Reincarnated as the 7th Prince: Power Systems, Pacing, and Problematic Design

A prodigy who treats magic like science, a church hiding a blade that can erase reality, and a finale that dares you to weigh mercy against accountability—this review goes deep on Reincarnated as the 7th Prince and why it’s both captivating and uncomfortable. We walk through the layered power systems—mana, qi, and divine energy—and how Lloyd’s obsessive curiosity leads to inventive, rule-abiding battles that prize problem-solving over spectacle. From a Demon Lord nearly breaking his defenses to an angel duel sparked by a hymn, the set pieces land because the logic is tight and the stakes feel earned.

What doesn’t land is just as important. We take a clear stance on the show’s troubling character design choices and how they warp tone, alienate viewers, and undermine trust. Season 2 compounds the tension with rushed pacing: compelling side characters are introduced then benched, a citywide undead crisis blurs into montage, and a brilliant antagonist with “cancellation blades” gets a resolution that leans on tragedy while sidestepping repair. We talk ethics, not just aesthetics—how grief can explain behavior but shouldn’t absolve harm, and how redemption arcs need work, not shortcuts.

Still, there’s a core worth saving. Silpha’s physical mastery, Albert’s political clarity, Grimm’s sardonic support, and the outcasts’ unstable gifts all point to a world that rewards curiosity and collaboration. With a Season 3 tease tied to one of Lloyd’s own experiments, the series can rebound if it tightens pacing, honors consequences, and ditches provocative framing that adds nothing to the story. Join us for a candid, detailed breakdown of highs, lows, and what it would take for this anime to fulfill its massive potential. If you value smart worldbuilding and honest critique, tap play, subscribe, and tell us where you stand.

Chapters

• 0:00 Host Update And Content Disclaimer
• 1:03 Why The Anime Was Hard To Finish
• 3:53 Lloyd’s Obsession With Magic
• 5:34 Season One Setup And Family Dynamics
• 8:46 Silpha’s Training And Limits
• 11:24 Albert’s Insight And Court Politics
• 13:50 Power Systems And The Outcasts
• 18:58 Demon Lord Fight And Teleport Twist
• 21:00 Season Two: Angels, Church, And Divine Power
• 24:30 The Pope Reveal And Rushed Climax
• 28:05 Themes Of Faith, Ethics, And Consequences
• 31:30 Season Three Tease And Final Ratings
• 35:00 Closing Thoughts And Sign-Off

Transcript

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Hey yo, what's good everybody? Coco Gas here, and of course we are going to go ahead and talk about another Easter guy because I decided to come back. No, for real, this was more of like a special request by JB. He wanted me to make sure I got this taken care of because you know I am the fantasy guy. So I do want to go ahead and preface this off mentioning two quick things. First off, is that that I am going to have to take a little time to kind of back down for the podcast for a little while. I unfortunately have a lot of life situations going on at the moment, so I'm not going to be as available as I need to until I kind of get some stuff situated and handled. Appreciate you guys for understanding that and thank y'all still so much for showing us the love and support. I will still be able to promote the zone, of course, on all of my social media accounts the best that I can. Now, as much as I am available to kind of do so, still making sure I'm trying to promote out how many views that downloads that we get. If there's new podcasts available, maybe just like little quick notes of things. It's just unfortunately I'm not going to be as available as I would like to be. So that's just kind of how it works out. But we're going to go ahead and get this started. Um, the other thing I want to go ahead and free face preface this with as well, too, is that I almost did not finish this anime. So reincarnate is a seven prints, so I can work on my magical ability. It has a really great story to it, but unfortunately, there is a lot of stipulation or speculation that the manga artist Kinko, as well as also the lead animator for the animation team that did the anime, are also Shotokan artists. Now, if you do not know what Shotokan is, you probably are familiar with Lolly with the little girls. Shotokan is the opposite with little boys. So the thing is that I don't fuck with that, bro. Like, I don't do none of that shit whatsoever. As soon as I see something like that, I magically back out. So I was legitimately not really thinking about pushing through with this because I was not sure what was gonna happen with this anime. Um, luckily you find out you know, nothing nothing crazy happens, nothing like that goes on. Um thing about it is it's just the animation, the artist winds up just doing that, and it's like the this character changes from the manga and the novel to the anime, like there are some notable changes, a little bit more vibrant colors, but the thing about it is that the main character is the one that has the biggest junk