Elmesia’s title is 天帝 or 皇帝 in Japanese, and both of these are gender-less words.

In any case, the English people probably had the same thought you did and defined Kingdom as being able to be headed by a queen also. The United Kingdom was one example until recently.

There is a reason Rimuru is special besides being from a different world, and is related to the mask, but that is the next story arc for the anime (LN vol 11) I think.

Continuing from the end of the last episode, Rimuru and Gazel discuss Tempest’s financial problems, at which point in stead of the OP song we got the entrance of wise and ancient Elmesia, who was acquainted with Gazel’s grandfather and called him Gazel-bou (“young Gazel”).

Elmesia offered to exchange some gold coins from her personal magic purse to help, and gave a lesson to Tempest (and especially Diablo) what greedy schemes humans could have hatched to undermine the country. After some talks with Rimuru and assessing him, she approved an alliance between Thalion and Tempest, in return of …… getting her included in any interesting stuff Rimuru plans in the future, and an introduction to Mr. Yoshida 🍰.

As to the tournament, Gobta fought so bravely with his new skill that even “Lightspeed” Masayuki decided to concede the fight and let Gobta win. Milim was impressed and volunteered to train Gobta and Ranga in the dungeons which Hakuro welcomed.

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Goodbye, Gobta. Goodbye, Ranga. I’ll never forget how brave you were. – Rimuru

Masayuki finally got to eat lunch in private with Rimuru, without his doting party members. Rimuru told him that he was also from Japan and treated him Japanese cuisine. He was relieved they were not enemies and told Rimuru of his unique skill. When he learned that Tempest had mangas, he became an ally completely.

Next episode we’ll witness the opening of Tempest’s Labyrinth, and Masayuki will show it off by challenging it.

I like that they covered the whole Kelvin fight this episode (they even skipped the opening to get more time) instead of having us wait for the result.

So Kelvin had been holding back (way back, as we’d find out later in the episode) in his fights to entertain the viewers, a fact he admitted to Rick whom I guess he felt is worthy enough.

But he finally met Broughston who was stronger, and he gave up his hesitation and went all-out after some encouragement from the gym owner. Turned out he was strong in magic also, which took a lot of hard training. He used level-eight magic which impressed the S-rank party members and a big reaction from Angelica. Broughston for his part showed his respect by giving the champion the orc quarter thumbs-up and then beat him utterly.

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It went into the ending song right after the fight, so we don’t know how Rick’s reacted to having to fight Broughston next, I doubt he’ll be let off easily just because they have secured the belt :-)

Masayuki’s unique skill is strong indeed. He somehow made it to the final match without fighting at all, at the same time without disappointing all his fans. Just the opposite, they seemed to be crazy about him.

If you looked close enough, there was another person questioning that along with Rimuru:

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To Rimuru’s surprise Gobta beat Lion Mask with his tactics and will be the one who fights Masayuki. Meanwhile Rimuru has an appointment with Gazel-in-yukata, the purpose of which we’ll find out next episode.

Below ordinary level ??? Rick posing as 1-month studied Angelica. It was not enough to defeat prodigy level 1 Geith, but Rick shows what possibility Angelica can have if she spends more time training.

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I was going to say this is the payoff episode, but the tournament is not finished yet and they still have a Champion to defeat. It is good to see Angelica’s problem solved though.

Also, the button layout on switch controllers is different (A & B is swapped compared to XBox). This mostly matters on emulators, although you can remap the buttons, it can get confusing that they don’t match the games’ instructions on screen.

In fact, USB 3 can cause interference with 2.4GHz wireless so a 2.0 hub could actually be better for OP’s purpose. It probably won’t make much of a difference unless you’re plugging in a thumb drive right next to the receiver though.

