, this is twice in a row.
Like last week was Joe Joe's?
No.
Oh, that is true.
I did completely forgot.
We're not in San Diego though.
Where are we?
I don't know.
Snow field.
Yes, the well known capital.
Well, the capital of American state.
Okay, so apparently snow field is in Nevada.
I had to go and double check it to make sure I was right.
But apparently it is an actual place though.
Interesting place to pick for a grail war.
But I don't know.
I mean, I think it is one of those ironically named places because Nevada is a lot of desert.
Yeah, I was about to think with.
What's the?
I mean, Falios must have had a reason to for picking that if it was him who did and not Francesca or whoever.
We'll get to all of them, but.
It doesn't feel like maybe because it's more of a remote town or whatever and they thought it wouldn't be causing much hub up if they did the grey war there.
Little did they account for saver, I guess.
Much to their own surprise.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, what is concerned is these kickoff with the literal bang?
Yes.
What's several bangs technically because this was like a multi part preamblish prolog thing before the actual series it.
Yeah, we had a pre a prologue called whispers of dawn in 2023.
And we had episode one in 2024, 2025, depending on how the calendar falls for you because time zones are weird.
And then the show only started airing in 2026.
Yeah, long, long last week here.
It was a weird timeline of events, type moons, certainly it likes to do their own.
The thing, I guess the the first episode is air is because they always like to have something to show off for the start of the new year.
They showed off at like the tail end of 2024 start of 2025.
Again, depending on where you live and how time goes, but yes, so.
Two holy grail wars emerging in snowfield Nevada were images from around the world, some in servants, heroic spirits drawn from myth in history to fight on their behalf.
However, this war seems to differ from previous ones.
The organization behind the appears to have used data from the who you key grail war for their ritual resulting in strange happenings.
Unbeknownst to most participants, this budding conflict is actually a fake.
Hmm, grail war.
There is just another set of seven true servants who are summoned to fight in the genuine holy grail war.
One of these servants is a powerful saber class who saves the life of one Iacasadjo, his apparent master after being summoned with hidden agenda is an unpredictable forces at play.
The line between the fake and true grail war becomes unclear turning snow field into a dangerous battle field.
Thank you once again to friends of the show, M.A.L rewrite for that.
So they didn't waste any time getting into this and they also didn't waste any budget on this show because Jesus Christ.
Yeah, who is responsible for this a one again or a one pictures indeed.
So they did a parkour for and I mean before that I guess fate zero unlimited blade works and fate stay night.
The other version.
Oh, right.
I forgot.
I forgot what it's called the one that released a three movies that was you who tell.
Yeah, that was.
Heavens feel.
Heavens feel right which I still haven't watched.
Yeah, and I guess after that a one took over mostly with apocrypha with the fake grand order stuff right they were so responsible for that.
I don't almost that someone else.
Yeah, I'm looking it up right now.
Okay, they did they did a little bit of Babylonia.
I think like some in between stuff that was headed up by I am delaying for time.
Clover works.
Ah, right.
Okay, so we had more even more teams working on this, but yeah, okay, so I wanted at least apocrypha and our data back for this.
I feel like this is even a step.
I mean apocrypha look mostly good, but this is on a level.
I feel like.
Yeah, I mean, when we talked about apocrypha, I had some issues with how parts of it were in a meeting and parts of it looked, but.
I mean, in the large part it looked pretty good, but there were some parts I was like, and I feel like they pray took some lessons away from that because this on the whole looks.
A lot better and a lot more consistent throughout and that's the problem was the consistency I feel like.
Yes, and I feel like the even bigger gripe with apocrypha was the story right and how it moved and everything if I remember correctly.
Yeah, there's that too. There's there's a little bit of that in this because it goes.
It this story goes really fast.
That's true. Yes.
Where apocrypha might have, I don't know, directed sweet and certain parts fake does not.
No, it moves one million miles per hour and I mean that like you said that brings with its own problems, but if you're for in for a breezy watch.
It's going to be this.
It ain't going to be this.
I mean, it's breezy like it's moving fast. There's a lot happening, but you might not necessarily be able to make heads or dance.
Because it's so fucking inaccessible.
So let me get this out of the way. Like if you want to get into the fade franchise or into the adaptions into the adaptions, I say stop with like whatever you do.
Don't make this your first contact with the franchise.
No, because it will will be absolutely impenetrable for you because this is like this is like step three in a timeline of events.
Like this is this is a direct follow up to things because they are characters we've seen from before they're like, Oh, it's that person.
They're doing that thing.
And you have to you got to at least start with fate zero and then work your way through.
Elm all over what's your Elm all over case.
Yeah. Elm all over you got you have to watch at least one version of fate stay night.
And the gist of that right now I feel like that is the thing that you could you know keep for later because they're not that many references.
There are a couple of small hints and very small cameos that relate to unlimited blade works, I guess, but it's not as heavily relying on that.
It is definitely real and neither is it relying much on apocopal.
There's some action like she she go for example as mentioned.
Or boy some weapons to someone. Yeah, but you know, that could change in the second season of this where it's like, OK, now you need to watch these two because now these characters appear whatever because this definitely feels like a one is doing like the smash boss ultimate version of the fate franchise.
Everyone is here like even there even a lot of references to fucking Babylonian front like great fake grand order, which we also reviewed.
Especially when it comes to the characters of of Gil and he do.
Who there is no really any reference in any of the other adaptions to them.
And all of them pretty much but or at least in the biggest ones, but like their confrontation and what they're talking about and their relationship that was solely relegated to fate to the fake grand order adoption.
Yeah, the first the last duel that they're talking about everything that's all in that.
So you should have watched that probably as well.
At least Babylonian front.
This is the first like quote unquote main line appearance of Enquido.
Yeah, so like the stuff is there you can get to it.
The question is where do you start and like John said, I would say at least start with faith zero maybe also if you want to get into the guild and Enquido stuff also watch Babylonia.
Definitely watch Elmoloa because one of the big central characters I guess or their two of them are from that show like I mean waiver is from fate zero.
So fate zero still the most important thing, but he is also like the main character of the Elmoloa case files and also flat who is in this and has a very important part.
It gets introduced there so if you want to like get acquainted with him and like who is that why is the show treating him as someone so familiar.
Yeah, definitely watch that as well.
So I guess if you want to get into this you got some homework to do unless you've already done it which we in reviewing this kind of I would say going to assume or we won't get anywhere.
Like we're not going to explain every character to you.
We can't do that or this talk would be four to five hours long exactly.
So if you want to get a bit of preamble we have reviewed the Elmoloa case files we have reviewed a fake rent all of Babylonia front.
We haven't reviewed fate zero yet.
Hey, we might still do that at some point who knows our 200 episodes is coming up and I was thinking about reviewing something older that might be something we want to do.
We did talk about apocrypha.
Yes, we talked about the part of which at this point is not as important for this but hey, you know, one more.
One more finish on a couple things.
Yes and I'm not even sure that this is directly in the same timeline as any of these or if it's just a slightly different thing where that where most of these happened but maybe in a slightly different way like the show is not definitive on that.
Yeah, it's entirely possible it might have been a sharded off timeline from that.
I know I know I know I'm never mind I'm not looking at that.
I was trying to see if I could find a simple like this lead to this or this or that and I saw a big complicated chart and we're not breaking that down right now.
No, no, no, no, no, let's not do that.
Maybe in my own time I'll look at that.
Yes, so as someone who has consumed a lot of faith stuff at this point, I would say this was highly enjoyable.
This was a blast.
Like you said, like we said, wholly impenetrable for people who have no familiarity with this franchise.
But if you just want to watch a very cool action cartoon, maybe try it out, I'm just saying the story won't make any sense to you.
Like things are going to happen and will not really be explained to you and you're just going to wonder who is the wife, who, how, who, real servants, fake servants, how many what classes, what he's a, he's a berserk, he was summoned as an archer.
Now maybe he's in a vendor, he's a berserk or maybe he's not, he's like this guy.
So watch her. You're a what?
You know what? Never heard of this.
So yes, I think I think they introduced classes for this grill war.
Yes, I think this just makes sense because some of these I was like, I'm not sure we've had these.
But okay, all right. So just trying, I mean, John already got the basics out of the way with the intersection and so on.
And that's basically what is going on here. Like there's this organization.
I don't even know if they have a name or if we've been given that yet.
They, I think one to mass produce the grill war, the grill and or that's assumed like having a wish device for one power, whatever.
And there had chief of staff. I don't know. Guy Felios is kind of one of the organizers of this, but he is aligned with a couple of other characters.
There's this weird Gothel Elita character called Francesca and there are these illusions made that she has been in the grill war before that she has fought in the war before that she has fought the main.
Version of Saber who is one of the central characters in the fate franchise before which is Altria.
I still like the pronouncing a Toria better because more sense and we got to see she is a gender band version of King Arthur.
Yeah, the fact that Altria is like the official name now is like brothers come on.
And the story of the story makes more sense. Absolutely. Yeah, it's weird. But yeah, so we get thrown into this.
There's another one. There's a police chief, a police chief who's also Orlando who's also kind of.
I guess somewhat aligned with them and there's some rogue elements in there. There's a guy who is summoning one of the servants who's immediately turning against him because she had someone under the assassin class has her own mission is what she's trying to do.
The guy who's summoner is apparently a vampire who is crazy and fun and we have a priest from the church who is like usually overseeing these gray wars who is also very fun called Hansa.
He's a cyborg and Hansa might be one of my favorites. He's just absolutely. He's so great.
He is awesome. He's funny. He's doing real funny shit in his battle against against the vampire guy and we got to that.
But yeah, so there are a bunch of awesome colorful character. I guess one of the most central one, like you said, is Ayaka who is this girl.
Who is apparently been sent by one of the no families most just involved always who have always been most involved in the rail wall by the iron spurns who also heavily featured in fade zero in fade stay night.
And it's not really clear why she was like how that happened who she really is and what her mission is she doesn't really what I have anything to do with the gray or a war but she gets just thrown in there on and by somewhat accident.
