How will you rate it Episode 10 of
Clevatess ? Community score: 4.2
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If you are the recently immortal hero, the emotional calm of the unfortunate demise of the father who was once idolatrous, you know that no good will appear to anyone who stops in the battle, “Listen as I tell this story…” Nothing is waiting for you in that direction, but the revelation of your secret breaks the secret, and the secret of the dead is better. I swear, if I had ever had a quarrel with a bitch son, his blood boiled, and he threw down “Listen as I tell this story…”? I squeezed that beef like Wendy’s pie without looking back and walking away.
Alicia is the heroine of a dark fantasy anime, though, so she really has no choice but to sit there and endure the flashback of Drel’s time as her father’s best friend and rival. The guy was a hell of the warrior of the day and even managed to best draw and seize the Thunder Galia blade from King Hidden. He was also a arrogant bastard, even turning his eyes to a vicious dragon and attracted the wrath of the black beast Lord Walden. Thankfully, the stories Drell tells are more compelling than the simple history of pain and pride. The General was once a good man, and his friendship with Margo was indeed the main source of their incredible power.
In fact, Margo’s fall is a shockingly sad and literal thing compared to the great heights the hero once longs for: Margo travels on the rocks during his climax attack. It’s not a joke either, it sounds as ridiculous as it sounds on paper. The absurdity of the situation is the point. A man destined to be great was foiled by the pebbles in the snow.
This also explains why Drel has a bone in his current world state, as he has been cheering up by picking up Margo’s blade at the last moment and claiming to be his own power. He believed that magic was a legitimate force, stolen by selfish forces, and he was willing to use all the suppressed anger and the anger of the righteous and vertical anger to store it in his blade to collapse the entire system.
It’s something engaging, and my only real complaint is that it feels like we can have a more specific understanding of the status quo, especially with a focus on the tradition of heroes and rich, before all these revelatory fairs poured on us. When you consider another big twist in this episode, it sees the headless king in Hiden Forge seemingly throwing Luna into the flames, it feels like we are in the final game stage of a story trying to overturn all our expectations and preconceived notions. The execution of these story beats is strong enough to make people very compelling to watch, but I can’t help but think that it will all be more difficult if we have more preconceived ideas to break in the first place.
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