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| Jin-woo: "Well, they're all beat up and there's plenty of dead. Time to make my entrance!" |
UTMAN said: This the thing, so far I think the story/characters were okay. Not the Ant king in my eyes is just bad. I can point that out, no? So far I enjoyed the story, this Jeju island arc feels cheap, what I cannot enjoy. If the Ant King would have been written just a tad better then he was, it would have become better written then the MC. You can't have THAT, lolz! |
| AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I NEED MOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR THIS INSANE CLIFFHANGER LITERALLY GAVE ME PHYSICAL PAIN |
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Reply to UTMAN
Rom-Com_lover said:
Bro did you pay attention to the story in the first place? The black ant was outside when the mission started, so he started with the Japanese hunters, then he came back to the nest hearing the queen's cry, and started beating the Korean hunters. When he was about to kill Baek, he sensed a powerful presence outside, which was from Goto. Then he said something like "There's no point in killing weak members. Since you've killed our queen, I'll kill your king" and for the Japanese hunters yet
But yeah I agree that the ant only beat the Korean hunters when he one-shoot the Japanese hunters, which might seem unfair
Bro did you pay attention to the story in the first place? The black ant was outside when the mission started, so he started with the Japanese hunters, then he came back to the nest hearing the queen's cry, and started beating the Korean hunters. When he was about to kill Baek, he sensed a powerful presence outside, which was from Goto. Then he said something like "There's no point in killing weak members. Since you've killed our queen, I'll kill your king" and for the Japanese hunters yet
But yeah I agree that the ant only beat the Korean hunters when he one-shoot the Japanese hunters, which might seem unfair
Dude... did you even UNDERSTOOD what i wrote? Don't come at me at comprehension when you cannot even understand what I write.
He went out to the Japanese, and one shot/kill/beahead them.
Went back to the Koreans, and instead of beheading them like he did with EVERY SINGLE enemy so far. He instead kicked the blonde woman in the side instead of BEHEADING her. Instead of beheading the tank dude, he just ripped his arm off. Instead of beheading Baek, he just cut his chest. Etc etc.
Rom-Com_lover said:
Then he said something like "There's no point in killing weak members. Since you've killed our queen, I'll kill your king" and for the Japanese hunters yet
Then he said something like "There's no point in killing weak members. Since you've killed our queen, I'll kill your king" and for the Japanese hunters yet
YET HE WENT OUT AND KILLED THE ORANGE HAIRED GIRL (Ishida) with a beheading attack.
He only beheading the Japanese characters, but for SOME REASON he did not do the Koreans. Not to mention that the Japanese Goto and the leader of the Japanese turned out to be a mustache twirling cartoon villains. It's just really bad writing.
| @UTMAN Did you also see what I wrote at the end? Rom-Com_lover said: But yeah I agree that the ant only beat the Korean hunters when he one-shoot the Japanese hunters, which might seem unfair When I was reading the manhwa, I also had the same thought as you. The author just expressed his hatred towards Japan here. It might be considered as poor writing. But this is just a power fantasy story and I believe most people are watching it only for the fights. So let's just enjoy it how it is. |
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| Hot damn, exciting, continuous and tense action scenes all around till half of the Japanese Hunters were terminated then written off as acceptable losses, and it seems they have alternative plan and narrative to this contingency. They did a good job on the queen but they got absolutely curb stomped by the black ant. They were all a passing thought to it when it sought out Goto instead, presuming he is their king. Wonder how Goto will fare better, hmm? ...and just when he's about to appear in exchange the episode ends. Goddamn cliffhanger! 😅 |
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I love so much this anime series <3  |
| Another cliff hanger nooooooooooo also the pacing is so fast but its still good cant wait for sung jin woo to come in and save everyone next ep |
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| wow speechless, it was perfect, the emotions were so good and the last scene wow bravo |
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| -If Jinwoo was going to step in any way if the hunters found themselves on the brink of death, why not come a bit earlier maybe? Like a korean s-rank just died. But we need to display the power of the ant king first so let's let him smack the s-rank hunters around a bit. -And that's what the KOREAN s-rank hunters get (minus the healer), just a smackdown. Meanwhile our less-than-side-character Japanese s-rank hunters, who have proven stronger than their korean 'comrades', all get instant decapitations. Woo-hoo plot armour. But you know what, not even the manwha could do it, but I could defend this part: the ant king sensed their strength and went in for the kill to be safe. The korean s-rankers he could tell weren't as strong so took the liberty of toying around with them, and just killed the only one that could be a nuisance to him. ^ 100% nitpicks though, that have already been mentioned several times in this thread. Can't really fault solo levelling