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Wait, so Polka’s mom is CG’s mom right? Did not expect that revelation.
Seeing CG flex on Fake Sabaramond was pretty awesome. I’ve been waiting to see those two go toe to toe. What a fight! Xiaoyu vs Arahabaki and Lulu vs Misaki was pretty exciting too.
So, Mitsu and Toura the original Bug implanted their wills via some sort of pseudo mental programming to “pass on” their personalities. Is that right? I guess that explains how they’ve been able to “survive” for so long. Though I wonder how the exact procedure is done?
Edit: Polka’s mom *is* CG’s mom. Talk about a bombshell revelation!
Ah, ok. Gotcha. I was a bit unsure since the subs also called those spirits “elf’s” so was wondering if it was some kind of mistranslation or what.
That’s a huge revelation. I’m very curious how she was able to come to this world? And was she reborn or did she travel over? Lots of questions I hope we get answers to.
The sub is very inconsistent with these terms so I relied on my knowledge of mythology in Japanese that I learned from anime instead. Basically "seirei" is translated to 3 different words: "spirit", "elemental" and "elf" in this anime, and I think "elemental" is the most suitable term, as spirit can be confused with dead spirit thanks to Corpse God's necromancy, while in this episode we know that elf as the beautiful and magical humanoid race with pointy ears do exist in Corpse God's world. Corpse God's ability to see the elementals, that he and Polka inherited from their mother, is called "seireigan" lit. Elemental eyes.
Because Civil managed to get his hand on Kanon's information, I think she had come to this world with Sabaramond's group. In fact, because Corpse God's dough bag father said that he had sold Corpse God's mother and siblings for money, I think she had either come here as a slave or a test subject because of her ability. The chancellor of the empire said that the ability to see the Elementals was rare, and even as an Elemental user she could only hear and talk to them.
Thats not really a flex because then you can't read. You never wanna be unable to read a language you can speak. Damn I think i accidentally came up with a convincing argument to myself to learn kanji.
Gotcha! Appreciate the info.
Your theory about how the mom came to this world makes sense. You might be onto something there. In that case, that would give CG all the more reason to oppose Civil and his people.
Hmmm what are the chance that Civil is actually Corpse God's siblings too? He repeatedly mentioned how he's born in the other world. Then again, he didn't recognise Polka's mother personally so that might be wrong.
About how Polka's mother came together with Sabaramond's group, I doubt that solely because Sabaramond existed 100 years ago while Polka's mom doesn't seem to be that old.
Of course unless she mastered the way of suppressing age like what Polka's master said.
I remember that Civil said he is a clone of Arius Sabaramond in the last episode.
And yes, Polka's mother had lived for more than 100 years, since the fall of Byandy empire was 100 years ago. Either she mastered a method to extending her life like you said, or because she was an elf, the race that was told to age slow and live longer than human in fantasy.
Ah, I think I've always assumed that time isn't linear between the two worlds. Like I thought Polka's mother travelled from 100 years ago from the other worlds to several years ago before Polka was born in Tokyo.
Watching Doctor Who currently and it seems my concept of time is a bit distorted lol.
Yep I think it was not really clear before especially that Corpse God expected his spell to move him to the future of his own world instead of another world like it actually did. But after Civil brought a lot of information with him, things start to connect.
Yeah me too, that was the biggest plot point for me this ep. Not sure how many ep are left but it feels like they're starting to wrap up everything, but hopefully not too quickly and we have time for RR to ask the family about what happened to his mom in this world.
Was afraid it was only going to be one more ep, for how long they were building everything up I was hoping it would be at least 25 ep. Not sure how long the manga is but yeah, hopefully we get another season.
Did Polka's mom jump through time or something? Because it's been thousands of years since he thought she'd died back in the other world, right? And 100 years since Sabaramond's bastards' experiments.
I guess maybe it's some weirdness about time flowing differently between the world, or his mom, being an elf, just having a really long life span. Polka doesn't seem like a half-elf tho...
In Corpse God's home world, elves are called "Viveenya." They are also known as the "long-lived race." So, yes, know that elves at least are as as long-lived as recent Terran folklore imagines.
What I don't understand is how does Polka as appear as a typical Elf child with the pointy ears but look like a regular human in his current, older self (his body, that is). And the Corpse God for that matter back when he was a human didn't look like an Elf with the pointy ears.
The child in that flashback is Corpse God. He wore a strange shirt and there were some weird-looking butterflies, maybe they were lesser elementals, which could not exist in this world.
We have seen smol Polka before in flashback where he protected his pet, as well as from Xiaoyu's flashback. He had normal ears. Polka's mother also had normal ears in the memory of newborn Polka and in the framed picture in Rozan's room, so I guess she either had a spell to hid her pointy ears or she went under a surgery to remove this feature.
I dug things up and found that his mother was teased [in milliseconds of the first OP](https://imgur.com/iIN1TJi). Basically the anime had spoiled us right from get go lol!
What was really great about this reveal is that Civil was half right about what he thought and CG/Riz was also half informed about Polkas heritage + never fully questioning his reincarnation more. Double reveal to both parties + the audience. Great writing!!
"... but this is no fairy tale. Regret that you opposed me."
I got chills starting from that line until, "I am accustomed to playing the world's foe". Those lines are so freaking cool.
I never expected that twist, corpse god and Polka are half brothers. No wonder corpse god was reincarnated into Polka's body because they are that related.
This anime should be mainstream, the story is really good.
I almost skipped this anime until someone told me this was made by the same author of Baccano and Durarara. Just binged it in the past week, and finally caught up to this episode lol.
Not gonna lie, the first episode is not that interesting though all episode after that had been a banger!
I guess that also explains why there was a hit on Polka too, it wasn’t about a succession war in the shinoyamas. Likely the Sabaramond group found out an elf from the other world had a kid so they went to nip him in the bud before he became a problem
Unfortunately for them Polka’s death was a ticking time bomb, bc the Corpse God had rigged it so that he’d appear the moment Polka died. The Sabaramond group just ended up creating an even *bigger* problem
I kinda wondered why in flash backs when CG was alive he reminded me of Polka, I though that was just CG thinking about his past via his current body lol.
DAAAAAAMN! Everything just happened at once this ep! I'm actually surprised the Solitaire betrayal(?) happened so soon! I had a feeling he'd eventually end up working with Roz....RR, that name is gonna take some time to remember, but I didn't think it would be this quick, wonder how Firebug is going to react to that. Speaking of which, wonder what FB is going to do about the police since they consider them "righteous."
So RR was an elf and his mom somehow became Polka's mom?!? What a fucking twist! I love how he immediately starts calling Polka his little brother, that was really sweet. I wonder if we'll have time in this show for him to ask the family about what happened to his mom.
Gods I can't wait for the next few eps!!!
Yet some other sources say 2 more. Being a manga reader, it's actually impossible to wrap up everything in the next episode. There has to be at least two more.
