trails of cold steel prologue thoughts

Lord that is a shockingly strong cold open. Feel like the prologue is a little hostile with how it throws you into the deep end combat wise. It's interesting that our first experience with the cast is them in this it might be too early to say final state but in such a polished state which is kinda fun as a contrast to the protracted getting the team together sequences that define the modern persona titles. Kinda frustrating how the prologue undercuts the amicable first meeting between Rean and Alisa by immediately diving into a vaguely horny misunderstanding leading into tsundere nonsense. Machius and Jusis are probably the interpersonal dynamic i find most interesting on a theoretical level Though it begs the question of what the thesis of this series is going to be regarding aristocracy and empire in general cause sometimes in media an empire can feel more like a kingdom instead.