English Dub Review: The Dawn of The Witch: “Determination to Kill”

Overview: Sayb (Travis Mullenix), Hort (Kimmie Britt), Kudo (Joe Cucinotti), along with the villagers, prepare their own retaliation against Church forces intending to bring hellish carnage. 

Our Take: With the Church’s army coming to raise the village to the ground and their arrival imminent, Saybil, Hort and Kudo decide to stay and fight along with the rest of the village who are also preparing, fortifying their defenses. Most of the episode involves the preparation process on various sides. It is cool to see Sayb beginning to have more confidence, along with Kudo and Hort, as a result of their recent training, demanding to make a stand rather than run back to the kingdom. Also, how they devise strategies to take on huge Church forces is interesting in Sayb leading the charge with potions as well as traps thanks to Tyrant. This being all in the hopes of capturing, not killing, their invaders, making their mission exponentially harder, increasing the stakes nicely enough. 

Speaking of Tyrant, his struggling with the regaining of his humanity in his care for the children and love for Hartful actually manage to make me feel the tiniest bit bad for him in his fear of not being able to protect them. However, ‘tiniest’ is the key word here because his terrible atrocities he has committed against people and children makes Hort’s dark intentions in using him as a tool, understandable and well deserved in his penance. It is a chilling scene in how she will use her for her own benefit and keep him from the sweet relief of death no matter how much he desires it. 

Holdem and Albus also make their own plans with extra soldiers and other plans, as the scale and magnitude of the evil the Church is willing to go is revealed. Numerous remnants in their soldiers’ promises for a violent uphill battle for the village especially for how difficult it was to take down one. Saybil’s immense well of magic is intriguing in his potential. That’s been known since day one but the extra tidbit that makes it even more exciting is seemingly filling Zero’s reservoir and still having plenty of magic to spare. With Sayb fittingly bestowed the name “The Abyss” sorcerer, the army’s arrival is imminent with the Church’s forces more powerful than Lo and the rest of the gang thought as the episode ends with a potentially gruesome war at the village’s doorstep.