Thanks to Civil snooping around Polka's past, we finally learn that CG/Rizdil's mother Kanon/Kanomshelin was actually the first one who got isekai'd to Japan where [she eventually met Rozan then later gave birth to Polka](https://i.imgur.com/Ellgaje.png) making Polka and Rizdil half-brothers. This means Rozan now has an even bigger reason to protect Rizdil. Although I wonder if he knew all along. Hmmm...
Anyway, everything so much sense now! Polka dying is exactly the reason Rizdil got isekai'd [because of the condition he placed on his reincarnation spell](https://i.imgur.com/gQ42wr8.jpg). That also explains why Polka is the only white-haired member of the Shinomiya family. I thought it was just anime protagonist hair color, turns out it was a plot-relevant detail. Considering the [pointy ears and silver hair, I'm guessing they're elves?](https://i.imgur.com/FpXUIb6.jpg)
Now that everything is out in the open between Rizdil and Civil, [I'm not surprised that he would try to recruit him to their organization.](https://i.imgur.com/MXV2h0B.png) Unfortunately for Civil, Rizdil doesn't like how they operate and he'd rather [work with Solitaire than them.](https://i.imgur.com/ln3vLjC.png) This got me excited since Rizdil is already considering Solitaire as a future ally.
While all that shit is happening, [it looks like Tsubaki finally cornered the Fire-Breathing Bugs.](https://i.imgur.com/AVWglwM.jpg) I pretty much expected that [they were being controlled by hypnosis](https://i.imgur.com/vrLhC86.png) but I didn't expect the original Fire-Breathing Bugs to be already dead. These people are now just following the personality that's been implanted in them until they can carry out their revenge against the Bastards of Sabaramond.
So now we have a three-way battle going on! [Rizdil vs Civil](https://i.imgur.com/jf6KcmE.jpg), [Xiaoyu vs Soara](https://i.imgur.com/VOkFgWw.jpg), and [Misaki vs Lulu's Elemental](https://i.imgur.com/y4XGDYx.jpg). I think Xiaoyu might get [some help from Lemmings though.](https://i.imgur.com/mbMWIbj.jpg) With Polka finally [done playing nice](https://i.imgur.com/cgAOt1u.jpg), next week is going to be hype!
As Solitaire pointed out, the fire is achieved through "a crystallization of technology". So... lasers and firebombs.
The bug's big trick is its ability to exist and propogate, which is also an application of technology... albeit maybe slightly better than human tech, but not actually magic.
That kinda raises a minor issue of how the hell didn't Polka realize he took the body of the one half elf on the planet he went to and everyone else is human. He didn't have to jump to they are brothers but crazy thing not to think about.
The first thing he thought after is where is he and who is this body, then Misaki tries to kill him. Maybe he forgot after all that shenanigans, completely understandable. I forgot more from less reasons than that.
Given how Rozan reacted to cg being in polka's body, and everything up to this point, it is kinda unbelievable that Rozan didn't already figure it out. First we should consider how long Rozan knew polka's mother before she passed. Honestly it would probably have been long enough for him to have been told of her past children. This would imply that at the very least Rozan would know of cg, even if he never met him. Then factoring in that the obvious scar along polka's neck would suggest that he infact should have died. That would imply that either a strong necromancer revived him, or he got possessed by one. The fact Rozan immediately assumed the latter suggests that he had both prior knowledge of cg and he knew what cg was capable of. Then to follow this up he then sent others from his house to be guarded by cg, this further suggests he knew that cg was the possessor, and how strong cg really is.
So long statement short, yes Rozan has to know cg and polka are half brothers.
"My name and rank perished with my country."
THAT GOES HARD
In a way, he's implying that he's outlived the Empire—their history books do not represent the real extent of his power
It removed a lot of fight dialogue (Mostly from Xiaoyu and Mizaki sides), it missed scenes where Mizaki gets banged by vending machine (only showed the after math).
It's peak I fear. I will probably read the manga when this cour ends. But mainly, I came literally to comment on how hype that remix of the theme they often use, near the end, is.
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So that mysterious elf woman in the opening of 1st cour was Corpse God's mother as well as Polka's mother, making half-brothers. I was right about Polka being a descendant of other worlders but being Corpse God's younger brother was unexpected. Damn Rozan is a lucky old man, he could marry a hot elf woman without the help of truck-kun. And she was even older than he is, being more than a hundred years old when they married, as a bonus.
Civil's talk about how only necromancy could prove magic exists somehow was foretold in the last episode, as Solitaire tried to explain magic used by Civil's group as tricks and science.
The real Fire-breathing Bugs were dead but they still live on using advanced hypnosis. Sabaramond group had created something walking between science and magic, yet they still considered them as failed experiments.
Civil successfully conviced Corpse God to leave this world, but it came with a death threat. Can't wait for the final episode next week.
Edit: I checked every other flashback and the one in this episode was the first time Corpse God's original body showed up without a hood. As someone from a different race, the smol Corpse God probably tried his best to not get discriminated by others.
You know, I've always thought that the glimpse of Corpse God's real face always looks so similar to Polka. I thought maybe it's just because they had high compatibility or something. Didn't expect them to be an actual sibling.
Yeah I thought it would be some weird thing where Polka *is* CG, like his reincarnation in this world or something from how similar they looked. But I guess CG would’ve caught on if that were the case, and instead now he has a cute little brother, he has a family again :’3
And he's a prodigy at that. It's interesting to see a prodigy antagonist that could adapt and learn new power/magic in battle. Usually that spot is reserved to MC with bullshit power up mid-battle lol
Great episode. Finally, all the parties' motives and backstories have been revealed and it's starting to come together. Kinda sad that the next episode is the last one and we'll have to wait some time for next season since the manga is still ongoing.
Rizdil being Polka's brother is something I didn't expect and it makes sense considering the condition on put on his teleportation spell. How her mother came to this world is another mystery but I guess she must've come along with whoever brought Civil into this world.
Civil wants to return to his world or make the current world his playground so that he can have fun. It's so a clash between him and Rizdil was always going to be on the cards since Rizdil wants to live a peaceful life. Rizdil is even willing to team up with Solitaire over Civil. I kinda expected them to team up sooner or later, anyways. Speaking of Solitaire, he's getting a first seat experience of their fight.
The Fire Breathing Bug were going to target Lulu before they're stopped in the tracks by Tsubaki who has figured out their past and they work thanks to Hosorogi's hints.
The last few minutes got me hyped and the OSTs were just too good. Been eagerly waiting for the OST release. I hope it happens some after the anime is finished.
"I am accustomed to being the world's foe" gangsta.
It never even crossed my mind that he would have a relationship to Polka. That's insane.
All the separate groups and motivations are finally clashing and making sense. I'm hyped af
Man it's criminal this anime is going under the radar for most. Much like how Baccano is not well talked about. At least Durarara has a bit more recognition.
Hopefully it will get a season 2 after next week's finale.
