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| Oh look....they have a T-Rex. |
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| Wow did that fatty try to take revenge or committed suicide? Sed lyf. |
   I want you to be happy. I want you to laugh a lot. I don’t know what exactly I’ll be able to do for you, but I’ll always be by your side. |
| Damn, that fat bastard deserved a more gruesome death. I knew Rhaptalia wouldn't kill him, but still, what a cop out. |
| “What do you do when there is an evil you cannot defeat by just means? Do you stain your hands with evil to destroy evil? Or do you remain steadfastly just and righteous even if it means surrendering to evil?” ― Lelouch Vi Britannia |
| We could learn more about Raphtalia and her past. So loosing parents was only an overture to next tragedies that were to appear in Raphtalia's life. This episode was soo emotional and sad. I'm glad they managed to save at least several demi-humans. Too bad Raphtalia's best friend from childhood years didn't make it. :( I'm glad that Raphtalia found Naofumi, Filo and Melty on her way. That way she can be happy after all those hardships she went through. |
Katojana said: extremely disappointed about the fat guy. The manga version was 1000% better... (FYI: In the manga raphtalia immediatelly stabs him in the shoulder, then they have the talk and ultimately raphtalia stabs him with the magic sword, actively pushing him out the window with naofumi rescuing her from falling) The rest of the episode was great And. AGAIN. The Manga is NOT the source! |
Skyguardian said: Katojana said: extremely disappointed about the fat guy. The manga version was 1000% better... (FYI: In the manga raphtalia immediatelly stabs him in the shoulder, then they have the talk and ultimately raphtalia stabs him with the magic sword, actively pushing him out the window with naofumi rescuing her from falling) The rest of the episode was great And. AGAIN. The Manga is NOT the source! Yea. So? Whats your point? |
| My most favorite episode of Shield Hero so far. I always liked Raphtalia, but during the last episodes the focus switched to other characters - sadly - and after a few weeks of a break I had no more positiv feelings. During this episode... I started to freaking love her as character. Raph had such a heartbreaking past... not only past but also present since she couldnt help her friends until now. She had to bear all those sad and heartbreaking feelings with her... all of the time... during the whole time while she traveled with the Shield Hero. The music was so emotional, fitting and beautiful. The way how Raphs past has been presented and executed was amazing. Walking down the stairs to jail step by step.. having flashbacks... hearing beautiful and sad melodies... and getting to know the whole picture. I loved how that asshole died cause of the dragon... deserved way to die for him. I think that Shield Hero is going to change somehow aswell. He just saw how bad the Demis got treated and how much Raph had to suffer. He knows that he is needed. And he has got a mission... to save all of them. To help his friends. To fight for the weak. Another point I want to mention is how good I felt while the Demis talked about the Shield Hero and how he is going to save them. Raphs friend even wanted to marry him. I am pretty curious how this show will end. Will Raph marry Shield Hero? Or is Shield Hero going to leave and everyone will think about the only one true hero saving them? Hoping to see some more episodes like this. Felt like the beginning of this show. Dark... sad... alot of hatred... but somehow there was hope. Thats the reason why I have started to like this show. Missed it somehow during the last episodes, but this episode was perfect. <3 |
| My only regret is having regrets! |
VeryLTTP said: AnchientProphet2 said: PLus why did that one border town look like the great wall of china. That was just odd. The border town between Siltwelt and Melromarc? Like how Melromarc discriminates against demi-humans, the demi-humans in Siltwelt discriminate against humans. Oh yeah. I forgot. That makes sense, thanks Friggin fantasy setting bigotry...I still blame Tolkien lol |
| Well, the WHAAAMENS get themselves an episode. I don't see what they're complaining about. |
| I like Hentai, you like real life. Instead of complaining about my tastes, be grateful you now don't have to compete against me. |
| Yeah yeah fuck the demi humans fuck the shield hero. Nothing's changed |
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| That damn Idol! Why he still alive? This is a very sad episode huhu I feel bad for Rafina but at least there are some kids that got saved. Lmao in the end when he summoned the monster lol he got killed |
  ★━━─ 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵? 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺? |
