did Shion's voice change?
>>288406357let's begin anons
>>288406454cute but pretty barbaric boobs
what happens with kazarim later? does she just die? here she was larping a nobody and having fun.i also skipped this expedition when reading so i hope it's more condensed in animated form.
How does the Magitrain compare to high speed rail?
extra powerful reaction webms today
I love Tempest’s infrastructure bros..must be so nice being an urban planner..
what a moron. what is she doing in the antagonist's seat?
>>288406433>Look in my eyes, what do you see?>The cult of personality>I know your anger, I know your dreams>I've been everything you wanna be>Oh, I'm the cult of personality
>>288406691>>288406709>this is a destroyer of nations
>>288406772>the WEAK fear the STRONG
>>288406719You don't know how powerful she is
>>288406785yeah a fucking jobber with a unique skill
>>288406772Gobtabros..
>>288406931What’s Erwin Rommel doing in Tempest?
these walls are extra weird. it's like they replaced nip cobblestone foundations with concrete and used it as facing for an 1890s palace thingy.
>>288406772HOLY FUCKING SHIT I have never ever seen Rimuru having such an utterly malicious and sadistic expression. It's like inflicting suffering on Gobta is what brings him the most joy of out of anything he had ever done including his previous life. Totally deranged in a different way from committing war crimes or "soul crimes", but still deranged nonetheless.
>>288406886>>288406897Haven't seen the episode yet. Did they include it?
>>288407082Calm down Maribel
It's funny humans talk about killing Rimuru like it would solve all their problems and would put them on top of the food chain, when there are other Demon Lords, who are presumably stronger than he is at this point.
>>288407082what about the >well, i could give her veldora if shit hits the fanface?
Stitches.
>>288406357She sounds like she has throat cancer
>>288407045Just tasteless eclectic, as if it was some shitty castle-themed shopping mall in underdeveloped country
Last stitch.
>>288407420>>288407380is she the cutest yet!?
isn't this izawa shori?also, i can't believe dark elves were wasted on the likes of clayman. too opulent of a lifestyle, good he died.
>>288407184That one's more about "it's all your doing anyway, so I'll make sure you take all the responsibility for it and I get zero stray shots from this"
A fucking gun.
>>288406598>that triple arm crossMEETING IN FUCKING SESSION
>>288406897what if Rimuru had a gun?
This episode felt like it was trying too hard to acknowledge the movie
>How do you plan on dealing with Veldora?>Uhh, trust the plan *mind controls*Does she actually has a plan?
>>288406897being a gun autist and seeing this hurts me
>>288407596I really miss Clayman honestly. His VA did a great job. Maribel is such a snorefest.
>>288407117NOOOOOOOOO! They didn't include it...
>>288407596>>288408174Clayman revenge anime adaptation when?
you wouldn't have sex with a slime
>>288408267>否, i would. *audibly smug*
Nothing happened this episode. They could have at least given us glamor shots of the food or something.
>>288408299
>>288407738Chekhov's gun
>>288408357
i came for meetings
this girl is pushing her luck
I'm starting to think she's best girl
AVE MARIA
when and why this show devolved into a bunch of meetings?
>>288408972>Devolved This is peak media and more series should evolve into fictional geopolitics
>>288408876she is, and i'm usually a dfc enjoyer
>>288408972The truth is the entire story is just tons and tons of board meetings because the author is an ex office japanese and that's all they know about life.The first season doesn't seem like it because it's setting up characters/t he world
its gobuta time
>>288408998This pic makes it look like a Visual Novel, kek.
>>288409617oh, wowyeah it's true
>>288406691>>288406709She killed billions >>288406719When you think about it, greed is just stupidity with extra steps.
>>288406377Piss yellow sunset
emphasis on bust
Glenda has an obscene body.
Gentlemen, I'm late to the meeting, what'd I miss?
>>288410360she got myulan'd, but who will be her youm?
>>288408174yeah. you knew clayman was gonna fail miserably but at least he was entertaining
Why is she like that?
Okay, I know the world and nation building wasn't that strong before but what is this retardation. They're saying both of their societies comprising millions of people are basically already peacefully communist, lmao.
>>288410612you see, it's easier when at their tops you have unkillable magic lords who won't allow capitalists to run the place
>>288410427We had a fruitful discussion about Shion's juicy tits.
>>288410688Fantastic. What else is on the agenda for today?
>>288410612Thats how functional theocracies work. You still have a functional market for the sake of foreign diplomacy but the main driver of the economy is the god king's pet projects.
>>288410645Yes, but their goal is to actually implement capitalism anew. You can take the salaryman out of the capitalist hellscape, but you can't take the capitalist hellscape out of the salaryman.
>>288410713What about her other features though?
Marriabel is getting too greedy
How did Maribel go from looming all-consuming threat to absolute retard tier villain in the space of just one episode.
>>288410830She's European.
>>288410830i haven't thought of her as threatening a single time
>>288410891the ED made her seem threatening
>>288410891Her peeing all over the ending makes my pp feel very threatened
>>288406785If anything I think the concept of her power is poorly thought out and presented. I'd say its less dangerous than Masayuki's (his power concept would seem to totally warp reality), and sure you can say that maybe it won't affect the strongest players directly, but if it affects literally everyone else what are you even supposed to do about it? Go one by one and undo it?Well never mind I guess I already know the answer to this. Raphael will solve it.
>>288410830She is probably the weakest foe rimuru faced so far
>>288410810This make me want oni sexo, but this >>288408952 make me want oni wife and ten kids.
>>288410830Because she is at her most threatening when she is in her element which is to take her time to slowly scheme behind the scenes. But against Rimuru she has the problem that he is encroaching on the Western Nations and if Mariabel waits too long it will be checkmate and she'll lose the position to even fight back at all. Time is on Rimuru's side. So now she is forced to break away from her usual MO and take an all-out gamble, which is why her new scheming might seem "less refined" than before. Though she has quite a big additional problem because of Glenda still being alive (reminiscent of the situation of Myulan against Clayman) and giving out all the information she possesses puts Mariabell at a massive disadvantage in her information war against Rimuru. Mariabell was overconfident in her Greed Skill and the consequences of that are now unraveling themselves one-by-one starting with Glenda.
>>288411173>overconfident in her Greed Skill>>288410987>the concept of her power is poorly thought out and presentedbasically, everybody gangsta until your enemy has an ultimate skill (or 3+1)
I caught up on all the existing seasons and this season in time for this episode.
