...So has anyone else here seen the anime "The Ancient Magus' Bride"? I've only seen the first episode, but from what I can see the plot seems to be "strange wealthy powerful englishman buys Japanese girl to be his bride". Which seems like a strange thing for Japanese people to make? Again, though, I've only seen the first episode. :/
@Angle No, but I was in a roleplay where someone WATCHING The Ancient Magus' Bride played a significant role, just yesterday.
@Angle Well he's not a human, that much I can tell you, that skull mask /is/ his face. It might also be enlightening to consider that the original manga was written by a woman and I'm 90% sure Elias is just the creators dream boyfriend
@Emily Mmm, yeah thats fair, I did figure as much. And I guess it does seem very interesting. It still seems pretty weird though. :/
@Angle I've seen a few of the episodes. Have you seen just the first episode of the prologue or all of the prologue?
@AlisaReinford ...Theres a prologue? I've seen the first episode of what I'm pretty sure is the main anime. :/
@Angle It's got three prologue episodes of when she's a little girl https://niu.moe/media/WdAlAbruVJukVztOwxY
@AlisaReinford Ahhhh, I didn;t know that. Thank you! What order would you recommend I watch them in? Prologue first? :/
@Angle Yes, otherwise it wouldn't make sense. Did you start with episode one titled "April Showers Bring May Flowers"?
@AlisaReinford Yup. I'ma go back and find the prologues now. XD
@Angle Okay :) Yeah watch those three first. But let me warn you, they're pretty scary, especially episode two of the prologue :(
@Angle I have a cousin who's read the manga + I've seen most of the anime special they made before the anime series started, and from what I've gathered it very much leans into English Folklore a ton ie "Magic is dangerous and the Fair Folk will fuck you over..."
So the relationship between those 2 is supposed to be slightly off, but not entirely? It's supposed to invoke Beauty and Beast-like stuff.
@Angle Its very very good if you ignore that. We also thought that was weird too.
@Freylet Mmm, I've watched the prologue and the first three episodes now, and it is very good. Still a little weird though. XD
@Angle We are up to date with it and we cant wait for more. Its too good!
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Apparently I'm not the only one who thought the premise was a little weird. The show was really good though. XD
@Angle somehow my brain was parsing that quoted title as "the princess bride" ... and then I read the rest of what you wrote and ... ::sigh::
+++ Out of cheese error. Redo from start +++