[DreamSword]

Episode IX: New Hope

Star Wars joke.

Now that that's out of the way, this episode was friggen AWESOME. MAN what a way to make up for the previous two episodes!

This episode has Leon and Alfonso's' goals lining up. Leon wishes to fight stronger Horrors to grow stronger, and Alfonso wishes to complete his training to become a full fledged Makai Knight. You know what that means?



And their interactions are great. There's a nice bit of comedy that comes from Alfonso being clueless about how to interact with commoners as well as Leon's' bickering with him. Plus, the two do have great chemistry once they become friends and begin to work together.

And yeah, working together is basically the only option once the two reach the Horror they've been assigned to fight. It's here that things kick into high gear. The action really showcases the advantage that animation has over live-action. From the effects, to the choreography, to the absolute scale of the Horror and the very creative interpretation of what a chimera is.



Heck, even the music really stood out this episode. Every track chosen was perfect, and made me really wanna hunt down this show's' soundtrack later on. I won't spoil how the episode ends, other than that I was wrong. I predicted that Alfonso would become the next Silver Knight, but he instead becomes the next Magenta Knight. And you know what? I wouldn't have it any other way. He earned the spot, and Raphael passing the torch was a great moment.



Overall this was a great episode. Definitely my favorite so far.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Ah yeah, it's honestly a shame they didn't do that and it was basically just there to have like a subpar mystery. Would have definitely been interesting.

As for this next episode, yeah it's basically the better of the two, on principle of well, Germán's antics are pretty fun to follow to an extent, and we get some real good backstory out of this episode. But after that, it starts to wear on you and these two episodes definitely don't pair up well watching one after another.

That being said, if next episode is the one I'm thinking of then we're finally moving into some fun stuff.

Is that how you properly spell his name? German? Because I've just been spelling it how the dub pronounces it, with an H. Props to the dub for going with Spanish pronunciations of things, by the way. Considering the show takes place in Spain and all.