>>288409226I want Mr. Slime to look at me like that.
It's alright Mariabel's hero grandpa will teach her in advance that her powers won't work on demon lords.
>>288411173Problem is unlike earlier, nothing Rimuru does at this point feels earned. He has too many powerful allies, and that's not even starting on his bullshit AI tulpa. So there is no satisfying logic to her mistakes or unraveling, if anything you almost wish she would still end up at least hurting him in some way (and have less of a 1-dimensional villain motivation behind what she's doing).
>>288411297>nothing Rimuru does at this point feels earned>because of all the things he has earned What?
>>288411019You can have both
>>288407082It's just a little roughousing you goober. Thats the roughhousing look
>>288411297That's non-sense. Any long-running story that prioritizes "feeling earned" all the time will ultimately devolve into a shitty "level-scaling" loop (not just limited to MUH powerscaling but also political/social capital, etc.) that just turns it into trash because in order to always make things "feel earned" you'll inevitably have to dilute all previous accomplishments retroactively, as any gains and advantages cannot be long-term since that will lead to this situation here where success that is persistent and lasting makes it impossible for the MC to be the eternal underdog fighting against all odds forever to ""justify"" any successes in a ""relatable and empathetic for the average person"" way. It's a zero-sum game. You have to choose what you want to prioritize.
>>288411477I will remember this.
>>288410830She already lost and is now ad-libbing instead of planning properly
>>288411477As much as people bitch about Rimuru having it easy, a competent OP MC that makes full use of his cheats to accomplish his goals is so much better than an incompetent retard that refuses to use his but wins anyways through plot armor.
>>288411209Rimiru is almost entirely dependent on Raphael to autopilot the "tough" matters (anything that actually matters), so he's a lot like her....just has the better ability.
>>288411524my badswitching tabs is bad while watching anime
>>288411578>iyaaaa, gomen, gomen~
Every episode feels like it's only 5 minutes long
>>288411610this desu
>>288411568even the plan to reverse the trap wasn't Rimiru's keki wish Raphael would assume direct control so we didn't have to hear the dumb Japanese twink ramble about curry or whatever for the thousandth time
>>288411355The breaking point was when he awakened as a Demon Lord and got his full fledged AI and a pet primordial demon. I'll grant him Milim and Veldora (though freeing the later was of course the result of Raphael handwaving), because he at least befriended them honestly and early in the story.
>>288410830She's in a body of a little girl so her powers arent as strong. She has no experience of real monster threats and she wasnt born in the modern technological times. She in general has no concept of the dangers she's taking on just like any normal person that has never seen monsters
>>288411521nta but anon, of all novels, slime is very guilty of 'level scaling'.wolfs beaten? ok ogres appear. ogres joined? ok orc lord. oh look gazel. oh look milim and air shark. oh look hinata fucking sakaguchi.meanwhile politically: oh look goblins, oh look dryads lizardmen and orks, oh look gazel, oh look elmesia, oh look the western council was actually controlled by these 5, oh loo-- OH FUCK THE EMPIRE.it's a constantly escalating game just like shounens, and one of the weakest points it.>>288411568yeah he has complete magic control, the concept of gluttony and an insane supercomputer for any use. nowadays he also has spirit energy casting and hosts a casting network
>>288411521This. No one wants their story to turn into spiderman.
>>288411578I'm going to do unimaginable things to this tiny creature.
>>288411521>in order to always make things "feel earned" you'll inevitably have to dilute all previous accomplishments retroactivelyYou have a point but that's essentially still what's happening now, just very poorly. All these episodes "building up" Maribel and larping that she is a credible threat for that reason.The logical thing to do with the story at this point would be having Rimuru play more 4X games and politics, more big stakes battles, but unfortunately he's a retard and has to delegate all strategic and intellectual activity to his AI.
>>288411677yeah like showing her your entrails when treyni slices you with an aerial blade for looking at her queen wrong
>>288411677i want to fuck her so bad, you don't even knowlike she's seriously my type
>>288411568Rimuru is overreliant on Raphael, but he is not overdependent on her. Seems like the same thing at first glance, but the distinction still matters a lot.Fortunately the anime is finally showing one of the scenes of Rimuru being a schizo which it had skipped over in previous seasons.
>>288411645But anon, becoming a Demon Lord was literally the culmination of all the things he accomplished and friends he made along the way. Both Raphael and Diablo are things he earned.
I will say, at least the best part of Rimuru going braindead relying on his AI to handle all big matters is that we get prime dressing up and goofing around with your friends kino. Doubt this can beat the fucking around in the dungeon with Milim, Veldora and Ramiris arc but its still fun.
>>288411754he did nothing in particular to find and take diablo in. he just happened to encounter the mask and went to answer his summons by himself
>>288411696Rimuru already having everything he needs to take on the new enemy is the opposite of diluting all previous accomplishments retroactively. If anything, this is reinforcing them by showing how much of a threat he is.
>>288411754>Both Raphael and Diablo are things he earned.The story would objectively be better without those two. Milim and Veldora are fine to be insanely overpowered, because the way they're written they're forces of nature that have to be tard wrangled constantly. Its always fun and satisfying to see interactions with them, and how their relationship grows.
>>288408972>why this show devolved into a bunch of meetings?Protagonist is OP and a pacifist. It's just logical conclusion.
>>288411933a pacifist that plans to rule the continent
>bad guy retconned in good guy because of le poor mind control :"(droppedalso how many meetings this episode?
