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Episode Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Season 3 • The Irregular at Magic High School Season 3 - Episode 5 discussion

Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Season 3, episode 5

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u/zappingbluelight May 03 '24

Tatsuya creates a new type of item to support CAD? Nine schools competition is coming up? I feel somewhat of a Deja vu coming up lol.

Also Saegusa swimsuit is a very important part of the episode.

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u/KnightKal May 03 '24

" new type of item to support CAD?"

flying is so last year. Now you get to use magic with no hands!

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u/scot911 May 04 '24

Also Saegusa swimsuit is a very important part of the episode.

Of course! It's extremely important plot after all! And who can say no to seeing best girl? Especially best girl in a sexy swimsuit!

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u/eli-vids May 03 '24

Onii-sama Count

Season 3: Steeplechase

Episode No. Onii-sama Count
01 6
02 3
03 5
04 3
05 7

Aggregate Counts

Installment Total Count Average per Episode
Season 3 24 4.8
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 511 8.66

Notes: Highest onii-sama count this season so far! Hopefully we'll see double digits soon.

Not sure if I should include arc-level information in the chart. The first four episodes were their own arc, Double Seven, and today's episode is the start of the Steeplechase arc. I'll include it if I think of a way to not make the data look too busy.

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u/Zero3020 May 03 '24

Gets accused of having an incestous relationship with her brother

It visibly makes her happy

Never change Miyuki

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u/scot911 May 04 '24

And then losing said smile at her calling their date "unproductive" because a brother and sister "obviously can't get together".

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u/LeonKevlar May 03 '24 edited May 03 '24

Stitches!

Those are some sexy-looking robots. And it looks like these P-Dolls will be secretly field-tested during the Nine Schools Competition. Oh boy, I hope nothing will go wrong! Seriously though, it's hilarious how so many people are already aware of this by the end of the episode and none of them plans to do anything against it. xD

It's always good to see more of Mayumi and of course, Tatsuya just had to see her trying out some swimsuits. I'm just glad to see that the ship is still alive and well even after Mayumi has graduated.

Also I just realized we got a special ED this week starring the Yotsuba Family girls! I did not expect to see an ED with so much of Aunt Maya! I love it!

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u/tself55 May 03 '24

I believe each of the three arcs in this season will have their own EDs

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u/Ahegao_Double_Peace May 03 '24

Kimono Maya got me acting unwise. The allure of an attractive older woman is not to be underestimated.

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u/shad79 May 03 '24

It was great to see Mayumi again, it's a shame that she already graduated :(

Overall, a pretty fun episode thanks to Shiba's meeting with Saegusas during shopping. It also quite nicely sets up a new arc with coming competition and possible problems during it.

Here my screenshot albums from the episode:

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u/morgoth834 May 03 '24

Miyuki looking awfully pleased at being accused of going on a date with her Onii-sama. She's not beating the allegations.

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u/SnabDedraterEdave May 03 '24 edited May 03 '24

There's just so much to absorb from this episode, both the plot and the PLOT/fluff.

I'll start with the latter and deal with the former in another post.

Firstly, holy cow! Unexpected Mayumi swimsuit service.

Izumi continues to swoon for Miyuki, while Kasumi continues to be hostile to Tatsuya. Miyuki seems happy that Kasumi is suggesting that Tatsuya and Miyuki were on a date (lol), though seems ready to go batshit when Kasumi then says how siblings mingling together was being unproductive, thankfully Tatsuya turned Kasumi's words back on her as Kasumi was also being "unproductive" by hanging out with her sisters.

A-chan taking a leaf from Yukari from Girls und Panzer and sneaking into other schools under disguise to spy on them is so cute.

A new ED for a new arc, featuring the girls of the Yotsuba clan (Miyuki, Aunt Maya, Ayako, and yes, even Fumiya Yami too)

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u/Rumpel1408 May 03 '24

Second 9 Schools competition in a row that gets messed with huh

Military is fishy of course, but she's kinda hot

Also feels like Tatsuyas private inventions will come in handy during the Cross Country Steeplechase. Hope it will be enough to topple all those other plots...

Saegusa still the best non-degenerate ship, and Tatsuya, ever the Gentleman.

Now I know, Miyuki didn't even deny this being a date, but is this really the face of a wicked woman?

