SEIREI GENSOUKI: SPIRIT CHRONICLES episode 3 | REVIEW | Kingdom of Lies

What's up everybody my name is Leihula and welcome to the Sephirahina channel. I am a Hawaii variety content creator host of podcasts across worlds and I stream on twitch.tv slash leihulasephirahina. Today we are reviewing Spirit Chronicles and if you like anime reviews don't forget to subscribe, ring the bell so you'll be notified on the next upload and if you would like to support the channel we got patreon and channel membership link to those are below. We are reviewing Spirit Chronicles Episode 3. This episode was sort of like the beginning of an arc or the build-up of a new or the real arc. It seems like these first three episodes were just like an intro to the world, to magic, to different elements, to this isekai and real. In the beginning of the episode this episode they were talking about magic and I think this was the first magic lesson. They kept saying that Ryo couldn't use magic but we know he can from the first episode and if you remember Celia did like a detection thing and it showed that Ryo had mana so he can use magic. I'm just wondering if he was hiding it to you know hide his trump card or to get unnoticed because it seems his magic is different. He knew Ryo knows that his magic is not the same as the others because he doesn't need to chant and such he just needs to replicate it and later on it's revealed that he Spirit Arts. It looked like oh okay so it is different and maybe that girl that we saw in the beginning the first episode maybe she was a spirit and that's why she was able to be conjured up and go into Ryo and input all those information in his head. I'm pretty sure that we'll find out and it seems like his use of a spirit art is related to his ancestry people from Yagumo. In this episode most of it was showing the students in Ryo's class taking a test. It's sort of like a field test where they take in everything they learned fighting, strategy, war, battle, whatever and magic and they apply it to an adventure. I wouldn't call it an adventure but it sort of seems like they have to go from point A to point B all by themselves with no supervision. They just have to survive and actually complete it. Now something shady was happening so the way the story is going you can tell that everything's happening for a reason. Now remember that kid I was talking about the one that's the rival okay him he's in charge and then there's like a second kid he's sort of like lackey he has a gray hair. He is the one that I predicted was going to pop up. You remember on the last review for episode two I was talking about how Celia's favoritism might cause harm to Ryo. Blam! She does have an admirer it's the guy with gray hair that's lackey to the rival dude. He has a thing for her and he notices that she gives Ryo a lot of attention and he resents Ryo. He's feeling some kind of way so during this field test he has a map and he's like okay I got my men from my kingdom to make a map where all the animals are and we'll just follow that trail and we'll go through this test easy peasy lemon squeezy and people are like really he's like yeah and he's totally picking on Ryo and both him and the rival are like okay since you can't use magic you're useless how about you be the carrier. They use the carrier and then they follow this trail they see goblins. Fortunately they are prepared they actually know how to do whatever they were being taught. I was actually impressed by the rival kid he was a good leader he has a lot of potential he's just a butthead to Ryo and I'm thinking there's going to be a redemption arc thing for him like he's going to be an ally much much later. I'm hoping I'm hoping that's going to be the case. So they fight the goblins they're doing great it seems in order to fight the best you can maximize your abilities you need to know magic like body strengthening and such and that's why they're always picking on Ryo. Okay now we know why they're picking on him cool not cool but cool that we know. Anyways going forward the map that they followed that the gray-haired kid had uh led them to a dead end it led them to a cliff and you know what happened uh orcs came about and they were fighting the orcs. The orcs were throwing like these big ass spears and the gray-haired kid got hit by one of the spears it sliced through his thigh like not through but like grazed it and he's like oh oh it looks like he's being super dramatic and he bumped into people they pushed him off and he eventually I guess this is for the story for the story's sake pushed the princess now princess flora was in this episode the second princess the second princess who got kidnapped was in this episode we didn't see her in the other episodes no we didn't but she was in this episode she gets pushed by the gray-haired kid she gets pushed off the cliff damn oh damn Ryo sees it he jumps off the cliff he grabs her and then they do like this mana aura thing he was emitting it and then transferred to her she was embodied it and Ryo did like this magic he turns he pushes her and she floats back onto the cliff and he's like falling and it looked like he was using wind magic I'm like oh wow all right so this is why the kid got grazed in the leg so he could push princess flora and this makes Ryo save her okay Ryo is acknowledged for this treatment right no no no no no so they're able to survive this orc attack and people are like okay who pushed princess flora what happened freaking gray-haired kid blames Ryo so it's like oh okay Ryo's not gonna be acknowledged for his achievement uh this is going to be something to push him away from the kingdom Ryo is witnessing this whole thing how this story's being fabricated and he's like okay I guess I won't be graduating from this academy he was looking at this as an opportunity to just walk away and do his thing so like he doesn't really need the academy I think it was it was just going to be something nice to do being able to graduate from school and have that credibility under his belt being able to say well I graduated from the royal academy ha ha ha you know that sort of like having a diploma a degree anyways and this whole time princess flora is mad she's like no Ryo saved me and like oh no he must have pushed you oh that's horrible that's a crime and that's why he jumped off the cliff too he couldn't bear to have that crime on him so he you know suicide I don't think they thought he survived