Shadow Vs Beatrix and Iris

"i will fight you with my magic infused artifact blade made of the rarest metals!" "thats nice, amma just dual-wield these crowbars I found in a construction site"

The way he takes a step and just disappears in a FRAME is amazing

I love how he is basically teaching Beatrix how to fight and pays no attention to iris just smack her a few times lmao

I like how he humiliates the arrogant but incompetent Iris, but at the same time treat the modest and talented Beatrix with respect. he gave everyone what they deserved.

Imagine waving around a magical sword that demolishes half the city, then blaming the guy you couldnt even properly hit...iris is just a new level of entitled

Excellent visuals aside. If you keep in mind that he's got no idea what's happening and just says stuff to make himself look cool, this show is absolutely hilarious.

Here we can see 3 people doing 3 different things - Beatrix: sparring Shadow: playing Iris: losing

Beatrix looks so balanced, like she's sticking to fundamentals she knows well. Especially when she gets hit and knows there's time to recover, she does it in perfect form

One of my favourite parts of this fight is that if you pay attention, Cid is blocking all of Beatrix' moves but for Iris he is literally only kicking her everytime he counters 😆

the only person to out-run the camera man

I still love how Shadow's Atomic wasn't actually an attack, but him demonstrating how he works in the Law of Fucking Around & Finding Out. And to further add onto it, Shadow gave THE harshest possible insult to Iris, without delivering a single word. Because Iris' greatest pride & joy is the Kingdom of Midgar. And Shadow's demonstration essentially told her, to her face, "Not only can I eradicate you, not only can I eradicate your kingdom, but I can do so in a fashion so spectacularly, that it'll be remembered more by the attack that destroyed it than as a Kingdom itself."

I just love how Cid honestly didn't even care about anything he just wanted to make a cool entrance😂

That insane, over the top laughter followed by the perfectly synthesized NAZE?! Gets me every time.

I simply love the level of antagonist Shadow is throughout this fight

One of the best scnes ever made. His confidence, because of his power, and his question at the end, while showing that everyone is just a mere insect compared to him, just makes thiis scne so much better.

man I love how this episode shows Iris' mind slowly deteriorating with the addiction to defeating shadow. It's not about being stronger than him to protect the kingdom anymore, so much because it's her attacks that destroy the city. It's the sole and pure aim of getting over him and making him feel the humiliation she felt. And even in the end, with her attempt to deceive him and he not only counterattacks but calls her an amateur, it shows that the way to defeat him is much more than a simple and cliché fight strategy. Shadow in this episode perfectly shows the two characters, who were always praised as invincible ones, they still have a very long way to go to really be strong. Looking under a screenwriter's bias, it looks like the mangaka himself giving a moral slap on the cliched isekai stories and parodying the story itself!

I love the fact that Cid just casual switches between 3 different kinds of weapons throughout this fight. From a typical sword to dual crowbars to tonfa's. Goes to show he has the knowledge of every kind of fighting style, even dirty street fights like when iris tried to trick cid but he saw that from a mile away.

God, that moment in 0:51 when he takes a step and disappears from the screen immediately is one of the biggest anime flexes I have ever seen.

"...run?" "who's running?" "running where?" "AND WHYYYYY?!?!" ...god i love shadow😭❤️

The strongest artifact user Vs The weakest crowbar enjoyer🗿