杖と剣のウィストリア Season2

No way Julius's origin had him suffer a childhood heartbreak, no wonder he turned out to be such a twisted Tsundere. He's even managed to outdo Sion as a tsundere for the most pettiest of reasons, that's a real pro right there. I've seen enough. Cerridwen is now my favourite character introduced in this season. Opposes Kreutz on principle. Absurdly hot. One of the strongest mages we've met. Sayaka Ohara voice. Teasing onee-san vibes. How could you not love her?

I mean that's pretty much every anime, the boss is always super powerful, it makes sense in a might makes right society I guess, but pretty much every organization in anime that's the case. An example would be Kaiju n8, the captain of the first division is really incompetent as a captain, so his lieutenant basically treats him like a child and does most of the actual leadership. He's super strong, but getting the tittle of captain is a bit much when he'd do better as just a normal soldier that you gave better weapons to. I singled out Kaiju n8 because it was the first example that came to mind and it being basically a military force is the perfect example, but you see shit like this ALL THE TIME. I guess the Peter Principle applied to anime

Right? If the maid had exploited little Julius's affections for her, say, to get him to steal some jewelry for her to fence, take papers from his dad's office, or some other selfish act... That would be one thing. But this just looks like they were using two different definitions of the word "love." Which... yeah... has far too many definitions. Love, between friends. Love, between family. Love of concepts, hobbies, passion. And, yeah, love in the romantic sense. He was saying I love you, romantically, and she responded as "WE (all the servants) love you like family." And here he is acting like this femme fatale wrapped him around his finger and tricked him into betraying his own family... before dumping him for the true mastermind behind this whole scheme. Dude, you are SIX YEARS OLD. LET IT GO.

We most likely just don't have the full story yet. My guess is that some kind of "betrayal" really did happen but it was either unintentional or entirely in Julius's head. Right now I'm basing that off of two things. First is that something significant and deliberate must have happened beyond just "they got older and life circumstances had her move on without him" for him to have taken a literal life lesson that kindness only sets you back out of it. There almost certainly must have been some particular incident where he showed kindness to someone only to have his choice come back to bite him rather than be rewarded for a worldview like that to have been created and held onto for as many years as he has. Second is that we see in the flashback that he was actually there for her wedding. Admittedly this bit is almost entirely speculation, but part of me doesn't think that, as hierarchical as their society is, nobles would just be regularly hosting and attending lavish weddings for their servants and staff. The only care they should have in regards to one of their maids getting married is the question of "so are you going to keep working here or not?" Maybe she gets some time off, but the actual nobility she works for likely wouldn't have a reason to attend themselves. The only reason I can see Julius and his family being present at her wedding would be if she was marrying into his family, thus making the spouse one of Julius's family members.

Bro the anime HAS to be leaving out details of his backstory, I was like.. wtf when I saw it. I seriously felt that I misinterpreted or missed something so I watched it again and it was just wack lmao. Tbh the one redeeming thing about Julius is that he's one of the few in the story who actually states his intentions to Will's face. Everyone else is scheming or playing games. One thing I also dislike is the head of the colourless faction being comically evil despite having an extremely logical and understandable goal. I don't know what's up with the author but he could have had a nuanced villain here but is fumbling it with the whole over the top dissection stuff. Also who invited Mika Pikazo to do the witch's character design lmao.

While I agree the author is fumbling the writing. But this is often how military structures or leaders in a time of war tend to be. It is in peacetime you might get non cartoonishly evil, and even then the leaders of most of the intelligent agencies are this way. if you view them through that lens of a standing military or police force with the upper institute being the secret research arm of that force. Some of these characters ending where they are makes sense because that is usually how it is in our reality. I have said nothing the upper institute is doing makes sense from normal perspective or even writing perspective. We all know Will is part of some prophecy, and I can accept the Magia Vander and the Upper institute does not know this stuff because it happened 500 years ago, and or it is the topmost secret of their society. But Aaron knows, and he is just like well let him figure it out. You are trying to get that dude dissected, or hating mages if he is used as a guinea pig. Why is this even being responsible?

