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Aug 11, 3:26 PM
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Thats a solid block.

Aug 11, 3:26 PM

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Ironically those dudes targeting him are only going to make him look better for beating them. Bit of a generic route overall but it's pretty decent enjoying the visuals more then the story.
Aug 11, 3:42 PM
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Stupidest episode ever. I've never dislike an episode but this is my first time.

It's bad enough that everyone around MC are extremely evil bad guys (how original), and now they can't even fight fair?
Aug 11, 4:25 PM
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Why the entire anime is a failure is, despite a nice art style, decent animation and a solid soundtrack, Will is so completely unlikeable you end up not caring what happens to him or anyone else.

Will continue to watch it due to said okay animation and art, but the plot is predictable, the villains are boring, and I can't stand Will.
Aug 11, 5:08 PM
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Woahh it's the Chunnin Exam.

Can't wait until it got interrupted by the Villain. lol
Aug 11, 5:18 PM
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Sion really wants to embarrass himself in front of everyone? I was looking forward to Julius getting his ass kicked not you Sion get out of the way. Dumbass really fighting his own teammate. Bro needs to realize quick he's not the main character and just a side character or else he won't have a good ending. Dude should've just stopped after that one big explosion attack so at least he could've saved some face for being useless so far. Bro could've at least waited his turn for after Julius fights Will. Now he's going to be an opening act and that's it.

I believe he'll be one of those characters that overtime will develop and grow and become more likable. That might just be me wishing for character development but I really do hope he doesn't stay like this as a one dimensional annoying arrogant prideful bully character.

I think they could've made Sion save Will or something instead because that way he'll be able to pay Will back for saving him and stop being a burden. Also, they literally are the perfect matchup between fire and ice. Sion would also get to prove he can fight the top 3 students but NOOOOO he's got to fight his own teammate the magic-less Will. Look sure I get why he's pissed for many reasons but still Will saved your life and now you're trying to fight him?

Also for those saying Will should've expected Sion to do this I just think Will really just doesn't care at all about Sion. Like Sion said Will wasn't even looking at him. To Will this episode Sion was just someone they needed to have enough credits to join this event. If they needed fewer credits they would've just got some other random nobody. Like in their plan to rush to the center and ambush Julius they didn't need Sion at all. Sion was a ticking time bomb but Will was too focused on Julius.

Still great visuals though so might be worth it for the action alone if you can ignore the characters and story.
RexnihiloAug 11, 6:09 PM
Aug 11, 5:38 PM
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Outside of visuals this is frigging garbage. Dropped 3/10
Aug 11, 7:43 PM

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Sep 2019
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Now see him become his friend.
Aug 11, 7:44 PM
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Mar 2015
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Our boi is fighting Sion and Julius
Aug 11, 8:53 PM

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Aug 2013
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Julius ? More like Jin Kisaragi !
Aug 11, 8:54 PM
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Jan 2022
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Sion is such an overblown archetype it's kinda exhausting tbh. dude really has the emotional maturity of a 5 year old
Aug 11, 11:48 PM
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This episode legit felt like 5 minutes such a good show. Your typical underdog story with lots of cliches but with good animation is all I really need in a fantasy, tbh and this nails it.
Aug 12, 1:36 AM
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So, like, back when My Hero Academia first aired, my first thought once I understood Midoriya's predicament was that it would be so cool if he became a gadget/ninja hero like Batman, and was fully competitive even without a quirk.

I'm fine that Midoriya and co. went a different direction, but I still like the idea of a quirkless hero.

This episode of Wistoria felt more like MHA than most, with the school festival getting scouted, and Sion acting like Bakugo, and it all kind of made me wonder if the author had a similar thought to me at the beginning of MHA, and decided to tell a different story in a different world, with that idea as a seed.

I have no idea if the publication timeline works out for that to really be part of the author's inspiration, but either way, I'm pretty delighted to see it more or less being done.

Asta and Mashe both started with similar premises, but Asta's antimagic swords felt like a different kind of magic to me, and Mashe's superman-level physical abilities felt less like he had no magic than just like he'd crossed genres from the universe of the Tick, perhaps. He didn't seem remotely like he was "just strong and fit" (I mean, the whole show is satire, so exaggeration is completely within bounds, but still -- Mashe's abilities felt fully supernatural, even if their descriptors weren't "magic").

Will feels more like he's really just an exceptionally strong and skilled and battle-experienced fighter, who needs either magic items or magical support to be fully effective against wizards and magical challenges. For the first time, I feel like I'm seeing a show where the initial premise (magicless in a world of magic, or quirkless in a world of superpowers, etc) wasn't immediately rendered irrelevant by having other powers revealed or bestowed in the first few episodes. Will has worked his ass off and still needs magical support to perform at peak efficacy.

I'm super here for it. I'm very eager to see where this story goes.
Aug 12, 7:48 AM
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Draco Malfoy is a better villain…
Aug 12, 8:04 AM
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Super good animation!! Will is so op hopefully he would be able to beat sion ngl that part was so good.
Aug 12, 8:31 AM
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Sion becomes a big headache for Will in the tournament, so how will he defeat him & Julius.
Aug 12, 12:53 PM

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May 2021
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Fuck yea!!! A festival. Total unpredictable and never done before. Why does this have such a high score again? And who doesn't love 10 minute long expositions. Peak writing right there.
Aug 12, 1:53 PM

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BEST EPISODE YET! I hope Will will destroy this event. Also, Julius is super sick with his ice magic. Hopefully, they have an insane bout at the end. BUT SION STEPPING IN WAS CRAZY AURA!

