Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen - Episode 14 Discussion / Poll

[Kairin]

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[Stark700]

That was nice with the action in the second half. A priceless ending there as well lol. Glad to see some of the action unfold. What a team~

[watisit]

Any bets on if the tub of lard will be KiA?

[Chaos2Frozen]

Atui surprisingly badass, I know we've seen her fight before but that was against bugs.

Haku has some incredible luck/coincidence in his favor when it comes to these things.

[Nachtwandler]

Kuon is badass to. She even fights bare-fisted. But with her origin it's not surprising, she can handle it.

[AkitoW013]

Nice ep but I'm a little bit sad, they changed some scenes from the VN, can't wait for next week ep.

Spoiler for Spoiler:

Godzilla incoming.

[yulinard]

I wonder why a frontier village did not grow buckwheat like the first village. Didn't people of Yamato have Bliny/buckwheat pancake/amu shell as staple food?

[ReddyRedWolf]

I have a feeling Kuon never told Karura and Touka she is gong to war. She is after all the princess of Tusukuru.

I feel Haku is a man without conviction. That is why he couldn't understand why his friends go to war to protect Yamato. He is forced to go along the flow with Rurutie.

As for the Urusha(sp?) I think these guys never learned how to farm or ranch and all they can do is raid others.

Now that the real generals are here they are going to get wrecked.

[FlareKnight]

Pretty good. Some nice movement forward and also got to see Atui be pretty badass. Honestly it wasn't all that out there to have Haku be more "whoa, maybe we can just sit this one out." All the more so since the show has had him basically avoid all conflict outside of maybe 3-4 episodes. So of course he holds back until the very last moment and some prodding from Rurutie.

Thank god Rurutie gets more chances to develop in this episode. You know instead of just having her entire character revolve around her BL interests. Had some good moments there. Being one of the few who was really hesitant about doing all this, but when people were in trouble and needed some rescue without outright fighting...then she could jump in.

Good episode. Should be good to see the war unfold now that actually competent people have arrived and Dekoponpo shouldn't be commanding anything.

[serenade_beta]

Yeah, battl......
!?
Hmm, it was pretty underwhelming. I don't think the story itself was wrong, but perhaps the presentation was the reason it didn't leave any impact. Anyways, battle kinda happened and kinda finished. ...'Kay.

[Hooves]

Finally caught up to current episode.

So far the first battle seemed underwhelming but I suppose that was intentional. There were some great movement though so hoping for more of that in intense fights.

Just going to say I absolutely love the new OP already more then the previous one. It does a really good job at matching the game's opening.

[Nvis]

New OP is growing on me.

Scary how Atui almost bit the dusk against the Sword Master guy........

[yulinard]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

Yeah, battl......
!?
Hmm, it was pretty underwhelming. I don't think the story itself was wrong, but perhaps the presentation was the reason it didn't leave any impact. Anyways, battle kinda happened and kinda finished. ...'Kay.

Very few people have the experience to create interesting battle scene.

Also I don't think it finished since both main forces still intact.

[jvcscasio]

If this battle happened back in 5 or 7th episode, this anime would be much more interesting. But now that they finally got to the action, the wait we had to go through made the fight disappointing...

I mean, we had 13 episodes of expectations for this, that's the reason for the underwhelming feel.

[Haigi]

Yeah, it really does feel underwhelming. It's like...Look! New characters! Now, here's the fight. Okay, fight's over, now move along....next episode.

I'm okay with the slow pacing though....just waiting for the transformation bit in the fire.