The hollow being his zanpakuto has always been foreshadowed even back to the original series. For example, whenever Ichigo is in bankai mode, his hollow always interferes. And he kept hearing the hollow voice in his mind, because essentially that is how shinigami communicate with their zanpakuto.

10:14 it's a Roman Toga he's wearing.

Mom wasn't wrong. They are done rebuilding. Because there's noone left to rebuild.

Have you two reacted to Reacher?

Season 2! Letsgo!

When I finished season 1 of anime I thought - Well, at least now Thorfinn can reconcile with his family, Canute will sent him home with Leif, it's gonna be fine. Then I started manga - Thorfinn sold into slavery. Well, shit. Poor boy can't catch a break. Also, opening sequence so gorgeous.

Glad y'all picked up on the similarities between Thorfinn and Einar, even though Thorfinn had it bad he still (last we heard) has a mom, sister, and home to go back to. Meanwhile Einar has nothing yet continues to try to live. Can't wait for the rest of this season, my favorite story beat of all time, the show really does a good job of adapting for the most part.

One thing that always bugs me about stories involving Vikings is that they don’t really look at the other side of it. I mean they will show kings and soldiers but they rarely show the victims of all this. And if they do it’s typically as a quick plot thread to “enhance” one of the Viking characters. Vinland Saga doesn’t shy away from these people at all which is one of my favorite things about it.

I believe around a year has passed from season 1!

Welcome to Season 2! This season will definitely shock you and take you on a journey!

Some points about Thorfinn being all shabby on the farm: Thorfinn attacked a member of the Danish Royal Family in public and even cut his body. This was witnessed by multiple important Jarls. This is normally a offence warranting a death penalty. Canute had to give the imminient order to NOT kill Thorfinn on the spot. But this is an act that can't stay unpunished, even if Canute wanted to let it be water under the bridge, the Jarls under his command wouldn't let him do that

When are you guys going to react to episode 5 its been months and I don't want you guys to get spoiled just don't read comments other people said to each other back and Fourth. You have to finish Season 3 because its the best Season with the best finale out of all the them and theres way more drama and awesome memorable moments in the the second half of the Season. This Season Rocks!

3:43 “Can’t we be civilized?” Madam! You’re asking civilization to be civilized?

Aaahhh im so excited for you to meet the demon.

I don't see how Flint could have survived Ashe's "plan". Not only would he be confessing to piracy and murder but also to being a gay man? Any one of those would've gotten him hung. All three together? Yeah, he would've been executed but maybe that was what Ashe really wanted. The final consequences of his betrayal that he could sweep under the rug.

As Narrator san ( who is also Gordon's VA btw) says:" in the fifth clover *resides* a demon". so the demon power is from the book not Asta himself.

Yoooooosh 🔥🔥.See told you they were gearing up with the dragged couple of episodes and they delivered with the animation 🤩 Wish they had consistent budget a not only the crumps left from "Boruto filler"🥲

Julias is the 28th Wizard King. So if you think each Wizard king is in power for like 20 years thats like at least 500 years. We saw young julis before he was Wizard King when he found and took in Yami, Yami was like 15 (since he had grimoir) and Yami is 29 now, so about 10-15 years Julias has been wizard King and hes only in his 40s so he ideally would have some years left to lead. If you use that as an average its like 500+ years since the First Wizard King. Yami ment Jack the Ripper for the spell it reminded him of. Remember Jack has "Severing Magic" and his blades can cut anything. Yami said "It reminds me of a certian stretched out wierdo" the only tall and lanky person we know who would fit is Jack.

Asta, Yami and that first op song are like peak hype and motivation for me

Alicent heard what she wanted to hear the night Viserys died. She wanted the position and just heard the name aegon, and immediately thinks that Viserys wants her son to be the successor. All Visery's life he always said that Rhaenyra is his heir to the throne and defended her every time. Even the morning/hours before he died, he didnt want to take the milk of the poppy so he could have a clear mind, walk to the throne, felt and go through all that pain just to defend luke as the heir to driftmark to further affirm Rhaenyra's inheritance and then Alicent The Hypocrite thinks Viserys suddenly changes his mind that same night. Alicent thinks her son aegon the rapist is The Prince that was Promised?? Dafuq!😆

Apparently the eggs that Rhaenyra sent off with Rhaena ARE meant to be the ones Daenerys eventually ends up with in Game of Thrones. Rhaenyra mentioned intending for them to go to Pentos, which would explain how they eventually end up across the Narrow Sea. The director of the episode confirmed it in an interview. Though I guess in the book version of things, it's heavily implied that the eggs Dany got were already over there at the time House of the Dragon is taking place, having been stolen by a jilted lover of a former Targaryen, but this is the show version of things.