>>288412167you should have dropped it when benimaru joined him in ep ~10 then. see you next week.
the writing is just bad, simple as. even as narou-slop it's pretty bad, I'd rather rewatch kizoku tensei
>>288411808>>288411438milim sex
>>288411651>wolfs beaten? ok ogres appear. ogres joined? ok orc lord. oh look gazel. oh look milim and air shark. oh look hinata fucking sakaguchi.Are you retarded? That's not "level-scaling". Quite the opposite in fact. Rimuru runs into others in a way that is not stably progressing upwards just enough that he can beat them in that same arc. It's all over the place or jumps straight up to a level that he couldn't handle. First enemy Rimuru fights is the Black Snake (Tempest Serpent). Everything and everyone he fights after that (other monsters in cave, Direwolves, adventurers in front of Dwargon, ants chasing the baka-trio, Ifrit's salamnder summons) are all actually weaker than the Tempest Serpent. Only Ifrit is stronger again. After that he fights Gelmud who is weaker than Ifrit again, and then it's the Orc Disaster that's stronger than Ifrit. But then things escalate and Rimuru has to fight Gazel who, if he was serious, would wipe the floor with Rimuru (at the time) if he went all out with Earth Spirit Fusion that would make him as powerful as Hinata when she uses her "fairy armor". Then it's Milim's turn who is in the Top 5 strongest of the multiverse. Rimuru also gets in a stalemate against Charybdis despite two armies supporting him (GS was also completely useless for that fight, btw). Then he undertakes the adventurer exam fights (skipped in anime) easily, even while holding back, then fights two one-shot fights again (Sky Dragon and Elemental Colossus, both comparable to Orc Disaster) and then Hinata. After that he one-shots the 20k army and then at Walpurgis it's Milim (round 2) and then Clayman who is between Orc Disaster and Charybdis in power. Finally Hinata round 2. At that point he is removed from fights almost entirely And despite running into Gelmud-tier enemies like Gaiye/Reiner he is naturally distanced from them due to his position. It's even more all over the place if you included OVAs/OADs/movies in the chronology of fights.
>>288412150>ruleRimiru didn't even want to rule a tiny goblin village, let alone the continent. He's just sort of thoughtlessly and heedlessly warping the economic balance of the region, and it would've been a lot worse than it currently is if he didn't have much smarter people to devise controlled distribution of disruptive technologies for him. Just his mass production of High Potions could've completely destroyed an entire industry all over the western continent if it was implemented as he originally intended.
>>288410987>Well never mind I guess I already know the answer to this. Raphael will solve it>>288411568>Rimiru is almost entirely dependent on Raphael to autopilot the "tough" matters>>288411632>i wish Raphael would assume direct control so we didn't have to hear the dumb Japanese twink rambleGeez Clayman, can you give a break and stay dead? Let me remind you that Raphael is always glad to help. And if you argue that she has no choice, she will, and she will choose to continue helping Rimuru.
>>288411754Actually, they aren't. But that is in of itself not a bad thing. Diablo follows Rimuru just for being who he is, it just took a random summons for Diablo to latch onto, though the 20k massacre is what enabled Rimuru at the time to give Diablo a body that he can use permanently. But following Rimuru simply for being Rimuru is a key characteristic of Diablo to begin with and he gives an additional angle on how Rimuru deals with that type in his ever-growing cult of personality.As for Raphael, it was Great Sage acting on her own to fulfill Rimuru's wish. This is something that people often seem to forget but Raphael isn't just some plot device, she is a character of her own who likewise has her own development.
>>288412270>He's just sort of thoughtlessly and heedlessly warping the economic balance of the regionThat was true up until the Falmuth invasion. After that any time Rimuru talks about just "fumbling into it by accident" is just a straight up lie. You didn't seriously buy that, did you? Well I guess in the anime it was not made clear enough, but the LN shows Rimuru having monologues about the exact things that everyone mentioned in this episode and is now just trying to act all innocently about it. Remember, we are talking about the guy who DELIBERATELY turned Falmuth, now "Falmenace", into his own puppet government that is being led by his loyal subordinate Youm.
>>288411173I find it hard to read Maribel because she comes off as a highly competent and intelligent schemer, yet she's basically playing out her hand exactly like the Kingdom of Falmuth. Only with a lot less reason to be confident. In the Falmuth incident, Rimiru wasn't yet a demon lord, there wasn't a whole lot of reliable information about him. It was reasonable, though perhaps short-sighted, of Falmuth's leadership to assume he was a mere upstart that could be defeated with enough planning and several secret weapons brought to bear against him. And to Falmuth's credit, they spared no expense: they deployed basically everything at their disposal to destroy Tempest and Rimiru. The formidable wizard Razen, the isekaijin trio they had summoned, they fully leveraged their connection to the Western Church and got Temple Knights and a Holy Field cast over the city to weaken the elite monsters to a level they could handle. Falmuth was confident of success, but they didn't hold back at all, they used pretty much every resource they had, and had the aid of Clayman behind the scenes, too. Compared to all that, Maribel just has her ultimate skill, Greed, and the resources of the rich and influential Rozzo family. Her political and economic influence is immense, but in terms of raw power, she has considerably less than Falmuth did when they picked a fight with a much weaker Rimiru, who was relatively unknown at the time so they had less reason to be afraid of him. But now, Rimiru is a demon lord, he is publicly acclaimed as a demon lord by the other demon lords, and is allies with several of them. He is widely known to be the only thing keeping Veldora in check. He has the friendship and military alliance of several western nations already. I just don't see any basis for Maribel's confidence. It is starting to come off as sheer ignorance and foolishness.
>>288412574>her ultimate skill, Greed,she wishes it was ultimate. then it would actually have a chance of doing something to rimuru.(it would still be blocked by raphael and dabbed on thanks to rimuru's mana levels)
>>288412611I already basically surmised that Greed has a 0% chance to work on Rimiru. Mostly, it's just a skill that will make trouble for him by mind controlling other people. But like 90% of the usefulness of that depends on Rimiru not being aware of the mind control, or if he is, not knowing who is behind it. Now he knows Maribel has mind control abilities, and moreover, that he can break them easily. So what was perhaps her greatest personal advantage is now gone. It seems like her current plan is to blow up Rimiru and Milim with an unstable reactor or something, but that also has like a 0% chance of working. I can't see any reason Rimiru couldn't just Beezlebub the reactor, and I doubt there's an explosion capable of killing Milim, or even hurting her seriously. We've never seen her sustain anything close to an injury, and have seen her launch attacks that obliterated mountains. If Milim could be killed by what amounts to a nuclear bomb I'd be shocked.
>>288412504I think Rimiru just really, really hated Falmuth for what they did to Tempest, and specifically, to Shion and the others who were killed. He hasn't shown any inclination to subvert other nations, just Falmuth specifically, because he didn't even want to try coexisting with that country after what they did.
>>288412649That wouldn't match the current information from the anime where Mariabell clearly states that her "hidden secret weapon" is something that belonged to Milim in the past. The city and its reactor on the other hand belonged to elves.
This arc sucks but Glenda is great.
>>288412736>something that belonged to Milim in the pastVery perceptive
>>288407403retard
>>288406917>mhm shrimple as that
>>288407045looks like a ps1 game
>>288408972>devolvedhmm i think we need a meeting in order to decide how to deal with scum like you
>>288409160>fictional geopoliticsGeorge was ahead of his time
>>288411173>"less refined"thats a nice way to say retarded
>>288407446Always have been.
