Mahouka - Episode 19 Discussion / Poll

[GreyZone]

Am I the only one who didn't notice the timeskip, before reading about it here?

[iceaco]

can someone tell me what are they saying in the soundtrack in the apron scene @ 19:25 - 19:50? otome rabu or something?

[karice67]

Originally Posted by Baffo

It hasn't been a year since Tatsuya and Miyuki started high school; in Japan the school year starts in April (now they are in October), but the Student council president and other members that are in their 3rd year step off their position in the last semester of their 3rd year to concentrate on entrance exams for University/college and also so that the next Student council has time to adapt and get experience before the next school year starts...

The full explanation of what happened in the 2 months between the 9 schools competition and the present time in the anime is covered in the 5th volume of the light novel (basically a collection of shorter stories focused on the supporting characters, rather than the protagonists all the time).

It is not mandatory to understand what is going on, but if you find the time skip without explanation too jarring I would advise checking it out (I particularly like the last chapter of the 5th volume, covering the student council president election...)

I think that, from a Japanese viewer's perspective, it probably just wasn't necessary to explain the time skip and 'change of the guard', because it can be easily surmised based on common knowledge. As you've indicated, it's just one feature of how the Japanese school system runs -- students only participate in 'club' activities (the student council is typically considered one such club) until the final competitions or events of their third year, which fall anywhere from about June to October. For student council members, their final event and task would be planning for and running the election. After that, they start preparing for uni entrance exams in January and February.

Originally Posted by Anh_Minh

It is.

They haven't graduated yet. They're in the same year as Ichihara. (Also, it's still september or so.)

2nd week of October, actually. The date was shown to be Oct 10 on the calendar that they had up on the screen when Rin started explaining the details of the competition. She also mentioned that there were 3 weeks until the date of the competition, which falls on the last Sunday of October.

Originally Posted by Alesio33

Overall the episode was good but there are a few points I think that should have been explained.

*snip* for LN stuff that shouldn't be here.

4. Great Asian Alliance = Union of China and Korea

Unnecessary and unfeasible. First, it's unnecessary because the fact that borders have been redrawn--such that what was once Korea and China (and parts of Russia, amongst others) are now a single state--was on the screen in the prologue of episode one. Unfortunately, the anime staff used the unwieldy "The Great Union of Asian" rather than "The Great Asian Alliance" that the English translators have used. But is it really something we need to know anyway? Second, it's unfeasible because I can't see anyone in the show actually needing to discuss the reality of their world.

In sum: there's a lot of information conveyed visually, if viewers were to notice it.

[LKK]

Originally Posted by SeaDoor

Thanks! Should I try reading anything in Sayuri transporting a high level relic with military significance without having accompanying guards? Stupid character or stupid writers?

Given Tatsuya's decision to follow her home since she didn't have any guards, I would vote for the stupid character answer. Although it did provide a convenient opportunity for any Tatsuya fight scene, didn't it? So maybe I'd also vote for plot contrivance.

[Anime299]

Having a sniper with a clear 1000 yd shot at just that point in the road? Sounds like a setup on Tatsuya to me...

[HandofFate]

If it wasn't for the fact that Tatsuya can't have great emotions, I would say Tatsuya was a bit peeved that the sniper got a shot in on him.

[iceaco]

Originally Posted by LKK

Given Tatsuya's decision to follow her home since she didn't have any guards, I would vote for the stupid character answer. Although it did provide a convenient opportunity for any Tatsuya fight scene, didn't it? So maybe I'd also vote for plot contrivance.

Pretty much what went through my mind when reading the LN.

[risingstar3110]

Almost naked apron. Almost.

See how Miyuki reacted when saw Sayuri. At first i thought she was just trying to make Sayuri jealous. But i guess she was just assume Sayuri not there, and always been acting that way at home

[rladls2121]

Relaxing episode.
Just like the very first episode of Nine School Competition arc, this episode is a good cozy episode to start, in my opinion.

While Miyuki was listening to Tatsuya's explanation in the beginning of the episode, Miyuki just put herself lower just to be pet by him.
What if anyone sees that?
Many admirers look up to "Magically Pretty and Beautiful Bishojo", Shiba Miyuki is actually an brocon who always shows her shiny appearance and cute little sister offered only to his brother.

Sayuri, she is not really acting like a stepmother as I thought she was, I guess Miyuki wasn't happy with Sayuri being a new mother is because of Sayuri is all business and not family.
Not because stepmother's existence.
Miyuki would be happy if Sayuri is not chained to Yotsuba and Four Leaves Technology.
And as far as making Tatsuya quitting Magic School really ruin Miyuki's high school life.