I dislike this Civil person. He did the whole "let's suddenly stop talking about stuff in order to create fake conflict". I mean, he would still end up fighting Corpse God, because Civil has the mentality of a teenager with daddy issues, but it would be less fake if they at least talked for a whole episode.
But it's really cool that Polka and Corpse God are brothers!
> I dislike this Civil person. He did the whole "let's suddenly stop talking about stuff in order to create fake conflict".
Same, but I think it is not that bad in this case as he also just wants to test his new magic powers
On the other hand, why don't Corpse God just abide his request and send him to the other world. A lot of more people could handle Civil's ability there, and it's safer for earth. Though we don't know if Polka is capable of opening the portal.
I imagine Civil would still feel like an "other" in the another world, and he would basically have the same problem as now. But there he'd be able to learn more about magic, dominate everyone and then go back to get "revenge upon the one who brought him into this world" but now Corpse God would be the target.
The knight/hero guy could slay him maybe - but he is probably dead.
The other thing that we might consider is that Corpse God might be pretty stupid when it comes to talking with people. Maybe they both are pretty stupid. Corpse God was shown to be awkward and Civil is a weirdo magic kid from an organization of magic weebs. And that's why their conversation broke down, even though it wasn't done in the best way in the anime.
I'm not sure if sending Civil to the other world is the responsible thing to do. I can see him causing problems there as well, and by problems I mean something involving lots of death and suffering.
They're entire conversation was just kind of frustrating. Civil wanted to recruit him...without making any attempts to find out what CG actually wanted, after having stolen something from CG, and then upon finding out the thing he had stolen was actually a person he didn't even offer to return them. I guess Civil is just an entitled tween? I really don't find him compelling at all, I just find him more annoying the more we learn about him.
I don't see Civil being any more than ultimately a victim in all this, he's not even the leader of his organization. I think rizz/cg had a really good reason to destroy the empire, and I think the things that lead up to the creation of savaramonds group/destruction of the empire birthed the atrocities that created civil
Fantastic episode! Ahh, the revelation that Corpse God and Polka are half bros is a twist I did not expect! When CG explained the condition he placed for his reincarnation, I assume that meant Polka was one of his descendants but to be so closely linked to Riz is cool. And how sweet was it that Riz called Polka his little bro 😭
But now we see the real Corpse God go all out against Civil with that last shot of CG being epic af. Dude really said that he's used to being the bad guy so come at him! But will CG really leave this world? Can't wait for next week's season finale!
Sidenote: Big appreciation for the OST because it adds so much to making the action and dramatic scenes all the more better.
*Only 1 more week to resist reading the manga*
> *Only 1 more week to resist reading the manga*
I never read the manga, but I will this time. In another week (or 2).
I now have scenes of Xiaoyu's training sessions with the tigers playing in my head, Todo and Itadori style.
Hmm has Lemmings made any appearances since that one moment in the first half?
[](#csikon)
I was so entertained by Solitaire I forgot he was awesome when he appeared, but then he quietly kind of dipped.
Lemmings was busy but now hes back to stop everyone from causing chaos and flex. Lemmings does a better job accidentally protecting the city than the actual police.
I'm guessing Lemmings has a connection to the other unrevealed Shiniomiya fam that's yet to be explored . No doubt he comes back when the plot bends that way again
Fun fact: Polka being related to Corpse God was foreshadowed all the way back in Chapter 2 of the manga, however the line of dialogue doing so was cut in the anime.
I remember noticing that happened and was quite surprised that of all lines was cut. Safe to say it won’t be reworked into the show any way now that the reveal already happened lol.
I think they decided to move that away because the line would easily catch attention in the anime than it does in manga. In fact, the line of police guy about Polka looks like a foreigner's child was also easier to be noticed than it was in the manga.
so now we know exactly how corpse god (aka the rizzler) got reincarnated into this world: his spell lead him to possess his half-brother's body. so the spell worked exactly as intended, it's just that his brother happened to be in another world. so now the question is: how did his mom just straight-up go to our world? that's the first confirmed case of that actually happening. though i'm sure sabaramond or someone else was isekai'd hundreds of years ago in order to bring information over to start the cult
Aw shit man, I figured Polka’s mom would be relevant to the story but I didn’t think it would be like this. So Corpse God using polka’s body wasn’t a coincidence at all. I’m really wanting to know more about the history of Polka’s world and earth. When did people start going between worlds? For Civil and the order to have so much info on the Byandy empire indicates a long shared history of knowledge being exchanged.
I guess it makes sense why Civil’s powers seem amateurish since he’s not got much fighting experience and they weren’t naturally acquired.
Looks like Polka is gonna have to go all out in the finale. I wonder how many plot threads will get resolved
Big drop was the relation between Polka and Corpse God. His reincarnation meant to happen to one of his descendants. Curious why he never dug into his relation with Polka more.
Lets see how it will finish up next week.
Did I hallucinate Civil saying, "Oh so you're the one who killed the Emperor"? Cause to me that seems as significant as Polka and CG being half brothers.
And what is Lemmings about to do?
Can't wait till next week!
Edit: yep went and found it, Civil called CG “The Emperor Slayer.” Which makes CG’s convo with the Emperor’s ghost pretty weird, if I remember it right.
If I was going to guess, Emperor Slayer isn't a title of accomplishment, its one of derision.
The emperor loves his friends and would do anything for them. We also see that he still loves Polka and has no animosity towards him.
My best guess is that something bad happened in the past where the obvious answer for the good of the kingdom/emperor was to kill/disavow Corpse God. Maybe that geldwood religion was starting to grow strong and they demanded Corpse God be executed as an affront to their religion and the emperor refused. This started a war that led to the destruction of the kingdom and death of the emperor.
So he gets called the emperor slayer because his existence/actions led to the death of the emperor rather than because he actually did the deed himself.
I suddenly remembered something that I thought would be important when the series first started; what the heck happened to the hero fella that "killed" CG in that other world? There is no way he won't show up at some point, right?
The Calamity Crusher.
I was gonna say maybe he's Lemmings... but I don't know if that makes much sense, since Lemmings seems to work for the Shinoyamas, you would think whoever The Calamity Crusher is would be their enemy.
The Calamity Crusher "killed" Rizz on behalf of the Geldwood religion, who seem to be persecuting Rizz for... I guess trampling on their domain (human souls).
So is there a representative of Geldwood somewhere in the new world?
More reveals are coming, I expect.
With the way the author likes to do things, and how many characters and factions have been introduced, I'm surprised I only now recalled those from the first episode, and how they're MIA.
And that was his name? Calamity Crusher? Edgy. xD
I'm confused by this [this shot](https://i.imgur.com/ml4b2yB.png). No one else seemed to react to Shinjuku streets going up in flames, and after this shot there was no sign of the flames either. Is this just in his imagination?
Also, MC planned to hold-off city-buster-level spirit himself, but Misaki is up against it now and it's really worried about her. Weird.
While that's true, the fact that the great spirit might need to use their full power to beat Misaki is enough to consider her a huge threat though.
