#it's really just a battle between Geord and Keith anyways for Katarina anyways

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I stopped getting more points after reaching level 8. I don’t know if its because it’s only a trial version or if i’m doing anything wrong, but if anyone is playing it, feel free to call it quits after you get Mary

(I was aiming for Sophia but I guess you can’t get her yet ;; w ;;)

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Real tea, I don’t want to sound like a nagging nancy or anything, the final episode itself was very fun an satisfying, but they left out personal moments between Raphael/Sirius and Maria that is supposed to rise them up as Katarina’s harem members. Each of the childhood friends already has intimate moments with Katarina as kids, so we need these personal and intimate momoments with the newcomers Maria and Raphael in order to make them fit in with the rest of the harem (not that they would lose too much without it, but that’s that formula!!). I guess it doesn’t make sense that Raphael’s story was (originally) told to only Katarina even though the other student council members’ care about him too, and with how the episode flowed it makes sense to move it to the beginning rather than the end of the episode, but you know me blah blah blah light novels!!

Nitpicking as usual, but the fact that we didn’t get Maria and Katarina getting sticked to the hip and enjoying the party by themselves plus a summary of all the good that Katarina has done for Maria really hurts her case, especially when she’s supposed to be one of the biggest contenders for Katarina’s heart moving forward. The anime really felt like it’s going for a Geordo vs Keith rather than the Geordo vs Maria that I’m seeing for future volume spoilers on reddit, and that might just increase depending on how season 2 will go.

I don’t know about you guys but I feel like that’s a pretty big blow on MariKata, because we need to know how much Katarina has done for Maria in order to invoke a complete retrospective on how our bakarina literally saved everyone, even the protagonist that she doesn’t know was secretly broken during the events of Fortune Lover. I mean I get that we don’t need another recap to understand that, but Maria is important because she’s the main character (of Fortune Lover!) so the relationship between those two are technically the most mportant one in the series!

This episode was supposed to be the moment of Raphael and Maria cementing their place by telling us why they should be (and desire to be) in Katarina’s harem, and I’m kinda sad the finale didn’t deliver much on that

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Before Hamehura Episode 4 comes out

SPOILERS FOR THE ANIME (kinda??) SPOILERS FOR THE ANIME (kinda??) SPOILERS FOR THE ANIME (kinda??)

Since I’m pretty sure this wont be adapted in the upcoming episode, I just want to give appreciation to the extra chapter where Bakarina (isekai-d version) gets a nightmare of being in the eyes of Katarina (game version) where she slaps away Maria’s basket of baked goods and gets caught by Geord (and also Keith); an event that occurs in the game. 

I reread it today and it it really hammers in the idea that Bakarina really wants to preserve the life and relationships that she’s gained before entering the Magic Academy, and how she truly dreads the possibility of being rejected and hated by them.

When Bakarina (inside Katarina’s mind) rejoices when Geord and Keith comes to Maria’s rescue from Katarina and her followers, the look of disgust and hatred that the two boys gave her made her stomach turn, and you really feel bad for her because while she’d never do anything of sorts,you know that this is what her life was supposed to lead to if her memories never returned. It also backs up the reason to why Bakarina is extra paranoid in anything Maria related while being the Magic Academy, because of the fact that the course of a few years isn’t enough to shake or reduce her resolve to stop her bad end, and things such as this nightmare, are a constant reminder of the fate that she could have if she doesn’t stay vigilant. (I’ve seen people make jokes about how Bakarina shouldn’t even fret about her bad end bc she already unknowingly won everyone over, and while I find those meta-jokes fun too, if she had constant reminders like this then I can’t blame her for being paranoid, outside of her general denseness)

PS. I like to think of it generally, but obviously in the weight of the moment, Bakarina states that she doesn’t want to see cold stares from specifically from Geord and Keith, which is funny since those two are the main rivals fro her hand (plus Mary).

PPS. I read it here if anyone is interested :)) You don’t have to read the manga above, just skip to the novel drabble below.