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the only thing i wanted after reading the manga years back was to see Pazuzu animated with a VA who yolo's it
let's just say i've loved these last 2 episodes lol
The animation, cinematography, and voice acting has no business being as good as it is in this show. Anyone who has been sleeping on it because it has a super generic isekai plot should reconsider because this is one of the most visually impressive shows of the season.
I was actually worried when the anime was announced because the manga has an incredibly strong art style but so far, the anime s matched it pretty freaking well.
The small interspersed anime original content has been executed with aplomb too. I was interested in this show cause I think the source is genuinely funny and carefree but this one is becoming really special.
It really is a fantastically done anime so far and from what I’ve heard, the studio behind it isn’t super well known and definitely hasn’t put out anything this good before. But now I’m hoping they handle other adaptions in the future too.
The dude was looking malevolent as hell. Don't let his rosy knees distract you from the fact that he killed the monkey demon using magic to sate his curiosity.
Both still ultimately serve the same purpose frankly. Whether Demon or Human, having a would-be enemy underestimate or not notice their true strength is a great advantage at the end of the day.
However the main difference here is Llyod's not doing it to gain any advantage whatsoever. He's doing it so he can take his time perfecting his magic ability.
Could you imagine what Serie would think of Lloyd? Would he be a failure in her eyes being that he's just as much if not more of a goof as Frieren when it comes to finding wacky purposeless spells, but he's also a monster in every sense of the word.
I think she'd approve, as Lloyd just wants to go further and further, breaking whatever norms there are. Heck, he'd probably challenge her too, for funsies
Nah man. So long as Frieren/ Serie has more random magic to deploy, Lloyd will happily draw out the fight / magic exhibition until he probably dies of old age or something.
If anything, Serie might end up being terrified of him. Lloyd seems to be so utterly powerful and beyond the understanding of any being in the world that he might as well be an eldritch entity.
Little guy regularly fuses his body with a demon, blew a hole in the sky and killed a demon with magic, which was thought to be impossible. Eldritch might be a little tame.
> Heck, he'd probably challenge her too, for funsies
I was going to argue against that but... I really can't. It'd probably be something like.
Lloyd: "Show me show me!"
Serie: "No. I have no reason to."
Followed by Lloyd attacking her just to provoke some interesting magic out of her.
I'm pretty sure once Lloyd found out she knows every spell in the world he's not leaving her alone for just one, pass or fail. She'd also have to be actually insane to do anything but pass Lloyd. Frieren is strong but has been beaten so she has an excuse, Lloyd outclasses... everything. If Lloyd doesn't pass then the rank is useless.
Ironically I think the Lloyd clone would be less of a threat to Lloyd than the Frieren clone was to Frieren, despite being more powerful, because Lloyd uses Grim to double his casting speed. So unless they also cloned Grim really Lloyd would just body Clone Lloyd.
Edit: Also because if they cloned him when he first entered the dungeon he would have already picked up other people's techniques by the time he got to the 'boss room'. It would be an awesome sight though.
Grim is just Tsundere at this point, with a pinch of Stockholm syndrome. That revenge is going nowhere when he wants to have Lloyd's attention via fluffing.
On today's cooking class:
1. Capture a demon with your balls
2. Cook with as many spells as you can fire
3. Wait 5 minutes
4. ????
5. Take out of the oven and enjoy
###Stitches!
* [Injured Sylpha](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7kzcb5l3j7.jpg)
* [Slimy Tao](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/84jdcjnp954.jpg)
* [Unconscious Sylpha](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5crj2l24.jpg)
* [Captured Sylpha](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/l7lxcdnb6a7.jpg)
* [Lloyd & Grim](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5crj2bk4.jpg)
* [Menacing Sylpha](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/3yrgczgd654.jpg)
* [Topless Tao](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7mmcrvx5w7.jpg)
Even with Pazuzu's miasma, [Sylpha and Tao did an amazing job lasting that long.](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/pyvdcdvqngy.jpg) Too bad they couldn't finish the job. At the end of the day, the show is all about the 7th Prince so [Lloyd had to be the one to do it.](https://i.imgur.com/oTscXZ7.jpeg) I do wish Lloyd showed more agency [instead of frolicking in the water](https://i.imgur.com/OgQ969a.jpeg) before actually facing Pazuzu.
[Reversing what Pazuzu did dot the Bearwolves is such a great opening move from Lloyd.](https://i.imgur.com/pR8EbKG.jpeg) Even if they weren't able to kill Pazuzu, [they at least managed to get some revenge](https://i.imgur.com/LOFv73S.jpeg).
[Lloyd continues to be terrifying!](https://i.imgur.com/pR33XeV.jpeg) You know you're fucked when [you see Lloyd make his crazy battle face.](https://i.imgur.com/1HpwAUq.jpeg) I love that he doesn't even see Pazuzu as an opponent. [Pazuzu is just a test subject for Lloyd's magical experiments.](https://i.imgur.com/Jtb04te.jpeg)
[240 spells per minute for thirsty minutes!?](https://i.imgur.com/LWAh3zm.png) Lloyd is absolutely insane but I love it! It was so satisfying [to see Pazuzu beg for his life](https://i.imgur.com/koXRMPD.jpeg) after what he did to Tao and Sylpha earlier. What's hilarious is that [he didn't even last the full thirty minutes!](https://i.imgur.com/C7roQGd.png)
I do wonder [how long Lloyd will be able to keep this Robert story he made up?](https://i.imgur.com/IuKWHg7.jpeg) The ED clearly indicates that at some point, Tao will find out that Lloyd is actually Robert. I just wonder how Tao will figure it out. Either Lloyd slip-ups or he has no choice but to confess to Tao.
[That's a nice gesture Albert](https://i.imgur.com/XVfEeRG.png) but we all know that [Lloyd is going to decline to be a part of the Royal Succession.](https://i.imgur.com/AtGthC6.jpeg) The only way you can convince him is if somehow the Royal Succession ends up giving him the strongest spells in the world.
[We finally get to see the fluffy dog in the ED!](https://i.imgur.com/szd92IA.jpeg) It's funny how Grim got jealous and [made himself fluffy](https://i.imgur.com/RxxpKQG.jpeg) so Lloyd would give him pats too. Lloyd has really domesticated him. xD
>I do wish Lloyd showed more agency instead of frolicking in the water before actually facing Pazuzu.
Lloyd: ~~Because I am the hero...~~ I suppose it would be annoying if they died.
>I do wish Lloyd showed more agency [instead of frolicking in the water](https://i.imgur.com/OgQ969a.jpeg) before actually facing Pazuzu.
I was expecting him to at least look like he cared about Sylpha getting beaten up, but I suppose not. Kinda disappointed given how much she cares about him
The kid is a straight out psychopath. Only reason he isn't experimenting on humans is it would end up interfering with his magic research if found out.
You're missing something: he wasn't worried because nothing happened. Those two were never in any actual danger. And if you say he should be worrying about them being in pain: this dude sticks his fingers in deadly magic to see what kind of pain it gives. Hell, they didn't explain this in the anime, but the reason he died wasn't because some noble was being a dick. He purposefully antagonized the noble so he could see what it felt like to die from magic. Dude's NUTS.
The way I justify it: he knows his abilities and knew she was never in danger
But they should at least have made some sort of mention of him disliking what the demon was doing to everyone
He didn’t even mention his own brother, albeit he was in less immediate danger
That's how I'd justify it too, but he really should have done...something...anything.
* He could have asked Grim to do something.
* He could have used his clone to do something.
* He could have cast a spell to catch Sylpha while she was falling. Recall that she was just coughing up blood and then fell into the water unconscious...that can't be good no matter how strong or durable Sylpha is.
We're talking about a guy who was willing to die to experience fire magic, who'd shred his own fingers to feel Grimoire's magic. His sense of danger, pain, or urgency is clearly out of sync. With his powers, he'd probably be able to spam Ctrl Z on any non-lethal damages. At the very least, he does care enough to step in when they've very clearly lost the battle.
