I like how the snakes were actually really affectionate, I thought it was amusing how one was chewing on Chise's hair, they were cute.

I thought Ivy's backstory was going to be sadder but his father was pretty amusing and I really liked how he explained Ivy is special for better or worse but told him that they don't regret giving birth to him. I think those important words will stick with him and he'll come to appreciate it as he grows up.

The egg detail was another amusing point, it makes me wonder if a female human and male gorgon copulated, would the child be born the human way instead or not.

I also thought Ivy was going to blush when Lucy called his snakes beautiful, or that he might develop feelings for her, but it's so refreshing to see a comment like that under that context not turn out to be a trigger for developing romantic feelings.

What can I say Chise is very lovable even for those snakes

I mean. She is the 'Beloved Child of the Night'. Also. I'm surprised anyone has the balls to be rude or attempt to harm her. With insane compatibility levels with Fae, and the fact that even the Mutha Fooking King and Queen of the Fae absolutely adores her. Like picking on a snake and finding out that you're dicking with a doting Jörmungandr's favorite daughter.

LMAO that last bit caught me off guard

I mean. It's a fair comparison.

Magic School kids: "Let's make sure everyone keeps the secret, draws magic circle ..."
Me: Is this really how you prefer to establish mutual trust in your group?

instead of ELF (everybody loves Friday) ELC (Chise) :>

Yeah glad this didn't turned out the way other animes do, like instantly developing romantic feelings after getting a compliment from a boy/girl. This has become a cliché in every single anime.

No wonder he can tell Chise was a monster but Chise is more human than him though lol.

Isaac looks like Joe from Prison School. 😂

yEAH.... And he gives off same energy

Please anime gods give us another season of Prison School lol

Yuriboros

There's Interspiecies Reviewers but no Prison School season 2 :(

I doubt PS is gonna get a S2 since that is such a NSFW controversial series and the ova was more H related with the content they showed.

What, Interspecies Reviewers is getting a season 2!?

Man you beat me to it. Where are his ants?
Speaking of which that grey hair, purple eyed girl looks like the antagonist in Soul Eater that gets bullied. Is it me or does Chise remind you of Makima in the ED.

Yeah Chise and Makima have quite a resemblance which is very much notice now that you say it.

Yeah lol you're spot on now that I think of it😂

Hohenheim the Alchemist? I think I've seen this name somewhere before 😉

That is because Hohenheim really was an actual name associated with Alchemy; it's not just a location on earth but a significant part of Alchemic-history (although today it is now called Chemistry even though its roots are in Alchemy).

P.S. : Lead (Pb) can be converted into Gold (Au) and has been successful converted into Gold, how-ever, the amount of resources/energy required to produce any amount far-exceeds that of the value of any Gold that results.

«Au» is the actual French-Language word for Gold whilst Pb comes from Plumbum which is apparently of Latin-Origin. What is known as «Science» (similar to Religions/Corporations) has its «international» versions which can result in a somewhat multi-lingual history of contributions/contributors.

Alchemy is chemistry isn't it? Is there a difference between the two? And when I say Alchemy, I mean potion crafting and all that, not whatever is in FMA, where you make sacrifices to get something of equal value

Not at all, as alchemy is more CONCEPTUAL in nature as far as ingredients go, so unlike w/ chemistry, the conceptual value of the ingredients matters more than what the ingredients themselves physically are per se etc

incorrect. alchemy was based on observations and experiments and was a scientific process that was unfortunately incorrectly based on erroneous assumptions and principles. like the 'ether' hypothesis in magnetism and electromagnetism. just because alchemy got a LOT of things wrong, doesn't mean it didn't get a few important things right. all scientific discovery is a series of building blocks stretching back into history.

Yes and no. Alchemy as you might have guessed is a word of Arab origin. The same goes for Elixir. AFAIK, Al and El are just different pronunciations of the same article.
Anyway, Alchemy is the predecessor of chemistry a lot like astrology differs from astronomy... They had no bl00dy idea what the F they were doing and tried to rationalise the results. Quite often it was utter BS, but every now and then some valuable discovery was made and over time, these survived the hype and became actual knowledge. Then over time, they started understanding what actually were the underlying principles. Chemistry has one important restriction from Alchemy that was glossed over above. Chemistry is the science of the interactions of atoms. The latter translates to unbreakable, or similar, meaning that we thought for a long time that you can break everything down to smaller and smaller pieces until you get to the atoms, but as we found out with radioactive processes, we were WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY off...

Ahhhh, so Alchemy and Astrology are just....ancient Chemistry and Astronomy? As in, they just throw random bullshit together, and call it that? While Chemistry and Astronomy we have actual reasons for? That we can prove and all that?

