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Elmesia's title is 天帝 or 皇帝 in Japanese, and both of these are gender-less words.

In any case, the English people probably had the same thought you did and defined Kingdom as being able to be headed by a queen also. The United Kingdom was one example until recently.

There is a reason Rimuru is special besides being from a different world, and is related to the mask, but that is the next story arc for the anime (LN vol 11) I think.

Continuing from the end of the last episode, Rimuru and Gazel discuss Tempest's financial problems, at which point in stead of the OP song we got the entrance of wise and ancient Elmesia, who called Gazel "young" and was acquainted with his grandfather.

Elmesia offered to exchange some gold coins from her personal magic purse to help, and gave a lesson to Tempest (and especially Diablo) what greedy schemes humans could have hatched to undermine the country. After some talks with Rimuru and assessing him, she approved an alliance between Thalion and Tempest, in return of …… getting her included in any interesting stuff Rimuru plans in the future, and an introduction to Mr. Yoshida 🍰.

As to the tournament, Gobta fought so bravely with his new skill that even "Lightspeed" Masayuki decided to concede the fight and let Gobta win. Milim was impressed and volunteered to train Gobta and Ranga in the dungeons which Hakuro welcomed.

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Goodbye, Gobta. Goodbye, Ranga. I'll never forget how brave you were. -- Rimuru

Masayuki finally got to eat lunch in private with Rimuru, without his doting party members. Rimuru told him that he was also from Japan and treated him Japanese cuisine. He was relieved they were not enemies and told Rimuru of his unique skill. When he learned that Tempest had mangas, he became an ally completely.

Next episode we'll witness the opening of Tempest's Labyrinth, and Masayuki will show it off by challenging it.

I like that they covered the whole Kelvin fight this episode (they even skipped the opening to get more time) instead of having us wait for the result.

So Kelvin had been holding back (way back, as we'd find out later in the episode) in his fights to entertain the viewers, a fact he admitted to Rick whom I guess he felt is worthy enough.

But he finally met Broughston who was stronger, and he gave up his hesitation and went all-out after some encouragement from the gym owner. Turned out he was strong in magic also, which took a lot of hard training. He used level-eight magic which impressed the S-rank party members and a big reaction from Angelica. Broughston for his part showed his respect by giving the champion the orc quarter thumbs-up and then beat him utterly.

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It went into the ending song right after the fight, so we don't know how Rick's reacted to having to fight Broughston next, I doubt he'll be let off easily just because they have secured the belt :-)

Masayuki's unique skill is strong indeed. He somehow made it to the final match without fighting at all, at the same time without disappointing all his fans. Just the opposite, they seemed to be crazy about him.

If you looked close enough, there was another person questioning that along with Rimuru:

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To Rimuru's surprise Gobta beat Lion Mask with his tactics and will be the one who fights Masayuki. Meanwhile Rimuru has an appointment with Gazel-in-yukata, the purpose of which we'll find out next episode.

Below ordinary level ??? Rick posing as 1-month studied Angelica. It was not enough to defeat prodigy level 1 Geith, but Rick shows what possibility Angelica can have if she spends more time training.

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I was going to say this is the payoff episode, but the tournament is not finished yet and they still have a Champion to defeat. It is good to see Angelica's problem solved though.

Thanks for a smoothly running instance and congratulations on your wedding!

Also, the button layout on switch controllers is different (A & B is swapped compared to XBox). This mostly matters on emulators, although you can remap the buttons, it can get confusing that they don’t match the games’ instructions on screen.

We short-lived mortals are lucky to meet Her Majesty Elmesia in our lifetime. All …… hail …… Her Heroic Presence…… [Raphael: Mental Interference detected]

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I really hate that you can only open one settings page at a time. There is no justification to making you lose your place you’re working on just because you want to adjust another minor setting. With the old interface I can e.g. have network and sound settings open at the same time and I don’t know why they took that away.

In case anyone cares, it was not solely luck from his skill that Masayuki crushed Orthrus so smoothly, Yuuki basically took advantage of it and set him up. I thought it was more recent but it was episode 59 (S3E11) that Yuuki planned it.

Character Designs by Hirai Hisashi

Speaking of him, also try Fafner for the dystopian feel.

I was somewhat confused if "a Tengu is the incarnation of an angel in a wolf's body" and not a race that Momiji can be born as a Tengu because biologically she would be just a wolf. Well we don't know if / how angels reproduce so perhaps that's why it took many years for her to be born.

I don't remember the fate of Kaede but perhaps there's a way to prolong her life? Tempest has extra magicules to spend (the dungeon is full of Veldora's) but we don't know if magicules capacity can be expanded easily (it happens e.g. in naming or evolution).