I enjoyed this episode, and overall, I liked this season, with a few somewhat major complaints about the animation mostly. Others will be upset that they rushed the story so much, and especially that they skipped so much important character development.

Like in this episode, they skipped directly to her teleporting to the Royal Academy. There is a ton of important character development that needed to happen, even just after her waking up until her going to the academy. They showed her limp on the bench, but they didn’t show her reaction to essentially becoming a quadriplegic, or her reaction to everybody growing up for two years while she stayed the same. She lost two entire years and went from a girl who basically needed a wheelchair to get around to becoming a quadriplegic. I’m guessing their plan is to recap it in the beginning of the next season.

They didn’t show Rozemyne’s struggles to finish getting ready for school despite missing two years.

However, I completely understand their need to move the story along and not end on a huge cliffhanger.

As for the animation in this episode, I will say that there was one very simple thing that they never got correct. I don’t even understand how they can mess it up, but I think every single filled feystone showed in this episode was the wrong color, except Rozemyne’s highbeast feystone. The feystones coming out of the jureve should be yellow, not black, because they’re full of Rozemyne’s mana, which is yellow. The feystones that Wilfried and Charlotte were using in the religious ceremonies should also have been yellow, but they were green for no apparent reason.

I enjoyed watching this season. The world is filled with interesting things and plot developments advance at a decent pace, it has been comfortable to tune in each week. I’m sure the royal academy will spark all sorts of fun events. I’m tempted to rush forward and read the LN’s.

For this episode… why did grandpa become comically dumb for that scene? A strange bit of slapstick comedy, I suppose. It was nice to see Ferdinand and others caring for Myne. We got to see a rare sighting of an emotional outburst from Ferdinand. They did let the evil noble weasel away, but knowing this show he’s eventually going to perpetrate another evil scheme, get foiled, and get his entire bloodline extinguished. And I look forward to it. If I’m following correctly, I think the use of the secret passage is the first piece of evidence that specifically indicts Georgine as assisting in the immoral schemes of the pro-Georgine nobles. I think the previous schemes could be explained as the pro-Georgine nobles working independently from Georgine. I could be wrong, forgetting something, it’s not a detail that I’ve been tracking closely.

Also, I don’t think I understand why the evil noble has to sneak out to give Myne a poison and give the kidnapper instructions himself. Is it a needless event to implicate the evil noble and Georgine or perhaps there’s a good explanation? I don’t know what they were planning to do by poisoning, but not killing, and kidnapping Myne. To be honest, I don’t care about these points too much; the mechanisms of nobles in this world are strange, so I can imagine that there are many possible explanations. I enjoy the show nonetheless. The issue is that I don’t know if I’m missing something that the show has already explained, or if these are intentional points of interest placed by the author, or if these are details that the author/adaptation don’t really care about.

I think I’ve never hated a anime season more than this one. There were absolutely worse shows, sure, but you just drop and forget them. But this did destroy something that I loved. It was so bad that it taints the source in my memory. Similar to how the Star Wars prequels taints the original trilogy. I would like to have the people responsible removed from the industry.