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This fool wasting his time at a magical academy and he can't use magic. He needs to go to a school where he can work on his swordsmanship. He wasting his time.
Milkshake must be of high dairy quality for him to be getting all that extra credit.
 

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This fool wasting his time at a magical academy and he can't use magic. He needs to go to a school where he can work on his swordsmanship. He wasting his time.
I mean episode 2 points this out. His motivation isn't his swordsmanship. It's reuniting with Elfie.

Now you can think he is an idiot like Edward-Sensei does, but that's a different discussion entirely.
 

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Rewatching Danmachi S1 Ep 2+3 they have actually done a good job with Hestia.

Much of the first 3 episodes are difficult to get behind. The support that Hestia goes to give Bell is really done well. It is made quite evident as Bell struggles in EP 1 that Hestia isn't doing much. The point of going to Hephaistos and practically begging while in some ways is a little too much, but as Bell's stats improve having the right weapon now is important.

In episode 3, when the monster roams around and is going after Bell and Hestia, Bell does the naive thing and tries to sacrifice himself for Hestia to escape. Rather than protecting and relying on her. Eventually, they make it out, so Bell can use Hestia's Dagger to take out the monster that was roaming around.

Still 3 episodes the anime still has issues since it is still difficult to get behind Bell. Also, the point that a lot of world building has most likely been skipped. Since things like status and when Hestia mentions his stats are going up 600. We have no context for this information. Very likely like I heard that the first season covers too many books.

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Tama with the save for Tsukiko. She fooled the Black Dragon pretty easily. I do love the small detail of Senya was able to find Tsukiko and catch her. She is off to look for a fortune-teller, but her words for Senya are significant. It is difficult for those with power to avoid fighting. Sadly, it is a reality Senya needs to realize fleeing isn't always the answer. After all Tsukiko got kidnapped because he refused to fight. (Of course Tsukiko jumped into action was part of it.)

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Also, we got a big detail in Shinsuke and Senya's journey. The Mountain Goddess wanted him to train and find Jinka in exchange she would wake up Shakuyaku. Of course, that isn't likely to happen now that he escaped with Senya. Although Rinzu's words as the two were fleeing interesting. Her insisting on the Mountain Goddess to hold up was surprising. Feels like a crucial part of information is missing.

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But once again we have Shinsuke refusing to let Senya die. On one hand, he may have amnesia. But I don't think it is as simple as that. Memories are returning to him. However, perhaps he in unintentionally wanting to block them. Maybe in his heart he wants to be human and cherishes his time he has had so far with Tsukiko and Shinsuke. On another note, it is funny they are still doing the task the Mountain Goddess asked of her. Curious how forgiving she is here.

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Senya's encounter with the Mad God makes it clear they are under the control of the 5 that showed up at the end of part one. Though the fact her true words were to ask Senya to kill her is sad. Curious what those 5 goals are. At the very least, it has to do with Jinka because they clearly wanted him to lose control.

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I mean episode 2 points this out. His motivation isn't his swordsmanship. It's reuniting with Elfie.

Now you can think he is an idiot like Edward-Sensei does, but that's a different discussion entirely.
Realistically there's no way he should be allowed into a mage tower with a group of the most powerful mages if he isn't a mage himself. His woman has gone beyond him into a world he doesn't belong in.

Seems like he could build himself up and prove his usefulness outside of the magic school and impress them enough to become their ally. Becoming the most powerful swordsman in the world should do that. In a way it looks like he's headed in that direction but in a inefficient way following the magic school rules he's handicapped by.
 

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Yooo this Magical Girl and Evil Lt. show is wild as fukk :dead:

:laff: at the cat pimp slapping the girl telling her she needs the money and she can become a heroine or just sell her p*ssy on the streets and shyt :mjlol:and this just half way into ep. 1
 

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Started watching Owarimonogatari, Ep 1 Ogi Formula.

This episode takes a step back and starts when Koyomi meets Ougi Oshino. Though at this point in the story, it is clear that she intentionally set up this meeting for another reason. Essentially, what was the reason that Koyomi changed as he entered high school and why he didn't want any friends. It had to do with an incident where a study group scored significantly higher than those that didn't on average. Here we are introduced to Sodachi Oikura, who held the class together to find the culprit. In many ways, she hated Koyomi because she scored higher than her on their respective math exams.

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As the session turned into madness, Oikura decided that it was best to take a majority vote. In which it was not Koyomi surprising enough that was declared the suspect, but rather Oikura. Also, rather since that incident, she hasn't appeared in school. Despite her being the only one that voted that Koyomi was the suspect, the majority came on her. For someone as proud as Oikura, to have a reputation as a cheater must have been devastating.

What Ougi brings up is that nobody actually cheated. So if nobody cheated, where would you look their teacher? How does this add up to the study group? Essentially, their teacher used problems that the study group used. It wasn't that the study group had answers to the test in which they studied, but rather the teacher used that material to make the test. For the simple motivation that it would make her look good. Just on that alone makes her look sick.

But to make this situation somehow worse, the teacher was among those that voted. Which is something you wouldn't account for. Why would the teacher vote for the cheater? That would imply that they had a hunch. Why would the teacher not bring that up to the people's attention. It is because she wanted to make sure the blame didn't fall on her. I assume that when the students saw her vote for Oikura, more than likely that had a few of the other students feeling confirmed to go with her answer.

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Just like the viewers, Koyomi was disgusted by the fact that a teacher, who is supposed to be a role model, could do something so unethical. Instead of earning a good assessment through effort, she took the easy way. By doing so, not only made 1 student suspected of stealing the answers. But pinning the blame on one of their students.

This is the reason why Koyomi attitude shifted to not wanting friends until he met Hanekawa. He saw not only the other students, but their teacher shifted the blame on Oikura. Making matters worse, Oikura determination to find the culprit and being the only one who voted that it was Koyomi set her up in the trap set up by the teacher. Koyomi per usually feeling the blame of if only I didn't score above her. This still lingers as he has never scored a perfect score on a math test since that day.

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Now we aren't either alien with Ougi's suspect behavior. Why would she want Koyomi to tackle this answer? As Koyomi comes back the next day, Hanekawa mentions that Oikura has come back to school. Which is pretty big news. It seems that after they tackled the incident, the teacher went on maternity leave. Very interesting timing for Oikura to come back to school. Curious how events shift forward from here.
 
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