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Hello and welcome to an all new episode of Anime Prentries. We are your magical yet sadly very human hosts.
I am John. And I'm CC and when there's just too much cool anime to watch, we've got you covered.
Today John will kick things off with a demonic tournament that is trying to determine the next leader of the underworld,
and is hijacked by the human hero Hulk, who seems to have as little love for his own kind as demons do.
And after that we will pay a visit to our favorite magical married couple in ancient Megasprite season 2
to find out what dark machinations she sent alias uncover at a college for sorcery.
So take your seat in the Colosseum, inscribe your favorite rude on a protective charm, just to be on the safe side.
You never know with the audience collateral in DC Monic tournaments and definitely don't pause the part. We'll be right back!
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Yeah, time again for an impromptu new segment. We didn't plan to do this, we don't want to do this, but it happened.
And because it was a surprise, it was not part of the intro narration you just heard.
So we just recorded this a bit later and put it in here, full disclaimer.
As these things go these days without show, the reason why we're doing this new segment is a sad one,
because we lost one of the great ones.
A curatoriama be creative, pretty much almost all things Dragon Ball, and Dr. Slump and Sandland, which is currently getting an anime adaptation,
and the game adaptation of that anime adaptation, or I'm not sure how close these two are into it.
But yeah, Toriama has passed the way.
On March 1st, we learned about this later, when did the news hit the the airways?
I don't remember when it first came up to you.
On March 7th, the news was posted on Twitter by Dragon Ball official.
They kept it for a week.
But yeah, he passed apparently a pass on March 1st, and they kept that out of public, I understandably, for a week.
And we learned about it, and understandably the world is bereft, some of a talent, an unparalleled one, and pretty much looking at Twitter, looking at it.
At all the social media channels on YouTube, Eulogies, and Tributes in the past days had confirmed this again, and how extensively
a curatoriama, a curatoriama's works and his talent have influenced people, the industry, anime industry, and everything outside of the anime industry.
For such a long time, I mean, we just everyone you could think of honestly.
Yeah, really, people all over the place, you name person from a specific, I mean media people mostly of course, right?
Like animators from all countries and comic book fans, but also, you know, just people who grew up with that particular or apoticulate incarnation of Dragon Ball might be, you know, Dragon Ball proper Dragon Ball Z, which of course is probably for a lot of people, the thing.
But also recently we're Dragon Ball Super, I mean that, and you know, his other works that are well known. So everyone was like, holy shit, this is definitely part of my, not only part of my childhood, but part of my life because that guy has been around since I can think in one way or another, and his works have been, and they have been an integral part of our lives.
And yeah, that's, that's how it is like not only in the, in the anime space, but of course he also was a very important key factor in the video game space, you know, he did the, all the character designs and I don't know, did he also some of the, of the, of the artwork for the world and everything for Dragon Quest.
I think he probably did some of the monster designs at least, I'm not sure about like the world. So he came up with the iconic slime design, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's like, when you jee-hory wanted one thing and he came back with another one, it's like that's the one that's like you, you can't, you can't possibly, like, you can't overestimate how, what a cultural, what a big of a cultural.
The big of a cultural impact in the video games space, Dragon Quest had in Japan, right? That is basically still has still has like that was the birth of the JRPG for all I mean, fun and fantasy on our shorts might have been like bigger to some extent and
the quest, more popular, but not over there and since then, Dragon Quest, I think has made some strides to become just as popular over here. So we're all eagerly waiting for 12.
So there's that and that being the first one without, yeah, I don't know, maybe he already did designs for that probably.
Yeah, I don't get plenty of stuff for maybe not everything he wanted to, but probably plenty of it up to this point, because sure had to have been in development since at least before.
The end of 11th, that cycle, yeah, and one of my personal favorites that he also had a big hand in probably one of your favorite two Scronot trigger, which is, you know, also had his iconic designs and I love that game to death.
Ironically, I did not play that game until it by late 30s because it never came out over here, right?
That's right. So, right? So that I had some contact with it through magazines and everything and I probably could have gone and played it earlier through emulation, but it just never came out of the Super Nintendo over a year and then I just, I played Cronocross before I played Cronot trigger, which was weird because a lot of the story kind of,
it relies on just a little bit of time, I haven't triggered. Yes, definitely, at least some part of trigger, which I came came to know after the fact, which was also fun, right?
Oh, this is what all the dragon stuff and everything, right? That's based on so I was like, oh, okay, that's cool. But of course I had seen his design work on that.
So, I was like, hey, these look like Dragon Ball characters, what's up with that?
So, yeah. But yeah, I still think Cronot trigger is probably squares, like one of their best memes even now.
Yes, without a doubt. It's a timeless gem. Like, it holds up so well even to this day. And I really looking forward to just, you know, because I want to relive some of this work.
Now I'm going back and playing that again, which I will definitely do. I don't know when yet, but that's definitely gonna have not done. We're gonna watch through Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z again. That's already on that agenda.
It's been a while. So, don't we get that going for it? And I mean, we still have some of the stuff that he worked on that is still coming out, sent, lamping one, which I haven't taken a look at.
I read a few chapters of the manga back when it was pop-starting to be published here. But I haven't checked out the anime. I don't know if I'll check out the game if there is an anime, you know, I probably will pivot to watching the anime instead because it's a bit less time consuming.
And I assume they will be kind of sabish.
Yeah, that's a good that's I wonder about that.
We'll see. I mean, maybe there will be a time where that can be compared. But I will definitely go for the anime first once it's finished. Maybe that will be a review for the next season.
It's in this week in the space. It will end in May, but it just started. So it's half a winter show, but also half a spring show. So I don't know when we will, if we will, if we will review it when that will come up, we'll see.
I guess we have the freedom with that. But assume in the summer reviews, it will, we will do that. So we have all the free.
But yeah, that's coming up then Dragon Ball Dimas coming up, which he also apparently had a hand in. Still. And yeah, that's a, but after that, we won't get any more Akira, Toriyama, original stuff. And that is very sad.
I don't know about you, John, but what was your first contact with some of Toriyama's works?
I think my first active, like, active participant in it was probably when Dragon Ball Z was on Tsunami with the old ocean group, Dub, and they kept looping the same episodes over and over until Funimation came in.
Even though I guess the later episodes were dubbed in like airing in Canada, it was weird. But prior to that, I remember God, the days of having used to watch a terrestrial television, everything's on the internet now rolling, rolling through the channels and, you know, the Spanish channel would have episodes of Dragon Ball, not Z Dragon Ball on like super early in the morning.
I remember seeing that and be like, oh, what's this thing? I don't know what this thing is, but it's pretty cool. And then going back to it, you know, much, much later on. And, you know, I don't know if we ever got anything like Dr. Slump over here in that time frame.
Yeah, I feel like for a lot of kids, my age Dragon Ball was the, was the first exposure to that. And then, you know, slowly learning how this influence spread out over like so much of everything else.
Oh, man, not really coming to grips with that until like recently, just kind of, it should have seen it sooner, but, you know, seeing it now, it's like, wow, yeah, man, that's.
His influence touched so many other creatives and it just kind of ballooned out from there.
I mean, a lot of people have cited him as an influence, right? I mean, not, of course, in the, in the Japanese manga and anime sphere, like the name, all the guys who do the big show and show a series, right? Or did the big show and series, like, greater of Naruto, one piece and,
and Bleach respectively, they all cite Toriyama as the influence or one of the big influences, the guy off, you know, Togashi, who did Hunter as well as the like, you can't get past Dragon Ball.
It's one of the most iconic influential works ever in that medium. But even outside that, like I said, like, you now have Macy,
parade balloons of Goku, right? Yeah. It was kind of wild to see that. Well, Lou Vee's in there now too. Yes, yes, it is a big, but Goku was first. We have to admit that.
And, you know, and he, the Dragon Ball has been also used and regurgitated and so much other media, like in terms of parody or whatever.
And, you know, we had the horrible live action version, like, there wasn't a time to turn this into something else. And, you know,
what's his face, you played Goku and evolution even out and said, you know, breast and piece Toriyama, sorry, we, sorry, we bungled it as hard as we did.
And it's like, well, you know, you know, yeah, yeah. And, you know, that works too. It's pretty sure the matrix wasn't inspired,
partially, like, at least the fight scenes probably inspiration from Dragon Ball Z. I would be surprised if that was the case. I mean, I didn't read on it, but I know the Vachausky's are huge anime nerds. So it is speed racer for
the sake of taking off into the air at the end of the first movie, like, come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. And bunch of other serious as well. And, and, and, and bunch of other movies as well. And, yeah, comics all over the place.
Like that, that show was got them everywhere. And there's still everywhere. Like, only feels like God, it never left the video game space. No, Bamco made sure of that.
Well, I think they are contractually have to make sure of that. Yeah. So it's it's it's it permeated like every fiber of the media landscape.
In our lives or has been doing that since forever. And I remember my first contact with it was weirdly enough, not on German TV, but on French TV.
And I remember because they got it much earlier than we were. We only got the German premiere of Dragon Ball proper was in 1999. Wow, which is very late. Like it meant that series aired in Japan in 1986.
I don't know when it when they brought it over to the US, like the original Dragon Ball. And I know it didn't hit as big as Z hit. And Z was more of a known name, I guess, to us as well, just through the manga was published for
earlier than the TV series and everything. And you know, we've seen it in other places, but still we got the first Dragon Ball show first as it's supposed to go, but that was in 1999. And I don't even know when Dragon Ball Z started. That was a bit later after the original series wrapped up in 2000.
And yeah, and the first time I saw Dragon Ball was actually Dragon Ball Z on French TV when I was on a summer vacation there with my parents.
And of course, my French wasn't good enough to understand what was going on. I remember the episode though, I don't know the episode number or title, but I know what was going on.
I know it was a training session between I think either go on and go to or go couldn't go to learning to become super say in or whatever. And that just, I don't know, just to look off the show was so different from what I've seen until now.
Or some of the stuff I'd seen until now is immediately captivated by it. Immediately caught my eyes like, holy shit, this looks so cool. What is this? Right? You know what this was, but it looks super cool.
And yeah, I try to find out. I don't know how long it took me to actually find out what it is. I mean, I saw a post on it in a game shop or in a comic book shop on the side of it. I didn't go in there, but I saw it.
I think I actually have that on home video because that time I was taking my camera everywhere and recording everything and just record this, this, this window of a comic shop whatever. Oh, look at this. It's, it's Dragon Ball Z.
I always wanted to know what this is. I need to find out what this is. It was just recording that poster of of Dragon Ball Z and it was like, that was fun. I still vividly remember that.
And I don't know how long it took me to actually find out. I think until I bought some German anime magazine and a mania it was called, which was the biggest one over here.
And they had a story on it eventually. And I was like, oh, right. That's what it is. And I want to see that and whatever. And then friends of me got into it really into it before even either.
And then I'll ultimately just show started to air in 1999 and then even though it got a horrible German OP holy shit and was cut to hell in back in the beginning.
Like a lot of stuff was cut out in regards to the funny sexy stuff, right? And the violence.
Let's not forget the ocean group, dub with such a bangers as, oh, don't worry. Those office buildings were empty because it's a Sunday.
Oh, I see their parachutes. God, guys.
Or or the eternal favorite. I'll send you to the next dimension.
I mean, I was there. They cut that cut that back very quickly. Do I think after the first arc, a different studio handled it on our end or whatever. And then you started seeing more blood and you started.
I run it. I was when the series actually got more violent. So I got, which is a time, you know, when the second tournament happens and everything and stuff like that.
