１．A six-year-old girl wanting to see blood in a tournament for kids, asking for booze, and peeking under a woman’s skirt, yet no one batted an eye. Neal put up a good fight although he ultimately lost to Sanowil. No shame, though, seeing as the latter’s well older. Imagine the damage to Sanowil’s pride should he lost to both Listons. Now that the appetiser’s done with, it’s time to get to the main course, in all its gory glory. Would this be enough to sate Nia’s bloodlust?
２．Nia is so strong she now already borders inhuman. She beat off the bullies with just 1 very fast kick. She destroyed Sanowil with the classic one punch, when Sanowil won the swordfight competition. She kicked the hell out of the instructor with one kick. Anzel gave up fighting her too, since he probably tried for a whole year and got beaten up every time. I do want to see how her fights will go next week. This contrast with that cute innocent image she shows on TV is a good reason to stop her from going to the Umbral Ring. The maid is right, Nia still had to maintain that cute girl image publicly. I think she is still cute even when violent, the maid couldn’t understand that moe gap. Neil and Sanowil’s fight was nice to watch. I think it also showed how large that difference between Neil and Nia is. Neil wanted to recreate that slash Nia did 2 years ago in front of him, and failed. Nia, destroyed Sanowil with that one punch as if she is one punch woman. I think Sanowil will continue to be involved with Nia’s antics with his friendship and rivalry with Neil. I lost that janken game for 3 episodes in a row now.
３．She is inhuman, or superhuman. That kick at the end isn’t physically possible for someone of her size; she doesn’t have the mass to move someone so much bigger than her.
４．I still can’t escape the thought that the show tricked me into thinking that it was going to be a bloodbath with fights every episode, but now we’re seeing the creation of public television instead. 🙃 It was entertaining to see at the end that Nia is going to disguise herself as Kizuna AI. 😆
５．I couldn’t help laughing when the upperclassman saw Nia’s kicks that were too fast for normal people to track, challenged her anyway, and then completely lost all his confidence after she snapped his wooden sword.
６．What a disappointment! It’s just a Martial Arts Tournament for kids. I was so disappointed than Nia. But it turned out to be entertaining at least. We got more of Neal this time ❤️ Neal’s fan base is huge and is only gonna explode. The senior student to whom Neal lost seemed like a good kid. For a moment, he really saw Nia when he fought with him. I love Nia and Neal moments. Nia genuinely cares for him and Neal tries his best for his little sister. I loved the subtle scenes in the background in this episode..like when Fressa was knocking out the customer who was gonna try to grab her and Relia blushing at Neal from afar when he was talking with Nia. Anzel’s situation ‘I was working for the Mafia until I got trounced by a little girl and became a Bartender’ 😭😭 Dark Arena seems to be interesting.. So excited for that. It looks like Nia is gonna put on a disguise to participate. Lynokis has it rough dealing with Nia. I didn’t expect Nia to use Gandolf to try to sneak into the Dark Arena. He now knows who trained the maid lol
７．I was surprised Nia went back to that hitman she beat up to get advice, I thought she hated him. I also wonder if that was a different bar than the one Nia wrecked or if he just fixed that one up. Also, how did Nia know that waitress’ name, was she one of the women who was with that mob boss?
８．I wonder what happened that both Relia and Neal, that they learned Nia is a danger to others. For them to react this way now in this episode lol. Also fun to see when she talks to Neal, she acts like she is the older sister. Which is patronizing to him when he is trying to treat her like his actual little sister lol. I was surprised the tournament arch got wrapped up in an episode. We did get to learn about a new character and more about Neal. Those sword movements were really nice to see, but the impact frames when the hit connects could’ve been a bit better. I assume they’re saving the budget for the mass brawls like at the arena.
１．Haha, knew it. I so rewound it and paused it there myself. I laughed for a good 5 minutes. This show does not disappoint. Absolutely hilarious show. I didn’t even know anything about it and watched it and was hooked instantly.
