Ep. 10 has Woltekamui calming Ultimatia and talking her out of her difficulties with her powers.
It is unusual to see a villain like Ultimatia get emotional support.
In Ragna Crimson many tropes are turned on their heads, and the villains are allowed to act like heroes. Meanwhile, the heroes are not the most lovable people.
Episode 10
In Episode 10, Woltekamui helps Ultimatia with the powers she seems to have lost control over. He is not exactly kind when he does it, but he manages to help her with her psychological problems.
The decision to show that scene with villains is an interesting one. Even music swells as if this was a scene with heroes helping each other out. But that is what Ragna Crimson does; it takes the tropes and flips them, trying to create a new, unusual product.
Do you like it how Ragna Crimson flips tropes?
Flipping Tropes
While Episode 10 is the most stark example of the anime portraying its heroes and villains unconventionally, it is not the only one. Ultimatia is a good example of the dissonance. She is designed to look literally like an angel, and her powers appear the same; they have beautiful, angelic effects. That is not how a villain is usually portrayed.
On the other hand, Ragna and Crimson are shown to be murderous or, in Crimson’s case, completely unhinged. Crimson is a monster, and to be fair, the anime does show that he is on the hero’s side because they currently share a cause. But Ragna is not shown in angelic light either; his expressions are often either deadpan or angry, and he is constantly covered in blood, even if that blood is his own sometimes.
Ragna Crimson does not do the regular good versus bad routine. In this anime, monsters can look angelic, and the actual hero is an emotionally stunted, angry monster that lives only for revenge. Of course, nobody actually looks at Ultimatia like she is an angel; in fact, most fans absolutely despise her and consider her to be hypocritical, seeing how her current goal is a genocide to appease her God. But she is presented as an angel, and she even gets emotional help from Woltekamui, which probably just goes to say that in her world, she is the hero.
Ragna Crimson is an unusual anime. It turns tropes on their heads, and gives villains emotional support (not that the heroes are truly virtuous).
Ep. 10 has Woltekamui calming Ultimatia and talking her out of her difficulties with her powers.
It is unusual to see a villain like Ultimatia get emotional support.
In Ragna Crimson many tropes are turned on their heads, and the villains are allowed to act like heroes. Meanwhile, the heroes are not the most lovable people.
Episode 10
In Episode 10, Woltekamui helps Ultimatia with the powers she seems to have lost control over. He is not exactly kind when he does it, but he manages to help her with her psychological problems.
The decision to show that scene with villains is an interesting one. Even music swells as if this was a scene with heroes helping each other out. But that is what Ragna Crimson does; it takes the tropes and flips them, trying to create a new, unusual product.
Do you like it how Ragna Crimson flips tropes?
Flipping Tropes
While Episode 10 is the most stark example of the anime portraying its heroes and villains unconventionally, it is not the only one. Ultimatia is a good example of the dissonance. She is designed to look literally like an angel, and her powers appear the same; they have beautiful, angelic effects. That is not how a villain is usually portrayed.
On the other hand, Ragna and Crimson are shown to be murderous or, in Crimson’s case, completely unhinged. Crimson is a monster, and to be fair, the anime does show that he is on the hero’s side because they currently share a cause. But Ragna is not shown in angelic light either; his expressions are often either deadpan or angry, and he is constantly covered in blood, even if that blood is his own sometimes.
Ragna Crimson does not do the regular good versus bad routine. In this anime, monsters can look angelic, and the actual hero is an emotionally stunted, angry monster that lives only for revenge. Of course, nobody actually looks at Ultimatia like she is an angel; in fact, most fans absolutely despise her and consider her to be hypocritical, seeing how her current goal is a genocide to appease her God. But she is presented as an angel, and she even gets emotional help from Woltekamui, which probably just goes to say that in her world, she is the hero.
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