And Piccolo appears and stuff and then they really didn't cut anything anymore. At least I don't remember if they did like everything. I was still in a vividly in the scene where spoilers for fucking super old show.
Where Krillin gets killed and and Piccolo tears off his arm in the final tournament and whatever. And there's those scenes were just in there on after school TV.
That's why I'm cut. And I was like, holy shit. I'm grateful. This is the case. But also holy shit.
Like they didn't take anything out there. And I really, really, really, I really was happy about that. But also, yeah, I was gasping at the screen when I saw it like that.
So that was cool. The top also became better. It was kind of pretty shitty in the beginning, but it got really good later on. So that was also neat.
And yeah, sometime later we got Dragon Ball Z, which was this weird initiative by the TV session that Dragon Ball proper also was running on to go into the anime space, you know, anime is for adults face of German TV.
They even did like the city is commercial. I probably should link that in the show notes where they have like this guy who is trying to be like cool with a leather jacket. I know they were trying to be a bit ironic and cheeky tongue and cheek, right?
But it was still so cringe. And they have like this guy would like this hot car and a hot girlfriend. And he had blood on the side of his cheek. And it was like and then looks into the carontals.
And says my mom always told me Dragon Ball Z was not for kids. She was right.
And it was the trainer for the first trainer for Dragon Ball Z. And yeah, it was really fun. They even brought it in the fucking news on the TV station because they always promoted stuff they were airing there.
And it was funny as fuck. And yeah, then that air and it was obviously made a big splash. And yeah, so that's how we got to that. And that was what was my first contact with it.
I mean, Dragon Ball manga actually was the first manga I read. I read that before I watched the TV show.
But since I'm more of an anime guy, the TV show of course is more in my mind these days than among guys. I have read the manga only once. I've watched the TV show several times.
At least Dragon Ball proper because I don't have Dragon Ball Z on disc. But I watched it several times on TV. And yeah, so maybe if we had a proper remaster of Dragon Ball on physical media.
Yeah, and Dragon Ball Z. I mean, there are the new blu-rays, but they're cropped to 60 by 9, which is not the format of the show. There's some image information missing. I don't know why you keep doing that.
I don't know why certain companies don't get it. Like...
What they're showing, why they scream?
Yes, I mean, you could put the option there. Most TVs have that option anyway. You could just zoom into the picture, but I don't have the option to zoom out.
Yeah, just don't fucking crop the picture. Just stay with the original aspect ratio. You num-skulls.
And the color grading on the original masters is starting to just like go.
Yeah, yeah, I was at the bump when I found out that the new blu-rays are not that great. And the Dragon Box is super expensive these days.
So I guess I missed my chance there for a while, but maybe we'll get another full... Now ironically that Toriama has gone, maybe that will put a animation or an overdrive or whatever,
they will do a combination box set again of both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. Who knows?
Whatever. It doesn't really matter. There are other ways to attain this, but still I wouldn't mind dropping money for that.
So yeah, that's eventually I would see all of that again. That is definitely planned. But that doesn't change the fact that we won't get any more Akira Toriama stuff in the future, which is super sad and in general that the world lost such a talent for all intensive purposes apparently a super nice guy in all aspects like just a treat of a human being.
And yeah, like I said, a real talent, a real influencer quote unquote, that's a cursed term, but you know what I mean.
Yeah, in the most positive sense, right? Not really an influencer, but an influence on the world.
Yes, not trying to be that right, not trying actually going for that as a job description, but just creating art, just doing shit he likes, you know, also doing shit differently than other people did like who went into the profession he went into like he, he because he didn't want to do whatever you were studying or whatever I think.
And went into a completely different direction. So yeah, and and drew things differently like focused on different stuff than other people to like just just learned how to properly draw others stuff or in the classic way you can see that a lot of his artworks and just use the way he draws clothes, the way he draws machinery and everything was a big motorcycle and you know car fan and whatever and.
You know, you always see that and tanks, but I think he went on record with Sanland and was like, oh, it made good story about a tank.
Yeah, he made a miscalculation there because now he had to draw a tank and every got them.
Oh no, why did I do that to myself? Kind of like with the why he which seems to be the now accepted story why a superch sayings have blonde hair because he just wanted to give his the the people who inked the manga arrest from inking and all that black hair.
So yeah, and yeah, he was just really good at improvising shit because I'm I mean he has confirmed as much, but a lot of the stuff that is iconic nowadays and his works is just he just pulled that out of his ass.
Well done well done I thought to meet a person who plan who can plan to come up with such cool shit and he just does it and just throws it out there and that's I mean some of the stuff just probably didn't go the way it was supposed to because of that or you know there was just not a plan and sometimes you maybe notice that in the way of certain the way certain storylines go or whatever and some things just.
Appears once and then never get mentioned again and stuff like that but yeah that's definitely this was definitely one of his talents just coming up with cool shit just out of nowhere and he kept on doing that until the very end and 68 years is as weird as that sounds but that is way too young.
For someone to go and I'm sure he would have given us a lot more or given the world a lot more of his talent if he were given chance.
So yeah it's a real shame it's it's it's a tragedy it's it's a real big big loss not only for the manga and anime community but for the entire world.
And we will probably never have a talent like that in this especially not in this medium again people probably trying to get close there and I wanted to deny to tell of other people but just in terms of influence.
I don't think we will get an auditorium anytime soon.
No it's gonna be a minute yeah and we don't need to I mean his works will out live him for several decades to come I'm sure of that and will be cited by other people and still influence other people but also it would have been nice if he could have stayed with us a bit longer to show us a lot more interesting worlds and characters because he has already created so many.
And I'm sure he had a lot more up his sleeve so yeah thanks to everything I care Toriyama you enriched our world with your presence and your works and I hope you will rest in peace.
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Yes we begin with the lovely thought of human eradication. Yay! That's a pleasant thought. Yes! Hellk!
So thank you very much for the myanemalist rewrite team for the summary three months have passed since the demon king was defeated by a hero mankind rejoices over their victory but twelve years of the demon world do not share the same sentiment with the loss of their king the most now hold a tournament to decide who will become his successor monitoring the competition is the hot headed yet powerful vermelio
one of the four heavenly kings among all the participants she is extremely distrustful of one. Hellk a human hero who claims to hate humanity as much as she wants to get rid of him it is impossible due to hellks incredible strength the hilarity
amidst the competition vermelio discovers that humans have vanished from various towns as a result of this puzzling turn of events vermelio grows desperate reveal hellks true intentions by carefully crafting a plan to make hellk lose if she proves to be successful she might uncover where his loyalty truly lies before the demon world is in danger.
So hellk is based off of a manga written by Nanaki Na nao and apparently has a couple of spin offs that are I think I think one is finished and one is still going called the voldio divergent sword saga not quite sure how it plays into the main plot of hellk but it's it's there is still going but hellk itself is actually finished its run which you would love to see thank you.
Thank you for adapting something that is finished its run for you let to see that but this was adapted by our buddy said satellite.
I think we have we haven't talked about something from them in a while right.
Yeah they cut I think the last thing we talked about was oh god what was the name of the father and the daughter and the drillers and it's not mega man legends.
Oh yeah I'm bad with sacugan right yes I mean that was setting itself up for a second season so I wonder if we will get that anytime soon but yeah that was a fun show so I mean spoiler so does this one because they got like two thirds the way through the story and I would like to see that I would love to see them finish this show too.
Directed by Tatsu Osato who's working on stuff like potatious space pirates and Martian successor Nadesco and now other stuff in there as well.
And smelling comedy chops there's a bit of that in here but there's also there's also kind of a turn later on when they start getting into the actual crux of the story.
And you know it was weird because the humor in the show isn't all like one note like you know your typical street man sort of killing at the other character sort of thing all the fact like there's a little bit of that in there but we also have dumb jokes that characters will crack in the script and everybody will just stand back and say that's that's my kind of humor.
And the straight man in the aforementioned case of this case being a straight woman or you know a woman yes right in the form of familiar with what her name was yes so.
Vermilio is basically out to get help ejected from this big tournament and I mean if you like you were the host of the whole thing or kind of like the or the guy the person who is organizing this and there's this very suspicious person of the the enemy faction really.
He's sort of waltz in here he's like death to all the humans like.
Have you checked with you work lately yes actually oh okay and the end.
The gradual turn of that is it starts to seem sort of silly at first but then you realize oh he's just doing this for revenge which yes to oh no there's actually probably pretty good reason why he's actually out to do this.
But that takes a little bit to start to materialize and I don't want to tell you too far into that because it goes into some other characters backgrounds and I really.
I guess I might as well not bury the lead and say that I really enjoyed the show in the in the turn that the plot made because it was actually you know kind of interesting later on cool.
But yes it starts off with this tournament you know hey welcome to your you we're getting it right out of the way your sonan enemy tournament is right straight up front.
Well how many episodes does it take up though.
Like two or three before the other thing start to happen yeah yes they start off and help it comes in and he introduces himself among the other contestants like the contestants that we actually care about are this like.
I'm not a describe he's just a big this not really really strong but he's just like big dude and Dorushi who's like this kind of like monk who specializes in defense and he's just like he's just like a wall again I think they call him the iron wall.
There's this sort of like Elven lady named Sura and she's very.
How can I describe her.
She's very proper very all about you know etiquette and everything yeah that sort of thing needs to be in order and follow the proper procedures yes but she can also she can fight okay.
And there's Kenro shoes a little bit more silly but he's.
He's got a heart of gold he's he's his strength is that he's very fast and he could run circles around you no problem and when there's like this foot race thing and it comes down to between between him and help.
He almost wins because health is like oh he's he's that much stronger so much faster he's like got all of these things that you know you would expect of a hero but maybe he's not a hero but maybe he is we're not nobody's really sure.
And that's why Vermilio is out here trying to be like hey I don't trust you so in addition to the regular.
Sort of tournament stuff she starts to read all sorts of others stupid silly competitions like who can be the first to build a house of cards and not have it fall down.
Who can cook the most delicious meal.
So something that doesn't shouldn't work in hell's favor because he's this big strong guy and shouldn't you know be able to do brain teaser things or delicate tasks.
And yet he does.
So the basically it gets down to being you know those four contestants help you are a doeru she and ken roast and.
One of the next parts of the competition is they basically have this like examination out in the field and they are headed towards.
I believe it's this other castle where there may or may not be other people who are calling themselves heroes get you know it's not clear at this point to you know the reader of you or whatever.
And they're accompanied by and from management it's not Vermilio shut up.
And everyone everyone sees through this except for help and I don't think it's that help is stupid I think it's that he's too trusting of others.
Which kind of maybe for shadows also what his reasons might be for doing all this and what the origin of that is maybe yeah yeah we sort of see you later on that he.
How how could he good guy and you know he is very true to his friends and his allies which you know is to his benefit and his you know and not I'm the words are kind of escaping to a very.
To his detriment that's the word thank you wow English guys English is tough try to make it a second language true but yeah so they are headed out on this field test but then when they get to this castle and they start fighting these other would be heroes as they call themselves.
So it's strange because they all sort of have this homogenized look to them where they're wearing the same armor and they all have the same sorts of wings on their backs it's like something does immediately something seems off about it which again he later on.
And they go here and help is helping to dispose all of these creatures as they are and they get he in from me and get sucked into this this like portal this gate creates this vacuum that they get drawn into and basically taken away from the action.
And I was suddenly this becomes a road trip story oh that's cool where they get sent to this far away village build with these other like monster type things but you know they're pretty sure there whatever.
And it's up to Vermilio and help to kind of try and find their way back because in their absence one of the other four heavenly kings a strah.
He not he catches wind of this and they have trouble even with a divination spell locating a help in Vermilio because the map they have of their demon realm is pretty limited.
