Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei - Ch. 48

[KZO]

Here it is, the Rainbow Sword.

We're getting past the anime soon, can't wait to see what's next.

 

[inversefate]

its called the anime, the pictures even move

Yeah I’ve seen it, the anime adaptation didn’t look this good.

 

[SpeedyAussie]

I'm kinda disappointed that the dragon curse thing didn't let her polymorph into a dragon. Instead, it only formed horns & claws with magic....

 

[Frinkin]

and SPARK!

 

[shemper]

Thank you for your work!

 

[DLRevan]

Someone already addressed all this but I just can't help but really whack these, really should have been clear chapters ago.

Rainbows all over, fitting! beautiful.
I can't help but keep blaming the parents "our son became half monster and our daughter too sigh but since he became a criminal, there's no choice we will just let her marry some fucking sick noble and things will be fine again, there's nothing we can't do about it, those are the rules" yeah is not like you could do anything about it, ITS NOT LIKE YOU ARE LITERALLY THE KING AND QUEEN it just can't be helped the kids can handle it, right? it's their duty! so useless omg

Welcome to monarchy where parents often have to be monsters that turn their children into monsters. Did you think monarchies are built on nice words and love where royals get to do or be whatever they want, and everyone loves them for it?

Monarchies are built on iron fisted control. And that control is not automatic, it has to be enforced. Usually that means having the most money and most military power and usually also religious clout to buy off/intimidate a cadre of nobles, who in turn do the same to lesser nobles, and so on until you reach the common folk.

Yes, the same nobles that have plotted to install their own figurehead, are fanatical about hereditary magic because it's the foundation of the above ability to buy off/intimidate, who rule by something equivalent to divine right in this world. The ones that have been described and covered in every single friggin' arc in this story.

Yeah, Annie's parents are the King and Queen? SO? How will they enforce their change in laws? They would erode their own power base by which they would enforce the changes. Changes which DO NOT benefit the nobles, which they have already been clearly opposed to, since the start of the series.

I can't believe I'M saying this, BUT YOU DON'T NEED TO BE A MONARCHY!

Thats just the ideal. It's doesn't mean its practical, at least not in this generation. Above I'm explaining why but they literally spell this out in the past few chapters so there is no excuse. They can't change it in this generation.

After a thousand years the fight is over and we all still wonder why the fuck it had to come to this instead of changing the law and/or adopting a son that is worthy.

So instead of adopting Euphie, which is the currently proposed solution, you basically want the author to invent a new character who has the required pedigree and magical power for the sole purpose of fobbing the monarchy off to them instead. And it would have to be considerable if Euphie needs to become this demi-god like existence to have legitimacy. And this is a "better" solution solely because you won't care as much about this hypothetical man, probably.

Aren't you trying to fix a plot hole that doesn't actually exist by inserting one of your own?

 

[UdenEmpati]

Someone already addressed all this but I just can't help but really whack these, really should have been clear chapters ago.



Welcome to monarchy where parents often have to be monsters that turn their children into monsters. Did you think monarchies are built on nice words and love where royals get to do or be whatever they want, and everyone loves them for it?

Monarchies are built on iron fisted control. And that control is not automatic, it has to be enforced. Usually that means having the most money and most military power and usually also religious clout to buy off/intimidate a cadre of nobles, who in turn do the same to lesser nobles, and so on until you reach the common folk.

Yes, the same nobles that have plotted to install their own figurehead, are fanatical about hereditary magic because it's the foundation of the above ability to buy off/intimidate, who rule by something equivalent to divine right in this world. The ones that have been described and covered in every single friggin' arc in this story.

Yeah, Annie's parents are the King and Queen? SO? How will they enforce their change in laws? They would erode their own power base by which they would enforce the changes. Changes which DO NOT benefit the nobles, which they have already been clearly opposed to, since the start of the series.



Thats just the ideal. It's doesn't mean its practical, at least not in this generation. Above I'm explaining why but they literally spell this out in the past few chapters so there is no excuse. They can't change it in this generation.


So instead of adopting Euphie, which is the currently proposed solution, you basically want the author to invent a new character who has the required pedigree and magical power for the sole purpose of fobbing the monarchy off to them instead. And it would have to be considerable if Euphie needs to become this demi-god like existence to have legitimacy. And this is a "better" solution solely because you won't care as much about this hypothetical man, probably.

Aren't you trying to fix a plot hole that doesn't actually exist by inserting one of your own?

