Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers | Episode 5
EmperorBrandon: So Flamie gets to spilling all on the first part of [her story] now. I don’t know why I hadn’t even been thinking about why she covered her head and one eye up this point. Interesting to see the significance of that. But she still leaves what turned her to the “good side” a mystery. Adlet’s good-natured interactions with her ends up clearing her in a way he was not anticipating. And she needed it.
Chamot looks and speaks so cutely, but what she actually says always comes off rather brutal. She’s a frightening little girl. Chamot and Hans both come off as others that feel a bit too suspicious. Maybe there’s a red herring even in thinking that, though.
GingaDaiuchuu: Interesting situation. I never really thought about the fact that the key art all has seven characters even though there are only supposed to be six Braves. Not sure how this is going to play out, but perhaps there will be seven for most of it.
Yamada2: Now we’re talking! This just got a whole lot interesting. I wasn’t paying attention to how much of the episode had passed and it felt like it ended too quickly. That’s a good sign.
Now with Adlet being the prime suspect, everyone will want to kill him. But couldn’t he simply prove his innocence by trying to deactivate the barrier in front of them? When he fails, the charges might be dropped. Killing the one who activated the barrier was probably in case the fake failed to comply. He did fail to deactivate it in front of Nachetanya, Goldov and Flamie.
bctaris: He, he, this is closest to a David Mamet-penned anime show as I could expect, I suppose. 
Actually more so with the patience and verve of pulling off an entire episode (still early in an action-adventure show) of only the seven characters in a single room talking–and the pacing was still quick, ending before you knew it. Well done, in this medium.
But that sort of allusion gets me thinking if there won’t be double-cross after double-cross along the way here, until the actual “seventh” is revealed (and, still, to what end that seventh operates, good or bad, we can’t say) as alliances form and evaporate. At least, I kind of hope so, and not instead that this suspense is put aside and they all go off together and fight the Demon Lord together, with some final reveal/betrayal at or near the end. That we’ve already seen the group (the first four) split up and reform leads me to think that it won’t be so cut and dried, however.
Asrialys: I want to say that Hans activated the barrier while Adlet was distracted, and Maura (and maybe Chamot) worked with him to do it. When they saw that there was a seventh, they decided to lock everyone in until they can figure out the fake. Why ask for everyone to introduce themselves instead of asking each person to attempt to deactivate the barrier?
But then the fiend that made Adlet open the temple seems like an obvious distraction to allow someone else (perhaps another half-fiend) to enter and activate the barrier. Unless it was a fake fiend. We don’t really know of Maura (the OP makes her seem like some earth-bender) and Chamot’s powers. Maybe Maura can make golems made of earth.
lol The OP and ED make me think that the entire show will take place in the temple…