２．Glad to see Anzel again. The OP kinda spoils it, but it looks like he’s done with being a mafia enforcer and is now a bartender. I thought Nia was gonna use him to hunt down more gangs, but it looks like she’s using him to look for powerful opponents. Unfortunately for Nia, it looks like she’s already scared everyone off. xD That underground fighting tournament is promising, but Anzel makes a good point: if Nia tries to enter, she’ll be instantly recognized, and the scandal would ruin her family. As if that’s gonna stop Nia, though. Nia does hesitate when Lynokis brings up the same points Anzel did in a later scene, but it looks like there’s really no stopping her from participating. We finally get to meet the busty barmaid in OP, and of course she’s voiced by Hikasa Youko. Another big tiddy lady to add to her long list of big tiddy girl roles. And according to Nia, Freesa wears cute underwear and not something trashy like she was hoping for. xD The scene with Relia protecting Nia was hilarious! She wasn’t even protecting Nia at all! She was protecting the swordsman club dudes because she knew Nia was gonna kick their asses if they didn’t stop! xD For a tournament with kids, that was pretty fun! Neal was definitely promising and I feel like he could’ve won if he had more stamina. The dude tired himself out pretty quickly and tried to end it with a single slice, which wasn’t enough. He did fight an older kid, so I’m sure Neal has plenty of room to grow and catch up.
３．Light and happy school tournament finished, now it’s time for some underground cage fighting. I like how this bar Nia keeps visiting has lemonade supplies on hand, presumably just for her.
５．Random kid: “having a weapon is stronger than using your fist!” The White Devil Nia Liston: “WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SAID YOU LITTLE SHI-” lol, Anzel really did open a bar at the same place that he got beaten up by Nia a year ago can’t wait to see Nia beating a bunch of muscular, rough looking guys next week, it better be glorious
６．nia casually just complaining about not having alcohol lmao they (people at the bar) all just accepted she’s a “weirdo” and not to be messed with. love nia and lynokis’ interactions as always loved the part where nia smacked the old guy fighter and just doing a chill cute pose at the end
７．Nia striking a chuuni aura farming pose after sending the teacher flying was hilarious. I’m hoping she unleashes an “I am Atomic!” by the end of the season as well.
８．There is 2 kinds of person you just don’t wess with : 1. Nia 2. Maids, even the two guys made a face like “man, you shouldn’t try to grope her ass” when their poor bud tried to touch Fressa
１．The girls still don’t have a good grasp of Magivision’s potential, broadcasting a fighting tournament with the kids in the country’s most elite school, that really doesn’t have any broader appeal than their other programming for aristocrats. Then again, 8 year olds probably shouldn’t be entrusted with programming a TV station. The fighting show did seem to lay some groundwork for what makes sports programming interesting though, like they were shooting B-roll, which means just incidental moments to help you get the feel of the tournament. Also, interviewing the fighters and getting to know them helps the audience identify with them. I wish Nia would have participated but held back, then she would have invented their equivalent of pro wresting 🤣. In Japan, pro wrestling irl was the first popular show that sold TVs in the 1950s because there was a hero wrestler called Rikidozan and he used to beat up on “evil” American/Allied power villains.
２．Well, they have to work their way down. First you get the uber-rich, then you get the medium-rich, then the social climbers, then the middle class, then the working class. It’s still too expensive to bother targeting the working class, they just need to broaden their audience among those who can afford it, until economies of scale kick in.
３．My first thought was that the english letter was a localisation thing, until i remembered i watched the anime with subs… got so used to reading subs that i often don’t even rly register that i had to read in the first place anymore… But yeah, the setting doesn’t have to use a setting based on our world to use real world languagues as “fantasy languages” I remember quite a bit of older western fantasy novels that use latin or a slightly altered version of latin as the magic language of their world and a few japanese ones using (altered) german as an “old language” where magic is based on.
