Correction, Vice-Principal. Principal is Lucy, and I highly doubt such an old man is weaker than Fissel.First, unrelated to manga. The anime is okay, but after reading the manga i can't help but have a slightly higher expectation and sadly it didn't deliver on the ep3, ep1 was quite decent and enjoyable.
Now into the manga, holy shit. What a cool fight from old man Beryl fighting against the principal, probably the 3rd strongest magician so far(after Lucy and Ficelle). The realization and "enlightment" after being told that his sword can cut magic is super chill, he immediately change how he is fighting against a mage after one of the disadvantage fighting against mage is gone.
The principal had a sad past with his student that want to combine sword and magic but unfortunately something happened to him making the Principal really against with sword, thankfully with Ficelle comes to the mage squad and having old man Beryl won the fight now the Principal want to learn sword too which is kinda funny but really awesome.
And the last panel, that shadow definitely the sword saint as the mentioned on first panel. Shit is going to be fire next chapter, Old man Beryl vs the Shadow of Sword Saint.
I already corrected, i was wrong. Really thought Fissel is the commandant when Lucy is the one, i really have a goldfish memory.Correction, Vice-Principal. Principal is Lucy, and I highly doubt such an old man is weaker than Fissel.
Agreed. They changed the setup and events of the Lucy fight, even if the end result is the same, it came off as less impressive. They also made Beryl more relaxed because they took the serious element out of it by not making him think something happened to Fissel. I assumed that they were just saving the budget for the later fights with the 3v1 Beryl fight against Euro/Gollen/Robberie and later Schupple, since the fight didn't even look as good as the Heimbritz one.First, unrelated to manga. The anime is okay, but after reading the manga i can't help but have a slightly higher expectation and sadly it didn't deliver on the ep3, ep1 was quite decent and enjoyable.
So the weak-sauce meeting between Beryl and Lucy shown in the anime was from the LN? I think the manga did that a lot better.The anime isn't as good... I still couldn't fathom the reason they decided to adapt the light novels, when the series' appeal and sales mostly come from the manga. Atleast from what I could recall.
In any case, good ass chapter. Beryl's awakening his battle-drunkeness very clearly now. It wasn't this prominent before when he fought against the loli mage back in early chapters.
I've heard that manga changed how some things happened in the ln so it might be that the manga is the one that's changedDang... Beryl too good! Throwing sheath to blind him, then tossing the sword in the air... its reminds me of the first episode of Demon Slayer, where Tanjirou does a similar thing(but to less effect). What a great fight; this manga's battles are always a joy to watch/read because of the skill used throughout the fight, instead of just raw strength/speed.
Agreed. They changed the setup and events of the Lucy fight, even if the end result is the same, it came off as less impressive. They also made Beryl more relaxed because they took the serious element out of it by not making him think something happened to Fissel. I assumed that they were just saving the budget for the later fights with the 3v1 Beryl fight against Euro/Gollen/Robberie and later Schupple, since the fight didn't even look as good as the Heimbritz one.