I guess some in the saber class to this war. I don't know is he supposed to real one or one of the fake versions.
It's still not clear. I feel like because we haven't gotten another saber yet, right? So right.
Okay, so but he is not it's not that's important thing. He for some reason that was I guess the biggest surprise for long time.
Faith Watchers. He is not Altria. He is a guy. And we in the beginning don't know who he is for most of the servants.
We don't know who they are. This is always kind of like the fun thing in the fate series to try to determine. Okay. All of these all of these sermons that are someone to the gray or by magic incontasion and then are controlled through the by the their masters who summoned them to this age to this war.
They have are actual people from either fiction or from well it's a it's assumed they're from history or myth. So it's like hey these people existed at some point they're not completely made up but they might just from from from looking at it from our perspective from our world some of these might not be have been real people but they are in the myth they are in in the history books in a way in that universe.
So they can be summoned and so it's always fun when you see oh this is a saber this is an assassin this is this is an archer like who were they in in the history of this world to where they before and I feel like the show he's their identities it drops hints in here in there.
And the beginning and you can actually make assumptions and I was right with most of them I would say for saber for example who he was and he's like oh okay okay it's gotta be it's gotta be this guy because he mentioned certain people.
That's are affiliated with that person in in lie in real life if you know their names okay then it must be this this person this king.
And you know but there's some characters there where it's a bit tougher to find out but by the halfway point I feel like all of them are revealing their real names or most of them anyway is like oh okay you just come out and say it even though you're not supposed to because that gives the other side power over you if you.
They know it or you know other people if they know your name like a name is powerful in dispensuous so there I think that the over working term is always been like true name yeah so so it's it's funny that this show was like at the halfway point no this is that guy this is that kind of I mean some characters certain characters very easily offered up and others just sort of get found out so yes exactly.
I mean there's some even some character development reasons like there's the and if you don't want to know anything about the real names of people of these people in here want to figure it themselves out.
I don't know what to tell you.
Yes kind of her to talk around it at the spring yes because it also integrals to some of the characters and everything but I feel like one of them more interesting and important moments is where saber who turns out to be rich at line up.
Reveals their name to their master to Iaka as a proof of trust and that they consider them a real master even if it's a fake gray award everything and that kind of changes their relationship a bit and also gives Iaka confidence boost because she's very.
She's very introverted she's not into all of this there are several reasons for this which gets a big twist by the end of this show as well.
I have to see is in West like oh okay who.
What is happening here so that it was really nice to have that in here when it's like first you're like oh he mentions hey I hung out with this guy called Robert of locks.
I was like okay okay okay alright it's not that hard to determine who you are I wonder yes so yeah and then we have here at least in this as well who is get summoned under the yes first as archer then as to get certain to an event or something like that yeah don't.
And a couple of other ones that we're familiar with Francesca's identity which I want reveal here at this point is really interesting because I don't think she has participated in any of the gray awards that we have watched until this point but she might have been in the third one I'm not sure but she's definitely affiliated to a character to who appears as a servant in fade zero.
So that's interesting and also the way she appears and what servant she summons is really interesting like that's that's that's it that's an unique twist I don't think we've had this before like someone pulling that out of their ass and we like oh I'm just I'm just going to do this.
This is now this is now my servant it was really interesting like I like that to show did something unique in that way so yeah what John what is trying to try to compress this as much as possible because this is the first season review what and trying to keep it somewhat spoiler free because if there's a second season we're probably definitely going to review it.
What is happening like what is what is the the epic flow of this like just just the basics you want me to compress this yes okay I mean you covered a lot of the big stuff like we have let's say let's start with our affections we have Iaca you know our main affections we have Iaca with saber slash Richard.
We have flat was affiliated with waiver who the way he enters the stomach of the same way yeah so flat just sort of shows up with the servant you know okay and waiver back in London is like what are you doing I told you not to go to America and do these things and I forget who he who he who is not.
I forget who he who speaking to him says hmm interesting like teacher like pupil and waivers like you know never mind I guess I can't really say anything about this then because I sort of did the same things several years ago exactly exactly flat is just you know he adores his master and I I lost my ship when he he used his
nickname in in like when he tries to get him to to convince him to let him take part in the gray won't he call some big band London star like that was good like that got me so and their conversations in general are great and yeah so he enters he gets jack the rapper which
you know he's in unique spin on it like they did they're making him kind of a good guy in this which is interesting choice yeah not sure how to feel about that but he's also like a master of disguise so you can do a whole lot of things yeah that is really it becomes really interesting in regards to his power said and what they do like there's this cool scene later
where flat and him infiltrate the police headquarters and as like there's some really nice trickery there that I appreciate that was just really cool seeing like the white ray of that power set and then later in the final big fight of the season we have a couple of things of that as well that are specific to his his his power said and his character and everything and that
that was really unique and interesting and it kept the fights varied and so give us some need surprises when it came to the back and forth and the fight so I really liked I really liked
the jacks power set there and together with flat and how they set it up and everything it was really cool to do things so too.
Oh yeah for sure like even though it still leaves can a weird taste in my mouth at least makes the character interesting to you know see what goes on with them yeah yeah the real character is the red corner is a bit weird it's like I'm I don't even know how they try to explain it like they completely gloss over
hey I just murdered some hookers that was my thing bro but now I'm I'm kind of my own man whatever it doesn't really like they don't really talk about that he's just a guy and was considered a man is back in the day but maybe he isn't maybe it was just foul play or whatever so don't take it too seriously
just to not get offended but yeah it was interesting is he's basically like I'm an accumulation of a bunch of different people I think is how they try to explain it there were never was this one jack the ripper and I'm just the I'm just a creation of all of these myths about my character and that's what you summoned I think that's how they're doing it so whatever he's summoned he's not really
really reperson is like kind of a vision a mosaic of all these different myths about jack the ripper or something like that so and I guess that kind of works through it is yes and I mean that's kind of true for a lot of these characters because it's like there's no a clear not necessarily a clear definition of who that character was like there are a lot of liberties taken with at least for the characters that really existed to a degree like there is
a comment in the fake cast a class is an author I first think was cast an oval but that's not him and when they reveal who he really is I felt like okay I guess that kind of makes sense but I think they also took some big liberties there for that character so just take none of this
to seriously please just have fun with that concept and just accept that that is everything you're gonna see is an interpretation of these characters from myth and legend and history
and they're not supposed to be like clear cut historical action of these characters. Otherwise there wouldn't be all able to fight in this weird battle and I don't think that Richard
Reinhardt was able to turn every weapon he touches into fucking Excalibur oh yes he could come on it's written in the history books though I love that characterization that he's just such a fucking king author fanboy that he's that his mind is so that he so
might over method that he can just say now all I'm I just every thought I touched is gonna be king author swords and that is it I'm gonna shoot lasers for
it that is a heck of a power though yeah it's like it's it's big theater kid energy in the most literal sense considering he destroys a theater at one point yes
absolutely but he's fun like he's he's into rock music immediately which I appreciate so like this version of saber I really really liked and I like narrow in um
in apocrypha which was also not ultra so I was a fun character and I like ultra but we have seen her many times now and I think this in this incarnation is is refreshing and it's nice and there's still a connection to the most well known version of
saber and hey there's actually more like to to get that they that they actually do with that which I really appreciate that there is a flashback later in this season directly to my favorite probably my favorite
favorite fade zero episode yeah where I don't know I don't think it's French Jessica I think it's I think it's Philia right who does this it might be French
Philia I don't remember who does this but they're confronting Richard they're confronting saber with the the past with the fourth grade war and that conversation between saber back there which was
and writer which was Alexander the great in that war and they have like in fade zero this great conversation about what it means to each of them to be a king like how do they define kingship how do they define being a king
and ruling over people and what is the most important to them and they all have different definitions of that
deal is the dipshit version because he is the most self-obsessed person and in the universe which is fun and its own right and it always has been because he's just such a giant piece of ass
he is purely in it for himself yes absolutely and I mean the fun thing is he gets summoned in this war by serving to benefits from that
because she is like she's devol... let's say she's very devoted to her mission of reclaiming the land for her people and everything and it's very like
well-managed and everything and treats guild the right way which of course he appreciates otherwise he would have immediately killed her
but he you know he with his the way he acts and everything kind as a positive effect on her and how she looks at life and everything so I feel like that even even a dipshit like guild can do good
for certain people and I feel like he had a bit more of a positive cause of connotation already in Babylonian front not so much in fade zero in fade say night but in this I think he does
and yeah so we had to in confess I have this flashback to the conversation between him between ultry and between Alexander and there is like this thing where she tries to throw him
of course by showing him these these flashbacks first of conversation and then how the grail war in fade zero ends because yes big spoilers for an ult show
ultria kind of loses like she cannot realize her dream because she gets abused by another character to destroy like force to destroy the grail which backfires incredibly
the ending of fade zero is legendary in regards to what a mind fuck it is and how everything gets escalates really quickly and really badly so I feel like they they try to use this or the person who's showing this to just trying to use this to
to throw him off his gain and trying to sway him from his his his his admiration for ultria but that kind of doesn't work because like I don't even know how he he explains that he's still that his conviction is unwavering in the face of this but he is like no this
this is this also is why I like her because she's this is why I like this is why I admire her she's also fallible she's also human and she's perfect and that that it doesn't matter to me I like all of this character I like all of this person I admire all of this version of of a king
with all the flaws and all the imperfections and you only boosted my conviction by showing me this like you made me more devoted to that person and that's what's amazing I really like that so
and I guess it that also kind of works with in with his relation to I can everything I don't know if his his his confirmation who is comes before after that but it works in it fits into the floor that I think it was before I think it was because he makes a big show of himself after getting arrested
getting arrested by Orlando Riven his crew yes yeah another character that is really interesting like pretty straightforward like he assembles this police for us and gives all of them through the power of a servant to the power of castor all of them have these super weapons superpowers called noble fantasms noble
fantasms in the fate universe like basically either weapons or weapon or special attacks depending on how they are all the manifests how they character are characterizing everything usually usually its weapons with special powers
and you know he wants to deliver his version of justice with their help whatever that means so yeah he he is in this and he is this there's this cool fight it's pretty the first real standout fight in this where he fights jester the vampire the dead apostle
and you know who makes kind of kind of short work of these of the screw like the police forces not that powerful yeah because dead a dead apostles are apparently invulnerable to noble fantasms so yes
what is what does he call the police force clan cattle in or something right clan calatine yeah calatine yeah so yeah but there's this then Hansa joins and the fight becomes really fun because Hansa and this cyborg powers are really cool and he for some reason he has to your your heart with him
I don't know from from fucking near automata I don't know why he is his his his his ladies like his his assistants look like that but it looks cool
and yeah so that that is a standout fight I really like that I just tried to so funny that Hansa tries so hard to hide that he is so much cybernetic and everyone just pointed out so easily
yeah okay yeah yeah that's me just eventually just give up like yeah I'm mostly robot yeah okay yeah yeah and like I said he's one of the most fun characters and this he's just very loose and he just the way he talks to the other characters and doesn't take all of this too seriously is just a fun
all this dialogue is just really really fun so then we have archer slash avenger who gets summoned by this mafia guy but who's also working together with with values and with Francesca and a bunch of other like I can go through all of them but then once the once the real
the real servants that gets summoned which is the end goal for this apparently get get summoned we got a really big character cast like we get a writer and digital writer I think we get an additional castor if I'm not mistaken I'm not sure and there's a lot of lost off going on