Aug 12, 2:20 PM
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Fire Guy went from shooting small fireball to burning a whole forest in less than 4 episodes. If fire guy was the hero, we would call bullshit on his powerup.
As always, it's "funny" to see that "school tournament" basically means putting your student in mortal danger with no supervision whatsoever, but it's fine, as long we call it "tournament" and not "battle royale".
Fire Guy should be disqualified and expelled just for using this spell. Not only that but he was even targeting his own team.
But then again, it wouldn't be fun, if we didn't let people using spell able to kill with the freedom to do anything they want, because it's a "tournament".
Aug 12, 3:59 PM

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Damn Sion, you could have been badass, taken out Julius, and won the event as a team. However, instead, you be like screw the event a friendly fire?! I'm guessing at least 1 of the 4 factions will like his actions, though in my eyes, Julius and Sion are both trash that refuse to work with team. In Sion's defense at least, he's seemed to be the 3rd wheel.

Those 2 have some nice synergy, dude really showed what he was going for with that punch in the exam.

I guess lax sensei didn't want him to get attention, as that is what he seems to fear would have happened with these reactions. Meanie sensei is definitely triggered LOL.

So do students pick what events they are in? You don't have to be in all of them? That's nice. This apparently is the biggest one of festival.

Aug 12, 5:29 PM
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sound effects ARE definitely
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Aug 12, 6:29 PM
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Sion a D1 meat rider 😭
Aug 12, 7:11 PM

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Seems like Julius is not only skilled in ice attacks, but also plot armor defense. Zero explanation on how he effortlessly escaped the fire blast without breaking a sweat or how he made it to the forest before them to set up an ambush at a walking pace, when Will's team was consistently in place on the map, as they were tracked by the golden snitches blue flying ball cameras. At least show him skating on ice or something that makes sense.

This series had potential at first. But the high production value is wasted on the incredibly trashy writing and dialogue of this Harry Potter fanfic. Mr. Inferiority Complex's firey outburst made me visibly cringe. None of the characters have any good writing after getting to know them through the halfway point, except for maybe Will, and the cat. Everyone else just feels like 2-dimensional cardboard cutouts of stereotypical character archetypes and tropes. Cool action shots though.
Estoy_GordoAug 12, 7:16 PM
Aug 12, 9:26 PM

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Man, credit to the episode for just getting right into it. I figured they'd stretch this out over a few episodes until Will met up with Julius but they didn't waste any time getting there. Will powering his way through all the obstacles and traps was sufficiently awesome and paired well with the color commentator & Snape providing some actually decent comic relief.

The only thing better than Will taking on Ice Draco would be him also fighting Fire Draco at the same time, assuming that's what happens. Could be a free for all, Julius could try to take 'em both out, I'm kind of excited to see how Will gets out of this one.

I don't actually mind that Fire Draco stabbed Will in the back, it's sort of refreshing to have a character unable to get over his prejudice right away instead of just becoming the main character's bosom buddy as soon as he's saved. Colette and Will completely misread him and brought this on themselves by manipulating him to join their team and then Will hot dogging so much. Not what Will intended, sure, but I think Fire Draco's actions fit his character and personal motivations just fine.
Yesterday, 5:06 AM
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I can't say that this was unexpected, but it's become personal. Will is now caught between fire, and an ice place.
Yesterday, 5:23 AM

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Best episode so far. I didn't expect Sion to do that. That's good, unpredictable is good. Also, that one announcer, his name is Mike Myers?
Yesterday, 5:39 AM
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Another cool episode, standard tournament arc but at least it goes on pretty fast, the author knows we are sick of the same tournament arcs repeated in every series.
Yesterday, 5:40 AM
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Sion is genuinely a horribly written character and is ruining a pretty solid show.
@fullmetalgarbage or you could say he's a peculiar character and he's making this generic series that is basically a new version of Black Clover and Mashle with a shojo artstyle more interesting??
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@fullmetalgarbage or you could say he's a peculiar character and he's making this generic series that is basically a new version of Black Clover and Mashle with a shojo artstyle more interesting??
@TheRealRouges No. He's not peculiar. He hasn't done a single thing that was unexpected from the tropey way he is written. I don't get the shoujo art comment either. It looks more like Bleach than any shoujo I've seen.
Yesterday, 7:47 AM
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@TheRealRouges No. He's not peculiar. He hasn't done a single thing that was unexpected from the tropey way he is written. I don't get the shoujo art comment either. It looks more like Bleach than any shoujo I've seen.
@fullmetalgarbage I was just playing lmao, he's an average character among other average character, don't think he stands out as one of the worst characters. As a manga reader I sometimes see some resemblances in a couple of faces of Bleach, but the estetic is mostly shojo-esque, or at least really feminine looking
Yesterday, 2:27 PM
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One of the best animes of the season!
10 hours ago
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Amazing anime, I was so excited every time a new episode was released.
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sion is beyond stupid, this isnt a place for fighting internally
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