difference into it. Um, he's always known in the manga and in his in the light novel as wearing his uh vest with his collar shirt underneath and some shorts. And but the thing about it is is that in the animated boy got on some damn booty shorts and some extra tight clothing, and it's it's extremely uncomfortable to look at most of the time. I'm just like, yo, what has happened? And I say most of the time because thankfully come to season two, you don't we get a chance to focus on other characters a little bit more, and since we focus on other characters, we're not just looking at him all the time, so it gives an opportunity to kind of see some other stuff. So I'm like, okay, cool. You know, I'm not like constantly being like, oh my god, I what what is happening? I can't be looking at the screen. So I want to make sure I go ahead and preface that too. Is the fact that I do not support that nonsense whatsoever. Uh that that's not a thing for me at all, whatsoever. Type thing, it's just I don't know. Like, I can't get down with that. I can't I can't even say I respect people's thoughts process into it. Oh, you know, maybe you just kind of have your own thing. No, bruh, I can't with that. I cannot with that. Please keep that, keep that shit away from me. So, want to make sure I go ahead and preface that. That it took me a minute to kind of get through this series, so it took me a moment to go ahead and do this review, but it definitely took me a minute to kind of get through the series. I enjoyed the story, but man, I I I had to put down a couple times being like, I don't know. Like, I feel like just continue watching it was not did it felt like it was supporting the wrong way. But either way, let's go ahead and jump into really quick, just a quick storyline into it. We do understand that our main character, Lloyd Solemn, he uh instead of this being like a normal Yusekai of reincarnated to another world, he's reincarnated in the same world. So that's one thing to preface this where it's a little bit different. He still is in the same has the same magical world that he's in. It's just that he went from being a commoner with magic to a noble with magic. However, he still keeps his name personality. He absolutely loves magic. Everything for him is studying of magic. He loves magic so much that he is willing to take in a magic tech and try to tank it as much as possible, nearly to death sometimes. If that may come to the case, which is not really what happens to him once he gets reincarnated, but when he was younger, but with his uh previous life, he did that. Um, because he was always fascinated to see how a magical spell worked, how it reacted, how it felt, things like that. He is absolutely batshit crazy into it. He is a dedicated scientist to magic, and that's just a big thing for him. So, one of me we go ahead and talk about the fact that his dedication is insane because he is willing to put people's lives in danger sometimes. Now, not so much like in deep, deep danger type thing. He doesn't put nobody in danger to where he believes they can't handle it. If it winds up getting too much out of hand, he will step in. But you know, he is the main character to do that. That is how he's written. But there is still some cases that he will sit back and watch somebody get their ass handed to them just to study the magic that's happening, and it's not the fact that he can't like handle it, it's just the fact he's just curious to see what the hell is gonna happen. He's like, hmm, I wonder what that attack does. I wonder how that works out type shit. So it's like, okay, gotcha. So we wound up having two different seasons into it. Season one, the sim uh the story is pretty simple. Is where Lloyd he's born, he's born as a strong magician. Uh, there is an upcoming war between different king between different kingdoms that's happening. Um, a lot of people are nervous about what's gonna happen. Um, he is the seventh prince, and because of that, he usually doesn't get as much uh recollection for things. When he was born, they were definitely like paying attention to him because of strong magic, but he is smart, and because he was reincarnated, he still maintained his memories, including um his ability and his abilities, such as how to speak. So he apparently learned how to speak two days after he was born. So it's like, oh wow, he's he's a child pride, he's a genius, but then they quickly kind of let him go because, like, oh, his magic's not strong, he's not doing this, and realistically, it only winds up being one of his older brothers that actually pays as much attention that points that out that is like, No, see, you guys asleep on him because ain't no way he showed off his potential and then just dropped off out of nowhere. Y'all need to pay attention because even like having scenes where the seven prints decides to shoot the targets, and then his um older brothers like see, y'all think that oh he missed and he's just not as skilled as me, type of thing. He said, No, he was way more proficient than I am. He said, Y'all didn't even