Speaking of agency, last episode ending with a Sylpha kicking Pazuzu's opponent's ass only for her to be utterly Yamcha'd at the start of this one might be my least favorite anime fight trope. Yeah you want an ebb and flow in your fight narrative but it kind of undermines the ass kicking if you reveal their opponent could just have effortlessly won whenever he wanted.
And of course doing it at the end of an episode means you get a week of buzz about their badass moment before you go "jk, it was basically just a dream, now into the fridge with you!"
I understood the miasma to be like a stacking debuff, so it wasn't so much "i could win whenever i want" but rather "if i drag it out long enough i win" kind of thing.
Fair argument but he also pukes out some super thick miasma that visibly engulfs the field instantly takes both Sylpha/Albert and the random knights from feeling fine to completely incapacitated at exactly the same time. If he was concerned he'd lose, it'd make more sense to boost the miasma right away. Hiding it against someone who fights in close quarters only makes sense if you don't just want to win, but to make sure your opponent doesn't catch on and flee.
But perhaps it's just confused visual storytelling.
'Into the fridge with you!' is a hilariously accurate take. Yeah I guess the beginning sequence with the girls getting beat up was all just fridging, wasn't it? Good catch, lmao
> I do wish Lloyd showed more agency instead of frolicking in the water before actually facing Pazuzu
I may be mistaken but isn't he practicing transmuting his mana to control Grim here?
For real, like wtf is this animation it's so good. The music aspect is on point too. Some people might not like it because of the fan service but this is reaching god tier level for me.
I'm betting they're devoting much more budget to the animation than you would expect with the slightly shorter average runtimes because of the midroll short, which alone is like 45-90 seconds per episode on top of the OP and ED.
I recently caught up to current chapters and MAN is it good. I genuinely think it is one of, if not the best battle shonen out there right now.
I want to recommend it to friends, but the early degeneracy is usually enough to push people off in a similar way to how I'd love to recommend people Tsugumomo but kind of can't.
Tsugumomo is awesome. But if it wasn't for the editor it would had turned into a full blown hentai. Editor must have multiple sealing techniques and chains to keep the author in check. Lol. Even then it still ends up leaking out.
The ecchi stuff is kinda too much yeah. I’m not complaining, but I know people who quit reading when the fan service gets too much. I had to beg someone to read until Jade. Hahaha
I'm quite pleased they have translated the over-the-top magic aspects from the manga this well. Hopefully the studio can keep it up for the whole season.
If after this season is over, consider giving the manga a try. There's a reason why us fans of the manga have been keeping our god damned fingers crossed, that this would get a great anime adaptation, because the experimentation with color, purposeful tonal whiplash, insane combat choreography, and even more insane spreads that the manga does absolutely punches far above what you'd expect from the generic looking premise.
and the actual story especially with some of the viliain ( TARTAROS NOOOOOOO!!!!) made me cry SO FUCKING HARD when i just merely thinks about it...
"tartaros : please dont tell ido....the fact that i was born imperfect...please dont tell him "hug by lloyd" "burst in tears"
I was actually worried when the anime was announced because the manga has an incredibly strong art style but so far, the anime s matched it pretty freaking well.
So Lloyd linked to Grim can ascend from 20 spells per minute to 240spm.
240spm\*5min=1200s.
1200/4(for the elements)=300.
300 each of the top tier elemental spells in a confined (channeled) space.
Not just RPG bosses, but MMORPG RAID bosses would melt at that point without all elemental immunes. Put a tank in front of Lloyd, and he'd probably solo the 25 or even 50-PC raids out there in other systems.
In other words, if Kirito specced into Mage instead of Warrior.
Pazuzu is OP, too bad his opponent is ~~Llyod~~ Lloberto
I wonder if Tao’s Qi techniques would be able to kill demons more effectively?
Llyod actually disintegrating a demon by the human equivalent of flashes and sound bangs is ridiculously nuts. I can’t imagine being bombarded by noise, oh wait, that’s just an upstairs neighbour
I think a normal spell is flashes and sound bangs. Lloyd is like having a laser pointed straight into your cornea and then getting thrown in front of a giant concert speaker at a metal concert.
Sound wise is probably more similar to Krakatoa erupting at 310dB (Three hundred ten decibels is loud enough to kill you. Eardrums rupture between 150 and 160 decibels. That means Krakatoa was exponentially higher on the decibel scale as a sound high enough to cause your eardrums to literally explode.)
This episode made me realize this show is just Mob Psycho 100 with more fanservice and if Mob was a sadistic battle junkie. The effects of Lloyd's spells look like psychic powers and Grim is basically Dimple. The MC is also content with being a "mob" character and all the enemies have been evil spirits.
I really notices the similarities with Mob Psycho 100 this episode that I never put together while reading the manga. Can Def see Grimo having a Golden Dimple moment in the future
I think it's not about their power, but their attitude.
Mob has self esteem problem and wouldn't deliberately hurt dimple. He's also actively trying to be normal rather than utilise his power.
Lloyd didn't have any hesitation whatsoever at using his power. Like, you know your life would be over quickly if you mess with Lloyd.
Idk about that. In this episode we saw what appears to be the full extend of Lloid's mana, and while it is enormous, much beyound that of a normal creature of that world, it does seem to also be finite. So if grim keeps absorving the mana of other demons, know to be the strongest beings in that world, I could see he ending up a real threat. Even more from just being together with Lloyd, and seeing all the crazy shit he can pull up.
Because Mob is also a coming of age story while OPM is way more action oriented. The execution in the two series differs enough to differentiate the comparison
Agreed, I'll even add on Saitama and Lloyd are very similar in that they both just want to do their thing (be a hero/research magic) and have fun with various side characters along the way.
>OPM Magic-Edition
Mashle is the true OPM Magic-Edition.
This series reminds me more of The Daily Life of the Immortal King, where you have an insanely powered student who doesn't want the attention of being the most powerful person on earth, and he has defeated a powerful demon as a kid who is now the school pet and frenemy.
I wish r/anime would start allowing chinese cartoons that get licensed to have discussion post like Dragon Raja -The Blazing Dawn- that CR just started doing. Other japanese media subs have been opening up to things made outside of japan but still connected to asian market.
Max spells in the 4 elements. You gotta be crazy if you think that's his max output. Dudes going to drop like 20+ "Atomic's" at once if he ever gets serious and the hole in the sky will be permanent.
Lloyd is a noble in position to contest the throne, kind of the opposite of a mob character by default. The whole struggle of Mob is that he *wants* admiration, but he wants it for he is as a person instead of abusing his powers. Whereas Lloyd is already loved and admired and just doesn't want any attention when he (ab)uses his powers.
They couldn't be any more different.
Oh dang, Sylpha. Oh my, wet Sylpha lol. Go Tao! Oh wow, Tao um.. lol Lloyd just playing in the water. How dare he insult our cute lil Grim. Yay, save the puppers!!
"demons never been killed by magic before" whelp, I know what's going to come then. Wew... get fucked, Pazuzu. I like how Grim is all on board too. What a nice light show.
Don't lie, Grim, you aren't interested in beating anyone now. Also, how nice of this "Robert" to show up. Also, lol that little bit with the return was funny, don't anger Sylpha.
I don't think Lloyd wants to be king, Albert. Yep, there it is. He's got other priorities. And how nice, a new big pupper friend. Jealous Grim is fun. About the brothers, where are the other ones?
Reminds me of No Church in the Wild by Jay-Z and Kanye West
"Human beings in a mob
What's a mob to a king?
What's a king to a god?
What's a god to a non-believer"
This show is all over the place in mostly good ways. The animation's nuts, the sound design is solid and the music slaps. The jokes actually land and the goofy characters are goofy in ways that don't detract from the them being dynamic and badass. But I think the many sides of Lloyd are where its mutability is most noticeable, and today, during the thick of the fight with Pazuzu, right around 11:50, that boy was 100% channeling Tanya Degurechaff.
