This may be my favorite episode of Dragon Maid yet. Before I dive in, apologies for the delay on this as I was in transit and at Otakon for the past four days. I’m excited to be back home at my desk to gush about Dragon Maid and its foray into worldbuilding this week. I’ve also made it no secret that I’m a fan of Elma, and she gets a lot of screen time as the story looks back at how she and Tohru first met and how their relationship developed.
The pair initially met far into humanity’s past where there ideologies of Chaos and Harmony clashed. Elma is firmly in the camp of peace and in a land where water is a scarce resource, she’s willing to use her abilities to assuage conflict by providing it. Understandably, this invokes reverence among the humans who begin treating her as a god. Elma’s campaign initially intrigues Tohru, who doesn’t understand her ideological rival’s…