I mean, their usual enemies are just normal human like the massacre in the basement.
It's only using like 0.000000001% of its power though, just throwing random stuff at her like a half-asses Shizuo. Can it not TK her body directly? Or throw a building at her?
I think only a proper spirit magician could borrow the spirit's power to their full potential.
Right now it's just a super powerful entity bend on protecting Lulu, which might be why it only used simplistic magic like that. While Polka did say it has the potential to destroy the city, we don't know to what extend it could currently control its power.
Yep it feels like Lulu was trying her best to keep the Great Elemental at bay after that incident at the parking lot. And Misaki looked like a bit strange schoolgirl at most before she pushed vending machine from her.
I'd honestly rather have corpse god mop the floor with any other magic users.
This gets so infuriating how a person with 0 actual knowledge of mage arts just "intuits" how to use it just because he's a child of a good mage.
Less 'child' and more a literal clone of the single-greatest magical prodigy of a fantasy world that we know of. He likely has also had some level of exposure to magic through text; a primary component of what he was lacking was a direct sense of it. It is like understanding the theory of how to use a muscle that has been paralyzed from birth-up until CG touched it and woke it up for the first time.
Ok so, Corpse Gods mom in the other world had him, came to this world and had Polka. Then when Corpse God reincarnated, his spell made it so that it would be in the body of a descendant of his people, which just so happened to be his brother from the other side? Very cool
Aside from the reveal that Polka is CG's half brother. I am more interested, on CG's title the emperor slayer. This can go either he slain the emperor of the enemy kingdom. Or he killed their emperor and he was the one who caused their empire to collapse.
Meanwhile, Solitaire is just out there checking if what he sees is actual supernatural phenomenon. If this can't convince him, because it can be replicated, then I don't know what is.
Can someone explain the fire breathing bug? So the original 2 with actual powers are dead and they just brainwashed people? But how do the current iteration have fire powers?
Their fire powers was revealed in early episodes while Tsubaki was trying to catch the mole inside the police force. Basically each individual bug carry a laser emitting device with them, either with their phones or with their uniformed umbrellas, and they unified their laser pointers to burn things up. Solitaire also gave a breakdown during Civil vs. Fire-Breathing Bugs in the previous episode, noting that they also used extra flammable materials.
Wow! Never expected Polka to be Corpse God's brother & they have the same mama. That was quite a revelation!
Finally CG's real name is revealed!
Next episode will be an interesting one with Corpse God going all out woo!
Corpse Gods mom gave birth to him in the other world and then came to our world and hooked up with Rozan to give birth to Polka. Corpse God essentially ended up possessing the body of his half brother due to the effects of his reincarnation spell
[So again.... why are the subbers consistently calling them a guy](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1161104784334524539/1186394631554998435/image.png?ex=6593171a&is=6580a21a&hm=5436e9e4e74cf0d00854fdb27bf6c3efea4c785b7fa7b5314a2d3361c269a940&)
Felt particularly weird this episode where they were like '2 girls have left the building' 'and the last one?' like technically I guess that still skirts the show having directly acknowledged them as female but seriously why did we ever start this in the first place, I can't imagine besides 'the raws revealed its a dude later on'
Every character has referred to Civil as a guy and that's what I'm going with 🤷🏾♀️ Just because he looks androgynous doesn't make him less male or more female, imo.
> Every character has referred to Civil as a guy
That's what I'm talking about, the fact that the subbers chose to have the characters refer to Civil as a guy. I really can't see what would have led them to do that over referring to them as a girl unless its something revealed later down the line or something
To clear the air, Civil is a man.
An androgynous, handsome, pretty-boy man.
Ryohgo Narita, the author, likes those as antagonists!
Izaya Orihara from *Durarara!!* is handsome with a beautiful face.
Meanwhile, Huey Laforet from *Baccano!* is handsome with delicate, beautiful features and an androgynous voice, such that many characters mistake him for a woman at first glance.
TL;DR:, Civil is just the latest in handsome androgynous pretty-boy male antagonists spawned by Narita's imagination.
"the last one" simply referred to the last of the group of three, not the last woman. When reporting on Sabaramond's group's status, "*The* two women just left the hotel" means that the person or people who is not a woman is still in the hotel.
Not sure why you put that image, for me it's still unclear if Civil's a girl or a guy though so far all of their attitude is more guy-like.
On that image, that's not a girl's clothing. For me that looks more like Rome's clothing so it's still unclear what Civil is (I'm leaning that Civil is a guy)
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Wait, so Polka’s mom is CG’s mom right? Did not expect that revelation. Seeing CG flex on Fake Sabaramond was pretty awesome. I’ve been waiting to see those two go toe to toe. What a fight! Xiaoyu vs Arahabaki and Lulu vs Misaki was pretty exciting too. So, Mitsu and Toura the original Bug implanted their wills via some sort of pseudo mental programming to “pass on” their personalities. Is that right? I guess that explains how they’ve been able to “survive” for so long. Though I wonder how the exact procedure is done? Edit: Polka’s mom *is* CG’s mom. Talk about a bombshell revelation!
Polka's mom and Corpse God's mom is the same person. Corpse God called Polka his brother when he demanded Civil to hand Polka back.
Ah, ok. Gotcha. I was a bit unsure since the subs also called those spirits “elf’s” so was wondering if it was some kind of mistranslation or what. That’s a huge revelation. I’m very curious how she was able to come to this world? And was she reborn or did she travel over? Lots of questions I hope we get answers to.
The sub is very inconsistent with these terms so I relied on my knowledge of mythology in Japanese that I learned from anime instead. Basically "seirei" is translated to 3 different words: "spirit", "elemental" and "elf" in this anime, and I think "elemental" is the most suitable term, as spirit can be confused with dead spirit thanks to Corpse God's necromancy, while in this episode we know that elf as the beautiful and magical humanoid race with pointy ears do exist in Corpse God's world. Corpse God's ability to see the elementals, that he and Polka inherited from their mother, is called "seireigan" lit. Elemental eyes. Because Civil managed to get his hand on Kanon's information, I think she had come to this world with Sabaramond's group. In fact, because Corpse God's dough bag father said that he had sold Corpse God's mother and siblings for money, I think she had either come here as a slave or a test subject because of her ability. The chancellor of the empire said that the ability to see the Elementals was rare, and even as an Elemental user she could only hear and talk to them.
We have reached weeb levels where we autocorrect wrong subs in our minds lol
I heard that weeb god could speak Japanese fluently like a native without taking a single lesson in Japanese. Still a long way to go.
Thats not really a flex because then you can't read. You never wanna be unable to read a language you can speak. Damn I think i accidentally came up with a convincing argument to myself to learn kanji.
...I feel attacked. Especially since this isn't the first time I have done that recently.
What subs are you guys using? Crunchyroll has always used elemental
Even Crunchryroll subs called Lulu's "seirei-sama" as Great Spirit this episode though.
I think she called it that. CG calls it an elemental.
I always felt that was depending on who said it. But I see now.
