Wizard Episode 14 "The Return of the Film Director" Discussion
 

Lizardman, the very first Phantom Haruto mat, is on the rampage!

But just why is he on a film set? Why does he gain from this attack?

Koyomi is starting to remember parts of her past. But will she betray her friends to serve Wiseman?

Can Water Dragon turn the tide, if it shows up at all?

Discuss the Magic! Or um...what passes for it here.

So, this episode was... terrific! After the thread where we were discussing the flaws of the show, they put out probably the best episode of the series, IMO. Liked everything about it.

Koyomi's cute fashion montage was fun, followed by her legitimately spooky journey following the Cerberus familiar made her the first supporting cast member I actually like. She was seriously adorable this episode, and I was actually worried about her fate!

The twist of the director being a Phantom, not a Gate was predictable but still a change from the norm was interesting. Likewise that girl being a Gate was obvious but they handled the reveal well.

The big events of the episode were of course the Wiseman reveal, but then showing that he was generating the magic stones, for nefarious purposes! The proximity of the White Wizard to all this was interesting. It's too soon to tell if he is Wiseman, but I'm thinking not, at this point. I think like I suggested a week or two ago he might be actually in charge of the whole thing. Just a hunch. What Wiseman said about to the stone, if the translation is accurate puts a new spin on the whole situation.

So Haruto doesn't even noticed that a person next to him is gone to push a truck into him. Nice job.

Gotta agree with all the points bluesparrow said. Don't think I enjoyed the episode as much as he did, but it was good.

I thought this episode was pretty decent. Nice to see more potential hints at Wiseman & White Wizard. Still kinda thinking they're the same guy but not 100% on that yet. Cerberus also means that Beast should be appearing quite soon since that's supposed to be on of his Plamonsters. My only problem with Wizard is that while I'm content with whatever episode I'm currently watching, the preview for the next one looks better, and then disappoints upon watching it.

Pretty good episode, not amazing but it was nice to see Haruto and Koyomi doing something at the start of the episode. Even if Wiseman and the White Wizard aren't the same guy there seems like there'll be some sort of connection which will be in interesting to see unfold.

I'm looking forward to hopefully a time where it won't be painfully obvious what each magic stone is going to be used for.

The Cerberus plamonster was really cool. :)

I'm really starting to like this show a lot. It still has a vague early-Heisei feel to it that I really enjoy and the characters, although still nowhere near as dynamic as the last few casts, are really growing on me - yes, even Shunpei when he's not being a total spaz. I think this is a show that probably works better when not watched weekly, but I'm still liking it a lot.

Solid episode. This is one of those episodes that makes me ask some questions that will be interesting to see play out.


We now know that Wiseman is making the Dragon stones. White Wizard is making sure the stones are getting the Haruto by having familiars spy and steal. But what doesn't add up here is why would Wiseman leave the stone alone? If he's making them, then he's already lost 2 that way. I'm not convinced yet that Wiseman and White Wizard are one and the same, but it's within reason to believe that these two are planing something, possibly together. If we assume they are working together (or even the same person), then the question is, of course, what's the end game?

I'm thinking the end game is exacting the dragon from Haruto. With every new Dragon form, the dragon can manifest more of his real body in the overworld. In the overworld, the Phantoms are all humanoid while in the underworld they are all huge [CGI] creatures. What if the end game is to fully manifest the dragon without the need of a human form?

Meanwhile, it's nice to see the show flat out confirm the Phantoms have the same human body/memories as the Gate they came from. It's be alluded to before, but not proven. To me, this means Koyomi's Phantom does not have a human form or Nega Koyomi is coming. Come to think of it, she's probably part of this plot too.

Whoa, didn't mean to go overboard on the speculation there. Regardless, this episode has "the plot thickens" written all over it and that can be entertaining to my imagination.

Ooooo; I like the sound of the endgame.

Also, for that matter, re: Koyomi and Haruto at the beginning - given she's been referred to as a living doll, it puts a whole new spin on how he's having her try on various outfits...

Ha-Ha! Real Doll! :lol

So, I wonder how many Phantoms were actually created at the eclipse vs how many just have naturally occurred after. Because only Valkyrie and Lizardman this week have been ID'ed as being at the eclipse.

And I wonder why Lizardman called the White Wizard a "monster?"

I can kind of see why Wiseman would be generating the Dragon stones using them gives the Dragon more power at Haruto's expense, as was implied when got Flame Dragon to work, though it's only been referred to . . .maybe twice? . . .since then. Maybe it is a PuToTyra like thing after all But why the White Wizard has to steal them is unclear at the moment.

Also--Water Dragon looks pretty awesome. Hurricane and Water looks substantially better than Flame does, I think.

Good episode, tho--I wonder if we're building quickly in the 'teens to a new status quo that will clear the decks for Beast's introductory arc.

This episode was okay. The human plot was pretty predictable, but the overarching plot definitely went places. What I wanna know is why Wiseman was using one of Beast's Plamonsters. :D

And never looking at Koyomi the same starting... now.

:(

What if the White Wizard was actually building Haruto's hope up the whole time with the Wizard Power and the dragon forms.... In order for him to crash harder when he goes into despair and the Dragon comes out. I think the White Wizard is trying to unleash a perfect form of the dragon by peaking the falling point of Haruto. He might having put a spell on Koyomi that dollifies her and wipes her memory, so when she gets her memory back it lifts Haruto's hope a little. Now what he plans to use the dragon for? I don't know. Maybe the only way to defeat Wiseman is to beat him with a super powerful phantom.

Just when you thought the scene where Koyomi refills Mana with Haruto's crotch couldn't get any creepier :lol

what if wiseman and the white wizard share one body but have different minds and motives.

Connect Ring. Best. Doughnut. Eating. Ever. Also, am I the only one who thinks they caught a movie reference whe the doughnut sallers showed up?

Well, this is the image on Overtime for their release of the episode :p

http://i.imgur.com/R5TwB.jpg

This episode was better, but I think they dropped an obvious compelling story point just to make grief for Haruto and the chick.
A Phantom with some memories of his former gate? There is a lot of story possibilities there, but instead they just made him some jerk who attacked humans because he could. Thus I'm forced to stand by my statement that All Phantoms are inherently irredeemable, thus they can't have a story.

Anyway, the episode was fine. Koyumi's little adventure did hold some tension (Even if nothing actually happened. But hey, tense atmosphere is always nice), Wiseman spawning the stones is rather interesting (Also raises the question of how Kizaki got his hands on the green one), and it's nice to see the White Wizard plotting in the background (I seriously hope he's an antagonist by series end, just helping Haruto and friends so he can get rid of Wiseman).

The doughnut is called a Poitrine Special. How much more obvious marketing could they have? :lol

Ah, Wizard. I can tell the writers are at least trying to improve, but nothing can save this show now. At least until LaToraTah 2.0 pops up and does his vampire stick.

No, it seems the writers are trying to give Haruto more to do than fight Phantoms, as evidenced by him taking Koyumi shopping and him actually REACTING to the environment around him. Maybe by episode 16 we'll see a Haruto worth watching...

I thought Haruto would take cerberus as one of his familiars. Anyway Water Dragon next.

That would be interesting...

I liked the episode. Also that's not Lizardman!