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Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria, episode 2

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Still not really sold on this yet, but I'll give it the full 3 episodes to prove itself. It definitely looks great, but I think it's sort of funny that Mashle, which has a very similar premise but in the form of a comedy, seems to consistently have higher stakes than this show. Like, it looks like the students who got taken out in the dungeon last time who I thought were for sure dead are actually just.... perfectly fine? So the only pressing issue here is "will MC see his girlfriend again" (without answering the question "why does he need to get accepted to and graduate from wizard grad school to be able to see her?")

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Your post wraps ups my concerns with these first two episodes.

Sure, I could just accept that Will needs to do what he's doing... but there already was an exposition on the tower this episode! They could've helped us understand the world better. Nope, instead we get a "hey, remember that you need to graduate to move up!". And because of that we get a battle test that Will has to pass because... because he has to graduate! And he needs to graduate, we just learned that's how you move up!

They showed one of the classmates becoming mangled. Presumably the other took a good hit as well. They chose to keep both classmates alive. No explanation. I guess it's magic!

Maybe it's leaving out details intentionally. I doubt it; it feels sloppy. (I mean, we did just see a teacher go to the principal to ask for permission to give a student a surprise extra-difficult test where failure means expulsion because the teacher doesn't like that the student can't use magic.) It feels like they don't want to bother fleshing out the world. Let's just move the plot forwards. Am I supposed to care? I feel like the answer might be "no".

A lot of the rest is done fairly competently. I'm willing to ride along and maybe it'll get better. I'm expecting it won't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I know it is just the second episode, so I won’t worry yet, but something about this episode just feels watered down. We got the barest crumbs of world building and character development paired with an extremely predicable fight. Hopefully the next episode will move things along.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I was wondering why they let magicless MC attend magic school. Turns out he was a bait for Elfaria. And what is headmistress planning? Nice action sequence as episode one. Nothing interesting happens in today episode. But it is intriguing to see broken "Promised Goggles" in opening.