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DUN DUN DUN DUN
I fucking lost it completely. This OST is damned perfect.

This was a lot better than the first episode. Hopefully it won't take long for Diablo to stop fucking about and go for the harem route.

>>25425
The manga doesn't seem to imply much of a harem. Diablo is a good faithful husbando of his two slave waifus. They even get a daughter who likes cookies.

かっこいい！！！

>>25567
Too bad about all the background NPCs.

I want a spin-off about this guy.

It was fine up including the attack of the beasts, but it keeps being repetitive. They didn't use the opportunity to do something interesting with the political war plot, it just ended up being into another two big battles in which Diablo just dominated less than before.

>>25709
Not even the DFC is enough to entice me to continue.

>>25709
It's a "big strong enemy gets hyped up and then Diablo beats it anyway with little effort" episode, except that's every episode. And yeah, they then just gloss over what should be a huge international event at the end. If the next episode doesn't go somewhere with Rem I'm giving up.

Oh, of course…
Why did I not realize this sooner.

>>25775
You and me, buddy. You and me.

>>25709
Hm? You could have dropped it by the title then. If this show has any charm, it's in the execution, not in what it's in its core. It is indeed unashamed wish fulfillment, but it does manage to faithfully recreate that rpg feel that fans of the genre know too well. And at the same time knows what to do with fanservice, and has decent animation and quite fucking fitting soundtrack that frankly makes everything twice better. But you won't escape repetitiveness that easily. Guess for example what the season finale solution to >>25775 existing will be. Hint: read the title of the anime.

>>25802
>but it does manage to faithfully recreate that rpg feel that fans of the genre know too well
I don't think there has even been such an anime for me.

>>25805
This one gets quite close, at least for me. Other titles… maybe only Log Horizon.
This reminds me of the wholesome version of Isekai Maou / .hack , that is to say, that one MMORPG manga about the cook and AI fairies. That was a similar mindless fun.

>>25775
>HorribleSubs
You have a few too many cookies there. They did some censoring.

I'm really enjoying this show but mainly because I pay about as much attention to the storyline and politics as to the grass in the background, since they're basically the same thing.

Now this right here is the really important plot.

I just noticed the timestamps on the screenshots were different, and got horriblesubs to check why. Holy shit, they didn't include these little joke scenes at the beginning and end of the episode.

>>25838
Actually, I don't think this show even has any politics to pay attention to. Not that there is much grass either.

It sounds like they go for an original ending.

Let's see what the writers will come up with.

>>25846
No way. They even show the aftermath of the graveyard battle in the opening. They will just cut some content on the way to it.

>>25847
You are right. Thank god.

It is not fair that she is going to survive this. At least put her in a wheelchair or something.
It is annoying how conveniently incompetent Diablo was this episode.

>>25875
Almost as annoying as Rem's counter-productive moralfaggotry.

>>25875
Manga had a little more build-up to the torture, so it felt less as plot convenience.

>>25889
She's supposed to be a motherly figure and shit. Also manga Rem was thinking that the key for the complete revival is not hatred, but the very act of killing any mortal being.

tl;dr:
>They will just cut some content on the way to it.

I still think that characterizing the villain as evil by having him want to cut the cat ears off first is pure writing genius.

Last episode was good. The important bits were adapted quite well. Rest was rushed. They still managed to get some cute reactions out of the bunny, which was nice. I bet nobody cares for the whole deal with the knight, and I bet the studio thought so too, because that part was really streamlined. Overall, the anime did what it wanted to do, and provided good atmosphere and patrician taste in fetishes. Hope it sells well.

>>25919
Nah, this sucked. Only good parts of the episode were the slave collar and pic related. Diablo's endless forgiveness can fuck right off.
The only thing this show did well was the fanservice and even then it was only a decent what, five scenes in the entire show? The second half was almost entirely absent of it.

>>25925
The boss fight sucked? I liked it.

>>25931
How? It was a joke. Diablo had way more trouble fighting the mayor than the actual awakened demon lord.

>>25932
Are you actually watching the fights in this series for how much trouble Diablo has with them?

Novelfags say this was mostly the introduction/gathering of the cast, and the series becomes more typical adventuring stuff. That would require actually challenging fights. But as far as this anime season is concerned, "challenge" was never part of the equation. It's like thinking that the final fight in OPM needed to be "challenging". Or like thinking Rakudai Kishi needed to have the emotional climax on the fight instead of on the proposal. The whole "well-choreographed and challenging last boss fight" is a cliche of an entirely different genre.

Anyway, the fight, however unchallenging, was well-animated, and did its job of characterizing Diablo, as well as making a well-integrated nod to the usual type of rpg quests about bringing a monster to sanity (lower its hp, then use persuasion of some sort).

>>25954
Given that they specifically built up to this battle and throughout the show had Diablo go from curbstomping everyone to having increasingly more difficulty with stronger opponents, yeah, it was a dumb way to conclude things. It wasn't an interesting fight either by any stretch, it was just Diablo avoiding attacks while dropping symbols on the ground which then activate a big spell. They bring up how he gave all his healing potions away which they signal is going to be an issue, but then nothing comes of it and he wins anyway. It was both the least interesting fight in the show and the weakest payoff of a fight in the show. And it wasn't very well animated either, compared to previous scenes like the first episode or destroying the fallen at the bridge.
If you want to argue that the fight wasn't important, then they already fucked up by spending half the episode focusing on it in the first place. I don't know how you claim it characterised Diablo either because it didn't do shit for that, he just didn't want to kill Klem and we already knew that before the fight started.
>as well as making a well-integrated nod to the usual type of rpg quests about bringing a monster to sanity (lower its hp, then use persuasion of some sort).
That's a pretty big stretch when it's just as clichéd as the "brainwashed ally battle" gets in any story.

>>25958
>then they already fucked up by spending half the episode focusing on it in the first place.
Probably. They may have been trying to show off the berserk demon lord's moves and how it could last more than 5 seconds against Diablo. Maybe they should've just let it blow up a big piece of scenery and used the extra time to have the loli version run around naked.

>>25969
I feel like you're being sarcastic but I agree earnestly.