yeah because we start with Orlando's castor who is also big theater kid energy so he makes it he makes it isn't in very nicely yeah he has really like his power set is like that he can basically rewrite reality to an extent that's how he's able to give a clan clan callatin all their their noble fantasies and everything and he that comes also again into play in in the final fight of this so yeah I
interpreted it more as he can basically write to truth to power in the most literal sense yeah yeah pretty much and that that that's that's really cool and like I said there's a bunch of twists in the in the final fight in this that where that especially benefit benefit from his power set and you know the
the clan callatin has a really cool a real moment in that as well that was like one of these fuck yeah moments doesn't about too much but it's still a cool moment yeah still awesome yeah so I like that so
we've got a sigma who is recruited by Francesca and Fowl Day as soon he boy he's got some stuff going on he can summon familiar yeah he's a child so is recon summoned familiar he's he's kind of just following orders for most of the story but oh boy things happen
a week I don't think we can really get into but yeah he takes a he he endears himself much more to us the way he handles certain people at the end of this reason because like this this like this important character girl that is in a hospital bed for most of the show and who has seems to have summoned like this this dark weird clouds
or whatever power that infects things and everything and most of the fight of the final fight takes I guess part in a version of her consciousness at the end or an illusion she created something like that and her back stories really
yeah harrowing in everything and fucked up and there's some this there's a really really tough moment to watch at the tail of this but it also like I said give sigma a version reason to be damn right to be to be that kind of a glad you did that so yeah this is crazy because he starts off like this very flat not that flat
but a very flat sort of stoic character and as we get to know him we get to see him and then the way things play I say okay no you you're also really really cool actually so yes exactly he has quite a lot of nice character development in this just as also interesting though he doesn't get much character development he's just there as a dish as an additional antagonistic forest
was lasting after his servant but his servant doesn't want anything to do with yeah that's right assassin is really interesting at this because she has like she summoned immediately kills the person who summoned her without knowing that it's a that a possible and that he will come back to life
but she is like in this to destroy the grail war basically should to take revenge on all the masters like who toyed with everyone that was summoned into her role before her and everything and made them do things they didn't want to do and she is a rightful grudge and I like that but she's not unreasonable or anything like she's not like this this this rabbit forest that is going around and just killing anyone
she picks her targets and everything and she even pretty quickly has like the ceasefire agreement with a bunch of the other characters like with Iaca and saber I guess and with with flat I guess down the road though he's a bit a side and later lines up with Orlando I don't even know if he's part of their ceasefire but sigma gets also wrote into that and it was really interesting and so we have a bunch of factions that are accumulate around each other at a certain time
each other at a certain point and then get all wrote into this big giant battle where I guess the most the main opponent is archer slash of anger, heracles and they have this big fight against them and then that gets extended later out once it's revealed to that little girl really is who are servant really is and there's another character who gets thrown into the mix
who introduces herself as philia but and I'm not going to give that away because it's one of the biggest spoilers I guess but who she really is let me just say if you watched fate grand order Babylonian front you might have a guess that person is and again this is why I'm saying it might be valuable to watch tension as well because I don't think we've seen her in in another thing before aside from that so
yeah I think she's just part of that story yes so otherwise when she declares who she is you will be like who and we were like oh fuck oh shit okay hmm problems so yeah again this is like the everyone is here Smash Bros. Ultimate version of fate with like hey you should be familiar with some of these characters not all of them because some of them are new for this like Richard
has never been in the fate thing before I think the real writer servant who I think is a polita has not been in anything before sorry a couple of new ones I mean some of these are new to the anime adaptation some have shown up in FGO so you know yeah so new asterisk
yes but also like I feel like those that are new you don't necessarily need to have watched anything else to know who they are what they are about they immediately gets clarified who they're why they're fighting who they're fighting for most of the time and the other characters just tell what they're about most of the time for most of them anyway so it's fine for those again probably should be
again probably should watch definitely definitely watch fate zero definitely or you should watch Elmeloid and probably also should watch fate a grand order
bubble on your front if that's too much for you I don't know what to tell you you can try to watch this without having experienced any of these other shows but it will be I think a tough pill to smaller
is well in regards to making sense of the story it will be a lot yes exactly but hey if you watch these it's a lot of fun there's so much stuff happening if incredible action scenes funny characters really like I think one of the most
stand out characters and I love how much he's featured in this I like flat already in the Elmeloid case files but I think he's in more in of this than he was in that show and he was already fun there but he's really fun there like there's he has some of the funniest moments in this just in general he's exchanged with with Jack and with waiver and with some of the other characters he's such a
just so matter of fact about everything he's just like yeah I just want to talk about things I'll put on my cards on the table so yeah and there's also a big thing have the twist relating to him at the end of the show which I hope there's got to be another twist to this because otherwise who OK I will be quite upset I
don't want to go and shit but I was just like yeah exactly but yeah I will always remember him strolling into into the police headquarters in that in conspicuous cowboy outfit incredible what a character he's so fun there's a bunch of characters where I wasn't even sure if they've
been featured before as well like the guy in that weird side dimension with the telephone and whatever I don't know where he was from and there were some characters I think like Lord Van Alstam I wasn't sure anymore if he was featured in Elmeloid I think so so he gets mentioned later on like but again the most important ones appear in the show that we mentioned
and you should probably watch these but outside of them outside of that homework this is this is just a really fun show with great visuals great production values someone on the soundtrack is always a blast and yeah I I had a really fun time was this John and I really looking forward to the second season how do you feel about it always yeah like
give it to me give it to me now well you know maybe work on it and make it you know as good as you can but give it to me now yes absolutely I feel the same I hope a one will knock it out of the park with the second season of this as well whenever that is coming I mean they
like I said they came out so wing in from the first moment to the final on this show like before yeah so yeah super super fun just a bit of work to do if you haven't already watched the other shows to get into
us but this show was definitely a trip with taking in my opinion mm-hmm yeah so you can watch it on crunchy roll looks like it might be on prime video depending on where you live
this is you know it's at least a very easily accessible show as is pretty much most of the other related stuff required viewing that you should probably
check up or for watching this but yeah this show this is one of the definitely more interesting iterations of the
grille war and definitely can't wait to see more of it all right yeah it's been a while I think we both were pretty hot on season one we both had very
mixed feelings about season two mm-hmm like the story was still interesting in parts but the pacing was really weird and oftentimes there were some weird tone shifts it became very goofy in parts especially
relating to the character of bond and his family and the animation quality did take nose dive after switching from brain space to drive
so I still have some mixed feelings about this but we'll probably get into that about season three you mean yeah yeah I mean yeah that's the thing seasons three again just to get this out of the way is is again a mixed bag
yeah definitely different though different ways than season two I feel season two's main problem was a side from the slack of focus in certain regards which season three also has a big problem with I think that's its biggest
problem season two just had the production value problem because a lot of that is a lot of that shows a big battle like in the second half of that of that season in this town where they're trying to defend it
and destroying the bad guys and show the knockers once and for all huh and that just had to look really good it didn't and also there were we took a lot of time in a particular age which wasn't really the case for the previous season of to your turn
but for some reason the second season didn't take that much time to is to develop the the characters more that were added to this were added to the cast and that we definitely spent much more time with them we spent with the characters in season one
but a lot of these characters were not that interesting and or we didn't spend enough time with them that is also kind of still the problem in season three but gets better by the end in my opinion
that is the general thing I would say about season three I did not gel with this in the beginning like the first half was really hard to get through at times I felt like I didn't know what to show wanted from me I feel like it didn't know where it
you go it made some weird statements it put some really weird characters in this and I feel like after let's say the halfway point it got better it got interesting the pacing ramped up a bit it felt like oh it put some more interesting character beats in there it developed some of the relationships it focused more on what it should have focused
from the beginning which is hey here's this model how would he how would Fushie deal with not having a real mission anymore how would he decide to live his life how would he decide to support the people in his life even if they decide that they maybe don't want to be in this direct vicinity anymore
or maybe not even be with him for all eternity like how does he deal with the fact that he might be alone again and stuff like that all of that comes more into play in the second half of the season it does not in the first half
so just to set us up here after Fushie did the big fight in Randland he has a plan to connect all people like grow his roots through the ground over the entire world
and or at least the country that they're in and try to connect everyone or to everyone and basically through that tries to create a peaceful era
because the world hadn't really known that up to this point and he thinks like the main problem for the people he got to know the people who died he met friends with and so on is that there is no peace that there's always war there's always strive
and eventually he will always lose the people he cherishes so he decides to basically create a world of peace which it seems at the beginning of this he has kind of achieved after waking up after
I don't know how long that time was even between season 2 and 3 like how many years did we jump into the future I know Fushie at the beginning of this is now like 800 years old but I don't know how old he was at the end of season 2
I mean she's I don't know if they ever actually explicitly say but I mean it's been quite sometimes during now the story is in like pseudo modern era
yeah yeah pretty much it's modern day it's like the the world we know and which is of course wholly unfamiliar of too Fushie but he wakes up there and basically gets pretty quickly realizes hey this is the world I wanted everything is so fun and peaceful there's so many new interesting things there like I don't know what he has their bubble tea
it is really really enamored with bubble tea and yeah he just tries to at this point he decides to bring all his friends back to life and have them live in this peaceful era as he promised
doesn't really think about how he's going to introduce them to that where they will appear which causes its own set of problems
but why would you give that any thought yeah but which gets kind of resolved at least to an extent pretty quickly by him making friends with a character from the resident high school or cold club even though one of their members insists is the handicraft club
but I guess the somewhat present of the club Yuki who is very loud and very
very very special yeah he's you know what he means well he means well yes and he has some moments later in the show where it's like okay you you actually have accomplished something here and you're not in here just to annoy me
so that's nice but yeah he makes friends with Fushi and this of course completely obsessed with Fushi because he's into a cult stuff and Fushi's legend exists in this world as part of book as part of religion and so on so he is familiar with it and he immediately recognizes oh he's that he's that monster of myth that can change shapes and so on
and two is basically responsible for the current state of the world and so on so he brings him into his family Fushi brings all his friends along and they all live in this giant house and Fushi remodels it a bit I guess and makes it bigger and yeah so they live there with Yuki's sister and his grandpa and everything his parents are always on travels for their job or whatever as
and immense anime parents do and then they hang out there and so this setup alone in my opinion would have been interesting enough now we have these people from different ages like basically thrown into the current time and trying to adjust and trying to live a peaceful life here and you know all of this comes with a problem like they're
pretending school then trying to find a job that you know maybe not being able to do what they can do anymore like I can't just for sorts anymore he gets arrested for that like you know all that stuff that could have been like each of them having one episode and focusing on their troubles and so on and seeing how Fushi tries to help them with that how they through that he learns more and more what means to be human which he has still the most problem with this throughout the season
like relating to other characters empathizing trying to really finding out what they need what they want how he can really help them aside from doing the quick fix that is in front of your face right or listening to what a little kid tells him what he should do and stuff like that and you know that would have been in my opinion really the biggest the most interesting thing and we get that partially in the second half of the day
and this is like a set in my opinion the strongest part where we really get into that there's this moment where Fushi realizes oh all these people that are supposed to be happy that was my promise to them that was my wish for them bring them here so that can be happy because they didn't have a happy life before that it was marked with tragedy and everything now I brought them here they're supposed to be happy they're not for some reason why is this not the case how can I help them what can I do and all of that was really interesting and I'm not sure if you know what I'm doing is not really happy.
