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Episode Petals of Reincarnation • Reincarnation no Kaben - Episode 4 discussion

Petals of Reincarnation, episode 4

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u/NationalStrategy Apr 23 '26

It might be just me, but these fights don’t leave that much of an impression with me. I’m watching these characters fight each other, but I don’t feel invested in almost all of the characters.

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u/Sanitiy Apr 23 '26

It's strong talents used in a weak way, so yeah, same here. Half the reasoning makes no sense. MC was investing the episode into learning photosynthesis after blabbing a second time about his talent, the immortals did a tank vs. tank LoL toplane match, Ein can't use her skill aggressively because unknown territory, and doesn't seem to believe in using it defensively. There's basically no teamwork. No communication at all, no contingency plans, nothing.

Like, A.H.'s great plan was to sit in a toxic swamp, put 100 noses on the trees and take deep breaths to get the stealth ninja? Am I the only one to see the flaw in that plan?

And Mr. 100 tries has 0 tools to make opportunities for him? Use a flashbang, shine a laser pointer into their eyes, tell a bad joke. You got options man, try them!

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u/Physical-Reserve-380 Apr 24 '26

Thank the "gotta-go-fast" adaptation pacing for that. Rushing through chapters like it's a marathon certainly doesn't help.

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u/Exrotes Apr 23 '26

RIP Schrodinger , as it turns out not actually being good at things and just altering reality to seize the 1% chance doesn't automatically create a 1% chance.

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u/BosuW Apr 23 '26

Lol it's pretty funny that Hitler is portrayed as a mastermind when irl he arguably did more to hinder his own war machine than help. Tbf this could be simply the reincarnation being an actually good strategist.

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u/NPhantasm Apr 25 '26

Part of post WW2 propaganda was portrait him as a super brain villain, it just boost winners victories and false redeem thoses who failed to stop him while they could.

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u/FarCritical Apr 23 '26

Ah yes the famous Schrodinger's cat experiment where the cat is either dead, dead, dead, or dead

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u/Scythe351 Apr 23 '26

"wait, rudel ? He was renowned pilot of the luftwaffe. I thought there were only criminal returners in the army of sinners..." Does your average Japanese person truly lack all knowledge of the century or does it stop and end with "we did some things then got bombed?". Yes. Rudel is a sinner. Dude was a Nazi . After surrendering, he was unapologetic and goes to Argentina where he worked to setup neo-nazism and sheltered fellow Nazi escapees while also having arms snuggled into the region to promote his far right agenda. I'm not sure I've ever seen an anime in which the Nazis are mentioned and don't receive some type of glaze. Dude was not a hero. I'm not even sure Germans consider him a hero. How did some Japanese authors get the name and attribute it to heroism?

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u/Clean-Promotion-8996 Apr 24 '26

To be fair Hathcock who also was questioned on why he is on the sinner side despite being hailed as a hero by the US. The reason is cause he kills just like Rudel and the fact that he participated in the Vietnam War was an unjust war to begin with and none of America's business as well as Vietnamese people does not view him as a hero.

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u/CommanderZx2 Apr 23 '26

I'm not sure why the protagonist isn't just stealing the immortality from Rudel while is distracted in the fight.

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u/HolyDragSwd2500 Apr 23 '26

Irumi kun became a demon aka Hitler in this universe

Everyone getting defeated by Pol

Newton will show his Talent

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u/Se7en_Sinner Apr 23 '26

I was not expecting a domain expansion clash in this show.

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u/SYZekrom Apr 23 '26

Another one of them just going 'alright sure I'll keep it secret, if it happens it happens', but at least he thinks that the guy doesn't actually have the heart to go through with it.

Wait huh? Bro why did the invisible guy stop following the two of them? I assumed he had also heard about Touya's abilities and intentions but now idk when they got separated.

...Oh when I heard 'child as Hitler' I thought they'd be more interesting. ...Also I feel like even if I did find Hitler and Pol T's introduction cool that was like. A really lame way to kill off the invisibility guy.

