I enjoyed watching this season. The world is filled with interesting things and plot developments advance at a decent pace, it has been comfortable to tune in each week. I’m sure the royal academy will spark all sorts of fun events. I’m tempted to rush forward and read the LN’s.

For this episode… why did grandpa become comically dumb for that scene? A strange bit of slapstick comedy, I suppose. It was nice to see Ferdinand and others caring for Myne. We got to see a rare sighting of an emotional outburst from Ferdinand. They did let the evil noble weasel away, but knowing this show he’s eventually going to perpetrate another evil scheme, get foiled, and get his entire bloodline extinguished. And I look forward to it. If I’m following correctly, I think the use of the secret passage is the first piece of evidence that specifically indicts Georgine as assisting in the immoral schemes of the pro-Georgine nobles. I think the previous schemes could be explained as the pro-Georgine nobles working independently from Georgine. I could be wrong, forgetting something, it’s not a detail that I’ve been tracking closely.

Also, I don’t think I understand why the evil noble has to sneak out to give Myne a poison and give the kidnapper instructions himself. Is it a needless event to implicate the evil noble and Georgine or perhaps there’s a good explanation? I don’t know what they were planning to do by poisoning, but not killing, and kidnapping Myne. To be honest, I don’t care about these points too much; the mechanisms of nobles in this world are strange, so I can imagine that there are many possible explanations. I enjoy the show nonetheless. The issue is that I don’t know if I’m missing something that the show has already explained, or if these are intentional points of interest placed by the author, or if these are details that the author/adaptation don’t really care about.

I think I’ve never hated a anime season more than this one. There were absolutely worse shows, sure, but you just drop and forget them. But this did destroy something that I loved. It was so bad that it taints the source in my memory. Similar to how the Star Wars prequels taints the original trilogy. I would like to have the people responsible removed from the industry.