Have you any idea how bl00dy hard it was to figure out the basics of chemistry?
It was like trying to solve an equasion with a dozen unknown variables...
NMR and mass spectrometer are fairly new tools, but without them elucidating chemcial structures was basically a Ph.D thesis for every molecule!
You first could run some tests to figure out functional groups, though some of them may be masked due to other things interfering. Then, you could measure the molecular mass by measuring the weight of the sample and use somemethod that depends on particle concentration, such as observing changes in boiling point and viscosity of a solution. Then, you could burn the chemical, or at least try doing so, because some chemcials will never truely burn.... and you'll try to measure the total gas content and try to figure out what gases they are and spoiler: it's not easy to determine nitrogen and the carbon content could either be carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide after burning. Etc. etc.
I have a huge respect for those geniuses and freaks of nature who thought that humans could actually determine the structure of natural compounds. Then, some noticed that things still didn't really work out and they found the concepts of isomers (for instance H-O-CN vs H-N=C=O), chirality (think of amino acids, and the Contergane scandal), aromaticity (delocalised electrons), and non-conventional bonds, in particular complex chemistry... The last two and the idea of macromolecules were heavily disputed for a long time. It was almost as bad as defending evolution theory...
TLDR: finding facts was like finding a needle in a haystack and explaining them was like deciphering a book in a dead language...

Alchemy sounds more like physics x chemistry imo.

Alchemy to Chemistry is considered to be something similar to how Astrology is to Astronomy; whether people are actually «enlightened» with «science» (more specifically : Materialism) or not might be another story for a variety of reasons (such as the Prison-Industrial Complex for one and the Military Industrial Complex for another)...

I think there's a core difference between alchemy and astrology in terms of their origins. Astrology has religious roots, and its practitioners made their money through congregational donations, whereas alchemy was a business, and its practitioners made their money through either entertaining or scamming aristocrats. So while astrology is a mix of astronomy and theism alchemy is a mix of chemistry and mentalism (similar to how homeopathy is a mix of medicine and mentalism). The interesting bit is that in terms of the scientific nature of each the astrologists had a far better grasp than the alchemists and homeopaths, and that trend can still be seen today when comparing the levels of modern cosmology to modern chemistry and medicine owing in large part to their inherent differences in ability to see and study.

alchemy is a conceptual process instead of a measured incremental process. basically, alchemists were chemists but their world-view was incorrect and incomplete. kinda like a person who thinks babies come from storks delivering the infant to the parents. the person knows there is a mommy and a daddy, but the concept they have doesn't incorporate the actual facts... it just makes an assumption that 'something else' is the medium for creating a human.

BTW: there are other fields as well which somehow lie in between a science and a religion or similar.
Feng Shui for instance is filled with BS, but rooms furnished along those principles tend to feel a lot more welcoming and calmer than those that were strictly furnished based on functionality. In this case, it's probably about grasping human insticts, though they explain things in an absurdly wrong way...
Similarly, Graphology can be either a science or something like astrology...
We could also talk about visual art, or music and probably many other subjects. As far as we got in science there's simply so much that has eluded our logic...

no no no, they're all wrong, alchemy involves transmuatations circles, in order to get something, u need to be willing to give up something of equal worth

alchemy is a pseudo science just like astrology it's based on assumption, Chemistry is based on scientific process
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historically and factually incorrect. alchemy IS chemistry, just not as advanced. astrology IS astronomy and exactly the same. educate yourself further before airing your ignorance for the entirety of the internet to see.

... you think astrology and astronomy are the same thing? well thats delusional af.

read. what. i. wrote again... and again... until you get it. advanced. not. as. alchemy and astrology were the BEGINNINGS of chemistry and astronomy. if you don't know that, you apparently have NEVER studied the history of science.

Alchemy is a protoscience, not a pseudoscience. You can't accuse them of not following the scientific process when it hadn't been invented yet. Alchemy would evolve into modern chemistry as our understanding of science improved. And while things like the philosopher's stone and elixir of immortality have been left behind as nothing but superstition, the basic laboratory techniques that European and Islamic alchemists developed are still in use today.

Alchemy is the precursor to the modern sciences but had more elements of mysticism. Modern scientific disciplines are based upon the work of alchemists but they are very different, particularly with their goals. Modern science seeks to fully explain the physical world and often does not acknowledge the metaphysical as it's hard to prove or disprove things that have no physical manifestation that could be summoned (good luck convincing any religious institution to entrust you with their relics or the bodies of fallen saints for your attempts to figure out what makes them special), while alchemy (depending on whether it was Eastern or Western) would pursue things like transmutation of substances (lead into gold) or immortality (the Elixir that certain rulers have sought over the millennia) as the most recognisable examples.

Au is aurum, gold in latin...

thank you, I didn't understand why they got so many likes, only real thing they said is that lead can indeed be turn into gold but you need a particle accelerator for that so is not worthy

Hoenheim got isekai'd to Earth from FMA, then continued his work. 😁

Awww Lucy is just a tsundere towards Chise…

How cute lol

big sis scolding moment lol

he's born from egg lol

How eggciting lol

Now you're just egging him on.

his snakes would not appreciate all these puns😂😂🐍

They be hissing as we speak 😅

I like him scrambled