I'm just a little bit more interesting in my opinion like him freaking out OK maybe it's better for me to be more hands off I can't force all of this I just have to learn to live with them live by their side and then maybe support them by living with them and not trying to be this omnipotent being that can create everything do everything just try to be there for them support them in a way that makes make sense for another human to support them and that would be the biggest boon to them.
And he kind of goes through that that's one of the big things and character development things in this season that he needs to achieve and that he needs to accept and understand and he gets there and it's just like it's a it's a pretty shaky road but I feel like that is one of the most interesting interesting things to show does and one of the most emotionally rewarding ones how do you feel about that part of it Jon?
Yeah I mean I think there's all that and there's we get to the other part who she just trying to learn to let people live their lives how they want and learning how to let them go and do what they need but you know that's definitely one of the big emotional cruxers of the story
but you know he also wants to be there to help everyone all the time and these two feelings are just so
at odds with each other in his head and there's so much of the story where he's trying to reconcile both of those feelings and I feel like that's probably the most interesting part of the story of this season.
Everything else just feels sort of ancillary. Yes the problem is the ancillary stuff kind of takes the most like time in this season.
But yeah but getting again to what's interesting to get that out of the way like what you just said yes all of that is great and also his conflict of
he expected once he brought all these people into the current time that he would be able to live with them forever and the thing that scares him the most is that that might not be the case that he might be at some point alone again
not have his friends around him and to actually figure out what he wants to do does he want to be immortal himself does he want to become a real God at certain point because that's an option that is offered to him due to reasons we get to that.
And he has to figure all of that out and he has to do that without neglecting actually the people in his life he most of this first half of his he's hellbent on a mission that he feels like he needs to accomplish and that kind of alienates him from the characters in his life and what he really needs to do and is absolutely absolutely not to their benefit.
And he's just quickly brushing everything else aside because he so fixes say it on this other thing and once he actually gets to the moment where he realizes that and then starts to figure out okay I need to do this instead I need to spend more time with the people I love I need or well I he doesn't that's another problem he doesn't really understand love to a full degree I mean the other big character.
The other big character who talks about this in the season also doesn't know you know and that's a problem that day have this connection with each other that relies on each other I guess but yeah he the people he cherishes to spend more time with them to be there for them and to actually actually give them what they want even if that entails struggle for them even if that entails pain for them as one of the most important characters and this still tone are.
It's still tone are worse with him since season one like phrases is it like it's our pain it's our struggle so it is important to us and by taking all of that away you like kind of lesson our way through life and you lesson our agency and make it your own and that's kind of not what you're supposed to do.
If we ask you to do it that's something else like if we like say hey we want this then that's fine but don't try to force your idea of what we need to be happy on us and that is kind of the big I guess statement on the one side of the show for Fushi and that is put in contrast with the other big part story part in the show which.
Which is the knockers who soccer they're back oh no who could have seen that coming I mean honestly John I was kind of giving to show the benefit of the doubt and hoping they would not return because when that would have been more interesting if they didn't yes what was his name.
What was his name. Coa Coa Coa or whatever the guy who from the line of fire said a bad guy in most of season one in season two who merged with a knocker his bloodline the guardians are in like inheriting their their knocker basically through through the generations and he had one and that led to a big problem everyone saw coming in a second season where it's like just get rid of it.
Fuck you know this will end badly and it almost did what do you mean it was the best choice.
It's got got caught. So he killed himself at the end of season two with the knocker still in his arm and I for some reason expected that to be the end of it the problem is I we at this point didn't really know yet how knockers really worked like how.
How the transfer is three ages and everything work like it turns out they're actually also kind of mortal they get sent when they die they get sent to paradise but they can return and so that's what they do in this third season and as we learn they have been here for a while now and they have infected a lot of people and a lot of people are just living with them in their body so.
Who she as told by him to him by by God it has to face effect that he kind of lost the war in a way and I mean the implications seems to be that people either just don't know or don't care in the ones that actually affect are well I think we'll get to that yes so the way this works just to get the mechanics out of the way is
knockers can if people at a certain point in their life are emotionally weak and wish to enter life like resign themselves to giving up basically letting down their mental barriers whatever that is the moment where basically knockers enter their body also let's say that way that's how the knockers presented in the beginning that only that is the
only then they can enter the body will let her and this is bullshit because the knockers are full of shit like they they lie constantly they constantly change the game and the rule of the rules of the game which is funny in regards to what a statement to show is trying to make
the day that's how it is presented the beginning is like hey once people are calling out to us and say they want to die we enter that body and if this persists and if they actually die we just take all the body but even before then when they're already in their body in all these moments of weakness the knockers can take over this is half merged state they can take over the person's body can do whatever they want with it
steered by according to their will and the people have amnesia they have blackouts they don't remember what happened to them in that state and when they die which can happen through multiple reasons either because they have other the wish or because they already thrown themselves of the building or whatever and once that is over the knockers take over and fully inhabit that body until that body is destroyed
and then if we learn she can just summon the body the body of that person again and if they are five which is in established in the show is their essence there so if they're five still around and has not already moved on to paradise it can re enter the body and then it's basically knocker free i guess so that's how it works and the show presents it to us like this
at least down the road like this parallel to what fushia is doing it's like saying hey the knockers are doing this which was already the mission statement in season two to relieve people of pain they want to get rid of people's bodies
uh they want to send all the people to paradise basically killing everyone because they want people to deal with the pain
um they hate bodies they hate the pain sensation and everything and they want to get rid of all of these especially for the humans I don't I don't remember quite why if it was really an altruistic thing at some point or because they couldn't tolerate the pain themselves because a lot of the seasons also looting to the fact that the knockers themselves are scared of scared of pain
that's why they want to get rid of this and to be able to get rid of all of the humans or let's say absolve them of their bodies they have to kill fushi because fushi is the one thing that's and god I guess like the black one that be holder whatever you might want to call him
is the one thing that stands in the way that can stop them so that's their mission statement there was that what's what they're trying to do in the season at their big way they're trying the previous season they tried to accomplish it in like a two way battle first they had this this plant in the form of carcou
uh who was this obvious trap that everyone saw as an obvious trap who watched that show except for the people in the show
and on the other side of things that did this big attack on this town of uh rindello whatever it was called and try to uh to destroy fushi
take all of his bodies away so that he's just an orb which happened at some point when the trap uh finally uh springs but due to the interview interference of some other characters fushi gets to get have a body again and turned it tied
but yeah in this season since they're already so integrated in grain and society now they say hey we want to coexist we don't we're actually we're not doing we're not gonna try to attack you anymore because we've already kind of achieved our goal
so just leave us alone uh we uh and it's gonna be fine which is obviously a lie because in the background at least some of them and we later learned that not all nookers are on the same page some of them are more let's say malmattered and theft like just the wish to um to support the people around them like there's this girl called mitchy who uh as it as a child dies on in in in on the
hospital and apparently her soul moves on to paradise and then her body gets in inhabited by a nocker and that nocker just is really like taken by her family by her sister by her sisters and really wants to spend her life with them and because it loves them and it wants it wants to live that life and it doesn't want to have anything to do with all the
mechanizations of the other nockers that are central to the religion of the guardians and everything so there are these kind of nockers.