Self-Defence-Force (SDF), it looks to me it is actually a Self-Magic-Force (SMF).
What is so Self Defence Force about this organization?
There is no way I'm call this force, Self Defence Force, ever.

Tatsuya being sarcastic at Miyuki's apron appearance.
Tatsuya, is he really not romantically in love with his sister? I begin to doubt his true feelings.
Just marry her if you do not want to upset Master Clans any further, since Miyuki is from a Master Clan.

Miyuki always have to feel good about Tatsuuya's ways of doing things is just.

[IceHism]

This picture was enough to make me like the episode. That expression

Spoiler for this pic is too big:

Originally Posted by LKK

Given Tatsuya's decision to follow her home since she didn't have any guards, I would vote for the stupid character answer. Although it did provide a convenient opportunity for any Tatsuya fight scene, didn't it? So maybe I'd also vote for plot contrivance.

Well, we can assume that the military make the request in a private conversation and i don't think crime is very common in the mahouka world to begin with all the improved transportation and security of the future so i think it made sense within context of the story that she would be unaware if the great asian union got a private tip from somewhere.

[Benigmatica]

Originally Posted by GreyZone

Wow, that spoken Engrish was better than the written Engrish in earlier episodes.

Don't know about that but SAO's English is better than Mahouka's.

On the other hand, I wonder if Mr. Zhou is involved on getting the magatama? He's not gonna sit there and doing nothing, right?

[zero7090]

i like how they insert cute music at the apron scene.

[Anh_Minh]

Originally Posted by SeaDoor

Thanks! Should I try reading anything in Sayuri transporting a high level relic with military significance without having accompanying guards? Stupid character or stupid writers?

Could be either or both.

She kinda had a good reason not to take guards - the fact that the siblings' home houses an "important" family is secret, so security has to be discreet.

Did she really have a good reason to take the actual relic there? Not really. I mean, I suppose it provides a greater enticement for Tatsuya to have the real thing before his eyes, but that doesn't justify the risk.

But it conveniently puts it in his hands after giving him a chance to show off both his ability to see the future (how did he know not only that she'd be attacked, but that it'd happen close enough for him not to miss dinner?) and his combat ability. Did you see how they tried Cast Jamming before trying to shoot him? I'd have tried bullets first. They work on more people. Or both at the same time, if possible. Anyway, good reminder that nothing really works against him. Except a bullet to the head, which is why he was lucky, in addition to everything else.

[Tormenk]

Maybe they might just go 26 episodes without explaining how Tatsuya's magic works at all. It really just spells a lack of effort on the staff's part when they have had multiple chances to do so in the past episodes.

Super-fast pacing to set things up but things still felt slow to me. Hope next episode brings something more to the table.

[thundrakkon]

I know 2 months have passed, but I would have liked to see how the students currently react to Tatsuya after the competitions. He only interacted with the people he has always gotten along well with this episode, as far as school was concerned.

Also, shouldn't Tatsuya have figured out that there is no arguing or giving excuses when someone asks him to enter a competition by now? They will always say, "screw the whiners; we want to win."

[Ickarium]

While I'm sure Tatsuya will do well, remember he's not lead. Ichihara is. And she kind of implied the real reason she took him was the other leading contender was someone she ... ah ... did not get along with.

[AMon10A]

Originally Posted by Stark700

Spoiler:

OH HERE WE GO

Anyways, this is the beginning of the new arc and it already has a lot of info dump and some important characters introduced. I'm expecting the pacing to be around 2 chapters per episode to wrap it up.

Total Doujin bait. That being said I'm really looking forward to the end of this Arc, still it's a shame they had to short change the summer like that.

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by AMon10A

Total Doujin bait.

Miyuki x Tatsuya doujins have been coming out strong since before the anime started. The artists don't need any bait to keep doing what they've been doing.

[Avrorrange]

Originally Posted by SeaDoor

Thanks! Should I try reading anything in Sayuri transporting a high level relic with military significance without having accompanying guards? Stupid character or stupid writers?

BTW: Thanks to everyone's willingness to fill-in, I am able to mostly follow what is going on. I am afraid that I would be lost otherwise. So thanks again.

I think Tatsuya himself mentioned that as well.

[Jerseykid]

When Tatsuya was shot did he use his repair sequence and they just didn't show the usual animation?