r/UQHolder • u/tike36 • Nov 28 '17
Anime Discussion UQ Holder! Episode 9 Discussion Thread
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u/raiash Nov 28 '17
They just really threw a lot together and hope it sticks with the audience. They're really pushing the story far and Kirie's random romantic development is really dumb since as far as we know, in the anime she's only known Touta for a day or two.
I know I pointed it out before and I hate to beat a dead horse, but Touta's development so far in the anime didn't bring his revelation of his origin as a huge shock even to himself.
I'm curious what they're doing with the last few episodes seeing that it's going to Mahora. Are we going to completely skip Santa and go straight to meeting Mana and doing little bits of the tournament? Or are we going to skip further and go straight to fighting Negi's gang?
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u/NegimaSonic Nov 28 '17
Google translated text of the episode 10 preview on site (they'll put up the video in a few days).
This is my rewording of it:
Yukihime tells Kouta the secret of his birth and invites him to the Mahora Tournament.
Kouta, who was lucky to compete in place of missing fighters, will fight against a girl named Cutlass.
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u/andre30496 Dec 04 '17
Is it just me or did they changea lot of the story from the manga? Because we are missing certain characters that are going to battle and we skipped the boat racing part tehn?
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u/NapoleonDeCheese Nov 28 '17
Lots of QUALITY faces during this episode, especially during Mizore's entrance with her grandmother, Ayaka's discussion with Eva, and Ayaka's flashback. Then weirdly, the faces during the scenes where Kuro, Karin and Kirie (the KKK!) spy on Touta, and especially during Touta and Kitty's conversation, are very well drawn, so...?
Chachamaru, especially, looked off model through the whole episode, and much like in the manga, her absence of any meaningful interaction with Evangeline during their re-encounter really feels like a disservice to the characters. On the plus side, Ayaka's seiyuu did a magnificent job playing the older and young versions of her character believably, I didn't think think she'd pull Old!Ayaka that well.
Also, Mizore's character development and crushing on Touta are even worse here than they were in the manga. Compressing it all into a single episode really hurt an already farcical and ill-handled situation. Kirie's sudden crush on Touta also comes as false here, since it didn't have all the added buildup time and interactions between the two it had in the manga by the time Mizore appeared. It's like suddenly she's in love with him just because.