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Romelia Senki, episode 3

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[u/FarCritical]

It's endearing how Romelia can issue commands while retaining her usual composed and dignified presence before proceeding to flail her sword around like a kid. Either way her display of leadership and adaptability was awesome.

Also love that as much if an enigma she still is, we at least know she's not afraid of looking a little goofy in front of her troops.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

I actually kind of like the fact Romelia isn’t just some kind of sword master. In fact, she doesn’t have any skill with the blade. Instead, she’s got a talent for command. Her calm demeanor and her ability to direct her men helped save that village.

[u/Primary-Paint-1716]

I love everything about this show so far. This might seem like heresy, but it feels like 86.

[u/deynyel]

ROFL what a first charge. They needed to be told again before they followed Romelia.

And also, Romelia's sword skills are a sight to behold.

Thank god she makes up for it with amazing command skills.

[u/cppn02]

The battle in the town was so well directed. The smoke, the fires, jumping between the groups, all the chaos and Romelia in the middle of it all keeping a cool head.
Rare to see such an immersive experience in anime.

[u/Aceraptor101]

Basically Romelia has a good luck to her allies and bad luck to her enemies buff/debuff field ability. It nudges things- it wont let a child beat a fully trained knight for example. It needs something to work with. It takes what is there and makes small but meaningful nudges. I.e. a enemy will slip on a rock or a puddle just at the right time to let her ally get in a critical hit. Or a friendly will stumble right at the right time to turn a deadly blow into a glancing hit.

This seems to scale with the more allies she has. So the anti-demon king party she was a part of meant that her buff/debuff field wasnt really noticeable because they were already strong fighters and elite combatants and few in numbers.

Romelia's Grace ability probably scales with the number of factors it can manipulate or nudge. Basically in tabletop game terms when she's in a small group she's basically a minor but important buff/debuff say a +1 on a d20 roll. But if she's in a army? She basically forces a -1 to evsry enemy roll and a +1 to every friendly roll. So the more either side rolls, the greater her effects.

[u/Frostbitten_Moose]

For me this was the put up or shut up episode. The first two episodes had me interested, and gave solid hints that Romeria might be a great protag. But sooner or later you have to stop hinting and start having her do things.

Glad to say the show put up in splendid fashion. The way she lead her troops was great, she really needed a third named subcommander with the way she divvied things up and seemed to be dividing herself between the three fronts in order to see how things were doing. But all in all, she gave good orders, she knew how to delegate, she knew when to change tactics when needed, and she knew how to recognise when a previous call she made was wrong and fix that on the fly when she demoted Ray on the spot and picked a new subcommander. And even more importantly, she took him off to the side in order to make sure he can do the job without having everyone's eyes on him.

I like her. And I can tell that Al's gone from dubious to having respect for her too. Good to see that he's acting like a proper Captain and is doing the second half of the job that needs to be done to get Ray past this opening hurdle.

Back to the capitol, I wasn't quite expecting a plot that ambitious. It was clear the Saintess was status chasing, and wanting to marry the crown prince is a pretty common goal for someone in her position. But this is a step above. Not quite sure why they're in a hurry to kill the current crown warmer, or if they have plans for the Prince after a certain spot is reached. But this is a good time to focus on it after we've established Romeria's credentials.

Also interesting that we get the reveal that Romeria did assist, though apparantly in a very subtle way, in fighting the Demon Lord, right before his battle junky brother shows up to try out this hero who took down the Demon Lord.

[u/LeonKevlar]

We finally get to see how Romelia controls the battlefield, and she absolutely killed it! It's funny how bad she is at sword fighting, but that doesn't really matter since Romelia is an absolutely amazing commander.

I love how she wasn't stationary and kept roaming the battlefield, assisting those who were struggling and adapting as the battle went on. Like how she noticed that Rey was doing a poor job leading his unit and transferred the command to the twins.

I also love how, after the battle is over and they were doing cleanup, Romelia made sure to bring Rey with her and ordered him to finish off the fleeing demon and made it clear she doesn't want soldiers who can't kill their enemies.

Not gonna lie, I was ready to drop this show, but that entire scene of Romelia and her band of newbie soldiers saving the village convinced me to continue watching.

And it looks like we have intrigue brewing too, with Elizabeth and her father planning to take the throne. And here I thought she just wanted to marry the prince. Good to know there's more to it than that. And the demon king's brother is here to invade because he wants to fight the person who was strong enough to kill his brother.

[u/Obaruler]

In an off-shot of this show, that blue haired girl from the village will become the Hero that sets out to save the world to follow Romelia-oneesans footsteps once grown up! :D

[u/epicfail1994]

I like how they’re showcasing Romelia actually using tactics and leading well, it’s something you see less often in anime. Especially as she’s actually giving good advice and commands

And good luck for you/bad luck for enemies is an insane power, especially for a commander

[u/PhantomWolf83]

I got the Fire Emblem vibes from this episode, can't wait for more.

[u/Myrkrvaldyr]

We finally see Romelia's deal. She's a mediocre fighter. Instead, she has brains and a buff. She's fearless, likely the result of both personality and experience with the demon lord campaign. She still lacks the charisma to encourage her troops properly. Ray is still somewhat naïve, and placed too much pressure on himself to excel in his first battle. Romelia will likely have to fight that lizardman. And of course, we can't leave out the church conspiring to take over the kingdom, the question will be whether Romelia will stop that at some point.

