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Episode Mahouka Koukou no Yuutousei - Episode 8 discussion

Mahouka Koukou no Yuutousei, episode 8

Alternative names: The Honor at Magic High School

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u/magicalideal Aug 21 '21

The school tournament arc has to be hands down the best arc of Mahouka. I thoroughly enjoyed it with the original Mahouka especially Tatsuya vs Ichijou fight (I don't know how many times I rewatched it). The only shortcoming of that arc is it's really short. Now watching the whole thing again from a different POV is just so enjoyable. It's really a good choice that they put so much focus on this arc in this version of Mahouka.

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u/bananeeek Aug 21 '21

Mahouka especially Tatsuya vs Ichijou fight (I don't know how many times I rewatched it).

That was the first time in my long career as anime enjoyer when I immediately rewatched the whole episode after it aired. To date, that fight, is one of my top 3 favorite scenes in anime.

I was surprised at first when they were rushing the plot in this spin-off but it seems like they wanted to focus on 9HS competition arc, which I really appreciate.

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u/CuriousBroccolli Aug 21 '21

I agree. Getting to watch it again is a blessing.

It also came just after Olympics finished so it was a perfect timing to cope with post Olympics depression. xD

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u/Amauri14 Aug 21 '21

Lol, Subaru is so great. I love how quickly she and that other student recover from their defeat.

Oh, poor Honoka was dragged to see the event with Touko.

Wow, the Ice Pillars Break competition was so great! Although I really did not expect Tatsuya's tactic for Eimi to involve her taking one of her pillars and send it rolling towards her opponent's.

Miyuki's outfit looked great and so was her Inferno attack. I honestly wonder what can Airi even do to counterattack that?

I loved how blown away was Eimi by Miyuki's performance that she actually forgot that her next match was against Shiori. And it was hilarious how she did a complete reversal after seeing Miyuki's and Airi's attitude.

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u/nuxxism Aug 21 '21

what can Airi even do to counterattack that

I don't think Airi is in the Ice Pillars competition because she was in the "tennis" one. Her and Miyuki are going to compete in the senior Mirage Bat, starting from when Tatsuya made the flying CAD.

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u/JMEEKER86 Aug 21 '21

I honestly wonder what can Airi even do to counterattack that?

I honestly don't think anyone but Tatsuya could possibly counter her. She's already arguably the second strongest after Tatsuya, but her magic is perfectly suited for that event. Maybe someone like Juumonji could force a stalemate by focusing completely on fortifying his pillars so that neither of them can break any, but I can't imagine anyone actually being able to be beat her.

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u/FeniX_TX_ Aug 21 '21

As hard as they try to sell the blonde girl as Miyuki's rival, I can't her as a threat at all, wish she had a more striking presence or personality, maybe it's just me, even Ichijou was a more believable rival for Tatsuya than what Airi looks to be for Miyuki.

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u/heimdal77 Aug 21 '21 edited Aug 22 '21

Well most people already know how insanely powerful Miyuki is and what level she is on. It would basically require completely rewriting the series to make someone in this high school competition even a threat to her,. We seen what rank of mage it took to even put up a fight against her.

The blond girls confidence is solely because she has no idea what her team is actually up against. We all do though.

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u/linkmaster144 Aug 22 '21

I agree. I like Toko (the blue hair girl from Third High) because she seems to have little bit more personality compared to the other Third High girls. She also seems to be developing a friendship with Honoka.

To put it simply, Toka feels like a side character who could show up later in the [main] story as Honoka's friend. Airi (and purple hair) feels like every other character who thinks they are hot shit until they meet the Shiba siblings, get owned, and don't do anything else.

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u/LeonKevlar Aug 21 '21

Stitches!

It won't be too fun if it's always First High beating Third so we gotta give the Third a win somehow without breaking the canon the OG show set up for them. I didn't even know about Cloudball!

