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Mahou Tsukai no Yome - The Ancient Magus' Bride (Anime Thread)

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RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#201: Feb 5th 2018 at 5:12:15 PM

I think that's the underlying moral of many fairy tales, and with good reason in this world.

It's been fun.
Elfive (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#202: Feb 5th 2018 at 5:16:51 PM

Yeah, that's p much Fair Folk 101.

Lyendith Since: Mar, 2011
#203: Feb 10th 2018 at 4:09:52 PM

Episode 18… I'm always impressed at this series' ability to go from creepy to adorable to creepy again. Elias' attachment to Chise is both cute in how innocent he is and terrifying in how he manifests those feelings. And then comes Chise's magic wake-up. [lol] But then back to serious business. I hate this guy, seriously.

Druplesnubb Editor of Posts Since: Dec, 2013
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#204: Feb 11th 2018 at 2:43:05 PM

As someone stuck with watching last week's episode due to a lack of premium membership I have to say it's nice to see that Water, having failed to kill Chise time and time again, is now switching tactics to taking her friends instead. We might be seeing one of the greatest anime villains ever in the making here.

AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
No, the other one.
#205: Feb 12th 2018 at 12:29:50 AM

My favourite moment was probably Silky's look when Ruth returned.

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Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
King of Burgers
#206: Feb 12th 2018 at 10:37:36 AM

It's funny how in the beginning, Elias was this inscrutable, imposing figure, but by now he's just an overgrown child with magic powers.

Wait, Chise is already 16? Why is she so smol then?

Silkie is a peach.

Man, another magical asshole? And of course it's this guy.

KnightofLsama Since: Sep, 2010
#207: Feb 12th 2018 at 4:03:55 PM

[up] Malnutrion most likely. Going by the OAVs between her unstable home life after her mother died and the fact she was constantly plagued by various spirits, many of which would crawl over and around her food, it's implied she missed a lot of meals.

Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#208: Feb 12th 2018 at 6:15:31 PM

There's an obvious joke somewhere about Chise being Japanese and Elias this episode turning into a tentacle monster and wrapping her in tentacles....

Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
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#209: Feb 19th 2018 at 4:22:20 PM

Man, this episode was messed up like hell. Should have expected that, since that little creep showed up again.

Not going to miss the auction house. That place was awful and it needed to go.

Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
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#210: Feb 27th 2018 at 12:32:39 PM

Episode out:

Who knew that giving dragon a hand would get you a dragon hand?

... OK, sorry, I'll stop.

OmegaRadiance Since: Jun, 2011
#211: Mar 5th 2018 at 4:16:45 PM

This week Elias fucks up.

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#212: Mar 7th 2018 at 10:32:49 AM

Yeah, this episode it comes to a head that an inhuman monster is in fact... an inhuman monster. Holy shit, Chise was mad this time and for a good reason. That punch felt so cathartic. In this situation I would go with Joseph too. He might be a twisted monster, but at this point he comes of as more honest between the two.

FullMoon feeling blue from Surface Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#213: Mar 8th 2018 at 8:39:31 AM

Well I don't think Chise had really a choice in going with him because he made it pretty clear that if she didn't he would kill Stella off himself.

AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
No, the other one.
#214: Mar 10th 2018 at 8:33:39 PM

I wonder if she wouldn't have done it anyway.

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KnightofLsama Since: Sep, 2010
#215: Mar 11th 2018 at 12:08:21 AM

In this episode, we have Chise backstory and a look at what her life was like before everything went pear-shaped (and how it went pear-shaped).

Did anyone recognise what those items were stuck to the refrigerator? Because the way he looked at them when he left, they seemed to play some factor in the reason her father left with her brother.

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#216: Mar 12th 2018 at 3:50:40 PM

This episode... damn. Between the eye "transplant" and that flashback, it was hard to stomach. At least it seems Chise let go of her past after this.

Man, Chise's father is a dick. I hope died in a ditch somewhere.

Poor Chises mom, her story is just tragic.

Magical beings are just assholes in this series.

OmegaRadiance Since: Jun, 2011
#217: Mar 12th 2018 at 3:53:57 PM

There's definitely more to why he left, and he even made sure to take their son with him. There was even that creepy as hell cat outside that he noticed and then disappeared. So calling him a dick is overreacting.

edited 12th Mar '18 3:54:31 PM by OmegaRadiance

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Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
King of Burgers
#218: Mar 12th 2018 at 4:01:30 PM

No it's not. I don't care for any excuses, leaving his wife and daughter in the middle of the night to fend for themselves like that was a dick move.

OmegaRadiance Since: Jun, 2011
#219: Mar 12th 2018 at 4:07:19 PM

Except you don't know what that being is or what it could do. And as been consistently shown with the likes of Ashen Eye there's beings out there that can fuck people up and there's nothing they can do about it unless said being seeks to entertain themselves. The Japanese ones seen are specially cruel and sadistic.

If he was just running away he wouldn't have taken one of his kids with him too.

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#220: Mar 12th 2018 at 4:10:49 PM

You sure are assuming hell of a lot based on a pure conjecture.

Well it's fine either way. I don't really care if you disagree with me.

OmegaRadiance Since: Jun, 2011
#221: Mar 12th 2018 at 4:14:53 PM

He wakes up in the middle of the nght, then we see a red eye cat, which is then followed by him immeditely deciding to go somewhere and then never coming back. We even know cats are supernatural in nature due to their multiple lives.

It doesn't take much to figure out it's related to the supernatural. Japan even has cat based monsters like the Nekomata.

edited 12th Mar '18 4:16:04 PM by OmegaRadiance

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Elfive (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#222: Mar 12th 2018 at 4:36:06 PM

Chise's dad getting the fuck out is a clear case of O.O.C. Is Serious Business.

KnightofLsama Since: Sep, 2010
#223: Mar 12th 2018 at 5:28:39 PM

It's also worth pointing out that it was clearly not a planned action, this was something done on the spur of the moment since he didn't have anything packed. While the possibility of something supernatural influencing him isn't certain it's high enough that it cannot be dismissed.

I was just asking about what those things of the fridge were because I was wondering if they may have played a part in his rationalisations.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#224: Mar 12th 2018 at 5:35:50 PM

It's not even clear if he intended to GTFO or if it was more a 'I need to pop out and deal with this situation right the fuck now' type thing that ended badly for him.

daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#225: Mar 12th 2018 at 7:11:47 PM

I think he didn't plan on leaving forever... Rather it seemed like he had a business to take care off and whatever happened made him disappear. He did hesitate when Chise found him and was considering taking her with him only at the last moment deciding not to. If he was running away from the family due to the monsters why would he consider taking Chise when she's an even bigger monster magnet that her mom?

If he went out to fight a monster and it went badly it would easily explain it but he wouldn't take his baby boy for it. It is a bit of a mistery but in this case I think he went out to deal with something involving that monster outside and things prevented him from coming back.


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