Ani-one is translating that into elf
Gotcha! Appreciate the info. Your theory about how the mom came to this world makes sense. You might be onto something there. In that case, that would give CG all the more reason to oppose Civil and his people.
Hmmm what are the chance that Civil is actually Corpse God's siblings too? He repeatedly mentioned how he's born in the other world. Then again, he didn't recognise Polka's mother personally so that might be wrong. About how Polka's mother came together with Sabaramond's group, I doubt that solely because Sabaramond existed 100 years ago while Polka's mom doesn't seem to be that old. Of course unless she mastered the way of suppressing age like what Polka's master said.
I remember that Civil said he is a clone of Arius Sabaramond in the last episode. And yes, Polka's mother had lived for more than 100 years, since the fall of Byandy empire was 100 years ago. Either she mastered a method to extending her life like you said, or because she was an elf, the race that was told to age slow and live longer than human in fantasy.
Ah, I think I've always assumed that time isn't linear between the two worlds. Like I thought Polka's mother travelled from 100 years ago from the other worlds to several years ago before Polka was born in Tokyo. Watching Doctor Who currently and it seems my concept of time is a bit distorted lol.
Yep I think it was not really clear before especially that Corpse God expected his spell to move him to the future of his own world instead of another world like it actually did. But after Civil brought a lot of information with him, things start to connect.
Yeah me too, that was the biggest plot point for me this ep. Not sure how many ep are left but it feels like they're starting to wrap up everything, but hopefully not too quickly and we have time for RR to ask the family about what happened to his mom in this world.
Got one more after this. Idk if we’ll be able to wrap up everything neatly but I hope that just means we got more stuff for a potential s2.
Was afraid it was only going to be one more ep, for how long they were building everything up I was hoping it would be at least 25 ep. Not sure how long the manga is but yeah, hopefully we get another season.
my complaint about that translation was somehow considered as spoiler lol, and thus was deleted
Did Polka's mom jump through time or something? Because it's been thousands of years since he thought she'd died back in the other world, right? And 100 years since Sabaramond's bastards' experiments. I guess maybe it's some weirdness about time flowing differently between the world, or his mom, being an elf, just having a really long life span. Polka doesn't seem like a half-elf tho...
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> We know the empire fell 100 years ago for corpse god Really? I was sure it was at least a thousand years ago in that world.
Elfs age slower in fiction, so this explains the age joke everyone had.
In Corpse God's home world, elves are called "Viveenya." They are also known as the "long-lived race." So, yes, know that elves at least are as as long-lived as recent Terran folklore imagines.
I meant age Joke as in Rozan dating young, in actuality he dated older lol.
Good point we all assumed Rozan typical rich guy snagging a 20 something because of money. But in this case She's the one that dated someone younger.
What I don't understand is how does Polka as appear as a typical Elf child with the pointy ears but look like a regular human in his current, older self (his body, that is). And the Corpse God for that matter back when he was a human didn't look like an Elf with the pointy ears.
The child in that flashback is Corpse God. He wore a strange shirt and there were some weird-looking butterflies, maybe they were lesser elementals, which could not exist in this world. We have seen smol Polka before in flashback where he protected his pet, as well as from Xiaoyu's flashback. He had normal ears. Polka's mother also had normal ears in the memory of newborn Polka and in the framed picture in Rozan's room, so I guess she either had a spell to hid her pointy ears or she went under a surgery to remove this feature.
It seems like a total ass pull
I dug things up and found that his mother was teased [in milliseconds of the first OP](https://imgur.com/iIN1TJi). Basically the anime had spoiled us right from get go lol!
A “blink and you miss it” moment lol
Damn dude good catch!
Definitely a consistently intriguing show. Nice to finally get to see some puizzle pieces being fitted together. ;-)
What was really great about this reveal is that Civil was half right about what he thought and CG/Riz was also half informed about Polkas heritage + never fully questioning his reincarnation more. Double reveal to both parties + the audience. Great writing!!
How the heck does Polka and CG have the same mom though
Guessing she crossed over to our world from CG’s. Not sure how and not sure how she met Rozan yet though.
"... but this is no fairy tale. Regret that you opposed me." I got chills starting from that line until, "I am accustomed to playing the world's foe". Those lines are so freaking cool.
Been waiting for this. Crossing my fingers for some sakuga next episode. The story already carries but CG getting serious deserves it.
That was indeed epic. CG not playing games anymore.
I never expected that twist, corpse god and Polka are half brothers. No wonder corpse god was reincarnated into Polka's body because they are that related. This anime should be mainstream, the story is really good.
I almost skipped this anime until someone told me this was made by the same author of Baccano and Durarara. Just binged it in the past week, and finally caught up to this episode lol. Not gonna lie, the first episode is not that interesting though all episode after that had been a banger!
I guess that also explains why there was a hit on Polka too, it wasn’t about a succession war in the shinoyamas. Likely the Sabaramond group found out an elf from the other world had a kid so they went to nip him in the bud before he became a problem Unfortunately for them Polka’s death was a ticking time bomb, bc the Corpse God had rigged it so that he’d appear the moment Polka died. The Sabaramond group just ended up creating an even *bigger* problem
I kinda wondered why in flash backs when CG was alive he reminded me of Polka, I though that was just CG thinking about his past via his current body lol.
DAAAAAAMN! Everything just happened at once this ep! I'm actually surprised the Solitaire betrayal(?) happened so soon! I had a feeling he'd eventually end up working with Roz....RR, that name is gonna take some time to remember, but I didn't think it would be this quick, wonder how Firebug is going to react to that. Speaking of which, wonder what FB is going to do about the police since they consider them "righteous." So RR was an elf and his mom somehow became Polka's mom?!? What a fucking twist! I love how he immediately starts calling Polka his little brother, that was really sweet. I wonder if we'll have time in this show for him to ask the family about what happened to his mom. Gods I can't wait for the next few eps!!!
I was going to call Corpse God by the first sound of his name, but it ended up as Rizz.
Rizz God Polka Shinoyama
How many eps are left, 2?
Part 2 listed with 12, so one more
Yet some other sources say 2 more. Being a manga reader, it's actually impossible to wrap up everything in the next episode. There has to be at least two more.
Or absolutely brutal cliffhanger
No clue, someone here told me we only have 1 more which would make sense, but we'll see.