I have the memory of a goldfish, what ruins are they talking about? They all talk about it as some sort of old goodie from the show...
>>288414149beginning of season 3 after rimuru comes back from walpurgis, Hakurou comes back from the castle and talks with Rimuru. he tells rimuru about the dark elves and "gravekeepers" and the ruins. Rimuru says he wants to see them himself at some point and dont tell anyone else about them until then.
>>288414149you mean you haven't rewatched all the good meetings even once?
>>288410987>Go one by one and undo it?Obviously what you'd do is deal with her directly rather than the mind controlled people.
>>288410830Big fish in a small pond. She doesn't actually understand what sorts of things lurk out there.
Torpedos
>>288410830Sooner or later, this happens to all villains.
>>288406801Aren’t They All jobbers in the end?
this show has been pretty well produced so far. even though theyre outsourcing a lot of work, the people at the top seem to want to make this show. going back over season 2-3 even covid didnt wasnt as bad to the show as I remembered.
>>288410830She's a woman.
Milim in cute clothes alone make me rate the show a 10/10.
>>288412504As for Falmuth, they could have easily won if it weren’t for the fact that they made basic mistakes and had bad luck.>Lack of proper military communication, if Hinata had been informed that the troops were under attack by Rimuru, she would have quickly returned to help>Poor intelligence and reconnaissance relying on just one person, they didn’t realize that powerful characters were outside. They didn’t know what weapons Tempest had at its disposal (they didn’t have any at the time, but they could have; for example, the knights’ attack could have been stopped by a man firing a machine gun from a window). Similarly, the Isekajin could have fallen victim to some purely physical weapon.>Soldiers crammed tightly into the camp, with no trenches at all. And yet both sides possessed, and knew the other side possessed, magic equivalent to modern bombs and artillery>Strategic locations (crystals) were not manned by soldiers capable of holding off a stronger monster even for a moment>Lack of contingency plans, or even a simple Plan B in case something went wrong>General underestimation of the enemy and overconfidenceAnd I’m sure there are plenty more examples that could be dug up.
>>288412649A nuclear bomb has a rather nasty characteristic: it generates a very strong, brief burst of electromagnetic radiation of various wavelengths traveling at the speed of light, as well as particles traveling only slightly slower.According to “our” laws of physics, there is no way to actively defend against this, because information cannot travel faster than light. This would, for example, make it impossible to absorb the blast before it reached you, no matter how much time was slowed down. You would simply see it only at the moment of impact.Only strong passive protection could save him. And even if he survived, there’d be no chance of absorbing the heat wave still traveling onward because he wouldn’t be able to catch up to it.He’d have to use some techniques that break “our” laws of physics.The same applies to Milim and Veldora, except they probably doesn’t know anything about absorption, so they might survive on their own only because they are tough.
>>288415782ultimate skill uriel has complete control over laws, as long as you can articulate and imagine exactly what you want to achieve and pay the price in mana.raphael has at least 1 million times accelerated reactions and can use uriel in that time scale.he also has pre-made uriel based defenses like le 'absolute defense' that no sells disintegration (equivalent to nukes in universe).overall not so bad.
>>288415782radio waves aren't going to hurt any kind of meat, radio waves react mostly with metal and meat doesn't have a lot of that. The flash burst gives more than enough time to activate defenses, perhaps after burning a few hairs. The fireball is easy to tank or outfly. The hurricane wind is harmless to any half decent monster.So far the only real threat is the neutrino and gamma burst, which is deadly to organic tissue but otherwise low impact. Like, you don't get slammed against a wall by a gamma burst. Any sort of passive defenses tuned to these dangers would have no problem deflecting it.
Milim anal
>>288415782you are by far the dumbest person on this board today
gobta wit da bliky wuh duh heeeeell
Ahahahahahahaha, the sheer fucking hubrisI can't even comprehend
>>288416755greedy
>>288416755Kono gaki..
Okay but why bring fucking Gobta of all people though
>>288414578Rimuru is so cute. I would obliterate every single one of his holes with my dick.
>>288417388Because he doesn't want to come
>>288417388he's a canary whose purpose is to die before anyone else gets in danger.
>>288417388haha get it he's weak but actually strong and comes out on top. top nip humor.
>>288417388Milim can't live without BGC.
>>288416663>retarded japanese grip rears its ugly head yet again
>>288417567right so once again, why Gobta?
>>288417571It's a matter of time until Gobta learns the side grip, it's written in his underdeveloped prefrontal cortex.
Something about the Oni Secretary being happy really heals my soul.
*stomach growls*How fucking quirky and unique, bravo Japan.
>>288418126What a silly thing to get upset over.
>>288416663>el goblino de tempest
>>288418126glendeeta, my daughter. you must choose.donburi, chaahan, or spaghett.if you did the needful, you may also take the hambaagu with sarada.
>>288417571tell me proper gripping style
>>288418200The same joke on every single anime ever produced.Wasn't funny the first time, still isn't funny 400 times later either.
>>288418714wait until you notice manzai happening every other episode
I like Glenda. I hope she doesn't just become a background character like Gabiru.
>>288418730Not the same thing.
>>288418775>he doesn't knowcheers anon
>>288418775Gabiru and other least prominent characters actually become more relevant later on. Its just currently the story is at its calm before the storm phase.
>>288406393>Meetings the anime>we even get that one guy who's in every meeting but no one knows what he does
>>288418677
>>288412167not mind controlled, just pretending, still a bad guy and still just as much of a delusional jobber
Bros how can she not tsun?
>>288412574but thats kinda what makes her kind of a cool antagonist she wants to play the game even though shes literally insignificant in the eyes of the demon lords shes fighting who can just brute force destroy her
>>288419203Raphel is wrong. She is a tsundere.
>>288406484>feed bitch>she sucks your cockDoes this really work?
i cant wait for august when she gets some thin books where she gets bullied relentlessly
>>288417388Because aside from Milim, Veldora, Ramiris and Myormille, Gobuta is probably the closest thing he can describe as a best friend
rimuri is cringe
Rimuru, it's coolBut it's also clearly the train that, like, the bad guys would use
>>288419534>Ranga forgotten again
>>288419601Ranga is mans best friend so it doesnt count
>>288419590huh it just looks how monsters look... are you saying monsters are bad guys?