| Maybe it's just me but I really appreciate the detail of the little flag. Now I understand why Raphtalia was so amazed with the one Naofumi made for her during the first episodes. Honestly, it was the typical sad backstory episode but in terms of execution, I have to say it was better than the previous ones... well, until that fat noble suddenly appeared almost unharmed after falling from a third floor... what a way to kill the atmosphere but well. And on a side note, I really wonder if the Queen is even doing something regarding the slavery issue. I honestly would like to see the series focusing on this aspect a bit more in the next episodes since I find it way more interesting than main plot but sadly, it seems it will take a while until Naofumi and co. finally reach her domains. P.S.: Just nitpicking but after probably years of torture, I would have expected Raphtalia to have a huge pain tolerance yet she couldn't handle it when the fat noble squeezed her "bruise" arm... |
| Ah man these episodes make me emotional haha. I like the fluctuation between the sad and happy parts so i don't cry throughout the whole episode lol |
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| Definitely a weird fight, especially when Idol slipped and felt out of the window. I really thought he was dead. Besides from that a super sad and emotional episode. Raphtalias past was hard to watch. Also the other demis like Keel suffered so much in all that time. I guess for Melty to see all these things must be something she could never imagine. I'm glad they found survivors like Keel. Tha part with Rifana was so sad my god ;_; She just wanted to go back to her village and meeting the shield hero. How in the world did Idol survive? At least that monster he summoned shut his mouth forever, but the situation exacerbated. Hopefully Naofumi and the others can deal with that giant T-Rex. |
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| Bruh this episode was so sad. I feel so bad for the Rafina girl cuz she died holding the little flag |
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| Man this episode was stupid. Raphtalia saying she won't kill Rabier because she is not like him. But what guarantee is there that he will atone? He might go back to his old ways(had he survived) and continue killing more demi-humans considering slavery is legal. Killing may not be the solution but it should be acceptable for greater good not cast aside like the ultimate evil. I am seriously getting annoyed of this pacifist idealistic crap that writers force upon us in every freaking situation in anime. |
| Raphtalia confronts her past.. poor girl! |
| I'm Bruneian and I like anime. And Manchester United. And fat cats. |
| "Atone for your sins" lolll. He doesn't even care, what a joke of an episode. Meh, at least the lord got stepped on by a T-Rex. |
| This episode was a joke. Naofumi has been acting like an salty emo 14 year old for 15 eps because oh no he can never trust again after the false rape accusation and the kingdom turning on him- and his hatred and edginess is justified by the narrative. But Raphtalia has been tortured and enslaved- which cannot even compare to Naofumi's bullshit- and not only is she not allowed to kill him and exact revenge but also apparently Naofumi appears as if he has the moral high ground, as if he has the authority to tell her what to do when he's obsessed with vindication for a much lighter reason? Fuck off with this shit. And that's not even going into how the fat dude is somehow morally despicable for torturing and owning slaves, but Naofumi is obviously good to go because he's the MC and he didn't torture her amirite? He still bought her and supported the system of slave trading. She still had that electric shock in order to be controlled by him. But she *has* to bow down in gratitude and never question his character. The writer should have just abandoned the idea of adding the topic of slavery if he couldn't handle it maturely and respectfully. |
| yeah sure, listen to mc-kun question someone's motives and decision about killing someone. while we're atit, let's just forget that this is the same mc who threatened to murder the king and others a few episodes back |
| An admin's dickhead Soul banned me from MAL t('v't) |
| Raising that beast would either get you eaten or stepped on, obviously. Stupid stout man. I'm glad he officially died now, ugh. So sad Rifana-chan couldn't join the Shield Hero Harem lulz. Rest in Paradise, girly Also, I was hoping Keel-kun would've grown up more cool and tough, but he aight lmaoooo. |
| Feels weird saying this 20 minutes after posting in the previous episode's discussion thread that this show was getting worse by every episode, but damn that was actually a really great episode. |
| This anime shit is addictive |