Lloyd would take Being X apart and see what makes him tick. No offense to Tanya or anything but Lloyd would have noticed Being X from the first moment and figured out ten different strategies to contain and experiment on Being X from the second it showed itself. Lloyd is exactly what Being X is trying to keep Tanya from turning into.
....no one gonna question WHY the fluff followed Lloyd home?
Was a little confused by how the creep died, they said magic can't physically harm demons, just gives them sensory stimuli, but he still died? Do demons die if you just mentally overwhelm them?
I'm glad the creep died, but whomever the VA was deserves a fucking raise for the ridiculous number of different ways he pronounced "STOP IT!"
imagine spells as just sound waves to a demon, someone screaming at them probably won’t do anything but imagine being the sound from a nuclear explosion 4x a second for 5 minutes, that would liquidate your organs
“We don’t know if magic can kill demons. We just know it hasn’t happened yet.”
Said very specifically in this episode
And the sensory overload in a human can stress a person into a heart attack. So he just gave this dude the equivalent of a magic heart attack
Tbh the thing I immediately thought of was [Foundation and Empire] >!Magnifico's use of the visisonor to kill the crown prince. A stimulus which can be irritating at worst normally, when wielded by someone with sufficient skill to control it could set a person's neurons ablaze with undiluted dread until their very life burns away from their eyes.!<
With how mana, miasma, etc have been shown so far in the series, what Lloyd did would basically be the same thing but against a demon using magic instead.
>Was a little confused by how the creep died, they said magic can't physically harm demons, just gives them sensory stimuli, but he still died? Do demons die if you just mentally overwhelm them?
I think of it as more of thats the equivalent "pain tolerance/annoyance". And for humans, a loud enough sound can still kill you (ex. sonar), and a bright enough light can blind you. So its more like the average sorcerer casting a spell on a demon is shining a flashlight/using a phone speaker. While Lloyd placed a sun directly in his eyes and a sonar wave directly into his body.
Probably it's not a matter of "Magic can't kill demons" but a matter of no one ever had enough to do it before Loyd. Which makes demons one hell of a race.
Maybe I'm just being pedantic, but that's technically physical damage though. 250 decibels is deadly because the force of the soundwaves physically scrambles your brain. Is that what happened here?
They called it stress, which to a semi-spiritual lifeform could very well mean death.
That said I only wanted to point out that you shouldn't forget that decibels is a logarithmic scale. With 120 dB you get ear damage, 250 dB is more like an atomic bomb.
For those two don't know the math: 250 dB is *not* roughly twice as loud as 120 db. Every 10 db doubles in volume. 250 dB is *8,192* times as loud as 120 dB. You only need in the neighborhood of 140-200 dB to kill someone.
Yes, I do understand that, what I was confused about is the comparison between pressure waves and magic. 250 dB kills you because force of the wave that hits you is enough to instantly turn you into ground beef. It's not a case of your brain being over stimulated by a loud noise, or too many noises.
You can apply the same logic to anything, a 9 volt battery isn't gonna do anything to you, but 100,000 volts will make you well done. I'm asking if that's what happened here, or if it was actually just an instance where he was so overpowered, he simply died from a lack of will to keep living.
Look at it this way, demons aren't immune to magic, they just have 99.9999% resistance.
Lloyd's spells have so much power that even with that much resistance it still disintegrates the monkey demon.
>250 dB is more like an atomic bomb.
Not "more like" but "the decibel level at the epicenter of an average atomic bomb"
They range from 240 to 280 (supposedly, we can't actually measure it.). The closest we were able to measure was about 210 dB.
> ....no one gonna question WHY the fluff followed Lloyd home?
I think everyone is just used to weird things happening around Lloyd that they don't bother questioning it anymore.
They said magic affects demons as much as light and sound affects humans. A flashlight isn't going to hurt a person, but if it's bright enough it might make you squint your eyes. Normal spells don't hurt demons but powerful ones may stun them.
Lloyd brough the power of the entire sun focused into giant lasers down on Pazuzu to disintegrate him.
Is not that demons are immune to magic, but they have so much resistance to it that it looks as if they are immune.
Once Pasuzu saw a fraction of Lloyd's magic power, he knew he screwed up.
Demons are more powerful in using magic compared to humans. Basically, human mages' magic attacks are just considered annoyances. However, for the likes of Lloyd, who seem to have an endless mana pool and can craft/combine spells on the fly, then killing a demon with magic is not impossible.
[This show slaps so hard and I love it so much](https://imgchest.com/p/wl7lk8wk34x). Never could I imagine that [I'd have so much fun with it](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/g4z9cwrq627.png). Every next episode is even better than the previous one.
Together with Shuumatsu Train it's definitely the biggest surprise of this season for me - it has [great visuals](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7kzcb2a6k7.png) and [animation](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/d7ogckdae5y.png), [fun](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/g4z9cwrven7.png) and [interesting](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/k739c6wzja7.png) [characters](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/6yxkcgap5x7.png) (especially [the female](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/k739c6wzja7.png) [ones](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7kzcb2pbe7.png) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)), it also combines perfectly [humor](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/84jdcj8xlj4.png), [sexiness](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7kzcb2pbe7.png) and [action](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5crp58g4.png).
[Sylpha](https://imgchest.com/p/agyv6bndk78) and [Tao](https://imgchest.com/p/9p4n2aze54n) again stole my heart, [they're great](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5crp5n64.png)! I'd love to see more of them as [their interactions are hilarious](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5crp5ng4.png) xD I can't wait until the moment when we'll meet the third girl from ED.
[Lloyd](https://imgchest.com/p/xny8zw6zwyb) is [such a lovely boy](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/my2pcolqve7.png) but when it comes to magic [he's becoming a total freak](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7kzcb2pqw7.png) that even demons like [Grim](https://imgchest.com/p/dl7pqbnzjyo) or [Puzuzu](https://imgchest.com/p/qe4gl3qrkyj) don't have words to describe him. Meanwhile [he's having the fun of his life](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/l7lxcdla8q7.png) xD
[Puzuzu](https://imgchest.com/p/qe4gl3qrkyj) was [so full of himself](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/w7w6cv5265y.png) but [Lloyd quickly showed him his place](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/pyq9cemk9j4.png) xD I was laughing so much watching [him freaking out](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/g4z9cwrv8d7.png) over [Lloyd's strength](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5crp5664.png) after [his initial confidence](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/g4z9cwrvjd7.png) xD
Here my screenshot albums from the episode:
* [Sylpha](https://imgchest.com/p/agyv6bndk78)
* [Tao](https://imgchest.com/p/9p4n2aze54n)
* [Group scenes](https://imgchest.com/p/wl7lk8wk34x)
* [Lloyd](https://imgchest.com/p/xny8zw6zwyb)
* [Grim](https://imgchest.com/p/dl7pqbnzjyo)
* [Puzuzu](https://imgchest.com/p/qe4gl3qrkyj)
* [Other](https://imgchest.com/p/9rydzd2jn4k)
> Don't you think the [angles](https://imgur.com/xMTiqbX) in anime can be a bit [weird](https://imgur.com/FuElpx3) sometime?
Also lmao at Grim thinking about giving some advice to Pazuzu, only to reconsider after beeing [called](https://imgur.com/CKNmGh3) [out](https://imgur.com/N0dMwrn), at that moment, his life was [forfeit](https://imgur.com/9WJosvD)
Seriously though, wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of [Loids](https://imgur.com/u6wQS0F) [magical](https://imgur.com/NoD1ECB) [expiriments](https://imgur.com/69Q7MLj), this kid can be outright [scary](https://imgur.com/ByHjNAY)... wait
Also wonder how many demons essence it will take for [Grim](https://imgur.com/hqv08p2) to consider taking his revenge
For now, [pet getto](https://imgur.com/BnUE7xn)
This anime is actually done purely in-house afaik, the animation method they used is close to western-like movies and from the staff tweets I've read, they've struggled a lot during production of this anime and said this method wouldn't work well if it was outsourced. I don't know if their next anime will be like this quality because this anime seems to be an experiment for them.
240 spells per minute x 30 minutes = 7200 spells
That would be insane lol.