>>288419616I'm saying I've played a few JRPGs in my time and that's a bad guy train
>>288419626idk man sounds kinda racist
>>288419601Where is Ranga? Why have we not seen him?
>>288419719He was getting old so Mom took him to Uncle Joe's farm, but it's really far away so we're not allowed to go see him
Ranga vs Yuuki who is stronger?
>>288419887season 1 ranga beats peak yuuki
>>288419719he has been training with Milim but should be back now seeing as we saw Gobta this episode who was also with himso i guess just chilling
>>288417571It’s not just Japanese, it’s in every single media that has firearms and action scenes with firearms and unless that production company actually goes out of their way to either watch competent shooters shoot their guns, watch trainers giving their shooting lessons or hire said trainers to train the actors and actresses if it’s live action, it will always resort to people not knowing how to grip a firearm correctly and especially with handguns or rifles with optics.
>>288419111How is this different from what gobta did?
>>288414692That is if you can find her, if she wasn't retarded enough to be making such big moves. If she had any sense she would just stay in the shadows, not care if Rimuru seemingly takes over the west, but continue to brainwash everyone she can. If he doesn't know they're brainwashed, then he can rule the world not knowing Maribel is hiding in the shadows and directing events, planting suggestions in the minds of everyone else.But of course Raphael would know, just as it knows everything else.
>>288419719Still recovering from being "used" by Milim (you just know) while training Gobta.
>>288414873god I love her
>>288419999Are you blind? He held it like he’s holding a tea cup.
>>288415602Hinata couldn't get involved so easily because she didn't just represent the church globally, but also Lubelius. At the time the church could only get involved in the invasion with their local branch forces of Falmuth. As Falmuth was already acting in a way that was dubious then if Hinata got involved with neither declaration of war by Lubelius, nor an actual "God's enemy" decree by the church, then it would give Dwargon the justification to intervene and it would become a true "international incident". Any intelligence and reconnaissance would have been intercepted by Souei's group. If anything Falmuth was lucky that they didn't do it properly because else Rimuru might have loosened his "rules" right then when Souei would ask how to handle "human spies" before any barrier was in place. Besides, how were they supposed to find out if there was anyone strong there? No outsiders even knew about the Orc Lord evolving into the Orc Disaster and even if Yuuki/Damrada/Clayman leaked info about Charybdis to Falmuth, it would just be a long-distance recording with few details about how Tempest/Dwargon combined forces fought Charybdis to a stalemate and only Milim being able to deal with it. Falmuth's actual fighting power would have been their Legion magic that would have actually made them able to fight Tempest even without barriers on equal grounds, so they didn't really need a "contingency plan" for the barriers being destroyed, and even that was only at all possible because Rimuru managed to come back and create a hole in the barriers to bring forth enough forces to deal with them. Then Rimuru's Megiddo was made exactly to counter the Legion magic and there would certainly not be any "plan B" against that. Ontop of all that Yuuki actually fed Falmuth false info because he expected and intended for Tempest to still overall win the war but with Rimuru most likely dead, but no one knew about how much Rimuru's initial "3 laws" would initially inhibit Tempest.
>>288417571>>288418677>>288419981What about these two?
>>288419590I want to live in Rimuru's world, become friends with and play Factorio with him.
>>288419590Have you seen their uniforms? Also the guy is called Demon Lord or something
>>288420361Single handed, can’t really screw it’s up, it’s not “proper form” as in it’s not going to give you the best stability for tight grouping if they were actually shooting at a paper target.
>>288419590What are you talking about? That's a nice and friendly Slime train, just like how pic related is a nice and friendly Slime Absorption! Are you suggesting otherwise?
>>288420509Does the IRL "stability" even matter to superhumans (Damrada) who barely even register the recoil or who (in Glenda's case) have a supernatural auto-correction when shooting alongside the ability to create portals for their bullets?
>>288419590it has a very FF6 feelnot the phantom train but the concept art magitek armor
So how far will these first two cours (24 episodes) get before the break? There are still at a minimum 2 episodes left for this arc/volume, so let's assume they wrap it up with episode 10. We'll have 14 episodes left. I have 4 scenarios in mind: >14 episodes just for Hero Awakening arc >10 episodes for Hero Awakening arc, 1-3 episodes for the direct aftermath from Eve of War arc, 1-3 episodes as "special episodes" (e.g. Lakeshore dyed red incident, etc.)>10 episodes for Hero Awakening arc, 4 episodes as "special episodes" (e.g. Lakeshore dyed red incident, etc.) >7/8 episodes for Hero Awakening arc, 6/7 episodes for Eve of War arc The problem is I have no idea just how far they want to go with all 5 cours of "season 4". It would be absurd if it ended on a cliffhanger in the dimensional fortress. That would have been like ending season 1 on Rimuru being "killed" by Hinata or on Rimuru finding Shion dead. I don't see how that would work. I guess they could do it like season 1 and end it right before Rimuru goes there but then we'll have one of the biggest climaxes of the story in the first few episodes of season 5. But if they rush through to that moment itself then... well, it will be rushed as fuck. I guess one way it could work is having the 3rd cour be used for a spin-off cour again like they did in season 2 with Slime Diaries, so we could get Slime Diaries S2 or perhaps Trinity in Tempest or even the vacation spin-off. Then the remaining 2 cours could comfortably cover the Eve of War arc and the Empire Invasion arc.
>>288420791I want slime diaries s2 sooo much
>>288420848I honestly prefer when the SoL is directly mixed into the main show.
Anime adaptation of the Mariabel-inspired otome villainess isekai when?
>>288419590The spikes and giant eyeball are necessary for the train to function, okay.
>>288421721I Was Reborn As The Scheming Antagonist To A Stupid Overpowered Slime God But Then Fell In Love With Him And Gave Birth to Level 9000 Slime Babies
>>288422447the spikes are aerodynamic and the giant eyeball allows it to stop in time if there is an obstruction on the tracks
>>288419590>But it's also clearly the train that, like, the bad guys would use>t.
>>288420848We desperately need season 2https://youtu.be/r6FE0ZFzCPM
>>288413397This really could have just been an email.
