I'd just love Leon actually marry the queen, if only for the punch line 15 years in the making LOL
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I'd just love Leon actually marry the queen, if only for the punch line 15 years in the making LOL
episode 7:
"You again!" from the audience after Leon won another competition, and everyone being angry at him made lol.
However, I actually disliked the way he won here. This was actual cheating versus just having a better mecha in the first duel. You really have to shut off your brain for this, because no way nobody would realize something's wrong when one of the bikes can accelarate to much higher speed.
And I wish Leon and the two girls would already get together. Come on, Leon, they want you.
Oh, and assuming Marie is Leon's sister, I hope they don't drag that out too much ... although the anime is in its last 5 episodes anyway.
The anime run out of episode budget and couldn't animate Angie and the evil noble daughter's fist fight, huh. That's sad.
Compared to the manga, the episode also skipped character building, particularly with Clarice. But I'm especially missing a part that was cut out from cute interaction between Leon and Livia. Seeing how everyone would want Leon to get together with those girls, it's kind of sad they decided to take away a scene where they flirted. Of course it's remotely possible it was manga original and not present in the novel, but I kind of doubt it.
If it's a rally competition where you can purposefully mutilate other participants until their bones break, I reckon they aren't too strict about rules in general. All things considered, Leon was a total n00b and was basically forced to compete because Angie would lose face otherwise, and that's something Leon considered unaffordable if it's a situation where he could potentially prevent it. So, if he evened the odds, it's cool. Of course the anime once again, surprise surprise, cut away a part that would have made you sympathise with Leon's situation in the race a bit more. This anime adaptation is really cheap, I can't emphasize that enough. It's a pity it makes the story seem worse than it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
Is it cheating if he modded the machine? It wasn't stated that they had to use standard unmodified bikes. Other racers probably have their own machines and upgraded them to the best of their abilities and resources. Unfortunately, they don't have ancient tech on their side like Mob has. It's more of abusing a loophole in the rules than cheating.
episode 8:
ffs, Leon, stop thinking of yourself as a mob. I wouldn't even care about it, but if it gets that much in the way of you simply telling Livia that you like her, .... ffs.
This anime is so cheap all around, but the new plot point that was opened this week is actually interesting: Leon robbing Livia of her chances to grow as a person. It actually sounds familiar, but I don't remember what other anime had a similar plot element, hm.
But damn, that ugly blonde girl is so annoying, I wish Ange would have just immediately punched her.
It's pretty funny how Leon really did leave a deep impression on the queen.
He does, sort of, realise it himself because he considers Luxion to belong to Livia originally. Livia is the player character and Luxion is possibly the most expensive pay-to-win item for the player. So, in a manner of speaking he robbed it from Livia. Although to be fair, how exactly would Livia have acquired it? It's like Luxion is the reward from a DLC, but Livia wouldn't have bought the DLC.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
Of course the real offender is still Marie. She's the one who made Livia not the main character. Leon is doing little more than keep Livia alive and well. I imagine the game events, which made Livia strong originally, were pretty much all tied to the capture targets (it's supposedly a dating sim, after all), who now all belong to Marie. At the end of the day Leon can't do much for Livia, unless he drops his mob mentality and accepts the game plot is all screwed up already.
Not entirely true.
Livia would have gotten involved in this one no matter what according to Leon. It is the scum noble who resents her for being a commoner. Marie is at least from a Vicount family. His involvement helping Angie has accelerated this event because either way, Livia is gaining prominence.
The bracelet is in the dungeons, and they've already been there during their school training. That's the part where Leon is hurting Livia with his overprotectiveness. But on the other hand, he's actually making the shitty male leads better people, including getting them thinking about improving their combat skills. They were all shit in the game, and he's already influenced them to be better sooner (in order to defeat him, but whatever).
But the most disruptive element is probably Angie. She's supposed to have been exiled by now. Instead, she's become bosom friends with Livia.
I intensely dislike the arc and the airbike one. At the moment, this series has dropped to my least favorite series of the stuff I'm watching.