And the divination spell that they use shows them quite literally off the map so when they they're trying to make their way back there but they also know that they they have been informed that you know hey something is up with these dudes calling themselves heroes.
It's nothing like we've ever seen before this doesn't seem quite right to us.
So it's becoming like a bit of an adventure show at that point yes the road trip aspect like it's interesting stuff to see I can't quite imagine how this demon world is supposed to look like is this just kind of comparable to the human world only populated with demons or is this just you know rocks everywhere or lava.
It's pretty much as the appearance of like a human world like there are kind of it seems a bit more a little more desolate in between like settlements but you know they are there.
So they go from like town to town and there's like even like a castle town where there's this other stronger demon who has taken over and changed the appearance of all the citizens to suit his needs.
And when he faces down health and finds it.
Hey guess what?
Health is more than a match for him. Uh oh.
He gets his come up and say and they sort of move on but yeah there's plot beats like that they meet this character named Peewee who is like.
He's like this little round bird kind of thing he's sort of there to be kind of a little dickhead I guess but he's not there he's not there of malintent he's there to help out help in Vermilio.
He's a little annoying but he's got character then I guess yeah yeah he is a little annoying but also I guess well meaning enough because he does help them out a couple of times which is like okay you know what you're annoying but I don't completely hate you.
That's something it's more than nothing.
So while all of this is happening back at where the tournament was being held well obviously that's sort of on hold because things have gone awry so.
And the others have sent one of their one of theirs this girl named Asta into the human realm do some spy work.
And she sort of discovers that there's that you know the these heroes that have attacked started attacking the demon realm seem to be immortal.
Every time they die they basically get a Zenkai boost like in Dragon Ball and that seems a little bit troubling there's also this weird thing that goes on in the show where they start referring to characters with levels almost they they are trying to be like oh this is our RPG aspect to the story it's weird and they stick with it for a while and then the eventually sort of drop it because it's like this it doesn't make sense to keep it in there.
So same for one piece at some point they started to introduce this is power metrics mechanic like you know with the squatters and power levels and everything and that read for like one arc and it was just dropped from the show nobody ever talked about it again.
So well that I guess that was your Dragon Ball zero reference here and now you're done with it good because hey remember how big the numbers got in Dragon Ball at the end of Z in house stupid it wasn't it was like this has to stop your number might as well be one plus one as as each arc moves on to keep it grokable yes.
What's your power level at the end of GT hours that's a hundred trillion shut up please shut up at least the numbers in this are smaller like we're talking double digits which is like that's something yet it's a sense more like it's fine but you don't need it in there.
So it's like an actual you know JRPG level them yes they there was that yeah asta heads into the humanitarian starts to learn these things and communicates back to one of the one of one of the other other crew this her younger sister Easter because they can and this is something else can communicate to each other.
While drinking if it was coffee or tea okay so the tea is a necessary component for them to be able to talk or long distances to each other yes interesting.
Oh okay apparently it is either coffee or tea all right I had to double check it hot beverage I wonder if cocoa is also low maybe they're you know explicitly say yes or no yeah.
The sort of capture one of these heroes they call them awaken soldiers at this point because one of the things they speak about with a hero is that you need to have this awakening and then you gain your big power and how does that awakening happen keep watching the show.
So you're not going to give that away that's good no no no there is a way that it happens and then it can also happen naturally depending on the person so okay but you can force it in a way yes and the way that happens is.
Yes but yeah they they learn us the you know they talk about this was one of the awakened soldiers that they had captured that Astra is basically questioning that this one soldier was basically just a normal human which they're not quite sure what to make of that but then they let.
Then they let him go and he the this is where they learn that he says that the won't they can't die in what the how the king of the human empire plays into all this and they're getting their power from him so the nesco logical step is killed the king right maybe maybe if that is the truth if that's the truth.
But yeah that's that's a lot of the basic setup of the show and you know I've and you know there's little actions that pieces between here and there there's um how far you into the show once that stuff with the king gets revealed about ten or so episodes okay.
There's some silly stuff like like I said you know obviously there's the jockey stuff really on but there's some silly stuff where.
Helken for a million are trying to cross the ocean and there's just giant like octopus cracking thing and the radio say maybe maybe we should steal see your way from that hell sake I can take care of it is like what are you saying shut up stop.
And of course it comes down to the cus between him and a giant octopus because shut up don't worry about it he's got this and every time he says I've got this for me is like please please stop please stop.
I don't want you to got this yes exactly we get this burgeoning story between him in for a million and it's kind it you know obviously it starts up sort of silly but it ends you know kind of in a pretty nice place.
Later on and I don't want to give away you know how that turn how that turn happens but you know I man I went into this thinking it's just going to be goofy stupid whatever and yeah that's in there for a little while and you know you get shades of it as you would go back and forth between plot beats but boy when the plot comes in it comes in swinging and I
actually really really appreciate it that this had like a pretty cool story to tell as well.
But again much like with so I'm a little sad that the story wasn't finished being told we got about two thirds of the way through.
And I'm really really hoping that we get to come back and see the rest of it because I like to you know I haven't really looked at what happens in the manga after this point but I would like to see you know how this gets resolved because there is there are key characters from hell's past who are kind of wrapped up in this pretty much against their will and you know I just I want to see him get his good and
basically and I hope you know I hope that's the case but hey if Nana was through another swerve in there.
That'd be cool too I can I don't know but you know I'll have to wait and see.
And on the particularly me cliffhanger at the end of whatever how many episodes it has to work for 13.
And then I ran for 24 episodes. Oh okay well.
They sort of ended on a the sort of not like well we know what we have to do now sort of thing and I wonder if they actually do because there are things that they aligned out that might
are wrenching their plan later on which you know that sort of there is a wrinkle in there that they have been very clear is a hurl that needs to be overcome to
my best talk around things I'm sorry no no that's fine I mean we don't want to give too much away.
What what's the animation quality like so I mean we know what satellite usually dishes out so where does this rank among all your simple gears is this and suck
the sounds is this I mean I feel like like the action parts were pretty pretty solid those are strong.
There's a couple shots here in there where it's like.
Well here looking a little.
But they don't really linger on that sort of stuff to like it's mostly like the weird distance shots that can be a little walkie
but I don't feel like it's too distracting for too long and it's not like horribly inconsistent among you know everything else that happens in the show so I'm sort of glad that overall the quality is pretty strong.
I assume the biggest anchor of the show for you that side from you know all the way the story developed word like the dynamic between hell and
familiar yeah that's pretty good we also get to see a shades of hell with his brother class the fact in the fact that they chose
class leaves me to believe that not now might be a fan of tales of Fantasia or maybe that series because he sure does look a lot like
a cell vein I mean that could be the case maybe there's also any some kind of affinity there like maybe maybe he had something to do with the
with that game.
No I I'm not sure I don't believe so but I could be mistaken I just have in trouble to keep anything that now had done besides
the hell and the two spin off manga so but yeah I mean manga car are allowed to be fanboys of things we are not for sure for sure see this way enough especially in
shoulder manga which would you see classified this as one of those you know or I assume yes but it's not classic battle show it sounded like from the setup
like it is going like this to gachi route where it starts with a maybe somewhat stereo tickles typical setup and then it just quickly decides I know I'm actually
something else.
Yeah I mean you I mean we start with a tournament yes exactly so say oh man is this hunter hunter which is funny because the composer did music for the
twenty eleven hunter hunter see a nice so you you have at least a tenuous link right there.
But yeah no it has some of the trappings of you know a stereotypical shown in manga but I feel like some of the other beats of the story like between
this brother between their adoptive father Raffaid and you know all these other little things in between like we get illusions to this other crew that
help who is running with before stuff really started going wrong in the past and you know that's also you know really cool like we get so much of
of hell's back story it's like there's so much tickets for this is good storytelling and you know the interesting stuff about
Vermilio and a straf like.
Austria isn't quite as strong as he used to be but brother he's still pretty strong so you know he still he's out there holding it now and I wonder they didn't really show but I wonder what a fight between him and help a real or real fight between him and
help would have looked like so that's that's still kind of floating out there some image of that in our brains which you know maybe that could be foreshadowing something to I don't know I don't know but there's a lot of things that I feel like they could do and could happen with the final
arc of the story and I love to see more of it dude because you know again this is a really good a better bait and switch than I would have expected and I mean if you're like if they liked two thirds through the story I feel I feel like that there is a chance
that you might get another 12 or 13 episodes season to wrap up the story I mean yeah I could happen that or maybe like a movie or a couple of movies I don't know what the plan is it's they've been kind of
radio silent about like I had been trying to look stuff up about it's like now there's there's no mention of anything but satellite is also the studio to not really
on too many things like obviously you know they had done a lot of sympho gear and a lot of macros but you know some other other shows are just kind of like one and
done's you know what I mean yeah yeah so maybe this doesn't get a continuation that would make me really sad hopefully it does so because I think I really honestly
think this show is worth watching because it's got great characters and the you know it's got a lot of heart behind its story like honestly I mean yeah it sounds like it's so way from people
watch it you can check this out on high dive it is basically exclusive to that platform as far as I know and every so often I wonder why I keep my subscription but then stuff like this rolls around
yeah yeah it was so often they pick up some like really good hidden gems so I'm glad I checked this out and I do honestly think it's worth having a look if you like your shown in anime with a little bit of a twist
okay here's a show I wasn't expecting to see ever again second outing off because it's been six years I'm like wait had it been that one yes
oh my god season was the 2018 that is time yeah that's when we reviewed the first season in our episode 49 Beasts and Brides which we released on the 15th of April 2018
yes so well technically I think considering the first season also at like 24 episodes just like the second one this would have then started in some time in 2017 so even it's even older
let's see it there you go
but yeah so ancient mag is right I remember remember when when when this hit up I was like oh yeah I really remember liking the first season quite a lot
do I remember anything actually from that season barely just like with a lot of these anime where the manga is still running in there
I think like a couple of chapters from it or like a whole bunch of chapter chapters then they catch up to the manga and they're like okay now we're waiting
and letting the manga a manga dish out some chapters until we maybe continue the adaption there was the case here I guess
and it took a while until they were enough manga chapters apparently to justify or make it possible to do a second season at the same length
so that time has come now and I was like well since I barely remember anything from the first season even though remembering liking it quite a lot but we just watched too much anime
so it's hard to remember a lot of details on every show that we watched especially if there's a long break so I watched the first season which of course I'm not going to talk about here at length
because we already did a review for that John you didn't go back right probably should have but I didn't but I remember certain things about it so
yeah I mean I remember certain things I remember most of the main or important characters and what their deal was and everything I remember alias
so again the question here am I going to call him Elias or I'm going to call him Elias like the Japanese dub does I probably Elias because I'm just used to that name now
Elias I remember cheeses cheese as steel of course because her background story was the most important thing about the show and the whole catalyst for everything really
and I remember Ruth my favorite good boy and also big brother to cheeses technically and yeah then this bunch of side characters that I was like oh yeah Titania the woman with the with the waving breasts
don't worry about it yes exactly no but you know all the fairy folk all the you know the housekeeper silky who is amazing and a bunch of other side characters Alice and Brent Fred
and all those people are like it was always coming back to me once I started watching the show I had I was that guy I was that girl I was that person
it was very it clicked back into place very quickly but it needed that little push so I'm really glad I went back and watched it because my opinion hasn't changed I think like the first season of ancient right
megas bright is some of the best anime I've ever watched this is fantastic even with the complicated setup that is kind of like if handled problematic if handled in the wrong way is really problematic
is starts with cheese a cheese a auctioning herself off sending herself basically as a slave and Elias buying her and then kind of treating her like a puppy in a way he even calls her that for a while
he does so once in the second season which which I was like I don't we over this stop this you're married to this woman shut up don't call her a puppy this is the meeting
but yeah he you know basically buying her because he wants an apprentice and also because he things that is something he needs to do because he's not human