| gonna be real here chief, definitely not feeling this one. It was going good, story was for me at a decent pacing and i was super excited to see Raphtalia's past, but good fucking lord what are these throwaway antagonists, what are with the good awful cliche's this episode???? Literally, this villain felt like such a throw away, like he was purely made for 2 episodes worth then killed off. It felt like the characteristic they gave him was just "evil" thats it, nothing more nothing less, one thing and fuck all. I could name at least one other villain that follows this stupid simple cycle of, doing blatantly evil shit that they see as "a-ok" and brand them as nothing more, act high and mighty when the good guys appear, cower in fear and beg for there life when they get slapped silly, then immediately after continue what they were doing, rinse repeat. The cliches, the fucking cliches are killing me here, "<i>I won't be any different from you</i>". So tell me, how is killing a man, that for god knows how many years, has been torturing, selling and killing demi-human children for the fun of it and is use to getting his hands soaked in blood, how is killing him making you anything like him? i don't see how sparing him initially had any benefit for them? If anything, not killing him right there an then caused them more problems then fixing them, he obviously wanted them dead regardless of begging for his life, hence attacking Raphtalia right after, or summoning a fucking CGI rendered T-Rex. Will admit, the Raphtalia past reveal was emotional, did get me in the feels, but it's just what ever that mess beforehand was, was a real buzzkill for me, and her flashback scenes really didn't hit as hard as i thought it would because of this. Either way, a better understanding of her past is a plus, and her character development did feel like an improvement. I found her past to be interesting, and i could sympathise with her to a degree. CGI T-Rex, oh boy lets see were this goes shall we? |
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| Ah, yeah, like i said, that kuso noble really got a mild and hilarious kind of death, trampled by a dinosaur! Nice shit! But, that emotional part was truly anticipated. So no more sudden heavy heart sick from me. Its kinda weird that boy ajin still alived, really, after having those long times. Well, left aside the logic behind that, its really helped filling out Raph's missing puzzle, and somehow helped Melty characterization too to get a better understanding against those complete chaos called a kingdom, as expected from what i learnt, before. Still, i am curious about the Queen, so better to hop that dino down asap, and move on completely! Idk about the next episode where route its led. However, judging by the title, it looks like the next will trying to portray Firo's past? Well, lets see it, then! |
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| Damn, the music really made this episode for me. The scenes wouldn't be half as sad without it, good job. Do they really have to fight a saurus now? lol |
Figurinha said: Zaugr said: Apparently they made some large changes with the material in this episode... Probably to make Raphtalia just even more perfect (stupid) waifu-bait material. And that was fucking retarded. I'm starting to really hate this show. "Oh no I killed the person who tortured and killed my entire village, how will I ever live with myself?" Really? And the MC asking for forgiveness from Ralph because "it's the right thing to do" and seemingly taking the teacher/mentor role despite not understanding any of what she or the others went through or having really any actual grasp of the situation, that's insulting (done presumably for the sake of wanking off about how "cool" the MC is and his "handle" of the situation to the audience, like with most shitty, cheap Isekai stories). And he really showed a lot of emotion for his close friend while she was in complete distress and confronting her past abuser/torturer... I don't know. I feel like most people in his position would have been uhhhh, upset or maybe angry? At that guy? Maybe. Instead of being otherwise entirely passive... And there's just way too many "evil for the sake of being evil" characters to justify, like that fat old guy just now (who apparently was completely different in the LN and set up at least with some power/high level) who lacked any discernable motive like every other antagonist thus far in this show. Everything about this show's writing makes me want to hit my head against a wall. I don't even like the main cast anymore, the MC's whole edgy, teenage-angsty schtick got old 5+ episodes ago and is now just cringey, he's entirely 1-note and entirely cliché now, the two lolis have the EXACT same personality (a completely forgettable one at that. They're appeal is that they're cute