It does paint an interesting contrast where we as readers want to (and are arguably meant to) sympathize with Anis, because (in brief) she's a magic-less heretical magitec user who abdicated her responsibility, saw her brother burdened, then corrupted, then destroyed by said responsibility, and then Anis is destined for misery as a puppet queen/heir maker, only to be saved by the love of her life who makes the choice to destroy her own humanity and gain the Crown as a demigod immortal.

But as you said - realistically, the system and setting necessitates ruthless attainment and possession of power, and the monopoly of force held by the noble class means any tension thst escalates into actual violence would see widespread suffering and destruction of the commonfolk who are powerless in the face of the ruling class who have every interest in not giving up their power.

In the long term, things can be changed. Arguably, Euphie becoming immortal makes that easier, actually - except the whole "losing her humanity/sense of perspective" thing. If Anis can keep her grounded while she's alive, that's one thing, but once Anis dies, Euphie's tetherless and growing more alien by the day, making the dream of Anis' kind of a nonstarter because the improvements that would help her wouldn't take root in Anis' lifetime, and once thet do, Euphie might have forgotten Anis altogether. The only solace is Anis doesn't live a shit life chained to some noble son consort making heirs while having no power, being detested by the nobility as a magic-less royal.

Knowing what I do of the LN plot, some of this is addressed (or being addressed), but at this point in time of the manga's story, it's a weird moment of "solving some immediate personal problems while kicking the can of macro issues down the road and hoping to sort it out later".

I get why Euphie and Anis fought, their reasons for doing so, and why Euphie winning was best for Anis and the country at large (maybe not necessarily the nobles who like having all the power). But the implications of the Spirit Contract on Euphie's connection to humanity, while Anis remains very much mortal, is a powder keg that poses big issues for their vision of the kingdom's future and how it gets implemented in the short and long (and very long) term.

 

[GipsyD]

I don't even know what's happening anymore, I'm just here for the fantasy yuri

 

[NatoBoram]

 

[WolfenLady]

So, Euphelia won only because Anis was there to create Arc-en-ciel for her? So it's like a codependent relationship where one doesn't really exist without the other? Ok... But did they have to fight to realize that?

 

[serialsly]

Continuation of my comment
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads...-no-mahou-kakumei-ch-46.2342898/post-26925564

• Yes, I'm not Daijobu!

 

[blablablub]

I ask again what the point is for Euphie to become a spirit contractor and take the reins. A marriage between Anis and Euphie would achieve the exact same thing. Succesion? That's not resolved anyway. Or what, does Euphie plan to be the baby factory in Anis' place? Somehow I doubt that.
However, the way it goes now, Anis will eventually die and Euphie will live forever. Soon to forget Anis and why she even became a spirit contractor in the first place.

 

[Rafalga]

So, Euphelia won only because Anis was there to create Arc-en-ciel for her? So it's like a codependent relationship where one doesn't really exist without the other? Ok... But did they have to fight to realize that?

She won because she completed the contract mid fight and got the power up in order to win. She pretty much cheated and even if Anis won, war was already lost.

 

[SrNevik]

Spoiler: Spoiler

Sorry, I had to double check as I was not sure since I only read one part of the spoiler.

Euphie becomes queen and rules the land while Anis concentrate on magic and revolutionize the country. Then in the last LN she becomes dragon/vampire hybrid due to shenanigans of the last antagonist of the series and because of that become immortal.

Afterwards the two of them decide to leave the mortals to rule themselves and depart to live together in love for eternity.

Quite the nice ending if you aske me. Shame we will probably never see it animated.

Don't forget about Lanie and Illia too. Lainie is a vampire and other things happen. It's the 4 of them really.

 

[KitsuKyouno]

So, the flashback didn't stay in the anime
Euphilia was always stronger than Anis and when she had opportunity, no one can beat her

 

[Iskarioth]

Man I hoped despite better judgement that this time it would be different but apparently we get the shitty anime ending all over again....

 

[Bloddrake]

Breaking apart an established power structure is extremely hard.

Not really, In an absolute monarchy the royals can just decree the end of the monarchy. What will happen after that, well the other power players like the church, the former nobility and the merchants will scramble to fill that void. This will either lead to a complete collapse under the struggle, an aristocracy or a theocracy. But the power structure will change nonetheless.

 

[outinthegardener]

Said this many chapters back, but the challenge of "dealing with the nobles" is about transforming the means by which nobles keep their power. IRL that is wealth, willingness to do violence, class alliances, and propoganda. In this world all those things apply but Magic is the superior military power.

Anis wants to use technology to spread magic among the commoners. This will theoretically allow commoners to compete with Nobles for magic power. However, the real-world parallels make me skeptical. Industrialization made people's lives better in many ways (food security, some relaxing of rigid castes) but it also made people's lives much worse in other ways (longer work hours, toxic materials, environmental destruction, more devasting wars). And while it allowed a small set of commoners to change class and become aristocrats, the great majority of people living under industrial societies are still poor.

