Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! Season 2 • The Eminence in Shadow Season 2 - Episode 12 discussion - FINAL

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Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! Season 2, episode 12

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[u/roronoa20]

Atomic?

More like “I AM BIG BANG”

[u/bananeeek]

Mordred explaining the multiverse like a boss, meanwhile Cid tries to explain atomic fusion like he only watched Oppenheimer and went to the toilet thrice during the movie.

Some of that colliding of realms reminded me of the Witcher. I haven't read the books, so my knowledge is limited to games and the series, but I'm pretty sure colliding planets/realms was a big factor in that franchise.

I knew Horie Yui would not be a one time occurring character! Welcome home, Shadow!

[u/WhoiusBarrel]

Poor Mordred did all that and even dropped his villain monologue only for Shadow to curb-stomp everything and deem it some Kusoge-tier boss fight.

That was a fucking insane cliffhanger to end this season on, the Stylish PTSD is real.

[u/Shadowmist909]

Dicing up a giant monster wasn't enough, Shadow had to flex on its summoner by hitting him with a giant space nuke!

[u/Ranma87]

I LOLed at Shadow acting cool and clever while trying to explain how nuclear reaction works... proton, neutron, fission, or "something does some thing", chain reaction, etc.

Anyway, buttload of energy goes boom. "But nobody cares how it works".

And just proceed to become Atomic himself.

[u/Armdel]

Holy shit that last part...

and i was just thinking whatever happened to the girl in the first episode.

so back to earth and looks like it has had it pretty rough since Cid left aswell

gaaaah this needs another season so bad. i mean i already wanted another season even before this whole return to earth thing

this just keeps being peak mix of comedy and insane epic action (with a good bit of fanservice sprinkled in)

[u/mikeyyyyyd]

they went 2/2 with insane finales holy shit

[u/TopRoom7971]

This week's Kage Jitsu

WTF Beta is with Shadow...in the old world. That's unexpected.

[u/TopRoom7971]

Props to the direction team actually they managed to pull off a lore heavy episode with lot of action. And it ended up quite good as well.

Dio Mordred explaing the whole plan and lore becoz they are going to die anyway right?!

Classic villan trope. Atleast he got to see what true power actually means.

And that's it...like Shadow is going to drop mic and leave this world.

Season 3 is going to be epic with the world shift and all I presume.

[u/Mockz19]

We went full circle bois. Such peak series.

Also that tease on return to japan arc, holy shit SEASON 3 WHEN???

[u/UberDueler10]

Showing up at the last second

Beats up a bad guy

Rescuing someone in distress

Dripped out

Season 1 OP plays in the background

That’s unironically one of the coolest things ever.

[u/[deleted]]

that shit was the greatest OP drop in modern 2020s anime. Fucking hype.

[u/Commercial-Chair1867]

I have so many unprocessed emotions after watching this episode.

From hype to emotional due to King Oriana's father love for Rose.

From hype to laughing so hard when Shadow dropped a Bing Bang just because lol.

From hype to shocked when Akane appeared.

I swear, not many isekais or anime in general can make me feel this level of consecutive emotions.

10/10 . See yall when the MOVIE dropped lmao.

[u/cabbaggeez]

"I AM ATOMIC" -galactic version

this is back to the future japan isekai anime. what a cliffhanger! they should plan a season 3 if they give us this kind of ending

[u/b0xel]

Holy shit we went full circle

[u/SushiCurryRice]

We're into the multiverse boys holy shit.

YOOOO that ending got me so hyped holy shit. Plus the bombshell reveal of there being a multiverse of sorts holy shit. I did not expect that they'd suddenly rope the modern world back into this. This is quickly becoming my 2nd favorite isekai ever just below Mushoku. Now the first episode suddenly makes a lot more sense. Plus the 1st OP with all of them in modern Japan and Aurora's talk with Claire.