realize the fact that he missed every single target in the exact same spot. He said, Don't wait that would happen if you did that shit on purpose. Like his sword training is he's trained by the best swordsman in the show, uh Silpha, who is also known as the um uh what is she known as like the goddess, the um, she's like a grim. I can't remember exactly what she calls something about something two blades, like the silver haired two blade. Um, and she is known as an adventurer who is like a rank, who is not long after going a rank kind of dropped off, but nobody has ever beaten her. She is the most skilled um person, most skilled swordsman out there, type thing, and so you get a chance to really see her powers kind of take off and see what happens there. Um, and she is training him, and she is whooping his ass, like no tomorrow. Um, but she's always happy to see his progress, and he's using magical abilities to kind of enhance himself up because he's still in the body of your little kid right now, but she's training him hard. She's like, Come on, you're gonna keep up with me, you're gonna try to keep up best you can. Um, so and forgive me, I know I'm kind of already jumping into spoils. I didn't want to take too much time into this review here, but just kind of getting into it. Uh, so we know Silva, fantastic character. I love her development into the story because we do get a chance to see her grow. Um, she's not just a stoic character static character that's just there, she is dynamic, she has some moments of growth, she has some moments of humbling. Um, she is heavily reliant on her sword ability because, unlike other people, she cannot use mana that well. She is not that great in that proficient whatsoever when it comes down to magic, so she has to rely heavily on the fact of just kind of to make sure her own physical ability is up to scale, is up the scale. Kind of think of it like Mashley from um from his show, where it's like he can't do magic, but he trained his body so well to kind of do just these off-the-wall feats, it's pretty much how she is. Um, she is strong enough to actually fight um maybe like a a level six class demon. Um, probably not at his full power potential, but she is able to still kind of scale up to some uh higher to a little bit medium class demons because we did get a chance to see in season one her um kind of take it serious and be able to fight a demon there. Um, you absolutely do not say nothing bad about Lloyd. She loves Lloyd, Lloyd is her her little thing, and you say anything bad about Lloyd, she she cut your ass down. I know some she does not care. Um, so definitely uh second prince is Albert. I want to get a chance to talk about him really quick. Is that Albert Delison de Salon? I love his character because he's one of the ones that he knows that his brother has potential, he knows his brother's hiding something, but he kind of just stays back. It's not until like the end of season one that he gets a chance to really see that his brother is actually very powerful. The story went very I love how the story kind of plays along, and we get to see things not just from our main character Lloyd's eyes, but from other people's eyes as well, too. Like Albert, because Albert he knows for a fact that Lloyd is very powerful. Lloyd wants to try to do different things. Lloyd is like, hey, I want to try and enhance um some weapons, I want to try a magic enhancement. He's like, please go for it by all means, and he immediately tells the soldiers and he's like, Yo, provide my little brother with some weapons so you can go ahead and power them up. Even if the soldiers don't believe and don't trust that Lloyd could do anything because again, they think that he's just got lucky early on and stuff, like it still winds up being the fact that like Albert's like, no, he he is straight up like about that. He he can absolutely do this. Albert goes so far as to telling his dad, he's like, I know he's the seventh prince, and normally he wouldn't be considered for running. He said, But I definitely think that he should be considered as into the competition to try to be the next king because all the princes are supposed to compete together, type thing. However, uh Lloyd says no, he immediately declines because all he wants to do is just focus on magic, he doesn't really want to do all that, but he is pretty much the and I'm gonna make this reference the eminence in shadow because he's trying to stay hidden, he doesn't want people to know how powerful he is. Um, we have a slew of different characters that we wound up meeting in this show as well. Too um, some of my absolute favorite character is Tao. Um, so I like Tao because Tao is very simple and just kind of chill. Like the thing about her is that she is teaches a new form of magic that Lloyd is unfamiliar with. So where he read about it, but he's unfamiliar about how Qi works because Chi flows different than mana. Um, whereas mana is the power that magical power that resides in the world itself that you can draw from. Chi focuses on the life and power energy