This episode was hype!

LETS GOOOOOO

Hurrah!!!! 🎉We have won.🎉 Congratulations to my black bulls, who left their soul there 🙌✨😭♥️... Yami was so proud of his ducklings 🙌✨ ♥️👏👏👏👏👏

He referred to Jack the ripper.

22:53 mm 🤔🤔 I think he was probably talking about Nozel. I thought it might be Jack but he's not a stretched-out guy 🤭🤭🙈🙈

So vetto can see that devil aura because he can read ki, no one else can see it except yami

I was already liking Black Clover when first watching this show. And then this episode hit, and I was HOOKED. All of the Black Bulls working together, the first opening playing during that final clash, Yami popping in with a move that cuts through SPACE, the list goes on. So I went on to catch up to the dub. And when I caught up to the dub, I moved on to the sub. And when I caught up to the sub, I moved on to the manga. And here I am now. Black Clover is now my favorite Shonen series despite everything it had going against it.

I'M SO GLAD YOU ARE HERE ALREADY

That first OP always gets me hype! I just love it! Asta always gets strong when the 1st OP comes out! Just Hype! 🤞

This episode is the major one where people sit up and pay attention to black clover. A great episode

YATTA !!!!

LESTGOOOOOOOOOII

i think i found my new fav hotd reaction/commentary channel. you guys are so unbiased and give, in my opinion, the most nuanced interpretations. i'm team black all day all night but my god most of the reactors here just cant seem to understand anything about why the greens' kids and alicent are they way they are because of everything that happened to them is really annoying lol. keep it up! i'm gonna binge the rest of your reactions later!

Yea Alicent is having to cope really hard..Partly her instant reaction is denial because she won't accept that she can be responsible for everything that follows...I think the guilt will start to settle in ESPECIALLY as the war goes on and the mayhem of the Dance follows in the entire realm....While it is true that Otto and the counsel at their plans for Aegon regardless of what Viserys or Alicent said, it is also true that Aegon at the time categorically did not want to be King at all- and it is mainly Alicent who talked him into it convincing him that his father wanted it, and if she told him at the time to refuse the crown, he very well, almost certainly would have, given as Alicent stated Aegon was going to proceed as she saw fit...BUT It's possible then that Aemond would have likely been crowned by Otto instead and he would have welcomed it...Hard to say but yea

I really love your reactions, you one of the few people whom are unbiased in their takes and capable of having a naunced discussion and analysis of the characters whether Green or Black. i find it possible to pick sides but at the same time to be interested in both sides and their pov.

Well said. Fern is very talented and skilled. The mere fact that she was able to force Frieren's replica to resort to that last trick, which made lowered her defenses speaks volumes about Fern's abilities as a mage. I definitely think Fern has the potential to surpass Frieren (now rather she does it or not is another story) and loved her moment here.

When Fern said "This is the Height of Magic" when Frieren used an attack she couldnt understand or see she ment it. Thats basically top tier magic that frieren only had to use aginst the demon king, so frieren using it aginst Fern is a HUGE point to how strong Fern is. Fern is as powerful as the Demon King is what your supposed to take from that. She still has room to grow but she has the power to support her. But its also noting that Fern has more to learn still, that there is magic beyond her understanding and knowledge still.

My fav viking girls, can't wait for to react to season 2

Everyone needs to meet someone like Asta in real life 😭😂

Well we know where all the budget for fights went, Beautiful Sakuga. The entire fight between the two Frieren's she didn't use her ace until after Fern took her arms, so Frieren is definitely still pulling her punches. Would love to see a extended fight against a opponent requiring ALL her strength. Also a big thing we learn here is that while the staff is important Frieren's double casted without a focusing conduit. How big does it need to be and is there a detriment to not using one or could you get by with more freedom of movement by having a smaller wand rather than a full staff.

