Okiraku Ryoushu no Tanoshii Ryouchi Bouei: Seisankei Majutsu de Na mo Naki Mura wo Saikyou no Jousai Toshi ni • Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City - Episode 3 discussion

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The village is looking pretty good. Everyone has brand new houses, a public bath, a water reservoir, a moat, wall, and defenses. Place even has the beginnings of an industry. Classic. Just another day in the life of a genius child.

MC can literally reshape all matter in the universe. You can't even call this kingdom building anymore.

*[I love how eerily quadrilateral this is.](https://i.imgur.com/sFk0TTp.jpeg)*

Till's VA is nailing the tone of this show with her reaction noises. I haven't heard a good "hawawawa" like that in ages

I hope they make the town map a recurring thing and update every episode or whenever there’s a significant addition. I’ve always loved seeing a town progress through that and I can only think of Farming Life In Another World that does it on the regular.

So far I do like the direction this is going, albeit MC does feel a bit too OP and makes a lot of the acquisitions feel a bit cheap, like the fortress walls and the moat and reservoir, Hopefully there’s a system or mechanic that limits his power.

Although there are things that he can’t do with his powers and that is raising the value and income of the town and also diplomacy. He dismisses ideas where it hinges on his powers or other’s capabilities alone, I guess to encourage the town to be self-sustaining. But it does seem like they might be open to selling the weapons and equipment made by Van for a quick fix.

Them mentioning Panamera being unmarried and also that Dee is in his forties lowkey makes me suspect they’re gonna ship them (unless I missed Dee already being married). I think it’s the first I’ve heard Wakayama Shion voicing a kid in Arte too.

Also, thought I was watching Van’s B-side with how much Till was gushing over Van lol

Did anyone else noticed that at around 5:40, after the girls bath scene, the walls were made of stone and not clay. Next scene they were back to clay,

I hope kid didn’t create ridiculous things like guns and modern technology to this world.

Can you believe it?! x4

Van is a like a Command & Conquer player given enough resources to go crazy on defending their base.

Favourite intro music of the season.

First thing that stood out to me was Van being surprised when the villagers asked for him to make houses for them too. Dude, you just magically materialized a giant mansion, of course they would want better houses for themselves after showing everyone what you’re able to do.

The production quality is above what I expected.
The anime studio did a really good job.

those are some big *pillows*

Ah right he conjured that up last week.

So, time to fix up the place.

Lol he went from being their lord to being their day labourer. Magical day labourer yes but still not exactly the kind of thing he'd be expected to do.

Gee I wonder why they did _that_.

Yep.

The size of the wall is certainly... Optimistic.

Right then. Water.

Huh. Who's that in the carriage?

Are they going to visit him?

Huh. That's neat. Only issue is the field of vision with those is a bit crap.

Also there's not enough people to man all these defenses...

I could think of _several_ ways his powers could be handy in an invasion. Of course not in the "teeth", his powers would basically mostly if not only be useful in the "tail", but that's not something to be overlooked either. Can't have all those troops without a FOB nearby after all. He can probably help fix everything the troops break too.

Uh that's certainly inconvenient.

Damn that's a pretty neat weapon.

That's a lot of ore. Well, guess they've got their export.

No but he's certainly seen what the swords he can make can do. Perhaps a Bastard Sword would work, which can be used both one- and two-handed.

And now he's become their blacksmith too...

That would certainly work too.

Well that's what all the defences are for aren't they? You've got the whole place built up stronger than Fort Knox, if anyone wants to try and invade just sit and laugh as they literally bash their heads against the wall, if they even get there without getting shot to pieces by all those ballistae on the walls.

On the topic of making use of those walls...

Well I suppose that's how he'll get around manpower shortages for now, just use anyone and everyone with two arms and two legs.

This is so fun to watch compared to the other small noble anime. That one is more edgy wish fulfillment (still going to watch both lol).


Anyway, I really wonder what's the standard production magic outside of Van. They only verbally said that production magic is the worst, but we have only seen Van's magic and it's OP. 

Surprise the maid back down on serving him in the bath.

