It’s probably a good thing Clayman isn’t a lawyer. Or anyone who has to present a logical argument. While Tensura 2 has tried to market Clayman as the great manipulator, he really is kind of a let-down in that he hasn’t got contingency plans and he really hasn’t even checked that his actual plans are coming to fruition before he lays out a paper-thin case against Rimuru before the other demon-lords.
Not that it seems like they particularly care about evidence. Clayman claims Rimuru killed his subordinate, Rimuru calls him a liar and says she’s alive, but nobody cares about evidence in this episode of Tensura 2. Instead this heads where it inevitably was going to, a fight between the two.
Doesn’t it make you feel kind of sad that these massively powerful beings who have so much influence over the world can’t think of a better way to settle a situation other than gather their forces and get into a smack down?
Then again, It did make this one of the more interesting episodes of the season.
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Will Rimuru maintain his plot armour in the final episodes of Tensura 2 Part 2?
We already know that Tensura 2 is a little too fond of its characters and seems fairy unwilling to let even minor cast members be permanently cut down (unless they oppose Rimuru in which case they can be taken out without hesitation).
That kind of sucks any tension that might exist in this match up between Milim, Clayman and others with Rimuru and his entourage. Which again, kind of sucks because Milim vs Rimuru could be such an epic match-up.
Even without any real fear of danger befalling our ‘hero’ it was a pretty fun fight to watch playout.
Knowing it hasn’t yet come to an end certainly makes you want to watch next week to see how the fight concludes. I mean, one assumes that Rimuru is going to figure out how to snap Milim out of her brainwashing and then the both of them will throttle Clayman, but how that comes about is yet to be seen.
Then again, maybe Tensura 2 actually has a surprise in store for us and Milim is just gone. (I kind of doubt it.)
What about Clayman?
Clayman has so far proven a disappointing adversary at every turn and while it is clear there is someone else behind him, honestly I just want him to pose a more credible threat.
He talks to much.
He has a superiority complex.
He doesn’t verify the success of his plan before moving on to the next step.
When challenged on key points of his story, he has no back up and reacts really badly under pressure.
I actually don’t think Tensura 2 could have presented a less interesting threat and about the only noteworthy point is that Milim is in fact under his control, which is only noteworthy because of her relationship to Rimuru.
I’m struggling to find a positive with Clayman. I kind of want him to get quickly and decisively cut down but I somehow suspect he’ll have one final desperate plan which will probably involve him transforming into something really big and stupid and still being more or less instantly erradicated.
That is of course just pure speculation.
Also, I kind of wanted more from the other demon lords. Most of them didn’t even speak let alone contribute anything after their introductions.
And with two episodes left in this season of Tensura 2 it seems unlikely that these characters will actually get fleshed out in any meaningful way.
Still we have the conclusion of the Milim and Rimuru fight to look forward to and that’s enough to keep me happy for now.
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Karandi James
Knowing what I know, I am going to say absolutely nothing except… they have Rimuru make a single mistake – that of not listening to Raphael’s complete analysis – purely so they can dramatically say “surprise!”
When Veldora suddenly showed up that dramatically shifted the balance of power.
I’d like to see what there is about that pixie to qualify her as a demon lord.
I don’t think anybody cares who killed who in the slightest. Ordinary lives and deaths is meaningless to these folks. The only real question is whether Rimeru is “bad” enough to join the club.
And given Rimuru already made it clear he doesn’t care whether he is in the club or not about the only thing left is to thoroughly dispose of Clayman.
There is someone behind Clayman. And there is the Cromwell dude she needs to settle things with. Probably leave it for the last episode.
Well the writings were on the wall when it came to Clayman. The moment he unilaterally decided that Rimini simply borrowing Veldora’s name, I knew he wouldn’t bother getting any facts straight. He basically gave the Demon Lords a fan fiction with nothing but a supposed deceased witness who worked for him as a spy (and with his track record for disposable subordinates, even that was already fickle). I could only shake my head at his tall tales and his pathetic rebuttals to actual concrete evidence. Honestly, tail by combat was a blessing for him, and that will also fail him in the end.
He is just kind of lame and if he didn’t have Milim fighting for him it would already be over.