I'm thumbs up number 69 🤣

By the way girls something that everyone either missed or left out of the editing (or both : as left out cuz they missed it) The servant girl in the tavern the one slapped in the ... It's Diana the servant that was sent away by Alicent in season one with silver and the moon tea. After Aegon ... She was also seen terrified while serving him but he didn't recognize her.

Serie is a true fanatic for magic. She loves seeing mages reach their full potential. Nothing excites her like seeing a genius pushing the very limits of what magic is capable of. That's why she doesn't like taking human apprentices - not because she inherently dislikes them or thinks they are inferior in talent, but because magic takes so long to master that they die on the cusp of greatness, but never quite reaching the pinnacle. When she says "disappointing" she doesn't mean that her apprentices disappoint her, she means that it is disappointing to see them die to old age or natural causes before they can take that last step to the peak. Now imagine how much lower the chance is for a mage to reach that pinnacle if they have the short lifespan of a human AND aren't supremely talented. She spends so much time, care and attention to teach them only to see them fall before it can all pay off for either of them and I guess that discouraged her to the point where she's trying to tell herself she didn't care to begin with. That she's just teaching them on a whim. She's bullying Frieren because she's a genius but "wasted" the majority of her time training to suppress her mana to trick demons instead of pushing the boundaries of magic and becoming the prodigy she knew Frieren could be. Kind of like that grandma that keeps telling you to pursue your dreams instead of wasting your time in an office job.

Seiren dont want magic to special because few people have it, but because only talented people have it. If we have a bunch of talente people, so be it, we have a bunch of people with magic. I think this is a great lesson for today, when, in school we have to learn a lot of crap that we will never use and a bunch of things we should learn are left out. Ps.: remember, Frieren is a mage of peace and Seiren is a mage of War, that is a important thing people forget when analizing the mage test 😉

I actually believe Daemon and see his fiercely loyal to Rhaenyra regardless of his feelings and he definitely can be trusted. I bet show didn't show us what Daemon said to deliberately make us viewers doubt Daemon like Rhaenyra does right now, like the greens can't trust one another, when in reality i bet Daemon didn't make that order and is truly mad and hurt that he doesn't have Rhaenyra's trust 100%, same with Viserys when he believed Ottos lies & schemes over him. Criston was the one who was supposed to be on duty, protecting the King's family.

To me the saddest death was Ivar watching the crazy Fearless Ivar admit he was afraid

I'm not sure whether Aegon the Usurper's kingsguard or Robert and Joffery's kingsguard are a bigger disgrace to the position of Kingsguard and the title of knight. On one hand you have the idiots in this episode and Criston Cole and on the other you have the likes of Meryn Trant and Balon Swann.

Hated the sept scene. That's the consequences of shitty writing. The show keeps pushing the narrative that Aegon's only solid argument is Viserys's last wish which is not the case. Aegon doesn't need Viserys's order, he bases his claim on tradition and precedent that made Viserys king over Rhaenys 30 years ago. But the show doesn't want to address this for some reason and puts all the blame on Alicent's misunderstanding. The greens and Alicent are even more hated now because the writers didn't bother to give her and the green real motivations and backups for putting Aegon on the throne. It makes them look just stubborn and delusional for no reason. I mean they did give her motivation in ep 5 when Otto gave her valid argument that her children would be in danger if Rhaenyra took the throne, and Alicent indeed had this belief for 16 years, but apparently she forgot about it the family dinner in ep 8 and now only Viserys's wish is her argument. if Alicent can't say anything better than "he changed his mind" to back up Aegon's claim, then why would the audience believe Aegon HAS anything but this illusion? I hate this show change so much because it undermines everything: world building, motivations and the message of the story Ignoring the political arguments of the Greens harms the story not only as an entertainment work, which initially provided audience with an interesting conflict in which both sides have strong claims, it also leads to simplifying the political side of the issue. It weakens the message of the story laid down by both the author of the book and the creator of the show - criticism of the monarchical system and especially vague , uncodified laws and contradictions it brings with it. A system in which there are no clear rules, which ultimately becomes an excellent basis for interpretations in favor of one or another political party, from which the conflict arises. The point was that both Aegon and Rhaenyra had strong claims because the monarchy lets several claimants have legal grounds for inheritance based on different arguments. But now it's all narrowed to " misunderstanding"