(CR) Rokka no Yuusha

[Zefyris]

Originally Posted by ~Yami~

A simple reason about why they think Adelt is fake is.... his fighting style!
I don't see the way he got the power as something weird.. it looks normal for me
but if we saw on the record, all the heroes have a speciality in something.. like fire magic, ice magic, sword, bow, knife, etc....
now, what is Adelt's speciality?

The anime never said that sword /bow/knife or whatever where powers, and they are not.
As Nashetania said and as you saw in the pictures during her speech, there was 3 saints (female) and 3 warriors (male) the first time . The saints were Ice, Sun, and Fire. Second was Blade, Time, Thunder, Wind, Salt (so 5 saint and only one warrior).
Everything is as Nashetania said. hen Nashetania didn't pronounce the word "saint" in front of the rokka's name, that means it wasn't a saint. It's as simple and clear as that.
So anyone other than Saint is basicall ythe same as Adlet : a warrior, with different weapons or a single one, it's not like it matters.

[DorkingtonPugsly]

Nashetania looks much better without the bunny ears.

[Biohazardous]

I enjoy this so far and look forward to more. For Adlet another thing making him good to be bad guy is the fact he wants to kill the Demon lord so bad. To find out the only reason you have the option to kill what you have been wanting to kill is because it gave you a fake seal.

I happen to love the bunny ears Dorking though Im partial to bunnies.

[zeando]

Originally Posted by Amiluhur

The conversations between Adlet and the maid girl inside the prison was so tedious i had to fast forwarded it few times. It was expositions involving lots of jargons and in world mythologies that really don't make a thing for me at all. I don't want everything to be spelled out in just the first episode.

world history, common knowledge, it's part of the world building
i enjoyed that talk a lot, and want to know what the salt saint was about

Originally Posted by HandofFate

At first I thought the titles "Saint of '____'" was something granted from the powers of the petals.

But looks like she had the title saint of blades before being chosen, and she mentioned Saint of ice as well who was killed before.
Sad that the best archer in the world was killed too, i love my archers.

noticed the same, so wonder what effect the flower crest does have aside from just marking the chosen heroes

Originally Posted by ~Yami~

About the "fake" things, one of them either is Demon God or Goddess of Fate herself
So I'll put my bet on the princess.... since she's the only one who would get less suspicion

when there was the introduction with the goddess i was thinking the girl with the flower hat did resemble her, so my bet is on flower girl is the goddess disguised

but from the prison explanation it seems the "goddess" was just the first hero to get the flower mark, which with the next generations was given to 6 heroes instead of only 1

[Albel VII]

The animation and music is solid so far, and the princess seems somewhat interesting, but it's too early to comment on the rest. If Adlet becomes smarter later on (I find him a bit inexperienced and dumb right now), and if the Majin is more than just a one-dimensional monster, then this can become a pretty awesome epic adventure. The fact that the setting was changed is not exactly a good sigh though.

[Kaoru Chujo]

Originally Posted by Botan_TM

...Author of novel himself give us a romanized names in LN. Actually I have one example, a picture from Japanese novel, not a fan translation (we had the same discussion in my local forum so I have prepared it).... I can send other characters if needed by PM, or you can jump in LN subforum for more details.

I'm not going to touch the LN thread, so if you could send those, I'd appreciate it. I'm still not sure what to use, since this is the anime, and people will be looking the show up in places like ANN, MAL, and Wikipedia, but I'd love to know and will probably use them. Of course, I can imagine the author having nothing to do with the illustrations.... Lol.

@Zefyris. Sorry for underestimating your awareness. Anyway, I hope it was useful for others to realize the complexities here, too.

Originally Posted by the one above all

He was in there for months though. At least 3. That's a detail they didn't mention.

They did their best to show it, with the flashing nights/days, the exercises, and the many marks on the wall. I for one got the basic idea, anyway. He was left there to rot, but kept his spirits up and got ready for his exit. Good catch on the beard by moodie, however.

For me, the conversation with the "maid" was not tedious at all, and in fact was one of the most enjoyable parts of the episode. Not so much for the information as for the maid herself, her voice and attitude, and because it seemed clear that the maid must be more than she seemed -- the princess's maid, at the very least. And when he commented that security was so lax that even a maid could get in, that was a strong clue she was the princess herself. Hair and eye colour sealed the deal.

[Zefyris]

I wasn't asking for an apology lol.

BTW, did someone notice that nashetania was having a hard time repressing her laugher when adlet was doing his speech in front of the goddess' statue ? (around 6:33, in the background).
I found that was a nice touch from the anime staff when I caught her doing that lol xD.

[Twi]

Originally Posted by gecd

what if....Adlet lose his sanity while in prison
then he himself carved the symbol on his hand using knive?

