No.11319
Might give it a few episodes. So far it's pretty run of the mill.
No.11628
>>11623I'm really curious why the ED paints the sprinkler girl so suspiciously. It makes me think that maybe she is the one behind Lufas' isekai'ing or false memories. Obstructing her entire face suggests to me that she is just pretending with her current personality. And the switching to the blacked out, glitchy versions at the end clearly suggests corruption.
I hope she turns out to be some sort of evil mastermind but I don't have much hope.
No.11629
>>11628i'd wager spending centuries alone seeing everything they built collapse impacted her negatively and that's the key point
No.11632
>>11628Well, unless it's a purposeful misdirection (which would be cool) they're not doing a good job of hiding things in the OP and ED. I'm going to spoiler this even though it's a frame in the OP.
At least she was already made suspicious in episode 2 itself with the casual mention of mass brainwashing that she's capable of.
So in the OP she
has a world in a cage and in the ED she's wandering around in the 'real world'. No.11633
>>11632Oh wait, not brainwashing, just replacing memories. Although that's not much of a difference I suppose since you can control people's motivations.
No.11634
>>11629that's an astute reading and way more boring than what i was thinking but that feels a lot more grounded than my suggestion
>>11632that sounds way cooler
also finally a show gets it, two-toned hair = bad No.11635
>>11632also interesting is that right before this moment she's shown as the only person who remains while all the former players dissipate
>>11634gradients are NOT two tone come on we've been over this
No.11637
>>11635there are two tones and a gradient transitions between the tones
the hair is two toned with a gradient
No.11643
Just watched the first two episodes, a good contender for AOTS I must say. Excited for more.
No.11645
I think anons are reading too much into the OP/ED.
The girl in the OP here
>>11632 isn't Dina, she doesn't have a gradient. It's the goddess who initially summoned the player into the world (see picrel). Dina is just an NPC that was left alone by the players, which is why she was shown alone and sad.
>>11628I wouldn't read too much into the ED's effects either, more likely they just choose random scenes/filters to apply to the character.
I also wouldn't enjoy it if Dina turned out to be the final boss or something.
No.11646
>>11645>It's the goddess who initially summoned the player into the world (see picrel).Oh, that's good. That makes sense.
...or does it?
No.11648
>>11645>I wouldn't read too much into the ED'sI think it's not a stretch to say that if this work is being taken on by a better studio with a non-zero budget then it's not out of the question to say that there could be hints to something readers of the source material may know (or even not know) in the OP/ED.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f97AWZ-7PWQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHPfAB3eDGYIt's been done many times before, and I choose to read into the deliberate direction choices made for this ED than cast them aside as fancy decorations.
No.11650
>>11649That theory would hold if Dina wasn't already an existing character in the game world that the MC remembers creating. But she is.
No.11652
>>11649it would be weird though to have the pre-existing goddess take the form of a later player-made abandoned npc and i don't think the corruption visuals in the ed quite align with divine advent
if you actually separate between dina and the goddess, the former loses her mastermind aspect, as she is seen instead being left behind, crying, and degraded, but not quite in control, and there isn't any element leading to a strong link besides a similar haircut
No.11653
>>11650We know fuckall about who Dina is besides being a random background NPC created by Lufas in the past. There's nothing deep connecting her and Lufas like there is with Ainz and Nazarick, she nearly forgot who Dina was before being reminded. Am I 100% sure she's the goddess? No. But I can't rule out the possibility that there could be something going on with Dina and the Goddess that links them. She could easily be controlling or substituting herself in for Dina to observe her favorite entertaining player and Lufas would have no idea. The dancing puppets on strings could suggest in
>>11648, which I feel to be the most significant imagery in the ED, this possibility quite strongly. It's the one thing I find odd that nobody commented on while analyzing the ED since it's the most prominent theme, even the dance is a puppet dance and the show operator at the end is Dina.
Otherwise, if this isn't to suggest the Goddesses is Dina, there's a strong chance this is meant to show a different side to Dina that isn't put on display yet. Similar to what
>>11628 suggests, a side that's playing the helpful and friendly advisor, but has strong resentment or frustration with how long Lufas was gone. One that could potentially be orchestrating things to put on a show for herself or her master given the connections to the assailing demons she has and these planted memories.
No.11654
>>11653>puppetsI didn't notice the puppet imagery towards the end of the ED. That does seem to be deliberate and suggesting the existence something beyond what we see of Dina. Interesting.
No.11655
>>11653i'm gonna be honest i thought it looked like a sprinkler too
No.11656
>>11655Is that where "sprinkler girl" comes from...?
No.11680
>>11656yes, she moves like a sprinkler and her hair is water colored
she is the sprinkler girl
No.11687
I remember this, read the manga years ago. Pretty good but I feel like it drags on way too long.
No.12133
>>12129oh, heh, missed that
No.12909
>>12905>>12906>>12897 makes sense if so. She was waiting for her assigned partner. But I doubt they'd reveal it that easily. Probably just a bait and she was waiting for someone else.
P.S. I really like Libra's face. Very cute and proportionate.
No.12919
>>12905hairstyle and eye match
No.13173
Too much hope
No.13186
she's playing all the sides. Being able to use the title-drop spell already means she's something of a god.
No.13187
>>13172There's no interpretation otherwise unless it's a retarded expectations subverted M Night Shamamalama TWIST that the most obvious case of two people being the same actually WASN'T. My only hope right now is that Dina wasn't just
some run of the mill Demon Lord and actually is more of a thread like >>13186 proposed. No.13201
>>13188maybe the
last boss was the
friends we made along the way No.13287
>>13286I was hoping they weren't giving it away so obviously...
No.13290
she's a 4th wall breaking joker
No.13292
>>13287Well maybe there's still the chance she's a being above a mere demon lord.
No.13373
>>13371just spoiler the entire text, it's so hard to read...