４．I find it interesting that she has continued to seriously take on the mantle of being the youngest child of the Liston family of her own volition in the place of the “original Nia”, even if her interest in martial arts oftentimes clouds her judgment. Considering that the current Nia had her soul resurrected seemingly at random and placed in the original Nia’s newly-deceased body by some shady magician, it wouldn’t have been a stretch for her to not really care about the Listons at all and just go through the motions of being a sickly little girl without connecting with them or wanting to promote MagiVision on their behalf.
５．I think what it does here is that it makes Nia’s principles more interesting. Perhaps stuff that ties into how she was a fighter? The new Nia does have her cravings, but both the old Nia and Liston are priorities for her. If she didn’t care for the old Nia at all Lynokis’s threats would not be as effective as they were.
６．To throw Rinokis off with that shock, Nia told her she is looking for ecchi underwear. So she has to look for ecchi underwear so it would appear she isn’t lying. She did look for ecchi underwear, just not at a store or with prostitutes.
７．Nia might be a bloodthirsty fighter who hungers for battle, but she’s not a liar she has principles
ニアは血に飢えた戦闘狂かもしれないけど、嘘つきではないんだよ。 彼女には彼女なりの信条があるんだ。
８．As i understood it that school is not for the rich but a general school where people of all classes learn among each other which is why most students never heard of her magic vision adventures before. They don’t have a school in every province but one in the whole kingdom where all kids have to learn for the future. I don’t see where you get it from that she hated the Barkeeper (Anzel) , she doesn’t exactly hate bad guys in general, she just loves beating her up for the love of beating someone up, him especially cause he was the first who could handle at least some beating from her. From the looks of it, it is the same bar that he rebuild over the course of the roughly 1 year timeskip that happened between the theater and school tournament arc. It is implied by Nias dialogue, that she visited that bad several times before (she even calls herself a regular there) and that she had several more training fights with him until he refused her, giving up due to the power difference and wanting to concentrate more on his new live as a barkeep. Not sure if that part was explained in more detail in the source material (haven’t read any) but it’s not uncommon for anime to cut content to fit more of what is seen as essential into the small amount of episodes they got greenlit (Bookworm Anime last season was an especially bad case for that with several episodes feeling like they tried to speedrun through the story)
９．I think that the combination of two other mundane explanations (i.e. “child genius” and “royal education”) are sufficient to describe Hilde’s character. The same can’t be said for Nia obviously, as setting aside her peculiar taste for watching bloody spectacles there’s absolutely no rational explanation as to why a previously sickly 4-year-old is capable of destroying legions of mafia goons with her top-tier martial art skills at the age of six.
１．Damn, I love Nia and what a battle-hardened junkie she is, this girl yearns for fights with bloodshed. Plus, her reactions are so good and fun, and there is such a big variety, from happiness and excitement to ultimate despair, lol. Unfortunately, Nia didn’t get a chance to spar with a strong opponent in this episode, but her quick bouts with Sanowil and Heavenstriker’s teacher were pretty enjoyable. Neal did quite a good job during the tournament, he surely will get a lot of letters from fans once the tournament is shown on magivision, hahaha! The Umbral Arena next week! It looks like Lynokis will be there as well, and probably as a participant? Judging by that mask and the fact that she knew about its existence.
２．I love Relia just being the normal girl/straight-(wo)man having to deal with Nia (and Hilde). She’s even got a crush on Neal just like all the other normal girls.
３．Neal is going to get more nightmares from those weirdass fan letters. Neal is very cute this episode too. He cried a little when Nia went to comfort him. Nia and Neal moments are so good. I think Nia destroyed Anzel so much Anzel just gave up fighting. Hard to be motivated when a little kid destroys you every fight.
４．Idk I love her beating asses but the bits where Lynokis tries to contain her are growing on me. It’s a nice twist how perceptive the people surrounding Nia are since usually anime with the “op mc” trope have all the side characters be brain dead. Everyone here seems to figure out pretty quickly that Nia is not normal and adapt to deal with that and I think that’s fun.
５．I love everything about this anime. The calm moments, the gremlin moments, the battle junkie moments. The humor between Nia and Lynokis, the comedic timing is perfect. Even the “low priority” fights are animated well.