No blood on his hands and that knife was spotless. Not to mention the pattern was engraved too cleanly for it to have been done like that. Plus, we saw the light show. It's wasn't him.

[Wandering Soul]

Originally Posted by Zefyris

BTW, did someone notice that nashetania was having a hard time repressing her laugher when adlet was doing his speech in front of the goddess' statue ? (around 6:33, in the background).
I found that was a nice touch from the anime staff when I caught her doing that lol xD.

Nice catch. Now that I noticed it I have to say that is a nice addition.

[Iron Maw]

Originally Posted by DorkingtonPugsly

Nashetania looks much better without the bunny ears.

Honestly, I actually agree. But I don't mind her look with them on either.

@Zefyris Nice find.

[Diveman]

Interesting anime, I liked this episode a lot and makes me wonder who the "fake" is. My bet is on the gunner girl.

[DorkingtonPugsly]

Originally Posted by Biohazardous

I happen to love the bunny ears Dorking though Im partial to bunnies.

They're cute yeah.

Originally Posted by Iron Maw

Honestly, I actually agree. But I don't mind her look with them on either.

Me neither, I mean I wouldn't even have that opinion if they never showed her without it.

[chaos_animagic]

Originally Posted by Twi

No blood on his hands and that knife was spotless. Not to mention the pattern was engraved too cleanly for it to have been done like that. Plus, we saw the light show. It's wasn't him.

Hay, you never know, drunks do that all the time.

Get drunk than wake up the next day to find tattoos in weird places.

LOL


PS: I like them bunny ears, so stab me.

[OkamiNoKaze]

although if this is set in a sort of Mesoamerican setting, native peoples weren't known for being particularly hairy, that could also explain the lack of beard growth. It could have taken that old warrior from the tournament his whole life to get that much beard.

[thundrakkon]

Wow, this was a great first episode. This was the first show that I saw this season that I did not know anything about, and it delivered in strides.

I can't believe this thread has already talked about a spoiler concerning a traitor. It's only the first episode with only 2 characters introduced, and there is talk about something that I had not even the hint could be happening.

[Iron Maw]

It's actually in the synopsis for the adaptation (check MAL or ANN). Worry not, you haven't been spoiled.

[thundrakkon]

That's offsite information, and definitely not what has already been shown in the anime. At the very least, it should be under spoiler tags. I'll leave it to the mods to decide if it is content that should be discussed in the anime thread at this point. It definitely was not what I was expecting to find out at this point.

[Zefyris]

^

-official anime key visual (like the picture MAL use for this anime)
-Official Trailer
-Opening (including the lyrics IIRC)
-Ending
-Official Synopsis
-Official Anime website
-Official Conference available on youtube since more than one week

All of them are telling you there's 7 heroes. I think that's enough for most peoples to have noticed. And there are indeed a lots of peoples here and there who already started speculatingeven though the others have yet to be introduced. Those peoples AREN'T LN readers, and they didn't read LN spoils, either.
It's the wish of the anime studio for peoples to know of that plot element from the start. This is most probably to appeal about the fact that this isn't just a simple generic heroic fantasy plot, and avoid peoples dropping it for being generic before they can bring that plot point in that will change everything.

I don't think this can be considered a spoiler.

[thundrakkon]

Yes, I noticed that there were 7 heroes as well, so my thoughts were that one of them could be a side-kick or a helper. Heck, one of them could have been one person split into two. There really was no information in the episode itself to state anything.

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[Botan_TM]

^ I guess somebody who created that rule was rather thinking about some informations posted about episode before it was aired, or maybe some contents taken for example from background of working studio photo, whatever. But there is a nice thing called "common sense", when all stuff given by studio is just shouting at you "there is impostor here" (seriously, older version of official site http://rokka-anime.us/ had even a big opening add with "There is Imposter amongst them"), there is no need to hide it.

Also, here you got introduction from site.

Legend says, when the Evil God awakens from the deepest of darkness,
the god of fate will summon Six Braves and grant them with the power to save the world.
Adlet, who claims to be the strongest on the face of this earth, is chosen as one of the “Brave Six Flowers,”
and sets out on a battle to prevent the resurrection of the Evil God.
However, there turned out to be Seven Braves who gathered at the promised land...
The Seven Braves notice there must be one enemy among themselves,
and feelings of suspicion toward each other spreads throughout the group.
And it is Adlet who gets suspected first and foremost.
The beginning of an overwhelming fantasy adventure that brings upon mystery after mystery!

So what, should we keep under spoiler tag a short official synopsis known by everyone? That's ridiculous.

Anyway, if you are posting rules, then I post those from the same source:

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