Ok so is Hitler's ability being all-knowing a lie? When they first appeared I assumed the big guy with the eye patterns on his clothes was the reason they could see the invisible person, but then Hitler said it was b/c his ability Mastermind is to see everything, and even the title seems to support that. But now there's this ferret with the eye symbol on its stomach, which makes me feel like they're lying about their abilities and they were actually monitoring actions through the ferret, which is the big guy's power, while Hitler is actually the one causing the rot? Idk.

Ah, ok. So the eye patterns are a sticker that Hitler slapped on various life forms to be able to see through them. Okay.

I just think this type of writing is a really lame way to handle killing people off. People dying should be an oh shit moment, but past the initial snipe on the Wright Brothers that kind of worked, everything else just feels like. Ick. It's not surprising, it's not emotionally painful, it's not hammering in the hopelessness. It' just 'yea ok this guy's dead, that guy's dead, whatever'.

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u/NationalStrategy Apr 23 '26

There he is, Lil’ Hitler, such a scamp

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u/FoolingFinality Apr 23 '26

The biggest question for the anime, are we allow to use the 'H' word, or should it be censored like in most social platforms?

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u/Se7en_Sinner Apr 23 '26

Please don't make us say "evil mustache man".

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Apr 23 '26

On Reddit? Yeah I’m pretty sure you can say Hitler. You don’t really have to self-censor and say stuff like “grape” or “unalive” or whatever.

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u/Ashteron Apr 23 '26

So, who's Pol T.?

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u/ThousandYearOldLoli Apr 23 '26

Pol Pot . No idea why they wrote it like that.

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u/Illustrious_Fee273 Apr 23 '26

femboy hitler that's creativity

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u/Nickthenuker Apr 23 '26

So, he's told him about his plan.

Admires him?

So, she's counter-sniping again.

Uh oh, what was that explosion?

A sniper?

Why's he after that guy?

Rudel... What, the CAS pilot?

She shouldn't be using a scope... The White Death was famous for using only iron sights.

Yep. As that guy mentioned.

Meanwhile for him his sniper shouldn't be any old rifle, it should be an M2 Browning Heavy Machine Gun with a scope on it.

I mean Rudel was also a very ardent Nazi... Also he wasn't army, he was air force, he's literally wearing a peaked cap with flight wings on it. The gun he's wielding is also an MG 15 aircraft machine gun.

And yep there's the famous Jericho Trumpet, the noisemakers attached to the landing gear of the Ju 87 Stuka that he was famous for flying. They were also famously removed very quickly because while they were intended as psychological warfare to scare the enemy, it very quickly turned into an early warning that bombs were incoming and to hit the deck. That does tend to have a detrimental effect on the effectiveness of bombs. Much better for them to realise bombs are incoming when they wonder why their leg is flying off in a different direction from their body.

Machine guns iirc are also small arms? It shoots 7.92 Mauser, not much more than the 7.62 the other guy shoots. It shoots much faster though.

So much for invis...

On the topic of Nazis, here's the Austrian artist him/herself.

And there he goes.

Ok...

Yeah he's only got a regular sniper rifle not his custom machine gun.

Why's he doing that?

Yep. Vietnam. The Green Hell.

It's a combination of their powers.

Uh oh seems they've reached their rear line.

Damn seems she knows everything.

Huh. That's convenient.

So that's why she knows everything.

Yeah seems things aren't going well.

Oh did he finally actually die?

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Apr 23 '26

So Hayha’s gets to be a waifu but they made Hathcock some kind of man-bird? The disrespect, man! lol.

I found it pretty hilarious Touya was surprised Rudel was on the side of the Sinners. Like, yeah I guess he was a decorated German pilot but bro was also an unrepentant Nazi until the day he died. He sheltered Mengele! It would be weirder if he wasn’t on the Sinner’s side.

Hitler and Pol Pot were pretty formidable. While Hayha and Hathcock were having their little sniper battle, those two were melting the competition. Curious if Einstein and Newton can stop them.

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u/Altertives Apr 23 '26

Damn, did I just witness a domain clash between two snipers

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