The start of adventure is the rough start for some party and this word works true to the four adventurers. In the retrospect, they were having a trouble with theirs closest ally before. So how could they started to trust another when they were technically lost their overall trust to human? The episode delve more on the chemistry building between the characters especially the ladies as they soon learnt that having clashing personality put the group's unity in tension. Tiana and Curran are like two different elements being forced to mingle together. On one side, Curran had a fiery personality and a blazing breath to boot. She is a hybrid dragon kin, who I think is like a special fusion between a human and a dragon. As one can predict, she can be stout and hard to get along with. Not mention she is very on point with her word. On the other hand, Tiana had her share of problematic characters too. She grows insecure after her bitter experience and think highly of how other may think about her. In addition, she can get quite defensive and her tsundere personality may sound quite harsh for other at times.
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| One has fiery heart, the other cold expression |
The new coalition of adventurer took their first step in adventuring with registering their squad to the adventurer guild. To make it simple, they name the new squad as "survivor" as a symbolism that being able to go home is the most important thing to any adventurer. The following event however put their bond to test as actually merging four different personality in one union is not an easy feat. A misunderstanding between the two lead heroines soon started the first spark among them. During the monster encounter, Tiana accidentally spam a frost spear magic at the wrong timing and it almost hurt Curran. It can be solved rather easily if Tiana speaks calmly and explains about the misunderstanding. Yet, her tsundere tendency only makes it sound as if she is not at fault. The next scene only further them apart by showing how the ladies start to watch each other's move; Making the union off balance and threat the group's harmony to the verge off breaking point.
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| Beneath Tiana's deadly stares hide a sweet lady .. I love tsundere😘 |
Fortunately, Nick makes a correct decision to fix the emotional problem between the ladies. After asking them to break for a while, He took all of his equipments and told the members about his weaknesses. Being a de facto leader of the group, he told the other three about his shortcoming and how he actually had limited talents outside of his fighting skills. Nick doesn't say about what he intends to say by exposing his inability to use magic, making elixir, or holding two handed sword. However, the other companions know how he want to tell them that he needs others to achieve a higher goal. This simple gesture made the other members start to open up a little about their own fragile side. The best part of this episode is when Tiana finally admitted to Curran that Her biggest weaknesses is actually Curran's strength. She has mature a bit as finally she apologizes properly to Curran and explain how she is wrong and makes a poor excuse to save her skin. The heartwarming scene continues as Curran gently provides her with a little puff of flame breath; creating a small bonfire in the ground nearby, to warm her over. To add a cherry on top, she even speak a tsundere line to Tiana as if she misses hitting her with the flame; symbolizing how she had accepted Tiana's way of using words.
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| It's a nice close up ..too bad the battle animation is not as good as it looks |
After the tension down, they continues their hunting together. In contrast to their previous dungeon exploring, this time around, they really work better and cover each other back. At the end of the day, they took the monster's part as a medium for sell. While it doesn't start as good as it sounds, the four human hater somehow manages to throw their difference and work in unison while putting their heart on it. Unfortunately, and I mean very unfortunately, the fighting animation is not excellent to behold and I thought it could be done better. Still, while I am not fond of today's episode, I am quite touched with it's tender and heartwarming moment. In addition, I hope the anime will start having a better plot trigger and manages to excite me more soon as we know that the survivors are destined for something bigger in the horizon. As just like the title suggest, their party will be responsible for the survival of human race and the entire world as well.
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