and he has trouble empathizing with humans and everything and she's a kind of become this teacher in that regard he becomes her teacher in magic she becomes this teacher in becoming human and what means to be human what emotions are in everything
how we can put whatever he's feeling into words and then they grow together and they're from a bond and they form a tight relationship and they become this yes at the end of the first season they actually get married in every sense of the word really with the gown and everything with the wedding dress
and all that and they you know but they also have like still this mentor teacher relationship both ways and also friends and also kind of father daughter and sometimes mother son relationship it is very complicated
there are a bunch of different layers to this weird ass relationship between the two and I would say this kind of continues in the second season
though the focus shifts a bit because what happens is a geezer gets a wrote into a college for sorcery
and this is where we again are reminded what the difference is between magic and sorcery which I still haven't quite grasped on have you like I think
I think mages who use magic are usually siphoning the magic energy from their environment so from nature or whatever sometimes from themselves if they can generate them like cheese again because she's a slave and they can basically they're basically like perpetual magic generators which is why they attract attract a lot of magical creatures and fairy folk
but you know they also draw magic from magical beings like fairies like the neighbor a neighbor they call a alias calls them and sorceress they I guess they're kind of like met a bit math people who construct reconstruct the their environment
and the rules of the universe around them and that's how they do magical feats is that quite how it works in this show I think so right I believe so I mean traditionally depending on who you ask
magic is supposed to like harmonize with nature and spirits while sorcery is meant to control is meant to be a control as opposed to you know so I I
I guess it sort of fits in with what they were trying to depict in here it's still not 100% clear to me but you know
yes it feels like more like you said yeah sorcery is more of a controlling thing and more of a using magical aspects of the world as a tool I guess and magic is being more is more about being part of it
and you know integrating itself and forming more of a simbiotic relationship with magical creatures and everything and sorcery is more about restructuring all the rulesets and all the
the characteristics of magic around whatever you wanted to do so yeah it's definitely a different thing so that's that's an interesting setup for all of this
because you know she says a completely through her upbringing by alias at least for you know the past couple of months years or whatever since she has been with him she has come come to I guess very different
understanding of how this works then the people who are at the sorcery school so this is already an interesting setup and this is basically what we do at the beginning of the
second season like we have this thing where Adolf got damn it that name one of the I don't worry about it yeah yeah one of the people who I guess are former students now professors something from the sorcery
college she is a sorcerer I guess and he's in a student also of Lindel who was also very important we don't meet him at much in the second season but he was very very important factor in the first season
so that's how he came to know alias and he goes to Jason alias is like hey I think it's a good idea for Jesus to join the college to enroll at least for a year there
because she's a slave and carries both the dragons curse now and the curse of immortality she got from I guess the main antagonist from the first season if you want to call in death that Joseph slash Krater filus in her body
and these curses kind of battle each other and if one of them takes over it would get really really bad so first of all that makes a very hot research subject in the eyes of the sorcerers because this shit kind of does happen ever
so that's that's one of the aspects by Adolf wants to join but also you know with enough research someone at the college might actually be able to return off both curses so that would be to her benefit of course
so that's kind of like the incentive here for alias to let her do this because he's really not into this he actually hates the idea of Jesus becoming some kind of lap rat understandable
but she's you know but she said I guess I use that the things she will learn there might enable her to help others without constantly sacrificing herself or hurting other people with her with taking too little care of herself which was a big factor in the first season
understandable you know she's had had a very rough childhood which I actually saw an extension of because I watched the OVA for the first time as well which was kind of this semi prequel but also in the middle of the first season that's where it's set where she defines an old childhood book of hers and then we get this little side story
that shows us a bit more of her problematic childhood so that was an interesting addition that I hadn't seen yet but yeah so since she had such a problem childhood a problematic childhood and full spiders for the first season of course since this is a continued season review
if you don't want to know anything about the first season or the second season which we're also going to spoil then please just listen to the review of the first season and also watch the show because it's a really good show
but yeah her mom killed herself after her after Jesus dead left with her brother for still unknown reasons that's still one of the big lingering questions in the show because we know both her parents were able to see magical creatures her brother probably might also be a slave he he might also have magical powers whatever
but yeah her father left at some point without really given without giving an explanation it looks like he wanted to chase her with her but he didn't left her with a mom and her mom just couldn't handle handle it at some point anymore on her own and in a very very grueling scene try to strangle her daughter because she was so done and you know couldn't didn't know what she was doing anymore
she just wanted to her her her brain to end and then just be just because that happened she just jumped off the roof of not the roof just just jumped out of the window of the balcony of their apartment and killed herself which you know understandably just put
she said to a spiral of shit like her life was really bad until she met alias which is also the reason why she just sold herself off because she had no will to live anymore and it yeah was really really really really dark shit
and I feel like the first season red handled all these aspects kind of gracefully didn't overdripe a dramatize them didn't go and made fun of any of that God forbid or you know went to ham on it
I feel like it gave everything the right amount of you know gravity and and went into enough of why people did what they did and what the character what the motivation behind a lot of the character
a lot of the character decisions were that it didn't feel like cheap horror stuff in a lot of moments and also not like they were milking ye old
slave the idea of a slave is so interesting which anime does has been doing for far too long yeah and really badly we just at that making this like this cheap setup for either not doing anything interesting with it or doing really bad shit with it
and I feel ancient right is one of the rare examples where this topic was handled in a kind of interesting way I would say the other one would be the lens saga season two of in the song in general where this topic is handled in in a way that is kind of tolerable or even good and interesting because it has something interesting to say about this and I feel like
she's selling herself of and being like the property of of alias is only relevant in the first season for like one episodes or two that is the setup and after that they are just a kind of they become a couple they are kind of couple it is still this kind of problematic feeling thing because it's like hey he bought his wife technically right so he is kind of like this
there is this inequality in terms of power dynamics right but that exists anyway because first of all alias is not human he's much older than she say like I don't even know how many hundred years or whatever maybe even thousand I forgot how long he was alive
but that gradually changes in the beginning he is like the kind of slash father figure like master figure that teaches her everything that pulls her out of her depression and on and also in your world
but the power dynamics start shifting very quickly because Jesus starts telling him you know bringing stuff into his life that he was missing and that he needed and that he didn't know with all his years of experience and everything
and then she becomes kind of more and more powerful and has more hold over him and that kind of also you know backfires in a way where
of course once he actually grows fond of her and starts developing feelings with her for her which he can't put into words really she has to help him with that but it's clear that he starts caring for her a lot
and then he becomes since he doesn't know how to deal with these new thinking he becomes very overprotective very possessive
and that is also a big part of the first season where at some point Jesus gets a new friend in the form of Stella which is this young girl that she helps out because her brother gets abducted by this other antagonistic figure which we haven't seen this season
but who was a big catalyst for a lot of shit shit going on the first season as an eye and I wonder when we will see that fuck face again
but yeah so she and Stella become friends and Elias gets jealous because Stella spends time with Chisa and vice versa time that she doesn't spend with him and everything and Chisa looks at Stella in a certain way like you look at friends you know with affection and everything
Elias you know this doesn't know how to handle that yet so he gets very possessive and capture kind of without really intending to I guess captures Chisa at some point I think Ruth Reese or whatever
no she's a free soul because she threatens Elias to hurt herself and then he immediately she she she is so scared he's so fucking scared of her even even if it even if it was only like a pretend thing
he is so scared that she would actually go through with that and that's he immediately retracts and all that shit so that those there were so many interesting aspects to their relationship in the first season of and of Elias really not knowing how to deal with this kind of thing in his life
because he hasn't thought about this yet he didn't know how to process these kind of emotions and everything he's kind of like a robot child when Elias when Chisa meets him just looking like you know just in the body of this hulking dude with us with a dear skeleton head
and yeah it's just the first season just was and it's this story this whole story still is a an anime take on beauty and the beast that's what it is there are a lot of parallels there just with
Elias being a lot more in human actually in human than the beast in beauty and the beast is because you know you know that person was a human before which is transform and lost some
of his humanity in the way and was also a bad human before that but this is not the case for Elias Elias maybe maybe he was you before that hasn't been my clear yet but when we meet him he has no memories really of what he is how he came to be and starts from
scratch basically and has is very in human doesn't know how to deal with human deal and he you know learns some things by through the first person he meets Lindell who becomes this kind of so
kind of so good that and his another teacher of his Rob who we meet again in the second season the lady who is Lindell's teacher I guess also a mage and but he you know he he starts pretending he starts to assimilating certain things
that humans do and everything and he can comes becomes very adapt at pretending like he acting like a human but there are some key things that he is still missing and she says the one who brings these key things to him that he was missing so of course he becomes a very important person in his life but he has still problems verbalizing certain things that when it comes to her understanding certain things and might or might not react poorly to
coming in contact with these things for the first time so yeah that was the most interesting aspect of the first season and in the second season we get some of that but not as much which might be my only hang up with this I don't know how you feel about this
John but since now she said in roles in the school for better or worse we get a lot more characters and we got in the season we get like a more white or bigger cast bigger
consistent constant cast in the second season and naturally the focus is not mainly on Chisa and Elias anymore which it kind of was in the first season we had your you had your side characters and they were you know some here and there and you know they all did their part in furthering the story of Chisa and Elias in their development but the focus was still mainly on Chisa and Elias like learning about their background
seeing how they evolve seeing Chisa becoming a happy person again becoming her own person again maybe for the first time and making decisions for herself and stuff like that and Elias on the flip side of things being like this not person in a way and then learning to become one through Chisa and all of what happened around them and all the people that you know
came into their lives in the first season or were part of their lives and they helped and others help them and stuff like that were kind of I guess devices to furthering these two character stories and I wouldn't say that is necessarily the case for the second season because a lot of the focus shifts to some of the other students here would you agree John.
And I'm sure we get plenty of backstory about the other characters that were introduced to in this part of the story so it's definitely necessary I feel like yes but you know that also means that the screen time of my favorite characters and show which other main characters Chisa and Elias and who I guess but he is kind of only fulfilling a side role and being a companion to Chisa and a protector.
He didn't get really get much character development after his key episodes where he forms a contract with Chisa he's just there and it's cool and my favorite thing in the show is probably just.
Ruth doing dog things just normal dog things when he's a destock for which is you know behaving like a dog and it's super funny and cute and everything you have to buy no actually is a magical creature and can also sometimes transform into a young man or whatever.
But Ruth is just a fun fun good dog so main characters Elias and Chisa definitely and in this second season we just get more characters which are interesting in itself.
We meet a lot of interesting new people and learn something about them and something interesting about them but our main do get put on the back burner a bit especially when it comes to developing their relationship to each other.
There are some great moments here and there but the focus is definitely has definitely shifted here and you know considering how much we got of both quality Chisa and quality Elias time including learning about the backgrounds.
There's a lot less me to their characters in this season I felt like especially Elias getting the short end of the stick here.
There's like his exploration of friendship with another character Simuron and his exchanges with an actual kind of robot thing an artificial fairy alkyona that are interesting but nothing compared to the interesting dynamic with Chisa in season one.
This will probably change it for the next arc again because it feels like the college won't stay the main state forever but also maybe it will teaser at the end of the season feels like the next story is going to be more focused on Chisa and Elias and maybe Lindel again we see if that ever gets animated because you know the animation is caught up to the manga again sadly.
