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[Episode] Tsuihou Sareta Cheat Fuyo Majutsushi wa Kimama na Second Life wo Ouka Suru.: Ore wa Buki dake ja Naku, Arayuru Mono ni "Kyouka Point" wo Fuyo Dekiru shi, Ore no Ishi de Itsudemo Kouka wo K (ani.social)
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Tsuihou Sareta Cheat Fuyo Majutsushi wa Kimama na Second Life wo Ouka Suru.: Ore wa Buki dake ja Naku, Arayuru Mono ni "Kyouka Point" wo Fuyo Dekiru shi, Ore no Ishi de Itsudemo Kouka wo Kaijo Dekiru kedo, Nokotta Hitotachi Daijoubu?, episode 4

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Alternative NamesChii Fuyo, Chii-Fuyo, The Exiled Cheating Magician Enjoys an Unrestrained Second Life.: I Can Give "Strengthening Points" Not Only to Weapons, But Also to Everything, and I Can Unlock the Effect at Any Time of My Will, But are the Rest Okay?, The Laid-Off Cheat-Granting Mage Enjoys a New Life, チー付与

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[–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

This is such a strange series.

I just watched all four episodes today. I had noticed it before, but didn't think much of it, but I caught some buzz, so...

It's just... right now, it could turn out to be amazing or it could turn out to be awful, and I have no idea which. It's juxtaposing so many different things that it seems like it shouldn't work, and it quite possibly won't, but so far it's actually pulling it off.

We have a standard fantasy setting, except that the city is very much not. There isn't a right angle anywhere - even the chairs are crooked - and the buildings look from a distance like they were just hastily sketched in, then when you get up close, they still look like that. And the distant shots look like they came straight out of a cartoon version of a Rio barrio, complete with TV antennas and satellite dishes and window AC units and graffiti.

And the tone shifts from goofball humor to brutal murder to horrifying tragedy and back again, often in the span of mere seconds.

Rein is genuinely an idiot. He's not even genre-aware or just situationally dim-witted or anything - he's a complete and total idiot, though at least a mostly well-meaning one.

Then we've got Lily - the beautiful warrior in her fine enamel and lace battle armor with her beautiful sword... with a bent hilt, who spends the rest of her time as a just-barely partly recovered hikikomori who dresses like an elementary school student.

And Margaret, the vicious, bitter, murderous surviving sister who stares longingly at the knife in her hands and dreams of murdering Lily, then uses the knife to cut apple bunnies for her.

They introduced one villainous leader of the rival guild, only to immediately sideline him for the sinister power behind the throne, which they then immediately killed off.

There's been more brutal death in this already than there was at the same point in Akame ga Kill, AND more goofball humor than there was in KonoSuba.

It's just all over the place, but if it can pull it all together into some sort of recognizable whole, it could be tremendous. Or not. I guess we'll see...

And on a bit of a meta side note - in reading comments on this, I realized that "peak" is no longer the cringiest word on anime forums. It's now "sakuga."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    It’s just all over the place

    Yeah, this show is genuinely baffling. Literally nothing makes sense.

    • The show's plot is basically "fire people for the lols... oh no, consequences... blame Rein anyway."
    • Rein is an absolute idiot in every way
    • The original guild is completely irredeemable in every way
    • Murder Sister is unreasonably nuts. She practically sees the entire party go "We need the HARDEST quest ever!" and then Lily, the strongest member of the party, comes back in a full body cast and she's like "Yeah, you definitely ran away and left my sister to die."
    • Murder sister has a million chances to murder Lily but doesn't because... plot.
    • Lily is... comic relief or something?
    • Random murders everywhere with absolutely no consequences

    I just don't get it. We're definitely going to find out that OG Sister sacrificed herself to save Lily when Lily was going to sacrifice herself instead or something.

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