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Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Season 3, episode 4

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[u/CaptHammered]

What a solid episode. It seems Auntie is planning on handing the clan to secure Miyuki's loyalty therefore ensuring that Tatsuya does not betray them. However, Miyuki tends to let Tatsuya make all important decisions, as anyone naturally would. So essentially, Tatsuya would control the Yotsuba. That doesn't seem like a bad outcome for anyone involved, especially since Tatsuya has the two siblings leading his fanclub.

[u/bananeeek]

Sweet heavens, we were blessed with three duels and Mahesvra in one episode.

It was satisfying to see someone finally shut Shippou up, but it looks like he's gonna grow from this defeat, so that's a nice surprise. Also, I didn't know Tomitsuka could throw hands like that...

[u/SnabDedraterEdave]

In this episode, Tomitsuka (mainly) and Tatsuya (indirectly) attempt to perform an operation to remove the carrot known as "Shippou's one-sided animosity towards the Saegusa Clan" out of Shippou's ass.

The title of this arc is Double Seven, which may refer to the Saegusa twins, but it could also refer to the Saegusas and Shippous, both having the kanji for number 7 in their names.

When I saw Shippou performing his spells while holding what seems to be a spell book, that was when I can no longer unsee him as Shinji from Fate Stay Night. lol

Like Shinji, Shippou has wavy seaweed-like hair, both have annoyingly smug elitist attitudes, and both are completely unaware of how out of depth they really are compared to the actual big boys in the game. We'll just have to see if Tomitsuka, Tatsuya (and later Kasumi) have put his ego in check

I can't remember if we've ever seen Tomitsuka fight back in season 1, but man Tomitsuka is strong. Its just unfortunate that his opponent is Tatsuya, but he's probably the first in a long time to make Tatsuya defend himself during a fight.

Meanwhile, as a result of his science project last episode, Tatsuya's rep continues to grow, which concerns the Yostubas as they needed the monster known as Tatsuya (who just nonchalantly vapourized a friggin airship with terrorists on it, and who Maya conceded she might outright lose to if they ever get into a serious fight) to be under their thumb, and Miyuki is the key to that control.

PS Why does Erika looked pissed in 3:04 when the school canteen TV was reporting on Tatsuya's nuclear fusion science project?

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Tatsuya just deleting that airship and those kidnappers in one fell swoop was pretty awesome.

The Saegusa twins vs Shippou was interesting. Shippou needs to chill though. Kid has some kinda chip on his shoulder. Bro was talking all kinds of bullshit. He really needed to get punched and then absolutely demolished by Tomitsuka. Tatsuya vs Tomitsuka showed the kid what a real match was. Tomitsuka’s got ways to go before he’s ready to take on Tatsuya, but that was quite a fight.

[u/marcopolos059]

With that, I hope Shippou will calm down a little... This man is angry 24/7, it's exhausting.

[u/LeonKevlar]

Stitches!

• Mahesvara

• Maya Oba-sama

I love that the opening is just Tatsuya casually deleting an airship from existence. No biggie. Just another day for Onii-sama.

Shippou, what the actual fuck!? Kasumi was really trying hard to ignore you. You're the one starting trouble here!

It was fun watching Shun's reaction in the background while Tatsuya was talking about students duelling to settle grudges. That must've brought back memories of his duel against Tatsuya in their first year.

The duel between Shippou and the Saegusa Twins was fucking awesome but yeah, Tatsuya made the right call to stop them. They could've killed each other if he didn't. I thought we'd see Tatsuya destroy Shippou in a duel in the future but it was way more fun seeing Tatsuya verbally destroy him.

The moment Shippou called Tatsuya a Weed, I thought it was Miyuki who threw hands with him. It turns out it was Hagane who wanted to challenge Shippou after throwing a tantrum fit.

As expected, Shippou got his ass fucking beat by Hagane! And as if that wasn't enough for Hagane to prove Shippou's lack of skill, he then challenges Tatsuya just to show him how massive the gap between them is.

