Saihate no Paladin: Tetsusabi no Yama no Ou, episode 2

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  • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I have such a softspot for this series. I love that it puts careful consideration into the lore of the world without explaining away the underpinning fantasy. I love that it’s willing to skip over perfunctory action setpieces in favor of interesting dialogue. I love that characters take each other seriously and naturalistically pursue their own individual interests without getting coded as evil.

    Most of all, I love that the characters can engage in a sappy non-deathflag conversation like this and have it feel completely earned:

    Expand for dialogue

    Will: It’s amazing, though. You’re going to be a Lord of the Forest someday?

    Menel: In two or three hundred years, if not more. It’s probably somewhere in that realm.

    Will: I’ll be long dead by then.

    Menel: True. Maybe I’ll be your gravekeeper while I watch where your kids and grandkids end up… I guess everything will have settled down by then.

    Will: You’ve been planning to do that?

    Menel: Yes, I have. I have all kinds of debts to you that I can never repay. All half-elves have to make a life-altering decision at some point. To live as an elf, almost like the fae for perpetuity alongside the earth and water… or to live the human life, like a flickering fire or a gust of wind. That’s the fate of those born with both bloodlines. I want to see what becomes of all your accomplishments.

    Will: I might not be able to do anything that great.

    Menel: You’re already enough of a legend. And you’ll keep making more legends, all with that spacey face of yours. I’ll be fighting by your side, and if I survive until your life ends… Yeah… it might not be so bad to wrap it all up by fading away into the forest. After I say some awesome line to make myself look good in the end, of course.

    Will: You’ll be a legend.

    Menel: As will you. Doesn’t sound bad, right?

    Don’t sleep on Faraway Paladin, you guys.

    • Eatsuki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I agree whole-heartedly! This show has so much care and love put in it, and is so well constructed. I am really glad they kept this one going, it’s for sure a bright spot.