in particular when every other single show in existence has the same clichés of swooping in at the very last minute, and plot armour for main characters... .....actually no scratch that for the swooping in at the last minute part, going to have to fault that a little. Most of the time there's some explanation (albeit cheaply written) reason for the savior to arrive late to the party, they were a distance away or finishing up their own battle or whatever it may be. Jinwoo on the other hand... looks like he could have jumped in at any time. Bro is just sitting on a building and just watching the fight I'm assuming through the shadows he put in each of the s-rankers. Dude was actually waiting for the perfect moment to make his entrance, and honestly that makes him lose mad aura points. Make him be caught up in SOMETHING before realizing he has to save the day, but no he is actually just chilling. Normally I wouldn't think too much of it. I like it when overpowered characters come in at the last minute. But did Jinwoo see the healer die, and decide to wait even longer? Would like to just sweep something little like this under the rug, but honestly it's a bit hard to. ANYWAY, enough griping about nitpicks that barely matter in a show like this. Man the next two episodes, or one hour episode, or whatever it's going to be, is probably going to be something special again. Last season they absolutely COOKED with Jinwoo vs Igris. They saved the best for last- and no doubt they're going to do the same here. Like today's s-ranks vs ants was alright, but let's be real, nothing really blew you away. They're saving all the juice for the big fight, I hope. Just gonna call him Beru because everyone already is, but Jinwoo vs Beru HAS to be good because like, minor spoilers, ah screw it spoiler tag just in case, |
  NYANPASU  whiskey tango foxtrot |
| No Jin for the whole ep til he shows in the last seconds. Man they really know how to ramp up that anticipation for the next episode. |
| Animation took a hit this episode but even then compared to all the shit anime that exists its still better than average. Powerfantasies are nothing new but its so nice to at least see a good quality adaptation instead of the same powerpoint shit that doesn't even have a good soundtrack |
| Loved the way they used DARK ARIA <LV2> in this episode It's adds so much to the scene's impact |
| Time to step in after half the force got wiped~~ |
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Reply to Senpaiiiiiiiii
After half the team dies, our op protagonist here thinks it's finally his time to show off 👏👏👏
| @Senpaiiiiiiiii They cut his mother convincing him to go just how they left out full S Korea shitting on him on SNS and in person for not going to the raid. SL has very to little story, and the very little it has is serviceable at it's best so cutting it out to pad more the fights (understandable since after the demon king they take a nosedive in quality battle per battle) is a bit strange, even more considering that Jinwo's family is the pilar of his internal conflicts and the driver of his actions. |
| Waifus only represent ideals |
| My reaction when this episode ended: Fuck you, you overly cool edgelord! LOL Jinwoo is like that chuunibyou kid, except he HAS actual powers. The episode was fine, but the fighting really was disappointing. The way all these S-class hunters moved just didn't look impressive. The A-rank that Jinwoo absorbed during the winter-gate wasn't less impressive than these S-rankers. Also, the animation just sucked for these battles, but that comes with another issue: We NEVER get any actual battles. It's always "A is stronger than B, A defeated B". An exciting battle would be "A and B are close to each other in prowess, A narrowly manages to beat B". And this happens throughout the episode, all the way to the end where Goto appears, makes himself look more powerful than the other S-rankers, only to shit his pants when the king ant activates its full aura. And next week Jinwoo will join and probably destroy the king ant. btw. here's something I don't understand: Regular hunters cannot get stronger, alright. Does this mean those special abilities are also fixed? Did the fire guy have the ability to shoot fire from the beginning of his awakening? Could beast-guy immediately transform into a beast? Or are thse abilities that are trained? Btw beast-guy being afraid of being "ugly" while transformed is the dumbest bs ever. Like there's not a millions of chicks (and dudes, sigh) who are into buffy furry dads. |
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Reply to UTMAN
As someone who so far really enjoyed this show... this episode was one of the worst episodes so far. Which is a shame.
Wanted to give it a 1/5 but the animation/music bumped it up to a measly 2/5. So far the worst arc.
I really hate when a show is not really consistent with its characters and the villain here is just not there....
It goes outside the nest and literally goes for 1 hit kills, immediately beheading the Japanese hunters. I can respect that.
Goes back into the nest, and for the Korean hunters, for some reason, let's call it BS plot armor, instead of killing them by one hit like the Japanese ones, he just do blunt attacks, or just goes for limbs. Then TALKS with them. THen he leaves them alive and leaves.... to go back to the Japanese where he goes back from blunt attacks right back to beheading attacks. Like.... I know the writer hates Japan but lol, at least he would not make it so obvious....
Wanted to give it a 1/5 but the animation/music bumped it up to a measly 2/5. So far the worst arc.
