Although he wants to be able to get along with other people, he’s too shy and awkward to talk properly to anyone outside his family, and his appearance tends to intimidate the castle staff even when he tries to be nice due to his subconscious glaring. Kai comes to Heine for help on his communication skills. moeĮpisode 8 I like how this is apparently Heine’s responsibility. Is Dmitri gonna come back at any point? Asking for uh, a friend. He’s saying that about Bruno but really it should be Bruno saying that about him just sayin. Someone must have some serious dirt on Eins if he sees the other princes as a threat to his succession, though. (Granted I have no idea how cold-blooded Eins actually is because he doesn’t seem to want to actually harm any of the princes, not yet at least).
He’s apparently a shoe-in to be king and Viktor only wanted his sons educated as a back-up if something happened to the eldest son, but what is he so paranoid for, exactly? If he was so worried about any of the other princes becoming king instead of him, it’d make more sense to get rid of Viktor and be king straight away. What exactly his problem is we still don’t know.
In fact the only reason I knew who he was in this episode was because I bought the manga and saw him mentioned there…and to be honest, for some reason I thought he was dead.
#KING LEONHARD NI NO KUNI FULL#
Speaking of Eins, maybe it was because I watched the first episode of this directly after some other real crapper of a first impression show and so wasn’t at full attention, but I seriously don’t remember him being mentioned at all. Why is this important? Because at the end of the episode we see the silhouette of Eins, apparently mad that his plan to get Bruno out of the running to be king didn’t work, and implying that this is all Heine’s fault. It’s Bruno that makes the decision to stay as a prince on his own. In fact, he even seems to be in favour of him becoming a scholar. Next, Heine’s opinion of which path Bruno should take is entirely irrelevant. I mean sure, good on you Bruno for doing well, but storywise its not tremendously exciting and has the unfortunate side-effect of making him look like he was whining over nothing. It just felt kind of empty to me, and would have worked better if there had been some kind of trigger or epiphany that he had, but there wasn’t really anything. We see Bruno trying and failing over and over again and then…he writes a good one. I know that’s kind of the point, and that Bruno was meant to find the answers in himself, but the thing is that Heine doesn’t even say anything to cause any kind of epiphany in him at all.įor example, all he does the first time is tell Bruno to write a good paper. Both of these are ‘solved’ by Heine, but…Heine doesn’t do anything. He has two in this episode, first he gets depressed about no longer being good enough to even better Leo (c’mon, Bruno, you saw the episode the other week where Leo only just learned basic maths, right?), and then he gets depressed over not being able to choose between his seemingly impossible dream of being king and his more attainable dream of being a scholar. But at the same time, I wasn’t entirely satisfied with how he got over his funk. I do like how it shows that ones success is not necessarily proportional to ones self esteem, given that someone as accomplished as Bruno can still feel such inadequacy. Now it’s Bruno’s time to get a little depth, and I’ve got mixed feelings on it. viktor confirmed to be some kind of non-aging vampire so pure Dmitri offers him a spot as a scholar at his home university – something which, although Bruno longs for – would require him to give up being a prince. Heine gives him some advice and he eventually manages to rewrite the whole thing and present it without a hitch – and, what’s more, meet his favourite scholar, a Doctor Dmitri from fakeRussia. It starts to affect his academic performance, including a paper he planned to present at a university function. This is mostly due to the fact that the eldest brother Eins – who currently lives apart from the other four – is said to be the most likely candidate to be king, something that has always troubled Bruno. Everybody is of course very proud of him, however it sets of Bruno’s inferiority complex as he starts to worry about how no matter how hard he tries, he’ll never be fit to be king. To the surprise of everyone, the one with the best solution to the problem is Leonhard, who is able to understand the concept of insurance due to the way he saves up cakes. The princes are given a problem to solve as a king would, learning about the laws and bureaucracy of their kingdom in the process.
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