but if he survived he would be punished and such but Ryo did survive he used wind magic he pushed into his landing now during this whole thing someone was watching them the guy with red eyes the one that had the red jewel and crushed it to get rid of assassin the one that got the information of that drunk guy from the last episode he was watching the whole thing observing Ryo seeing what he can do and he liked what he saw he set up the whole thing basically so he was able to create this trail to give to a soldier who was part of the gray-haired kid's kingdom that soldier gave that map to the gray-haired kid and the gray-haired kid was like okay let's use this map this whole thing was set up the goblins the orcs and another creature came about I forgot the name of it but it looked like a minotaur that thing came out which is what I'm gonna go into next this made Ryo pop out Ryo was just gonna walk away yeah he was just gonna walk but then princess flora was in danger and Ryo's like oh I must save her and he saves her it was cool we got to see Ryo in action like real action not like minor stuff with humans no big ass monsters he's using the spirit arts he embodied himself with the mana he strengthened his body he's doing really good and then the minotaur-like creature he threw up his arms like he was gonna like swipe down Ryo saw it as an opportunity he went in for the kill caught off its head oh yeah and no one saw it no one saw it princess flora she was too busy taking away an injured person who she healed before which is why she got caught with a minotaur and the people who were looking for princess flora didn't see at all they had tunnel vision they only saw princess flora and while they were distracted with her Ryo just walks away then they cut into the scene with the guy with red eyes who's behind this whole thing being like oh I saw something interesting this was worth it and that's how we know that he set everything up and that's how we know that Ryo was using spirit arts the guy was like oh he must be from yugumo the people of yugumo they use spirit arts and it's like okay we got answers don't like it that i'm hearing it from antagonist like person but i'm glad i'm getting some answers cool all right fast forward to when they're to the higher ups that Ryo pushed princess flora and Ryo's being blamed and the guy with gray hair that kid he's telling this story and the one who's supporting this story backing him up the ex vice captain guy the one that tortured Ryo the one that got beat at that tournament like thing in episode two he backed up that kid oh shady shady shady shady and the one that they were reporting to he seemed like he was against the monarchs the royalty because he was saying that you know royalty is weak and such and Ryo was brought into the royal academy because of the king so it seems like this guy is going to use this against the king somehow like maybe break down the credibility be like oh the king's not credible because he sent his comrade to this royal academy and endangered his own daughter maybe something like that was gonna happen maybe not this seems like something like some type of conspiracy is going on but i don't care all i care about is Ryo and Ryo is gonna leave and they just made an enemy out of him he's going to be super awesome and powerful we know that because he's the protagonist he's going to be very very special he's going to be needed he's going to be biting for something and fortunately he still has some allies we know princess flora likes him princess christina knows what really happened and her friend with the blonde hair she knows what's going on and we got Celia Celia who's the teacher and Ryo sees her before he leaves and we see some moments between them it totally looks like they're going to end up together eventually they have like that bond and we can tell that Celia cares for him a lot and we can see Ryo cares for her it looks like he views her like a little sister looks like i'm not too sure maybe he just views her as a savior because she's taught him so much prepared him for this world and before they part he promises that he'll write her letters so they're going to stay in contact and Celia does feel like she's powerless like she wishes she could help Ryo like do something clear his name or something and i'm thinking because of this this is going to drive her to be more powerful to have a better standing in this kingdom some way where she can be like well if you don't do this then i'm gonna leave you know have some leverage on her where in the future if Ryo does come back and this quote crime quote comes about she can be like well he didn't really push her and if you don't believe me then i'll leave now at the end of the episode ex vice captain i i don't remember his name i don't care to remember his name i don't like him he meets up with this person in a jail cell throws in the clothing and this person has like ears we and tells this person to look for Ryo and assassinate him and we see who it is and she's one of the girls in the opening so i'm predicting that she goes out to assassinate Ryo somehow he frees her from whatever is making her being controlled by that ex vice captain guy and she's going to be a companion to him that's what i'm thinking what'd you think about that episode if you saw it if you haven't seen it what would you think about this video let me know in the comments below and if you want to talk outside of youtube here's a discord link is in the description i also stream on twitch.tv people watch these videos if you'd like to stop by the stream have a one-on-one real-time conversation you guys are welcome outside of youtube and twitch i host podcasts across the world where we talk about anime manga and other things we're interested in if you like podcasts like that link to the podcast is in the description for available on all platforms other than that my name is lihua and this is a superfina channel reviewing spirit chronicles episode 3 hope you guys like this video and i'll see you on the next one laters huge thanks to my patreons and channel members for making this video possible if you also want to be parts of the superfina party you can click over here or become a channel member don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss the next video and i do stream live on twitch every tuesdays thursdays and saturdays hope to see you guys there and i will see you on the next video fist bump