It was supposed to happen much later, like Leon said. Livia would have been a lot stronger, and she would have had the support of one of the capture targets, who would have had a mecha and resources, as well. Also, in my opinion it's important to note that a game is a game and real life is real life, even if that world has some logic/story straight from the game. Leon noted the game was stupidly difficult for what it was, so how difficult would it be without save/load? In the end Leon (or whatever was his original name) needed to buy the pay-to-win item to even clear the game at all. It's possible the story would be 100% lethal without Leon interfering with Luxion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
Eh, what exactly is Angie doing? She's a duke's daughter, but much lesser noble daughters are looking down on her because apparently all it took to destroy the Redgraves' political power was the cancellation of the marriage with the crown prince. I don't see Angie disrupting anything much. She wasn't banished, but her power and influence is very limited. Leon himself is disrupting more, being a bona fide nobleman with a domain and a warship already, whereas every single other student is just the son or a daughter of a noble, in other words, nothing at all yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
I just dislike the miserable production values.Quote:
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episode 10:
Honestly, I wanted Leon to kill all those nobles that attacked him and Livia earlier. Meh.
Otherwise, not sure what the bigger problem is. Have Leon call for his special toys and he'll decimate that new enemy all by himself.
Also, while Leon's self-ignorance about his own status is annoying, so is Livia's about him. When he said what kind of woman he wishes for at the shrine, I hoped Livia would understand that he really never even thought about having a chance with her - unless she has some inferiority complex and thinks she possesses none of the qualities that Leon wants in a woman (well, only the queen meets all of them, though, lol).
Way to miss her entire character backstory.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
His own public ship must be a good distance away. I suppose he didn't feel it proper to have it follow the luxury liner too nearby. Considering there were plenty of noble kids aboard, it might have been taken as intimidation if someone's private warship was always hanging around. The kingdom is, after all, quite divided in factions.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
Of couse she has an inferiority complex. She's the only commoner in a school full of aristocracy. She has experienced bullying. Furthermore, in the original story she would already be close to the capture targets, that is, some of the most important dudes in the school, which majorly lessened the effects of bullying and isolation. She would have experienced some success as an adventurer, as well. So, she should have had a boost to her self-confidence. However, Marie seized all of that. The only positive experiences for Livia were Leon and Angie, but the bullies managed to turn even that against her. It makes perfect sense she wouldn't consider herself worthy of a nobleman, like Leon, in a strict feudal society.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
It's actually quite funny that Leon keeps looking down on the capture target dudes all the time, but those guys actually let nothing stop them for the sake of player character in the game and Marie in the actual story. Whereas Leon tries his best to avoid any romantic development with Angie or Livia. So, Leon doesn't have the guts to fight against the norms of the society to get what he wants, whereas those good-for-nothing (in Leon's opinion) dudes do have the courage. Leon is actually the bigger loser here.
episode 11:
So basically Livia knew Leon would save whoever falls, so she willingly took Angelica's place, snatching away Leon for herself ;D
I really hope this anime has a harem end, though, it's really the only ending fitting the tone. Ange deserves to be his wife just as much as Livia does. And this is a world where men are being treated like shit, and afaik women can have multiple men, so it'd fit Leon's attitude to disrupt the ways of this world by becoming the first men with two women.
New enemy knight is boring. Old man = insta loss in anime
The world actually has men (of nobility) with two wives frequently, by the looks of it. Like Leon's old man. The first wife is the noble one, who's living in luxury in the capital, leeching money from the man and having a harem of her own slaves. The second wife can be a commoner, whose job is to basically breed with the nobleman, to create more workforce for the domain. The first wife's children obviously won't be toiling in the fields.
The series very much seems to be creating a Leon+Angie+Livia unit. It's also the best kind of harem since Livia and Angie care very much for each other. So, even if they had to share Leon, I don't think they would mind. Who knows if it's going to happen, though. This anime is so cheap, with so bottom level production values, that it would be a miracle if it got a second season, so this isn't going to have any kind of ending. If it did, it would be an anime original one.
Episode 12 Final
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That's all, folks. This production was really cheap, but to be honest, I'm not sure it would deserve anything more. As far as isekai go, I do like this for a few reasons, but all in all it's obviously trash, like most isekai.
I suppose it was heavily indicated that Leon isn't anymore totally rejecting the idea of hooking up with Livia and Angie, so there was a little bit of conclusion in the air. Otherwise based on what Leon has been talking about the plot of the game, this shouldn't be yet near the end of the whole plot, although events are apparently happening out of order. So far Leon himself has definitely done more to affect (that is, alter) the plot than that petty schemer Marie. Despite that Leon calls himself a mob character, whereas Marie considers herself the new main character.
Trash ending to a trash anime. I was really hoping they'd give us a relationship for the finale, and we got THIS close, but nah, typical weeb-tease at the end. Meh.
Low production quality, rushed story, dumb hero who chooses to be gay because of irrational thoughts. There was some good and interesting elements in this, but it couldn't win against the cheap parts.