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I think I'm done with this. Dahlia is a boring MC that has no will of her own other than 'make device'. She showed a little backbone when she found out stuff was registered to Tobias, but the reason for it was such of a turn off. She didn't show backbone because she was slighted, but because she couldn't take responsibility for mistakes after what Tobias did. It's fair to be angry about that of course, but it feels like the wrong reason here. And then the others just kinda coerced her into starting her own company out of nowhere. And then Gabriela told her what to change about her appearance in order to match expectations. Not really different than what Tobias did to her, but this time, it's okay for some reason. She just does what other people tell her what to do and doesn't really make her own decisions. It doesn't feel like that's on purpose, but rather Dahlia being an empty character.

Also, like I've said before, those shadows suck.

I am traveling and on mobile at the moment, so I can't do a screenshot. However, thinking back over this episode, I don't know what I would take a screenshot of. I like a show that takes its time as much as the next guy, but this show is moving pretty slow. It was pretty easy to guess that Tobias was going to have things registered in his name ever since the earlier episode where they explained the registration system.

I feel like we either spent too long with this knight or too little time. If there wasn't going to be much significance other than some light gender misunderstanding humor to their time together, then I feel like it could have been shortened a bunch. Alternatively, if that time on the road is going to end up being significant, I would have wanted more time on it to actually build up a relationship between them. As it was, it feels like it took up a lot of time and nothing really important happened.

Also, totally agreed with other comments about how Dahlia has so far had almost no agency in this story. She is being swept along in the narrative river that is laid out in front of her by others. From a character standpoint, Dahlia exhibited as much independence during her makeover segments here as when she was caving in to Tobias's demands on her appearance and behavior.

All that being said, I am kind of curious to continue. If nothing else, I am just intrigued as to whether we will ever see Dahlia become a character of her own rather than one that simply listens to those around her.

Wtf Tobias is a real piece of shit, but Dahlia feels like she does basically nothing. I hope that changes soon.

The art confuses me. Why the hell were some of the scenes in ep 1 so good but the rest of it so lazy? The animation feels off to me. Usually I'm able to ignore poor animation quality but the other parts that annoy me kind of add up. It could be really good but it falls short, and that's worse than a show being just plain bad.

I don't really have a lot of spare time to binge through my backlog so I just kind of spend a little time watching new episodes and then leave a comment and continue with my day. I'm tempted to just drop this and get back to it some time in the future but for now I'm still a little curious about what's going to happen.