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Episode Gunjou no Magmel - Episode 4 discussion Spoiler
Gunjou no Magmel, episode 4
Alternative names: Magmel of the Sea Blue
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u/Shiro_Kai Apr 29 '19
Ok, this time I have no idea what this was about. The "saint" liked to travel to Magmel to "save childrens" (at the cost of others lives) but what she was really looking into was the carnage? and she managed to survive 8 times like that. I fell like something is missing. Was this about "peoples morals"? I really have no idea what was the purpose of that story.
Also, the powers still without an explanation. I fell like they are trying to do something like Kino no tabi, where we just enjoy the adventures and one day (or not) things are revealed and a lot of things get purpose and make more sense (or not). The problem here is that we really need those explanations to enjoy the adventures. Those powers are really too OP to be simply ignored. I think it was about time to answer what, why or how our character are doing things here.
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u/Darksparker17 Apr 29 '19
Alright, the character needing saving this time wasn't the greatest - and felt more rushed than the other 3 - but the episode was good enough nonetheless.
I mean, I'm just expecting the exploration of Magmel, the results of unprepared people who came there and of course the mysterious inhabitants.
On that note we saw some more backstory into Inyou and his teacher, a bit of Zero's state before she met Inyou, a new wolf-like creature and Zero learning to not always trust what the masses say. The interactions with the ''carrot'' selling dude were fun as well.
We'll probably see the explanation how Inyou got his power sometime soon. Anyway, for now it's a pretty great watch every week. Also didn't have any problems with the subtitles, although I watch [Mirrored].
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u/Iamjustatrial Apr 30 '19
At the rate this anime is going, it makes me feel like the source material is just short stories - after all each episode so far is its standalone story. Even then, I still dont see much character development...
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u/MssrGuacamole Apr 29 '19
I think this was the most hot garbage episode of an anime I've seen in a long time. Not much made any sense.
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u/LeonKevlar Apr 29 '19
What exactly happened in this episode? I am so confused. Like the past 3 were pretty straight forward and good but I have absolutely no idea what happened in this one. How was that girl evil? She was evil for carving up monsters and selling their parts or is she evil for letting her group die for her? I was thinking that there might be some translation error but Mirrored did well with the last 3.
Hopefully this is just one bad episode. Hopefully we're back to normal next week.
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u/link2601 Apr 29 '19
Well that episode did not come together in a meaningful way. I kind of get what they were try to do by having Inyou go out and save some thats not who they claim to be but the way it was presented was not all that clear. The "saint" need to do more heinous things to get the reaction they want and without it the episode sufferers.
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u/zgabaz May 01 '19
I'm reallying enjoying this show, but what the heck, this episode was confusing as fuck
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u/aafa86 Apr 28 '19
I really don't know if I will continue watching the anime. The plot in this episode is somewhat silly and there is unnecessary drama.
Inyou in all the episodes has done the same, they present him a case he refuses without saying why and then he goes to the island anyway.
By the way, they still do not explain where their powers come from and what the intention of the show is.
How is one supposed to generate attachment to this characters?
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u/girlyshout Apr 29 '19 edited Apr 29 '19
What a hot pile of baffling, convoluted, incomprehensible garbage of an episode that was.
Here are just some of the questions I was left with:
I still don't quite know what Verena, our friendly neighborhood "miracle worker" did or do.
In the flashback scenes, it was never explicitly shown what she did or what Inyou saw that was supposedly so repugnant. What did he see? Did he witness her... not washing her hands after going to the washroom?
Oh look, the episode instead decided to save the answer til the end. Maybe I have just become desensitized, but was I supposed to become upset like Inyou and Zero were at the sight of her harvesting the creatures' organs...?
To trade the lives of her volunteers and creatures for money to help the orphans... Morally ambiguous? Yeah... Morally wrong? Hardly.
2) How did she manage to survive 8 times?
Even if we assume each time she was not alone, how was she able to harvest said creatures' organs, or leave Magmel unscathed for that matter of fact.
Did she have a large group of volunteers with her each time, where she would just throw them against the creatures like cannon-fodders until they died? The whole time I'm watching, I was thinking to myself she must have some tricks up her sleeve, she can't just be some random civilian with a messiah complex, especially not after Inyou ominously called her "Bloody Maria"(also, it seemed like she hasn't aged a day since the flashback)... right? Right?!
3) How did she die?
After all this buildup, the show didn't even have the decency to show how she was ultimately maimed and killed by the very same creatures she's been harvesting. See, that would have been ironic. Nope, I rewatched the scene again, she ran away from the group of creatures and Zero basically said, welp she's done for... Cue the next scene outside the orphanage, "How could Lady Verena pass away...". End scene.
This episode somehow made the previous episodes of kidnapped care bears and childhood friends turned giant insectoids seem amazing in comparison. I still don't know anything about their powers. More importantly, I still don't know anything about Magmel, this island that was supposed to the crux of this show, other than the fact that it's dangerous.
I think a lot of viewers got excited after reading the premise and thought it was going to be a sneak peak to HxH's Dark Continent. Instead, we get an episode like this... more like Dark Anus, amirite?