６．While the school tournament wasn’t what Nia you can tell she had fun. I liked the focus on Neal’s match because while Neal isn’t a student like Lynokis she is invested in him and his skill set. Nice to see his improvement. Well amusing that Lynokis and Nia are so at odds about Umbral Arena. Though it looks like they have their plans. I do like that she can use cards like Nia’s parents against her. Shows that she understands the foundation of Nia’s motivations. As Nia clearly is indebted to the Liston family and takes their matters seriously.
７．I felt Neal’s pain. Welp, at least he put up a great fight even when the gap is pretty clear. Wish Nia starts to train him now too like the maid since it seems that Neal raring to protecc his cute imouto lol. But I bet Nia probably doesn’t want to taint her onii-sama pride by showing her real ability to him though.
８．I love Nia and Lynokis’s relationship! Their arguing was as entertaining as the tournament; without Nia, the tournament loses some interest since she’d wipe the floor with them. Poor dojo master, always getting his ass beat
I find it interesting that she has continued to seriously take on the mantle of being the youngest child of the Liston family of her own volition in the place of the “original Nia”, even if her interest in martial arts oftentimes clouds her judgment. Considering that the current Nia had her soul resurrected seemingly at random and placed in the original Nia’s newly-deceased body by some shady magician, it wouldn’t have been a stretch for her to not really care about the Listons at all and just go through the motions of being a sickly little girl without connecting with them or wanting to promote MagiVision on their behalf.
The girls still don’t have a good grasp of Magivision’s potential, broadcasting a fighting tournament with the kids in the country’s most elite school, that really doesn’t have any broader appeal than their other programming for aristocrats. Then again, 8 year olds probably shouldn’t be entrusted with programming a TV station. The fighting show did seem to lay some groundwork for what makes sports programming interesting though, like they were shooting B-roll, which means just incidental moments to help you get the feel of the tournament. Also, interviewing the fighters and getting to know them helps the audience identify with them. I wish Nia would have participated but held back, then she would have invented their equivalent of pro wresting 🤣. In Japan, pro wrestling irl was the first popular show that sold TVs in the 1950s because there was a hero wrestler called Rikidozan and he used to beat up on “evil” American/Allied power villains.
参考哲学者・思想家 ・ロラン・バルト（Roland Barthes）（1915～1980） 「フランスの思想家・文芸批評家。『神話作用』（1957年）所収の「レッスルする世界」で、プロレスを観客に意味を伝える見世物として分析した。レスラーの身振りや善悪の役割を、観客が読み取る記号として捉えた。」 原典：Roland Barthes, Mythologies（1957）所収「Le monde où l’on catche」 原典参照URL：『Mythologies』フランス語原文（ペンシルベニア大学掲載資料） 原典書誌情報：フランス国立図書館『Mythologies』1957年版 英訳：『Mythologies』所収「The World of Wrestling」
「可愛い令嬢と戦闘狂の使い分け」アーヴィング・ゴッフマンの印象操作論
Nia is so strong she now already borders inhuman. She beat off the bullies with just 1 very fast kick. She destroyed Sanowil with the classic one punch, when Sanowil won the swordfight competition. She kicked the hell out of the instructor with one kick. Anzel gave up fighting her too, since he probably tried for a whole year and got beaten up every time. I do want to see how her fights will go next week. This contrast with that cute innocent image she shows on TV is a good reason to stop her from going to the Umbral Ring. The maid is right, Nia still had to maintain that cute girl image publicly. I think she is still cute even when violent, the maid couldn’t understand that moe gap. Neil and Sanowil’s fight was nice to watch. I think it also showed how large that difference between Neil and Nia is. Neil wanted to recreate that slash Nia did 2 years ago in front of him, and failed. Nia, destroyed Sanowil with that one punch as if she is one punch woman. I think Sanowil will continue to be involved with Nia’s antics with his friendship and rivalry with Neil. I lost that janken game for 3 episodes in a row now.
