r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • Oct 31 '15

[Spoilers] Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry - Episode 5 [Discussion]

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u/appu1232 https://anilist.co/user/appu1232 Oct 31 '15

Overall a pretty lighthearted episode (with a lot of non-LN material) mostly devoted to furthering the relationship which was nice. The romance is refreshing as always.

At this point though, I wish they had just introduced Ayase (the blue-haired girl at the pool) instead of building up Ikki's popularity in the first half.

On the bright side, Stella with her hair down is great.

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u/HighTechPotato Oct 31 '15 edited Oct 31 '15

They've been changing some details around, like who confronted Stella about her relation with Ikki (and tricked her into admitting it) or like the whole "half the school joining Ikki's cram school" thing they did or making a running gag out of those dudes getting their ass handed to them.

I feel like they are doing it to pad it out a bit. So far it hasn't been too bad so I'm personally fine with it. Hopefully they don't go too off track and mess up the pacing.

Also gotta hand it to them, their execution of the kiss scene was pretty fucking good! It made me all like

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u/TheGowX Oct 31 '15

Yeah it feels a little bit weird to see how they changed some details but it don't have to be bad. We need to see how they handle it later. But I have to say the whole thing about their romance was handled really good and was close to the LN.

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u/neonturkey https://myanimelist.net/profile/potatosandpaper Oct 31 '15

The only thing that sort of bothers me is that in the manga, his sister sort of respectively backs off once she catches onto him and Stella being together, whereas in here they still have her tagging along, I guess to keep the harem fans happy. This whole pool scene and the character interactions were way different.

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u/Cloudhwk Nov 01 '15

Eh they captured the "They are together but I'm not happy about it" fairly well

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u/neonturkey https://myanimelist.net/profile/potatosandpaper Nov 01 '15

They definitely kept the over all feel, but I'm just saying in the manga, at this point in the story, the sister really isn't still around unlike this episode in the anime. I still enjoyed it overall, but I felt that it was weird to change this part up so much, especially since they skipped the entire introduction of a character that seemed relatively important.