I'm kind of glad that exists and not that they were just like oh it was just one big hive mind all along because if it was that I would just be like man come on.
Yes exactly and I feel like that that's a cool aspect I get to why it pissed me off in certain regards to what the show is doing with that and how it's trying to make it see the state but it's on.
But the other big part we see and most only see for the first half like the stuff with the oh no they're also like nice nockers comes in at a very end and most of the time we just see.
The bad side of the nockers manipulative side of nockers in the form mostly of this girl called Mizzouha which is also going to the school that.
She's new friend Yuki is going to she's also part of the occult club she's going through clubs because she's very she's this very talented girl probably because the knocker has already inhabited her body which is like the inherited one probably from highest and everything.
And as we've come to learn this previous season that that nockers and there's an asshole manipulative piece of shit and you know all of these nockers that belong to the guardians kind of are they are trying to still.
Accomplish their mission that they have been doing from the beginning.
And also I guess kind of using their own kind for that and we see her struggling with her life because her mom is very.
Very controlling to say the least of things yeah she's a typical or she's presented as a typical city city and I'm an I'm in the beginning like doesn't care about what her daughter actually once uses her as an Instagram trophy and all that stuff there's some.
You know wrinkles put into that later where it's like okay she did that because she wanted to protect her daughter from the guardians because her father.
And he's also has grandfather is a big central figure in the in the guardians and they wanted to make his his daughter.
And she's called is me I think wants to make her that part of part of it as well and manipulated things so that she would marry a guy that also belong to the guardians and everything and without her knowledge at a certain point and all of that.
She's absolutely so to protect her daughter from that she alienated herself on the from a grandpa and she tried to make the daughter a person that she that her daughter could be proud of like for achievements and everything so she probably wouldn't be as.
I don't know as much in danger to become part of the mechanations of the guardians but that severely back fired because pushing her daughter so much into a certain direction and being really superfluous about it and everything and not actually paying attention to what her daughter wants and lying to her.
And she actually throws me so high into severe depression which of course makes her subset susceptible to the to the knocker knockers manipulation so body gets taken over.
That shit happens she even kills her mom at some point when the knocker takes over and we get filled in all of that very piece me like the first half is a lot of mystery which I didn't hate in concept.
But it's also really jarring how much it like throws you back and forth between different realizations and what the show is saying what is actually happening it currently constantly red cons certain things was like no this was actually happening no this was actually happening happening and that gets really I don't know tire some at some point.
And yeah but we have this and Miso is trying to get close to Fushi trying to have an I guess romantic relationship with him but that is of course also enforced by the knocker because deep down the knockers still have the goal of defeating Fushi and trying to basically that way fulfill that mission even they there even though they are pretending they're trying to cook this and everything which is a lie like they are actively killing people to be able to fully take them over.
Like it's not like they're waiting their time and then okay now we can do what we want no no no they're like instigators they're manipulating people and people around them in a way to make other people more susceptible to the knocker infection.
So it's not like this neutral thing that is happening here.
It's so weird because it's like this very vocal minority as it were of the knockers because once they learn Fushi is back there it's like oh we gotta go out from them but there's like so many others that are just out there they're just like we just want to do our thing and be whatever but the focus on all of the guardians and knockers in particular.
It's like okay so this small very hellbent faction is only reinforcing what Fushi thinks and feels about them and it's like yes exactly and I think the worst thing the show does with that is trying to
to throw shade at the audience in regard at least that's how it fell to me like fell to me.
It's trying to make this parallel between Fushi and the knockers in regards to ignoring the wishes of the people around them like the knockers are saying hey we want the best for all the humans we want for them to enter paradise because they're only suffering pain in this life and in their bodies and we just want to have them be rid of the pain.
But that is the same thing that in you know the same approach in a way that Fushi is doing is like it's very superficial approach where it's like hey I have we have this quick fixes for the knockers is that I'm I would just gonna take the people we just gonna kill them and put them in paradise and take over that body and so on.
And for Fushi it's like hey I have here this this nice house for all these people in this peaceful times I give them money if the food and they will be happy right and it will everything will be fine so in that regard that parallel works like it's it's like it's a very they not really paying attention to what the people actually want and what they actually need.
And I get the feeling the knockers are also not that interested in us and not interested in that.
But the show like it feels it's trying to evoke empathy for the knockers but mostly for the bad ones in the beginning yeah that's me.
And that it that's kind of like it's it's showing us all the bad sides in the beginning and then at the tail end of this season he's like here are the other knockers.
Mitchi who revealed to knock at the end at the end of the name no no.
Does this by the end wants the main conflict is resolved I guess and the knockers are and Fushi leaves the knockers to do what they want to do and her sister and many others are welcoming her welcoming the concept of knockers and everything but many others are not prejudiced against them and everything.
I feel the show is still kind of rather optimistic here in how little strife result results from and actually I think this would go worse in our world.
Like hey here's this race of extraterrestrial beings to an extent who can just infect your body and everything and would you like to live with them they can take over at any moment and to be fair that's a that's a problematic thing that's a risk you're.
You know you key at the end is like willingly taking a knocker to convince me so how to come with them and everything and still a risk he's taking that gets alleviated a bit by the end but I can I can understand certain people's and apprehension regards to that.
But I think it's a bit of a cheat that the show only showed us the bad sides of knockers until Mitchi slash no no.
And expected us to have empathy for them regardless we had almost three entire seasons of knockers being presented as nothing but monsters and it feels like the show is judging the viewer and says well check your prejudice you species fox sorry but it's not like you have given us enough information to make an informed decision here it's not like we saw much of knockers living normal lives until now.
Granted sataru the body that got inhibits at a certain point says as much but who would believe anything that fucker has to say because there's also a pathological liar.
Also I get what they're trying to do drawing a parallel to judging an entire people by a couple of extremist actions of some of their peers but again it's not like the show gave us much of a chance to make up our own mind about that.
It's like it presented us with the fox news propaganda and time knocker broadcast the entire time.
And we had to had no way of looking at a more liberal left leading pro knocker news channel to realize that most of them just wanted to make the people around them happy and learn to live their own lives.
The show is trying to have its cake and eating it to it I don't like the underhanded manipulative methods is using to achieving this.
This is what something that put me off it's like the show is really is withholding information intentionally for a long time to then hit us over the hand with this with this morality metaphor where it's like hey you were judging this species by some of the actions of the bad people that is part of their species.
You could have you know you should have known that they are good knockers in there because God told us to told you so I'm like no first of all that bitches a liar most of the time and second of all you didn't give us any ability to find that out for ourselves.
You just said that person state that animals like yeah should we just accept this as the truth and you didn't give us any side stories really with the other characters you made some illusions like we knew pretty early on that mitchy was a knocker but she was also like in a moment where it seemed like she was also part of that bad crew for a while we didn't really see her outside of a conflict situation with the main character.
And that was a problem like we didn't see any knockers like for going their normal lives we didn't have a conversation with one of the good knockers before the very end so all of this place into like a paranoia aspect I guess.
Yes, we didn't have any choice but to accept they were all evil before this point.
Yes, we didn't have any chance to procure additional information because the show didn't give it to us it didn't give us that we just said it is basically like well keep an open mind some of them might be good yes but you haven't given us any inclination of believing that there is no footage of knockers just identified as knockers which you know in the real world parallel people with different skin color from a different ethnicity or a different country just living normal lives going about that day which week.
