きみが死ぬまで恋をしたい

That scene was just the cherry on top of this episode. Nonstop death flags for Seiran, constant anxiety for me watching it, 2 fakeout deaths, Seiran wanting desperately to prove her usefulness to the school and protect Ari, coming back from her first mission traumatized, then the story ends with with one last fakeout making you think she survived only for her to die right in front of Mimi and for the other students to basically forget she ever existed. This series is not holding back from portraying how hellish the war is.

She did a good job making it back to rollcall and start heading home but she couldn't even make it back. Like I knew she was done, then I got a bit of hope but then that stagger and when she said she was cold I knew it was too late... actually it was a done deal when she used all her first aid to stop the guys bleeding... Honestly, I feel like Ari just wanted Seiren to be there by her side and Seiren ignored Ari and threw herself into war, only to die like that with no body or remains to take back, legit dying without a trace. It's not even that they forget she existed, they didn't even she had just died. It's also a reflection on the fact that Seiren thinks she is all important and wants to leave a significant contribution only for her life and person to not matter at all. She didn't die a hero, she didn't die in a blaze of glory, she didn't die in a way for anyone to know her or remember her. She was just a soldier, a nobody, someone of no signicance that got snuff out without anyone but Mimi witnessing it.

Mimi's reaction will be the most interesting I think. I mean, this is going to be Mimi finally understanding , viscerally, what death actually is and entales, now that it's happened to someone she knows; or knew , rather. This is inevitably going to be Mimi learning what Sheena tried to teach her and was discouraged from doing so to keep the school's ace on the battlefield, and it's most certainly gonna rattle basically everything.

Fran in episode 1 "I've told you at least 200 times, don't talk to the other students." The school was intentionally distancing Mimi from the other students for so long, but she has finally lost someone she was close to. Other deaths before this were just faceless nobodies to her. Mimi now has to grapple with feeling real loss and what this war might bring towards Sheena in the future if she also heads off into battle.

I can guess a few different ways Mimi might react, and none of them are good. I wonder if she will either actively go against the school, or refuse to fight. If that happens then there is going to be a lot more students dying. Maybe she might start being extremely overprotective of Sheena and turn into a kind of yandere. If she acts out in any way then the other students will probably start being scared of her.

Returning here to this thread 9 hours after watching the episode to survey the reactions, your comment seems to be the general consensus: the death flags were glaring, but it was gut-wrenching to watch. Before last week's episode, I think most comments I saw predicting deaths thought it was going to be Ari and/or Seiran (mostly the former), but they quickly shifted to Seiran following last week's episode.

Fran was going to show the difference in power and scare but non-lethel -_- Unless she like lost a limp or something, she wasn't going to learn unless it was the very hard way. She did learn her lesson after the first battle but I think it was too late, once enlisted and volunteered she had no chance of backing out. The tragedy of it all was that the doctor was the only one to basically tell Seiren, you're in over your head and honestly had they had seen the state an Immortal like Mimi was in, I think Seiren wouldn't have been so up herself to still volunteer.

Yeah, that part could've been better thought out as far as the writing goes. Supposedly they are having a rough time having enough soldiers in the field and then they throw a total newb into the field with no experienced wingman? I mean we did get a bit of an idea that some of the adults making decisions consider these girls as expendable, but even so it goes against any logic if one were actually trying to win the war.

It's ridiculous how they send their "best" students out into the field when they are clearly under prepared and it's just a matter of time before they get KIA. Imagine how much stronger these talented children could become if they have the time to grow to their fullest potential?? Like where are all the adults? Send them to the battlefield instead... Like are there seriously no trained adult mages outside this institution?

I kept thinking, maybe it's going to be a spell that shatters when she is about to die and saves her and somehow it's going to be tied into the letter thing. Or maybe when she dies the letter has a spell on it so they can say goodbye to one another or have a pre recorded message type thing. But no. I just got heartbreak. I could feel what was about to happen as soon as she stood on that fucking branch even tho I was in denial the whole episode. I'm such a wreck over this episode.

What's the point of sending out half-trained 14-years old who are clearly not ready for the battlefield? Their 16 and 17 years old are barely holding on. They are blowing through their 15 years old, and now they are wasting their 14 years old (2 KIA already) before training them to be semi-useful. I am more furious than sad that the so-called school is so short-sighted, they just wasted their top student from the 14-years old cohort because those old cronies just don't give a flying f-ck.

My theory on this is that it's the foreshadowing that the war is being lost, badly. Speculating wildly (I'm anime-only) I'm gonna guess we'll get some plot beats like Sheena getting badly enough that Mimi thinks she's dead, optionally Mimi going berserk until sufficient levels of yuri are applied, and my pet theory, a reveal that whatever the heck Mimi did to her when she lost an arm was a lot more powerful than a simple heal.

My question is, what the heck kind of war is this? Every day or two, students go into the nearby forest, walking-distance away, to fight enemies, and this just happens consistently forever? Who are these enemies? Is their strategic objective to take the school? Has the front line of the war just been stuck here within walking distance of the school indefinitely? If their goal is to take the school, why do they seem to only ever send raiding parties? Why do they keep coming back again and again despite so many failures? It makes no sense. This doesn't look anything like how an enemy country would try and attack. At this point, my guess is that the war isn't a war at all, but a rebellion. This kind of battle, endless waves of raiding parties without any sense of clear strategy, is a lot easier to make sense of if there's a lot of unrest in the country and ordinary people are rising up against the state in scattered disorganized groups. If that's true, then the school is in the position it's in because, even if it wants to do right by its children, it's subordinate to a tyrannical government willing to send child soldiers out as enforcers of its regime.

There's the possibility that the big picture isn't thought out and the circumstances are contrived solely for the sake of the story, meaning that the war is just a background excuse for the story. It doesn't make sense, but there've been plenty of war stories where the focus is very much the war that have been written by people who know nothing of war. If it's not just made up nonsense, the thing that it resembles most is a conflict between two rival lords in the medieval period over conflicting claims. Having a school for raising orphans as an elite military unit is vaguely like the Janissaries who would take young boys from conquered territories, cut their family ties, and raise them as elite soldiers.

Only a matter of time until Sheena's fighting side by side with Mimi, unless she can bust out healing magic. In that case, she might be able to stay away from the frontlines like Fran. It never mattered if you were "weak" or "strong". The fact that they were throwing children into the meat grinder at all proved that the situation is FUBAR and nothing is off limits. The government desperately needs more bodies and they were never gonna stop at the "strong" kids. They are gonna fill in the gaps with all the bodies they can get and if you're a "weak" kid like Sheena, well, at least you'll be a nice meat shield for your comrades before they get slimed 5 seconds later than they thought they would've been.

Historically, calling up people who were formerly deemed too young or too old was very much a sign of desperation. A couple of questions come to mind. First, are they on the defensive or are they the aggressors? Or is it more like medieval warfare between feuding lords with competing claims who agree on a time and place for battle and send forces to fight? There's a difference between the desperation of trying to fend off an invading force and the desperation of not wanting to lose face by losing a war that you started. The number of people they send feels too limited for it to be a desperate defense and only sending people seen as expendable is more characteristic of a war of choice than a war of necessity. Secondly, do the higher ups think they have a war-winning wunderwaffe in Mimi and thus continue the war because of that?