within yourself. Um, very quickly, Lloyd immediately finds out who she uh immediately finds out how to be able to do it from her teachings, and very quickly learns to do so. Um, I will say the only thing I did hate about this story between Lloyd and Tau was the fact of um Lloyd hiding his his personality, hiding who he was. Um where he wants what winds up happening is that he pretends to he does the loser magic to pret uh to have himself, but about the age that his uh second that the second prince's older brother is, so that way she doesn't know that that's him, but she's always constantly looking for him. Um, I will say that it feels like a big drop onto this because what would happen before is in the first season, the first half of the first season, anytime Lloyd would save the day, he immediately would say, Oh, this other guy came in and then wound up saving the day, and then Ty would be running after trying to find him, and so it wound up being a little gag. But about halfway through the first season, she eventually gives up and is just like, Oh, I'm never gonna find him again, and then Lloyd no longer uses that excuse anymore, just all of a sudden it was like, Oh, we'll find some other way to figure out how we got through this situation, type thing. So it's like, okay, um, I guess, type of thing. Um, it's it's just I guess it's kind of crazy how that works out, and it's it winds up being really funny at first, but then it's like okay, so I guess even the writer was like, Yeah, it feels like a useless gag, I'm not gonna keep pushing with it. And so the ones Kenko winds up deciding to just drop it all together, and then just oh, everyone else managed to save the day, type of thing, it's just having to work out type of thing. Um, no one knows who came to help save the day. Uh so at the very beginning, you know, we get an opportunity of seeing how strong Lloyd is. The first thing he does is that he winds up fighting against Grimm, our very first demon that we're introduced to. Um, Grimoire, who is locked inside a special book underneath the castle in this hidden library. Immediately, Lloyd goes there, releases him, and proves that he is significantly more powerful. Grimm, as soon as he gets close and touches Lloyd's mana and realizes how dense and how powerful his mana really is. Grimm immediately is like, hey master, yeah, I'm your man, I'm your pet. I'm gonna do whatever it is you tell me to do. He's like, I'm scared out of my fucking mind. Hell no. Um, Grimm is an excellent character, he's a nice little, he has this little comedic feels. He helps out Lloyd whenever Lloyd kind of needs some help, needs to do a body double. And he's like, I need the body double to seem more realistic. So he's like, I can't create a soul, so I need you to like take over. That one felt like it had a lot of pulls from Bleach with Ichigo and Cone, where whenever Ichigo needs his body to still be active and do something, he would take the soul pill from cone out of the little stuffed animal and then put it in his body, and so that way Ichigo could go do his substitute soul jobs, whatever it is that he needs to do, and cone would just kind of keep his body occupied. And because cone is experimental, um, soul he also has super strength, so even in Ichigo's body, he's still able to kind of protect everyone and still do what he needs to do. So it's kind of similar to that. Grim still is able to maintain his magical powers, it's not all of his magical powers, but a good portion of it, and he's able to still kind of pretend the best he can be in Lloyd's body, in uh as Lloyd's body double, whenever Lloyd had would have to leave out. Um, eventually they do quickly drop that, it happened again. Grim doesn't um winds up not really needing to take over, but it's still comedic on the fact that they're trying to keep Grim hidden, and no one needs to know that Lloyd went down to the secret library, so every single time one of the make any other cast shows up, Grim has to hide to try to keep himself secret. Um, I'm trying to think. I guess we get a bunch of different characters that we meet, and I can't list all of them. Um, I do want to go ahead and mention uh I hate saying this term because I can't remember exactly what they were called. Forgive me. I'm don't have all of my notes in front of me right now. I'm sorry, my phone deleted some of it. It was uh the people with us with the mana powers that they couldn't control, and so with them, that's what I'm thinking about. Um yeah, sorry. So I was trying to see if I could look it up, I could not remember what they're called, but yeah, so they wound up having some issues where they can't control their mana, and each of them have their own special abilities, but their special abilities is because they're unable to do things. You like you have a guy who's able to build, he's able to do his own body modifications, so he's able to build and twist his body as he choose as he uh sees fit. Then you have um girl where wherever she's looking at you, whatever damage does to her happens to anyone, anyone that she's