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agesboy posted...

her "selfishness"

I mean, it was her drive to show everyone how wonderful magic was that let her thrust herself into extreme danger against the dragon and something she did even if it meant being ostracized. It just doesn't make sense that if given an out she wouldn't be happy to go right back to that. She put her life on the line multiple times and it feels like the dragon arc was to get us to accept just how much it means everything to her. Then the next arc is about how you shouldn't hide your feelings from those you care about, and then the final arc is hiding your feelings and giving up on the one thing you cared about so much you'd throw your life away for it for extremely short sided and frankly stupid reasons.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

I mean, it was her drive to show everyone how wonderful magic was that let her thrust herself into extreme danger against the dragon and something she did even if it meant being ostracized.

her drive was to personally use magic, not show that it was great. society already knows it's great but she LOVES it intrinsically. she's sacrificing as much as reasonably possible to work towards being able to use magic

Finished Isekai Ojisan. Hopefully they make more of it. Ojisan's obliviousness is great every time, even though you can see it coming.

Finally picked up Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl, going to be watching that tomorrow.

agesboy posted...

her drive was to personally use magic, not show that it was great.

I'm fairly positive it's almost a direct quote that she wanted to show people how great magic is, from during the dragon fight, when euphie asks why she would go so far. While she does very much want to be able to use magic herself, she also wants that for everybody, not just the nobility. You can actually see throughout the show that most people don't realize how amazing magic is and just see it as a tool to maintain power, as shown by nobody really caring that she is trying to literally fly, which no one can do that way with magic. They even only start getting interested when economic gain gets brought up. The insane utility of all of her inventions is completely glossed over, because people don't really care.

Anyway, I looked up what happens in the novels and now I no longer care enough about the show to keep up the debate.

Woohoo, some more anime has ended and now I've got stuff to watch. More Danmachi, Iruma, and the second season of Fumetsu.

Yeah this season of danmachi was amazing. The final episode was a little meh, but everything else was top tier for the show. I'm sad I have to wait to watch more. Wonder when a season 5 will air. It seems like the source is still about 2 arcs ahead of where the anime ended so there should already be enough for a season 5 I think.

Nice. While it does suck to have to wait and have gaps in between seasons, I do prefer this to having a show constantly running and plagued with filler arcs.

Finally reached Chapter 7 of Xeno 3.

Lots of things revealed finally. Will have to see how it all resolves before I give my thoughts on it. I will say that I am glad that Nia still kept part of her goofy charm.

And can I just say that they did Sena dirty with her Side Story!?

She was barely in it! Not only was it the shortest of the Side Stories, she wasn't even the main feature of it! It felt more like Ghondor's Ascension quest rather than Sena's. They really wasted an opportunity to flesh out her backstory or explore her personality more.

T0ffee posted...

And can I just say that they did Sena dirty with her Side Story!?

That's a common complaint. Mostly, the concept of the story revolves around Shania and Ghondor being character foils for Sena and Mio, exploring what might have happened to Sena if she didn't have the combat talent and support from her friends that she did have. It's one that you really have to take a step back and think about in the broader scope of the story - particularly considering just how valuable her interactions with the party have been - instead of getting the details directly. Not everyone's a fan of that, which is understandable, given that everyone else's side story revolves around them confronting and overcoming specific traumas that have shaped them, and it just didn't do that for Sena. Granted, Sena didn't really have a specific trauma (aside from Miyabi, but that was Mio's), and her constant battles with her own insecurities have been shown continuously throughout the game in flashbacks and present-day events (perhaps most notably, the kamikaze attack at the end of chapter 5), but there still could have been more done to show her overcoming that in her side story.

A lot of people feel that the final non-DLC hero quest fills the role of Sena's side story better, in that it actually grows her as a character, and I think there's plenty of room to argue that. By your reaction to her side story, I expect you're going to end up in the same camp when you get there.

T0ffee posted...

I will say that I am glad that Nia still kept part of her goofy charm.

I really have to appreciate the dramatic irony in Nia's portrayal this time around. They do such a good job of having her mostly keep up the regal, almost sacred pretense that everyone expects because they've never known another side to their queen, but slipping up just enough to entertain the players who know what she's really like and ever-so-slightly confuse the party (who, of course, thinks they must have misunderstood because she's the queen and obviously she couldn't have done something so goofy). It's really well played to be a wonderful bit of fanservice and extra fun for those that played 2, while still being entertaining for those that haven't.

Very happy I decided to continue on with 3-gatsu no lion. Into the manga-only sections (just finishing up Volume 10) and the current arc is absolutely amazing.