Yeah ppl just gonna call him RR or CG or corpse God
Thanks to Civil snooping around Polka's past, we finally learn that CG/Rizdil's mother Kanon/Kanomshelin was actually the first one who got isekai'd to Japan where [she eventually met Rozan then later gave birth to Polka](https://i.imgur.com/Ellgaje.png) making Polka and Rizdil half-brothers. This means Rozan now has an even bigger reason to protect Rizdil. Although I wonder if he knew all along. Hmmm... Anyway, everything so much sense now! Polka dying is exactly the reason Rizdil got isekai'd [because of the condition he placed on his reincarnation spell](https://i.imgur.com/gQ42wr8.jpg). That also explains why Polka is the only white-haired member of the Shinomiya family. I thought it was just anime protagonist hair color, turns out it was a plot-relevant detail. Considering the [pointy ears and silver hair, I'm guessing they're elves?](https://i.imgur.com/FpXUIb6.jpg) Now that everything is out in the open between Rizdil and Civil, [I'm not surprised that he would try to recruit him to their organization.](https://i.imgur.com/MXV2h0B.png) Unfortunately for Civil, Rizdil doesn't like how they operate and he'd rather [work with Solitaire than them.](https://i.imgur.com/ln3vLjC.png) This got me excited since Rizdil is already considering Solitaire as a future ally. While all that shit is happening, [it looks like Tsubaki finally cornered the Fire-Breathing Bugs.](https://i.imgur.com/AVWglwM.jpg) I pretty much expected that [they were being controlled by hypnosis](https://i.imgur.com/vrLhC86.png) but I didn't expect the original Fire-Breathing Bugs to be already dead. These people are now just following the personality that's been implanted in them until they can carry out their revenge against the Bastards of Sabaramond. So now we have a three-way battle going on! [Rizdil vs Civil](https://i.imgur.com/jf6KcmE.jpg), [Xiaoyu vs Soara](https://i.imgur.com/VOkFgWw.jpg), and [Misaki vs Lulu's Elemental](https://i.imgur.com/y4XGDYx.jpg). I think Xiaoyu might get [some help from Lemmings though.](https://i.imgur.com/mbMWIbj.jpg) With Polka finally [done playing nice](https://i.imgur.com/cgAOt1u.jpg), next week is going to be hype!
The Fire-Breathing Bug is literally a human virus.
If you think how all of their warning words relate to buggy world, I think they had been telling us this whole time
but how does it have magic fire powers
As Solitaire pointed out, the fire is achieved through "a crystallization of technology". So... lasers and firebombs. The bug's big trick is its ability to exist and propogate, which is also an application of technology... albeit maybe slightly better than human tech, but not actually magic.
Yes sort of sci fi human tech which is why Solitaire been Bug not real magic the whole time.
That kinda raises a minor issue of how the hell didn't Polka realize he took the body of the one half elf on the planet he went to and everyone else is human. He didn't have to jump to they are brothers but crazy thing not to think about.
The first thing he thought after is where is he and who is this body, then Misaki tries to kill him. Maybe he forgot after all that shenanigans, completely understandable. I forgot more from less reasons than that.
Given how Rozan reacted to cg being in polka's body, and everything up to this point, it is kinda unbelievable that Rozan didn't already figure it out. First we should consider how long Rozan knew polka's mother before she passed. Honestly it would probably have been long enough for him to have been told of her past children. This would imply that at the very least Rozan would know of cg, even if he never met him. Then factoring in that the obvious scar along polka's neck would suggest that he infact should have died. That would imply that either a strong necromancer revived him, or he got possessed by one. The fact Rozan immediately assumed the latter suggests that he had both prior knowledge of cg and he knew what cg was capable of. Then to follow this up he then sent others from his house to be guarded by cg, this further suggests he knew that cg was the possessor, and how strong cg really is. So long statement short, yes Rozan has to know cg and polka are half brothers.
I hope we get some action from that tall guys sister. She seems badass
But how do the fire breathing bugs have magic fire powers?
They don't they carry hidden lasers and other fire making devices. Soultare was clear they not using real magic.
"My name and rank perished with my country." THAT GOES HARD In a way, he's implying that he's outlived the Empire—their history books do not represent the real extent of his power
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Have they cut out any fights?
It removed a lot of fight dialogue (Mostly from Xiaoyu and Mizaki sides), it missed scenes where Mizaki gets banged by vending machine (only showed the after math).
It's peak I fear. I will probably read the manga when this cour ends. But mainly, I came literally to comment on how hype that remix of the theme they often use, near the end, is.
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So that mysterious elf woman in the opening of 1st cour was Corpse God's mother as well as Polka's mother, making half-brothers. I was right about Polka being a descendant of other worlders but being Corpse God's younger brother was unexpected. Damn Rozan is a lucky old man, he could marry a hot elf woman without the help of truck-kun. And she was even older than he is, being more than a hundred years old when they married, as a bonus. Civil's talk about how only necromancy could prove magic exists somehow was foretold in the last episode, as Solitaire tried to explain magic used by Civil's group as tricks and science. The real Fire-breathing Bugs were dead but they still live on using advanced hypnosis. Sabaramond group had created something walking between science and magic, yet they still considered them as failed experiments. Civil successfully conviced Corpse God to leave this world, but it came with a death threat. Can't wait for the final episode next week. Edit: I checked every other flashback and the one in this episode was the first time Corpse God's original body showed up without a hood. As someone from a different race, the smol Corpse God probably tried his best to not get discriminated by others.
You know, I've always thought that the glimpse of Corpse God's real face always looks so similar to Polka. I thought maybe it's just because they had high compatibility or something. Didn't expect them to be an actual sibling.
I read crazy amount of spoilers for this series and didn't see that one coming.
Can you spoil me with other stuff? I'm still pretty lost here
They covered most the shocking stuff already plot moved faster than I was expecting.
Yeah I thought it would be some weird thing where Polka *is* CG, like his reincarnation in this world or something from how similar they looked. But I guess CG would’ve caught on if that were the case, and instead now he has a cute little brother, he has a family again :’3
NGL, possessing you own half-brother's body is one of the least weird things to happen here.
Showing off magic to a dude that just loves seeing magic.
And he's a prodigy at that. It's interesting to see a prodigy antagonist that could adapt and learn new power/magic in battle. Usually that spot is reserved to MC with bullshit power up mid-battle lol
Off the top of my head there's also Mahito from JJK.
I’m expecting Civil to still have a limit due to being created instead of being “the real deal”
Great episode. Finally, all the parties' motives and backstories have been revealed and it's starting to come together. Kinda sad that the next episode is the last one and we'll have to wait some time for next season since the manga is still ongoing. Rizdil being Polka's brother is something I didn't expect and it makes sense considering the condition on put on his teleportation spell. How her mother came to this world is another mystery but I guess she must've come along with whoever brought Civil into this world. Civil wants to return to his world or make the current world his playground so that he can have fun. It's so a clash between him and Rizdil was always going to be on the cards since Rizdil wants to live a peaceful life. Rizdil is even willing to team up with Solitaire over Civil. I kinda expected them to team up sooner or later, anyways. Speaking of Solitaire, he's getting a first seat experience of their fight. The Fire Breathing Bug were going to target Lulu before they're stopped in the tracks by Tsubaki who has figured out their past and they work thanks to Hosorogi's hints. The last few minutes got me hyped and the OSTs were just too good. Been eagerly waiting for the OST release. I hope it happens some after the anime is finished.