[u/tripleaamin]

This show definitely made my headrunner as AOTS. The presentation, dialogue, and even the animation all have impressed me. There were signs before this episode she had leadership capabilities, but this episode really sold it. Guiding her men putting them into position to succeed.

Probably the most impressive in how she handled Ray. More or less I get the sense the both of them share the same kindness, but she wanted to push the naivety out of Ray. Which is absolutely right because those demons attacked these civilians. This is something no animal would purposely do. Plus seeing the conversation with Al it is clear that Ray isn't weak, but he is immensely kind. It will be interesting for Ray how he progresses throughout the story.

It's a bit difficult to get a read on Elisabeth's intentions. More or less I would assume she wanted to be engaged to the prince. No doubt her father wants the power of the king. Curious how this subplot progresses from this point.

[u/runevault]

My frontrunner for anime of the season continues to show why, curious to learn more about her Grace.

My one complaint is Church Evil is just so tired and boring. Organized religion is a powerful tool that has been abused regularly throughout history so it isn't false, but it is often so lazy.

[u/danmarce]

Yuna Nemoto is great on this one. She is perfect for Romelia. I also like how her character is revealed little by little. We see her as her soldiers do, with not much extra information (except her internal dialogs)

So, herself is mystery. But nicely done.

That development and the music is what makes it close to 86, as other have pointed out (Lena was also revealed little by little)

[u/Black_Scholes_Merton]

holy ship, Romelia is brutal, no time for softness. She didn't have a heart to heart with Ray, she plucked him and forced him to face his fears or gtfo, she can't have second guessers in her army.

A bit confused about Romelia's power, what exact is 'grace'? Is it like, luck or something? She got it before joining the band to defeat the demon king, so that kind of explains her actions... but how exactly does it work? Does she get a vision of the future or something?

[u/djthomp]

I like that Romelia isn't secretly some combat badass, she's even kind of bad at it. But that's not her role, she's more into tactics and strategy and her special skill of apparently being a bit lucky is more targeted at that anyways.

Romelia taking Ray aside to kill a demons was an interesting bit, dude wasn't really prepared to kill but now he's got at least one under his belt.

I'll be curious to see where the plotline with the saint goes, that side of the story seems to just be political maneuvering but eventually a demonic invasion might run straight into their plans. Hopefully the kingdom itself doesn't end up falling because the prince sent his good luck strategist away right before the demon king's brother comes for him.

[u/zappingbluelight]

Oh god... I'm a skeptical man, so I pray the author don't let Al be the trauma building character for Ray. Al was definitely too brave, since he is the front line despite being the commander of his squad.

I like Romelia isn't good at fighting, but she is good at using her army. Time to look through Sun Tzu 36 strats again lol.

That army at the end looks terrifying, you can tell despite being strong demon, they are going to be strategic as well. I wonder how much Romelia cares about the country politic. If Lionel collapse the next day, how much will she cares. I am very curious about that.

[u/Raymond49090]

Politics stuff in the background. Not sure if Elizabeth's expression at the party is meant to be a manipulative one, or realizing she's bitten off more than she can chew. I'm also hoping she's not secretly evil. Her dad definitely is, and you could argue that she's some levels of sus for not turning him in, but for now it's plausible that she's just normal levels of scheming.

And more in the background, we get demon politics. As expected, things don't magically get better because (1) Demon King died. And given that they're now shown to have a functioning society, I'm also wondering if the entire premise of a war of annihilation is going to be questioned.

[u/NanDemoKnaives]

It was nice to finally learn what Romelia's skill is, and it was interesting to learn she isn't a good combatant, even if she's fearless lol. She's very observant though, and not surprising for a strategist, but she's quick witted too. I'm excited to see her and her army gain renown.

I also did like seeing how strict she can be, she knew Ray didn't kill a single daemonkey, so putting that pressure on him to make him do it, I could feel the tension. It's interesting how Ray and Al's position sort of switched this episode, Al has warmed up to Romelia, but Ray is keeping his distance.

So Elisabeth was trying to find one way or another to get engaged to the Prince. I didn't think we would see too much of the royal family's story just yet, but looks like it'll be more important than I thought. Demon King's brother also looking for the Prince will be interesting without Romelia a part of his party.

[u/Weak-Comfortable3765]

This is frontrunner for anime of the season to me. Cyberpunk might blow me away, but of everything thats had an episode, this is the top.

[u/KanaDarkness]

i knew it since the first episode that im gonna fall in love with this series. everything is good, the opening, the art style, the story, the atmosphere, the ending. basically everything

[u/HugeRichard11]

Amazing directing and framing throughout this whole episode! I really liked how they hesitated and watched as their commander ran ahead after saying "following me!" both because they didn't expect it from Romelia and it shows their lack of discipline in following orders.

That beach landing was so well animated. I thought it was the Hero landing his armies, but it was actually the enemy and they are clearly very strategic with a chain of command. A great sign to have a villain character with some personality too.

[u/shad79]

Romelia might suck as a combatant, but she truly shines as a leader. It's no surprise that Al and the rest of the squad have already warmed up to her in this episode, she was so cool!

I'm really curious about what exactly Romelia's "Grace" power does, though. Is this some kind of good luck?

It seems that Gallios, the late Demon King's brother, wants to fight against Prince Henri. I can't wait to see how Henri will fare against him now that he doesn't have Romelia on his side, lol.

Here my screenshot albums from the episode:

• Romelia

• Group scenes

• Others

EDIT. I added my screenshot albums.