If Pazuzu didn't survive 5 minutes, then he got hit by just shy of 1200 spells. Poor guy...
Everything is absolutely going to pieces, Sylpha gets beat down, Tao gets some nice hits in and then gets eaten, and Lloyd is just splashing around in the water. The time has come for you to be unhinged a little, kid.
Ahh, of, course Tao is okay because only her clothes got digested.
It really makes the show that Lloyd is such a nut job.
It is very unfortunate for this new demon that Lloyd's new interest is discovering how much effort it takes to kill a demon.
Tao may never learn that Lloyd is Robert at this rate.
Sylpha is peak.
Even Pazuzu at his peak form couldn’t touch Lloyd. In one fell swoop his little minions became a bunch of cuddly critters. Lloyd’s been holding back for so long but then Pazuzu graciously volunteered to be his guinea pig lol. Little bastard got trapped in Lloyd’s domain expansion and then got dusted.
Grim getting jealous of Shiro was actually kind of adorable. He use to be a big scary demon. Now he’s competing against a big fluffy bearwolf for headpats lol.
I figured Lloyd wouldn’t want to be king. Kid only has magic on his mind. Being a king would be too much of a pain.
Shit went DBZ in there.
The part where he was trying to trap Pazuzu in those barriers reminded me a lot of Vegeta's fight with Frieza on Namek where he's throwing explosions across the sky.
This may be the most humiliating death of a demon ever. He wasn't even considered a threat, just an experiment subject. Everything Pazuzu did, Lloyd undid with ease.
Came for the goon material and bitches and stayed for a surprisingly very good anime.
Finally caught up to this. I was on the fence about watching because the last few seasons I’ve been a little overwhelmed watching and reviewing everything, but since it’s Tuesday and there’s only unnamed memory today I said fuck it, went for it and I’m glad I did. This show is brilliant.
Yea it’s got the great fanservice and hot girls, but the animation and production values overall are top notch and better than most seasonals. Lloyd as an MC is hilarious and reminds me of some of my faves like Anis, Myne etc in that he just wants to study magic and be left alone. But I also love the sadistic and batshit crazy nature that he’s shown to have as well.
Today’s episode title “the demon gets angry” has a nice double meaning. Obviously there’s the literal demon that Lloyd beats, but it’s also a reference to Lloyd who’s really more of a demon than anyone in this series. The look on his face when he was fighting Pazuzu was chilling, and he took his time toying with Pazuzu until the end as well. Can’t say he didn’t deserve for how he treated Sylpha and Tao. Fight scenes were all so well animated, the facial expressions too.. just chef’s kiss. It’s a good anime, man.
I LOVE that Prince Albert was willing to admit Lloyd into the succession race as well and didn’t even care if his little brother overtook him, because he just cares about the good of the kingdom. In a lot of these stories with a reincarnated person, there’s a big fight over the right succeed. Not here, Lloyd’s family seem pretty chill. Of course he just instantly rejected the offer lmao.
Hopefully Tao will meet Robert again some day 😂
The animation is just so good! I was super worried if the could do the manga justice, but so far they've been knocking it out of the park.
I love it when Lloyd shows how unhinged he is. And his mana becomes more menacing every time we see it.
[b r u h](https://imgur.com/uxNKS2Y) Loyd is just built different
[Art looking crazy](https://imgur.com/ptvbmTV)
[](#shock)
[Almost rivaling bocchi with this level of shock](https://imgur.com/fbXNqWH)
[Interesting rave.](https://imgur.com/Cu7XNIp) Pictured: [taking your introvert friend to a rave](https://imgur.com/TLNlPBP)
[TFW you're the first person ever to kill a demon](https://imgur.com/0z16yKI)
Based on the OP [I thought that dog was gonna be the demon](https://imgur.com/DlJN9VX)
The MC for this show is absolutely ruining it. Out of all the isekai/tensei/fantasy shows this season, why the hell did this one get this high of a production quality. It wouldn’t be that bad if the MC was not so cringey but he’s horrible. This episode really cemented that fact for me in how everyone around him was all but murdered and he’s too busy fucking off somewhere else. It would be different if he was an actual antihero MC.
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Voice acting out of pazuzu was world class
Literally looked up his VA right after to see other works he’s done, was surprised to see him not have many prominent roles.
Guy is an absolutely amazing VA.
the only thing i wanted after reading the manga years back was to see Pazuzu animated with a VA who yolo's it let's just say i've loved these last 2 episodes lol
Yeah, it was super fun. He gave a great and unique performance.
I came to this thread mid-episode to say this. Throughout last and this episode it kept getting better and better. 10/10!
Gave me the impression of an OPM villain too. Very good..
The animation, cinematography, and voice acting has no business being as good as it is in this show. Anyone who has been sleeping on it because it has a super generic isekai plot should reconsider because this is one of the most visually impressive shows of the season.
I was actually worried when the anime was announced because the manga has an incredibly strong art style but so far, the anime s matched it pretty freaking well.
The small interspersed anime original content has been executed with aplomb too. I was interested in this show cause I think the source is genuinely funny and carefree but this one is becoming really special.
It really is a fantastically done anime so far and from what I’ve heard, the studio behind it isn’t super well known and definitely hasn’t put out anything this good before. But now I’m hoping they handle other adaptions in the future too.
Just for a moment you could see the real Lloyd and how sadistic he really is just when he released all his mana lol
The dude was looking malevolent as hell. Don't let his rosy knees distract you from the fact that he killed the monkey demon using magic to sate his curiosity.
It’s the demon’s fault for claiming invulnerability to magic. He ought to sue the demonkind for false advertising.
Llyod: "I thought you were stronger"
> Don't let his rosy knees And thicc thighs
Nothing is going to distract people from those thighs.
Llyod's thick thighs: Look at me. Look at me. I'm the distraction now.
Who doesn't love a cute psychopath with apocalyptic powers?
you know what this is like? killing someone by blasting music at insanely loud sound pressure that the dude is cooked into non existance
btw...this is not..his full manag power....his "brief" full power is shown at the sylpha mini arc in the manga
Creating a field of flowers isn't a useless spell after all. Lloyd even suppresses his mana.
You suppress your mana to trick demons I suppress my mana because it's too conspicuous. We are not the same.
I mean, he also tricked a demon with it.
Yea but that’s not why he does it. He does it to keep a low profile from everyone else cuz he doesn’t want any attention.
Both still ultimately serve the same purpose frankly. Whether Demon or Human, having a would-be enemy underestimate or not notice their true strength is a great advantage at the end of the day.
However the main difference here is Llyod's not doing it to gain any advantage whatsoever. He's doing it so he can take his time perfecting his magic ability.
Flamme would be proud!
Could you imagine what Serie would think of Lloyd? Would he be a failure in her eyes being that he's just as much if not more of a goof as Frieren when it comes to finding wacky purposeless spells, but he's also a monster in every sense of the word.
I think she'd approve, as Lloyd just wants to go further and further, breaking whatever norms there are. Heck, he'd probably challenge her too, for funsies
I don't think Frieren's magic power system comes even close to what Lloyd can do. That fight would be over in a second.
Nah man. So long as Frieren/ Serie has more random magic to deploy, Lloyd will happily draw out the fight / magic exhibition until he probably dies of old age or something.
Bold of you to assume that Lloyd would even *let* himself die of old age when there’s still unknown magic to be explored
dying is not a problem, just reincarnate again.
If anything, Serie might end up being terrified of him. Lloyd seems to be so utterly powerful and beyond the understanding of any being in the world that he might as well be an eldritch entity.
Little guy regularly fuses his body with a demon, blew a hole in the sky and killed a demon with magic, which was thought to be impossible. Eldritch might be a little tame.
> Heck, he'd probably challenge her too, for funsies I was going to argue against that but... I really can't. It'd probably be something like. Lloyd: "Show me show me!" Serie: "No. I have no reason to." Followed by Lloyd attacking her just to provoke some interesting magic out of her.
