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Episode Acro Trip - Episode 4 discussion

Acro Trip, episode 4

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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Oct 16 '24

I am not gonna lie, I didn't realize at first that that initial scene was a flshback to episode 1 from a different perspective, so I was screaming "WHAT DOES THIS GIRL HAVE AGAINST BRIDGES???".

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u/cyberscythe Oct 17 '24

civil engineers hate magical girls and their one weird trick

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u/alotmorealots Oct 17 '24

I got confused at how the beats of the fights didn't quite line up with what I remembered and ended up rewatching the same scene in the first episode to compare.

I'm guessing that Chroma's recollection is the correct version.

It's also quite surprising how little time Chroma was staying with Grandpa, I thought it had been a lot longer. Overall I spent the episode quite disoriented lol

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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Oct 17 '24 edited Oct 17 '24

Yes I very much agree. That our mc is so delusional that she misremebers the fight is kinda fun if intentional.

That chroma only stayed with grandpa since chizuko is already there is indeed pretty surprising (and even weirder he didn't tell her)...how the hell did chroma have enough magic to summon that large lair between th ehouse if he only came there recently? And if he can summon it that easily, why did he need a house/was homeless?

But the weirdest part of the episode was chroma suddenly giving up. How did we go from him sucessfully tricking chizuko into signing up to magic, and being super confident about it, to him not just giving up on convincing her, but just villainy in general? Wasn't he happy about the home visit last time? How did we never adress why he suddenly wanted to give up? I was super confusing, as if the author suddenly realized that it was already pretty late for date not to be on chromas side.

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u/alotmorealots Oct 17 '24

Yeah, now you mention it all those things were quite confusing too!

I had assumed that some of it might be addressed by the end of the episode, but then it ended without any explanation.

Almost feels like they changed series compositors or something and decided to reboot the narrative from a bonus flashback chapter or something lol That said, it's been so good so far that I'm happy to wait and see if it was actually brewing something with all of that, or just overlook it entirely if they never come back to it.