Most people theorizing to what parts the episode was going to cover were right! XD
(Not gonna say "This is so well animated!" cause it is, that's not a needed comment all the time! X'D)
So!
First, I expected a OP + ED-less episode, to fit more stuff in it:
well turns out I was very wrong!
(Also don't know it it's worth mentionning that the title of the episode as the "For" of Forbidden highlighted ๐ค)
Okay ,so, they kept the silly scene of Coco being shocked about her shoes being too powerful for Agott.
Good.
But, I don't know if it's just the translation, but there Qifrey just says that Agott was fast, not that she CRASHED INTO HIM, so Coco had no readon to act so shocked there.
(Some of the facial expression got changed too, which is too bad, cause they were very silly!)
Nice detail of Alaira's hat to turn around like some kind of spinny firework!
Saw someone on Twitter before the episode point out that THIS scene and interaction were important, and should be kept:
BECAUSE you can see that Qifrey is SHOCKED and almost excited to have a clue on Brimhats, and it's COCO who makes him focus again!
(So that person is gonna be PISSED I think X'D)
AND, since that line of his doesn't appear, then the "Then it's really Brimmed Caps who are behind this!" (He doesn't actually say the "Then it's really" but in japanese he sais "Yapari!" so...๐๐)
The ROCK HITTING HIM was NOT soften in any way in the anime! They really went all out with the blood there!
(And an added Brushbuddy appearance! Yay!)
The animators do LOVE their running animations, cause they made the Agott and others running as long as they could there! X'D
ONCE AGAIN, an IMPORTANT line got deleted, cause Euini is supposed to say "I'm done saying things are impossibl! I promised myself that!", so that's too bad.
I can't take Sasaran's seriously with that (japanese) voice btw X'D
(The fact the Myrphoons reacted to Euini wasn't really clear in the anime though)
They kept Richeh pulling her tongue, nice! :D
I...don't know why the animators chose that weird angle to both show and not-show Richeh's reaction to Euini giving her his spells???
That already happened in another episode, so...
What are they trying to do there?
The animators went and made Agott being held by Sasaran more messed up than in the manga
Once again: why?
More angst again?
Saying again that the facial expressions are better in the manga, but I'm glad they didn't make Wolf-Euini looked as scared in the anime! ๐ Same for the Myrphoons actually! The looked alsmot fine there! ๐
And same thing with the Brushbuddy! Even added a silly with him! Yay!
Also: most of the budget of this episode must have gone in the hand animation of that next part, because, WOW! ๐
Maybe I'm looking to much into this, and this is also in the manga, but the way both the girls' hats are together, while Qifrey's is away, BUT, with his BLACK RIBBON pointing towards them could be nicely meaningful I think!
A nice touch that they added Qifrey's gasping, to show that he was scared of Coco touching his face,
But it also made the following still pic of his face, with just the wind sound effect, look a little weird to me ๐ค
The Romonons' appearance was BLURRY!!!
It might have just been to not reveal them right away, but it could have also been to point out Qifrey's vision, like in another episode! ๐
I expected them to be less "solid" too ๐ค SO I was surprised by how noisy they were
The pic of Qifrey huffing (for the fanservice) was NOT animated!
The animators really decided to give ONE to the fans and that's it, huh? ๐คฃ
The wound of Qifrey was shown in a very detailed way there (budget for blood?), and the animators REALLY decided to make Qifrey struggle in pain as muc has they could, huh???
And they TOOK AWAY Qifrey's reassuring SMILE when he's saying 'I'm your master aftter all!", by having it hidden by their hands! (Hand animation which had too much focus by the way. Was too long. It made it look weird there.)
COME! ON!
There are limits to how much more serious you want the anime to be compared to the manga!
Explaining that the cloak would keep the girls hidden BEFORE he tells them to stay close to him is confusing
But what's confusing me even more is the way they animated QIfrey's pose after that???
What was that???
I feel like it took away all of the badass side of that scene???
Sure, it makes for a nice transtition to the next season!
But it looks weird, and makes him look physically different too?????????
So...well...yeah. Very confused about this episode there. ๐ค
As for the anime itself:
To me it feels more like a VERY NICE BONUS to the manga readers,
and a nice way to get anime-onlys to get interested in the manga! ๐
Which is nice! :D