The maid is dragging the mage to the Ara-ara group.

Master x slave shota yaoi, Reliel Rehm Refreese approved.

Would be funny if the next bandit attack had 3 badguys staked by a ballista before seeing the walls.

Ok the offensive potential of production skill is immeasurable, imagine siege castles popping where ever you want.

Wait why just a moat, they could outright make a port of river boats.

Things have developed so quickly, we're not seeing much of the discovery and experimentation because Van just seems to have the answer and always so OP lol. It's still enjoyable to watch but I was expecting something more chill.

I do enjoy the rivalry between Esparda and Dee and Dee and Ortho. I'm a bit surprised Dee is 40 though, I thought he was still early 30s.

The contrast of the bath scene was so amusing, but I guess Dee is the only reason why the men's bath was so intense. He was swinging that large sword in the bath as training, he's crazy.

Lunch scene was so funny when Van switched up because his sweet treats were on the line, the only time he's gotten this serious and deepened his voice lol.

Wouldn’t be a fantasy without mithril

Why is your element important as lord if you can have servants using magic?

Wouldn't it have made more sense to actively seek out the dungeon and assign some people to monitor or patrol the perimeters to prevent other people from discovering it per their initial goal? Instead they decided to intentionally keep the location unknown to even themselves? As isolated as the village is, can't rule out the possibility of random wandering folks/adventurers/whatever stumbling upon it by accident or whatnot? Don't follow the logic here.

Ngl this episode lost me? I was expecting progress but this episode more or less just made this entire anime’s name moot? Ep 3 is the end result of the anime name? The town building is basically over? Also why are the citizens so dirty I thought there were baths now etc?

Likewise you can find the dungeon just…don’t report it yet?

Shame I was expecting a decent town building anime but this just threw the concept away?

[H- hold up-](https://imgur.com/qE0PDHz)

[ITS NOT FAIR](https://imgur.com/pp0nKBX)

[](#itsnotfair)

[one-shota has been avoided](https://imgur.com/DHE6ntC)

[Now *this* is how you do censorship!](https://imgur.com/y39EgHn)

Just a hunch, but I feel like we should have a ["Can you believe it?"](https://imgur.com/PZxnBJL) counter

Aaaand [number three](https://imgur.com/yHrd9HQ)

He is the aware Atelier Master, and much faster.

So, to summarize, in the span of just one episode they:

* Rebuilt the entire village with large houses and proper streets
* Built a gigantic moat
* Built a channel between the village and the nearby river, flooding the moat and creating a large lake that doubles as a water reservoir
* Turned the run down palisade into a colossal stone wall with towers, a reinforced gate and crowned with steel ballistae
* Somehow found tons of gold, precious gemstones, mythril and other incredibly valuable mineral resources

All in the span of a single day. At the 20:50 mark we even see the outer wall from one of the village's streets and it looks like fucking Wall Maria from AOT.

If we were to split the episode's run time into what they're doing in each scene, the thing that takes the most amount of time in this show that's supposed to be about "Easygoing Territory Defense" and "\[Turning\] a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City", is exposition about how amazing and powerful the main characters are, above all the protagonist. Not only did they fulfill the entire premise of the show's title by episode three, they did it so fast that this episode had plenty of time to waste on the same generic Isekai/fantasy BS from every other generic anime we've seen in the last couple of years. I get that this is supposed to be an "Easygoing" show, but we don't even see them do anything, they just make things appear on the spot with no effort. It's like watching someone play a city building game with infinite resources and all cheats enabled at minimum difficulty. The episode ends with them still pretending they're in a difficult position, right after showing the former poor, run down village turned into a heavily fortified town, and then a bunch of lizards attack, as if they could do anything against the new fortifications, the ballistae, the mercenaries, Esparda, the knight captain, etc.

There's no drama, there are no challenges, there's no real city building (the MC waving his hands to cast bullshit and make the city of Chongqing appear on the spot is not city building, that's just downloading a map someone else made), there's nothing to hook you in and satisfy any expectations one might have.