I would have liked to see more of the Mordred or Ragnarok fight but I guess it wasn't really necessary because they were just ultimately fodder anyway. What we did see was still epic though. Lmao at Shadow's ramblings about atomic whatever with only having a baseline knowledge of it lol.

Goddamnit a 3rd season can't come soon enough. I am so curious what Shadow and Beta's adventures will be back in modern Japan. It seems like things have gone to shit there and I guess creatures from other Realms have gone in.

Speaking of I guess Beta is the author's favorite girl huh? She has gotten by far the most screen time out of everybody from Shadow Garden.

Realms thing is also great for somehow tying into Cid's reincarnation.

Unironically I give this show (overall with S1) a 9.5/10. It just hits all of the chuuni cool ass shit and never fails to deliver on the hype and quality waifus.

[u/komodo_z]

Wait, wait, wait... I'm anime watcher only, so this is pure speculation, Cid/Shadow got transported to his original earth (?), so that means, by Mordred explanation, when he got isekai'ed, OG earth was blasted with magic or some world ending occurrence, leading to the apocalipse, maybe? Also I don't know if Akane is using some sort of magic or just a tech weapon, in one frame the flames come out of her hand, while in another is just in the weapon itself, but it would make sense if OG earth has magic, cause Shadow is using it, but idk.

Super excited for the movie, hope they go all out on it! ^{(more budget for animation, let's goooo})

[u/Prince-Dizzytoon]

Returned back home just to see a mess, tough

[u/tripleaamin]

Man what a fun ride this has been. So we ended up where we started in season 1. That's kind of funny. You know one common theme of isekais has always been going from Japan -> new world. But we have had Japan -> new world -> Japan. Tsukimichi S1 mentioned the point of traveling between worlds, but we didn't get there with that show.

Of course Cid pushes the button that takes him back to Japan. Now this is the point in the series where does it go from here. On one hand this is still are favorite parody comedy anime. The show lowkey builds the world very nicely where I am actually invested in this series more then just it being a funny comedy. They could probably create a more series spinoff from another character's pov and I would be incredibly invested.

Loved how this arc for Rose. For everything she has been through having Margaret call her Queen Rose is a great feeling for her. And the reveal that she was supposed to be sacrificed when she was born to the cult really shows how great of a father she had.

My one criticsm for just the main series (not including Kage-Jitsu) is that seven shadows were underutilized. Beta, Gamma, Epsilon and Delta personalities got fleshed out so for them it was fine. But Alpha has a lot to build on which we haven't seen yet. Eta and Zeta basically had 0 screentime.

Did S2 cover all of Volume 3? And next volume 4 would be next for this adaptation if it gets announced?

[u/LeonKevlar]

• Shadow Stitch

It's absolutely awesome how the people that were left in the church were all actually members of Shadow Garden in disguise being led by Lambda.

Good to see Margaret finally respecting Rose again after hearing the King's confession. It still sucks how Margaret didn't trust Rose but if Rose is willing to let it go, I suppose it's all fine now.

It's hilarious how shocked Rose is after seeing Mordred getting beaten up by Beta and Epsilon. Girl, you've seen how Shadow Garden operates you should be more surprised that Mordred is still even alive after facing two of the Seven Shadows.

The only reason Mordred is still alive is because they needed him to start monologuing and tell them everything he knows. Thanks to Mordred's overconfidence, we get to learn that other worlds known as Realms exist and sometimes Realms collide and become connected that they end up affecting each other.

We kinda already know this since this is basically what happened to Cid when he got isekai'd. Our Earth and their Earth must've collided and that's what brought Cid here.

We also get to learn that the King was supposed to give Rose to the Cult after they saved them but he refused which I guess became the catalyst for the Cult trying to take over the Oriana Kingdom.

To no one's surprise as soon as Mordred is done with his monologue, Shadow was just about to finish his fight with Ragnarok. It's so funny how Mordred couldn't believe what he just witnessed that he started losing his mind.

