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Best episode.

This anime/novel/story won't have a happy ending, will it?

>>25523
I'm an animeonly fag but based off everything that's happened so far I'm fairly confident saying if you're a named character whos good you're gonna be fine. Solution didn't manage to eat Sabastians waifu, the lizards got off pretty well and all the same old adventurers are still kicking around. Ainz is doing a pretty good job of keeping his dudes in check. Certainly can't say the same for the bad dudes though, they're sure to get fucked.

>>25524
Sure. You are right. In that sense it certainly seems like that. But there has been a lot of build up and it is very slow. Ainz has already lost empathy towards humans. At best he maybe feels bad. Or it is some old left idea that "this is not quite right, not that I would care". Just look at the sheer level of crazy or simple wish for destruction among many characters. There is too much of it for it to not explode and fuck up everything. Sure, it might often seem like things move in almost self-contained arcs and the pressure goals down between them. But it doesn't. It grows.
You say Ainz keeps a good job, but look at him. His strategist, forgot the name, is clearly ahead of him almost all the time and Ainz finds it hard to push against the words of the strategists.
It can honestly take many forms, though I think it will take several of them at least. But I am really starting to believe the ending will be very fucked up.

>>25524
Not really. Almost every character is named and later in the novels, most of the people involved aren't "evil" in any notable fashion.
This is the season where Ainz crosses over from edgier hero to the actual title of the show, an undead overlord.

As if the odds weren't already against them he has to go spouting this shit. I'll be suprised if anyone makes it out of this one alive.

I love Ainz-sama.

>>25529
Well I guess using most efficiently every part of the intruders' bodies is not evil, but the anime sure is getting more unapologetically brutal, not that I am complaining. And I guess Ains is getting his first empire conquered soon? That was some Gulf of Tonkin strategy in use. We even have the Search and Destroy helicopters.

So what is the best version of the novels to get? Between madokami and the pastebin posted there it is indeed very confusing. On madokami someone stayed TraitorsAizen, but the people in the pastebin seem to have a hate boner for them. At least the pastebin seems to be using the newest translation?

>>25761
Use this https://mega.nz/#F!9gcB1JTS!WHAlQqEoYUgpdy8cdCg5qg

I hope we get a proper battle. Though the moment Ainz decides to go in it is going to be an immediate massacre.

For the Honorable General Enri's glory!

The numbers of the armies was stupidly big. The CGI was horrible. Very unfortunate.

>>25955
That was really atrocious CGI. Even a series of 80's-style still frames getting panned over would've done a better job.

>>25955
I mean it really wasn't –that– over-the-top. Let's consider for a moment that Hannibal recruited something to the effect of 30-50k native tribesmen just from Italy alone, not including actual Italians or obviously Romans. The Romans lost 70k in Cannae, 30k at Trebia, and something like 100k in assorted other battles but were still ready to keep raising legions. This doesn't take into account the truly massive armies of Persia and China during the same time period.

If we take for granted the fact that the Empire is obviously not!Rome, with the added benefit of D&D style magic that breaks economies in half around the time you get to Fluder' level, the idea of having 120k troops on the field isn't a huge deal, it's Cannae plus the legions they lost at Trebia. Remember too that the Empire has been in a state of "war" for a number of years yet has lost minimal numbers to conflicts simply because their fights aren't real fights.

On the Kingdom side, yes, 300k peasants is pretty ridiculous for a country whose basic premise is based on medieval France crossed with the HRE - but that's just the thing, it's presented as stupid and overblown, ridiculously oversized and not at all intelligent on a government level (though I'm not sure about in the anime).

Ainz: Tanoshii

>>25966
The Empire has shown no indication it's anything remotely similar to Rome. It doesn't appear based on any real culture or nation. Neither its government nor its military resembles Rome's at all.

And Rome was able to field large armies because it was a massive city state in a federation of other massive city states that were all citizen republics. Meaning that military service was required by all able bodied men, and professional military service was a viable career. In fact in Rome military service was required if you wanted to get into politics.

The Empire that we've seen has a professional military of "knights" but there's no talk of mandatory military service nor is the Empire apparently organized in a series of huge city states that would have huge populations to draw their citizen soldiers from.