As ambivalent as I was about Eri’s big reveal last week, I admit that I like her conceptually. I can appreciate this wild little yandere as a character type, especially with the update that she’d apparently been this way even before she and everyone else got isekai’d (though she sadly removes her glasses after her true intentions are revealed, name a bigger downgrade). So many other series in this genre settle into the idea that the transported characters effectively continue to be themselves in a suddenly-shifted fantasy world, only they now have superpowers and there’s no one trying to dunk their head in a toilet as they deserve. But Arifureta, at least a few times, has more leaned into the concept of the switch in setting being a vehicle to bring out people’s ‘true nature’, whether that’s the tenacious will to survive that Hajime apparently harbored, or in this case, Eri’s…
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