Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu 2nd Season, episode 17
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Благословлённое лунным светом приключение в другом мире 2, จันทรานำพาสู่ต่างโลก ภาค 2, 月光下的異世界之旅 第二季
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The writing and pacing for the last three episodes has been pretty poor. It really feels like they are dragging things out to fill episodes. And not just the pacing of the plot as a whole but individual scenes. Monsters just appeared and started eating people yet you see various characters just standing around chatting casually. The students are face to face with one and it just sits there calmly while they discuss the situation. One character is given 10 seconds to use a magic arrow, then they discuss their plan for 15 seconds… no sense of urgency, danger, intensity, etc. no emotion.
(I think it would have helped if the show did more to build the students up, especially as individuals, and maybe that’s the case for the source, but for what should be a pivotal scene, I have no idea what that archer girls name is or why she matters.)
We get one cutaway to the demons for some reason, and rather than discuss something relevant to the current episode that would add to the intensity of the moment (e.g. something about the mutants or their plans for the city, or some foreshadowing about that) they discuss the rings we already knew they had and already assumed would be improved on but seemingly have no relevance to the current events.
Logically the rings would have then mattered in the focus story (e.g. being used to keep local authorities from using the goddesses blessing against the monsters), but no, that scene seems to only exist to tease the audience with the real plot while we are forced to sit though whatever this current mess is.
Sigh, I’m just now realizing that the whole point was to contrast how Makoto’s students succeed on their own merits vs the purple coats who relied on the goddess.
I mean it was obvious they showed up just to fail and make his students look better, but the meta plot about over reliance on the goddess vs personal effort needed more focus.
Actually that would have helped with the elites in the box as well. Faith in the goddesses protection would explain their calm. Imagine the headmaster telling Makoto off, then the purple coats failing, then the headmaster turning back to Makoto to accept his aid. Really would have helped to push the slowly developing narrative about Makoto standing in as an alternative to the goddess.
Yeah, I had similar issues with how things were sequenced through this episode. They could have done a lot more to make this feel like an actual disaster was occurring around them. Instead, everybody is acting like it is just a bit of bad weather rather than grotesque monsters killing people.
Overall a pretty calm episode. They should have served some tea and cakes. 😆
Fitting that Abelia gets the final blow, though perhaps not how Ilumgand’s father would’ve wanted things to play out?
I did completely forget that it was Root that came up with the sword thing, I had thought it was Tomoe, so it’s kind of interesting that he would say that seemingly randomly.
The only thing I disliked was I felt they made the one attacking Makoto look a bit weak. I thought it was meant to be on par with Ilumgand but maybe not, without seeing it eating or wiping out nameless groups I feel like it sort of diminishes him one-shotting it.
The way this sequence of events plays out feels a little weird when it is animated like this rather than written out. For example, pretty much everybody in the stadium has had time to evacuate, meanwhile the VIPs have just been sitting there watching everything the whole time. Similarly, Makoto’s students just stand by and let Ilumgand simply eat all the bodies of the fallen fighters before actually doing anything about him. When things are written out, you can imagine a lot of these things happening concurrently.
Also, I don’t remember exactly how these monsters were described in the text, but I thought they looked pretty goofy in the show.
To me that was fine, like I sort of interpreted it as: first they tried to let the professional (purple coats) handle things. When that didn’t go well it cut to the students pointing and discussing, so I would imagine they were strategizing / buffing (similar to their Blue Lizard fights). Though I guess it is weird to let the enemy (supposedly) power up as well, it did work out in the end, so I’m like, you can’t really blame them, maybe they needed that time to win too, we can’t say without knowing what would’ve happened if they didn’t prepare.
Edit: Thinking more about it I can agree with you that it could’ve been better. Even if they didn’t animate some generic fight scene in the background I think they could’ve improved it if they had the casters casting buffs on the frontline while the frontline pointed/discussed in that scene, just to make it seem like they were doing prep work rather than standing around.
I guess I saw a lot of hate on that other site for this episode but, perhaps it’s because I’ve read the source material, nothing here really surprised me, all those scenes (the sisters, merchant, teleporting, king/prince, etc) happened in the novel, which is kind of why last week I said “just one more episode, and then another and another” because I don’t really expect the climax of this whole thing any time soon.
The monsters do look a bit goofy, well Ilumgand looked a bit intimidating in some stills, maybe it’s just the ED effecting us.
I guess this series has always grappled with people really not liking when it spends time on other characters, like the students here or on the heroes before. I never really minded that too much, like in Overlord my favorite volumes are 7 or 12. Think it helps keep things fresh seeing from another perspective as long as the characters are relatively important, though I guess we haven’t really seen any reason to care too much about the students besides the sisters so far.