directly looking at, and it could be a group of people that she's looking at. You have one guy who's known he acts like a spider, where he's like mana just oozes out of his body like webs, like uh sticky webs. So he's able to throw it like webs and stuff. Um, you have one dude who's pretty much a straight-up rip-off from Jujusukai's, and he everything he speaks creates uh magical effect, like whatever he says you do, you have no choice but to do it, type of thing. So whenever he would speak, he was speaking other things, so you could hit other words, so that way he wasn't trying to tell you to do something or anything like that, or he would just be quiet. Um, while also having the Crow's mask from that uh reminds you of Crow from if you watch My Hero Academia. It was like honestly, that's one of the biggest things I will say. The this cast for the outcast is a straight copy pull from everything else. Like you could you could list a bunch of anime and they are like almost carbon copies from a bunch of anime just pulled together type thing, and it's like okay. And then you have um Ren. I remember her, she has a poison that comes out of her skin, just seeps out of her skin and stuff, which reminds me again from my Hero Academia, the bondish girl who bonded lady who's always has a skin cover because if your skin like her skin breathing just automatically releases a toxin that goes ahead and affects things, so you kind of have that situation there. It's like I said, it's a salu, a whole aloo of different things, a whole loo of different powers, and you're like, Okay, gotcha. Um, I guess we're just gonna figure this out and see what happens, type of thing. Um, but no, it's actually it's pretty interesting how it works out for their story because and I it you feel really bad into it. And I will say I did like the writing in this point that even though we never met this character, there was enough writing to make us feel super bad about what happened to them, about their leader who his ability just is teleporting, but he again can't control it, he just teleports anywhere. Then all of a sudden, you know, it's like, oh, he shows up and he's like, Oh, I'm able to teleport, I'm able to control how to teleport now. And it was like that doesn't make sense. Um, because Lloyd he had to put a special seal on every one of their bodies in order to help them control the to control the mana outflow or so outflow so they could control their powers. And it's like, so how did he do that? So either that means he lied or something else is going on. Then you come to find out that he wound up being taken over by a demon lord, and the demon lord slowly drove him mad and slowly drove him crazy this whole time. I did like in this aspect here where um Lloyd was about to lose that fight, as much as he's an overpowered character, you know, the final boss for season one. Lloyd was not it was not able to just immediately be like, Oh, yeah, I'm gonna win this fight. He actually was about to lose that fight, to where he even himself he said that there was no he said I didn't win it by myself. I actually won it because of what it is that their leader had did, was that he wound up in grading in his soul the formula that uses teleportation powers, which allowed Lloyd to not only be able to replicate it, which we got to see at the beginning of season two, but be able to kind of figure out a way around it, which was a very creative, almost like Jojo like way that he kind of got around it. Where he was like, Oh, I never like even though I deciphered it, there was no real way for me to counteract it. So, what I did was is that I just magnetized myself to him, so whenever he would teleport, my body would. Just magically pull magnetized and pull myself over to him instantly. So he would think that I would just knew where he teleported. When realistically, every time he teleported, I just got pulled to him. And it was like, so if he just stopped teleporting, he probably would have won, yeah, pretty much. Because the dudes, um, like power dark spears was powerful enough that Lloyd was not able to do anything, it was getting past his thick barriers, and like Lloyd had all of his barriers up as much as possible, as thick as possible, but it was still shattered through, and he's like, Yeah, that thing could actually kill me. He said, I'm not able to do anything. So season one wraps up pretty well after we finally um defeats the demon lord, they wind up re-um building this kingdom and making it for outcasts, and Lloyd is able to appoint um the outcast as actually the leaders of this town, so that way he's able to kind of still focus on his thing. He's like, Yeah, I'm gonna stay back. Type of thing. I still want to focus on magic. I'm not all that into that political stuff. That's up to y'all, type thing. Season two has a very interesting opening where it automatically starts off with Lloyd fighting an angel, and you're like, Oh, okay. So you defeated a demon lord, but now you're fighting an angel. What's going on there? And then we get introduced to Ezreal. Ezreal is