But so we might maybe looking at another six years before we get something new but it is so much they take their time yeah both sides so but yeah so there is a bit less in the season when it comes to our main characters still some interesting bits definitely probably bring them up throughout this review but less than in the first season and I guess that's fine you know show sometimes has to evolve and whatever you can't stick with the same thing but those two are still the most important.
Two are still the most interesting thing to me about the show this so this was this shift in focus was a bit of a negative thing for me doesn't ruin the second season at all in any way because it's still a great season still think I like the first one a bit better that however is the only reason why I would say that not because it's not animated by the same team anymore which is the case.
The first season was handled by studio with and the second season is handled by studio Kafka which apparently was created by X with people for a sole purpose of doing another adaption of ancient makes right which is interesting the first time I heard of something like that.
I think what is so opposed to do sequels lately that if you know some of them still wanted to work on it on this I don't blame them yeah but it's interesting it also I wouldn't have expected this to work out the way it does because I feel like production values lies the second season looks pretty close to the first one I know you haven't watched the first one but I watched them back to back and then
there you know there not as many scenes highlighting beautiful landscape like there in the first season but that can be attributed to the new setting of the fixed college location which is just mostly classrooms and hallways yes there are some more interesting environments in the college but you know you don't spend that much time in them.
It makes the season look less varied than the first one but considering the way the plot unfolds there's not really anything Kafka could do about this aside from maybe throwing more out of college filler bits in there.
The artwork itself is up to part with the first season so is the animation mostly especially in the final couple of episodes which look amazing.
So I didn't have anything to complain there john did you maybe there some episodes where character models are a bit more stiff and there's not as there's not as much key animation going on here I guess but that was also the case for the first season just having rewatched that so I don't know did you see anything that bothered you john.
I think really stuck out to me so I mean maybe maybe it wasn't quite as clean as you know the first season but it still seemed you know fine on the whole so I don't think there was anything that you could really point to in the season really oh this just looks flat out bad no there wasn't anything like that so I think that might be have been some moments where look maybe a bit flatter than the first season though.
So there's a lot of different things like the first season those are rare occurrences and it doesn't really matter like the lighting is mostly on par I mean like I said the first season has a bit more outdoor stuff and in different varied locations and more interesting vistas and stuff like that then the second season a lot of second season stuff looks from just familiar and more ordinary and not as quote unquote magical.
Yeah so that that is the difference here I think I feel like there's that was the same thing we got when we jumped from the first season of Finland saga to the second season where I feel like some of the environments with with is really good with environments and environmental backgrounds and stuff like that and I feel like the first season had more chances to try shine there anyway and the second season just by the way how where
what the stage for the plot is didn't just have a chance to go there as much so maybe if they did we would have seen some of the same good stuff here but I feel like the first season had a bit more of that you know just just love to see us a story goes on so yes if if Kafka gets to do another attempt but we'll see I mean yeah it's gonna be a minute probably but I think I read again that's just a bit more fun.
Yeah again that's fine so long as you know they let the manga breathe and continue kind of like I assume the same thing is going on with the case study of Vanitas so because they were all like the enemy was like current with the manga like I think within a very small window on that show so yeah and I don't know how fast but how fast the manga is being released I think
the I think the anime is now up to chapter 94 and I think they're now at chapter 100 something or it was something in that in that time frame or something so we'll see I guess we need kind around like 45 chapter day day using like kind of like 45 chapters for each two core season so we would probably have to get to like 140 150 for another adaption so we
have to adaption so that's something to look out for I guess I mean I feel like sensibly speaking you would want current arc to finish you know what I mean absolutely yeah and I don't know how long the next one the
theme pain arc is going is gonna go I assume that is still where they are but yeah we'll see maybe that one runs shorter and then maybe we will get a shorter season before or a shorter season then we got this time and but sooner so that would be neat I wouldn't mind that.
I wouldn't mind that one mind to wait so long that I have to revisit the first second season to remember everything so keep rewatching yes I mean it was fun rewatching the first season don't get me wrong but there's also so much other stuff to watch that it would be
better to get this stuff fed in a way that helps me retain enough of my memories to not having to rewatch it I mean I'd rather maybe rewatch the whole show again when it's done or whatever to get it like one one big chunk
and we talked about this when we talked about in the last sneak peak about blue exorcist and there was like hey this is the second time blue exorcist has taken such a long break and again I don't remember what happened in the in the last season so this is you know this is just how it is with these shows they take these long breaks for me and like and if unless this show is like really hitting on all sinners cylinders which I feel like ancient
makers but has done both as especially for season one maybe not all the way through for season two but it's still a great show and show I definitely want to continue watching so there is like this this this problem here if this wouldn't be the case I would also consider
hey even if we get a new adaption a couple of years I might just wait until the manga is finished and then maybe we'll get an adaption until they have like adapted all of the story because otherwise it's just hmm
and there's still enough lingering questions in this story where like okay at this doesn't feel finished I had more that feeling more at the end of the first season
that I have at the end of the second one because we get a clear cliffhanger from one of the plot points of the second season and there's still enough that we don't know about
alias and if we don't know about she says background you know like the stuff I mentioned what happened to her dad actually
and with alias where is he where did she actually come from who is he right this is one of the big questions here in the background that still hasn't been answered
and then there is something opened up in the second season that expends the universe in a way and gives us a kind of a new antagonist and that stuff isn't wrapped up either so we only have more questions
at the end of the second season then we had at the end of the first one so I really hope we get another adaption of this or the full adaption of the story eventually depending on how long the author plans to run the manga
so let's see but yeah getting back to the second season just getting ahead of myself here what is happening at the college is kind of standard magical school stuff for a while
you know just she's a get set up she she learns gets to know all the teachers there are a lot of very weird instructor instructors slash teachers among there's this weird bug lady in the infirmary there is this guy who is just blob of water
is the physical is that teacher I think there's a half some kind of center person that is the the guy that alias becomes friends with a senior on I think is his name
and you know some weird ones but also some very human looking ones and so interesting teachers and a bunch of different students you know Alice is there for a couple of episodes
the one of the friends that she's a mix in the first season and term master ran thread who is like the source or guy who is mostly at odds with alias like they kind of don't like each other or I don't know I don't know if alias if you can
even call him not like and friends like alias is kind of like you don't like me very much do you and but doesn't seem to be to be that much much bothered by it really like alias is rarely bothered unless something happens to
you she said so that that is a thing so they are here and their relationships gets evolved a bit which I really like because I really like Alice I think she's great and I'm really happy that she has made a contract with will of with will of the
artists and they are a great team together I like that she calls him brother and even though he is kind of literally gaslighting her at certain points like fending her flame of rage because he likes that about her a lot because he's all about fire
there are some very fun moments and everything and there's this grace conversation about you know between she said Alice about their relationship to their respective masters but also not masters father figures maybe love interest figures right so it's complicated it's complicated yes that's kind of the
the asterisk or the subtitle for for the relationships in this show they are complicated but yes I love Alice and will and the scene where they have to think it's the first or second episode where both she and she said have to light a candle and for
because someone Alice pissed off and and will put puts her emotions into the candle it becomes this giant flame for and will ask this great laugh when that happens it's really really good stuff so I like that I like that the thing is going on and
Alice doesn't seem to like that ran for her ran for it considers her his daughter because she wants something else from him or she's frowning because he thinks she can protect herself he thinks she can protect herself and him yet it's a mix of all of these things really and also she associates a dad with a no good abuse and drunkard which is absolutely not what ran for it is so she wants doesn't want to see him in that light and call him that
so but again it's complicated problematic and she doesn't really know how to feel about him yet or especially she doesn't know how to convey that probably to him because he always kind of reacts in a way to that to her trying that in a way that makes her only more mad
so she she has really problems getting somewhere to a to a to a point in their relationship that she is really comfortable with and luckily Alice and she's are much more adept at just talking things out and talking to each other in a kind of adult way like we get this great scene where they are sitting on on the roof of Alice House
and they just discuss how they interpret their relationship as a married couple as masters and students of each other and you know she's a teaching Elias how to be human Alice teaching and magic how they feel about it etc.
it's really thoughtful and hard felt and it really makes you feel like these two belong to each other because they make each other happy which ultimately is the most important part
love that moment between the two so that's one of the good things where we still get a good good relationship between the two the stuff that I really liked about the first season where that is furthered
and we also see that Elias is still isn't really good with boundaries like first of all he takes along to the college becomes an instructor there kind of because he doesn't want to choose to go on her own
he accompanies she's even on her school trip which he clearly isn't entirely comfortable with but she lets it slide because he's willing to send an ineffective clone with her that wouldn't be of much help so she can't rely on his power
maybe steps I guess but eventually he needs to learn to let her do things entirely on her own right so that is still a thing that is going on in the season him
being overprotective and maybe starting to understand that that is not what he's supposed to do you know in that particular moment it's good that Elias is there to give advice though because the students get attacked by a monster
and thanks to Chisa Elias and and Rian a new character that fucker first gets kelpied and then dragon curses Chisa so that's that is good
so yeah but still Elias is still a bit definitely too overprotective and actually simion calls him out on that the friend that he makes among the teachers
he tells him straight to his face because Elias is kind of trying to pull the same shit with simion after he gets hurt
and simion's like have people told you that you're a bit too overprotective and I was like holy shit finally someone says it
and you know you just need someone to tell you from the outside
that is what you know this is important thing what friends are for right that they tell you sometimes straight to your face when you do when you are bullshitting
when you're doing stupid things and you know it feels like simion could become that because he's already started it off
and Elias reaction was prices was his usual mouth open and really what reaction it's like oh shit I never thought about this
how did you come to that conclusion right so that that's great and I love that you know Chisa is a bit more hesitant to
to tell him that because she loves him and you know she cares for him and everything and she doesn't want to hurt him
so it's great that he found someone now apparently who is willing to tell him like friendly not you know being blunt or anything
which he could maybe also do with but he's really friendly to tell some hey dude you know you can back off a bit it's fine I can handle myself
so but also if you want to listen to good music just come over and Elias like music never thought about this
so yeah good stuff so these are definitely my favorite moments in this show where we still have our main characters who learn shit about themselves
and you know that's the stuff that we get for Elias but there's you know a bit more for Chisa but that also relates to a lot of the other characters we meet in this season
