I loved the fact that she was perpetually moving down the scale in size. Insects, worms, single-celled organisms.Originally Posted by Kraco
I will miss Yuuki Aoi's quivering rough delinquent voice.
I loved the fact that she was perpetually moving down the scale in size. Insects, worms, single-celled organisms.
I will miss Yuuki Aoi's quivering rough delinquent voice.
Loved this episode, the death scene was pure awesome.
As for the rebellion, probably more fighting with Albedo, nothing more and nothing less. But we'll see if it substantiates to something more.
I don't know what they're going to do with four remaining episodes, probably setting us up for a disappointment.
But there has to be more to this, there has to.
The novels probably go well beyond where this anime ends. Maybe there will be a second season if this gets popular.
I liked the death hug. It was exactly the kind of torture I had in mind, only a bit rushed due to time constraints. I would've preferred the bitch breaking from fear instead of struggling until the very end.
Peace.
Episode 10 - HS
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At the moment it seems like Shalltear's creator was the cruelest one (although I'm sure she doesn't think so). She's a fricking lamprey monster (it even seems like her intelligence is lowered in that form, fitting such a primitive creature). Her true form is far more pitiful than her normal disguised one, even if possibly stronger. How many would have really thought that's a pure blood vampire if we had seen that form first? She was more like a monster from an old horror movie from the golden times of the last century.
In another sense this is interesting because for the first time we see someone from Nazarick lose, or at least not win straightforwardly.
It seems healing vampires is the best way to damage them. She really didn't like that red potion when she got that on her. Her greatest weakness would be light/holy based weapons. I'm guessing she's much more vulnerable to that in her true form.
I was honestly confused throughout the whole episode. Couldn't really connect what was occurring with that of Ains' goals or directives he might've had to this point in the series.
So in all, not sure what's really going on.
It looks to me like Ains had them go out on a scouting mission to find new and interesting things about this world that he didn't know about.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
He must have sent Shalltear out to find people with genuine martial art skills (skills like perks in an RPG). Apparently Ains doesn't really know melee combat and such so well, so he must study them in order to put them to use or oppose them successfully. I reckon Shalltear is trying to provoke such people to step out of the shadows and then take them to Nazarick for interrogation and examination. To be honest that plan seems quite inefficient, but I'd assume he tries only to learn the very basics this way, without anybody noticing.
Everything about Ains' direct involvement with Narberal was much more effective in learning about the world. The two of them easily learned in a single day what Shalltear did in the same time period of their entire little adventure against the necromancer.
Shalltear seemed to be a very poor choice in sending someone out. He would have had much better luck with Aura or Mare. Even Albedo, crazy as she can be. Shalltear's party was going berserk every encounter, killing everyone she came across.
Killing everyone not useful to Ainz was her way of thinking I guess.
I gathered that much, but there's something about her methods and seemingly her understanding of the orders given that don't quite mesh for me. More than the looking for martial artist, I get the feeling that there are some directives that we haven't been privy to or such.
In any case, it does seem that Shalltear wen't out of control with her bloodlust... since she mentioned quite a few times about the need to capture, not kill. Yet, all she did was massacre everyone that got in front of her. Until she was stopped that is.
Yeah, because seemingly everybody in Nazarick considers humans much lower lifeforms. Add to that the fact Shalltear is a vampire for whom humans are a source of nutrients. She was only planning to spare the single individuals who displayed true martial art techniques. The rest she would eliminate both for her own amusement and to remove any witnesses. They are trying to keep themselves largely unknown to the public. Even that village saved by Ains thinks he's some travelling wizard, not a leader of a whole host of monsters located very near. The town thinks Ains is a totally different person, an adventurer from some distant land. Shaltear here failed miserably. Did she leave the redhead alive? At the very least the stronger bunch she faced last mostly escaped. The end result is that the public might learn there's a really strong vampire monster around. People might start to wonder where she came from. Unlike Ains (or Nabe or Albedo), Shalltear is viewed as an enemy and a monster now.
I'm just pissed this is going to be a 12 episode series... and I have a tough time thinking of a Madhouse series which got a continuation after the initial series run.
Episode 11 - HS
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Things escalated rather fast. First Ains was left-handedly dealing with the pesky adventurer who absolutely had to stick along, then he was retreating in half-panic. For the longest of time it seemed like nothing could theaten Ains or Nazarick, and the people of the land were weak compared even to Ains's underlings, but now it's apparent world class magical items aren't extremely rare. Otherwise it's hard to imagine why one just happened to be so near Shalltear, in possession of some random adventurers. Assuming they were random. At least it didn't look to me like they were especially preparing to slay powerful monsters.
The mausoleum was a very nice idea and place. The vault in general with the display cases full of fancy looking weapons was very fitting for an RPG.
Albedo really loves Ains. I hope he doesn't anymore feel like he did something wrong by altering her personality. Assuming he feels anything much anymore.
It feels like Nazarick is far in the boonies. I guess there are some places on earth you woudn't believe you're in 2015.As for Shalltear and the world item: plan things so that sacrificial adventurers activate that thing.
It seems Ains was right to progress slowly, with care and undercover. It might be his high level is great, but he'll still need to use all of his potential soon.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Shalltear was really the strongest servant? That's disappointing -- given her demeanor and the mystery surrounding some of the other members, I figured that there were others even stronger (including Nabe -- she seemed more powerful). Shalltear was stopped by a mere 7 adventurers, even with a world-class item. She didn't seem like an excellent fighter.
Whilst I didn't expect Shalltear to be the strongest, and I don't even see why she should be considering being a vampire is not all about battle power, far from it, I reckon these world class items are something that could potentially harm even Ains himself. So, it goes without saying they could do the same to Shalltear, no matter how tough she was. I don't think the former NPCs even knew enough to be worried about magical artefacts. At least Albedo didn't show a particularly high level of knowledge when they were visiting the vault.
Who knows, maybe Shalltear's creator took her to great many battles as an NPC follower and she's simply higher level than the other ones in Nazarick. That could explain why she's stronger than anybody but Ains.
Given Nabe's ability to instantly teleport and shoot high-level magic from long distances, I don't see how she would have lost against either Shalltear or this group.
We haven't seen Shalltear, or actually anybody from Nazarick, fight against a single difficult enemy. Shalltear now lost due to her ignorance and bad luck. If the necromancer had had a similar world class item, Nabe would bedeadundead right now. She wasn't exactly dodging attacks or playing it safe in her arrogance. In fact even fricking Ains could have been in deep shit if Clementine had had something like that. In other words, we haven't seen a fraction of what these people are really capable of. It's a bit hasty to judge Nabe so powerful. Clearly the combat maids place themselves below the floor guardians, or at least some of the floor guardians. Hard to say about the likes of the twin elves. They don't honestly seem stronger in battle than Nabe.
Why the hell is Ainz blaming himself for not thinking about world items? Even the author didn't think about that when he first wrote the story lol.
If Shaltear is so powerful that only Ainz can beat her and with player level tactics on top of that, isn't she worth spending 1 world level item to save? They have several world level items after all, but only one loli vampire.
Peace.
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