hilarious, um, an absolute pervert angel. So that whole storyline, season two storyline was very interesting, I'm putting that aspect, because it was a really big lead-on of how things was. We were constantly trying to figure out who the big bad was because they saw his face, but then it's like they would never see him again, and it's like we couldn't piece his face together of who it was that he was supposed to be. And that's one of the crazy things about it, is like you see this guy, you've seen his face, you fought him, but you can't identify him as one of the other people, he's one of the higher clergy. Because in this season, because season two, we get introduced to the church, and it's hilarious that Lloyd is banned from the church because he created a fake demon, because he so badly wanted to learn divine magic. But the only way to learn divine magic is that you have to be blessed by an angel to do so, which winds up being a whole third type of power. So, so far, what we have in season one and season two is there's three different types of powers you have mono control, you have chi control, and then you have divine power control. And so, because Lloyd is a magician scientist, he has to know. So he's like, No, I need to figure it out. I want to figure this out, I want to do this, and so he winds up going so far as to have everything having stuff staged at the church to the point where we get introduced to one of the the nuns who she she does not have a lot of mana, but she has a very powerful singing voice, it's very beautiful, people love it, except um the people except the bad guy who absolutely hates it because it goes against everything that he wants. And so you find out that um Lloyd wound up staging this, and as soon as he got the opportunity, where he found out that the angel was tuning in, listening to her singing, he immediately used the teleportation ability to teleport into the astral plane to be able to fight him. So, and that fight was very interesting up to the point where even Grim was just like, Yeah, see, Angel, you don't understand. He said, You think that you were gonna win this fight, but you was never going to win this fight. It was meant to die because Angel was putting it all out. He was like, Oh, nothing could get past my swords. My swords are amazing. Oh, really? Let's see what happens. He's like, Wait, wait, wait, no, I lied, I lied, I lied. Oh my god. Um, absolutely funny fight scene, but then finally we get a chance to see how power really how powerful um Lloyd actually is right after that fight because it's like divine magic takes the form of whatever you best suit whatever best suits you. It's like so. Whenever Lloyd would use divine magic, it would turn, and that's one of the crazy things about it. He turned divine magic, which normally makes light and stuff, into something of near complete darkness. It was it took up the form of a giant crazed monster type thing, and that's because that's just how scary his monarch power really is. And then uh we wound up getting a chance to go back to learning more about the clergy, where you know it's trying to figure out what's going on, people are getting attacked by zombies, people getting attacked by the undead, and it's like where is this coming from? And then some people are getting possessed by ghouls, where it's a little bit different from demon possession, where these are just souls of people who refuse to pass on because of whatever was going on with them, they turn into ghouls and they inhabit the bodies of other people, and so we wind up seeing this experimentation that's happening there, winds up turning into one of the most amazing uh fight sequences towards the end. Um, one that I am actually upset because a lot of people have complained onto this too. Season two should have been longer because the last half is an all-out brawl where we find out that it wounds up being the absolute head pope himself, he's the one that's doing the experimentations, and he disguised himself as looking as a younger version of himself, and then when he would turn back into his human form, he would go back to his old self of how he supposedly would look right now, type of thing, but that's not how he really looked. That was the disguise this whole time, and so I was like, Oh, okay, got you. So that's what's actually going on. This dude has actually been um pretending he was an old man, but realistically, he had been doing experimentation and made himself look young constantly. Um, the ending of the the ending of season two is not as satisfying, and here's here's one of the biggest things into why. So you have this epic fight scene. I'm talking about you have this all-out brawl of people going in and out, in and out of different things. Um, you have them fighting a giant ghoul dragon that damn near kills half of our main cast until Grim and Angel show up, and then they want, and then Grim winds up taking care of it, and he's like, Oh, it's like you were just a pet that was tossed to the side, and you find out that he actually was the pet of the um of the demon