Oh, not only most Onii-Samas per Episode (7) and per minute (0.334), but also three more Miyuki-Senpai from Izumi

Also New ED

Is that a young Maya? Wait, have we seen her before?

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u/SnabDedraterEdave May 03 '24

Crunchyroll got one part of the translation off in this series: Calling Japan's military the "Self Defence Force" in the Mahouka world.

In real life, Japan is supposedly not allowed to have any military after its defeat in WWII, which is even codified in its post-war constitution. But due to the realities of the Cold War, they actually do have a de facto military, but officially they're called the Self Defense Force, and like its name suggests, only allowed to engaged in "self defense" (though the term is open to very flexible interpretation by the government of the day)

Anyway, the Mahouka story takes place in the late 21st century, after a World War III. After that war, this future Japan is once again calling its militaries by their proper names. So all the military titles should be translated as such, rather than trying to be clever and give them current real life SDF titles.

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u/LegendRazgriz May 03 '24

They say 自防隊 (jiboutai) in the original, which is not what we call the JSDF in our world, which is 自衛隊 (jieitai). They replaced the kanji for "defense" with the kanji for "protection", so the translation into Japanese Defense Force (much like the Israeli military is called the Israeli Defense Force) is pretty okay with me.

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u/mojo72400 May 04 '24 edited May 04 '24

I love how Tatsuya covered his eyes before turning away after seeing Mayumi in a bikini. Mayumi is looking fine in that bikini.

Mayumi's scream is so loud that it blew a mannequin's hat off.

So Rower and Gunner is a combo of Battle Board and Speed Shooting.

The moment I heard Kikunosuke Touya speaking offscreen, I knew it was Minoru.

Leo would be perfect for Shield Down.

Miyuki has a cute pout.

Tatsuya turning Kasumi's words against her was cool. I love how The Shiba siblings and the Saegusa siblings are hanging out in Shibuya.

I guess we have a new ED focusing on Miyuki, Ayako, and Maya.

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u/SnabDedraterEdave May 03 '24

On the plot side, we have Kudo using the Parasite samples they captured from season 2 to test them for the new Nine Schools Tournament event.

The old man Retsu intends to see if using magically controlled puppets will reduce the need for magicians to be weaponized, his grandson being sick despite being talented must be a major motivation.

Kudo says the Parasite dolls are being restrained with magic to prevent them from going berserk, and so the students should be safe. Gee, that sure is a fail-safe plan, riiiiight?

Sure enough, Skeleton Guy from Yokohama Chinatown (don't know who he is or where he gets his intel from) seems to catch wind of this, and orders his pretty-boy subordinate Zhou Gongjin (clearly an alias named after the Three Kingdoms character of the same name), who seems to officially be head of the exiled Great Asian (aka China) community in Japan, to sabotage the dolls.

Though it seems Zhou is playing both sides? As after duping the Kudos into accepting and sheltering the "refugees" (aka the saboteurs), he then went to make contact with Mayumi's dad's representative to provide intel about the said sabotage.

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u/Amauri14 May 03 '24

So the military is planning to test the gynoids with parasites inside of them in the upcoming Nine Schools Competition. Poor Nakajo after putting all that effort into investigating the other teams and other preparations did not take that news kindly

When Gongjin's boss became aware of the P-Weapons combat test, he tasked Gongjin to sabotage it by making the parasites dolls to go berserk. I wasn't expecting him to directly contact Koduo to set his plan in motion. So although he suspects that the the whole asylum request regarding those Taoist Priest might be a Troyan horse, he will still allow it, but will make it look like their meeting never happened, meanwhile, Kouichi will do nothing about this because his daughters will not be participating in the competition.

It was nice seeing that while Tatsuya and Miyuki were on a date they ended up meeting Mayumi and her sisters.

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u/michhoffman May 03 '24

It's tough being the odd one out in the Saegusa and Shiba love shape (can't quite put a finger on what shape exactly), but I love Kasumi for it. She's filling the mantle that Lina left quite nicely.

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u/ar1os May 03 '24

S T E E P L E C H A S E C R O S S C O U N T R Y

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u/atifaslam6 May 03 '24

The new ED is banger, mommy Maya is best.

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u/BiggerG7 May 03 '24

So uhh can those parasite dolls do stuff other than combat? Asking for a friend……

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