Beta's act was quite funny. I've got a question though... how could she ever convince anyone with that little act of hers? I mean she sounded more horny than scared.
Epsilon about to have her slime boobs cut off and her secret discovered: *ultra panic*

Alexia: "I'm sorry. I tripped and fell, then there was a door right in front of me, so I couldn't stop myself." - man, these absolutely not-just-randomly-made-up reasons are good. And the VA's acting was absolutely spot on.

This was a nice, mostly informative episode. We learnt quite some stuff about the Cult, Alpha and her connection to the hero, and that the beads weren't the reason why Nelson went bald.
Also - Delta is precious.

And the VA's acting was absolutely spot on.

Yep, HanaKana is totally enjoying Lexie :D

Also - Delta is precious.

Lol, nice, I feel the complete reverse.
Even in Chronicles when she was younger, she felt really annoying with her dumbness to me.

I can tell HanaKana VA characters when I hear one. Loving her!

Of course, HanaKana is a goddess! :D

Everytime I hear her voice I'm like yep that's her

This episode had a lot of lore exposition, which I like. Hopefully more MC screentime next episode tho.

The mc is already op and had a lot of screentime it's time for the hot girls hehe

Next episode? This anime doesn't end at 12 ep?

its 24 episode anime i think

Ohhh! that's great! You can rarely see anime with 20 plus episodes nowadays (maybe not cuz I dont actually know I haven't watched any anime for quite some time now) I'm beyond grateful to know that this amazing anime has more episodes to give and allow me to thank you for informing me about this information it really is a good news to me if you hadn't say it I would have miss it and thought the anime has already ended

my bad its 20 episodes...mostly if they have more than 12 episodes there are 24so i got confused lol

Damn, a person who accepts someone else's opinion while having the exact opposite opinion, a rare gigachad I see.

Also that's part of Delta's charm. Dumb lil Doggie needs to be loved

Chronicles?

Side-Stories featuring the Shades after they left Cid and went out on their own to establish Shadow Garden's Foundations.

where can you watch these??!!

It's in the mobile game.

The Eminence in Shadow : Master of Garden Mobile Game

womp womp - hopefully someone recorded gameplay and put it on youtube

Wait this is a game

Was more amused that Cid making up the Cult of Diablos for his Chunnibyou interest actually ended up being real. LoL.

he is not making it up at first. Diabolos tale is famous in that world and his parents told him as bed stories.

He looked behind Alpha and chose a few words at random when he made up the enemy cult. He also assumed the girls gave it up and grew up when he left and went to school that it was all make believe and they likely got tired of playing. Also even entering the Sanctum was an accident. He was only trying to give the audience a show as the pushed his background character into the arena. There was stories of a hero and demon king in the past but he just tried making up the enemy cult when he made the girls believe it. Notably he doesn't know their The Possessed or that the cult exists. Even now he is separated from the girls telling the story of it. The previous attacks were also by group posing as Eminence of Shadows as well. The Eminence of Shadow was something he tried making real from Chunnibyou desire but his past life he went nuts over not having magic and ran in front of truck-kun. The cult was just something he made up at random playing pretend with the girls that he didn't know actually existed and still doesn't.

so the MC still doesnt know that, the enemy he made up is real... he still thinks the girls are playing along with him? How long does this "illusion" last? the WHOLE show?

No he learned that there actually was a cult when he found Lexies fencing teacher.
He learned the girls are not just playing pretend shortly before that when he was buying chocolate.

You're misunderstanding him. Although he learned about the existence of the cult, he didn't give much attention and neither did he try to find out more, thus he didn't realize how similar it was with his bullsh*ting.
He still believes that the girls are playing around for his sake. He believes that they used his knowledge to succeed in the society and they play along him due to their respect towards him as well as gratefulness.
Technically, he believes that they pretend to belong to some organization just to entertain him.
As for why they appear all together to deal with some situation, it's because they grew up together, trained together and they don't have other family members, thus they assist each other. He didn't place another deep reason in their actions.

too long, didn't read, not bother.
I'm just correcting your 1st answer, he didn't just make it out of the blue about Diabolos, Diabolos as a monster is foretold in fairytale of that world. The cult and other shit, he make it up as he goes.

Mean that's not my fault you didn't follow things through in the story and since you can't seem to read something pretty short that explains it that is really also on you. I think numerous people who gave me those upvotes did and followed the story while you didn't even read which you contradict yourself for even arguing and technically even promote what I wrote. lol.

I love her acting especially when she keeps moaning and blushing and when when that girl is touching her oppai hehe also that scene where she keeps showing her oppai hehe I love that

hey hey heyy slow down your boner my guy..

Isn't Cid's father is also bald? I wonder if his dad is also a part of that 12 orders.

You need great power, or make a big science contribution.
Cid's dad did get's beat up by his wife and I doubt his brains

Tip, read what you wrote before posting it or shortly after again.