lord from season one that got tossed to the side and brought back. So, you know, he winds up getting a satisfying battle there. So Grim was able to take take him out. But that's the thing, it was like that this dragon pose is an ex intense ass threat. It was like literally about to kill all of our cast. You have one of the clergy who was not um a bad guy, he actually he was actually a good guy, winds up being literally metal bat from the fucking one punch man, who his divine power takes the form of a of a nailed bat blade, and that's what he uses to exercise the demons with. And I'm like, that's just so fucking cool. Just imagine this wise cracking talking, wisecracking talking um clergyman that just pops up a match, pops up a divine magic spike bat, and he's like, I'm just beat the shit out of the demons. Um sorry, you have these other um, you wind up having another guy who had a scar on his face that I I wish we got a chance to see more of him because Ren was terrified. She was like, I thought that I was gonna try to do this fighting, but as soon as he steps in, no demons in match for him. He's like he instantly just drops these swords and is instantly just done. Um, a done deal. You have another clergyman, we never get to see him fight because he's an absolute perv, and you know, he got knocked unconscious, and so he was just gone. So it was like you remove some characters for whatever odd reason, you had characters that clearly had strong abilities and powers, but you didn't use them, and it's like, what's going on? Like, season two felt so rushed, and I think it's because they got limited to the amount of episodes that they could do, and I really wish they didn't, like, I wish they had a chance to expand it out because even the fight between Lloyd and the Pope at the end still felt kind of rushed. Um, the Pope was constantly trying to get to the point, Lloyd was constantly doing different strategies around because the Pope had a very interesting ability for his divine, his divine blade, um, his divine magic takes the form of blades that cancel out whatever it is he wants to cancel. He can do up to three cancellations at a time, but he's able to spawn these blades infinitely, like literally unlimited blade works Gilgamesh type thing. He can spawn as many blades as he wants and can cancel whatever he wants to cancel. And so, even if he wants to cancel um Lloyd's barriers, he just shoots a bit blade and it immediately erases his barrier like it never exists. He can make a blade that would cancel Lloyd and would instantly kill him if it ever touched him, and he's able to quickly switch them out as well. Too Lloyd had to actually really rely on his friends on the nun being able to do her song because it would cause just enough of distraction to be able to stop him. And instead of it being like a and to me, it didn't feel like a satisfying ending because it's then be like, Oh, do we defeated the ultimate bad guy finally get through? We get a taut no jutsu type thing where we just get to understand, and I understand his story is his is tragic. I get his point, I guess, but it's like dude, there's people that's dealt with way worse. Like, I get it. You there was you you were a clergyman, you were working your way up to becoming the head pope, and what it was is that his family winds up being killed. His family wound up being killed, his um wife and child and child was killed by a dude who came in and was just hungry and just needed some food, felt himself starving, but he was so delusional he didn't even care about his daughter, who he left his daughter sitting out, watch to make sure nobody would come in and stop her from eating. And so why is it happening is dude the dude that killed his um wife and daughter and wound up dying anyway because he was so malnourished, he couldn't really properly digest the food, he was just trying to keep himself alive. But and it's like it absolutely was horrible, and I get and I get his point into it. He was like, Where was my God when to save him? And it's like that's one of those ones, like, okay, if you really want to pose a quick Christian question into it, everybody's gonna still point that that whole thing of like it really questioning God, like not so much don't question God's plan, but it's like there's always something different that we can't control, and I have my own viewpoints into that. That's not part of this review. It's just one of those things I'm like, okay, I get that I get your frustration onto it because that's always gonna be a biggest thing, no matter what religion. Is that where was my God when this happened? Type thing. Where was my God when this situation happened? Why didn't you save my family if I heavily devoted myself to you and what was going on? So, because of that, he felt that he weren't he really wanted to face God, so he decided to make himself the ultimate darkest evil person that there is, and then getting to the point that he looked at Lloyd as God in a sense, as God coming to stop him. And Lloyd was like, I'm not a god, don't you do that? He says, No, I