Could do in normal life look at the commentaries I don't know look at at at stuff written by other people right to counter maybe preconceived notions and racism and so on we can't we don't have this ability here we don't have that option here because the only way we've seen knockers so far is this unified forest of strife of war of trying to abuse
manipulative manipulate people and trying to fulfill their mission their goal so it's just really not fair by the show to expect us to now empathize with the knockers is probably one of the things that really pissed me off the most about the show where it's like okay come on what what are we supposed to do here and yeah so I was one of the big gripes I had with it and I guess again that gets alleviated a bit by the end to have
just mitchy in there in general and have it be an interesting aspect and at least it brings more variety into the knockers a plot threat I guess but it's it's so fucking wonky everything every every aspect of the story that relates to the knockers is super wonky all the stuff that relates to
fushie trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life how he's coping with his own immortality and maybe some of these friends not wanting to take part of that and all of that is really strong from a character writing perspective the small glimpses we get into the lives of Kai of messer of
of tonary in this age of March like even of echo who's not that much of a character but every time we get a glimpse of that it's super interesting it's
very realized the conversation she has especially surprisingly the conversation she has with messer who is the most well adjusted in this timeline for some reason
because he's just a matter of fact he's so very comfortable is he just just like okay I can just do anything I can go get a drink I can go
bed on horses and this is great fun with hookers yeah so yeah so yeah is it's it's super fun and he's one of
weirdly enough one of the guys who basically pushes fushie gives him a big hint of what is like hey maybe just take a good look at your
audience for a while instead of being getting distracted by all this other bullshit and the ones fushie does that yeah guess what that actually works and that helps
and that brings people forward and everything so that was really well realized in all of these bits this conversation with
Google once Google tells him is like hey I might want to return to my you know hometown because this just the
stillery is still there and there are remembrances of of reading there and and my brother and I feel kind at home there so maybe I want to
lift there and of course in the beginning completely shocks fushie he did not anticipate this kind of stuff but the way he comes
around to understanding and to empathizing with that and then actually supporting Google in taking on a
lot of things like that and buying him a plane ticket with that is like came back whenever you want everyone knows is fine with that and so on was great
yeah is a really cathartic moment that was fantastic and felt really good and everything is like okay more of that please and then on the other
side of things like two thirds of the show at least I just this weird shit where it's like like twist after twist oh
and all then her classmates are suddenly taking over by knockers and she's trying to get close to fushie and he's not listening to her what she needs
which hey is one of the more interesting aspects of this but nothing really results from that until the very end because he's like
hellbent on his mission which I guess feeds into the hey listen to the people actually means something to you but these are also
really means something to him she's not one of his long long term friends she's inhabited by this knocker who was part of his big enemy she definitely just exists yes
and she wants to have this relationship probably also spurred on by her knocker because it will always wanted that relationship to fushie to take away his shapes
and so on she doesn't really I'm not sure the wish to be in fushie's life and to have a romantic relationship with him to have a close relationship to him is really her wish
and but it to her it feels like she must do that for some reason it is expected of her it's the thing that the guardians expect of her
you know her mother her fake mother expects of her and everything and her fake father I guess at some point and all of that could be interesting but it's so shotally realized it's so slept together and then you get
then as if this wasn't enough you have some other weird knocker characters like Funa who don't really do that much
and are just in therefore shock value at a certain moment you have fucking memory who is technically an interesting character after the knocker leaves her body
but before that you have this weirdly weirdly freaky storyline with her and her lolly con brother that is so out there and fucking weird that I don't know why it's in this show
it's so off-putting and there is nothing gross technically super gross in there like they don't have a sexual relationship or something like that thankfully it's just strange
yeah I guess he's the good kind if that exists of lolly con who's like obsessed just with just once really wants a little sister he can take care of
it doesn't help that he that when he thinks about uh finally I have a little sister we see his mind and then there's all these anime and arrow J in there and everything
arrow again there and everything was like I don't want to see this
yeah
but he deep down apparently is a good guy he just wants to take care of her he wants to help her he wants to make her heavy in everything
and weirdly enough he is one of the characters who actually pretty quickly on quickly realizes or pretty early realize what is going on
that her sister is not his real sister after she died because she threw herself off the roof because she was depressed because of her also shitty mom
which there are a lot of shitty anime moms in this uh or scumbag anime moms and there are at least two
uh sba I guess but uh no sap sap and scumbag anime dads also exists which would be sad yes okay let's go with these acronyms for future
uh sap and sad uh the duality of shitty anime parents um so is she yeah she throws herself off the building gets revived fully taken over by by her knocker
and at that point is someone completely different one you would expect her brother would like more because she's much more forward
she is much more forward she is not as solemn not as introverted not as close minded and not as sad all the time and everything she is like suddenly this really happy kid
but her brother he rotoshi is like that's not my sister that's not real i want the real memory back that's not the right that's not the real person
which is a really valid argument in the face of what the show is trying to say at certain points where it's like well
uh what damage is it doing when the knockers are taking the body over the body of an already dead person well it's pretending to be a person to the people they that love that person
to be a person that they're not like it's it's a scam yeah and of course her parents don't care but he rotoshi is the one who actually so of course he noticed and of course that makes sense for him
yes so in theory that that storyline is really interesting because you know it has for finally a character that's like no I don't want this version
that is not the real version of the person person i love so that's cool the problem is the way to set up is like it's this weird horror show
and there's this member mend and because you know they fight the knocker and the little sister meemory is less attacking a fushie with with a fucking grass cutter
and it becomes this weird a breath weird like i said horror movie thing and it's just it's so wacky it's so wacky
and already had a problem with that in season two where suddenly from a very serious first season switched the tone to being very goofy especially when bond was involved
and let me tell you if they switched to the tone from season one to the tone of season three that if would have been so jarring
that i would probably would have dropped the show so i should probably i should probably be happy that season two eased us into this a bit
season three is so loud compared to the first season it's so over the top it's so wacky it's so wonky like all the noriq and knocker care the characters the people
taking over by knockers having like this huge grimaces on their face and talking in like this re-managing theatrical way and like smiling all the time
like like fucking Freddy Krueger out there and it's it's it's nonsense you can't take it seriously but the show kind of expects you to do so
so and then you have a moment where knocker meemory fucking whip like ties up her brother and whips him
it's so fucking weird it's so what dude like oh my god it's it's so fucking wacky and stupid and wonky and that is all of the starline with the knockers all of it
all of it is just in just this weird alien thing that it feels like it belongs in a different show like it feels like okay
we still have to have a central antagonist for the story to work so we need to bring the knockers back no all the strongest parts of this third season are the parts that don't have knockers in them
they don't in any way relate to that part of the storyline so you could have done entire season without that you could have just said okay the knockers are dead now now this is all about Fushie trying to figure out how to live in this new age when all of the characters he's been time with now
should be happy because they have normal lives without strife but hey suddenly mental problems figure into that different forms of struggle figure into that that Fushie has not been familiar with yet
so he needs to learn to deal with that and have him deal with that have him learn dealing with that bit character by character by character you have so many characters now in your circle of trans cast for Fushie
that you could have done an episode for each of them and then have some soul searching with searching with Fushie on the side have the stuff with God on the side who has decided he wants to now reside in the body of a boy and after four years are over he's gonna forget everything and he's just gonna live his life as that boy he's gonna give up all of his power and he offers Fushie to take over his power power and become the ultimate creator and become God basically can do whatever he wants to make his friends happy to make his people happy
and that is enough that is enough food for this story that would have been great that would have been enough you didn't need to throw the doctors in there
apparently we had to just sell chapters of the manga I guess and it's a distraction and it's so like it distracts on what I really wanted from the season don't get me wrong
there's still interesting bits in there when it comes to the knockers like some of the stuff has some interesting rings to it like all the depression stuff and learning more about why Miso has mom did what she did even though I still feel like she did a really shitty job was interesting
it leads to a really some really cool fights by the end of the show which we like I feel like drive really got a handle on things in the animation department in this season
like it looked much worse in season two and in by the end of this we get a cool school fight and especially a cool one-on-one fight between Fushie and the Misohan locker
like their battle at the end of this was fucking awesome well they had backup for this season so I'm sure that helped them out studio mascot came into assist so I have serious doubts that drives
still would have been able to do it on their own but you know yes yes I probably but hey the fact is it looks much better yes looks like we get a real to really solid action scenes
and stuff where Miso has created like this doll of a one of Fushie's discarded bodies and filled it with knockers and then that invades the school to turn all of Fushie's friends or all of the school people everyone into knockers then probably have them go out in the world and then transmit more and more knockers like they go full force body and which trying to just forcefully taking over everybody
you know betrays the earlier statement of I don't know God and the show and whatever to all know they all want to just coexist and so I know that's absolutely not true
and you know that then I have to fight against this puppet in in this school and turn on a re is there and I co is their ukeesister who for some reason becomes the MVP of the show at some point because she's
so competent and knows what to do even though she's a pretty young girl which ok more power to you and some other of the of the minor classmates and so on and they have to fight against this terminator version of Fushie and
and blast him with with exploding arrows and everything and it's it's a really herring fight and yes I'm back and forth and everything and that was cool and like I said then we have to final fight against Miso high at a certain point and it was also really cool
and you know there are some scenes in this in this there's this haunting scene where Miso defaults to her death and it's like lying next to her mom who already fell into the same chasm and their arms kinda lie on top for each other and they lie in intertwining pools of blood and so on and it is haunting and there was some there was just some cool herring moment in the moments in this that related to the knockers story line where you feel like
okay this this could have been something the problem is it still always feels like a distraction from what makes would have made the season really good and every time we going back to the actual you know friend characters and we taking some interest in them and what they're doing I cheer when they some of them appeared at the school to help out
I was like oh finally fuck yes please so every time they do something with that the show this season really shines every time they go to the knockers shit it's just it's just a bother it's an awesome yes and also the show is trying to hey listen to everything Satura is saying like the you know the holder God and he's he's trying to
to tell Fushi to give up and everything and immediately it's clear that guys full of shit this is reverse the some reverse psychology shenanigans he's trying to make Fushi to form attachments and then actually be able to do what he's supposed to do
and it's just like why are you spending time with this we know this is bullshit and by the end we're supposed to feel kind of sad for him when he gives up all his memories and there's a tear rolling down his face once he forget forgets the image of Fushi because
let's be clear this shows also about parenting of course in more ways than one and he is kind of Fushi's that be dead and it's really funny because March tells him that is basically that at certain point
she's like I was his mom what the fuck did you do and she's right I taught him how to walk and how to eat and how to talk yeah and watch rocks and like yeah yeah you did yes exactly and show tries to paint this like well no Fushi needed to do that to make his own experiences
and it's kind of like a whole religion thing because you know at least Christianity is like well God is omnipotent but also he doesn't interfere with with you wins anymore because free will yada yada yada blah blah the serious way fuck you I mean Christian also makes God out to be infallible the beholder is not that yes though I feel like the show is sometimes trying to paint him that way in in the way that
it's like hey it was all this plan and it worked out so you get it so no no don't give me that shit I won't accept this this is dumb so I don't I didn't feel much for that part of the storyline either so it's okay I get what they're doing they also have this weird scene where Fushi turns it turns it to a scene turtle sea turtle and gives birth and that feels very weird at first but it makes sense comes back in a positive way when he's
actually trying to when he's at the moment where he needs to realize that he needs to let his friends lift their own lives that he can't just control it and it's this nice metaphor when all these little turtles that he gave birth to suddenly
run towards the ocean and he tries to protect them from everything but he does that because he doesn't want to let them go and he is afraid they will get hurt and everything but
they want to go to the sea it's in their nature they want to lift their own lives and that's like the parallel to what he's supposed to realize about his friends and everything so that worked that was fun.