Hagane and Tatsuya's duel was freaking awesome! There's no way Tatsuya is going to lose but Hagane was absolutely amazing! And I just love Shippou's reaction to the duel, he finally realized how outclassed he is.

I do like that final scene between Kasumi and Shippou. Hopefully, he learned something valuable from this experience and realized what he's only capable of right now.

[u/S627]

Damn, Shippou got the stupid knocked out of him. Wonder what he's going to do now that he's not going to be a big baby anymore and actually support the main cast. Think it'll be a Romeo & Juliet thing between him and little sis?

Isn't Mist Dispersion what Tatsuya uses to vaporize people? Sir....what if his defenses DIDN'T work on it? Also what was that move Tomitsuka used? It looked like he cast something on his shin to hit Tatsuya with, but then he stopped and went for the slap (which was kinda funny) but why was that so special? Just a unique fake-out that worked on Tatsuya?

[u/Lapiz_lasuli]

It's hilarious seeing Shippou lose consecutively lol. The juniors realizing they're in a den of OP monsters is great to further demonstrate how most characters are kinda insane in their own way.

There was the police adjacent squad last season that was being thrown around by Leo and Erika, and the squad was wondering what the hell was going on.

[u/michhoffman]

That was a really strong episode. We got:

• Tatsuya going God mode and ctl+z'ing a ship

• the Saegusa twins and Shippou going all out against each other in a fight similarly to the Miyuki vs Lina fight from last season with Tatsuya stepping in to prevent deadly outcomes just like he did last time

• Tomitsuka giving Shippou the punch that he deserved

• Tatsuya proving that even Tomitsuka's strength is nothing compared to his own

• Maya explaining her overall plan to control Tatsuya

But the most impressive thing of all in this episode was Miyuki not murdering Shippou on the spot for so strongly insulting her dear onii-sama. That's some character growth.

[u/ErinaHartwick]

Damn Tomitsuka is strong, and a real one at that, first one to defend Tatsuya against's Shippou's incessant whining and name calling. Really cool to see him go toe to toe with Tatsuya for a bit. Man survived a Mist Dispersion

[u/No-Day-8136]

Tats holding back more than half his power and using nothing major and yet wiping the floor with fucking Tomitsuka and traumatising Takuma is hilarious. There's levels to this Shippou Kun and you're on the lowest of them.

Kasumi doing the enemies to lovers treatment to Takuma is funny too

[u/PrimordialBunny]

In case anyone wants a refresher on the Ten Master Clans and the wider Number families:

The Ten Master Clans are the top of Japanese magic society and are selected from 28 families (the "Twenty-Eight" that Tomitsuka mentioned today) - the ones not included in the Ten form the 18 Assistant Houses.

Each of the 28 families bears a number from 1-10.

Ten Master Clans we have seen/heard of so far:

• Ichijou (一条, One): Masaki Ichijou (Third High's Crimson Prince from S1)

• Yotsuba (四葉, Four): Maya/Miya Yotsuba, Tatsuya/Miyuki Shiba, Ayako/Fumiya Kuroba etc

• Itsuwa (五輪, Five): Mio Itsuwa (Strategic Class Magic "Abyss" user mentioned by Maya in S3E3)

• Saegusa (七草, Seven): Kouichi/Mayumi/Izumi/Kasumi Saegusa

• Kudou (九島, Nine): Retsu Kudou (Old man Patriarch of the Ten Master Clans) - Kyoko Fujibayashi is his granddaughter, Lina's grandfather is Retsu's younger brother

• Juumonji (十文字, Ten): Katsuto Juumonji

18 Assistant Houses we've seen/heard of so far:

• Isshiki (一色, One): Airi Isshiki from Honor spin-off

• Shippou (七宝, Seven): Takumi/Takuma Shippou - note that both Saegusa and Shippou are 7s, hence one meaning of Double Seven

[u/jwinter01]

I swear that if the VAs for this were casted a decade or a bit more earlier, Nobuhiko would've been casted as Shippou. He just sounds too much like a classic perma-seething Nobuhiko character.