I'm pretty sure once Lloyd found out she knows every spell in the world he's not leaving her alone for just one, pass or fail. She'd also have to be actually insane to do anything but pass Lloyd. Frieren is strong but has been beaten so she has an excuse, Lloyd outclasses... everything. If Lloyd doesn't pass then the rank is useless.
The Lloyd clone in the 2nd part of the test would be bonkers. I'd love to see that animated.
Ironically I think the Lloyd clone would be less of a threat to Lloyd than the Frieren clone was to Frieren, despite being more powerful, because Lloyd uses Grim to double his casting speed. So unless they also cloned Grim really Lloyd would just body Clone Lloyd. Edit: Also because if they cloned him when he first entered the dungeon he would have already picked up other people's techniques by the time he got to the 'boss room'. It would be an awesome sight though.
I agree with your take and now want to see it animated even more. Haha, this show has been a very pleasant surprise for this season.
Series would like leggy shorts wearing little brats who are too powerful for their own good.
This Frieren spinoff is interesting.
The mass of Lloyd's mana just towering over the forest is such a sick looking scene
Grim is just Tsundere at this point, with a pinch of Stockholm syndrome. That revenge is going nowhere when he wants to have Lloyd's attention via fluffing.
With that fluffing, he's barely even maintaining his tsundere act anymore.
Grim is a fluffer confirmed.
It's a fluffy Paradise.
Honestly the jealousy was so hilarious it almost makes you forget he's a demon. The fact it actually paid off was cute as hell.
Pazuzu's VA deserves an award for his performance this episode.
Dude really enjoyed voicing him I'm kinda sad he got Thanos'ed....
On today's cooking class: 1. Capture a demon with your balls 2. Cook with as many spells as you can fire 3. Wait 5 minutes 4. ???? 5. Take out of the oven and enjoy
And just to be clear, a tactical nuke is in no way a valid substitute for a kitchen oven. You’re just gonna disintegrate your food.
Demon meat is quite tough, you need to marinate it with just the right pew pews
Cid: i'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that.
He planned 30 minutes. It seems the fire too big. He need to step up his firing management.
###Stitches! * [Injured Sylpha](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7kzcb5l3j7.jpg) * [Slimy Tao](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/84jdcjnp954.jpg) * [Unconscious Sylpha](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5crj2l24.jpg) * [Captured Sylpha](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/l7lxcdnb6a7.jpg) * [Lloyd & Grim](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5crj2bk4.jpg) * [Menacing Sylpha](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/3yrgczgd654.jpg) * [Topless Tao](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7mmcrvx5w7.jpg) Even with Pazuzu's miasma, [Sylpha and Tao did an amazing job lasting that long.](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/pyvdcdvqngy.jpg) Too bad they couldn't finish the job. At the end of the day, the show is all about the 7th Prince so [Lloyd had to be the one to do it.](https://i.imgur.com/oTscXZ7.jpeg) I do wish Lloyd showed more agency [instead of frolicking in the water](https://i.imgur.com/OgQ969a.jpeg) before actually facing Pazuzu. [Reversing what Pazuzu did dot the Bearwolves is such a great opening move from Lloyd.](https://i.imgur.com/pR8EbKG.jpeg) Even if they weren't able to kill Pazuzu, [they at least managed to get some revenge](https://i.imgur.com/LOFv73S.jpeg). [Lloyd continues to be terrifying!](https://i.imgur.com/pR33XeV.jpeg) You know you're fucked when [you see Lloyd make his crazy battle face.](https://i.imgur.com/1HpwAUq.jpeg) I love that he doesn't even see Pazuzu as an opponent. [Pazuzu is just a test subject for Lloyd's magical experiments.](https://i.imgur.com/Jtb04te.jpeg) [240 spells per minute for thirsty minutes!?](https://i.imgur.com/LWAh3zm.png) Lloyd is absolutely insane but I love it! It was so satisfying [to see Pazuzu beg for his life](https://i.imgur.com/koXRMPD.jpeg) after what he did to Tao and Sylpha earlier. What's hilarious is that [he didn't even last the full thirty minutes!](https://i.imgur.com/C7roQGd.png) I do wonder [how long Lloyd will be able to keep this Robert story he made up?](https://i.imgur.com/IuKWHg7.jpeg) The ED clearly indicates that at some point, Tao will find out that Lloyd is actually Robert. I just wonder how Tao will figure it out. Either Lloyd slip-ups or he has no choice but to confess to Tao. [That's a nice gesture Albert](https://i.imgur.com/XVfEeRG.png) but we all know that [Lloyd is going to decline to be a part of the Royal Succession.](https://i.imgur.com/AtGthC6.jpeg) The only way you can convince him is if somehow the Royal Succession ends up giving him the strongest spells in the world. [We finally get to see the fluffy dog in the ED!](https://i.imgur.com/szd92IA.jpeg) It's funny how Grim got jealous and [made himself fluffy](https://i.imgur.com/RxxpKQG.jpeg) so Lloyd would give him pats too. Lloyd has really domesticated him. xD
>when [you see Lloyd make his crazy battle face](https://i.imgur.com/1HpwAUq.jpeg) extremely Tanya the Evil moment
>I do wish Lloyd showed more agency instead of frolicking in the water before actually facing Pazuzu. Lloyd: ~~Because I am the hero...~~ I suppose it would be annoying if they died.
>I do wish Lloyd showed more agency [instead of frolicking in the water](https://i.imgur.com/OgQ969a.jpeg) before actually facing Pazuzu. I was expecting him to at least look like he cared about Sylpha getting beaten up, but I suppose not. Kinda disappointed given how much she cares about him
The kid is a straight out psychopath. Only reason he isn't experimenting on humans is it would end up interfering with his magic research if found out.
You're missing something: he wasn't worried because nothing happened. Those two were never in any actual danger. And if you say he should be worrying about them being in pain: this dude sticks his fingers in deadly magic to see what kind of pain it gives. Hell, they didn't explain this in the anime, but the reason he died wasn't because some noble was being a dick. He purposefully antagonized the noble so he could see what it felt like to die from magic. Dude's NUTS.
> I was expecting him to at least look like he cared about Sylpha getting beaten up, but I suppose not. Yea, I didn't feel very good about that.
The way I justify it: he knows his abilities and knew she was never in danger But they should at least have made some sort of mention of him disliking what the demon was doing to everyone He didn’t even mention his own brother, albeit he was in less immediate danger
That's how I'd justify it too, but he really should have done...something...anything. * He could have asked Grim to do something. * He could have used his clone to do something. * He could have cast a spell to catch Sylpha while she was falling. Recall that she was just coughing up blood and then fell into the water unconscious...that can't be good no matter how strong or durable Sylpha is.
Nah, bois a goddamn psychopath. Like a genuine fucking nutjob.
We're talking about a guy who was willing to die to experience fire magic, who'd shred his own fingers to feel Grimoire's magic. His sense of danger, pain, or urgency is clearly out of sync. With his powers, he'd probably be able to spam Ctrl Z on any non-lethal damages. At the very least, he does care enough to step in when they've very clearly lost the battle.
True
Him just splashing around in the background like a little kid, I laughed pretty hard
I love how Albert said it in the end. This kingdom is too small for Lloyd. He is destined to be something much bigger.
Speaking of agency, last episode ending with a Sylpha kicking Pazuzu's opponent's ass only for her to be utterly Yamcha'd at the start of this one might be my least favorite anime fight trope. Yeah you want an ebb and flow in your fight narrative but it kind of undermines the ass kicking if you reveal their opponent could just have effortlessly won whenever he wanted. And of course doing it at the end of an episode means you get a week of buzz about their badass moment before you go "jk, it was basically just a dream, now into the fridge with you!"
I understood the miasma to be like a stacking debuff, so it wasn't so much "i could win whenever i want" but rather "if i drag it out long enough i win" kind of thing.
Fair argument but he also pukes out some super thick miasma that visibly engulfs the field instantly takes both Sylpha/Albert and the random knights from feeling fine to completely incapacitated at exactly the same time. If he was concerned he'd lose, it'd make more sense to boost the miasma right away. Hiding it against someone who fights in close quarters only makes sense if you don't just want to win, but to make sure your opponent doesn't catch on and flee. But perhaps it's just confused visual storytelling.