lolis. That's it.) and I've already spoken on Ralph - she's arguably the most basic one, being the epitome of effortless, lifeless waifu bait and completely unbelievable as any sort of actual person. There's no effort passed that of face value with anything in this show. Apparently these are just about all routed in deviations from the source and part of me thinks some of it might be down to them trying to appeal to the west with these tropes (at least the "killing you (mr mass child torturer and murderer) will make me as bad as you (even in self defense)" moral turd and the huge change/simplification of Ralphtalia's character for sad otaku appeal) what with this having been made with the west as a targeted demographic due to Crunchyroll's heavy involvement/backing. I hate the whole "If I kill you I'd be as bad as you" shit, but I guess here it makes sense since Raphtalia has never killed a person. That honestly made me want to kill myself. "If I will kill a slave owner who have slave kids that abuse, torture and rape them for eternity, then I'm just like him!!!" Holy shit that was garbage... and I predicted that it will happen because the anime was so garbage so far. I dropped the anime at episode 9, now I came back to it and it's still so trash. That probably was the worsy anime episode I've ever seen in any anime, ever. |
| This episode gave me the feels knowing knowing about Raphtalia's past story on how she was sold to an slave merchant,and the reason why there village got destroyed,and also her friend it makes me sad. |
StardustReverie said: Fuck that was actually unwatchable. The melodrama flashbacks and "the shield hero will surely save me!" shit was my breaking point. MC, villains, heroine, everything is one-note. Can't even watch this as a joke anymore. 1/10 and dropped. later u see amusing payback 2get execution but Nafu has something more humiliating in mind witch f their rep for life i was laughing my ass off at Kings and red haired bitches execution trial of them was bit funny to but cant compare to execution when Nafu stopped them and asked for more fitting punishment sins death is fast and easy way out as he said |
Sugram22Mar 29, 2021 9:28 AM
| did not to expect to see this many people bitching about this episode, interesting |
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| Tears. And an ugly 3D T-rex XD |
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| That CGI T-Rex being used for the cliffhanger was so bad yet hilarious so fair play. Rest of the episode felt so cheap with how they handled Raphtalia's backstory in the past and her overall reaction, it's SAO-level writing here with the forced misery nature of everything. It's too comical. |
| Raphtalia's life story is very sad, she had to go through several horrible situations, first because of the wave, and then because of the capital. Besides that too, she had to see her best friend at the time become seriously ill. |
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| Damn, the water works this episode. I really didn't expect to see a skeleton. RIP. I knew Raphtalia wouldn't kill the pig for some reason like I won't become like you or something, but that pig just fell from the window lmao, but didn't die and ended up unleashing a dinosaur, damn. And looks like next episode is going to be based on Filo. It looks like it's going to be hard to fight this dinosaur. I wonder when everyone will get class upgrades. But considering their is that good nobel and Melty with Naofumi, Raphtalia and Filo, it could be possible to defeat the dinosaur. 5/5 episode. Though this was a very cliched episode and some things were predictable like Raphtalia's friend is gonna be dead. Still I liked this episode a lot. |
TsutanaiFuunFeb 6, 2022 3:10 AM
 The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama. Feeling half happy, half sad. Kawaii waifus and precious best girls <3333 |
| The good news is that bastard lord isn't dead so Raphtalia can rest assured. The bad news is the bastard released a sealed monster to kill the "devil." When monsters are sealed instead of destroyed, they are sealed for a reason. 99% of the time the reason is they can't be destroyed. At least he got flattened. |
If you are going to disagree with me, don't bother talking to me. I will seriously hurt you! |
| I know i'm late to the party here but one of the things that piss me off more than literally anything is when they have a POS guy and they let him live like that. like WTF? She should have just killed him on the spot. fucking ridiculous. at least torture him and cut his dick off. |
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| Sad situation for Raphtalia, despite her appearance Raphtalia is still technically a 10-year old which makes seeing her friends corpse extra sad. |
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