Personally, I guess I'm done. Episode one hooked me in, I gave it the three-episodes test and it's over, the main premise was ruined and there's nothing interesting left in this show.

(seriously, all of these Isekai/fantasy shows look like they were written by Steven Seagal)

I think this may be my fav of the season after obviously Frieren. The pace is a bit fast but that's good for somewhat silly shows like this, the characters aren't idiotic, and it has some world building.

Ahh yeah, really getting going with the ridiculous production magic with those ballistas up on the new wall.

They almost sinned by having Till drag Van into the bath with her and the mage lady, I'm glad that immediately got shut down and it was girl time and then guy time without too much weirdness. The guys were being weird still of course but more just dudes being dudes.

I hope they keep updating that same overhead shot of the town, would make for a good slide show eventually to show the changes.

Inevitable future fiance Arte (purely based on so many other isekai with a similar character) on her way to visit the town with impressively stacked knight lady, I was expecting them to be desperately running from the lizards at the end.

Ok, why was the village built so far from the river... They don't appear to be on marsh, bog, or flood plains, it looks like they are in a template forest and there's no pre existing trade route for the town be built on. Why the hell is it so far from the fresh water source...

Is [this](https://imgur.com/a/GXnHU1u) an innuendo for him swinging his "Excalibur" around while naked?

I think this series takes the cake in terms of the gap between how "useless" the MC's ability was meant to be, and how completely world-dominatingly broken it is in reality from the get-go lol.

The OP is also the best.

I see boobs.

We have turrets. This is not a drill

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The more I watch, the more I am loving this anime!

10:29 there is a huge problem with this lake and all the water stufff made around the city, how the fuck water will flow? that will become stagnant water in no time, not just overloading with rains but if the lake doesnt have a canal to drain the water so everything could move it all will stop and will root in a few weeks

Is the OP track weirdly chirpy and catchy?

Woohoo!!! Miss USA appearance!!


Edit: Also where the fck are the bandits that are supposed to be in front of the armored lizards? Looks lkike theyve been cut.

The pacing of the anime is enjoyable and the characters are fun.
MC has calmness and brain.

Just watching Van build/rebuild this entire village made an interesting episode. He seems to have big plans for the village if he slightly moved the houses into 4x4 grid patterns with wide streets for future expansion should it grow. It is also odd that whoever first settled this village built it so far away from the river. I understand a short distance to avoid flooding but that's strange to make it that far.

I'm not sure why they desperately need a dungeon and why it's so valuable. Seems it would make a property less valuable to live that close to monsters and they already have hordes of armored lizards attacking (who may come from the dungeon. Having really abundant ore, gold and mithril would seem better and safer although they will likely run out of what's on the periphery when the mountains are too loaded with monsters.

that lunch scene really flipped a switch in him. boy wants his sweets

This is so much better than the other overpowered noble show. Reminds me how I felt with Rick vs Parry guy several season ago.

Wait really dude? That's your reaction to the villagers asking for you to build their homes? Even last episode I was thinking it was weird that he decided to build this grand mansion for himself right after being shown how decrepit the village's homes were and talking about how poor the people's condition was, but he wasn't planning on building them homes at all lmao.

It’s kinda amazing how there is a night and day difference between this show and the noble reincarnation show.

This show is sooooooo much better and actually decent compared to the other. Everything about this one so far is just so much better written and better done.


Now. After seeing the type of stuff the mc can make. I really hope we get full blown gundams at one point. Like go all out. Don’t hold back.

Everyone seeing the mansion: :o

Esparda: :|

Van was kinda of an a-hole for being hesitant to build homes for everyone after that power display, though.

Also why tf did the knights bring the swords to the bath...

The pace though... They are just breezing past everything, ten minutes into the episode and the village already looked completely different. So much for "Easygoing". By the end of the episode, you would think the village is preparing to defend against a Titan attack.

I could ignore the entire mansion exterior being built out of 'wood', but it's also fully furnished??

This type of anime is always fun to watch!

I don't remember where I heard this. "Soldiers win battles, logistics wins wars." This kid's magic is pure logistics, but people are focused on winning battles that they can't see how valuable that is.