Listen to the rant of baldy again.

Delta be like: "Numbers ? Let's goo finally infinite hunting"

Can't wait for the scene delta smelled Shadow and then recognize him hahahaa but is a little sad that Alpha thought she lost hope

Beta is a masochist for sure, she gave it away with the act lol.

and also let's not forget that Cid finaly achived his goal and became actualy the side character of this episode
i mean the man has no idea what the hell is happening to the main story he is just doing whatever he wants XD

Delta is precious for sure

You know as much as I love the whole horny Beta act…

This episode is probably the first I can definitively say that the anime adaptation just is nowhere as good as what the manga was. For that specific sequence of events it veered so far from the manga and cut quite a bit idk what to say.

Like it honestly was just straight up bad. I’ve thought the anime adaptation was overall good and the changes they made were minor and made up with improvements but this episode just… idk what happened it’s just they just had to pump something out.

The anime is adapted from the LN not the manga. Mattaku...

Ok and I compared it to the manga, which presumably is also adapted from the LN. Given that both should be adapting from the original material, the LN, it would also make sense to compare the differences in the adaptations

Unless I’m woefully misinformed and the manga was written as an entirely separate work.

By all means though, if the anime is strictly following the LN please let me know if it’s exactly adapting or if there’s certain parts added/removed/changed.

Additionally, let me know how in-depth the descriptions are in the LN. In other words, how accurate of a picture can you create to match with the anime, and how many illustrations accompany. I have not read the LN, but seeing as you pointed out that I should be comparing to the LN instead of a different adaptation, please explain fully the parts that I’m wrongfully criticizing.

And for another reference, on Wikipedia (take it with a grain of salt, it’s not always accurate) the author is listed as the writer for the Novel, LN, and Manga, which I assume means the manga should be a valid work to use to compare to other works.

I assumed that since the Manga adapted from the LN as well, the it should be similar. In fact, as it came out before the anime I thought it probable this is how the series in general should have looked when illustrated (to explain why I said things changed comparing the anime to manga).

your def wrongly criticizing .... dont know why you critics never learn that anime is BASED on its source material... they are never going to follow the LN or Manga exactly.... so when things get changed in the animated adaption you should not be surprised at all and in fact should expect it to be somewhat different and when you expect the changes your criticism of whether its following the source material gets thrown out the window... the biggest problem with anime are the manga/Ln readers because they cannot look at the anime as separate work and always expect the anime to follow the source material exactly..... and it doesnt matter how many times you explain it to them, it just doesnt click like a broken mouse

this is a response to the essay you sent idk why but it disappeared probably marked as spam.....

you just proved my point..... ya just cant stop.... in that long for no reason explanation you are still comparing the anime to the manga... the point is that you shouldnt compare it at all.... perhaps some parts are better in the manga or the Ln or wherever the source material came from but anime is only based on the authors works and is its own entity....it would be different if the author directed the anime and went in different directions then what he wrote but most of the time the author gets no say in how a studio animates their work....so yeah complaints are wrongful criticisms..... and asking what the anime is following is a retarded question as its following its own script based on whatever written work the author has put out.... so one part they may go more Ln and the next manga and the next a mix between both and end with their own conclusion.... bet the author of the source material is not credited with writing any of the script for this season.... bet if you watched an anime before you read any source material you would feel completely different because you have no choice but to view it as something you never seen..... but as soon as you start watching your already biased because you read the story already watching every second judgingly.... but its unwarranted because the written material is usually (90%) always better then the anime, donghua, tv show, movie, play ect.... so why btch about it..... like i enjoyed the show BUT wa wa wa the manga did better here the Ln did better there, the movie wasnt as good as the book..... no sht sherlock.... its always been that way

For reference, you’re assuming completely wrong again.

I watched the first couple of episodes before diving into the manga and getting ahead of the anime. I was and have never been a manga/LN first anime viewer. There are only a handful of anime that I’ve watched where afterwards I checked out the manga/LN.

However, for this series, having picked up the manga, it was only then where I felt like the manga was better than the anime.

And this notion that “well the anime is it’s own separate entity so you just can’t compare it to the manga/source material” is about as ridiculous as it gets.

Both are eminence in shadow works. Yes, the manga is written by the author, but the anime is adaptation from the written
works and as it is the same series, it should be compared with each other.

People compare written works to the anime works all the time. Why? Because they’re the same fucking series. It doesn’t matter if the anime is produced by separate people, it’s still eminence in shadow and can and should be compared with other versions of itself. Many anime adaptations are criticized and liked based on how they stand in comparison to the original works as well.

Some even go as far as to completely change from the source work, and find success that way. In fact, some people like the anime far better than the manga, despite it being evident to me (after reading both) that the studio did not stay true to the original work and deviated in, in my opinion, a bad way. But once again, this is my opinion,
and some believe the anime actually is better than the manga because it changed in a certain way.