I really hate when a show is not really consistent with its characters and the villain here is just not there....
It goes outside the nest and literally goes for 1 hit kills, immediately beheading the Japanese hunters. I can respect that.
Goes back into the nest, and for the Korean hunters, for some reason, let's call it BS plot armor, instead of killing them by one hit like the Japanese ones, he just do blunt attacks, or just goes for limbs. Then TALKS with them. THen he leaves them alive and leaves.... to go back to the Japanese where he goes back from blunt attacks right back to beheading attacks. Like.... I know the writer hates Japan but lol, at least he would not make it so obvious....
| @UTMAN Defending from the invader vs torturing the killers of his mother to extract information. The healer had to go first because it was rendering his attempts useless. There, now you have a way to cope with the poor writing SL has. I don't know what kind of expectations people had with the story but you should drop it two or three bars. Also, starting from later in S3 the quality of the fights will also drop... |
| Waifus only represent ideals |
Reply to BetaMaleUltra
-If Jinwoo was going to step in any way if the hunters found themselves on the brink of death, why not come a bit earlier maybe? Like a korean s-rank just died. But we need to display the power of the ant king first so let's let him smack the s-rank hunters around a bit.
-And that's what the KOREAN s-rank hunters get (minus the healer), just a smackdown. Meanwhile our less-than-side-character Japanese s-rank hunters, who have proven stronger than their korean 'comrades', all get instant decapitations. Woo-hoo plot armour. But you know what, not even the manwha could do it, but I could defend this part: the ant king sensed their strength and went in for the kill to be safe. The korean s-rankers he could tell weren't as strong so took the liberty of toying around with them, and just killed the only one that could be a nuisance to him.
^ 100% nitpicks though, that have already been mentioned several times in this thread. Can't really fault solo levelling in particular when every other single show in existence has the same clichés of swooping in at the very last minute, and plot armour for main characters...
.....actually no scratch that for the swooping in at the last minute part, going to have to fault that a little. Most of the time there's some explanation (albeit cheaply written) reason for the savior to arrive late to the party, they were a distance away or finishing up their own battle or whatever it may be. Jinwoo on the other hand... looks like he could have jumped in at any time. Bro is just sitting on a building and just watching the fight I'm assuming through the shadows he put in each of the s-rankers. Dude was actually waiting for the perfect moment to make his entrance, and honestly that makes him lose mad aura points. Make him be caught up in SOMETHING before realizing he has to save the day, but no he is actually just chilling.
Normally I wouldn't think too much of it. I like it when overpowered characters come in at the last minute. But did Jinwoo see the healer die, and decide to wait even longer? Would like to just sweep something little like this under the rug, but honestly it's a bit hard to.
ANYWAY, enough griping about nitpicks that barely matter in a show like this. Man the next two episodes, or one hour episode, or whatever it's going to be, is probably going to be something special again. Last season they absolutely COOKED with Jinwoo vs Igris. They saved the best for last- and no doubt they're going to do the same here. Like today's s-ranks vs ants was alright, but let's be real, nothing really blew you away. They're saving all the juice for the big fight, I hope. Just gonna call him Beru because everyone already is, but Jinwoo vs Beru HAS to be good because like, minor spoilers, ah screw it spoiler tag just in case,
-And that's what the KOREAN s-rank hunters get (minus the healer), just a smackdown. Meanwhile our less-than-side-character Japanese s-rank hunters, who have proven stronger than their korean 'comrades', all get instant decapitations. Woo-hoo plot armour. But you know what, not even the manwha could do it, but I could defend this part: the ant king sensed their strength and went in for the kill to be safe. The korean s-rankers he could tell weren't as strong so took the liberty of toying around with them, and just killed the only one that could be a nuisance to him.
^ 100% nitpicks though, that have already been mentioned several times in this thread. Can't really fault solo levelling in particular when every other single show in existence has the same clichés of swooping in at the very last minute, and plot armour for main characters...
.....actually no scratch that for the swooping in at the last minute part, going to have to fault that a little. Most of the time there's some explanation (albeit cheaply written) reason for the savior to arrive late to the party, they were a distance away or finishing up their own battle or whatever it may be. Jinwoo on the other hand... looks like he could have jumped in at any time. Bro is just sitting on a building and just watching the fight I'm assuming through the shadows he put in each of the s-rankers. Dude was actually waiting for the perfect moment to make his entrance, and honestly that makes him lose mad aura points. Make him be caught up in SOMETHING before realizing he has to save the day, but no he is actually just chilling.
Normally I wouldn't think too much of it. I like it when overpowered characters come in at the last minute. But did Jinwoo see the healer die, and decide to wait even longer? Would like to just sweep something little like this under the rug, but honestly it's a bit hard to.
