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Ah, friends. Of course. Friends.

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Genres: Fantasy, Slice of Life

Little did I expect that this anime is about 2 asexual people becoming friends.

It was great to see he finally getting his moment, to see him pulling that move from the Tokyo Blade manga out of nowhere and making the crowd go wild.

It's always nice to see the underdog succeed with hard work and dedication. And in this case, it's an underdog story for a side-character that began back in the previous season, so it has more impact compared to if Melt was introduced for this arc.

If this was real, Melt's sword kick & flip performance would be absolutely insane to watch, compared to his previous acting. I guess the show shows this with the Sweet Today's author's initial dumbfounded reaction.

I really like the mix and comedy and drama that this anime creates. Somehow the comedy punchlines to the drama scenes make the world feel more grounded.

The way Wolf resolved the situation with Emilia and Tobias, by inviting Dahlia out, felt strange and unnatural to me. Tit-for-tat, I suppose. It did show how Wolf was immediately able to see the twisted game that Emilia was playing and was also immediately able to resolve it, while still getting implicit consent from Dahlia in the process.

And then the follow-up scene where they both geek out about magic tools, establishing that their personalities match quite well.

Oof, the sentimental part at the end hit me. 🥲 Watching again, I think the animators did an excellent job of displaying the emotions here, despite feeling like the animation has a tight budget.

Also, is that meat-wrapped fruit that I spot? I know this is a fantasy world, but even fantasy has its limits... (Allegedly Italians eat melon wrapped with prosciutto, but I refuse to believe this.)

Note that some shows have had their episodes delayed/postponed due to the Olympic broadcasts happening. So, there might be more green on the chart this week than normal due to that.

Notably Wistoria’s Wand and Sword and My Hero Academia Season 7 were delayed. Additionally, Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World Season 2 just dropped from 5th to 24th. Altogether leaving 3 spots open in the top 10 this week.

The lightspeed hero has an interesting ability. I wonder how it'll come into play in Tempest. Masayuki doesn't hold any ill-will towards Rimuru, but maybe the "The Chosen One" ability has other plans. It seems like Shion's ability to break rules would be a good match, not that I really understand Shion's ability.

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a) Mystery demonkin guy is moved by Noor’s attempt to “save” him from the dragon, and saves him

Perhaps the poison reserve in the dragon has been depleted. This would give a chance for Lynne and Ines to strike down the dragon. Afterwords the demonkin would recover Noor from the poison. This would give an excuse for Ines to not immediately arrest the demonkin. The demonkin is likely to have a way to resist the dragon's poison for personal use. This feels like the traditional fantasy anime answer to this setup.

From Ines' attitude, I don't think Ines or Lynne can save Noor from the poison. So alternatively, maybe Noor uses something like low-recover to recover from the poison. Though I think we've only seen Noor use low-heal, not low-recover.

But what is this show if Noor doesn't parry the poison out of his body? And then downplay his abilities? My vote is C!

Next episode title: I Parry Death.

Noor: "What was with that hooded skeleton with the scythe? Where did he come from and why did he try to come at me? That was pretty rude of him if you ask me, but I guess that's just how some skeletons are."

Oh! I liked this episode quite a bit, which is surprising because I thought the first 3 episodes were bland.

Things just came together in a way that felt satisfying. We have a pretty nicely animated conflict, Sensei being a novelist finally fits into the story, we get to learn about the villain's motivations, and we get the title drop.

I'm torn. On one hand the fight was pretty good. On the other hand I feel like we're stuck watching an infinite loop of ignorance.

I liked this episode better than the previous two. Though it did feel like I was watching what should've been episode 1.

The mysteriousness in the story's world around the Magia Vander and the Fated Day still feels rather unnecessary. We got some information on both after the credits, but not much that we unexpected. There's 5 chairs, so perhaps there are only 5 Magia Vander. All 4 of the Magia Vander present at the "meeting" (where they all have silly chairs pointing in the same direction, and Elfaria is facing away from everybody, lol) appear to be rather young. Whether that has an in-universe explanation or it's just a shounen anime thing, I don't think we'll find out any time soon.

Cariot's line was a bit confusing to me.

As usual, we're holding a boring meeting merely for the sake of it. If the barrier were breached now, the world would be lost.

Why are the Magia Vander having a meaningless meeting? What does that have to do with the barrier being breached? Do meaningless meetings support the barrier? Or was that just a crazy non-sequitur to let the Magia Vander do some basic exposition?

Their marriage would've been pretty miserable as well. Definitely a stroke of luck for Dahlia that Tobias called it off.