We short-lived mortals are lucky to meet Her Majesty Elmesia in our lifetime. All …… hail …… Her Heroic Presence…… [Raphael: Mental Interference detected]

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I really hate that you can only open one settings page at a time. There is no justification to making you lose your place you’re working on just because you want to adjust another minor setting. With the old interface I can e.g. have network and sound settings open at the same time and I don’t know why they took that away.

In case anyone cares, it was not solely luck from his skill that Masayuki crushed Orthrus so smoothly, Yuuki basically took advantage of it and set him up. I thought it was more recent but it was episode 59 (S3E11) that Yuuki planned it.

Character Designs by Hirai Hisashi

Speaking of him, also try Fafner for the dystopian feel.

I was somewhat confused if “a Tengu is the incarnation of an angel in a wolf’s body” and not a race that Momiji can be born as a Tengu because biologically she would be just a wolf. Well we don’t know if / how angels reproduce so perhaps that’s why it took many years for her to be born.

I don’t remember the fate of Kaede but perhaps there’s a way to prolong her life? Tempest has extra magicules to spend (the dungeon is full of Veldora’s) but we don’t know if magicules capacity can be expanded easily (it happens e.g. in naming or evolution).

Milim was shocked! shocked! that Ramiris is now living with Rimuru. But Shuna was effective in stopping their bickering by threatening them with no sweets.

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Rimuru had to endure 3 days of audience with various races around the area who would potentially rise against him if they judge him too weak. However they quickly fell in line after Shion demonstrated her strength against Daggull’s three sons, who each were at the energy level near unawakened Clayman.

The elves in this series did not seem very haughty like in other lores. There was a problem with some of their folks missing which Rimuru had some idea about.

They will get to the Tengus next episode which we’ll presumably learn about Benimaru’s sufferings according to the title.

Thanks.

Thanks. Have only watched 1 ep so far, will let you know if I need threads for other eps.

Question: Must episode numbers always be in sequence? Netflix seems to number them from 1 again for this season (so ep 13 is ep S2E1), is that something this anilist API / rikka would be able to handle?

Bon got his first assignment as an Official Time Patrol and proceeded to make the same rookie mistake: not turning on his forgetter. He also could not resist showing off his awesome time powers to Yumiko, which also served as something akin to a recap of Time Patrol’s tools and abilities, as well as a cameo of Ream. The Time Patrol had given Bon some time off since last episode’s happenings, so Bon felt nostalgic seeing her again.

Yumiko of course wanted to become a Time Patrol after the experience. Seems like her wish would be fulfilled too and we’ll see her assisting Bon in the coming episodes. Buyoyon also came back and joined them.

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It is a pretty good manga, except for the fact that Inoue-sensei got into a slump and put it on hiatus for years already.

If the Studio do animate it, I wonder how they would handle that the manga not having an ending.

The guy that made that Chuunibyou move “my eyes hurts when I use their power too much” then hurt them for real by looking at Rick was hilarious.

We found out Rick’s mentors (one in particular) deceived him into thinking he was weak. Well at least he realized he was “stronger than he thought” now and knew now people was far less discipline than him can already be A-ranked. We’ll see how he’ll do with this information.

Depends on how much time he spent training with those time magics, Angelica might be correct in calling him “around 40”.

An examiner used the most powerful magic known to mankind in a low-rank exam and nobody blinked an eye?

Everybody is weak when you compare them to Saitama…… Having said that, I just realized that Rick basically one-punched Raster.

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Noor knew about the warrior job but he didn’t know what one looked like? I wonder how long this show is going to keep him so dense and information somehow not getting to him.

Also, was the King living in just a large house? I thought at first they were just visiting the town and that was where they stay when I saw the not very fortified looking gate, but it had a throne chamber.

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Maybe I was not in the right frame of mind when I watched this, I found Rick in this episode very annoying, going on and on with his lack of confidence. I find it hard to believe he worked for the Adventurers’ Guild for years but apparently have no general idea how strong adventurers of each rank were and how OP he was.

At least it seems we’ll be getting some pay off next episode.