Nevertheless, the praise I gave to the anime was that it did what an anime adaptation should do: make the series interesting to people so they pick up the source work. As you can tell, it
worked because after watching a couple episodes I picked up the manga.

I’m derailing from the point, that is that it’s absolutely stupid to simply say an anime is immune to criticism based on how it matches to the source work is stupid. It’s based off the source work and should be compared to it. Just because it isn’t produced by the original author doesn’t mean it suddenly isn’t the same series. You can then find parts where the anime did better, and parts where the source did better. Analyzing it in a vacuum is simply shortsighted and hell I’ve never seen someone say you just can’t compare the anime to the source material. What’re we gonna compare it to then to understand the quality of the adaptation if not where it comes from? It’s a given to literally anyone that an anime alters and cuts material when compared to the source, but that doesn’t make it immune to criticisms for doing so. Sometimes, it’s understandable, but for a vast majority of my criticisms, the alterations did not have a reasonable backing for why.

But this wraps back to a point that I have mentioned, if not here then elsewhere, that the anime does a good job at making the series nice for most people watching, increasing the chance they pursue the source material. In my experience, the source material is better for a variety of reasons.

And yet, you fail to even consider some of my criticisms I mentioned. A lot of them have to do with the fact that the anime just altered things unnecessarily, and sometimes created simply bad anime. Almost none of my complaints are about the fact that it isn’t the same as the manga, but that the alterations degraded the quality in the first place. Once again, you can have alterations, but they need to be either justifiable or not outright be bad.

One thing I’ve been going back to, and you don’t even need to read the manga or LN to see this, is just how badly done the priest fight scene is. Logically, the fight just doesn’t make
sense at all. There’s a whole comment I made regarding this, where yes, I supply the manga but only because I wanted to compare how logically the manga flowed in comparison to how illogically the anime flowed. This has nothing to do with what you were saying, which in your original comment was something along the lines of “you critics never understand that the anime will change things from the source” — and yet you completely fail to recognize that my criticisms were never on the fact that the anime is different from the manga, but that it’s worse than the manga for a variety of reasons.

I also stated other factors like how the comedy in the manga hit better than in the anime. I don’t see how this comparison simply should not be drawn either, and it has nothing to do with whether or not the anime and manga are the same, but just that I found the manga to be funnier.

The only thing I can see as being not comparable between the anime and manga is the decision to make action scenes seem like the central theme of the series, yet this was one of the points I’ve stated before was
something the anime had to do, yet was still something I felt misrepresented the series to a certain degree. This is where you can have some reasonable argument for my criticisms being invalid, yet this is a point I’ll concede and have conceded as being acceptable because it is an anime adaptation.

Once again, going off on a tangent. My whole point is that it’s ridiculous to not allow any comparisons to be drawn between Anime and their source materials. It’s a basic way to gauge how well each work is made, as they’re all the same series, but each work is entirely separate and thus can be compared to one another as such.

People compare LN and their Manga all the time, and similarly Manga and Anime, or LN and anime, or all 3 at the same time.

Once again, if we aren’t allowed
to compare an anime to where it came from, or to an adaptation that’s quite literally the same story just a different work, what are we supposed to compare it to?

And once again, to quote you:
“ dont know why you critics never learn that anime is BASED on its source material... they are never going to follow the LN or Manga exactly.... so when things get changed in the animated adaption you should not be surprised at all and in fact should expect it to be somewhat different and when you expect the changes your criticism of whether its following the source material gets thrown out the window...”

This is literally saying NOTHING. Everyone knows this fact, and every single person that watches anime to some extent knows this as a fact. What you’re failing to realize is that none of my criticisms have anything to do with complaining that the anime isn’t completely the same or nearly the same as the source. My criticisms are on the alterations themselves, specifically the way they are done, and not that they happened in the first place. There is a fine line between the two. Nobody criticizes anime for being different from the source, but it’s how it’s different is where there’s points made.

But judging from this much, I simply don’t feel like explaining past this point. This take just doesn’t make an ounce of sense and I think I’ve wasted enough time talking about something as ridiculous as this.

the manga is horrible compared to the anime lol, not sure what you are on about. The direction on this episode was immaculate

I honestly prefer the manga over the anime.

I guess I’m the odd one out? I saw a couple other people on earlier episodes also say that they just don’t quite give the same feeling at all.

The manga gives a decently clear almost parody type vibe, while the anime feels largely action with hints of comedy.

Like I’ve said previously, certain parts the anime really improved on and made a great turn. Other parts just miss the mark entirely and tend to cut away from stuff like character interactions/characterization.

But maybe it’s just me. I gotta say for some reason I really dig the manga more.

I think Beta saw Epsilon's secret for a split second.

u should read the manga chibi version

Glad that this anime has 20 episodes.

Yknow? It's just getting better and I can't complain

I'm glad that this anime not only has 20 eps, but a new season as well!!!