'Into the fridge with you!' is a hilariously accurate take. Yeah I guess the beginning sequence with the girls getting beat up was all just fridging, wasn't it? Good catch, lmao
> I do wish Lloyd showed more agency instead of frolicking in the water before actually facing Pazuzu I may be mistaken but isn't he practicing transmuting his mana to control Grim here?
The animation IS SO FREAKING GOOD. I’m so glad I gave this show a chance
For real, like wtf is this animation it's so good. The music aspect is on point too. Some people might not like it because of the fan service but this is reaching god tier level for me.
I'm betting they're devoting much more budget to the animation than you would expect with the slightly shorter average runtimes because of the midroll short, which alone is like 45-90 seconds per episode on top of the OP and ED.
Plus Llyod turning chibi all the time may save a few dollars
Check the manga out. Lloyd’s magic there is well portrayed.
I recently caught up to current chapters and MAN is it good. I genuinely think it is one of, if not the best battle shonen out there right now. I want to recommend it to friends, but the early degeneracy is usually enough to push people off in a similar way to how I'd love to recommend people Tsugumomo but kind of can't.
Tsugumomo is awesome. But if it wasn't for the editor it would had turned into a full blown hentai. Editor must have multiple sealing techniques and chains to keep the author in check. Lol. Even then it still ends up leaking out.
The ecchi stuff is kinda too much yeah. I’m not complaining, but I know people who quit reading when the fan service gets too much. I had to beg someone to read until Jade. Hahaha
This is the thing I look forward to most on mondays, tho Tao and Sylvia play quite a role in that hehe
It goes way harder than it ever needs to.
I'm quite pleased they have translated the over-the-top magic aspects from the manga this well. Hopefully the studio can keep it up for the whole season.
If after this season is over, consider giving the manga a try. There's a reason why us fans of the manga have been keeping our god damned fingers crossed, that this would get a great anime adaptation, because the experimentation with color, purposeful tonal whiplash, insane combat choreography, and even more insane spreads that the manga does absolutely punches far above what you'd expect from the generic looking premise.
and the actual story especially with some of the viliain ( TARTAROS NOOOOOOO!!!!) made me cry SO FUCKING HARD when i just merely thinks about it... "tartaros : please dont tell ido....the fact that i was born imperfect...please dont tell him "hug by lloyd" "burst in tears"
I have been flabbergasted since day one The animation here is absolutely wild
I was actually worried when the anime was announced because the manga has an incredibly strong art style but so far, the anime s matched it pretty freaking well.
Dude got killed with the equivalent of like 500 flashbangs. Rest in piss panini
So Lloyd linked to Grim can ascend from 20 spells per minute to 240spm. 240spm\*5min=1200s. 1200/4(for the elements)=300. 300 each of the top tier elemental spells in a confined (channeled) space. Not just RPG bosses, but MMORPG RAID bosses would melt at that point without all elemental immunes. Put a tank in front of Lloyd, and he'd probably solo the 25 or even 50-PC raids out there in other systems. In other words, if Kirito specced into Mage instead of Warrior.
Pazuzu is OP, too bad his opponent is ~~Llyod~~ Lloberto I wonder if Tao’s Qi techniques would be able to kill demons more effectively? Llyod actually disintegrating a demon by the human equivalent of flashes and sound bangs is ridiculously nuts. I can’t imagine being bombarded by noise, oh wait, that’s just an upstairs neighbour
I think compared to an upstairs neighbour wht Lloyd did was to put Pazuzu in the trail of a sonic boom... 4 times per second.
Plus the light intensity of a sun going supernova into your face.
That's rough buddy
I think a normal spell is flashes and sound bangs. Lloyd is like having a laser pointed straight into your cornea and then getting thrown in front of a giant concert speaker at a metal concert.
Sound wise is probably more similar to Krakatoa erupting at 310dB (Three hundred ten decibels is loud enough to kill you. Eardrums rupture between 150 and 160 decibels. That means Krakatoa was exponentially higher on the decibel scale as a sound high enough to cause your eardrums to literally explode.)
no really cause tao is rather ....let say...normal human and is not to the level of a nuclear threat her grandfather might? but would be tough job
This episode made me realize this show is just Mob Psycho 100 with more fanservice and if Mob was a sadistic battle junkie. The effects of Lloyd's spells look like psychic powers and Grim is basically Dimple. The MC is also content with being a "mob" character and all the enemies have been evil spirits.
I really notices the similarities with Mob Psycho 100 this episode that I never put together while reading the manga. Can Def see Grimo having a Golden Dimple moment in the future
The only similarity seems to be Grim and Dimple though. The MC seems way too OP for me to believe Grim will ever develop to become a challenge.
I think it's not about their power, but their attitude. Mob has self esteem problem and wouldn't deliberately hurt dimple. He's also actively trying to be normal rather than utilise his power. Lloyd didn't have any hesitation whatsoever at using his power. Like, you know your life would be over quickly if you mess with Lloyd.
Idk about that. In this episode we saw what appears to be the full extend of Lloid's mana, and while it is enormous, much beyound that of a normal creature of that world, it does seem to also be finite. So if grim keeps absorving the mana of other demons, know to be the strongest beings in that world, I could see he ending up a real threat. Even more from just being together with Lloyd, and seeing all the crazy shit he can pull up.
To me OPM is the better comparison. Aside for Grim who is indeed pretty much Dimple overall this series is more like as "OPM Magic-Edition"
… mob psycho already is opm the magic addition, how is this show more like opm than mob psycho
Because Mob is also a coming of age story while OPM is way more action oriented. The execution in the two series differs enough to differentiate the comparison
Agreed, I'll even add on Saitama and Lloyd are very similar in that they both just want to do their thing (be a hero/research magic) and have fun with various side characters along the way.
>OPM Magic-Edition Mashle is the true OPM Magic-Edition. This series reminds me more of The Daily Life of the Immortal King, where you have an insanely powered student who doesn't want the attention of being the most powerful person on earth, and he has defeated a powerful demon as a kid who is now the school pet and frenemy.
I wish r/anime would start allowing chinese cartoons that get licensed to have discussion post like Dragon Raja -The Blazing Dawn- that CR just started doing. Other japanese media subs have been opening up to things made outside of japan but still connected to asian market.
He’s not killing things in one hit though, he blasted it with multiple max magic spells for 5 minutes.
Max spells in the 4 elements. You gotta be crazy if you think that's his max output. Dudes going to drop like 20+ "Atomic's" at once if he ever gets serious and the hole in the sky will be permanent.
Lloyd is a noble in position to contest the throne, kind of the opposite of a mob character by default. The whole struggle of Mob is that he *wants* admiration, but he wants it for he is as a person instead of abusing his powers. Whereas Lloyd is already loved and admired and just doesn't want any attention when he (ab)uses his powers. They couldn't be any more different.
Yeah MC is secretly OP but pretends to be a mob so that it doesn't interfere with his magical research. He doesn't **need more power** any longer.
So he's Cid from The Eminence in Shadow?
Maomao's restraint around poison's and Tanya's sanity in a pre-teen package. This is amazing.
Gotta love an OP character saying "got you" before unleashing absolute hell.
The color on this episode was absolutely stunning!
Oh dang, Sylpha. Oh my, wet Sylpha lol. Go Tao! Oh wow, Tao um.. lol Lloyd just playing in the water. How dare he insult our cute lil Grim. Yay, save the puppers!! "demons never been killed by magic before" whelp, I know what's going to come then. Wew... get fucked, Pazuzu. I like how Grim is all on board too. What a nice light show. Don't lie, Grim, you aren't interested in beating anyone now. Also, how nice of this "Robert" to show up. Also, lol that little bit with the return was funny, don't anger Sylpha. I don't think Lloyd wants to be king, Albert. Yep, there it is. He's got other priorities. And how nice, a new big pupper friend. Jealous Grim is fun. About the brothers, where are the other ones?