Bro acts like his one unrequited childhood crush is some top 10 saddest anime backstory with how seriously he takes it and how much it still effects him, i am crying 😂 Bro literally shaped his entire personality off of that one crush Some anime characters have tragic, emotionally traumatizing, family backgrounds or past that made them into jerks. Julius is a jerk because he couldn't marry his cute older maid he had a crush on. The only thing I can say is that the maid was voiced by Hocchan (Yui Horie) which I can totally understand crushing on her hard.

The elves, the dwarves are clearly old, and in the mage city, there are older people NPCS who had children and such. I just think Mages are just the Marines of this world. You know how the only people old in military structures are career guys. I am guessing that is the case here too. All the mages either die in battle, die while trying to climb up or end up teaching or retiring to live a normal life. So we never truly see those people.

I was thinking the same lol But then he said he understood something afterwards, so maybe the wild butchering is part of his actual skills. (which is still freaky) He might be a psychopath but he's efficient and gets results. I also laughed at the katakana engrish "maddo dissektaa" which sounded so silly that I couldn't take him seriously anymore. Couldn't be a Maddo scientisto, had to settle for a maddo dissektaa

You know a character's dramatic backstory misses the mark, when the audience's general response is "...... That's it? 😑" I feel like it's got to be intentional on the authors' part. Or at least I hope it is. And it's not like she didn't love or cared about him at all, she just didn't love him romantically. So for him to have that as his core catalyst to change his entire personality and turn into a total asshole, feels like he simply overblew the issue. Not to justify it but I wonder if she also retired and left after she got married, which would've been another thing that pissed him off.

It's a matter of framing. Are we supposed to roll our eyes and think "Julius is such a petty little b!tch." Or are we supposed to take this "heartbreak" seriously... even if just a little bit? Because it's fine for characters to have petty motivations for being a terrible person... but the narrative needs to make this clear how we, as the audience, are supposed to read the character. Because despite this clearly being "Julius is an obsessive creep with no self awareness," it feels like the author expects us, the audience, to view Julius in a sympathetic light. Which says more about the author than anything else.

Considering they did similar stuff with Rosti to hint at him being a clone of Elfie, yeah. I mean, just compare their cloths lol. While Cauldron is wearing more modest cloths, the hat, necklace and rings are the exact same. Also, here are both "witches". Regarding Kreutz, no idea why they let that lunatic running around. I mean yeah, the one guy said no one knows about him being this way. Well buddy, how the fk about reporting it then!? Doesn't seem like someone you would want to have anywhere close to students.

Regarding Kreutz, no idea why they let that lunatic running around. I mean yeah, the one guy said no one knows about him being this way. Well buddy, how the fk about reporting it then!? Doesn't seem like someone you would want to have anywhere close to students. I've come to compare Kreutzs with Mengele. And just like Mengele IRL, someone like Kreutz probably does really well in a segregated propagandist society that claims it's all about merit, but in reality it's massively discriminatory

Magia Vander are just so powerful that even the factions (including the ones they're part of) fear them. The Colourless (by design), Wind, Dark and Earth factions don't have a Magia Vander so it makes sense they fear the 5 strongest Wands. Like Kreutz is probably as important as the Magia Vander in that he's the only one who cracked the Mage Slayer and seemed to have developed countermeasures to it, but that doesn't make him nearly as powerful as a Magia Vander in a duel. Not every mage is a fighter, some are scientists (or mad scientists, in Kreutz's case).

Julius really is the man who does 10 things at a time; one could say Julius is the hardest-working student, just because he can have clones, instead of it becming easy for him, it becomes extra hard. Not only does he have to maintain the clones with his mana, but he also has to keep focus on everything every clone does, as well as parallel process it. Julius really is showing all the efforts he has put in to become a top student.

