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Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
In a rpg luck stat is as useful as the setting makes it. Some games like demons souls made luck useless since it only affected one weapons damage and item drops. In others it increases your damage and allows you to pull off some stunts you wouldnt be able to do normally. Like in new vegas you can fake a security phrase with high luck or empty the casinos of money. It's actually pretty rare when luck stat is worth a drat in a game.

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Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Technically Kazuma taking the guys sword and selling it was the right thing to do since the guy was trying to take Kazumas godly relic himself.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
If it wasnt obvious the reason Aqua wanted the purification job in episode 5 was because her boss was angry at her for running off to help Megumin cast explosion. Also the reason Megumin didnt want to cast explosion during the purification job is she was saving it for the castle :v:

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Darkness wont really get much story in this season sadly. Her backstory only starts getting handled in volume 3 and this season seems to end at volume 2 if we are lucky.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
main problem with that is the brothel episode is important character growth and motivation for kazuma this season. party swap and a few other missed side stories would be perfect ova material though
edit: come to think of it why do people even assume its getting skipped? it still fits into the schedule. also so does party swap. its hard to tell what they are adding to the second last episode.

Iretep fucked around with this message at 10:16 on Feb 25, 2016

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
I think they just announced an OVA where she gets introduced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4FOQ5NzodA

I'm assuming this is a 10 episode run with one or two OVAs. They can totally fit pretty much anything into 9th episode + set up for the final thing.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Dullahan totally deserved to get bullied to death :colbert:

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
they basically rushed through a missed side story that happened in volume 1.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
considering she dressed in less clothes for the winter samurai fight i suspect the boobplate is for similar reasons.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009

Serious Frolicking posted:

Oh no, she is still completely nuts.

By her races standards she is relatively sane. Though having a fixation on explosions isnt normal even for them.

Zettace posted:

Also her goddess abilities and her cleric abilities seem to overlap so there's nothing to prove that she is actually a goddess to most people.

Much later on Megumin and Darkness actually ask Kazuma how Aqua can purify stuff without a spell. She does a lot of stuff that a regular priest cant do which should prove she is what she claims to be. They just continue to not believe she is a goddess because she sure doesent act the part. :v:

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
In another missed side story Aqua sends another lich to the afterlife and he didnt have a phylactery. In this world they might not have phylacteries at all since it hasnt been mentioned.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
While a liches immortality is tied to the bones, the flesh starting to rot isnt instant. She either hasnt lived long enough as a lich for her flesh to start rotting or the setting allows for liches to do a boring ritual to keep the flesh up.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
I just realised when Darkness entered the bathroom the vacant sign was still on the door. :staredog:

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
How it was worded I assumed Kazuma thought that someone had removed the sign as a prank.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Im kind of dissapointed they skipped Kazumas justification on trying to destroy the robot spider. Basically he didnt want to run away because he wasnt sure if any other towns had succubus brothels. Such a pure thing is worth dying for apparently.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
we dont find out its in japanese until volume 5 because Aqua read it and she didnt point this out until then

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Its the OVA episode that came with the latest book.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
I guess the drama CDs are going to do the parts the anime missed.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009

Nitrousoxide posted:

Is Megumin supposed to also be from the real world?
I know they said her name is weird in the show, but as someone who doesn't speak Japanese I had no idea on what way it's supposed to be weird.

Spoilers from volume 5 if you really care why the Crimson Magic Clan clan has weird names: They were genetically modified by one of Aquas "heroes" she sent into the world whose power was probably being a super inventor. Its the same guy who invented the walking fortress at the end of the season too. The clan was chuuni even before being modified by the inventor so they asked him to give them names to celebrate their new powers. The inventor really couldnt give a poo poo so he just named them whatever came first to mind which leads to them getting dumb names. Basically they arent japanese, their clan just kept dumb names from a japanse nerd.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Welp, looks like they arent going to handle the other two missing side stories. The dungeon one would have been relevant to season 2 at least.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Yeah rumor is that this will be another 10 episode season so itll end at volume 4. Megumins village happens in volume 5. Hopefully this will actually get a seaons 3 since volumes 5 and 6 are really good. But who knows, these are mostly supposed to get people to buy the books so its hard to tell when they will stop making episodes.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
It depends on what kind of deal the anime studio has. If they get part of the profits theyll be more motivated to make more. If the episodes are purely ordered by the book company then itll be entirely reliant on if the book company wants more.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009

Zernach posted:

After this episode I've come to the conclusion that I really need to dig around for the LNs so I can enjoy more of their idiot adventures.