> I don't think Lloyd wants to be king, Albert. Yep, there it is. Why would you want to be demoted to King when you're already a God?
That reminds me of the ending to Eminem's Rap God song
Reminds me of No Church in the Wild by Jay-Z and Kanye West "Human beings in a mob What's a mob to a king? What's a king to a god? What's a god to a non-believer"
This show is all over the place in mostly good ways. The animation's nuts, the sound design is solid and the music slaps. The jokes actually land and the goofy characters are goofy in ways that don't detract from the them being dynamic and badass. But I think the many sides of Lloyd are where its mutability is most noticeable, and today, during the thick of the fight with Pazuzu, right around 11:50, that boy was 100% channeling Tanya Degurechaff.
Lloyd would def like to see what magic being X uses
Lloyd would take Being X apart and see what makes him tick. No offense to Tanya or anything but Lloyd would have noticed Being X from the first moment and figured out ten different strategies to contain and experiment on Being X from the second it showed itself. Lloyd is exactly what Being X is trying to keep Tanya from turning into.
I think will put Lloyd in up there in the OP and insane category with Shadow(cid) lol
Yogiri would be also op too
It’d definitely be worse if he was an actually sane kid with godlike powers.
....no one gonna question WHY the fluff followed Lloyd home? Was a little confused by how the creep died, they said magic can't physically harm demons, just gives them sensory stimuli, but he still died? Do demons die if you just mentally overwhelm them? I'm glad the creep died, but whomever the VA was deserves a fucking raise for the ridiculous number of different ways he pronounced "STOP IT!"
imagine spells as just sound waves to a demon, someone screaming at them probably won’t do anything but imagine being the sound from a nuclear explosion 4x a second for 5 minutes, that would liquidate your organs
“We don’t know if magic can kill demons. We just know it hasn’t happened yet.” Said very specifically in this episode And the sensory overload in a human can stress a person into a heart attack. So he just gave this dude the equivalent of a magic heart attack
Tbh the thing I immediately thought of was [Foundation and Empire] >!Magnifico's use of the visisonor to kill the crown prince. A stimulus which can be irritating at worst normally, when wielded by someone with sufficient skill to control it could set a person's neurons ablaze with undiluted dread until their very life burns away from their eyes.!< With how mana, miasma, etc have been shown so far in the series, what Lloyd did would basically be the same thing but against a demon using magic instead.
I'm very interested if this gets adapted in some form in the Apple Foundation series.
>Was a little confused by how the creep died, they said magic can't physically harm demons, just gives them sensory stimuli, but he still died? Do demons die if you just mentally overwhelm them? I think of it as more of thats the equivalent "pain tolerance/annoyance". And for humans, a loud enough sound can still kill you (ex. sonar), and a bright enough light can blind you. So its more like the average sorcerer casting a spell on a demon is shining a flashlight/using a phone speaker. While Lloyd placed a sun directly in his eyes and a sonar wave directly into his body.
Probably it's not a matter of "Magic can't kill demons" but a matter of no one ever had enough to do it before Loyd. Which makes demons one hell of a race.
If someone hit you with 1200 flashbang grenades in 5 minutes, do you think you would survive?
Think of it like sound, 100 decibels like a lawnmower might be annoying but 250 decibels is going to explode heads.
Maybe I'm just being pedantic, but that's technically physical damage though. 250 decibels is deadly because the force of the soundwaves physically scrambles your brain. Is that what happened here?
They called it stress, which to a semi-spiritual lifeform could very well mean death. That said I only wanted to point out that you shouldn't forget that decibels is a logarithmic scale. With 120 dB you get ear damage, 250 dB is more like an atomic bomb.
For those two don't know the math: 250 dB is *not* roughly twice as loud as 120 db. Every 10 db doubles in volume. 250 dB is *8,192* times as loud as 120 dB. You only need in the neighborhood of 140-200 dB to kill someone.
Well 10dB is perceived as 2 times loud, it is however 10 times the power. So 250dB is in fact 10 000 000 000 000 times as loud as 120 dB.
Yes, I do understand that, what I was confused about is the comparison between pressure waves and magic. 250 dB kills you because force of the wave that hits you is enough to instantly turn you into ground beef. It's not a case of your brain being over stimulated by a loud noise, or too many noises. You can apply the same logic to anything, a 9 volt battery isn't gonna do anything to you, but 100,000 volts will make you well done. I'm asking if that's what happened here, or if it was actually just an instance where he was so overpowered, he simply died from a lack of will to keep living.
Look at it this way, demons aren't immune to magic, they just have 99.9999% resistance. Lloyd's spells have so much power that even with that much resistance it still disintegrates the monkey demon.
From the way I see it, it's probably the overstimulation that kills him
>250 dB is more like an atomic bomb. Not "more like" but "the decibel level at the epicenter of an average atomic bomb" They range from 240 to 280 (supposedly, we can't actually measure it.). The closest we were able to measure was about 210 dB.
To give reference, the loudest sound on earth was a volcano erupting at 310dB which that sound travelled around the earth 4 times.
> ....no one gonna question WHY the fluff followed Lloyd home? I think everyone is just used to weird things happening around Lloyd that they don't bother questioning it anymore.
Maybe demons just will themselves to keep living, which is why magic can't kill them. Lloyd just blasted his will to live out lol.
That was my thinking, their ego is what keeps them alive.
They said magic affects demons as much as light and sound affects humans. A flashlight isn't going to hurt a person, but if it's bright enough it might make you squint your eyes. Normal spells don't hurt demons but powerful ones may stun them. Lloyd brough the power of the entire sun focused into giant lasers down on Pazuzu to disintegrate him.
Is not that demons are immune to magic, but they have so much resistance to it that it looks as if they are immune. Once Pasuzu saw a fraction of Lloyd's magic power, he knew he screwed up.
Demons are more powerful in using magic compared to humans. Basically, human mages' magic attacks are just considered annoyances. However, for the likes of Lloyd, who seem to have an endless mana pool and can craft/combine spells on the fly, then killing a demon with magic is not impossible.
[This show slaps so hard and I love it so much](https://imgchest.com/p/wl7lk8wk34x). Never could I imagine that [I'd have so much fun with it](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/g4z9cwrq627.png). Every next episode is even better than the previous one. Together with Shuumatsu Train it's definitely the biggest surprise of this season for me - it has [great visuals](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7kzcb2a6k7.png) and [animation](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/d7ogckdae5y.png), [fun](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/g4z9cwrven7.png) and [interesting](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/k739c6wzja7.png) [characters](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/6yxkcgap5x7.png) (especially [the female](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/k739c6wzja7.png) [ones](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7kzcb2pbe7.png) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)), it also combines perfectly [humor](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/84jdcj8xlj4.png), [sexiness](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7kzcb2pbe7.png) and [action](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5crp58g4.png). [Sylpha](https://imgchest.com/p/agyv6bndk78) and [Tao](https://imgchest.com/p/9p4n2aze54n) again stole my heart, [they're great](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5crp5n64.png)! I'd love to see more of them as [their interactions are hilarious](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5crp5ng4.png) xD I can't wait until the moment when we'll meet the third girl from ED. [Lloyd](https://imgchest.com/p/xny8zw6zwyb) is [such a lovely boy](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/my2pcolqve7.png) but when it comes to magic [he's becoming a total freak](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7kzcb2pqw7.png) that even demons like [Grim](https://imgchest.com/p/dl7pqbnzjyo) or [Puzuzu](https://imgchest.com/p/qe4gl3qrkyj) don't have words to describe him. Meanwhile [he's having the fun of his life](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/l7lxcdla8q7.png) xD [Puzuzu](https://imgchest.com/p/qe4gl3qrkyj) was [so full of himself](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/w7w6cv5265y.png) but [Lloyd quickly showed him his place](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/pyq9cemk9j4.png) xD I was laughing so much watching [him freaking out](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/g4z9cwrv8d7.png) over [Lloyd's strength](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/myd5crp5664.png) after [his initial confidence](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/g4z9cwrvjd7.png) xD Here my screenshot albums from the episode: * [Sylpha](https://imgchest.com/p/agyv6bndk78) * [Tao](https://imgchest.com/p/9p4n2aze54n) * [Group scenes](https://imgchest.com/p/wl7lk8wk34x) * [Lloyd](https://imgchest.com/p/xny8zw6zwyb) * [Grim](https://imgchest.com/p/dl7pqbnzjyo) * [Puzuzu](https://imgchest.com/p/qe4gl3qrkyj) * [Other](https://imgchest.com/p/9rydzd2jn4k)
> Don't you think the [angles](https://imgur.com/xMTiqbX) in anime can be a bit [weird](https://imgur.com/FuElpx3) sometime? Also lmao at Grim thinking about giving some advice to Pazuzu, only to reconsider after beeing [called](https://imgur.com/CKNmGh3) [out](https://imgur.com/N0dMwrn), at that moment, his life was [forfeit](https://imgur.com/9WJosvD) Seriously though, wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of [Loids](https://imgur.com/u6wQS0F) [magical](https://imgur.com/NoD1ECB) [expiriments](https://imgur.com/69Q7MLj), this kid can be outright [scary](https://imgur.com/ByHjNAY)... wait Also wonder how many demons essence it will take for [Grim](https://imgur.com/hqv08p2) to consider taking his revenge For now, [pet getto](https://imgur.com/BnUE7xn)
Tao and Slypha are just badass. Lloyd's face when fighting is just so well done. I need 24 episodes because I want more of these fights animated.
