Pretty strong episode. The comedic parts were funny, the way they explained Beast's circumstance made it valid why Beast would act the way he did. He just adds more dynamism to the show overall. And Koyomi now has the magic stone for Land Dragon so that would show in the next episode or so.

I wasn't sure how I felt about Beast as a character last week, but I do now. I hate Mayonnaise (I don't care what his real name is, he's Mayonnaise now). 50% of the episode is him interrupting people to listen to himself talk about how great he is, but lacks the charisma and intelligence to pull it off. The entire plot hinges on him doing this to Haruto every time Haruto tries to speaks. This is the worst way to do the misunderstanding fight because it only happens because Mayonnaise is an idiot that doesn't listen for more than two seconds.


Now I know people will fight me on this, so before that I will say some things good about the episode.

I did like the origin story. Simple and direct.

I liked the Mayonnaise joke. I want it to continue for the rest of the show.

Also, Haruto's "bang" made me laugh. Wish Haruto would do stuff like that more often.

That was my gut feeling as well.

I think Chimera is lying to Mayonaise about him dying without eating Phantoms mana. I think there's some hidden reason that both WizarDragon and Chimera need the Phantoms dead, and it has something to do with the White Wizard.

I also loved how everytime they fought together,Haruto always said "Hey,here he comes" and let Beast fight him.Hilarious.

just saw the ep subbed. It was pretty good. Speculation wise that unknown phantom might either be wiseman or a perhaps a phantom thats working separate and wants to help Haruto. Also i do believe that chimera isn't lying about the need to consume mana, however if beast gets some form of an upgrade (which he better) it might just fix that problem.

It wasn't that Beast would die without their mana, it's that Chimera would kill him if he didn't sustain him IIRC.

I double checked and I guess it could be seen both ways.

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/3097/beast3l.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5749/beast2.jpg
http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/807/beastb.jpg

It might be a translation thing but 'we have become as one' and 'your very life will be extinguished' seems to imply Chimera wouldn't be doing the killing. I think it's meant to be a symbiotic relationship and Chimera is saying Mayonnaise will die if he doesn't keep Chimera going. Could be wrong.

I like that we're sticking with calling Beast "Mayonnaise".

That's what I got from it too. Chimera became one with Kousuke for whatever reason and as a byproduct of that Kousuke needs mana to keep them both going.