The episode 2 of “The Beginning After The End”, released on April 9, highlights Arthur Leywin's power and shows that family love is able to cure coldness, inherited from the boy's previous life, which is still present in his heart.
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Arthur reveals the immensity of his power in the first episode. However, it is in the second, making it clear that your talent goes beyond the expected, that your parents decide to train him with an experienced mentor. With this, at the beginning of the episode, the Leywin family travels to the floating city of Xyrus so that Arthur, now 4 years old, can start his formal magic education.
In addition to his power, Arthur feels something more in this episode, the goodness and love of his current family dispel the coldness and seriousness that marked his past life. The contrast of his rigid king's voice, which tells some scenes of the boy's internal thoughts, with a thin and cheerful voice of a child, makes the work funny and interesting.
However, before understanding his feelings, Arthur witnesses an attack on his family, and the end of the episode is enough to convince the viewer to watch others.
The fight scenes of “The Beginning After The End” can be a problem for the viewers of the work
Since the revelation of the studio that would be in charge of the animation, A-CAT, there was discontent on the part of the fans. The original work, a web novel written by Turtleme, is acclaimed and has won several readers. Therefore, the announcement of the adaptation, brought the hope of a successor to Light Light Soling, anime based on Chugong's Manhwa, which has achieved a huge success.
However, trusting the animation of “The Beginning After The End”, a public adaptation, to a studio that does not have many successful anime was at least a disastrous mistake and, unfortunately, episode 2 came to confirm it.
Fight scenes sin in dynamism, often opting for static scenes that very much break immersion. Moreover, in a universe where magic is used and there is the presence of powerful enemies, battle scenes need to stand out and invest in fluid movements, which was not the case with adaptation.
King Gray's life: There is still much to explore
Despite the negative points, there is no denying that the plot of "The Beginning After The End" catches the eye. The episodes alternate between King Gray's past and his gift reincarnated as Arthur Leywin. Also, the interesting thing is that there are great differences between the previous and the present world, such as mana and technology. At one point in episode 2, the character criticizes the form of primitive locomotion of his current life.
There is still much to be explored about King Gray's past life, which has so far proved to be a relentless and proud. Now what we have left is to wait for the next episodes and hope that the plot is everything the fans are waiting for.
