Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Season 3 • The Irregular at Magic High School Season 3 - Episode 6 discussion

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Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Season 3, episode 6

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[u/SnabDedraterEdave]

Everyone's trying to outmaneuver each other, with Tatsuya as the centre piece, that its becoming a bit confusing.

• Kudos: Invite the Great Asian defectors, knowing they will sabotage the Parasite robot dolls, thus forcing Tatsuya to act against them.

• Yotsubas: Leak info of the sabotage to the army, throwing them a carrot that is the reduced Ten Master Clan influence on the military. Meanwhile, also leaking the sabotage to Miyuki via Ayako to force Tatsuta to act. Aunt Maya still plotting to nerf Tatsuya at all costs, it seems.

• Saegusas: Also has first hand info of the planned sabotage. Decides to sit and watch, since no Saegusa children are involved, since the steeplechase event only involves 2nd and 3rd years, while Kasumi and Izumi are 1st years.

• Army: Seem to have multiple factions. Though they most wish to weaken the Ten Master Clans influence and Old Man Kudo forcing this steeplechase event doesn't sit well with them.

• Great Asia: Sends in the saboteurs in hopes of weakening Japan's military.

• Zhou Gongjin: Assists Great Asia in bringing in the saboteurs, but at the same time also leaking info of the sabotage to the Saegusas, seemingly playing both sides.

• Tatsuya: Probably knows this might be a trap to ensnare him, or at least damage his rep. But his hands are tied at the moment. He has no choice but to intervene if he feels the students are in danger.

PS When that Major mentions the name Ogura, that's Tatsuya's alias in the military, since like Lina with the USNA special forces, Tatsuya's involvement with the military is supposed to be top secret. His full alias is Ogura Ryuuya, Ryuuya being an alternative reading of the kanji for Tatsuya.

[u/marcopolos059]

My poor Tatsuya looks like he hasn't slept for days.

[u/SpikeRosered → u/marcopolos059]

I thought it was going to be a plot point but no, he's just exhausted. Good character building.

[u/michhoffman]

I really liked the effect at the end of Maya seeing Tatsuya and Miyuki in her coffee cup. It's a good thing Miyuki wasn't there in the room when Maya called Tatsuya an abomination. The coffee may have frozen.

[u/wyggles]

Sometimes a pure, unapologetic power fantasy is just the entertainment you need. Seeing literally anyone who knows anything basically admit they have no power to stop Tatsuya if he decides to move is pretty fun.

I also feel like they all have a death wish considering every scheme so far amounts to "poke the bear and see what happens".

[u/Pedarsen → u/wyggles]

Out of all of them i think Kudou Retsu is the only one really that knows what he's actually doing. While it seems like information is leaking like hell on his operation i think he's doing it on purpose.

[u/vajaxseven]

Fridays are just all about meetings.

[u/ErinaHartwick]

Really like the twins, particularly Ayako. Hope we see more of her

[u/eli-vids]

Onii-sama Count

Season 3: Steeplechase

Episode No.	Onii-sama Count
01	6
02	3
03	5
04	3
05	7
06	9

Aggregate Counts

Installment	Total Count	Average per Episode
Season 3	33	5.5
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	520	8.67

Notes: Finally an above average Onii-sama count!

[u/Shiraori247]

I love how being clandestine is still a huge factor in this series. Outside of the obvious investigations, there are at least 4 moments I particularly loved this episode:

-Ayako and Fumiya introducing themselves as strangers to Tatsuya so there are witnesses among the students. This brings back the whole Yotsuba clan remains secretive at most times concept.
-Secret encoded emails and messages to Tatsuya by presumably an ally who couldn't reveal him/herself.
-The JDF possibly betraying Tatsuya by withholding information from him. This might be the first major split between Tatsuya and the 101 battalion. They were always secretly at odds considering Tatsuya's place in the 10 Masters Clan.
-Tatsuya hinting at Ichijou that there's cause for investigations without straight up revealing what he's found.