>>288415924>The flash burst gives more than enough time to activate defenses, perhaps after burning a few hairsNot when the bomb explodes a few meters from you. If any active mechanism could help, it would simply be the detection of radiation from fissile material, indicating that there is something there that is most likely an atomic or hydrogen bomb.If this were not noticed or were ignored, the last option, without bypassing "our" physics, would be to detect the detonation of a detonator made of explosive plastic (difficult, as one would have to detect the weak radiation it emits, or perhaps more likely, the radiation of an electrical pulse in the wire leading to the detonator) and intercepting the bomb before the charge triggers the atomic bomb, which in turn triggers the hydrogen bomb. Because this is the longest portion of the time interval between applying the pulse to the detonator and the release of all the energy.We’ve seen a similar feat recently when Rimuru blocked a pistol bullet from a distance of just a few decimeters. Here, it would be similar, except that the reaction time would be several times shorter due to the plastic’s high detonation speed.
>>288424179so?
>>288424179ah yes, the irrefutable strategy of "open your mouth and close your eyes, and you will get a big surprise!" and activating a nuclear bomb directly in rimuru's face.
>>288424220No, it’s enough for him to disrupt the triggering sequence, for example, by breaking the bomb with something more or less magical (the radioactive debris would have to be cleaned up afterward, or not, if he done it super precisely).Although, he could easily just absorb it and neutralize it. The detonation speed of plastic is only between 8 and 10 km/s, and pieces of heavy uranium or plutonium have to accelerate and travel to the point of impact.That’s a very long time compared to what happens after critical mass is exceeded.
>>288424220Someone might try to kill him that way, of course in combination with a very powerful magic suppression.Basically, it works on a similar principle to Megiddo, only much more complex and powerful.
>>288424220Rimuru already absorbed a "magic nuke" in the first movie.
Havent been reading these threads but am I the only one disappointed that Yuki is being mind-controlled? The opening shows that he fights Rimuru so I'm still looking forward to that, but I dont like him being technically "faultless" since he's brainwashed. I'm hoping there's a plot twist about this.
>>288424179What about releasing some short but high-power impulse in higher number of dimensions? It could work but only when fired as a beam (no energy loss) or nearly point blank explosion. Energy decreases with distance raised to the power of the number of dimensions in which it propagates minus one.For example, we live in three dimensions, so energy will decrease with the square of the distance (ignoring interactions with air, etc.)Or on a piece of paper, i.e., in two dimensions, “energy” will decrease linearly with distance.
>>288424934he's the #1 overwanked villain, so what do you think?
>>288424869And that's exactly it, first, it's magical, and second, it doesn't explode unexpectedly.
>>288425090Okay, my brain is so fucked up from the recent mad rush of studying that it’s practically residing in my head rent-free
>>288425117What even is his skill?
>>288424934I don't believe he's actually under Maribel's control. Simply because we have seen the limits of Maribel's power, and it's not impressive, whereas we have not seen the limits of Yuuki's power, or even any real demonstration of his abilities. It would be supremely underwhelming for Yuuki's abilities to be kept secret this long only for him to be so weak that Maribel can control him. I find it more likely Yuuki is, if not on Hinata's level, is at least significantly above Maribel's.
>>288420105>That is if you can find her, if she wasn't retarded enough to be making such big moves.I find it doubtful Rimuru and his minions wouldn't be able to find her if she acted in any significant way at all. Even without Raphael I doubt Diablo or Rimuru's spies wouldn't be able to find her. She could probably just lie low and not do anything, in which case she'd be able to evade him, though in this case he wouldn't have a reason to go after her in the first place either.
>>288412504>Falmenacesuch a retarded name
>>288426903try ROOK GENIUS
>>288426964nothing wrong with thisperfectly descriptiveproblem, pawn luddite?
>>288427068it's nasty engrish if you didn't notice. as are many things in this novel.
>>288406357Soon
>>288427182I don't recognize half these people.
>>288427182imagine the smell of all that magic petrol
>>288427182Can't wait for them to finally appear in the anime proper
>>288427133comes with the territory reading the wiki (to understand shit that happened but not in the anime but is still referenced as if you should know it because they just assume you have obsessively read the manga and light novel) there are so many times i read a name and just sighit just happens so much in japanese media that pointing out or making note of every time it happens is a waste of time.i hope(cope) that the next generation of japanese authors realise this and do better.
>>288427182testarossa better have a good voice
>>288427219don't be rama rama
>>288427398i hope shes a raspy bitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvwNXNJqg3U
>>288427398uchiyama yumi (rudeus greyrat, chiba erika, mare [overlord], bozes [gate])
>>288427398>>288427471You can already listen to her acting as "Blanc" in either the gacha or at the end of the third episode of the Coleus Dream OVA.
>>288427471>>288427558not bad
>>288427471>>288427558>>288427605Here's the bit where you can hear a line from each of the 3. https://youtu.be/LP_QYCthjxQ
>>288427182I recognize the pink from the movie. Does he just start collecting primordial demons at some point, what the fuck?
>>288427963speedwatcher-kun... diablo said he would go find some underlings to do boring menial labor like toppling countries for him, so he can serve rimuru tea all day. connect the dots.
>>288428005I assumed it would just be some generic demons like the ones he sacrificed earlier.
>>288428048ah well, now rimuru has 4, and guy and his maids amount to 3. he's slowly getting somewhere. even elmesia was spooked by just one.
>>288427963>Does he just start collecting primordial demons at some pointyes
>>288428064I find hilarious how Rimuru himself is oblivious to that fact as well as how impossible that would be for anyone else. Not to mention how absolutely insane of a flex that would look like for anybody in the know. I can just picture him attending the next Walpurgis escorted by them. I mean, just imagine the looks of disbelief on the demon lords faces.
Does anyone else sense sexual tension between Hinata and Rimuru or is it just me
>>288428232I most wonder what Guy would think about it, considering he is also a Primordial.
>>288428376>Hinata>sexual tensionShe has all the warmth and personality of a block of ice hewed out of a primeval glacier. She would have a significant advantage over Rimiru's other female admirers given that she shares a common origin with him, being originally from Japan, and also having a strong connection to Shizue, but there's like no chemistry with them. Better chance getting sparks off the primeval glacier.
>>288428453>I most wonder what Guy would think about itgonna have to waitmax to find out
>>288428453Isn't what they're fishing for basically names, to become even more powerful? Or is there some deeper reason they crave servitude?
>>288428590Diablo, at least, seems to genuinely love Rimiru and has no higher aspiration than serving him. Becoming even more powerful in the process was just a bonus.