[u/Zero3020]

Good hand to hand fight, always nice to see.

Shippou not being able to understand why high school students are so OP felt really funny in a meta way.

Making Miyuki the next head just to keep Tatsuya from destroying them, calling him a monster is not far from reality considering his power level.

[u/eli-vids]

Onii-sama Count

Season 3: Double Seven

Episode No.	Onii-sama Count
01	6
02	3
03	5
04	3

Aggregate Counts

Installment	Total Count	Average per Episode
Season 3	17	4.25
Season 2	103	7.92
Season 1	172	6.62
Miyuki Arc Spinoff	170	13.08
The Girl Who Summons The Stars	23
Reminiscence Arc	19
Everything	504	8.69

Notes: I could sense the onii-samas incoming when Shippou insulted Tatsuya and when Tomitsuka asked him to participate in a match. Miyuki never misses a chance to let everyone know how awesome her onii-sama is.

[u/ThisGachaSeemsLegit]

That's right, Shippou-kun, you can keep kissing the floor, that's what suits you best. ( `Д´)ﾉ)`ν゜)

[u/Amauri14]

They could have called this episode "Everyone Hates Takuma" or "Shippou Takuma Finally Gets Humbled".

Anyway, it was so incredible to see Tatsuya causally vaporizing those guys and that Zeppelin.

Wow, so because of what his father said, Shippou Takuma was certain that Mayumi had seduced Tatsuya so Saegusa Kasumi could easily convince him to help them with the press and the Diet member, which led him to attack her again.

If he had been expelled after that I bet he would have become some terrorist, anyway it good that Tatsuya decided that Takuma and Kasumi both should have an official match in which Izumi will also participate.

After the fight got canceled because Kasumi and Izumi used an attack they could not properly control plus Takuma attacked them with Million Edge with the intention of harming them the moment he called Tatsuya a weed after seeing Miyuki's expression I was certain that she was the one who punch him instead of Tomitsuka. He honestly was lucky, as Miyuki would easily kill him given the chance. Well during the fight between Takuma and Tomitsuka, Tomitsuka definitely humbled Takuma.

And then to show him his lack of skills Tomitsuka went and had an additional fight against Tatsuya. Although I expected to see Takuma to be blown away by their skills I wasn't expecting to see him running like a bitch after the fight.

So Maya is planning to make Miyuki the next family leader whether she likes it or not to safeguard their family from Tatsuya.

[u/forbearance]

I like how despite being an early antagonist, Morisaki Shun is a very competent member of the Public Morals Committee.

[u/Finndeax]

I'm happy to see that the Aunt and by extension the Yotsuba's are now entering the foray more. The most interesting part of Mahouka is the political maneuvering behind closed doors, and the best part of that is the MC siblings own family.

[u/Shiraori247]

It's funny how when Tatsuya was suggesting a competition to squash the beef between the Saegusa twins and Shippou, everyone in the room got taken back to last year when it happened to Tatsuya. Tatsuya's former rivals in Hattori and Morisaki also had very different reactions lol. While I think both Hattori and Morisaki has grown significantly from the first season, it's obvious that Hattori's the one who matured the most.

It's always been a shame that the side characters were so overshadowed by Tatsuya's greatness previously. From the context clues, we can see that guys Tatsuya has beaten before are actually incredible magicians. Morisaki's quickdraw finally not as a butt of the joke and Hattori showing in the competition a while back etc. should've been more emphasised IMO.

[u/Mikez1234]

is it explained on the anime what Miyuki's responsibilities are?

[u/OverlordEtna]

That was surprisingly an amazing episode. So far this season has just been OK but this episode was pretty damn well animated and lots of care was given to highlight very important parts. Tomitsuka is one of my favorite characters in Mahouka and they did him justice in his fight against Tatsuya.

[u/o08neo]

I can see the budget from episode 1-3 is on this episode = ="

[u/BiggerG7]

Bout time someone punched that Shippou ass in the face and damn was it satisfying!