Any time a new technology threatens the power base of elites, the elites will first try to stamp it out, and failing this, they will try to seize ownership of it. That's what I expect to happen with Anis's magitech. The people with the means to produce magitech will become the new power system. It doesn't fix the problem with nobility; it just transforms it. Just like how IRL the end of Feudalism didn't get rid of "nobles," aka wealthy people at the top of the social hierarchy. It transformed them into Capitalists.

Then we move on to the biggest problem with hierarchical societies. The worst, greediest, psychopathic people are the ones most likely to seek out power to climb the hierarchy. Nothing Anis or Euphie has done so far challenges this. Becoming a "Good Monarch" who can check the greediest nobles is the best thing they've come up. And the job sucks balls, if you're not a greedy machiavellian type.

So this fight was not about wanting to be the monarch, but about which of them would need to sacrifice themselves so the other doesn't have to.

Dunno how the Author plans to have immortal yuri rulers Euphie and Anis solve things. I think the long term project is to eliminate the concept of private property, and replace it with communal property and personal property. That way when some greedy person tries to claim ownership of all the region's ore so they can control who gets to make magitech and who gets to own magitech, the majority of people will go "What do you mean you own all the ore? It's communal property. GTFO. Time out until you learn to share!" This superstructural change will need to be so complete that people don't even consider forming armies to murder and steal from the communal property.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Said this many chapters back, but the challenge of "dealing with the nobles" is about transforming the means by which nobles keep their power. IRL that is wealth, willingness to do violence, class alliances, and propoganda. In this world all those things apply but Magic is the superior military power.

Anis wants to use technology to spread magic among the commoners. This will theoretically allow commoners to compete with Nobles for magic power. However, the real-world parallels make me skeptical. Industrialization made people's lives better in many ways (food security, some relaxing of rigid castes) but it also made people's lives much worse in other ways (longer work hours, toxic materials, environmental destruction, more devasting wars). And while it allowed a small set of commoners to change class and become aristocrats, the great majority of people living under industrial societies are still poor.

Any time a new technology threatens the power base of elites, the elites will first try to stamp it out, and failing this, they will try to seize ownership of it. That's what I expect to happen with Anis's magitech. The people with the means to produce magitech will become the new power system. It doesn't fix the problem with nobility; it just transforms it. Just like how IRL the end of Feudalism didn't get rid of "nobles," aka wealthy people at the top of the social hierarchy. It transformed them into Capitalists.

Then we move on to the biggest problem with hierarchical societies. The worst, greediest, psychopathic people are the ones most likely to seek out power to climb the hierarchy. Nothing Anis or Euphie has done so far challenges this. Becoming a "Good Monarch" who can check the greediest nobles is the best thing they've come up. And the job sucks balls, if you're not a greedy machiavellian type.

So this fight was not about wanting to be the monarch, but about which of them would need to sacrifice themselves so the other doesn't have to.

Dunno how the Author plans to have immortal yuri rulers Euphie and Anis solve things. I think the long term project is to eliminate the concept of private property, and replace it with communal property and personal property. That way when some greedy person tries to claim ownership of all the region's ore so they can control who gets to make magitech and who gets to own magitech, the majority of people will go "What do you mean you own all the ore? It's communal property. GTFO. Time out until you learn to share!" This superstructural change will need to be so complete that people don't even consider forming armies to murder and steal from the communal property.

broke: Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism

woke: Magitech DracoVampire/Spirit Yuri Communism

 

[testro]

Yeah, about that...

Spoiler: Spoiler

From what I have read regarding LN ending Anis awakens her dragon powers and becomes true immortal like Euphie. She also becomes Queen of the realm, so you can say that she and Euphie are ruling together.

This is interesting as I wish to see how Anis became queen in the end despite Euphie winning the fight.

The LN hasn't ended yet, your spoiler might be based on the ending of the Web Novel, which the author ended a few months after the publication of the second LN. But since Mahou Kakumei is one of those works where it picks up new elements every time its adapted to another medium, the LN doesn't have to end exactly how the WN ended.

Just to note, the WN's ending...

Spoiler: WN

basically happens right after LN volume 6. What happens is that once Anise develops immortality, it goes into a hundred plus year timeskip where she and Euphie change Palletia into a parliamentary system and disappear. The last chapter is the future where Anise visits the capital with Euphie and the two maids, Illya and Lainie who've become vampires as well, after hundreds of years