Just taking a selfie with a death cult, teehee~
Even Though I’m a Super Timid Noble Girl, I Accepted the Bet From My Cunning Fiancé Ep. 6
Caroline is a reincarnator who has played the game before, so she knows almost everything about Rufus like how he stepped up to fill in for his sick father. But to Rufus, it just seems like she might have spies! He even tests her cookies to see if they’re poisonous. I think that’s actually quite funny. Even Pia hasn’t quite realized that Caroline is just like her. I still wish it didn’t have to be this way, though. I’m so tired of the other girl being a rival character for simply playing what she thinks is a game. Yes, at some point, you need to wake up to the fact that you’re messing with real people and real feelings. But do characters like Caroline ever get the chance to do that before it’s too late? Not off the top of my head.
Plus, Pia ends up bumping into Caroline, and when the latter mentions contact lenses, it clues our heroine in on the fact that her rival is a reincarnator. You know what I would’ve done? I would’ve started talking to Caroline as a peer. Yo, you’re a reincarnator too?! That’s so crazy! But Pia keeps all of this to herself. But why? Maybe if you talk it out, Caroline will realize the error of her ways and back off. I can’t give Pia a break, because she’s supposed to be a grown woman on the inside. She’s not some child. Nevertheless, she strikes me as incredibly immature. For example, her brilliant plan to save Henry and help Erin is to stuff the former full of food, so he’s too hungry to meet up with Caroline in the cafeteria. That is so stupid.
Maybe… just maybe… I’ll get what I want. Pia gets a second chance to talk to Caroline and learns that the girl isn’t exactly seducing all of the capture targets because she’s in love with them. Rather, she thinks she has to do this to repay her father. Pia thinks she might even be manipulated. Huh? But before we learn more, she rushes off. There’s still a chance Pia and Caroline can become friends, but our heroine is going to have to stop being a huge crybaby. Investigate more! Find out what is going on!
But instead, Rufus forbids Pia from ever seeing Caroline again. In fact, if Pia breaks her promise again, he will literally confine her to his estate. That’s fucked up. So they proceed to do fucking nothing, and now, we get the classic scene where the prince accuses Amelia of bullying Caroline. See? This is what happens when you’re not proactive. If you just sit idly by, you let the narrative control you instead of you controlling the narrative. I just can’t find it in myself to like Pia. I know being timid is part of her core personality — I mean, it’s literally in the title! — but ugh, she’s just so damn passive!
Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden Ep. 6
Just as I thought, a martial arts tournament hosted by the school isn’t of any interest to Nia. She can beat up the freakin’ mafia. Schoolchildren obviously wouldn’t stand a chance. So instead, we mostly get to watch her brother advance through the tournament before losing to a much older kid. In fact, his opponent is like twice his size. The smart thing to do would’ve been to create age divisions within the tournament, but that’s too sensible for a show where a little girl can beat up adults.
As for Nia, she hears about an underground fighting ring called the Umbral Arena, and she’s dead set on participating. Of course, her maid objects, but Nia is too headstrong for that. By the end of the episode, the maid puts on a mask, so I guess the student intends to challenge her teacher in the Umbral Arena. Yeah, whatever. If they’re really going to fight, Lynokis is kind of a pedo, so I hope Nia beats the shit out of her.
The World’s Strongest Witch Ep. 6
First, we have to wrap things up with our local death cult. Remember how Lorna was teaching these shady men how to make mayo? Well, she also buys a camera from the internet. I’m not sure how it gets delivered to her, but I guess we can just assume magic is involved. Point is, mayo and a selfie are all you need to convince cultists to change their ways. If only we had shipped some Kewpie and Polaroids to Jonestown.
Lorna’s next destination takes her to a seaside town. So what’s the gimmick here? The gimmick is taking weekly repeating quests to their logical conclusion. Every Wednesday, a raid event involving sea monsters occurs. At first, it was no problem. But when the raid kept coming back, as weeklies are wont to do, people’s morale sank, adventurers fled, and the town is now facing a slow but steady death. Then Lorna descends from the heavens — literally because she can fly — defeats every single mob in the raid, then builds a giant wall to keep the town safe for good. All hail the strongest witch! I dunno, I guess it’s kinda amusing. Like I said, I can tolerate Lorna’s overpoweredness because girliepop just wants to eat good food.
Also, nice Eva reference.
A Tale of the Secret Saint Ep. 7
Most of this episode is devoted to Zavilia’s backstory. He used to be a blue dragon, his brother betrayed him so he flew up north to live his life in solitude, he would remain there for thousands of years, yadda yadda yadda. Shrug, I don’t really care about the dragon. None of this is interesting to me. I want to know what Fia wants to do about the other useless saints. I want to know what the knights are gonna do about her and her not-so-secret talents. I want to know if she’ll ever reclaim her title as a saint (probably not). I want to know if her brothers’ descendants are truly a threat to her. Stuff about Zavilia? Sorry, doesn’t move the needle for me. So this episode is a nothingburger to me.
Romelia War Chronicles Ep. 6
Last week’s episode ended with Romelia passing out, so I thought maybe our heroine was in trouble. But no, she was just tired. She goes right back to being superwoman in this week’s episode. First, we see her operate on both Ray and Al. Of course she would also have medical knowledge. Then Romelia pretends to be a maid to scope out a potentially troublesome merchant. She’s full of disguises. In the latter half of the episode, she and a pair of twins get waylaid by bandits who are… uh, curiously enough also run by another pair of twins. What are the odds of that? Nevertheless, Romelia not only frees herself and the twins from being tied up, she secretly sends smoke signals to the rest of her men. Romelia is just utterly prepared for anything and everything. Makes you wonder how she allowed her former fiance to get duped by the healer lady. Maybe she was more naive back then? She must have felt some way about him, yeah? Well, I dunno. She didn’t seem to choked up to leave the party.
More than that, however, I think it would’ve been nice to get her origin story. Like… how did she get to be this way? I think of Batman and how he was just a normal rich kid even after his parents died. Then he went on a bender, ran into the League of Shadows, and learned some legitimate ninja shit. Where did Romelia acquire all of her knowledge, though?