Tears to Tiara #14 — Dungeons and Crotch Stabbings

July 5th, 2009

 

Way to go, Arthur.

Impressions:

I find it hilarious that they clearly spent a lot more time and effort on the unneeded fight against a generic ogre than they did for Octavia’s showdown against Lydia. It was definitely pretty great, and I heartily approve of Arthur’s special finishing move: tipping over a Talos (T3’s version of golems) and then jamming his sword up its crotch. It’s also probably the closest that Arthur’s ever going to come to sticking his ‘weapon’ into anybody’s crotch. The second half of the episode wasn’t nearly as amusing, especially given the dumb Gaius stuff. Pwyll and the ‘mysterious’ girl also just gave a lot of foreshadowing about Myrddin (forgot this was Welsh) and Arawn, but if you haven’t figured out the identity of that 13th Angel with short white hair and his face scratched out on the mural, there’s no helping you.

I’m still concerned with the pacing issues though. Even moreso after they spent about 5 minutes on Gaius being ordered away from Albion due to reports of Arawn being a big silly, just for him to immediately head back there. Of all the useless things they could have cut to keep the plot moving, that was up there towards the top. Now it’s just a bunch of mercenaries and Gaius being slightly more vindictive instead of the evil empire. Riannon’s hand puppetry is a relatively close second. She really is her own wet blanket. Those puppets were also curiously well animated, especially given how lackluster the production was for last week.

And yes, that is Morgan in her tubetop and loincloth, deep throating a banana. Nothing gets by me.

Preview:

Zombies in the mist.

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7 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • chad001 says:
    July 5, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    O GOD! NOT THE DREAD ZOMBIES IN THE MIST! Seriously… you spend a useless 4 minutes, with auto-attack, hitting invincible zombies, and leveling up… like, I went to read a book at this battle…

    • NitWit005 says:
      July 6, 2009 at 1:22 am

      I believe the anime is supposed to be based on the PS3 version, not the PC version. The PS3 version is turn based, so this battle was probably even more boring.

      • ximpa says:
        July 6, 2009 at 4:29 pm

        Actually, no, the battle in the PS3 version is rather short (two turns if I’m not mistaken). It didn’t feel dragged for long at all.

  • DK says:
    July 6, 2009 at 1:22 am

    Tear to Tiara: now with new and improved “Snotty Smugface (益).” Arawn, Arthur and Gaius did it at lease once.

    I still keep wondering how the most tackless girl in the group gets to have the sexiest body and clothes to match… Wait… that actually makes sense now!

    So they replaced the Riannon sex with a puppet show instead… Huh, whodathunk.

    Next episode will be the “reveal” on who killed Arthur’s father… if you can’t guess it already.

  • jeffng9 says:
    July 6, 2009 at 3:18 am

    hm… i’m not entirely sure if he is the one who kill arthurs father as far as the game version goes.

    yup the ps3 vers is base on the anime itself rather than the pc version. there are no lydia’s arc in the pc vers while there is for ps3.

  • Travis says:
    July 6, 2009 at 5:17 am

    Banana fellatio, awright.

    Seriously, I could never get into this one; it’s probably ’cause I never played the game. The animation looks pretty solid, overall, and it’s been awhile since I sat back with a good fantasy anime. I’ll probably wait to see your thoughts on the clincher though before giving it a spin myself.

  • Dark says:
    July 8, 2009 at 5:36 am

    Riannon is very useless and BORING