I didn’t realize Julius was so cute. Look at him pretending to be a giant douchebag when we all know now that he’s a big tsundere softie deep down lol. It’s a good thing Julius and Will are under Cerridwen’s care now. If she asked me to strip, I’d be down in my skivvies right about now lmao. Also, it’s much better alternative than getting dissected by Kreutz. I thought the man was just a hater but nah, he’s fucking insane. Maybe they ought to dissect him and study wtf is wrong with that brain of his.

I guess, for now it's very shallow depiction of "mad scientist", where instead of focusing on "science" we are rather presented with the "mad" side, with hope that "dissection" part somehow will breach that gap don't like writing where people talk a lot about X instead of demonstrating actual X-characteristics like here, what kind of scientist presented with unique single sample of specimen will fight the urge to dissect it as first priority? very scientific... and as result... feels very patched and dissonant

Totally agreed. And it's not like you'd need to tweak much. Have him dissect the body and put emphasis on how much he learns by doing so. Also, reterate that he knows Will is qualified, but actively wants to use him. Also, don't have him state killing intent immediately. Obviously he should observe Will in action first and try to figure out Wis this way. Otherwise, there is a risk Wis doesn't function anymore and is just lost.

Instead he joins Will's "I cant believe its not a harem" , harem. This is from the Danmachi guy. Who was really upset that people didn't take the 'main romance' of Bell x Cardboard Cuttout seriously, and instead, we kept incorrectly shipping Bell with all the other harem thotts the author kept throwing at him. With literally every single one of the harem fodder girls having better chemistry with the main character than the aforementioned cardboard cuttout... who had all of her screentime and character development shoved into a spinoff series that is... almost as long as the main series, apparently. Seriously, this bothered the author. That he would barely develop the main love interest and instead throw endless waves of woman at the main character, all with more screen time, character development, interactions with the MC, and reasons for liking him than the "main pair," but somehow, people would root for the absent cardboard cuttout on the horizon instead. I bring this up because he took that criticism into Wistoria... even if he really didn't understand it properly. This is why we get more 'screen time' with Elfie and less harem thotts hanging around Will. There is still Collette, yes, but we also have no less than THREE tsundere dudes who flipped from "jerkass" to "ride or die" for Will. TL:DR Criticism of the harem elements of Danmachi made the author replace these ladies with tsundere dues. Or in other words, Sion, Wignall, and Julius would have likely all been written as harem thotts crazy for Will if not for the fan criticism of Danmachi's main failed romance.

The way I understood it is that Will already asked Workner and he didn't know much either. He probably just had some general knowledge but no details how it works etc. As for Julius, it sounded like he couldn't find any information in the books either. implying that the Wis is a new type of power My assumption is that it's actually the other way around. The power is so old that all records of it are either lost or deliberately hidden or destroyed. If it was a completely new power, then nobody should have any info or name of it at all. I can't remember if it was established how big the country(?) they live in is, but from what we've seen so far, they seemingly reside in their mage bubble and the barrier is not protecting the whole world but just a comparatively small area. iirc we don't know yet what is outside, so I think a lot of knowledge and skills were lost when they had erect and stay inside the barrier.

Funny how the two tsunderes around Will are both guys lol. I really like this development for Julius. It's funny how he claims he's helping Will out of self interest, but he's clearly worried for him, and unfortunately for him, he's being reminded of his first love so there's no escape for him. He's going to become very attached to Will lol.  Julius exhausting himself by multi tasking like that is crazy though, it really shows how strong he is. I'm glad Iris called Elfaria out lol. Julius picking a fight with those three that attacked him was satisfying, I like how he didn't back down even if it was outnumbered.  So Kreutz is actually a very disturbing individual, great. I hope he gets exposed. The idea he has about using the mage slayers to help mages sounds good, but his methods clearly are not. It doesn't seem like he sees Will as a person.  Cerridwen is interesting, I like how playful she is. It's cute how much she's endearing the youthfulness of Julius and Will, she's got front row seats to wholesome entertainment. That is until she told them to strip lol.