so yeah there are some good parts in this there are some good metaphors in here there's some good parliaths to real life in there I just feel like cat out all that knock a shit like and you get such a much stronger season of this I'm yeah there's all that I'm a little confused by the ending because the show just sort of ends like we have we have a little bit of resolution and then hard cut to ending
and up I don't know I'm not certain on this I'm while you were talking trying to research is a little bit I don't know if parts of the story were told out of order because look at the chapters for the manga there's like 60 chapters after this I don't know what 40 I think I think the
yeah okay 40 I was counting wrong but I don't know if some of that is epilogue I don't know some of it is like another story because some of the chapter titles are not translated and I'm not about to go do that for like 20 of them but it's not clear because looking at like the cover for some of the later volumes like yeah you still see some of the other characters there but there's one where you see some new characters
and then it's like what do you mean you what do you mean wasn't this the end of the story neither I don't think so like I mean there is still 40 chapters left and I think the way it looks and I took a peak at the very first the very next chapter and it looks
that is like that is set in the far future which is something I expected from the beginning I said okay we're going to be in media evil times or pre-media tops whatever then we're going to go to current current day and then we're going to be have a storyline set in the future and I think that's what is going to happen
and I'm pretty sure that that Fushi is going to be in that and judging from what is happening at the end of the season all his friends are going to accompany him they decided to be a mortal alongside with him they want to live their full lives
but they want to get all of them want to get revived once they die so they can stay with Fushi so that's nice and I really like the ending there him sitting there sitting there with March who is like still alive after you know after 60 years
have passed after we had the initial times of three years and and everyone is like everyone else is pretty much dead and has already been revived and then they go into the shadows and move on to have new adventures
whatever throughout time and I think the the final 40 chapters are going to be set in the far future maybe all of them are still there maybe some of them didn't want to get revived anymore we will find out
but I think if the we will get another season of this if they want to do one they can I mean I feel like I didn't I wouldn't hate the ending if this of this anime of the season if this was the ending of the show
I think this would be fine because it wraps up the hopefully the central conflict with the knockers please don't bring them back in the first season
that's right worry about I mean the the the knocker inhabiting these who has that promises as much right there so like hey Fushi we will see each other later down the road we just in the middle of our life
so that could happen I hope it doesn't but if it doesn't like if we can consider this the ending of it feels kind of like a wrap-up point for that because now the humans enter knockers kind of coexist they have found some methods methods to block
knockers getting into your body when you don't want to to before you're dead and you know so that can be a coexistence between those two species coexistence between the two species
and we have resolved the central conflict of Fushi not being sure what to do with his life because he doesn't accept the power hand down from God he doesn't want to be the creator
he just wants to live alongside his friends is a mortal life and that's it so that feels like a solid ending to this story so I mean of course I'm interested to see how we continue from this but I would also be fine if this was the ending actually
that would be okay yeah same I'm just I'm just frustrated because season one started off so strong it was really good and then it's just been this gradual backslide there's been there's been good parts yes but it doesn't necessarily outweigh the weird or stupid or just outwardly bad parts of the story
and it's just like yeah yeah exactly a lot of this is just wonky and I wonder I mean most of that is story related and that is in a manga I don't feel like a lot of some of it is execution as well in terms of pacing in season two in terms of
with you could have changed an enemy in terms of animation quality and everything of course but a lot of that is also in a story choice is especially in back the knockers over and over again especially in the season
so the season they were really to the story's detriment so yes I still like this season and I think the reason for that is the trajectory took if it was going to be the same thing that it was for the first half I probably would have hated this
but I feel like the show gets really the season gets really gets much stronger after the halfway point and so it left me with a definitely more positive feeling towards the end
and it's always good to have a very shaky start and then have a stroke ending then the other way around so that's why it probably after wrapping this up and the final moments I got emotional I was like oh this is really nice and everything and I really liked where it ended up for for this season for what the season did everyone saying goodbye in certain ways and so on
so I assume there's going to be if we get another season there's going to be an iteration of that in one way or another there's going to be a book into all of this so I'm interested to see that but I also if we don't get one I would be fine with this ending it's it's okay
like it's not season one of course not season two already wasn't that of course we hope that it would be returned to form it wasn't
but it's also not like a complete downfall or anything I feel like this is on par with season two just in different ways it has it has the same amount of flaws it's just different flaws and I feel it's finished
stronger than season two does I feel like season two ending with a battle and everything just was a bit of a drag and I feel like this a season felt like it was building
it it worked better towards the end than it didn't beginning so I'm okay with it but yeah if you still have watched it to your to have much to your
opportunity feel like feel free to do so you know now with what caveats we we recommending this is still an interesting story is still a very unique story about an
immortal person trying to lift that alive and trying to realize what they want what the people they cherish one and trying to learn to empathize with people and everything and yes I would like to get this back for its final run of the 40 chapters see them adapted to one season one
to have or whatever.
Don't wait can people watch it they can we watch it on crunchy roll but yeah I I agree that the ending was definitely stronger than the the start but I just wonder how it's going to carry that momentum forward into these
40 chapters so you know we'll see if that happens and I'm sure we will even if we don't watch all of it will at least talk about it if it gets adapted at some point so please look forward to that yes
this is but at least we know this is not going to be in contrary to it's now you're an eternity of a story we now know if there's more it's only going to be 40 chapters
but yeah I'm also interested to find out I hope we're going to get this I want to see the finale of the story I want to see what the author wanted what the author's final statement is I don't want to read the manga for that I would like to see it and then I made it form as mixed as the production values are but yes I hope we will get to see Fushie and his friends one more time if not that's also okay but it would be nice to get a final
to have a final meetup with them again because these characters are pretty fun and awesome
from that we go on another adventure hooray
but beyond journeys and we're back to free run kind of just picking right up where we left off where free run for
and Stark are heading towards enda and they have no money and they need to stop and find work oh no
but man friggin this show continues being absolutely just food for the for the eyes with the animation
budget man bad house bad house like yeah they are bad yeah it's it's fantastic I mean I feel like the most impressive thing is are the back
breakfast backdrops in this still like the words are so well realized it is so pretty and the color work and everything we still we have a couple of action scenes in this but it's not as action heavy as the
first season was towards its end with the with the exam that was pretty action heavy second half I guess or last third of the show we don't have that in this we have a bit of a like two episodes I guess of high action in this where we get some real
suck of moments yeah fucking insane but we still have a couple of moments sprinkled throughout yes couple of battles against dragons and whatnot yeah
like in this we have this episode here where fern and free run have their powers nullified by these crystals and they find a dragon and the strategy is run run as fast as you can yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah and I mean that works out I mean stark is like I can't fight this thing so let's go yeah and we have a bit of character development of course in the in this oh first of all I wanted to highlight the soundtrack again because I think the sound
is fucking incredible yeah so good it's so got it already was goods so good in the first season I forgot how good it was I got reminded over and over again in this season is just
it by ice water up so because the soundtrack was so fucking good in certain moments it's just half one of the best aspects of the show absolutely but yeah
we have some neat character development in here mostly between stark and fern who are like there's like this awkwardness between them because there is definitely
some not well realized romantic tension between them yet but it's definitely what they're building towards right I think they're going to date in this
they're so into each other come on yes I mean like first of all we are an interprets the awkwardness between French dark as stark as stark having trouble with being in the party
but you know it results from him and fern actually carrying a lot for each other at this point you could still say maybe in a platonic way
even though they haven't fully realized it themselves but it is definitely like down the road is this episode where he just to counter ferns weird moods he's just inviting her to a date without really thinking about it
and that catches a really off guard but she it turns actually really wants that she really is looking forward to that and I guess the problem with that is start is too fixated on then trying to give her a good time that he does stuff that is not really
that he wouldn't really do if he was doing it himself or stuff like that like he if he was planning the day or whatever he does it because friegan recommends stuff to him because she's he's like hey what what does fern actually like like I'm oblivious to this shit nice that he realizes that I guess
and friegan had like a tutorial from highter in regards to that he like hammered it into her brain this is what she likes this is what she doesn't like so you please remember that so she like conveys all of that to to to a stark
and the few good bits of advice from highter yeah yeah I mean he seemed to have been a rather good dad for fern until friegan entered the picture so didn't do a shitty job
so yeah but you know he then tries to fulfill that but he's not really interested in that he's just basically taking her to these places he thinks that for fern will like
but she actually wants to spend time with him and to get to know more about him and that kind of resolves itself by the end when they actually start talking to each other when they are at this one place that coincidentally
enough also was like an important place that him and and friegan shared of course there's some parallels to her relationship to to him and to the relationship between fern and stark
because there was definitely some I guess somewhat romantic tension between him and and friegan in a way which she maybe realized too late once he was gone
yeah she just wanted for stark and fern so she's kind of egging them on to a degree and yeah they have to start a nice talk and everything and they laugh about certain things
there's this problem where they always when they hang out they only talk about friegan because it's like the one thing they have in common that they share and that they kind of think the same about
like they always talk about her flaws and what stuff annoys them a bit about
I mean they're constantly around her so it stands to reason and she's doing essentially the most quirky member of this like real like definitely making that clear in this season as well
like friegan could not say yes fast enough to the reward of a spell that lets you scratch the itchy part on your back
so that's her like as a fern has to do a lot of micromanagement like she's definitely the the the the the mom of the party
though she maybe doesn't always wanted to be but yeah you know and once they realize okay there's actually like we can talk about more things than that
then they're bond strengthens and I feel like that is one was one of the more interesting character development parts of this season which you agree
yeah yeah so we got a bit of lore sprinkled in between we learn a bit about a schlacht the omniscient the demon king's confident and how he was bested by the hero of the south well almost no he was bested by him but he
the hero of the south was also killed we never learned that guy's name right do you ever get does the hero get named I don't believe so we learned that the old party didn't kill all of the
the most powerful demons in league with the demon king I guess somewhere also slammed by the hero of the south who could see the future and knew that him will would visit
Frieden and recruiter to save the world but yeah we never learn his name we get a couple of nice side of with a count that
where I didn't understand why he had his name didn't make much sense to me but okay but yeah in we have this side thing of damn looking for hot spring
that has a nice side bit that has a nice thing where they fight a three headed lizard and Frieden really gets to show off her experience and strategic skills by having stock unwittingly play the bait by running away and she and found attacking it from the air truly brilliant and unique
I also love how she slowly and thoroughly explains the super complicated plan to fair in the air white stock is running for his life it's really good bit if it works it works yeah we have to we have to run the voo stuff the date stuff which is an important part
we enter this new area the northern plateau where we learned there are a lot of strong monsters and the people who are living here have to deal with that constantly we have this nice interspersion thing with this nice
I'm sorry with a dwarf called fast who is really into this liquor which turns to be turns out to be the shittiest liquor in all of the kingdoms and whatever but he you know it's still fun to have bad liquor with friends I guess and laugh together so it was worth the trouble of getting to to getting getting that
that for him and everything and in general we have like these resonance moment in the season again where fjern was experiencing something with their old crew and that helps her out helping other helps her out in this in this journey and also guiding her party in a specific way and showing them things
that they that they wouldn't have necessarily had without that and also she coming to a new understanding of what that part of her old journey meant to her like chasing after cat with height with him in the same town where stock and found her have her date and everything
I was so when they had their date I was so fucking on the edge of my seat when she like stark runs around like you always does and she like really dresses up nicely and she like stands before him and he says nothing and he just turns around and goes away and I'm like sitting in front of my TV and I'm like tell her she looks good stark you eat it
I was so upsetting I just love the lead up to that how does she phrase it she says it like you're ignoring me you're such an inconsiderate jerk and she's like all right how about we go on a date okay what would you mean okay what
just yeah yeah it was just that it was definitely one of the most fun episodes the date episode I really liked it yeah we meet some characters that we meet in previous season we met
there was a little bit more than the beginning he tried to recruit star stock is of course with him because his part his journey is with with fleer and and with with fan and we later which I guess is one of the more important parts get
reacquainted with metota and can now I think we met both of them in the exam are correct yeah briefly we did yes when they were around hanging around zillion and everything so yeah it's we get some nice inside into especially
ganaus character which I liked who seems very cold most of the time but he just seems to not be a very emotional guy in general there are definitely underlying feelings though that shine through in his words for example even though he says he doesn't have a fondness for his hometown it's still
to see it destroyed by demons and it's citizens slaughtered he also wonders why these people had to die instead of him these people who didn't choose to fight if anyone should die it should be the first class majors like him who actually chose a life of battle so that was nice and he's only staying in the day they enter his village like free and and stock and and
and found as well and they realize all these people have been slaughtered by demons and they're trying to find the demons and destroy them and everything and we have some nice conversations between these characters which I guess they didn't get to do the during the exam arc that much
for example I really like that stark instinctively gets can now like both of them let their village get destroyed by demons even though neither of them were in the position to do something about it because can I was not on the other side of the world when the news came in or whatever and stock was still a still
little kid but they still share that self imposed burden of responsibility for this event for this happening so they have like this immediate connection and they really like they really gel with each other like they really form a connection because of that and I really like that like can now says he's only staying in the village because he thinks he has to it's not because he's
said or angry in fact he says he doesn't feel anything and I we know or I don't think that is actually true which is pretty much clear by the end he's definitely at least feeling something for his dad partner otherwise he wouldn't have fallen for the demons trick revolters trick with the disguised demon child and I think he meant it when he said his partner met a magnificent magnificent end by protecting a child even those area into interprets it differently and I'm not sure if he's not going to be able to do that.