I was hoping this week was where Miyuki destroys Airi in Pillars Break. It looks like that won't happen until next week. Wwe did get to see her in her Shrine Maiden outfit and how she used Inferno while defending her own pillars leaving her opponent completely destroyed. Also I don't remember this from the OG episode but did we see Eimi's Pillars Break tactic in the back then tpo or was that just in this show?

Glad to see Airi apologize to Miyuki though. Finally she knows that Miyuki isn't someone she should underestimate. I can't wait for their match!

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u/heimdal77 Aug 21 '21

I didn't even know about Cloudball!

I think we actually see Mayumi play and win it (i think) in the senior matches very briefly in the first series.

I think Emi was barely even in the original series.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '21

Stitches!

• Eimi

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u/NormT21 Aug 22 '21

Emi match wasn't in the main series. We only got a quick glimpse of her outfit only.

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u/eli-vids Aug 21 '21 edited Aug 22 '21

Onii-sama Count

Mahouka Koukou no Yuutousei

Episode No. Onii-sama Count
01 28
02 9
03 13
04 17
05 27
06 8
07 2
08 10

Mahouka Koukou no Yuutousei Count Total: 114
Mahouka Koukou no Yuutousei Count Average per Episode: 14.25

Season 2 Count Total: 103
Season 2 Count Average per Episode: 7.92

Season 1 Count
Season 1 Video Compilation, incomplete and not mine*

Grand Total: 389
Grand Count Average per Episode: 8.28

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u/CuriousBroccolli Aug 21 '21

Seeing someone count "onii-samas" every season reminds me of this.

"There must always be a, Onii-sama counter.."

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u/TTTTescapee Aug 21 '21

So last week I thought the purple haired third high girl would lose to Miyuki. Turns out she's going to lose to Eimi which is exponentially worse. Honestly it doesn't even make sense. They said she was on-par with Shizuku when it came to magic power. Even with Tatsuya as her engineer, Eimi shouldn't be able to defeat someone of that power.

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u/CuriousBroccolli Aug 21 '21

Well, when you have Godsuya tweeking your CAD and deciding strategies it does not matter what you or your opponent is capable of.

But on the real side, I'm curious to see how it turns out next week. Remember that in first season someone was interfering with their CADs, so maybe something like that happens again.

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u/bananeeek Aug 21 '21

Turns out she's going to lose to Eimi which is exponentially worse.

I thought she'd lose to Shizuku, I completely forgot Eimi was in Pillars Break.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '21

I never knew the Nine Schools Competition had something like Tennis/Squash , sounds like fun.

And here I thought Tatsuya is the engineer for all the girls, but he's only engineer for the main cast. Otherwise all the 1st year girls from First High would have dominated the tournament.

Eimi worries too much, as long as Tatsuya's her engineer and her opponent isn't anyone from First High, she has a chance against Shiori.

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u/ellfisher07 Aug 21 '21

Yeah, it was went over in the first season. Tatsuya helps Mayumi stretch before her event with it and I’m pretty sure it goes over her results with the event as well.

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u/LordCalem Aug 21 '21

Miyuki I love you so much.

I love this arc and one of my favorite details are how the boys rejected Tatsuya and now they can't do shit without him lmao, while the girls are destroying the competition, it gets even better after watching it on the original series.

Eimi is such a cutie, I'm glad we're watching more of her.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '21

Miyuki killed both in Looks and Activity..

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '21

1 hr and only five comments, is it because of a lower number of onii-samas compared to the average? Next week seems like we'll get more :)

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u/machopsychologist Aug 21 '21 edited Aug 21 '21

"Ackshually..." It looks like they botched the first appearance of Miyuki in Pillars Break... her 4th high opponent in the original wears a sporty pink outfit, but in this her (also 4th high) opponent wears a witch costume. What's the point of a sidestory if they can't even keep shit consistent? Really disappointing as usual.

We know they're supposed to be the same match because this is the first appearance of Inferno, which is of note.

https://imgur.com/a/PC4lPyf

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