I feel like her getting a solid hit off on Vivio would have been enough of a victory, even if Vivio then knocked her the hell out. I’m sorry, but I want my protagonists to earn their victories, and do you think that Vivio doesn’t know how to defend against Einhard’s attacks when they’re thrown by Einhard herself, much less a neophyte like Fuuka Reventon ( Minase Inori) who learned Einhard’s techniques way too fast. Second: Fuuka should have completely lost to Vivio. ViVid Strike caused my shields to go up before I came to like the new girls, which makes their job going forward harder. That’s why good stories get us to drop our guard, though humor or relatability or sheer throat-tightening horror. We humans don’t like to be sent through the emotional ringer, even if it is cathartic we defend against it. They started off with trauma, went straight into drama (and lens flare!), continued with more drama, and by that time my shields were thoroughly up. The reason, I think, is that the writers didn’t do anything to make me drop my guard. I mean that the first episode did a lousy job of drawing me in and making me care about them. Of course I didn’t care about them going in that’s not the point I’m making. First: I don’t care about these two main characters. I have two main criticisms, before I get back to what’s good. Training episodes are fine, but we hardly got our payoff for all the training last time! For manga readers, I expect this isn’t such a problem, since they’ll have already read the rest of that content, making this a net addition to their ViVid world. It’s just, from where I stand as an anime-only viewer, we exchanged the middle of an exciting tournament for a new batch of training episodes. I’m going to beat up on this series a bit, though it’s not bad. So, spoilers maybe? Or did that battle against Corona make Einhard the Under 15 champion she’s referred to in this episode? Even though Rinne ( Ogura Yui) is referred to as the world Under 15 champion. I still find it odd to greenlight a spin-off of a spin-off when the original spin-off is only half-done at best in anime form, especially when this series seems happy to spoil things anime-only viewers never saw.
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