ANYWAY, enough griping about nitpicks that barely matter in a show like this. Man the next two episodes, or one hour episode, or whatever it's going to be, is probably going to be something special again. Last season they absolutely COOKED with Jinwoo vs Igris. They saved the best for last- and no doubt they're going to do the same here. Like today's s-ranks vs ants was alright, but let's be real, nothing really blew you away. They're saving all the juice for the big fight, I hope. Just gonna call him Beru because everyone already is, but Jinwoo vs Beru HAS to be good because like, minor spoilers, ah screw it spoiler tag just in case,
| @BetaMaleUltra - He wasn't coming AT ALL, because he had already achieved his goal and only wanted to stay home with his family. He endured people flamming him online and criticising him in the streets. His mother convinced him to go do what he must do and that's why he goes, thing is the anime cuts this because... dunno, extended fights (that severely improve the choreography of the manwha I must admit). - Beru has actual intelligence, he was torturing them for killing the queen before dealing the blow. He also wanted to find the "King". The healer dies because with him, his torture is rendered useless. Jinwoo doesn't see what the shadows see iirc, he just senses the shadows fighting/dying and then that's when he takes action ( ), before that he might have though everything was under control because yeah, everyone except him is watching the livestream. The fight will be nowhere as good as igris. First, like you pointed out, because Igris fight was a struggle and those are enjoyable while, from now on, everything will be reduced to punches (magic? special skills? no longer important, everything will be about punches which makes the nation level hunters feel meh) and Jinwoos lack of struggle will make it a snoozefest in comparison. Maybe the anime will improve it thanks to original scenes and such, but don't expect anything near Igris again until the dragon showdown which is very much the series finale. |
| Waifus only represent ideals |
| I can't stand it, these cliffhangers are destroying my mental and heart health. |
Reply to MyllerPhiem
My reaction when this episode ended: Fuck you, you overly cool edgelord! LOL
Jinwoo is like that chuunibyou kid, except he HAS actual powers.
The episode was fine, but the fighting really was disappointing. The way all these S-class hunters moved just didn't look impressive. The A-rank that Jinwoo absorbed during the winter-gate wasn't less impressive than these S-rankers. Also, the animation just sucked for these battles, but that comes with another issue: We NEVER get any actual battles. It's always "A is stronger than B, A defeated B". An exciting battle would be "A and B are close to each other in prowess, A narrowly manages to beat B". And this happens throughout the episode, all the way to the end where Goto appears, makes himself look more powerful than the other S-rankers, only to shit his pants when the king ant activates its full aura. And next week Jinwoo will join and probably destroy the king ant.
btw. here's something I don't understand: Regular hunters cannot get stronger, alright. Does this mean those special abilities are also fixed? Did the fire guy have the ability to shoot fire from the beginning of his awakening? Could beast-guy immediately transform into a beast? Or are thse abilities that are trained?
Btw beast-guy being afraid of being "ugly" while transformed is the dumbest bs ever. Like there's not a millions of chicks (and dudes, sigh) who are into buffy furry dads.
Jinwoo is like that chuunibyou kid, except he HAS actual powers.
The episode was fine, but the fighting really was disappointing. The way all these S-class hunters moved just didn't look impressive. The A-rank that Jinwoo absorbed during the winter-gate wasn't less impressive than these S-rankers. Also, the animation just sucked for these battles, but that comes with another issue: We NEVER get any actual battles. It's always "A is stronger than B, A defeated B". An exciting battle would be "A and B are close to each other in prowess, A narrowly manages to beat B". And this happens throughout the episode, all the way to the end where Goto appears, makes himself look more powerful than the other S-rankers, only to shit his pants when the king ant activates its full aura. And next week Jinwoo will join and probably destroy the king ant.
btw. here's something I don't understand: Regular hunters cannot get stronger, alright. Does this mean those special abilities are also fixed? Did the fire guy have the ability to shoot fire from the beginning of his awakening? Could beast-guy immediately transform into a beast? Or are thse abilities that are trained?
Btw beast-guy being afraid of being "ugly" while transformed is the dumbest bs ever. Like there's not a millions of chicks (and dudes, sigh) who are into buffy furry dads.
| @MyllerPhiem Yes, your abilities come fixed with your awakening and stay there without the intervention of external factors. S-Rank is just a bin where they throw anyone whose abilities can be measured, but they only share the rank, there's a big gap between them. Don't think too hard on it, starting two arcs from this one, everything will be solved by punches alone and maybe ocasionally some magic done by the shadows. |
| Waifus only represent ideals |
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