Great episode.
Tomoe, please. Everything combos well with booze if you're a drunkard!
The very idea of concentrating mana until it becomes a liquid is... weird. And I'm almost sure that the idea of the original author of the book was that you could get a small ball of mana matter, or thing like this. But no - Makoto had to overdo it!
Aqua and Eris being derp. I love it.
Sunraku, don't press this huge, juicy button that dispenses XP and materials. Don't do it!
Oh Emul, you sweet summer child...
With all pieces of the 4D chess in movement, it's hard to predict exactly what Kyle, Rishe, Arnold and Sensei are going to do. But I have a good guess on how the plot will connect Rishe tracking Sensei with the alliance:
Probably spoilers
Black powder + careful machining on metallic parts = firearms. They have immediate warfare application, and should be enough to convince Arnold that an alliance with Coyolles is desirable.
If that's what's going to happen or not, we'll only know it next week.
The plot continues, with Ivy and the others going after the slave traders. She got to take some risks to do so, but it's nice to see how much the adventurers worry about her.
I feel like Mira is regretting her involvement with the slave traders. As if her conscience is weighting too much, after interacting with Ivy.
I loved this episode.
I read a lot of stuff. Mostly fantasy; sometimes I don't remember small details, or even large ones. And I probably read ch57 at least a year ago. I should have forgotten.
And yet so many scenes shown in this episode were so memorable that I could remember it, in the minimal details.
Fern's tantrum because of the staff. Lernen being able to detect instability in Frieren's mana, but not Serie's. Serie bitterly saying that she shouldn't take human apprentices. The flashback with Himmel. Serie initially thinking that Fern was petrified because of Serie's mana... only to discover that Fern could see it. It was such a moment of awesomeness, the young mage who's into magic just to repay a corrupt priest taking care of her, that mage could do what nobody else could.
For those who aren't convinced by the synopsis, I have two words: SNEK WAIFU. Celina (the lamia why-foo) and Dran (the MC) have such a wholesome synergy, it's a treat to watch them interacting.
So there is some "gaming force" trying to railroad the story back into its track! Mostly acting as Alicia's compulsions.
Yumiella and Alicia in the dungeon was everything that I hoped for, plus a bit more! Stating by the dragon-sized puppy transforming the guard's hear into a pool of saliva. Then Alicia calling for her granny to save her. Then Yumiella forcing Alicia to grind the dungeon over and over. Then Alicia seeing her dead grandpa, who says that she isn't ready "for this place" (afterlife) yet. It was fucking perfect.
...and it shows how much over-protecting someone might cripple them. Alicia made far more progress with Yumiella gently encouraging her into a risky situation than the three stooges did all this time by protecting her. ("Gently encouraging"? Who am I trying to fool? She simply threw Alicia into the fire!!)
My bad - and thank you for pointing the mistake out!
I didn't see the poster when I wrote that; I simply took that it was spelled as in 豊饒の女主人.
That hints that the conflation between fertility in the "giving birth" sense and harvest is already in the original. Perhaps as a mistake, perhaps because Ōmori took some creative freedom over that goddess' aspect [see note], or perhaps they were playing with the words a bit to not make it too obvious.
note [contains LN spoilers]
I mentioned it in another comment, but the mythological Freyja is certainly not a harvest goddess. The fertility she's associated with is strictly sexual in nature (sex, pregnancy, giving birth). That's one of the reasons why she got the epithet Sýr "sow" - it isn't just the sacrifices, but also because the picture of a sow with a bazillion piglets immediately evokes fertility.
Which series are those pics from?
The nihilism of that guy grinds my gears as completely pointless. At least prince Theodore is amused at Rishe's plot.
They finally kissed. THEY FINALLY KISSED! I was waiting since the start of the series for this. But they finally kissed! Fuck yeah!
Having your own parents to send assassins against you is rough. At least she isn't emotionally attached to them, for good or bad.