Hime-sama "Goumon" no Jikan desu Season 2 • 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess - Episode 2 discussion

thanks to that puzzle, now they have the technology for a metal that can tank human kingdom's attack

I didn't think of it before, but is pork a good option for food when your secretary is a pig himself?

> Jimochi keeps being the only good person in Hime's old life

reminds me of that time Jimochi was beating her at card games and kept rubbing it in her face

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> I mean, you don't want to accidently put someone in jail if they didn't commit a crime, right?

Nevermind jail, imagine if they tortured her with bunnies and delicious food, only to find out she's innocent...

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I love how when he was told she was there to kill him he was more sad than mad about it

Seeing the bunny "torture" scene from two perspectives was pretty hilarious. And seeing some other sides of EX was pretty great too ("confessing" -- and gleaming after his strenuous work-out against the indestructible puzzle).

Hime is definitely the type of friend you do not want to bring to Escape Room games lol

I love how they established in S1 that the demon lord army is the best place ever to work at

> Everybody wants to get bunnies! I wanted to pet those bunnies, too!

Seems Marin was right; Everybody likes bunnies!

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This and sleeping princess ... maybe the demon side had a better package then the good

The GOAT boss continues to be the GOAT boss in season 2.

No, it's not just you. That whole sequence was peak comedy. The ora ora ora into picking up Ex for the Royal Flash attack was a perfect one-two-punch both literally and comedically.

>Also, was anyone else absolutely sent when the Princess picked up Ex to attack the puzzle? That "huh?" had so much emotion behind it! Or am I just the target audience?

It's also another one of those scenes that show's she could attempt to escape whenever she wanted probably, but she just doesn't. The show so quickly realizing the Princess always confesses and playing on that, to the point she now basically defaults to confessing, was a brilliant move.

Sakura doesn't appear to be in the OP even though she appeared very early in the first episode. They really shouldn't wait til the end of the season for them to meet, as it wouldn't make sense for them to introduce her so early and then not use her for 7/8 of the season, but not being in the OP is weird to me.

> I REALLY thought that Sakura was gonna be the "strait man" of the show and be like "this isn't how you torture someone."

Well, if she's with the Hell Horde now, she may be in charge of Hime's torture! But given they're "friends" she may be as much a softie as they all are!

>Also, was anyone else absolutely sent when the Princess picked up Ex to attack the puzzle?

She knows about the Gordian knot, our girl's educated!

I was already laughing when they were forging the thing.

Probation period just started. Hell-horde is not the place that would expect you to work without proper training

> It turns out, she befriended Hime to try and assassinate her, but she couldn't finish the job

the set up of "at first it was a fake friendship, but it became real and i couldn't commit to the assassination" has this bittersweet feeling to it

it means Sakura is actually a softie and didn't want to betray her friend, but since she still went through with the attempt and Hime fought back, it hurt both of them and resulted in locking away parts of their hearts towards future friendships

In the post-credits I was really expecting Jimochi to be like "the army gave us one month... of which we only have one week left because I goofed off this entire time!"


That or like "there's a limited time merch thing going to happen next week and I need to go line up for it!"

"Ex, this is Sakura, my ex"

This show and delicious in dungeon are 2 shows that make me order food every time

My week rotates around Goumondays and WednesDoux.

I've been calling it Sunday Mornings. Yes, its technically a Monday. But its also Sunday Morning

I wish we got more of the vampire girl. She's like all the best parts of a tsundere without any of the negatives.

I hate it when limits of space-time

Just have feature length episodes every week?

I mean there was that one german officer who would just keep his prisoners isolated but well fed and take them for long walks.
They started spewing secrets just so they could talk.
Its not as nice, but its also not waterboarding at Guantanamo bay

During WWII, the most effective torturer on any side of the conflict was the Nazi chief interrogator of the Luftwaffe, Hanns Scharff. Per German war records, he interrogated over 500 prisoners and received useful information out of 480 of them.

He never physically harmed a single prisoner. Nor threatened them or shouted. He just talked pleasantly with them. Brought them a cup of tea or coffee, shared some cake, offered some cigarettes or schnapps, maybe brought them along for a walk with him through the woods while he talked about the weather or his family or his work before the war as an artist, and invited them to talk about their own lives. He was kind, gentle and complimentary to them, taking a genuine interest in them as people and in their work back home. And also their work in the Army.

And he would share fun bits of gossip he knew about what sort of things were going on in Allied bases, and freely talk about German classified information related to some topic, maybe about the performance of a new fighter, and talk about what he had learned from the other prisoners about similar Allied classified intel — some of which was true and some of which was a guess the prisoner would often either agree with or refute. And he would make incorrect leading statements or idiotic misinterpretations of something about the Allied war effort, and the Allied soldiers would more often than not laugh and correct him there, too. And he’d laugh at how stupid he was and offer them another cigarette or talk about painting or fishing or the latest sports scores or whatever else the prisoner liked. And that would be that, and Scharff had more information out of the prisoner than a platoon of torturing thugs could have beaten out of him in a month, and the prisoner probably didn’t know he had ever said a single thing Scharff didn’t know already.

Torture doesn’t actually work, is the thing. Hellhorde “torture” *genuinely is more effective*. People in power only torture because they like torturing unfortunately.