This episode explains so much on why Senshi always prioritizes everyone else on his party over his own. He wants to follow Gillan’s example in nurturing and taking care of the young’ns. He even started wearing Gillan’s helmet as something to remember his old friend by. Senshi was 36 at the time his mining party was annihilated and he’s 112 in present day. So before meeting Laios and the others, he had been all alone for 76 long years…
I've seen some people disappointed with the lack of climatic moment or fight in the closing episode, and I'm happy that you get it!!! It didn't need that, it did well enough in reorienting the party's goal and setting up the other moving pieces! It's a good ending!
There’s so many good gags in the changelings episodes that won’t get animated/are hard to miss. Chilchuck and marcille checking their important bits when they changed kills me. Senshi’s whole demeanor from his point of view didn’t change but everyone in the party treated him differently because he was an elf which made him rethink how he treated marcille in the past. Chilchuck definitely seems to realize how young marcille looks as a half foot. He’s already a girl dad but this bit for me is when it clicks that marcille and izutsumi are his newest kids. The manga has a bit about the bell that the anime cut. When Shuro first gives it to laios with it constantly ringing because he dropped it the bottom of his bag. The changelings chapter brings it back when laios chucks the bell down the hallway for izutsumi to chase but the anime cut it as well. Poor shuro slowly losing his mind from the constant bell noises. 23:24 The woman at the end when laios is describing the party is the former mage Asivia. She joined the party and immediately tried to hook up with laios and get special treatment from him. It was so bad namari and chilchuck were going to quit over it. Laios was clueless about the whole thing until chilchuck handed him an ultimatum. Marcille joined after her and really fixed the party dynamic because no one would tell her why the party had an issue with the previous mage. She really wanted the gossip so sucked up to everyone. The other half foot is dadan who is chilchuck’s coworker and the precious rogue of the party. He introduced laios to chilchuck when laios wanted to go to the fourth floor and lower since dadan only works up to the third floor.