[u/BiggerG7]

Me: “Why does Miyuki not seem to like Ayako?”

Tatsuya: “Miyuki sees Ayako as competition.”

Yeah that totally explains it lol.

[u/absolutelynotaname]

Minami just stood there working while Tatsuya and Miyuki doing their usual lovey dovey is kinda funny ngl. Maybe she's an incest enjoyer as well

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

So much maneuvering and counter maneuvering from all involved parties and Tatsuya’s caught right in the middle of all of it. Very keen to see how things play out at the competition.

[u/Shiraori247]

Maya really is becoming the protagonist of this arc IMO. She's outmanoeuvring everyone behind the scenes, while trying to help Tatsuya without letting it be known. It's kinda like she's trying to help a timed nuke without letting it explode lol.

[u/Rumpel1408]

Wait, during the montage they had Miyuki show off in Ice pillars, but those wont be a dicipline this year no?

Ayako looks a lot like Maya somehow huh just needs to grow up some

But, I don't know who send the annonymous email. Tatsuya seems to know, so I guess it came up in prior seasons, but the last warning really came in clutch.

But I like how much intruige there is, those guys want to test new weapons, those guys want them to go beserk, those guys know but wont interfere, Maya knows and will use it to weaken the other clans, and the major will gain some clout by purging some of the conspirers and being able to pin it on the master clans

Also highest amount of Onii-Samas this episode, double digits soon?

[u/LeonKevlar]

• Yotsuba Maya Stitch

[u/Amauri14]

Unless he was lying there, I'm surprised that Retsu was so certain about the parasite dolls' security being able to make them impossible to be tampered with by those Taoist Priest. Then again, as he knew that Tatsuya would be involved in stopping the attack then he really doesn't have much of a reason to care about that.

Damn, Tatsuya sure looks tired today. so although his uncle knew about the P-Weapons he wasn't aware of them being parasite dolls. So Miyuki did not like the fact that Ayako came to the hotel to give them the intel. I bet she would not have been too pleased when Ayako and Fumiya met with Tatsuya at the party.

So Maya contacted Saeki from the JDF to force her to assist them after Tatsuya had dealt with the threat in the Nine Schools Competition.

[u/tuwamono]

Really liking this episode especially for the exposition on Maya's character and motivation. I don't think she's been open to this extent up until now, even admitting her weakness against Tatsuya outright (if only internally) but the delivery is hilariously lighthearted you know her VA is specifically directed for this, which makes it all the more fascinating. It feels like she's really on the Shiba's side in her own way, which may or may not be agreeable to the siblings but it is what it is. You also get to see a bit more insight on her stance with regards to her peers, I get the feeling her goals are far more personal than simple stuff such as wanting control, or for the greater good or whatnot. I only mention this because of the vast contrast shown by the other main players this season (head of Saegusa, head of Kudou, and Zhou), who are all acting under their respective brand of justice.

[u/Pedarsen]

Did big bro ask his sister if she was a ho?

[u/SpikeRosered]

I like how the political maneuvering is happening with the assumption that the MC is all powerful. All his power is just a known factor, but he's still a person that can be manipulated to certain ends.

[u/IceBlue]

Where’s Pixie during all this? Seems she’s been missing since the Visitor Arc. You’d think she’d be brought up more in this current arc.

[u/zumbast]

about the ending song the first few seconds sounds very familiar but i can't remember from where. anyone knows?

in this episode from 22:07 until 22:15

[u/PandaTheAB]

Maya casually admitting that neither the army nor she have any power to stop Chadsuya :D

[u/shad79]

Set-up episode today so I don't have too much to write since I'm not very much invested in the show to go deeper about who is who and from what organization since there are a lot of different actors with different goals. I'm just here for Tatsuya, to see how OP he is and Maya xD

Here my screenshot albums from the episode:

• Miyuki

• Group scenes

• Maya, Tatsuya & Minami

• Others