I love how Kazuma and Megumin are comfortable enough with each other they can just try to gently caress with each other like they did in this episode.

In the LN the bath conversation went a bit diffrently. Kazuma was fine going to the bath with Megumin because he considered Megumin a kid. She is just 13 so it doesent really matter to him. Megumin not wanting be treated like a kid points out she is going to be 14 in a few months which causes Kazuma to go all uncomfortable because she is almost in his "hit zone".

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
I think ive said it before but depending on your fantasy setting, liches dont become mummified raisins until they age. Their immortality is in the bones so thats what usually remains. Wiz is a fairly young lich so her skin hasnt started rotting yet. In some settings liches can even keep their flesh through a boring ritual that they need to do constantly and if you fail to do it you cant get back what you lost from not doing it. Of course most liches dont give a crap about their looks so theyll become skeletons pretty fast.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Megumin doesent have a problem finding a party technically. She is useless in a low level party like in the main town. But an experienced party would be willing to carry her because they usually hunt large bounties, they can deal with the small fry on the way there and then have Megumin nuke the big guy. Darkness on the other hand is borderline useless. Anything with half a brain will just walk around her and attack the party behind her since she barely has any offencive potential to punish ignoring her. She hits like a truck but cant hit anything that can move. When Darkness was with Chris they just had Chris cast bind on things and then Darkness smacked them to death. Of course this isnt ideal for Darkness who wants to take hits and protect people. She basically gets bored and depressed by being useful. Though she is a noble so she is an adventurer to just enact her masochistic dreams. She could just stop and go back to doing things nobles do. But thats why both Megumin and Darkness are in Kazumas party, they get to act the way they want instead of what is actually effective.

Iretep fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Jan 25, 2017

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Oh nice, i was worried theyd skip this one since it didnt show up in season 1. Its a nice story since itll be the only time Aqua seems to do something serious. Only side story still missing is the party swap one which probably wont be shown since the characters that got introduced from it have already been introduced.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
no she knows she is good, she just refuses to get paid for her perfomances.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009

Agronox posted:

Maybe they get into this in the LNs, but what does Megumin do during low level battles where there's no point in EXPLOSIONing? Stand around and strike poses?

If theres no reason in casting explosion she will find a reason.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Kind of disappointed there wasn't more Kazuma correcting Darknesses behavior through subtle violence like in the LN. Makes Darkness ripping her clothes in frustration seem sudden.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
The two writers know each other and are currently doing some book together too so it wouldnt be suprising .

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
The anime skipped Kazuma talking with Darknesses dad in private before Alderps son appeared. Youd get a better impression on him in the LN basically.
And yeah, this isnt the first time he has tried to marry off Darkness and is well aware she is what she is. Its why he hired Kazuma to make sure Darkness did nothing to break the engagement.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Im pretty sure Darkness has at least one non-passive skill, taunt. Cant remember if she has used it yet though.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Aqua isnt some crazy gimmick. She is stupidly powerful as far as clerics goes. She is just an example on why min maxing clerics shouldnt dump INT even if they never use it in combat.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
she is a priest so i dont think she actually has any good skill options to deal with living creatures that dont care about holy or water damage.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Aqua is an Arch Priest to be exact which sounds like some generic korean mmo class. All Classes seem to mostly be in fact generic mmo classes and Kazuma was offered to be taken to the new world because he was a neet who played them. If Aqua had good offencive spells besides the holy ones im sure Kazuma would have forced her to take some already. Darkness and Megumin both know how the class works so they would have also pointed it out. Like in the story where they meet Wiz Darknes says its common for priets to not level much since they can only attack undead and demons which are rare.
Edit: oh right the anime didnt do the wiz meeting.

Iretep fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Feb 7, 2017

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
The episode was even more amazing than i expected. :allears:

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
This is one of my favorite points in the series: Kazuma gets so tired of the partys poo poo that he realises he is better off just not coming back. :allears:

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
I think it happens before Vanir appears since he would have been in the episode othervise.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009

Raenir Salazar posted:

Why can't YunYun join the party. :(

She doesent want to join. Megumin is her rival after all.

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Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
The real problem is that Kazuma totally wants her to join the party so she never will.

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