[EN] Lostbelt 5.5: Heian-kyo: Thunderous Flash

[Kirishima]

Maybe it's because thought is easier to say and uses up a little less text space

[Comun]

privileged domain(s) - 17~18 characters
protected memory space - 22 characters

[Reign]

Finished the chapter, it was pretty mid to me except for Kintoki who was probably the best here he's ever been (saying this as someone who's always liked him).
A lot of the bosses felt wasted because they came and went really fast, Kagekiyo and Ibuki especially.
I really really liked the idea of using the living versions of Servants as Masters in a Grail War. It's a clever way to reuse art assets and led to neat character interactions I'd never have thought of before like Raikou and Nursery Rhyme.

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And with it clear we can now see that LB6 is "Fae Round Table Domain" instead of the "Fae Realm of the Round Table" that I was really hoping it'd be to match with Camelot's title (Divine Realm of the Round Table).

[Kirishima]

privileged domain(s) - 17~18 characters
protected memory space - 22 characters

Some sacrifices are necessary for coolness

[Rafflesiac]

Ehh, Privileged Domain is cooler. Also domain matches websites.

[mami-kouga]

I enjoyed this chapter, wish the story was more about the grail war though, that shit was more interesting

[Kirishima]

I think this chapter suffers from the Sakurai syndrome of rushing through every plot beat for no apparent reason, like she's allergic to delivering a large script or just wrote bullet points for what she needed to get done in the chapter and didn't care about how well developed they were. Everything literally just happens without room to breathe or let the characters develop and have things resolve at a better pace.

[Reign]

That's definitely been present in her previous chapters but I feel like it was especially apparent here. In particular I really thought Ibuki was going to do a lot more than she did.

[Kirishima]

Raita saved this chapter with the Kintoki costume for me. Everything was ok in the end since I was staring at his massive tits through the whole thing.

[Kratosirving]

...Oh dear, my Brynhildr seems to be missing her skin. Everything else about her - clothes, hair, spear - are there, but no pale woman to hold it all together. :P

[Tamamo-no-Mae Goshujin-sama]

I'm about half way now

Spoiler:

I thought their was a split persona going on. Douman really did not think that far ahead. Thinking his wars was unstoppable and bring us in only for us to succeed and now is rushing things with what seem like a poor backup plan to me. Also again just Tamamo shows up seeming immune to the tree and saving Shounagon I'm hoping for a bit of extra info on what she's doing but I don't remember much talk about it when this was first released in JP.

[mami-kouga]

Douman's plans tend to be hurt by his own bad habits of resorting to theatrics.

[Comun]

And not thinking things through.

[Reign]

Oh I thought the Heian map disappeared when finishing the chapter but it went into the Main Interludes tab. So PSA you can farm and get those free quest quartz.

[Kuzu]

Was honestly surprised at how short this arc was. 15 chapters? Nowadays chapters top at least at 20.

Definitely feels like a rushed arc.

[Kratosirving]

From what I understand LB6 is pretty fucking huge, but yeah. Remember that this was in the prime time of COVID, so shit definitely wasn't going as planned in terms a standard release window.

[eddyak]

That's definitely been present in her previous chapters but I feel like it was especially apparent here. In particular I really thought Ibuki was going to do a lot more than she did.

"Hey major goddess I'm gonna turn you into my god"
"lol ok"
"Hey major goddess I've changed my mind and I'm gonna kill you"
"lol wat"
*gets tree'd*

Douman keeps his weird-arse plot armour and ability to do literally whatever the fuck he wants regardless of character, canon or logic throughout most of the LB, as per usual.

[mami-kouga]

"Hey major goddess I'm gonna turn you into my god"
"lol ok"
"Hey major goddess I've changed my mind and I'm gonna kill you"
"lol wat"
*gets tree'd*

Douman keeps his weird-arse plot armour and ability to do literally whatever the fuck he wants regardless of character, canon or logic throughout most of the LB, as per usual.

What plot armour, that decision ruins his plan and he couldn't even absorb her properly leading to her making him basically vomit out the sword that was used to kill him.

[Pokesamus217]

Douman only has plot armor in the sense that he can always start his plans so they can blow up in his face one way or another. If anything the Ibuki situation is just him clutching defeat on the edge of victory.

[Kirishima]

I feel like the whole post-Shuten stuff was so random, guy summons even more random mobs for us to take care of that get erased in a minute, what I was expecting was for Taira to be bait to draw out Shuten because the Genji would need their help, and from having her vulnerable he could use her as a base to summon Ibuki, but nope, he could've summoned Ibuki from the start making the other three pointless.