am just a magician who loves magic and just leave it at that type of thing. And then in the end, just wanted to talk to him, is like, hey, maybe we can redeem yourself. How about you can go help take over the kingdom that this uh other kingdom that I built and you can start redeeming yourself there? Mind you, this dude has killed hundreds of people, and it's one of those ones I'm like, I don't think I don't think this dude should have had a redemption arc. I think he didn't even have a redemption arc per se, but I don't think this dude should have been redeemed type thing. This dude should have died. Like realistically, he manipulated and killed so many people. His exper he experimented on people's souls, tortured them, and in the end, he's like, Oh, I got a kingdom to rule. The fuck? Like, I'm sitting like, wait a second, isn't it? I don't feel right. Wait, what's going on? Something something seems off, and I'm like, what is happening? So season two was not as satisfying. I'm like, okay, I guess, type thing, uh, whatever. And then we're waiting for the season three. Season three winds up. The we wind up getting a point in that. I don't want to spoil too much into this one. We wind up meeting at the very end. Um, Lloyd gets a feeling, and when he gets a feeling, he smiles, and you wind up seeing another character that looks almost exactly like Lloyd, might albeit like different coloration for it. So just want to go ahead and mention this and be prepared for season three. Is that what you wind up seeing is not Lloyd's brother, but is actually an experiment by Lloyd, and that's all I'm gonna leave it as that. I'm not gonna explain what the experiment is, I'm not gonna explain anything into it. Just understand Lloyd knows exactly what it is that showed up, and that's gonna be a major catalyst for season three is understanding the story between this experiment and Lloyd, how the experiment came to be and what's going to happen. And again, I'm not gonna spoil nothing more than that. That's just to give you an idea hint to look into. If you want to read the manga, you can look into it further. So, but that's kind of what we have. Like, as far as it's a story, season one felt fantastic. Season two, it felt like it was going really great, and then it just rushed off, and then you wind up the bad guy doesn't atone for his sins. I'm I don't know, it's just it felt it felt a little off, it felt kind of different, and it didn't feel like the best how season two kind of went. Like it started off grand, and then it didn't to me it didn't necessarily feel like it delivered as much. And then again, keep in mind that I also said I had several times that I stopped watching the show because I can't get over the fact of how it is that Lloyd has wound up being drawn. It's like, dude, stop. Not everybody is no, no, nobody's into show to come out like that. Like then don't push chowstead on like that's don't do that. So that's kind of my point into it. But that's my review, and yeah, I still get a series. I mean, realistically, I'm I have you know, I criticize on everything when it comes down to it. I criticize for animation, writing, storytelling, pacing, and all of that stuff. Season one had a good solid eight. Um, I heavily dropped that because of uh Lloyd's design. Absolutely dropped that. Matter of fact, I'm gonna say 7.5 because I absolutely dropped that for that. It's disturbing the angles. It's like you kept pushing angles for him as well, too, that wasn't necessary. Just 7.5 for season one, primarily because it's please don't do don't don't do that to characters. Just even the manga, it still was a bit okay. He's always in shorts type thing, but it was nowhere near like it was happening in the anime. It was it got to the point that it was just disturbing. Season two, it still kept the same design, but you're not focusing on Lloyd as much. You got a chance to focus on some other characters, but it was rushed. So that one I also have to give it a seven. Um, not a seven point five, I give it a seven because of the heavy rushing that happened at the end. If it didn't rush, it would have been so much better. So, overall, seven, seven and a half out of ten into it. It still has great potential to be so great. If season three shows up and it can stop the shot of con animation, it would be so much better. Like, that's gonna be a big thing into it. That when I mention so much into it is because there's there's literally threads on Reddit Core on other like anime discussion sites as well. Too, that there's a lot of people that absolutely hate this design for Lloyd, and it's it's very disturbing. And it's one of those ones, like, please just stop. Like, don't kill the series because of that. It has a good story, you know. If it messes up because of pacing, it messes up for the as an animation. That's a different thing, but don't don't kill this this show because of the fact that you have a sexual preference that no, just chill out with that. That's all I got for y'all. Until next time, stay nerdy. Great things are coming. Zoning out, y'all.