I already talked about some of the teachers we also meet the principal of the school I think her name is Lisa
this old lady who seems to be covered in roses below her dress or something or beneath her dress
and yeah some you know teachers that helped the students in a bunch of very classes and Elias kind of becomes an official guest instructor first heights as a appearance
but then you know just walks around usually in his normal body and also nets himself a fan girl immediately in the form of Beatrice who's like oh my god what a distinguished figure
so Eli doesn't know how to handle that either so that's fun and yeah and then there of course also a bunch of different students
the first one I guess Chisa really meets is her roommate they couldn't get off on a worse foot I guess
Lucy Webster this kind of brash blunt girl kind of standoffish that immediately Chisa hits her with a door when opening is and Lucy standing in front of it
so that's not a great start to their relationship
and yeah Lucy is also complicated like she's a bit of a dick there's a reason for this of course none of these characters are one note characters really
but you know she she has a problem like braining herself in when it comes to her aggression even more so than Elias I guess like she doesn't like people not standing up for themselves
and we have another character is the same issue arian she can't help herself judging people because she is the type who hates injustice because as we learn to learn her family was killed
and she's out for revenge and everything and you know she like I said she doesn't like people who don't stand up for themselves if they are treated badly which is okay but she's doing she's
planning to do a lot of damage with her you know leaping before thinking attitude and just throwing out harsh words and doing that shit like she ribs of the earmuffs of one of the other students who is
becoming part of kind of the main posse surrounding Chisa I guess who is Zoe because she's mad at him for ignoring Chisa without knowing the reason why he's doing that
but she gets immediately mad puts off his earmuffs he's he's wearing all the time she tells of Phil O'Meila who is this other kind of demure like this very introverted person that she doesn't trust her because people like
Phil O'Meila killed her family because Phil O'Meila is from a family of spies and assassins which is definitely not helping Phil O'Meila coming out of the shell that either some of her classmates or her family have put her in
so Lucy definitely needs to learn to reign it in a bit and she does by the end of the season it takes a very long time even at the until the very end she can't really control her aggression that much but by the very end I think she has gotten there maybe her story is still ongoing because we haven't gotten a complete answer to why what happened to her family why that happened and who is the actual
actual puppet master pulling the strings in the background for that plot I mean we got we got an inkling at the very end of the season who that is and I knew from the start who it was
fucking Veronica we could talk her a bit about her but she's not that much in the season but every time she's there you immediately get the feeling like the first time I saw her I was like oh that's the secret bitch
perhaps these stories got a all these stories got a half secret bitch doesn't mean it has to be a woman it can also be a male secret bitch
but true true she is the secret bitch she is the typical characters seems to be overly friendly and you know quarters and you know nice and everything but always has this very smug smile on her face
like she is above everything she is definitely above you and she knows more than you do and that is that what that character is
and you immediately know you are full of shit lady and she is and yeah by the end of the season we know that she might
or we can guess that she is behind a lot of the shit that happened to a lot of people in this show that bad shit
so or at least her family is that's not clear right she's like from this prestigious family like a lot of the students in the school are because the school was founded by these seven big sorcery families the seven shields and she's from one of them the Rick and
family and yeah so a rean is from another one and we get to him quick in a moment and you know there are a couple of other ones who are two pair of we have two pair of twins
and one of them is also from prestigious family I guess at least one of them send George and yeah so she is from the Rick and
family which is like this family of medicine focused like they're they're become doctors or whatever source of doctors sorcerers whatever doctor strangers but but yeah apparently they're also maybe shitty people it seems to be that way
they at least employ shitty people in the form of a fellow made us family the sergeants who are the assassin family
and oh yeah we'll get to them trust me but yeah so I guess Veronica is going to be not in the next season probably because it seems lindel is taking the antagonistic position there maybe but if we focus on the school again and whatever that plot
set up gets continued around it Veronica is probably going to play a very important role there because I feel like she definitely has a hand in what's going on
but yeah another important character is Rian who is like from this from the family of protectors I think I forgot what his last name was scream George scream George yes
and he's this very differently blunt not the same blunt like Lucy but he's very straight arrow guy right he knows what he wants he kind of wants to break free from
from his family which a lot of characters in this show my do my want to do like a lot of this about is about legacy a lot of the students suffer from the expectations and legacy put on them by their families
and Rian and Philomelah want to break free from theirs with Rian taking the direct approach and saying like hey I'm going to go my own way and everything and Philomelah just being stuck in the depression in her depression until pretty much the end of the season
Veronica probably super proud of her family tree and rebels in feeling superior to other people I would assume the same George twins apparently have surrendered themselves to their fate judging from a talk between I think it was
a Jasmine and Rian and Lucy might either want to break free from or maybe restore a venture family honor for now she seems to be hell bent on revenge but yeah Rian is like he has a clear goal in mind
he also doesn't like people who don't stand up for themselves and who are very hesitant and especially that complicates his relationship to Philomelah because they're think distant cousins
and she was always better than him at sorcery and he feels like she's holding back now and she's not the same person that she was when they were children and he doesn't understand why and he feels like it's at part she is doing that because she is mocking him
without actually go you know actually thinking about why she would want to do that right and that makes their relationship and their encounter sometimes problematic and luckily there's a person that at some point talking sense to him Isaac who is from this family of artisans
and who on the flip side of things has always felt kind of inferior to Rian because Rian could do anything but because Rian can do everything kind of
he has a trouble of looking past people or figuring sometimes out why people might not be able to do things
and especially when they have shown in them the past that they are better at certain things and suddenly suddenly act like they are not anymore
which Philomelah is doing and yeah that kind of bugs him and at some point Isaac just really just unloads on him is like hey have you ever thought about why she is the way she is and why she is doing that
and why that might be the case that maybe she can't do it any other way and so that's a very important scene and I like that a lot
so I like Isaac Zoe we already talked about he's the guy with the earmuffs and he's also a Gorgon so think Medusa and that with that come come their own problems
but he cares for Lucy a lot because she's like one of the few people who was nice to him and everything and she likes the snakes
and that is so there is the connection there and he's a fun character he gets a very bad as a moment in the final battle
which I didn't expect him to deliver where he like gets to turn something or some brain screw manipulation thing on a
on a werewolf fighter whatever into into stone and into dust and freezer from her from her curse whatever from her brain manipulation thing yet another character put on her
so that was a really cool moment so yeah he's interesting and yeah then we get another couple of other interesting side characters
aside from those but those are kind of like the core group mostly like Lucy Isaac Rihanna Zoe Chise and Filomella which we're going to talk about but not extensively yet
which I kept for last because she's the most important character in the season aside from Chise
because her the entire plot and what's going on with the school kinda hinges on her character and her past and what is going on and her family and all that stuff she is
ostensibly the main character of the season even more so than she said and Elias and whatever they are the main characters of the show
but you could argue Filomella is the main character of the second season John would you agree or disagree absolutely
there's so much that revolves around her in particular that I don't know how you could argue otherwise yes she's very big parts of in the first opening it feels like oh she's going to be one of Jesus friends right
she's gonna pull her out of a shell shell after a couple of episodes because she's you know so introvert and you know that's one of the most important parts like
Chise immediately recognizes Filomella as kind of a past version of herself like when Chise was still caught up in her own depression and her own misery and everything right
and Elias is the one who helped her pull herself out of this so she's like oh I recognize these eyes I've had these eyes before I have that had that look
I know who that person is that person is me in a way may have different situations we might come from different places
we can definitely come from different places have different experiences but I know that look on a person I know why someone is looking like that
because they're in deep shit and they don't want to be there anymore and they don't know how to get out so I'm gonna help this person
I don't know how yet but I just have the strong urge even if everyone is telling me I can't and I shouldn't
I will help this person and that's just the person she says because she's amazing and yeah that's of course
then becomes one of the big driving factors of the season like her relationship to Filomella and thus Filomella's plot becomes very important to this season
and even more so in the second part of the second season because like I said she's from a family of assessments
and she's got a lot of trash spies and has a fantastic grandma like top three contender of worst anime mom and anime grandma
like a double package of asshole amazing like she is so hateable so instantly and unlimitedly hateable
I have rarely met such a bad person in an anime she's de worst she is so bad we've encountered throughout all of these years
since we've been doing this podcast and even before that we've encountered so many bad anime parents
like highlight is one of the is the mom maybe from from Hannebato was really bad but also me we've met a lot of bad anime dads and God who is
we recently talked about one wasn't it a deemian's dad and spy family yes I mean yeah exactly someone else
oh perspera yes perspera not a dad but yeah yeah but fucking endeavor from from my hero academia one of the worst anime dads
but who got a really interesting character arc out of that right so we had a lot of bad anime parents
I think we never had the combination of a shitty anime parent and anime grandparent before I might be long uniquely bad
you this is a uniquely bread a unique brand of asshole a unique brand of bad bad anime person and yeah her name is Lisbeth
Lisbeth Lisbeth Lisbeth sergeant and he actually has been treating filomena as a piece like filomena like a piece of shit since she was a small child
for a very specific reason which I will get to but basically create using her as an extension of herself I guess
and as a as a tool be rating her belittling her as every possible moment because she couldn't lift up to her expectations and everything
making her do shit that she doesn't want to do because you know filomena actually doesn't want to do this this spy assessment shit
she doesn't want to kill people she doesn't want to have a hand in killing people he doesn't want to have anything to do with that
and all of that is happening against her will because Lisbeth wants to extend her legacy and whatever and also other reasons
so of course of course when we meet her filomena is a very bad place and I feel like Veronica is helping along with that because she's you know she is the kind of opposite of that
she's like the prodigy shot child of her family and she loves being in this business.
There's like this really creepy moment where filomena who is in her employee because the sergeants are in the employee of the Rickenbuckers has to test
Victoria's food Veronica's food for poison and it is actually poison and she cuffs up poison everything and Veronica's like
oh I'm so glad that I'm so important that someone is trying to poison me on my birthday. Jesus fucking crisis
holy shit that taught me everything about this person I need to know she is reveling and she loves being in this family
she loves being this kind of person in this kind of world and filomena is the exact opposite she doesn't want to be here but she has to be due to her grandma being the shitty person that she is
and yeah that's we how we meet her and she's a recognizes immediately there's something going on badly is going on there and tries to help her
and it's not as easy in the beginning because it's hard to get access to filomena and everything and you know
she's a with her nice gestures and everything is definitely doing some good and slowly getting through to her because just filomena is not used to people treating her like that
because everyone around us also either ostracizing her or not knowing how to talk to her or whatever so she is an outsider and she's kind of in the control of Veronica
and you know part of her her good squad in a way just like the two smaller twins like April and May.
Jesus there to pull her out of that takes a long time to do that which I feel like is maybe a little downside of the season.