>>288428453you'll know, there's a scene where he learns about it during the first conflict after they appear. it's just like main's guardians' reaction in honzuki
>>288428565Bro, I've been reading A Song of Ice and Fire since 2004... do not speak to me of waiting.
>>288415924Why don’t you stand in front of an active old shipboard spy1 phased radar and tell me radio waves can’t hurt “meat”
lol
>>288412373I love that the ending for them is "Now neither of us will be virgins!"
>>288428376I've enjoyed their little bickering a lot
>>288410137I meant to ask , how big is Shauna's bust? Is she actually flat? or does she has moderate sized bust?
n-not again. another flag
>>288407446Would have been if the main anime didn't gave her an ugly nose with dots.
>>288428590Names are not free though. It´s like a contract, the master takes the life threatening risk to increase the vassal´s power but in turn that power must be used to serve the master with absolute loyalty. Furthermore Rimuru foodchain ultimate skill deepens this relationship even further. In exchange for Rimuru´s powers and gifts Raphael gets absolute control over those powers. Meaning she can turn them on and off at will. Primordials and even Veldora are no exception. Off course doing so may irreparably damage the vassal´s soul so it´s a last resource but generally speaking once a monster accept Rimuru´s bargain he becomes their daddy and they all have to obey. That said they are all essentially eternal/immortal so they are probably fishing for purpose and entertainment and don´t mind the cost. >>288428605That´s probably the power of the pact speaking. Servitude doesn´t feel like a burden or obligation for him but to be absolutely fair Diablo knew about Rimuru well before he was actually summoned and had been anticipating his arrival.
>>288429439not a spoiler
>>288429439>That said they are all essentially eternal/immortal so they are probably fishing for purpose and entertainment and don´t mind the cost.this is always the problem in left wing utopian societies, the end goal is always to eliminate any and all work but people love workinga job, a place, a role, a dutythe pain from boredom can easily be greater than physical and mental pain from working a brutal joband its compounding over timeit can literally drive you insanefor someone who is a LITERAL no thoughts head empty it might be ok but for any functionally immortal being who almost always has a high iq and thinks alot and constantly about everything, the boredom is more likely to functionally kill you than any enemy.its not an uncommon trope for a villain to fuck with the protag just because they are bored and that leads to them dying even if they had zero threats to them before hand.and them not really caring that they are dying because they finally got to entertain themselves and that entertainment is so satisfying that it was all worth it.
>>288429439I'm anime only and that spoiler isn't a spoiler, there's an anime scene with him watching Rimiru before he was summoned.
>>288429553>>288429780Oh it is a spoiler, you just misunderstood what it means.
>>288430186If it's impossible to understand what it means then there's no point in spoilering it...
>>288428590They don't crave servitude at all, in fact each one of them would rather be top dog and rule over the others. What they crave are physical bodies which they can use to have a permanent position in the world, or the physical realm, or whatever you want to call it.The demon realm isn't physical, so demons, including the Primordials, don't have a body their soul is bound to. They can pop up in the physical world for a time using bodies made purely of magic but it drains their power and it can only be temporary, so they want physical bodies for them to inhabit in the physical world permanently, with no time limit.Diablo legitimately wants to server Rimuru because he sees something special in him. The other 3 are going to be "persuaded" by Diablo, literally or figuratively, to come meet Rimuru. Once that happens they're also impressed with him, plus Rimuru offers them physical bodies and names on top too.
>>288430328Actually something regarding the demons that is never outright explained but strongly implied at several points in the story up until and including the story's ending: Rimuru is implied to be the "shadow" cast from Veldanava like how the Primordial Demons are the shadows cast by the Angels, a naturally occurring counter-balance of sorts. Rimuru's name in some Japanese cultural thing can also be turned into the number 666 and I remember that same number being used as Furigana above Rimuru's name in a raw text once (just one of those things that get lost in translation by both official and unofficial TLs pretty much every time). So that's it: Rimuru is essentially THE "Devil" in this setting so the demon primordials, including even Guy and his two maids to some extent, feel innately attracted to Rimuru by default. Of course the other reasons mentioned previously by others are also still true. It's usually not just limited to one sole reason after all.
>>288431783big if true
>>288420332>Rimuru's initial "3 laws"That's right, I completely forgot about that, that was Rimuru's biggest piece of stupidity ever>>288431783 But Veldanawa was a dragon, and dragons don't "cast shadows"
An accurate depiction of the Battle of Jura
>>288435205sure, clayman
Am I understanding the story wrong or is it easy to kinda hate Rimuru at a certain point?
>>288435279but he's so cute
>>288435279What point?
>>288435279>is it easy to kinda hate Rimuru at a certain point?How so?He's increasing the quality of life of everyone who lives in that world, and it's not even exclusive to monsters since he's willing to share it with any of his allies.
>>288436254This, he has human allies too and also he is a human inside. Btw many of monsters are also less or more human inside.
>>288436305>Btw many of monsters are also less or more human inside.huh?
evil, hateful magic lord's domain and the gloomy... oppressed... exploited?why aren't they all living in fear? >>288435279
>>288436413ok. not in the same meaning as Rimuru, but they are human-like
>>288436491That's because Rimuru causes all monsters to slowly become more human, they weren't originally like that
>>288436513ok then, why do dagruel, dino and tengu look pretty much human then?
Ramiris unique skill [Perfect Onahole]
>>288436305>he is a human inside
>>288436637not as much as he thinks
>>288436416>no 12 lane highways >no copypasted suburbs>a healthy economy>multiple races living in harmonyThat place is literally hellRimuru must be the most evil character in fiction
>>288436544>lookits what's inside that counts CHUD!
>>288436747be patient, hes working towards something great
>>288436747>no lawyers >no income or property taxes>only merchant trade is taxed>no wage slavery>free housing for all residents>Tempest's various amenities are open to the public, at no charge>Rimiru channels his subjects' adoration of him into civic pride and public works>Rimiru expels merchants who deal in bad faith from his countryWhat an antisemite
>>288436887>yup, owned
>>288436747It's just that that world isn't a perfect carbon copy of ours, and there was no need to deal with some stupid, aggressive race, not every member of which is like that, but as a whole, they're a total pain in the ass.
>>288436915Here’s another issue: their country is largely a wilderness inhabited by isolated tribes, so that’s not a problem, and the city is small and still in its early stages, so there aren’t any major issues there either, at least not yet. On top of that, they’re constantly under the threat of war and the risk of everyone, humans, monsters, and everything in between, being wiped out, which brings the community together.
