The behavior of Edwin is shockingly stupid. It is hard to believe that he is the son of the king and queen. His parents showed a lot of savvy in the way they publicly challenged Yumiella with their knight captain and had the court mage talk about dark magic in order to dispel suspicions in front of the rest of the nobility.
I loved the field exercises this episode. From Yumiella losing rock, paper, scissors against her own dark bind to offering potion only to then decide it was a waste and traumatize people with her dark magic healing anyway. Finally, I love the twisted logic she used to convince people to allow her to blow the flute again. It was either that or she injures each of them (she is pretty sure she can do it without killing them after all).
It takes skill to play against yourself and lose! No, seriously - it means that her dark bind magic has a mind of its own.
I also loved the “either allow me to blow the flute again, or I’m going to injure you” logic. They’re more afraid of her than of the monsters.
I’m glad the monster fishes weren’t animated with bad CGI.
Yes, those wolves they fought last time were rough. It’s pretty obvious that this show is working with a bare bones budget for its animation, but I would rather panning shots of decent 2D animation than super cheap, bad 3D like those wolves. I have nothing against 3D animation, but like anything else, it takes time and money to make it look good.
Okay. Now I really, really hate the prince.
Patrick seems like a genuinely nice person though. Alicia, too; as Eumiella said that apology actually took her a lot of courage.
Another small ED detail that I just noticed: really near the end, with Eumiella and Eleonora opening portraits. Most portraits are from the blond stooge prince, and Eleonora gets heart-eyed while Eumiella gets a sweat drop; but the last one is Patrick - with Eumiella’s expression changing immediately. All of that while they sing “suki! suki!” (好き, to like/love). Patrick confirmed as romantic interest then?
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Agree. You don’t need to be a brown-nosed sycophant against powerful people, but at least a modicum of caution is sensible. Doubly true if you’re a prince, triply so if they can destroy your realm.
I hadn’t noticed that particular detail in the ED, but it’s a nice touch. She is instantly transfixed by that Patrick picture, mouth agape and everything (at least as expressive as she gets).
Is anyone else getting possible demon lord vibes from Patrick? There was a lot of focus this episode on him being so impressed with Yumiella being open and owning the “bad” things about herself, and how he went to great pains to hide his own flaws. IIRC the game didn’t really focus on Yumiella too much, so maybe the two of them teamed up/why she was the hidden boss. Just something that occurred to me while watching.
I’m getting some ambiguous vibes from him, like the author wants us to be in doubt. I don’t think that he is the demon lord though.
I was thinking the same thing, but Patrick hasn’t shown any affinity for dark magic yet.
Wind and earth magic only so far.
Could he be the one who is seduced by the dark side, and becomes the Demon Lord 2 years from now?
I guess that’s always possible, but so could any of the other classmates.
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This episode seemed to have more SD Yumiella than any episode before.
I was surprised the classmates weren’t comparing the results of Yumiella’s training on their levels, vs the central nobles’
I was also ready for Alicia to run off with Yumiella to a dark type dungeon for some after-hours training…
