Episode 08
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"Those boobs, they're kinda smaller than what I remembered." - My thoughts while seeing naked Priestess and confusing her for Sword Maiden.
I don't have much more to add other than that this once again felt like an extremely short episode. (edit: actually - How eye-lasers fail to keep up with moving targets always amazes me. )
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
I somehow fail to see how that letter from last episode before he died included this request when he said himself that this type of 'weapon' is probably useless against goblins.
Or did he send a new one?
And is small priestess no longer a virgin?
Or can she be used as "fodder" whenever this happens?
I suppose that's up for interpretation. The Sword Maiden wasn't a virgin either but she still joined the ritual.
Episode was shit, but expected shit, so whatever. I'm sure someone will be able to ignore all the shit and celebrate it nonetheless.
Only upside: sjws will hate it lol. "Women are weak", then a boob jiggle while she talks about her rape. Rofl. It's like a '101 - How to trigger sjws'.
Just one thing: What was the problem with the eyeball monster? Since it can't keep up, just shoot an arrow, done. Ffs, the dwarf even put it to sleep, so just gang up on it with all your weapons. Whatever.
Small priestess is still a virgin. You literally "share a bed with a virgin" and nothing else, because it's difficult to get an erection out of a corpse that has no cardiac output. She's too low a level to cast Resurrection though, so that's where the Sword Maiden comes in. Whether she could cast then leave, or whether it was mandatory for her to snooze with them, I can't tell you.
@Krayz: yeah, I don't know how to interpret that flour scene. Maybe he already suspected strong champs by then? No idea.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Episode starts with a Hobbit reference and ends by making fun of the Beholder trademark.
It's always nice how Goblin Slayer comes up with new ways to weaponise random pieces of information and knowledge he acquires. Seeing how a single dagger could kill even the strongest of fighters in that world, the role of intelligence is emphasized.
That just seems like his thing. He comes up with new ways to kill Goblins, then he tests them out. In this instance, he just ran into not-a-goblin first.Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Like, in this episode, the ice cream vendor explained to him how fire magic was used to make liquid freeze(wtf btw), and he's all, "Hmm, that's interesting."
You just know he's planning to freeze a bunch of goblins to death in the future.
Yes, but he specifically said that this method is useless for killing goblins. At least somewhat along these lines.
He wouldn't request something ineffective for killing goblins and bring it along, would he?
Because he'd never tried it before.
Only after using it against the Beholder did he decide it wouldn't be useful against goblins.
Oh okay, he tried it out.
I actually thought he went for it even though he knew it'll be ineffective against goblins and a hassle to prepare.
Episode 9
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Quite a nice and balanced episode. Apart from the elf going a bit too far in her modern tsundere act. Goblin Slayer is slowly gaining some human attributes, such as actually having a conversation with the Sword Maiden, as unyielding as he was, plus wanting to try something new that hasn't got anything to do with slaying goblins. Probably. Working in a good group can do miracles.
The lizardman summon is so freaking amazing and useful. Overall the fighting was very well done and very dynamic.
I had to watch the "report" twice to understand what was going on though, for a moment I thought Sword Maiden summoned the goblins to let the town suffer and experience what she had to experience.
Last edited by KrayZ33; Sun, 12-02-2018 at 03:55 AM.
Oh you naive fool. He's going to kill so many goblins with that ice cream.
I thought she purposely left dead women and their intestines lying around the place so people would go hunt the goblins at first.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
I honestly still don't know whether the dead bodies even existed in the first place or if the whole story was made up by her.
But we saw dead adventurers/guards when they went down through the well for the first time and they were rather "fresh".
So there must have been some reason to go down there.
I still don't know who killed the women then though, since goblins supposedly don't do it like that
I'm really not sure what has happened.
All I understand is that she can't go down there by herself because she is afraid of goblins, that's why she ordered that familiar to prevent the "goblin outbreak"(?) and keep it in check somewhat And a sect seems to be responsible for that mess, though they've been defeated by the Hero somewhere (probably the scene we saw some episodes earlier).
It's actually rather interesting to review that scene again now. You can actually tell that Goblin Slayer knew that something was off from the very beginning, but his group stopped him from investigating/questioning it any further.
Same thing with the Sword Maiden.
Yeah they blamed those deaths on Goblins so that people would hunt them I suppose.
But a crucial bit from the manga was missing here that explained who killed those people. That scene was shown a few episodes earlier with the Hero and her companions.
I thought the albino gator killed the people, since GS implied that it was the priestesses familiar.
My understanding was, she knew there were goblins moving into the sewers, and needed them gotten rid of, because of her trauma. But nobody would care if she just told people about them. So she had her gator tear up a few people, to blame on goblins, so that people would go down and get rid of the goblins.
I'm not sure if that's right though.
When she priestess said her and the hero defeated the demon king and sent all the goblins far away, I thought maybe she meant the green moon, where GS thinks goblins come from.
I also thought maybe the place on the other side of the mirror where goblins are just living outside was also on the moon.
Wait, so the hero and her companions killed the people?
Haha.
The cultists killed the people. The cultists also helped the goblins to infest the sewers. They knew the Sword Maiden is afraid of goblins, so they tried to make her life difficult by having a goblin colony right under her feet. The Hero & Co just happened to slay those cultists, possibly by coincidence more than by any plan of the Sword Maiden. The alligator was the only thing the Sword Maiden could do to keep the goblins in check personally since she can't face goblins in person. Who knows why she told Goblin Slayer nothing beforehand, but maybe she was afraid he would give up if she knew everything, after all, she's mortally afraid of goblins, so she might believe others are as well.
That's somewhat similar to what I thought at first too, but it made no sense at all, so I rewatched it and I came to the same conclusion as Kraco explained it.
The talk they had doesn't really work that well when there are several weeks of downtime between episodes since it also connects to the first time they met.
Typical anime weakness, that's probably why a lot of shows use flashbacks. Still glad they decided not to use them here. (precious screen time)
Not sure why she didn't simply tell the truth though or at least something closer to the truth, I mean.... she could've made up all kind of shit like "I'm too busy as the archbishop to go down there and hunt mere goblins, however, I know that they are a problem that needs to be adressed" or something.
Since the sect has been defeated, why didn't she put up adventurer quests? The mirror alone would've gathered more than enough willful highclass adventurers.
Anyway, I wonder what's up next. we still have some episodes to go. I guess one more adventure.
Too bad it's just a 12/13-episode-show
Last edited by KrayZ33; Sun, 12-02-2018 at 05:05 PM.
NOW I'm on the trolley.
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