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smurky turkey
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It may be a butt ugly sword but it seems like the perfect fit for Noor. During his fight with the cow the sword he was wielding broke pretty darn easily so he needs a weapon that can parry against powerful opponents while not breaking. A giant/heavy slab of mystery metal seems like a solid fit for that role. Noor does not need a sword with an edge.
As for the season, I honestly like having a bit calmer of a time for once. The past 4 seasons or so were crazy busy with lots of great shows and even quite a few masterpieces. There was barely enough time to stay up to date let alone tackle the backlog. |
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Edjwald
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I think the thing I'm missing the most this season is a big, hyped adventure anime that actually lives up to the hype, like Kaiju #8 last season. I've got a slice of life, a romantic comedy, a romantic dramedy, a sideways dungeon adventure...but for me, it kind of feels like the summer season tiara is missing a crown jewel. |
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smurky turkey
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It might be fair to say that we have become a bit spoiled as of late. The past few seasons did indeed have at least one big hyped up anime but we also had a fair amount of masterpieces such as Frieren, Dungeon Meshi, Apothecary and more in a short period of time.
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Animegomaniac
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Episode 2 I Parry Rewards.
I read the title before I watched the episode but I only thought about it on my second viewing. Every time Noor is offered a reward from Lynne, they play a "parrying" sound. But Noor was unable to parry the rewards offered by the king... or as Noor thought of him, the aristocrat who clearly is not sitting on anything like a throne. How does Noor know about nobility but not royalty? When Ines was the first one who mentioned the man was in fact king, Noor has zero reaction. The entire royal family has white hair and red eyes... no, they wouldn't do that now, would they? That would be weird... Ines is the co-captain of the guard who is the Ultimate Shield which makes Gilbert the Ultimate Lance. There's no point in guessing how that plays out... if you can't land your hit, your attack won't pierce...so I think the better question is: Is Gilbert the mole or is that too obvious? There's only so many people who can know the Princess is out alone. I kind of hope it's her brother which would prevent that... other thing... Oh, it was her brother who pointed out Lynne was wearing the Hermit Cloak. "You went out again, didn't you?" ... not that he's trying to tail her or anything. |
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smurky turkey
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To be honest I have not seen a character that seems shady or likely to be a traitor yet. This includes the spear sovereign who judging by episode 3 is at all not the scheming type and is just hungry for a challenge. Said challenge he got and thanks to him Noor was saved from thinking that he might actually be pretty strong. When all the monsters and people you meet are OP (the princess is no weakling either) it is hard to reset your notions of strength.
The episode also showed just how far you can get with basic skills if you put in enough time/effort. With Noor I wonder just how much of it is time versus talent though. Given the wizard's result it has to be talent to some degree too. Otherwise Noor now has a party member and the legendary sword was used as a poop scoop. |
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Cryten
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I see they have resorted to the dreaded thought whispers in order to communicate the different perspectives characters have. But it is necessary as you cant have the different players explain themselves verbally in a show so much about misunderstanding and different points of view.
Noor feeling like Gilbert was laying traps and subtly indicating that he wasnt worthy of his full power, conceding defeat, but Gilbert seeing all his greatest efforts easily dodged and being humbled by this person who would not even take victory from him. But he now has a new icon of strength to chase, while Noor is determined to renew his training. And a similar story with the perspective between Princess Lynne and Noor. They make a nice contrast for how grounded in normality Noor is compared to the scale he actually operates on. Contrasting how he is seen by the strong people of the kingdom. And his personal stakes and relationships make it more interesting to watch then the basic comedy that was on offer by the like of Ossan Adventurer. So far it is balancing perspective and explanation with forward movement well. I pray that it continues to do so. |
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Edjwald
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Well, this show is half a comedy, so it gets a lot of leeway as far as Noor's inability to pick up on obvious indications that he's a powerhouse. Like his belief that cows are twenty feet high and walk on two legs, for example, or that they wipe out armed soldier details. I, for one, don't mind. I just find this series amusing and fun, while I find the Rookie Hero anime annoying as often as I find it likable.
The sword sovereign guy seems like there's a lot going on under the surface there, good or bad. |
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Tony K.