The main plot doesn't really move very fast like we have 24 episodes and I get a few we like we get the setup with the school and the characters and everything
and then around is it's episode eight or nine things start popping and a book gets stolen or the it becomes clear that a book has been stolen
because the replica that was placed in where it the book usually rests just turns to dust and then that's how people notice and they're like holy shit this book is gone
and then you know through alias because he knows this book we learned that a this is about doing bad shit you can resurrect the dead with it
you can suck magic from people with it you can control people with it and everything so there's a really bad book
so then this starts like the main plot of the season basically was like hey who and the mystery who stole this book why did they steal it what will they do with it and everything who's behind all of this shit
and this is where also you know filamela and everything figures in and that I would say is the main driving plot of the season
but after this setup and a bit of you know it's a couple of small action scenes and everything dead plot really doesn't get progressed for like 10 episodes
we have more side with with the you know other characters and we learn more about this other students and everything and about the character
and that is also important especially when it comes to filamela but we really don't learn much about what actually is happening here until like 10 episodes later
when things really start to go bad and everything is revealed kind of all at once and in between is mostly like hey some people trying to find out what happened to that book among them
Marielle the witch from the first season that we met there she with her where will know other witch body or whatever that we I think haven't met before
I don't know who that dude is they maybe mentioned it or missed it but I don't think we've met him in the first season
they try to investigate where that book is who stole it and so on and that's a bit of a side thing and some of that stuff gets investigated and we get fill on some of the other some of the back stories of the other characters in between and so on
and so on and so on and all of that stuff is important and interesting but it feels like after a very interesting kickoff for this main plot
we just take a big break in the head to just focus on character stuff again and then at the very end we get back to that main plot and it was like hmm
it's an interesting choice for a structure I would have expected there to be you know more reveals in between and everything
but for most part we just get hey suddenly students start falling ill and it's pretty clear that their magic is getting drained
and but we don't know who is doing it we can make our assumptions but we're not clear on it 100% and that is the status quo for like and like I said another 10 episodes and then in the final batch like in the final quarter of the show
or the final four or five episodes or whatever at max that's when things really start hitting the tracks and the tires start really hitting the tracks and things speed up
and there's a lot of crazy shit happening so it was a bit of an interesting concept for for storytelling here and the structure of everything I felt like I didn't hate it
but I was like a bit put off by it in regards to in regard to well I expected the plot with the book and everything to move along more steadily than it did
and having more investigation inside of the school and everything but there's not much happening at a certain point
the school the college gets put on lockdown so the they're not any outside dangers that can affect the students they are so that the students are protected mostly that's the intent anyway
and to then once this found out that the that the thief is still apparently in the school to find them but it takes a long time
and it was a bit weird the John what did you think about this did it bother you in any way or you like know there was still enough interesting stuff in between with the characters that it wasn't really noticeable to me
I mean I guess it didn't really bother me but it was pretty clear there was a lot of setup in the background and you know they were trying to play the long game with the story
and I could see getting kind of put off by that so you know I don't know I was there just to follow along with you know what was going on with the characters in general so I guess greeting for the plot didn't really bug me as much
yeah that's good I mean that's fine like I said it didn't bug me too much as well it was just like one of the things where I'm like
okay that I just expected this to go a bit differently or did I'm going about it a bit differently but what can you like I said there's enough interesting stuff in between that that I liked so it didn't bother me too much
I just expected it to progress with the main plot a bit more steadily and not just one stay actually kick it off to just immediately put the brakes on it again
yeah so I mean we can already kind of jump to the end of the season then because that's where most of the I say plot wise interesting shit happens
we can talk about of in between stuff that still happens here I mean there's some there's an IC between Chisa and Rahab
and it's an alias teacher in the beginning of the show like where Chisa gets to tell Rahab how much alias has evolved in regard to becoming more human
he's initially there about what it means to take she said as is right might have not been exactly what you define as the classic model of this kind of partnership but he's getting there
and we see that he has started to care for she said like I said in a very human way with all the good and bad that entails and Rob seems to be very happy about that
but she also asked she said to be dishonest to alias and not tell him about Rob surveilling them which is kind of fucked up
I feel like the show is not playing entirely with open cars when it comes to her characters so we'll see if they do anything with her down the road
this is getting slight antagonist vibes sometimes from her but that's all maybe that's just how the way she talks and looks or whatever
not looks that is a bad phrasing because she's she's a person of color
no the certain looks she gives characters
so yeah interesting another interesting bit was apparently word what to definitely happened in this world which I didn't really think about like I never assumed this would be exactly our world
because of all the magic shit and stuff like that like you know Harry Potter is also not exactly our world
but apparently it did like it gets it gets mentioned at least twice as you know the big war that happened
like apparently a lot of sorcerers were killed during the war which actually led to the seven shields founding the college
also Adolf is from Dresden and remembers that getting bumped to hell a back which is true for a lot of German towns and cities my own included actually
so that was interesting I was like oh okay I didn't feel like we needed any historical context here but it was nice that they put that in there and actually make the war the reason that this college was created
to protect sorcerers for the future right and protect the legacies and bloodlamps and whatever and make sure that not all sorcerers getting hundred or
killed or whatever which is you know with magic witch hunts and whatever is always a legit fear I guess and Zoe would also be a guess a factor into this because his family actually was hunted like his kind
of the organs you know they are they were hunted before I think some parts of their bodies are also like valuable on the black market or whatever so he he he has his own problems to deal with that in that regard so yeah
so yeah at the end of the season kind of we we realize or we get filled in on what we could assume was the case that filo may
is the one who stole the book or has the book anyway I don't know if she's the one who initially stole it but we can assume she was and she is supposed to bring it back to her grandma for a specific reason but right now she can't
because the college is like blocked off so she loses her mind I don't know what is the actual trigger for that that leads to her transformation where whatever is in the book takes over takes over her body and everything it has been slowly doing that but now she
forgets fully taken over by it and she is trying to get out of the school and you know threatening teachers threatening students and so on and the the the headmaster actually gives in and she leaves and even though
Jesus not supposed to at least when it comes to the order from from the principal she's like no I got to go after her I need to say for whatever right and a bunch of students want to take along I think Isaac and Lucy at this point
would be and would probably would would have come to but he got his magic trend and whatever so Lucy and and Isaac tag along and Elias of course is actually the one who makes this happen because you know like I said the princess like you are not going to go because you are
thinking about it and you're risking your own life and other people and and Elias is like have you formed a contract with Philo Malo by any chance and she's like yes I promised her that we wouldn't make popery together and he's like well as mages we are supposed to fulfill our
contract so we're gonna go after her to say for otherwise you can't fulfill her your contract and that's that so various doubt like as to like he thinking immediately on the flags like I know I realize what she's a once
and I will be there with her to protect her but we don't have to listen to this lady and we just gonna do our own shit because we're mages and we don't give a fuck so that was great so yeah
then you know some other characters like I said decide to take along it was the other character Zacharoni right what was his name the one guy from below the college from from the well or whatever is also taking a lot
Zacharoni sure is a character he is yes he is he's he's kind of like this you never really know what he is entirely about he seems to be in the
deployment of the college but also he seems to be a bit of a rebel and everything and maybe has his own agenda and he teaches the students to fend for themselves at some
point and to better you know be able to pack themselves against the attack is and whatever so he's fulfilling that kind of a role of a drill instructor maybe teacher of arms I don't know but yeah he also takes
along and they decide on that not not too late because she's just by instinct immediately transforms into a goddamn red dragon and just goes through the magic laylines after after the transformed filo mella
and alias he puts all the characters inside of him and I don't know if he's inside of she's there or he catches himself to her I don't know but yeah they go after filo mella go to the
sergeant's family estate and then get accounted by goddess that we met in the first season the pregnancy goddess goddess who was writing around on the back of a center with a mask at the beginning of winter
and it's like was that just in a side just like hey they're just old gods just roaming around you and you should better not encounter them because they're dangerous and they later need for some reason I don't know what what what they actually required help from them for but they
require help from a daughter or they get help from a daughter and apparently they're bringing that back now like that that had consequences because morrigan which is the name of the of the goddess which I think is the goddess of winter and snow or
whatever she got very interested in chisa when she met a request to her or request to her daughter and her daughters actually morrigan herself because morrigan each season or each winter season gets reborn again basically berthus a new version of herself it's weird it's gods it's all gods but that's how it works and now she is in her adult form again and ready to give birth to a daughter again but she's
itching for a fight and she's also you know chisa has gained you know caught in the favor from her so she needs to provide a sacrifice so that comes to a head just in the most either inconvenient or convenient situation in this case it turns out to be convenient actually
because Elias makes a play and he's like hey this Congo either way but it's our best play right here and they do the goddess the favor to give her a name and her name is morrigan which gives her additional power and everything and to return the favor she slaughters everyone that is trying to to attack them in the on the state grounds of the sergeants and she's really like holy shit that is that is a battle made
that is a that is a valkary that is the old god better not cross a path because she loves to fight and she loves to kill and yeah so that happens and then they get into the is a state and we get a basically a therapy session in the head of filo mella where like chisa i sack and Lucy enter filo mella's mind and they each experience their moments of loss in a way
but through that make chisa makes a bit more headway toward pulling filo mella out of her misery and everything and out of the grasp of whatever is in that book that has a hold on her but they still need to get the read of the book itself still because at this moment filo mella has given it to her grandma because that was her initial mission
because I grant my promise that she would bring back her parents who apparently have been killed and now we learn how all that came about through alkyona who is like you know the caretaker of the robot robot caretaker in a way of filo mella
of filo mella and alkyona was built by filo mella's dad to take care of filo mella if they are not around anymore and to protect her from harm
and the reason for that is filo mella's dad lispes son eloped with former prisoner of the sergeant family who became his wife and the mother of filo mella
and elisabeth was really not happy with that because she didn't want to have kids initially but she had to because otherwise if she couldn't extend her legacy she wouldn't be respected by her peers and since that's the most important thing in the world
of course she had to get a child and that's the only reason why she got it she didn't care for it at all she used to her son Adam only as an extension of herself
and when Adam decided that she doesn't that he doesn't want to deal with this shit anymore and just decided to run away with his new new love found love and wife and build a family lisbert got very angry
and she once certain point when filo mella was old enough she's like she sends like these mafia people or whatever henchmen
and to are supposed to get Adam back and she's like hey you have played house long enough come back to the family you belong to me you are mine right you are my possession you're my tool
and Adam is like no I'd rather kill myself and he does
that's reasonable on both sides but you know oh he said is it though I mean no I guess I guess why he's doing that
and he you know because he was also in a really bad place in that family before and there's no way he was like going back in it
but I feel like he counts too much on alkyona being able to protect his daughter and his wife gets killed I mean a bunch of the henchmen get killed too in the process but still
akeona is not powerful enough to stop them so filo mella gets taken and then gets consistently abused by a grandma because not only is her grandma doing the same thing to filo mella that she did to her own son
but it also treats filo mella even worse because she doesn't live up to the potential that her son had that Adam had because Adam was really good at sorcery like he was amazing he could do the craziest shit
and he just doesn't want to didn't want to live that life anymore so but he was really good at it I mean he constructed alkyona from spare parts with sorcery right and made her like a kind of full functioning being
so she constantly lets filo mella feel that she is not you know worth her time or attention that she's subpar that she's faulty that she's damaged and so on and that she would rather have her die and have Adam back
and her step because he was he had the repotential to prolong a list best legacy and so on
like I said she is the worst and yeah so she intends to bring Adam back and part of that is the book because she needs that book to resurrect the dead and she also needs filo mella to be the sacrifice
and she just kill her and make her sacrifice for the old god that is house in the book and that way she thinks she can bring Adam back
so that's kind of the setup for like the finale climactic action scene of the season where ore gang rushes towards the basement where this is happening where the sacrifice is happening
and is trying to free and save filo mella and then they also have to stop list with and yeah that's pretty much what happens and I thought this final final action scene
the season doesn't have that much action I mean the first season didn't have either there was a bit with the dragon that got auction off right and that's interesting actually the season was the season of bringing shit back
like we get set the auctioneer back who was like one of the first characters we meet in the first season who is the one who basically facilitates the sale of chasing two alias
and he turns out to be the brother of Lucy it's like what oh this is interesting and they're back story and everything how he was supposed to take over the webster family and whatever and didn't because he was not as good and you know that's sorry in the relationship also between him and Lucy
because she thought he left because he didn't want to have anything to do with her and everything all of that was interesting so I like that they brought a lot of things back from the first season to give them more meaning in this season
there was really one of the things I appreciate it I thought like Oda from one piece is still the king of bringing shit back from old stuff but also you know that show that that manga runs has been running a lot longer so you can do that but this was really cool
like a lot of the stuff that was set up in the first season like with Seth like with morrigan actually got brought back in a meaningful way in the season where it's like
oh okay that wasn't just one of in the first season that was really something that led to something in this season so that's really cool we learned more about these characters and they got to do some interesting stuff in this season so yeah I really like that.
And yeah so we have all set up and the gang goes in and they save filomella she gets finally gets to utter a genuine wish of her own for the first time and that is that she wants the other characters to help she finally recognize that she has that option she thought she in the beginning.
And Lisbeth gave her the feeling that doing what she's doing for the family is the only thing she could do like being that assess and spy person that she didn't want to be that she didn't have any other option that there was no escape she was kept in a cage.
She says she shows her that that is doesn't have to be true because she at some point was also put in a cage in a way partially by her own but also by her parents in a way and what her mother did and so on.
But she's now is the catalyst for filomella finally realizing that she has a different option here and because she technically is more powerful than her grandma.
Because she is her father's daughter and Adam was super powerful and apparently she gave some of that gift to filomella in a way but her grandma always you know gave her the feeling that she wasn't good enough and that you know I'm pretty power up it but yeah she.