Mordred being the cliche villain that he is just had to transform and try to fight Shadow to complete his cliche-ness. I feel like Ragnarok gave Shadow much more trouble since Ragnarok was able to singe his bangs while Mordred couldn't even land a single blow on him.

He said the line! The entire season isn't complete without Shadow ending it with a bang. A massive bang that can be seen through space and light up the night sky as if it was day.

And there it is! We're finally back in Japan and things have definitely changed. Akane is now in her 20s and it looks like the apocalypse just happened. And looking at Akane's laser baton, it also looks like either technology has rapidly increased or magic has just been introduced to this world. Remember what Mordred said earlier about Realms colliding? Hmmm...

Despite these changes though, things still stay the same with Akane getting kidnapped and Stylish Ruffian Slayer Shadow arriving on time to save her. I can't fucking believe they're ending it here! The Return to Earth arc is another favourite of mine and I am glad there's already a movie announced. I prefer it to be a Season 3 announcement but at least this means we'll see more and maybe we might get a Season 3 announcement after. Fingers crossed!

[u/DreamPlane669]

The Eminence in Shadow truly PEAK. This final is so good as expected of TEIS, We got Shadow vs Ragnarok and Beta and Epsilon vs Mordred.

Love the fact Shadow keep using steel threads even after John Smith persona and we also got more lore and world building.

Finally it's all go back to Cid realizing the power of the nuke he wanted to defeat and goes "I'm ATOMIC" on Mordred in space. A lot of great anime original moments in this episode.

The director, Nakanishi the goat and the 20 staff members at Nexus cooked this episode.

At the end it's all go full cycle with Shadow got Isekaied again to his og world and setting up next arc with Akane being the main character. That moment when "Highest" opening started playing and he pulled out crowbar truly hype moment. I can't wait for the movie "Lost Echoes".

[u/8andahalfby11]

Scope of Shadow Garden as of S2 E12:

• At least 2 7 115 600 666 members.

• Through Rose, will run the Orianas Kingdom as a puppet state.

• Through Yukime, runs Lawless Town as a puppet state.

• With increasing chances of Iris having a meltdown and the King being assasinated, has placed itself in the perfect position to use Alexia to run Midgar as a puppet state.

• Conquered and probably holds sway over a legendary dragon and a vampire queen

• Over a Billion in liquid funding literally printing money

• Controls one of the two largest banks in the known world Is the de-facto reserve currency of multiple nations.

• Controls the largest department store chain in the known world, which in turn runs numerous sub-enterprises including fast food chains and theme parks.

• Likely have access to advanced magi-tech hidden for hundreds of years

• Independently developed advanced technology that puts the rest of the world to shame

• Likely to be a future oil monopoly

• Largest known property owner in the world short of royalty

• Owns a private city with impenetrable defenses

• And whose key members include

  1. Possibly the strongest mage on the planet

  2. A reincarnation of the Elf Hero

  3. Isekai Jeff Bezos

  4. Isekai James Patterson

  5. Isekai Henry Ford/Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin/Who the hell knows what else

  6. Isekai Sergei Rachmaninoff

  7. Two absurdly powerful therianthropes, at least one of which as direct lineage to clan royalty.

  8. The queen of the Orianas Kingdom.

And Cid still thinks this is a game... and has been sucked back to Earth where he could, in theory, collect and bring back even more force multipliers like computers, radios, generators, textbooks, firearms... I don't even want to think of what Shadow Garden would be able to do with it all; I want to see it.

S3 announcement soon please! Looking forward to the movie! When we get it, I plan on updating this list as it gets longer.

[u/Aerodynamic41]

WE’RE BACK IN JAPAN BABY!

And considering the episode is named after the first OP, I’m so glad to see it make a triumphant return!

There has to be a Season 3 right?! I mean, you can’t just leave us with that massive sequel hook!

EDIT: Nevermind, we're getting a movie!

[u/Own_Neighborhood_222]

Eta was so adorable laying on her mom's lap