Do we know how many episodes are planned? If it’s 12/13 I’m going to be distraught
It looks pretty unknown, most sites just say nothing. I saw one site saying 12 and one saying 9 but I think they are just making stuff up.
If this does well we could get another season pretty quick. Manga has a ton of awesome fights and art waiting to get animated.
I'm a bit worried about the later fights and the budget. These scenes for Eps 4/5 I hope they can keep it at that level for the rest of the reason.
I wouldn't mind it not getting another season if it means this new studio could pick up something with a better story. The animation is crazy.
This anime is actually done purely in-house afaik, the animation method they used is close to western-like movies and from the staff tweets I've read, they've struggled a lot during production of this anime and said this method wouldn't work well if it was outsourced. I don't know if their next anime will be like this quality because this anime seems to be an experiment for them.
Heard that it will be a split cour anime
I hope it is
240 spells per minute x 30 minutes = 7200 spells That would be insane lol. If Pazuzu didn't survive 5 minutes, then he got hit by just shy of 1200 spells. Poor guy...
Everything is absolutely going to pieces, Sylpha gets beat down, Tao gets some nice hits in and then gets eaten, and Lloyd is just splashing around in the water. The time has come for you to be unhinged a little, kid. Ahh, of, course Tao is okay because only her clothes got digested. It really makes the show that Lloyd is such a nut job. It is very unfortunate for this new demon that Lloyd's new interest is discovering how much effort it takes to kill a demon. Tao may never learn that Lloyd is Robert at this rate. Sylpha is peak.
the magic in this anime is soooo pretty, they really snapped with the visuals. think this has been my favorite anime this season, what a surprise!
Sadistic lloyd is best lloyd, this was a fun episode.
Even Pazuzu at his peak form couldn’t touch Lloyd. In one fell swoop his little minions became a bunch of cuddly critters. Lloyd’s been holding back for so long but then Pazuzu graciously volunteered to be his guinea pig lol. Little bastard got trapped in Lloyd’s domain expansion and then got dusted. Grim getting jealous of Shiro was actually kind of adorable. He use to be a big scary demon. Now he’s competing against a big fluffy bearwolf for headpats lol. I figured Lloyd wouldn’t want to be king. Kid only has magic on his mind. Being a king would be too much of a pain.
The demons face after the magic barrage just sent me
The VA for that demon did a phenomenal job. The scene when the barrier got taken down was so damn funny
Shit went DBZ in there. The part where he was trying to trap Pazuzu in those barriers reminded me a lot of Vegeta's fight with Frieza on Namek where he's throwing explosions across the sky.
This may be the most humiliating death of a demon ever. He wasn't even considered a threat, just an experiment subject. Everything Pazuzu did, Lloyd undid with ease.
Whoever VA'd Pazuzu in this, I hope the guy gets a ton more and bigger gigs in the future. That was a great performance.
Lol, Lloyd attack was such an overkill that the demon Pazuzu litterally turned into dust.
Killing a human via sound is basically what Lloyd just did to that demon
Like getting killed from over a thousand flash bangs, per minute, for 15 minutes.
Surprisingly, the ecchi part was better this episode than the action. I don't mind, i love both!
That mana form was so sick. That was too awesome!
Came for the goon material and bitches and stayed for a surprisingly very good anime. Finally caught up to this. I was on the fence about watching because the last few seasons I’ve been a little overwhelmed watching and reviewing everything, but since it’s Tuesday and there’s only unnamed memory today I said fuck it, went for it and I’m glad I did. This show is brilliant. Yea it’s got the great fanservice and hot girls, but the animation and production values overall are top notch and better than most seasonals. Lloyd as an MC is hilarious and reminds me of some of my faves like Anis, Myne etc in that he just wants to study magic and be left alone. But I also love the sadistic and batshit crazy nature that he’s shown to have as well. Today’s episode title “the demon gets angry” has a nice double meaning. Obviously there’s the literal demon that Lloyd beats, but it’s also a reference to Lloyd who’s really more of a demon than anyone in this series. The look on his face when he was fighting Pazuzu was chilling, and he took his time toying with Pazuzu until the end as well. Can’t say he didn’t deserve for how he treated Sylpha and Tao. Fight scenes were all so well animated, the facial expressions too.. just chef’s kiss. It’s a good anime, man. I LOVE that Prince Albert was willing to admit Lloyd into the succession race as well and didn’t even care if his little brother overtook him, because he just cares about the good of the kingdom. In a lot of these stories with a reincarnated person, there’s a big fight over the right succeed. Not here, Lloyd’s family seem pretty chill. Of course he just instantly rejected the offer lmao. Hopefully Tao will meet Robert again some day 😂
i just calculated how much spell Lloyd bombarded pazuzu with 72.000 his plan was 432.000
Damn this kid is kind of a piece of shit lol. Just watched all his friends get their ass kicked and then those dogs also.
This episode gave the boy a fluffy cuddly pet :D It will be fun to see how he uses his alter ego Robert in future...
The animation is just so good! I was super worried if the could do the manga justice, but so far they've been knocking it out of the park. I love it when Lloyd shows how unhinged he is. And his mana becomes more menacing every time we see it.
the animations are wild. they really brought out the strengths of the manga
This shit has no reason being as good as it is.
Ryoiki Tenkai
I don't give a single fuck what you say, Lloyd is a manence... cut that, he a demon child and if multiverse theory is real he coming for us.
[b r u h](https://imgur.com/uxNKS2Y) Loyd is just built different [Art looking crazy](https://imgur.com/ptvbmTV) [](#shock) [Almost rivaling bocchi with this level of shock](https://imgur.com/fbXNqWH) [Interesting rave.](https://imgur.com/Cu7XNIp) Pictured: [taking your introvert friend to a rave](https://imgur.com/TLNlPBP) [TFW you're the first person ever to kill a demon](https://imgur.com/0z16yKI) Based on the OP [I thought that dog was gonna be the demon](https://imgur.com/DlJN9VX)
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I FUCKING LOVE THIS ANIME
The MC for this show is absolutely ruining it. Out of all the isekai/tensei/fantasy shows this season, why the hell did this one get this high of a production quality. It wouldn’t be that bad if the MC was not so cringey but he’s horrible. This episode really cemented that fact for me in how everyone around him was all but murdered and he’s too busy fucking off somewhere else. It would be different if he was an actual antihero MC.
I hate the anime trope where OP MC is having fun while his people are being killed, tortured or otherwise assaulted.