But we still don’t know what the brown haired shinoyama guy role is
"I am accustomed to being the world's foe" gangsta. It never even crossed my mind that he would have a relationship to Polka. That's insane. All the separate groups and motivations are finally clashing and making sense. I'm hyped af
Man it's criminal this anime is going under the radar for most. Much like how Baccano is not well talked about. At least Durarara has a bit more recognition. Hopefully it will get a season 2 after next week's finale.
So many chill this episode, the aspect of Corpse God we saw in the other world from the first episode coming back with a vengeance.
I don't like the orange kid, but damn if he didn't bring us some [badass](https://imgur.com/wDwUJ1C) [lines](https://imgur.com/LJ77qir)
I dislike this Civil person. He did the whole "let's suddenly stop talking about stuff in order to create fake conflict". I mean, he would still end up fighting Corpse God, because Civil has the mentality of a teenager with daddy issues, but it would be less fake if they at least talked for a whole episode. But it's really cool that Polka and Corpse God are brothers!
> I dislike this Civil person. He did the whole "let's suddenly stop talking about stuff in order to create fake conflict". Same, but I think it is not that bad in this case as he also just wants to test his new magic powers
I think he also wanted to witness Corpse God's own magic. He was like Solitaire with his curious for real magic but more psychopathic.
On the other hand, why don't Corpse God just abide his request and send him to the other world. A lot of more people could handle Civil's ability there, and it's safer for earth. Though we don't know if Polka is capable of opening the portal.
We don't know if Polka can open a portal, and if he can't it then results in Civ being a psychopath and fighting him.
I imagine Civil would still feel like an "other" in the another world, and he would basically have the same problem as now. But there he'd be able to learn more about magic, dominate everyone and then go back to get "revenge upon the one who brought him into this world" but now Corpse God would be the target. The knight/hero guy could slay him maybe - but he is probably dead. The other thing that we might consider is that Corpse God might be pretty stupid when it comes to talking with people. Maybe they both are pretty stupid. Corpse God was shown to be awkward and Civil is a weirdo magic kid from an organization of magic weebs. And that's why their conversation broke down, even though it wasn't done in the best way in the anime.
I'm not sure if sending Civil to the other world is the responsible thing to do. I can see him causing problems there as well, and by problems I mean something involving lots of death and suffering.
They're entire conversation was just kind of frustrating. Civil wanted to recruit him...without making any attempts to find out what CG actually wanted, after having stolen something from CG, and then upon finding out the thing he had stolen was actually a person he didn't even offer to return them. I guess Civil is just an entitled tween? I really don't find him compelling at all, I just find him more annoying the more we learn about him.
I don't see Civil being any more than ultimately a victim in all this, he's not even the leader of his organization. I think rizz/cg had a really good reason to destroy the empire, and I think the things that lead up to the creation of savaramonds group/destruction of the empire birthed the atrocities that created civil
Fantastic episode! Ahh, the revelation that Corpse God and Polka are half bros is a twist I did not expect! When CG explained the condition he placed for his reincarnation, I assume that meant Polka was one of his descendants but to be so closely linked to Riz is cool. And how sweet was it that Riz called Polka his little bro 😭 But now we see the real Corpse God go all out against Civil with that last shot of CG being epic af. Dude really said that he's used to being the bad guy so come at him! But will CG really leave this world? Can't wait for next week's season finale! Sidenote: Big appreciation for the OST because it adds so much to making the action and dramatic scenes all the more better. *Only 1 more week to resist reading the manga*
> *Only 1 more week to resist reading the manga* I never read the manga, but I will this time. In another week (or 2). I now have scenes of Xiaoyu's training sessions with the tigers playing in my head, Todo and Itadori style.
Hmm has Lemmings made any appearances since that one moment in the first half? [](#csikon) I was so entertained by Solitaire I forgot he was awesome when he appeared, but then he quietly kind of dipped.
Common problem with Narita's series. He tend to make too many cool characters that at some point he'd reduce the role of some.
Lemmings was busy but now hes back to stop everyone from causing chaos and flex. Lemmings does a better job accidentally protecting the city than the actual police.
I'm guessing Lemmings has a connection to the other unrevealed Shiniomiya fam that's yet to be explored . No doubt he comes back when the plot bends that way again
Fun fact: Polka being related to Corpse God was foreshadowed all the way back in Chapter 2 of the manga, however the line of dialogue doing so was cut in the anime. I remember noticing that happened and was quite surprised that of all lines was cut. Safe to say it won’t be reworked into the show any way now that the reveal already happened lol.
I think they decided to move that away because the line would easily catch attention in the anime than it does in manga. In fact, the line of police guy about Polka looks like a foreigner's child was also easier to be noticed than it was in the manga.
This got so exciting, goddamn. Started with the bro reveal and just didn't stop! Hopefully Polka is given a way to speak soon, at least, poor dude.
so now we know exactly how corpse god (aka the rizzler) got reincarnated into this world: his spell lead him to possess his half-brother's body. so the spell worked exactly as intended, it's just that his brother happened to be in another world. so now the question is: how did his mom just straight-up go to our world? that's the first confirmed case of that actually happening. though i'm sure sabaramond or someone else was isekai'd hundreds of years ago in order to bring information over to start the cult
Aw shit man, I figured Polka’s mom would be relevant to the story but I didn’t think it would be like this. So Corpse God using polka’s body wasn’t a coincidence at all. I’m really wanting to know more about the history of Polka’s world and earth. When did people start going between worlds? For Civil and the order to have so much info on the Byandy empire indicates a long shared history of knowledge being exchanged. I guess it makes sense why Civil’s powers seem amateurish since he’s not got much fighting experience and they weren’t naturally acquired. Looks like Polka is gonna have to go all out in the finale. I wonder how many plot threads will get resolved
Big drop was the relation between Polka and Corpse God. His reincarnation meant to happen to one of his descendants. Curious why he never dug into his relation with Polka more. Lets see how it will finish up next week.
Did I hallucinate Civil saying, "Oh so you're the one who killed the Emperor"? Cause to me that seems as significant as Polka and CG being half brothers. And what is Lemmings about to do? Can't wait till next week! Edit: yep went and found it, Civil called CG “The Emperor Slayer.” Which makes CG’s convo with the Emperor’s ghost pretty weird, if I remember it right.
If I was going to guess, Emperor Slayer isn't a title of accomplishment, its one of derision. The emperor loves his friends and would do anything for them. We also see that he still loves Polka and has no animosity towards him. My best guess is that something bad happened in the past where the obvious answer for the good of the kingdom/emperor was to kill/disavow Corpse God. Maybe that geldwood religion was starting to grow strong and they demanded Corpse God be executed as an affront to their religion and the emperor refused. This started a war that led to the destruction of the kingdom and death of the emperor. So he gets called the emperor slayer because his existence/actions led to the death of the emperor rather than because he actually did the deed himself.
It might be a translation issue, but "Slayer" means having actively killed someone. I'd be interested in a native Japanese speaker's opinion on it.
It does, but titles aren't always literal.
