Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden

A five year old casually outlining a plan to keep the peasants from emigrating via television is the funniest thing this show has done. The princess is a tiny media dictator and nobody around her blinks

Six year olds negotiating soft power propaganda like career diplomats is genuinely unsettling and I mean that as a compliment. The whole Magivision lecture had me squinting at the screen wondering what these kids eat for breakfast

Felt the princess was written more like a seasoned politician than a little girl and honestly that made her more interesting than any of the fight teasing. Whether she's a visionary or just a very polite propagandist is worth arguing about

The CGI aren't that bad ig, Tanya carried

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A soul of an undefeated warrior stuck in a kid and her great ambition is now reality TV production. Hilde pitching romance dramas and Nia pitching monster bloodbaths then getting vetoed for the broadcast rules is the funniest tonal whiplash of the season

That crystal ball staying dim for Nia bugged me more than it should. White hair and no mana reads like she paid for the second life with her magic circuits. Everybody laughing about grip strength and I am sitting here wondering what she traded away

I cackled at Nia shattering the grip record and then deadpanning about muscle weighing more than fat. She deliberately beats Lelia by a hair in every test and calls it fitting in. That lonely pedestal thing reddit mentioned is real though because nobody can actually keep up with her

Nia suggesting a scandalous romance program and killing the room is going to be a meme for weeks. There is a deadpan quality to her ideas that makes the censorship jokes work without feeling like a lecture about broadcast standards

First half dragged a bit for me. The fitness test kept going and the Tenha duel was over before it started which was the joke but I wanted more of it. The Magic Vision meeting carried the whole thing with the rapid back and forth

There is something depressing about watching Nia crush every record and then just stare off bored. Everyone around her is exhausted and she is just disappointed nobody can keep up. This show keeps refusing to make her strength look cool

I thought it will be pure fighting anime but how the fk did the author thinks magi vision is a good idea to put into as a main plot? Like it actually getting boring, they don’t need to get a whole 15 minutes introducing new characters and a whole episode talking about magi vision, that is not necessary! Nobody give a fk about that princess’s ambition, we just want to watch nia beating opponents off! Yooo! Author! Director! What the fk did you just done with the show!

No fighting and Nia just stands there being polite to a princess for twenty minutes. The old episodes had actual fists flying. This was fine but I kept waiting for someone to get flattened

Hilde pitching television as a way to keep the peasants from moving to other islands is such a wild thing to put in a show about a sick girl murdering disease with her fists and yet here we are

Nia suggesting they film the promo together and Reliared agreeing after all that posturing was such a small moment compared to everything else but it's the one that made me like her. Rivalries that start with someone deciding to be kind are better than ones that start with shouting

Two noble families quietly drowning in debt and pawning their children off as broadcast talent. The cute piano ending theme playing over all that is a choice I respect deeply

Nia telling Lynne to keep some distance in the dorm room while Lynne is practically vibrating about their cohabitation life is the exact dynamic I wanted from these two. Also the dorm mother recognizing her from the broadcast was a nice small touch

This one is a slow warm setup episode and that is fine by me. The three girls deciding to work together for different reasons all at once was the part that held my attention. Reliared's sisters casually bragging she's strong while she sits there wanting to die is a small character beat I keep turning over. The show probably returns to bloodshed soon and I will be there

the three of them are basically a fantasy idol unit now and I'm completely fine with it. Reliared trying to act tough while her family is broke was the bit that got me. she's so proud about it too

Hildetaura talking about restoring her kingdom's pride through broadcasting got me thinking about how much weight she's carrying at that age. The other two are just doing their thing and she's basically running a nation's image campaign by herself