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「巨大迷宮(ラビリンス)と魔銃起動(マジックガンナー)」 (Kyodai Meikyuu (Rabirinsu) to ma Juu Kidou (Majikkugan’naa))
“Labyrinth and Magic Gunner”
Arata wins over the girl and saves the day, but not before he spends the rest of the episode getting lectured and being useless.
Lazy Animation
One of the first things I noticed this week was the dip in animation quality. Now, I’m pretty forgiving about these things. I blog Log Horizon, which has never had a huge budget and has to cut corners on occasion, but I never gripe about it because it uses its budget in good faith. The staff always gives the appearance of trying to make each episode as good as they possibly can, and any animation hiccups feel like constraints from the suits more than anything else.
But with Trinity Seven this week, it just looked lazy. Small things were done badly, with character designs going all wonky being the main culprit. I would forgive that if all else were going well, but combined with frankly amateur pacing, you better make it pretty or Stilts is going to get pissed. That didn’t happen.
I Thought You Were In a Hurry?
Exposition is tricky. Take it from me—this is one of the things I’ve struggled with the most in my own fantasy book (expect more news soon!). Exposition can be vital to making a rich, complex, and living world that differs markedly from our own, but it has the severe handicap of being flow-breaking and boring. Mahouka choked on it, and many others have blundered mightily. Add this forth episode to that list. They started out saying they were in a hurry, and then proceeded to take their sweet ass time while they gave Arata time to screw up his magic, play with shadow gropers (at least they were equal opportunity), and lose their clothes again (you need more than one joke, guys).
And I get it. It’s hard. Exposition is boring, so mixing it in with the occasional antic or having it happen alongside action seems like a good idea. But it’s not! Not when they’re supposed to be in a hurry. And who gives a lecture while they’re fighting? Who are you, Spiderman? Lecturing Arata while fighting the dragon was fine, they needed his power and the others were holding the enemy back. But on the stairs earlier, they info dumped while shooting and stabbing. It was utterly unrealistic, and sapped any urgency from their actions.
Winning Over All the Girls
If anything was done well, it was revealing that Arata could become a boss-level demon if he lets his magic run out of control, and that a magus’ thema is usually the thing that’s farthest from them. Those added real stakes and introduced an interesting wrinkle to their world. (Isn’t Lilith-sensei’s thema from the Lust archive? It all makes sense!) But the main purpose of the episode seemed to be for him to make further inroads with the girls. Of the three, I’d have to say only one was done well.
From Mira, we got a glimpse of her otome-like personality. That wasn’t really done badly or well, because while I did laugh—and appreciated that it wasn’t Arata’s fault that some girl got embarrassed for once—my suspicion that she’s going to fall for him more starting with a panty shot just … well, I’m making assumptions now. And Yui immediately glommed onto Arata for saving her, despite the fact that everyone else was there helping too, and granted he was the one who pulled the trigger, but do their efforts not matter too?
Levi was the interesting one, though. Her Thema, expectation, comes about because she never expects anything of anybody, but Arata managed to fulfill her expectations by taking down the demon dragon. Those hints that she might be truly interested in this boy were nicely done, which is to say, understated. So that’s one thing at least.
Looking Ahead – Last Girl Get-o!
Next episode, the last haremett—I mean, member of the trinity seven will appear. I’m really just hoping the plot starts making something of itself, because a decent harem lead can only take me so far.
tl;dr: @StiltsOutLoud – Arata saves the day, but only after being mostly useless. But three more girls are interested in him, so there’s that #trinity7 04
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Hm, my gripe about this episode was how Arata one shot the drag with a pea shooter, kind of anticlimactic . Oh well, all aboard the Levi train!
Levi is fine, but Lilith-sensei is the real waifu!
Levi is the ultimate waifu, so far in the story she is the only one that arata still havent managed to strip! there is even an episode Show Spoiler ▼
Stilts edit: Please don’t spoil future events.
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Check this out! Its levi in all her glory… How do i do it to put the minimized image here like in the other comments?
You can only do that with RandomC images. Also, please don’t spoil future events, even if they’re not plot-important.
Alas, the true face of Trinity Seven rears itself.
Take it from a reader from the manga, this show is one of those ‘turn off your brain and be entertained’ kind, so expecting a lot out of it isn’t a good idea.
Well, unlike the more immediately destructive breakdown phenomena (e.g. Arata’s Black Sun), at least Yui’s one is relatively benign. The only real “hurry” was getting to her before Mira and Akio did.
As for the infodump while fighting, well, it was exactly the same in the manga, but it’s more along the lines of “effortlessly mowing down the mooks”, so they were never really intended to be something to create much tension.
And with this, we’ve finished Chapter 10.
Getting there before Mira and Akio was the hurry up I was talking about, and it seemed kind of important, so they’re dicking around grated. As for these-mooks-are-no-trouble-so-we-can-talk, I feel that works better with banter than exposition. Though honestly, if they hadn’t paused for Arata to fail at magic earlier, I probably would have let that pass by without comment.
Don’t worry Stilts, the plot will get going soon enough (unless they totally f it up in this adaption). If they stick to the source material, you’ll find a very enjoyable series. ^__^
As long as there’s endless Levi and Mira (in that order), I’ll watch forever.
If the PV is any consolation, it looks like they skimped on this episode to ramp it up for next week, which I can forgive… eh, to a point anyways.
Looking forward to next week though. Seven’s leading lady is finally making her appearance. XD
Talking is a free action (trope!) after all.
Yes I know, it’s not a particularly good trope outside of written products. Stop looking at me like that!
This episode is starting to make me wonder if they are going to cut so many corners that there would be nothing worth watching in the remaining episodes. The manga story wasn’t the most compelling IMO, but it was at least competently executed and well paced enough (which seem to be an issue affect many monthly mangas). This anime OTOH started off not bad (specially in contrast to other animes this season), but they seem to be cutting corners everywhere now (pacing, storytelling, portrayals, art, details, … etc). There were signs of corners getting cut in the previous episode, but not as bad as in this episode. At this rate, the manga action scenes probably look better than what will be in later episodes of this anime :p.
In terms of the animation…maybe they used up most of it for those couple moments of CGI (Headmaster’s office doors closing and early in the labyrinth)? lol
This is pretty difficult.
Opai loli has always been a grey area for me. On one hand, I do get turned on by it. On the other hand, a large pair of breast has the tendency to destroy the perfect image of a loli.
Such a dilemna
Sexiest member of the Trinity Seven next episode. HOHOHO.
Levi + Mira still best girls.
wow! so boring!
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Levi’s ninja skills are superb in many ways just like this one.
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What’s up with this gun that only activates when being thrown that strips nearby girls and I love the part that only Levi managed to prevent being stripped. I love this show to the fullest. Next episode my 2nd best girl(Levi as my favorite lol) Show Spoiler ▼
is coming.
Levi is love. Levi is life. Levi is Ninja. And Ninjas are cool.
Akio Kick-onee-san is a close second.
Yui’s older form looks like Mirajane from Fairy Tail
I liked the manga as it seemed more fast paced, but the anime adaptation didn’t reach my expectations (why do I still expect too much). However, some the BGMs/songs used are a throwback to “Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt” for me (earphones/headphones needed). (~magus~~magus~~magus~)
When you get a whole school unable to wake up due to a sleeping breakdown phenomenon, I think I might agree with the principal’s idea myself hahaha