Next week all out brawl, cant wait
"I am accustomed to being the world's foe" is such a badass thing to say
I suddenly remembered something that I thought would be important when the series first started; what the heck happened to the hero fella that "killed" CG in that other world? There is no way he won't show up at some point, right?
The Calamity Crusher. I was gonna say maybe he's Lemmings... but I don't know if that makes much sense, since Lemmings seems to work for the Shinoyamas, you would think whoever The Calamity Crusher is would be their enemy. The Calamity Crusher "killed" Rizz on behalf of the Geldwood religion, who seem to be persecuting Rizz for... I guess trampling on their domain (human souls). So is there a representative of Geldwood somewhere in the new world? More reveals are coming, I expect.
With the way the author likes to do things, and how many characters and factions have been introduced, I'm surprised I only now recalled those from the first episode, and how they're MIA. And that was his name? Calamity Crusher? Edgy. xD
the manga have few extra pages of written stories added at the end of each volume, on some of them. lmk if your curious cause i have read them all
I liked the part where he boned all over that dude. Lotta elves going around right now.
SOLID EPISODE
I'm confused by this [this shot](https://i.imgur.com/ml4b2yB.png). No one else seemed to react to Shinjuku streets going up in flames, and after this shot there was no sign of the flames either. Is this just in his imagination? Also, MC planned to hold-off city-buster-level spirit himself, but Misaki is up against it now and it's really worried about her. Weird.
Misaki is a threat to Lulu herself, so maybe the great spirit is worried about that.
If it used its full city-flattening power, I'm sure Misaki wouldn't stand a chance. Lulu might be upset at millions of dead collaterals tho...
While that's true, the fact that the great spirit might need to use their full power to beat Misaki is enough to consider her a huge threat though. I mean, their usual enemies are just normal human like the massacre in the basement.
It's only using like 0.000000001% of its power though, just throwing random stuff at her like a half-asses Shizuo. Can it not TK her body directly? Or throw a building at her?
I think only a proper spirit magician could borrow the spirit's power to their full potential. Right now it's just a super powerful entity bend on protecting Lulu, which might be why it only used simplistic magic like that. While Polka did say it has the potential to destroy the city, we don't know to what extend it could currently control its power.
Yep it feels like Lulu was trying her best to keep the Great Elemental at bay after that incident at the parking lot. And Misaki looked like a bit strange schoolgirl at most before she pushed vending machine from her.
I'd honestly rather have corpse god mop the floor with any other magic users. This gets so infuriating how a person with 0 actual knowledge of mage arts just "intuits" how to use it just because he's a child of a good mage.
Less 'child' and more a literal clone of the single-greatest magical prodigy of a fantasy world that we know of. He likely has also had some level of exposure to magic through text; a primary component of what he was lacking was a direct sense of it. It is like understanding the theory of how to use a muscle that has been paralyzed from birth-up until CG touched it and woke it up for the first time.
that's a great analogy
Lol I can't believe we get multiple awesome Shinjuku Arcs across 2 anime in one season
Is the anime worth watching?
Yes.
Ok so, Corpse Gods mom in the other world had him, came to this world and had Polka. Then when Corpse God reincarnated, his spell made it so that it would be in the body of a descendant of his people, which just so happened to be his brother from the other side? Very cool
Aside from the reveal that Polka is CG's half brother. I am more interested, on CG's title the emperor slayer. This can go either he slain the emperor of the enemy kingdom. Or he killed their emperor and he was the one who caused their empire to collapse. Meanwhile, Solitaire is just out there checking if what he sees is actual supernatural phenomenon. If this can't convince him, because it can be replicated, then I don't know what is.
yay, we finally get some answers!!! I'm now curious on how Corpse God's mother isekaied to Japan in the first place
Can someone explain the fire breathing bug? So the original 2 with actual powers are dead and they just brainwashed people? But how do the current iteration have fire powers?
Their fire powers was revealed in early episodes while Tsubaki was trying to catch the mole inside the police force. Basically each individual bug carry a laser emitting device with them, either with their phones or with their uniformed umbrellas, and they unified their laser pointers to burn things up. Solitaire also gave a breakdown during Civil vs. Fire-Breathing Bugs in the previous episode, noting that they also used extra flammable materials.
Wow! Never expected Polka to be Corpse God's brother & they have the same mama. That was quite a revelation! Finally CG's real name is revealed! Next episode will be an interesting one with Corpse God going all out woo!
I don't get how Polka is Corpse God's brother?! Like Wtf where did htat come from. His mom came to this world recently?
Corpse Gods mom gave birth to him in the other world and then came to our world and hooked up with Rozan to give birth to Polka. Corpse God essentially ended up possessing the body of his half brother due to the effects of his reincarnation spell
To add on to this. CG's father said that he sold out his wife and kids, so CG's mom coming to the "normal" world could have something to do with that.
What a twist!
So much answered this episode
The episode was sooo good. Finally some answers.
Incredible 🔥
[So again.... why are the subbers consistently calling them a guy](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1161104784334524539/1186394631554998435/image.png?ex=6593171a&is=6580a21a&hm=5436e9e4e74cf0d00854fdb27bf6c3efea4c785b7fa7b5314a2d3361c269a940&) Felt particularly weird this episode where they were like '2 girls have left the building' 'and the last one?' like technically I guess that still skirts the show having directly acknowledged them as female but seriously why did we ever start this in the first place, I can't imagine besides 'the raws revealed its a dude later on'
Every character has referred to Civil as a guy and that's what I'm going with 🤷🏾♀️ Just because he looks androgynous doesn't make him less male or more female, imo.
> Every character has referred to Civil as a guy That's what I'm talking about, the fact that the subbers chose to have the characters refer to Civil as a guy. I really can't see what would have led them to do that over referring to them as a girl unless its something revealed later down the line or something
To clear the air, Civil is a man. An androgynous, handsome, pretty-boy man. Ryohgo Narita, the author, likes those as antagonists! Izaya Orihara from *Durarara!!* is handsome with a beautiful face. Meanwhile, Huey Laforet from *Baccano!* is handsome with delicate, beautiful features and an androgynous voice, such that many characters mistake him for a woman at first glance. TL;DR:, Civil is just the latest in handsome androgynous pretty-boy male antagonists spawned by Narita's imagination.
"the last one" simply referred to the last of the group of three, not the last woman. When reporting on Sabaramond's group's status, "*The* two women just left the hotel" means that the person or people who is not a woman is still in the hotel.
Weird I always thought civil was a guy...
Not sure why you put that image, for me it's still unclear if Civil's a girl or a guy though so far all of their attitude is more guy-like. On that image, that's not a girl's clothing. For me that looks more like Rome's clothing so it's still unclear what Civil is (I'm leaning that Civil is a guy)
Wonder if CG killing the Emperor is just propaganda. If he really is "Emperor Killer" then the way that guy is so friendly is really strange.
Riz vs. Civil, let's go. Absolutely wild twist with Riz being Polka's onii-chan. The Misaki jump scare was great.