I'm not even mad, just confused? And feeling dull?
What's the point of having a protagonist if her stance is just neutrality and peacing out? Why not just make it a fantasy series about things that happen across the world? Hell, at least make Elaina more of a curious character that observes how everything pans out and wants to obtain knowledge of everything rather than dicking off at the first sign of trouble. At least make her curious to see if the town managed to survive the plant zombies, or to understand fully how the plants work. Make her interested in knowing if Nino one day commits suicide, or decides to kill her masters herself, or if the father and son start killing each other because the son got cucked.
I watched episode three, and I can't get a fucking read on what this show is trying to do. The first half the episode opens up with her talking about how amazing she is, she then gets tricked into bringing a bio hazard into a city- while acting like an asshole to a guard who was preventing her from bringing it in. That guard then gets infected. Dies. And she just watches it happen.
Like, am I supposed to like this character? She's evil.
Josiah Ross
There was literally no reason why, if she wasn't going to try and save the guard, at least burn the flower field which was infecting people. It was established she was immune. This and the latter half of the plot with the unresolved slavery literally felt like two unfinished stories that could've had entire episodes.
Wyatt Roberts
I dropped it after episode 2. Episode 1 was a decent intro, but after episode 2 I finished it and was like... "But the fuck was the point?"
We learned nothing interesting about the world, or the main character, and nothing interesting happened, or was hinted to be happening later on.
Furthermore we just skipped the first two years of her adventure, which arguably was going to be the most interesting part.
What a waste.
Juan Garcia
Episode 3 is worth watching practically to fucking get mad at, cause it's two stupid ass stories crammed into 20 minutes.
Jayden Brown
Episode two was the set-up for one of her love interests. Saya becomes a recurring character.
Man, you can be the prettiest looking thing in the world, but explain that flower plot to me. What justifies literally everything about it? Cause it just kind of destroyed any reason for me to not want bad things to happen to this character.
Like, are there LN readers here? Is this building up to some big downfall? Cause the show seems to really hammer in how big this chick's ego is. Multiple episodes starting with her talking about how she's great.
Jason Peterson
I only watched the first two episodes, but I feel the same. It's pretty trash.
Noah Long
>"lol what was the point" Every fucking time I hear this sentence my blood boils. I wish you fucking imbeciles stop asking that retarded question
I was on the fence about it for the first two episodes, but episode 3 was the goddamn worst. It's worth watching to just have a firm enough reason to drop it. It's terrible.
David Price
>Man, you can be the prettiest looking thing in the world, but explain that flower plot to me. What justifies literally everything about it? Showing that she's not a moralfag, or maybe she's an actual sociopath. >Cause it just kind of destroyed any reason for me to not want bad things to happen to this character. I think that's the point. Not every story should be about a hero. Elaina being a massive cunt sparks my interest because she's not out there to do good or whatever. She just wants to be a traveling whore. Elaina is basically the modern woman deconstructed >selfish >egocentric >dumb even if she appears smart
Julian Gray
Why is there so many maxed threads after latest episode (didn't watch yet)?
Aaron Fisher
every form of entertainment should have a purpose that carries it through its runtime. It's not art, it's not educational, it's not sympathetic or personal or shocking or creative. It doesn't attempt to justify its own existence. This is a flaw.
Brody Sanders
The thing is, Elaina hasn't yet been established to be in the wrong in these situations? Like, if this is some sort of moral on egotism, I'm not 100% seeing it. I'm at the three episode rule. First episode could've been entire series in its own right. Talented young witch apprentice learning how to be a real witch. Second episode was just... whatever. And the third makes me hate the protagonist.
The first half of the episode has Elaina partially instigate, and then stand by as she watches people die. The second half of the episode has her seeing someone forced into a life of slavery, and wondering if the slave will eventually kill herself.
Dylan Murphy
It's erotic
Benjamin Morgan
>210293589 >It doesn't attempt to justify its own existence don't reply to me ever again you pretentious faggot
Lucas Cooper
>The thing is, Elaina hasn't yet been established to be in the wrong in these situations? I'm pretty sure leaving a city to be attacked by plant zombies when you could warn them is wrong
It is. But the show doesn't say or elaborate on the wrongness of it. This is episode three. I'm still trying to grasp this character, especially since episode one featured multiple time skips. Everything I'm seeing about Elaina currently just sets herself up to be egotistical, uncaring, and sociopathic. Why would I want to go on a "journey" with a person like that?
Also, this is the second time that webm's gotten posted in this thread. I guess you got one piece of vague sakuga out of it.
Mason Hernandez
>Like, am I supposed to like this character? She's evil. She's not evil, she is retarded despite her constant claims to the contrary
Nolan Flores
>Everything I'm seeing about Elaina currently just sets herself up to be egotistical, uncaring, and sociopathic. Why would I want to go on a "journey" with a person like that? I dunno, user, I just want to see her break or grow a conscience >Also, this is the second time that webm's gotten posted in this thread. I guess you got one piece of vague sakuga out of it. I'm trying to make it loop well and playing it on a video player on my computer has a different playback speed than Zig Forums for some reason. Last one because I'm going to bed.
You can be so stupid, you're evil. She literally watched a man die, and did nothing. She's not helpless. She has magic powers. She's established to be exceedingly strong. Yet did nothing to prevent a plant zombie invasion. Like, give me something to latch onto here, show. Give me a character who's like, "hey, you're kind of not the best person." Three episodes in, and I'm not seeing that yet.
>Man, you can be the prettiest looking thing in the world, but explain that flower plot to me. What justifies literally everything about it? Burning them releases the magic, this is shown. You (and Elaina) know nothing about the consequences of destroying the flower field. The young guard was already dead when Elaina found him. There was 0 reason for Elaina to intervene.