She finally she realizes she doesn't have to be that she cries out to cheese and the others with again parallel to one piece in which I want to talk about too much but that's because that is still in the episode that you may or may not watch down the road maybe so I don't want to spoil that for you but there is a very very comparable scene in one piece to this very I mean not means already kind of there.
Her arc right when she asks Lucy for a loofy for help at the moment with Arlo and everything but there is even one that is kind of even closer to this so yeah it's interesting.
So that's cool and then once she is freed from the from this the sacrifice circle and everything and with the gang their list that tries to absorb that power or whatever it becomes the half host of the godly entity that is trying to escape to this dimension from through the book and again they fight her and in her food first true act of the science unless you want to counter call for help as well.
Filomila calls down for slighting on her shitty grandma and once and for with herself of her course which was an amazing scene was like etch here I thought that was amazing so good so good she's like where she counts of what what that run that she's a gave her like right the protective charm what that means which is I don't mean it means this it means this but it also means this bam.
Amazing so I really love this and yeah then they basically with the help with with the study help of morgan who just cuts apart everything in her way.
While being pregnant mind you which is also not really a scene that you often see like women kicking ass in anime while they just carry a giant pregnant belly in front of them but morgan just does that.
And yeah they just get rid of the the entity they get rid of they get rid of list bed kind of I mean she's still kind alive by the end just falling apart because apparently hosting that thing in your body does irreparable damage to it.
Filomila loses some of her finger joints or fingers or the front of her fingers and list bed looks even worse off by the end.
And yeah you would think oh this is the end of it but then one of the we haven't talked about yet one of the henchmen or that that list bed employees are like these two werewolf people that are in her employee but not willingly apparently their children got abducted and they to protect them they have to do list bed spitting and suddenly one of the children appears.
So the children apparently still alive and stills the book and behead list bed.
I was like what the fuck she was just about to spill to Lucy who is still doesn't really know who is behind her family her family getting murdered she knows that the sergeants were the executing arm of this because the werewolves like the two werewolves killed her family but they were acting under the command of the sergeants because the sergeant wanted to create a copy of the book.
To make sure that it doesn't get noticed too soon that the book is has been stolen and the loose is family the websters specialized in copying stuff with sorcery especially books and so they contracted the saw the websters for them and then decided to slaughter them also that their plot wouldn't be recognized too soon wouldn't be a found out too soon at least that's the assumption right now there might be something else that plays into that because the
as we learn now in this moment someone else apparently gave maybe the sergeants the order to do this or was also having a part in this and like I said it might it is Veronica because she's the one talking to that werewolf kid through a mirror by the end and as did you get the book right so you know that she had at least the hand in that I don't know how much a hand she had an actually loses family getting killed and everything or how much a family has had a head and had a hand.
And in that but she feels like a main antagonist so I assume she had something to do with that for now anyway but yeah that's where we left at the end of the season it's like oh okay we got now this interesting set we still have this lingering dangling plot that where it's like hey the book is still in the hands of the bad guys apparently and we still don't know what the Veronica deal is entirely so I assume that will come back but maybe not in the next season because like I said I'm not sure what the
set apparently judging from the teaser for the next arc it's gonna focus on some dragon shit so yeah I wonder but yeah we get a small apologue where the gang everyone is hanging out at Elias home and having a good time like cozy vibes silky is there can make food for everybody which just makes her super happy like
already in the beginning of the show when Alice hangs out when she and she's a talk about you know their relationship to their respective masters let's follow the figures whatever she silky's expression when Alice commands her cooking is what I live for it was so happy it's like honest is adorable and she is such a cool person like we know her backstory here being a band she and losing her her home and you know the family that she cared for and everything but getting it just
the second chance with the house that Elias is now residing in and she is so she is so loving and caretaking and so good being like this kind of mute surrogate mother with Chisa at times and I think she's she's so great and I'm always happy when she's in a scene and these moments are fantastic so yeah that we get a lot of this in her being awesome in this
in the final couple of minutes of of the last episode where the gang just kind of only celebrates Christmas together everyone like is there rean is there Isaac is there Lucy is there filomella of course is there Zoe is there and she's an Elias and it's great and cozy vibes like really really nice really nice happy and to this really dark chapter of the story especially for one of the new characters filomella and especially for her it's a happy and because even though
she lost some fingers but they even they even give you like this short moment where they talk to each other and you see like this speech bubble like from like from a coming from among her where above Isaac's head where he talks to filomella about getting her prosthesis prosthesis maybe for her fingers like I'm gonna make you handmade new fingers or whatever so that was cute and then we finally end on filomella being able to have her first genuine smile and hearty love since she was a little child which is
like the perfect ending to this is kind of like they did it with a mob at the end of mob 100 season three which who wasn't able to you know it more probably for different reasons and finally gets to have a love with a love with this friends and she gets to do the same thing and it's great brought it to you to my I was really happy for her I was happy for everyone and everything working out and for Lisbeth to get her fucking head cut off that was some come up and smell so good like the moment we met
her is like boy I hope this lady gets her come up and because she seems to be a major major asshole I already like the moment where she gets like basically exiled from from school grounds by the principle and the catchies right where they're when Jesus invades the school is like I'm gonna take my granddaughter with me because you know she of course she wants to book and the grud and to sacrifice her granddaughter and the principles like no something is going on in the school here and I need to protect my students so I'm gonna
seal off this college and you are gone lady so that was really really fun turned out to be the right call oh yeah absolutely yeah absolutely principle seems to have a good head on her shoulder
at least for now anyway there might be something going on there because she's like yeah then the balance of power needs to be maintained I was like what does that mean that happened at the beginning of the season
that's right she did say so was here with that leads there's still like I said there's still some dangling plot threats set up for this for all the school stuff like the stuff with Zoe the stuff with the underground thing the the stuff with the with the principle so we'll see we'll see where this goes but Lisbeth finally getting disposed off by that werewolf child felt like poetic justice and in general was very satisfying as they are with her head
so the witch is dead that was pretty amazing and I hope only good times are ahead for filamella from this moment on because she got knows she deserves it
yeah kid went through hell and that woman went through hell and I'm really happy that she found a good friend and she said that that she was able to help someone with her past experiences which were also bad
but now she was able to turn these past the bad experiences into something good because that way gave her that gave her an access to filamella because she was able to properly empathize with her which nobody else from her class was able to do and does found door to her emotions to her mind and everything was able to help her because she could show her hey I know that feeling I know what you're going through in a way so trust me
and that worked out it all worked out so good very good very happy that that is what happened and yeah that's how we end these the second season I was super happy with it like I said there are these small wrinkles in here one being that the focus gets a bit run away from my favorite characters which are she said at least partially gets run away from them and their development not only their individual development but their development
of their relationship specifically and learning more about their background right I hope for that to happen in the second season a bit after I read that the first one I thought we would learn more about where Elias came from and what is up with Jesus dead what is up with her brother at this point I thought that was one of those were two of the biggest mysteries that were set up in the first season and I hope we would get there
they still like I said just some interesting stuff with them and their relationship and also you know the cook cursed off Joseph is still hanging around on Elias you know estate in in a well and sleeping there mostly but he's always you know semi taking up a semi antagonistic role right now he isn't doing anything bad or anything he's kind of resigned himself to just sleeping
because Jesus taken the curse from him right so and taking it into her own body so that seems to be his status quo for now but also you know part of his consciousness seems to be that might also still be only the curse or the original cutoff
or whatever but part of him seems to be in Jesus mind and sometimes Jesus body does just what it wants and sure being surprised that she did something and you don't know if that the dragon curse or maybe it's part of Joseph that is doing this so this is also one of the interesting things where we got a bit more of in the second season but it's also still a mystery and we don't know where this is going so a lot of dangling dangling plot
threats at the end of the season even more so than at the end of the first season so that's a bit of a frustrating thing I guess but also very thrilling because I hope we get a resolution to that in the coming chapter slash seasons and I believe we're gonna because you know obviously the the first season is a lot of setup but you know this this season is definitely I feel like a bit more of showing us a little bit of the outside world too so I feel like it has it also had its value yes
absolutely absolutely and which is a different season compared to the first one you know the focus was different we had a bit of a different story structure although the first season also didn't do that much with our main antagonist with Joseph slash Carter fill is only like in the middle part there and then at the very end and then the rest of it was mostly just hey development of Chesa and alias relationship but that was the most interesting part to me so I didn't notice that too much but for this it felt like it was setting up
a clear plot and the ostensible main character of the season which is filumella is part of that main plot and then that main plot moving forward for a while which is weird to me so again negligible negligible because overall the season was fantastic and was super fun and entertaining and not boring at all at any moment and a bunch of different interesting new characters interesting new setting
and yeah I don't know how much of the answers Koroyama Zaki the author of the manga is already in their head if all of this is just you know set up for set up say is like hey this could turn out to be something interesting or if they have it all planned out so I hope we don't have to wait too long to get an answer to some of this stuff I mean we got good wrap ups to certain setups from the first season in this one like with morgan for example
or we got interesting callbacks that extend on the characters like with Seth so I must assume some things at either the author is good at planning ahead or they're good at coming up with good payoffs for things they set up earlier on the fly without planning it out both our good scenarios so I hope we get something similar for the big big questions that are still looming in the background of the show for now which are a lot
so yeah I don't know when we'll get an answer to this I don't know when we get another season to this like I said around 45 chapters are used in these 24 episode seasons and since the show has wrapped up I think we've only got like 10 more chapters so it's gonna be a while depending on how long the churned arc is going like the feet pin arc depending on how long that goes maybe it's a shorter one maybe we'll get we don't have to wait six years we only have to wait three years
for you 12 12 or 13 season episode that would be good I mean I then I would probably still remember enough on this season to be like okay yeah let's continue watching this but also maybe they're like now we're gonna wait again until we have enough for another 24 episodes I don't know I don't know but I'll hope we get more rather sooner than later if you want to watch what has been released so far from for this amazing show from this amazing universe I think John correct me from wrong I think it's on crunchy roll right
yes it is okay I don't know if the OVA is there that might have been Blu-ray exclusive yeah I'm pretty sure that I'm pretty sure that's not on streaming so you would have to yeah I was trying to wait a watch it yeah no wait I think the OVA was actually yeah I think it was raised on Blu-ray with some of the manga chapters I think there was a special release that I think there was even released before the TV series came out I think that's how it was that's by some of the characters also look slightly different
in terms of character design in that in that OVA it's kind of set in the middle of the first season like I said but it's also a bit of a prequel because it goes more into
Jesus backstory so I think the OVA's might be on crunchy roll or really screw me then that's good well check those out definitely two it's a bit like I said it's a bit weird
you can probably watch them after the 12 or like episode 12 or episode 13 of the first season because the setup for this is already the relationship between
Jesus and Elias being a bit established and them being at a bit of an advanced place in that relationship so you can't watch it
I shouldn't watch it before the first season but yeah watch start watching the first season after episode 12 or 13 you watch the OVA's
and you continue on with the first season and then you watch the second season and then you're all caught up like we are right now kind of
yay but also kind of meh meh because I dread the long wait until we get more of this amazing show John
yeah I know that's that's just got to be I guess but you know I kept keep saying I'd rather them take their time on both the manga and the anime
so I'd say that way it's done correctly yes absolutely and uh
roughly and faithfully yes and I hope the full manga depending on how long it's it's gonna run uh gets adapted at this point because so far
there is no indication that this thing is uh gonna go bad at any uh or anytime soon because so far the story telling in this
uh has been stellar the character character work has been amazing I've enjoyed every minute with this show across these two seasons and uh
yeah I hope we get to see our favorite married couple again very soon
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