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I find it hilarious that there are so many misunderstandings in this show because people don't externally communicate with each other enough and rely so much on internal monologues. If you think about it in real world terms, a lot of drama can be avoided if people just honestly and logically talked to one another.
But in the case of this series, Noor's quirk of being a bumpkin from the mountains really adds to the comedic atmosphere. Because he basically grew up with nobody around him, he's a bit oblivious in knowing how to read or understand a lot of society/people in general. Case in point: like the fact that a king of a kingdom gave him an ugly and probably magically unbreakable sword that he, then, decided to use as a shovel. As for his power, I feel like since he was just a kid when learning all the basic moves of each school, he was probably limited by the maturity of his body. However, since those moves are all he ever learned and he continued to train for a good decade by himself, he mastered those moves to a degree that is overkill'd exponentially. And since he was never around anyone else that could acknowledge just how truly powerful he became, he doesn't actually know he is. That's some great irony. |
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Animegomaniac
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Episode 3 I Parry Taking on a Page... hold on, not a Squire but a Page?
"The rank below squire attending to a knight"... not quite? No one knows what Noor is. "The personal attendant of someone of rank." Squire demands Noob be a knight but a Page offers leeway. I left out the part where both specifically refers to ranks for boys but that should be a given considering history. Noor better be careful or he may end up being nobility before he knows it. The way I think it's being used is as an approximation of Japanese honorifics; Lynne sees herself as someone of lower rank but instead of being Lynne-chan, she sees herself as Page Lynne. The fact she's Princess Lynne is a problem for someone else to deal with. Prior to that was the fight with Gilbert which went as well as could be expected, Noor expecting someone of Gilbert's rank to have more than Noor's power.... which got really confusing when Gilbert used a skill that would have killed Noor if it hit. They both acknowledged it but for different reasons: Gilbert as a sign of the frustration he felt at not landing a single blow, making a move that was totally inappropriate for a practice fight and Noor as a sign that Gilbert was done holding back and he was out of Noor's league. The show is good entertainment but it is a bit slow; If Noor refuses to pick up the pace by Parrying the Call every chance he gets then he should at least pick up the Page and figure out who was trying to kill Lynne. |
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Spastic Minnow
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It takes a lot to match the misunderstanding game as much as Gamers, but this is certainly trying.
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smurky turkey
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It really is trying since with the 4th episode the number of misunderstandings has further increased. One thinks the pumped up goblin emperor was the standard goblin while the other has taken over the notion that even an emperor is merely a goblin. The only person seeing things for how they truly are is the prince and going by his bit near the end the kingdom seems kind of screwed.
It is also at this point that the big difference between Parry and Ossan Adventurer has become clear. Parry seems very much a show that will continue with the misunderstandings while Ossan seems to have the mc learn he is not weak. |
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Cryten
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Though it manages to carry the misunderstandings by playing up both the absurdity and the genuine feeling of the main character being a good boy. I think having the more normal reaction of people around him also works; Gilbert with his rivalry, Lynne with her hero worship and the Guild Master with his caring about a newbie. Proper genuine feeling in the characters helps sell it all.
It will get increasingly harder to keep such characters working as things go on, but we will have to see. |
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smurky turkey
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Yeah, it depends on how things escalate from here on out. The theme seems to be dangerous monsters popping up (though actually planted) and for now that works. If even bigger monsters start appearing it might be a hard sell, though you could have a dragon appear and have Noor refer to it like a big lizard or something similar.
I remember Lloyd from Suppose a Kid explain things away like that more than once. |
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Edjwald
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I had two thoughts that might be worth typing while watching this episode.
One was that I'll have to stop calling Noor One Parry Man since he had a proper fight this week. He even has a weakness as it turns out...opponents who can maintain a barrage of long distance attacks can hold him off and wear him down. The other thought was, I found myself wondering what it would be like if Noor met Goblin Slayer... |
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smurky turkey
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Poison may or may not be another weakness of Noor. The ending of episode 5 made things look pretty dire yet Noor himself seems to think that things are fine. Things are also looking rather dire for the rest of the kingdom with all those monsters starting their assault. The sovereigns seem pretty overpowered though, so maybe they can handle everything.
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