Adopting a video game series into an anime is no easy task. Gamers and anime fans require different levels of characterization, world-b🐬uilding, and different s𝄹tyles of storytelling. While massive open-world games tend to have more subplots, simply due to thei♉r larger nature, the same can also hold ⭕true for anime.
When considering Netflix's adaptation of Dragon's Dogma many things come to mind, it's controversial material, questionable loyalty t🥃o the source ജmaterial, and interesting animation choices, to only name a few. The series has certainly been polarizing, yet despite the intense debate, many key plotlines and story aspects seem to go completely ignored by both fans💫 and critics.
WARNING: Spoilers ahead!
10 Ethan's Visible Mental Instabilওity
Without a doubt, the most controversial aspect of Dragon's Dogma is Ethan's character transformation at the🐻 end of the story. Many felt his change of moralit💖y was instant and completely out of left field.
This criticism, however, seems to come from those who haven't been paying attention to the very obvious mental instability Ethan expresses in virtually every single episode. It is clear that Ethan is extremely troubled, an﷽d 🍃while most of his acts are indeed noble, his moral compass is, at times, questionable. It's actually quite shocking most fans miss this, as it seems to be one of the driving points of the entire anime.
9 Ethan And Olivia's Family Dynami💎c
Episode 1, Wrath, is the introductory episode, and most fans are just simply anticipating the Dragon's attack on Cassardis, because of this it's only natural that other plotlines go ignored. During watching the episode with their horse-blinders, fans may not have noticed Ethan꧅'s family dynamic. Olivia, Ethan's wife is pregnant, while L💟ouis is his adopted son. Sadly the Dragon kills Ethan's entire family.
8 The Harsh Dictജatorship
While nowhere in the story was there any dialogue directly expressing the fact that the people of Grans�✨�ys live under a harsh dictatorship, this is periodically visible. The first instance was the treatment of Ethan and Louis by drunken guards, who seemed they were about to arrest, or outright kill the two, for simply questioning their drunkenness.
Other examples, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:such as the greedy cyclops controllin🐼g mayor, are present throughout the season.
7 𒐪 🅺 The Village Revolt
While on the topic of the political happenings in Gransys, the villager revolt agai༒nst the Mayor in Episode 2, Gluttony, also seems to be forgotten. The mayor coldly held the people of🌳 his village under an iron-fisted rule, made possible by the threat of a cyclops, which the mayor secretly controlled.
After Ethan had taken care of this monster. The villagers had nothing else to fear, the public used this opportunity to take back contr♉ol, using extreme violence. They burned down the mayor's manor, presumably killed all inside, and raided the food storages.
6 𒅌 Ethan's Younger Attempts At Adventure 🍸
After the village incident, Ethan begins to develop a more friendly and trusting relationship with Hannah, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:his loyal pawn. Ethan reveals that this is in fact his first time venturing outside of ꦆCassardis. Stating that he wanted to adventure when he was a younger boy, however, Ethan never fully explains why he didn't pursue his ambitions.
5 𓃲 Elizabeth's Darker Side
During Episode 3, Envy, Ethan, and Hannah help a group of travelers b⭕y fighting off Goblins and Griffons. Two of the innocents they help are Theo and Elizabeth, refugees from the city Aernst. It is revealed that Elizabeth had only married her husban꧑d to get ahead in life, due to his wealth, but ever since the destruction of the city, and all its wealth, Theo is meaningless to her now.
The guards protecting these♓ two initially warn Ethan that Elizabeth is a dangerous and sinister woman, however just how sinister tends to be ignored by viewers. It is hard to put this character in a bad light, as it is muchꦦ easier to feel bad for her. In the episode she is both the victim of attempted harm and successful murder, making her sins and transgressions easily forgivable.
4 The End Of Aernst ꧑ 𒁃
Staying on Episode 3, Envy, it is revealed that Elizabeth and Theo are the only civilians left alive from Aernst. Mꦚeaning they are the only two to keep the cities bloodline and people alive.
Making it all the more tragic when Theo decides to murder Eli🌳zabeth, and then himself. Many viewers did not notice they had just witnessed an entire people go extinct.
3 Lennieꦐ Tolerating Yang's Infidelity
In Episode 4, Sloth, viewers see the nearly abandoned cave village, where the population left has been spending its days harvesting and smoking mind-altering moss. Ethan and Hannah run into the couple Lennie and Yang, who trick them into dealing with a Hydra problem for the village. At the end of this episode, Lennie is shown to be a caring husband when his wife Yang almost dies. This does not however excuse his 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:open infidelity that many bru💯sh ofꦬf from the beginning of the episode.
2 🎉 The Capital's Helpless Fig💙ht Against Monsters
In episode 5, Greed, Ethan and Hannah meet again with capital soldiersꦯ. This time these soldiers have been tasked with eradicating a Lich from the cursed church. It seems that Gransys has been in an all-out war against monsters since the arriv🐟al of the Dragon, and they have only been relying on simple soldiers to liquidate these threats. Soldiers that aren't the arisen, or pawns, stand no chance against monsters. Many viewers fail to even register this tragic and failing battle.
1 ꦐ The S💖in Based Episode Structure
For those that bothered to look at the names of the episodes, they would notice that each one is named after a respective deadly sin. Each sin is demonstrated in each episode. Many just brush this off as a stylish structuring choice. However during the final battle with the dragon, the beast expresses to Ethan how humans are flawed in each respect and are all sinners, thus must be eradicated. Finally, the show's entire structure makes sense, yet many pay attention to the intense drago🌸n fight, and not the dialogue, missing the shows greatest and most importan🎃t metaphoric plotline.