I didn't notice, but indeed it is him. And they're eating the sweet Gero loves

I don't know if that's info from the novel, but from watching the anime it seems he spends points to give away stuff. But he also has a shitton of points from the money from the bandits

Proably personal preference by the author is the big reason, but I'd say that if kinosaki was a girl then it would be like case closed from episode 1. Now we don't know if he will betray the premise to be with kinosaki or not.

Bruh, be careful not to exhaust your copium supply in a single episode discussion

Didn't say anything about spoilers. Talking about the general smugness of

"Cause Qiffery's academic philosphy is based on freewill.
And also he knows Agott... unlike a lot of people jumping to conclusions here."

And some others in this topic, like:
"I'll be here to defend Agott against the surface-level anime watchers."

This is a discussion of the anime, as it releases. Not of the season as a whole, or the series as a whole.

Whenever the redemption arc comes out, people will comment on that.

And why are you getting upset over hyperbolic jokes regarding people that don't exist anyway?

"She will give up as soons as she sees the challenge" - many hours after the girl was sent to the challenge.

He knowing her is expected, and actually something that makes the situation worse, not better though.
No one here is saying the show is shit.
The thread is about commenting about the episode itself. In this episode and the one before, Qiffreys actions have been questionable, so nothing wrong with questioning them.

Of course especulation of what's to come is natural in these sort of threads, such as saying that probably this will be addressed in the next episode.

Now, manga readers having read what happens next and gloating about it for some reason... is just weird. Perhaps go talk about stuff considering what has only happened in the manga so far...in the manga forum?

Dude, my comment was just a reply to another "analysis" that explained why the little shit didnt get scolded.

Except for

• the fact that as soon as Coco arrived she showed the flower to Agott to ask for confirmation in from of him
• Coco literally knows nothing about the world of magic, so she wouldn't know about the test and how to get there (correct combination of the rings) on her own

at least give her a left-hand uppercut to the body

They seem to be able to put restrictions on heroes. After Venetim's sentence was shown, there was also a scene where he wanted to give hints about what he knows to xylo, but was unable to outright say it. It does seem odd that he, of all people, would be turned to a hero though. I mean, for Xylo and the others, it is a way to gain a powerful tool since they have strong abilities, but Venetim's ability is to bullshit people, so not sure how that is a good hero to create and control lol

I really like how every character matters. Usually only the main character, and perhaps 1 other, matters while the others are shit, but here everyone contributes meaningfully

To me the ending was a big let down. First we had Aqua, now we have Ruby -- hell even the producer guy -- sacrificing their lives to find shit out... Akane randomly sees a dude and pieces everything together. I mean, she sort of has a record of being like this, so it's not out of character or anything. It just is a big letdown storywise.

Is it just my imagination, or is there really no comment here mentioning the fact that the boss monster is overemployed, also working as a monster hentai's protag? Dude's main attack is cumming all over the place ffs

Just watched this. It is at the same time more realistic and dumber than usual. More realistic because in the usual trope, the MC is OBVIOUSLY OP for everyone in the story, not just the watcher, and the evil party just refuses to acknowledge. In this one, he is hiding his OPness, so it makes sense for the hero to get a big head and look down on him. The MC here is literally at fault for making the hero overestimate himself, since he is buffing him up without letting him know.

Nice thing about this arc is Grim getting a chance to shine after been made a b**** episode 1 then being the mascot since

yep, but don't get me wrong: I disliked basically everything related to the insect guy, including the way she beat him.

The explanation is probably that se was able to hit one insect to affect its liquids and cascade into the next, making for a domino effect. Against a single strong foe, she probably can't just do that without actually landing a wounding hit first.

It's a shame you didn't enjoy it. I thought I wouldn't because flashbacks really do ruin the pacing usually. But to me they did a fine job here, with the flashback taking only part of the episode and leaving room for everything else you mentioned.

It may go more of a rock paper scissors way, I mean the logic of Alicia's overwhelming victory here was that she sort of domino effected the bugs. Against a bunch of nails or swords she wouldn't be able to do that since there would not be the "they're made of water, lel" part.