If it's a super convenient resistance like that, being able to intelligently deduce what is damage and what is not. Of course that could be the case since this is one of the ultra OP MC series where the MCs typically have few inconveniences.Originally Posted by DarthEnderX
Ep8 out
Shizu already told us she's been around for decades. So the idea that Ifrit was her life support power source didn't come as a surprise.
So much jokes lost with that "eat me" phrase. But not the right moment.
Now we know where he got his body data to get to his OP form.
We're still missing 5 characters from the ED.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Huh. I thought Shizu WAS the hero that sealed Veldora.
I just assumed she didn't age because she was a summon.
Pavlovian reflex in my case. So many stories with that kind of symbiosis.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Help me: Was Veldora absorbed differently from Shizu? After all, Veldora still is alive, yet Shizu apparently is dead?
Kind of a boring episode, and they even included recaps in it.
Veldora ought to be in just for safekeeping. In the first place, I doubt Rimuru, with the power he had back then, could have devoured Veldora so simply. The other possibility is that Veldora really was devoured the same (with his own cooperation), but the seal is actually protecting him from being digested. So, if the seal eroded enough, I guess Rimuru would then quickly vomit Veldora out. Who knows.
The plague doctor mask dude, who's trying to manipulate the orc, unsurprisingly got the voice actor who's always in the roles of villains trying to manipulate others.
Veldora and Ifrit seems to have both been absorbed "alive" which is why they both seem to "live" inside Rimuru.
Everything else he's absorbed has been dead. Which I assume is why nothing except Ifrit has encountered Veldora.
But he wanted to have Shiziu slumber inside him forever and dream about good things. That's what has me confused. I mean, he could have just swallowed her before she died (?), regenerating her body inside his slime dimension
I'm pretty sure he was just being poetic. They even showed her going to her mom, who would not be inside Rimuru.
I thought it was weird they didn't seem to try and give her any healing potions. Even lowbie adventurer assumed that was a thing they'd do.I mean, he could have just swallowed her before she died (?), regenerating her body inside his slime dimension
Anyway, the series has a direction now. He's got his human form, and now he's set on his path towards what is likely the series main antagonist.
Last edited by DarthEnderX; Tue, 11-20-2018 at 01:07 AM.
I'm pretty sure the mood for that scene was that Shizue wanted to let go of her life. And Rimuru respects that choice.
She hates that world, she does not wish to live longer by any means.
I'm pretty sure she's dead by now. But it's entirely possible the predator function kept her spirit in store somewhere.
And since Shizue is Rimuru's soulmate, It might be true for next reincarnation.
Shizue's spirit stored in Rimuru, allows for a synchronised reincarnation. When Rimuru dies, Both their souls will be able to reincarnate at the same time and probably in the same world.
But It's too stereotypical maybe?
Ifrit power her life support was too...
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Shizu most certainly died and was digested. That's why Rimuru can take her form, more or less, now. Just like he can take the wolf form after eating a wolf, etc. This whole episode was spent on Shizu's last moments/wake, so it would be beyond ridiculous if she didn't even die. She's dead.
It was more important to her that she not die on their current world, but died within Rimuru, who's Predator stomach is presumably a different dimension or something.
How they should have handled this was this:
In the last episode, Shizu basically transformed into Ifrit, but when Rimuru ate Ifrit, Shizu was left lying on the ground for some reason.
What they SHOULD have done is just made it so that when Rimuru ate Ifrit, he ate Shizu also, and then had the entire conversation that took place at the beginning of this episode take place inside Rimuru's head instead of with her lying in bed.
I didn't like that episode too much
It introduced so many characters, yet I'm completely uninterested in them.
The Demonlord dude, okay - he's fine. That's at least a goal and something that keeps the plot rolling forward.
But all of a sudden there are plenty of "otherworld"-kids, then there is the mysterious hero but not only that, there is also the girl that is traveling with the hero who was not mentioned or shown until Shizu was dreaming about her. Then there is this guild-grandmaster kid-orphan, that seems to have a really important position and she was like "oh, I know that dude btw".
I don't know how I feel about mentioning so many characters on the side. It's almost as if they felt the need to put at least some amount of story development/world building into it and if they did I wonder why they even went through the trouble of dedicating a whole episode to her dying and talking.
It almost felt like a preview of characters to come.
Outside of the demon lord nobody was introduced. New factions were merely mentioned to expand scope, that's all.
Not sure what's there to be 'interested' about characters we haven't even seen yet. Imo I'm pretty excited about the other summoned humans. And the hero had already been introduced long enough.
How was the demon lord introduced but all the other characters not?
introduced as in "this person exists and he has a name, thus he is relevant to the story at some point".
and why I should be interested in them? Because they've shown them - why show them otherwise?
Plus, so far we/I've assumed the hero was Shizu. At least they looked extremely similar in the flashback in the earlier episodes and she was wearing that very unique mask - not sure what else gave it away that she isn't the one other than her saying that the hero, which isn't her, exists. Especially since she used fire magic in it....
Last edited by KrayZ33; Wed, 11-21-2018 at 08:15 AM.
I mean that's just me, but when in Naruto we found out there's actually an entire organization behind that Itachi- and shark-guy, it got me excited. Same for the reveal that there is a whole group of summoned humans.
Because that's what it was?
Yeah but I expected more out of that than 2s screentime for each of them as if it was an opening... and also more than just a mere visual hint that this character exists.
It didn't add anything to the episode imho and it really needed something.
tl:dr
such previews are 'bleh'
Last edited by KrayZ33; Thu, 11-22-2018 at 06:35 PM.
And people accuse me of nitpicking.
Peace.
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