Robert King
It's hot how she just lets the pigs suffer, but it would be hotter if she were like a cute witch serial killer or something. Would coom so hard to that
Levi Howard
>muh self insert
Jaxon Richardson
Retard.
Levi Hill
This explains why people were saying she was an asshole before the show aired. I was wondering if they were just shitposting
Christopher Thomas
Her Stirnerist attitude makes her a better self-insert, though.
Kayden Wilson
What a shame, if only she'd wear a star of david to expose her evil schemes of world domination and enslavement..................
Easton Butler
>unresolved slavery Do you guys hear youselves? What was she expected to do? Take a quick detour to Japan and help the slave find her parents? Kill the village chief and leave a 10 year old in charge?
A lot of anons feel so strongly about needing to do something when I’m sure many of you have uncles groping your imoutos every thanksgiving that the rest of you and your family just ignore
Justin Green
You don't know half of it!
Brody Martin
>uncles groping your imoutos every thanksgiving that the rest of you and your family just ignore
So the country is so new to this epidemic, that guards themselves are still ignorant enough mishandle a bio-hazardous. Why didn't she do ANYTHING at all to try and help them? You can't even say she has no reason to. She walked into the city and acted like a total bitch to a guard who was just doing his job. She then got that guard killed because she was tricked.
This is an entire episode worth of plot to deal with. Maybe even two.
The slavery plot is more complicated, but it's juxtaposed against a very clearly, "oh, I could help out situation." It was just an entire episode of Elaina watching, and ruminating on terrible things, and doing nothing about it. All the while the very first lines of the episode had her talking about how amazing she is.
Michael Ramirez
Promoting slavery in any form, or promoting tolerance of slavery is vile ugly thing that has no place today especially in light of the recent social turmoils going on related to this topic.
Owen Taylor
Reminder that most otakus are far-right nationalists and unlike the far-right politicians, they don't deny the war crimes but feel proud of them Reminder that the average reader of LNs is around 31.8 years old
>So the country is so new to this epidemic, that guards themselves are still ignorant enough mishandle a bio-hazardous It's even weirder because they're wearing face masks to protect themselves so you'd think they'd have been trained to properly dispose it.
Caleb Lee
The only reason why Japan banned slavery is because all the western nations were doing it and Japan wanted to be cool. They never got what was the big deal with slavery and still don't get it
Jordan Scott
>it's okay when Kino does it
Sebastian Davis
Reminder that sodomites will burn for eternally shit taste.
Camden Garcia
you have to use your brain a little more when thinking about the situations she finds herself in, she knows absolutely nothing about the flower field other than that the flowers are bad, she has no idea of the possible consequences that could arise from her burning it, it is better for her to not get involved in the matter and about the slavery, well it seems to be that in her world slavery is somewhat normal and accepted, who is she to come to that mans house and impose her beliefs and morals (if she is against slavery that is) when the world accepts it? imagine if a vegan goes to your house and steals all of your animal derived products or outright kills you for disagreeing with him lmao, sure esnlaving humans is worse than eating animals, but that is on our modern social context, not in a medievl-like one, once again the whole slavery deal is a problem bigger than herself and its just better for her to not get involved in it.
Jackson Sanders
People get angry about Elaina, but they somehow like Kino. When Kino has sparked two violent revolutions and sat by watching people commit genocide and people getting slaughtered by a volcano.
>"why didn't Kino just evacuate the people in the Kind Country" >"why didn't Kino just murder everyone in the Peaceful Country" Same shit.
Julian Jenkins
Are japs subhuman? I get that you'd find an objectively inferior race to be... Inferior. But slavery isn't just immoral, it's inhuman.
Josiah Cooper
>The only reason why Japan banned slavery is because all the western nations were doing it and Japan wanted to be cool.
No, if was because portuguese were openly hunting the shores for japanese girls and boys and selling them to europe. portuguese are very evil people to japan.
Cooper Morris
Everyone always knew slavery wrong, there just wasn't much to be done about it because nations that practiced slavery outcompeted ones that didn't. Once capitalism made slavery obsolete it was quickly abolished.
John White
>she knows absolutely nothing So fucking learn more about it. She's literally a witch traveling the world and writing a book.
She doesn't have to save the villagers. She doesn't have to right wrongs. Just make her do something more than leaving and not having a possible interesting arc last half an episode left open-ended. Hell, make the bitch evil and spread the flowers on purpose. It would actually make the anime interesting.
Cause magic and shit. Kino is just a kid with guns.
Nicholas Wright
See Okay. She can't burn the flowers. It doesn't matter. She did nothing to help the situation, when she partially instigated a guy getting killed, and was personally tricked. This isn't "I'm an idle bystander" situation. She got involved through her own folly and made things worse, while trying to do nothing to make amends. This is then juxtaposed to a slavery plot where she just washes her hands of it as well. This is THEN juxtaposed to the episode opener, where she puffs herself up about how she's great, and wonderful.
This is a character assassination episode. It didn't even end with her saying, "shit, maybe I'm not wonderful after all," and feeling bad. It was casual, almost sociopathic indifference.
Ayden Wilson
thank God Japan exist and don't care about westerners "social turnoils" infecting all the media
Cameron Ward
Don't bring your Zig Forums bullshit here. It's the consequence of a lot of cultural baggage fueled by a reaction toward western imperialism. It was bizarre that the same people committing mass murder and multiple invasions liked to preach about human rights and laws.
Tyler Ward
Is there any good western people to Japan? France is OK, I guess.