>>288436732>3rd season episode 61god i hate that shit, THATS NOW HOW ITS ORDERED ALMOST ANYWHEREit season 1 episode 1,2,3 etcand then season 2 episode 1,2,3 etc>um but actually in Nippon thats ho-i dont give a fuck how it works over there.and i care because when i go looking for season 3 episode 61 im not going to fucking find it because season 3 doesnt have 61 fucking episodes in it it has 24
>>288437002very true, but renaming all of the eps in the torrent client, so they stay seeded, is too much of a bother to me.
>>288436910If we were to simply copy our world over, it would be a huge problem that we’d have to deal with head-on, BUT here we have one massive advantage.IRL, we have either democracy with all its mess, or a monarchy where a good king will develop the country but a bad one will destroy the achievements of several predecessors; since Rimuru is a good absolute ruler and, on top of that, long-lived or immortal, this isn’t a problem.
>>288437026mmmmm... ok, thats fine.
>>288436915As a citizen of a country like that, where I have a good king ruling over me, a loving wife, work that makes sense and real value, no one treats me like dirt, and the country is constantly under threat of extermination, I wouldn’t give a damn about money and would truly be able to work for the king and country.
>>288437121>you don't need to make me a slave, for i already will myself oneholy ideal citizen
>>288425517he's immune to magic and skills. he is merely pretending to be retarded.
>>288437169If you do it of your own will you are not a slaveIf I had my basic needs met and was and was respected I could easily work for the state.If you consider your country's powerful industry and military as your own "gadgets" you have no need of having a pumped up car. And if people respect you because you are for example an engineer, you don't have to proof your value by wasting money.Of course, we are assuming a well-managed kingdom here, not some sick socialism.
>>288437381by the way, it would be the king's ministers deciding who is compensated how, and who the state propaganda places where on the promoted social hierarchy.you will be placed lower than 'some' groups you personally hate, or feel are less important than what you do. you will be compared, you will see them get slightly bigger meal rations, maybe one more room in their home, maybe that good spot in the holiday resort you saw from afar and wished for.humans without additional software like buddhism or stoicism are not made to bear with jealousy. you would be livid about some things.
>>288437478That’s why I’m saying that such a system can work in a relatively small country and in the early stages. After that, we’d have to reconsider.
>Still no porn.
>>288437638Go back your discord
>>288437638you don't rike aislop on pixiv? it's pretty impressive in on-modelness
>>288436747 >>288436915 >indigenious tribe culture via the Goblins >not!Japanese culture (originating from a parallel-world Earth with some low-fantasy supernatural-elements) via the Ogres >aesthetically Arabic culture via the Orcs >aesthetically Aztec culture via the Lizardmen >fantasy-cultures such as the Dryads/Treants (I don't think we ever saw any of the Treants in Tensura yet in any medium and/or spin-off) >other monster tribe cultures in Jura Forest >all cultures being maintained in their respective "federal states" (i.e. homelands) >yet also resulting in a "melting pot" in the Jura Tempest Federation's capital, Rimuru City, that actually functions well because those who move to Rimuru City fully respect Rimuru's authority and fully integrate into the capital's society and mingle with others instead of creating cultural isles >due to the "might makes right" monster mindset being different from the human mindset, Tempest is able to be a complete dictatorial "police state", yet doesn't even require enforcement or oppression because the population nigh unanimously willingly submits to the Tempest Regime >initially starts off with a semi-socialist "merit point" economic system out of necessity but gradually transits to capitalism with proper currency (see LN and Trinity spin-off manga for details) to make trade with foreign merchants possible, so by now even in the anime "merit points" are only used internally for "government employees" until Tempest eventually circulates enough currency in the future>initially starts off as an open-borders society to attract foreign visitors but later introduces proper border control enforcement after learning their lesson from the Falmuth invasion (pic related) >initially tries to only create exclusively win-win treaties with other nations like Dwargon and Blumund, but later only prioritizes treaties with long-term merits for Tempest What did Fuse mean by this?
>>288437667>tried open borders, didn't work>"common sense" border controls (i.e. we only let you in if we like you)>previous allied countries who maintained good relations are grandfathered inMan I bet Gazel is so glad he went with his gut instinct and befriended Rimiru. He even chased him down after his own minister fucked things up with him to ensure Dwargon had a good relation with Tempest. Utter fucking godlike king instincts.
>>288437738GIGAzel CHADgo
>>288437667He has a good common sense
>>288437792He has proven to be one of if not the most shrewd and competent rulers in this series. I like how even after Rimiru became a demon lord with unfathomable power he still defers to Gazel as his "ruler senpai" and looks to him for advice
>>288406357which series is the most base buildy, technology advancing
>>288437995i don't think he has common sense anon, do you see any fort zone of control on the map?>>288438063dr stone
>>288436544>tenguWasn't their entire society made by Hakurou's and Kaede's master, an otherworlder?
>>288438024this>>288438075Fort zone of control?
>>288438075>dr stoneonly the first season is worth watching
>>288438160Nah, it's a pretty chill series with good OPs and EDs, so I generally watch it, even if I lost interest in it a while ago.
>>288438151>fortit was an eu4 joke
>>288438063>>288438075>dr stone>Single man with all technology building knowledge makes an internet for lulznopeIt would be possible but with hundreds of highest grade scientists and engineers, thousand of skilled workers, tens of thousands normal workers and several generations to achieve relatively high level of technologyBtw the Internet was create as a secret weapon against the Soviets, but unfortunately, years later it turned into such a cancer
>>288438160Nah this rocket shit in the latest episodes are peak Stone
>>288438169>good OPs and EDsthese are literally worthlessits like saying the food is good because it was served on a pretty plate.
>>288438236By the way, Jura should have the equivalent of the ARPANET specifically for military purposes. A network of underground cables connecting various points across the country, so that even if magical communications are jammed and some nodes and cables are destroyed, the network will still be able to send information by bypassing the damage>such an enemy is attacking from this direction with such numbersand then receive orders via the same route
>>288438332if i speak...
>>288436544>tenguthey're human-angel hybrids since angels possessed human bodies and fucked some humans for fun
>>288438332unnecessary as long as souei lives. they already have enough comms i listed for you a few threads back.
>>288438370tengu, ten no inu, they are a pack of wolves where an angel descended into the leader and morphed the whole pack.