But I think that moment can now actually meant what he said I think he kind of admired his partner for doing that to a degree.
He just hated him for like losing his life but I don't think he actually feels like that his partner through his life away so yeah I don't think he ever really
resented him just you know I think it's more that he resented himself for not being able to do what he could.
Yeah so exactly yeah and that is really cool.
I love to get immediately obsessed with the reason and free and has to be very steadfast on the total not petting her but immediately gives in when the total answer weird spell as payment.
So jealous when the total answer she just got to look on her face like what are you doing touching her so upset she's so upset it's incredible absolutely.
But she think molding yes yes which comes back when when when the total suggests you will hang around as a priest and help them on their further journey to the Northern plateau and
Fernos like no that's not going to happen get out of here you suck you're done be gone.
Yes it was really really funny but yeah in that village we get our big action scenes like the fight against the vault who is like the main demon guy with four arms who
Stark and and and and Genoa fight and on the other side of things we have two small lesser demons Zolida and Tammung who fight
Fred and Fern and metota which is also cool fight don't get me wrong but the it's more of like a stealth sniper battle or whatever and the fight between Stark you know and and revolters like the big action blowout hyper fluid action choreography like I love that fight like it's such an active camera it great animation superb sound
track just how I like my fight scenes it's just amazing from beginning to end like my favorite moment is when a stark intentionally takes on one of revolters blows head on which it was not supposed to do as instructed by
you know but to give you know an opening and also you know just sprouting dark wings he's able to cut things with bad as team also you know so cool sell awesome also good now immediately recognizing and come commanding
as a stark as a skilled warrior it's the weirdest broadband spot it's awesome it's like I so awesome how well they get on yes really that moment where he just where where stark opens up creates that opening for him he cuts off one the tail of the now cuts off the tail of revolt and then it's like
dark you are skilled warrior and we're less like yeah you might have been a coward but God damn season also fighter yeah that was really awesome was really great so yeah I I love this there is not that much more in the season is only 10 episodes we have like a small bit after that
when I get to this bridge which was is being built by this wolf builder called game and he takes like to took 200 years for that one bridge which seemed a bit small for that even when he was working mostly alone 20 years
and he had helped to at times maybe he's just got a bad sense of time who knows yeah I don't know it's nice that is village God rebuild though probably because he wasn't the one building it that slacker
there's oh we also forgot about the part where the party goes to the norm companies fortress city and it turns out that him all had accrued quite the debt and well since he's not around to be collected on anymore for you are in is apprehended for attack for that evasion
whoo and she helps to like 300 years of work in a silver mine and that buys her her freedom meanwhile fair and star car plotting like okay how are we gonna how are we gonna break her out we need a plan and they start scheming and here comes free really like I'm also in there both like what do you mean you're all sat you were you were basically put in jail
and she said no what else that yeah it was it was a thankfully over very quickly what is was very funny yeah some some of the comic relief in the series is just really good yes and it's a very good mix like we have a nice bit of comedy we have a nice bit of
action in their world building it's all this really good mix that's what the first season already was like it is just like this perfectly balanced fantasy enemy and I love it to bits I thought the second season was really fun even though
it does is not necessarily happening that much in regard to plot or action like in the first season I feel like we had a bit more due to the set up and then the exam and everything it's it's more like episodic in this even more episodic than the first season example maybe the end part but I really like that I thought there was a nice
objection that I've seems like the next season is going to be more hey we're going to fight some demons some leftover demons because this end of teaser in the final episode next season will feature Denken who was also part of the exam
and apparently he's out to destroy the last and strongest remaining stage of destruction might who turned Denken's homelad into gold and I assume our gang will join him in that endeavor which is cool like that sounds awesome yeah does
that yeah so it's probably gonna be good good fighting time and we're gonna we're gonna have some more Denken which is also a nice and probably some other characters maybe sign will make a appearance finally again which is also kind of like
that is what Frieden says when when Metaulta suggests she's gonna accompany them as a priest she's like aside from found being staunchly against that but she's saying like no that's but a reserve for sign because he's the final party member
so we'll see when he will turn up again so yeah so where it is I got I hope we don't have to wait too long for this John I love the season how did you feel about it
great it is a free and started off strong continues to be great and I just I like with when we're talking about feet a few moments go just give me give me more of it but I want madhouse to take their time because I don't
I don't think they took their time with Liar game let's just say that
so you know if we can whenever more of this comes along I will welcome it with open arms I haven't even looked up how far along this is into the manga so I don't know how much is left to I assume there is a decent chunk
but you know what we'll see we'll see what happens going for it but I yes yes more yes bring it on whenever it's ready
before we leave you and with wake and watching everything there are not that many German names or new German names in this season so I only picked for where because they had to somewhat relate to what the characters are or do and most of these don't like there's this dude called count
dark and dark means roof and I don't know why he has that name because this house has a big roof I don't fucking know so of course I could pick him and so yeah that's that's why it didn't pick him
and so I picked for German names for john to determine what they mean in English so let's play a quick fire round of how Kojima is that German name
I did not look any names of this time around I promise that's good so I have let's make it five names in this that you could maybe
determine what they are by the characters what they are the first character is the demon the sloth the omniscient trusted confident of the demon king
shlacht what could that mean shlacht omniscient knowledge it's not relating to not just more relating to his I guess what he probably mostly did as a demon as in fighting where does fighting happen or what is another name for big fight
oh a war close enough smaller than that a conflict maybe some are very punctual one very focused one one in current occurrence of a fight
a bigger than a small fight bigger than a battle about yes a battle a battle a battle yes shlacht would mean battle makes the most sense yes
the second one fuss the dwarf he is obsessed with liquor what is liquor sometimes being kept in how is it transported in a keg
in a keg? yeah okay keg or barrel he either way that works so okay yes barrel for us then we have one of revolters I didn't pick his name because I don't know why he has that
it means the revolt of course I guess to an extent but I don't know why he has that and also it's very clear what it means because it's the same word in english
as seggy I wonder what that word is the other one is close to this probably the easiest one is one of his demon henchmen the small child one it's called Jung what does that mean
yeah Jung yeah youth? well lost enough it means just young okay yeah there you go then we have the penultimate one the dwarf Gehen
I would have expected him to be called Brücke because that is bridge in german but that's not what Gehen means of course
what could it mean it relates to his bridge in a way builder construction think about what you do when you cross a bridge
you walk across it correct yes it means to walk okay sure I don't know why I picked that name for him but I guess it makes kind of sense
yeah okay the last the last one and we didn't really get acquainted with that character yet so it's a bit it's maybe a bit hard but also it's one of the most the simplest name which makes absolute sense for a demon it's macht which we'll see in the next season properly introduced I guess so what could that mean
I feel like I've heard this word at some point in passing doesn't probably in Zenozaga one of those is Villom so much one of those subtitles was that
is an evil bad no no it relates to to an other attribute of most of the demons we've met so far
they're pretty wait wait now the power yes you might derville remarked yeah yes yes power or might at both works and yes that's it well done John
you might cut all of them again
yeah I'm looking forward to doing more maybe we get a bit more good names I can use in next season but for this for now this is enough and yeah so where can people watch it John
depending on where you live it might be on Netflix but it's mostly available on crunchy rolls so I would be willing to bet where you live it's probably available on there
and please do that this is an amazing show it's probably one of the best fantasy anime you will ever see for now let's hope it continues that trend and we're looking forward to talking about the next season
yes sir
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