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Just one of Emma's many expressions.
Despite the darkness and seriousness of the series, there are plenty of light moments scattered around to ease the tension.
- Whenever Emma freaks out over her siblings, her reactions are usually very humorous.
- Near the beginning of episode 3 of the anime is a shot involving several of the plantation children playing. One boy gets a ball kicked straight to his face before an abrupt cut to the main trio discussing their next step forward.
- Emma, Ray and Norman decide to test sister Krone and challenge her to a game of hide and seek. She's super-humanly fast and strong, to the point where she can crush a rock with her bare fist. The look of surprise and horror on the child who was hiding is priceless, especially as Krone keeps up her placid smile as she shows off her skills.
- Emma's expressions when Ray or Norman explain something to her and she can't exactly keep up.
- Ray being super cheerful when Emma suggests breaking a bone so his shipping date would be pushed back. Norman in understandably shocked at this. Certain anime subs get a tint of Black Comedy in this context with their choice of translation.Emma: "Let's get cracking!"
- Phil appearing out of nowhere when Isabella prepares to chase after Emma and the others after they escape is such a Mood Whiplash that it comes off as hilarious.
- After Emma foils Ray's attempt at suicide he begins to yell at her for stopping him. In response she slaps him hard across the cheek. Complete with the most blank and somewhat annoyed face.
- Upon reaching B06-32 and finding nothing there, the five-year-olds immediately throw a temper tantrum at William Minerva, despite him not even being there. Afterwards, Don asks if it made them feel better. It did.
- The kids obviously can't have ETR3M8 walking around free after the trouble he's caused, but they can't kick him out either. So they essentially duct-tape him to a table with a folded-up jacket as a pillow. The look on his face when he realizes this is PRICELESS.
- Emma's "incentive" to get ETR3M8 to help them out. If he doesn't, she and Ray will just blow up the shelter. If they can't have it, he can't have it. He's clearly disturbed by Emma's cheery smile while she says this.
- The various nicknames ETR3M8 uses for the kids (and the fact that he outright refuses to learn their actual names).
- For the record, the Four-Man Band are Antenna (Emma), Sleepy (Ray), Bean (Don) (short for beanstalk, because he's the tallest), and Four-Eyes (Gilda).
- When picking weapons for the Goldy Pond expedition, Emma briefly considers a bazooka that's almost as big as she is. Leading to an amusing Imagine Spot from Ray...
- When ETR3M8 gets back to the shelter with a mortally wounded Emma in his arms, he sets her down immediately to prepare her for surgery- only to have Gilda demand to know what happened to Ray, holding the detonator in her hands. ETR3M8 finally remembers that she threatened to blow the place sky high unless he brought back one of them alive, the current situation is almost identical to his original plan to get away with killing them both and seizing the shelter under Gilda's threat. His face when he realizes why she's screaming at him while waving the detonator and remembering all his earlier scheming is hilarious.
- Violet and Zack discover Grace Field's standards are much higher than Grand Valley when Gilda casually states that she memorized the map. Of the longest track they've yet to follow. And then Emma mentions that compared to the tests at Grace Field, it's a simple task.Zack and Violet: Grace Field is a scary place...
- Later on Ray gives orders to the FIVE-YEAR-OLDS to get specific books from the library. They grab them without pause, while Nigel returns Violet's sentiment.
- When the group get to Khavitidala, Emma's mind sees a mysterious vision while her body stays motionless. Violet's solution to wake her up? A big ol' slap in the face… after Emma's already come back. She then defensively explains that it's Zack who suggested the idea.
- Emma's discussion about the possibility to avoid genocide against the demons with Norman is a heart wrenching scene, but when Emma says she knows how to get the Seven Walls and proposed going there, Ray states they know how to get in, but not out. And that most who got there don't come back. After Norman takes it, he lets out a Big "WHAT?!" that leaves Emma reeling. For a moment, their intense discussion plays out like a sitcom.
- Ayshe's flashback to a demon working at a factory farm impulsively rescuing an infant with a birthmark and bringing her home includes the demon freaking out at his own audacity, having no idea how to actually pick up a human, trying to think of her as like one of his dogs, and melodramatically wailing "What do humans eat!? What do humans wear!?"
- Emma finally meets with The One and tells him that she has come to reforge the promise. His response;The One: Okay.
- Emma is stunned, even more so when he asks her what it is she wants. She never thought it would be that easy.
- Chapter 155, mid chaos at the capital the heroes look at rampaging feral demons and wonder if consuming the "cursed blood" can cure them. But how can you make a raging mindless monster consume just a little blood? Sonju abruptly cuts off his own arm and hurls it into a feral demon's mouth, shouting "Fastest way to know!"
- While watching a Body Horror extravaganza beyond anything the series has so far come up with, namely the Queen becoming a giant tree studded with the apparently still-sentient faces of everyone she's eaten and everyone they've eaten, Norman can only stare and think "I have no idea what is going on anymore."
- After the rebellion blows up the Grace Field bridge and Raiti's two thousand troops are trapped on the other side of the moat, Raiti yells at an officer to just eat a bird or a bat and fly over it. The soldier's offended "Excuse me?" is priceless.
- Chapter 178: All the children are ready to go to the human world, but there is still the matter of the deal Emma made with The One and what he wants in return. Turns what he wanted the most was Emma's family, but since he promised they could safely go to the human world he can't take them. So he decided against asking for a reward. The kids can hardly believe that Emma made a deal with such a being and he isn't asking for anything in return. It turns into a Tear Jerker in the next two chapters as Emma was in fact lying. The One wouldn't go back on his word, but he take away Emma's connection to her family. She was landed in a different location from them with her memory taken away.
Volume Extras
- As a child when Norman got sick everyone in the orphanage freaked out to the point they thought Norman was going to die. Isabella tries to keep them calm and assure them that Norman would be fine as long as he could get his rest.
- Emma repeatedly sneaks into Norman's room and Isabella resorts to nailing wood panels to his door. Emma somehow manages to break them off and sneak back in.
- Emma saying she wanted to stay with Norman because she couldn't get sick, leading to Isabella carrying her out to Ray who says, "I read that idiots don't get sick".
- Norman's embarrassed reactions when Emma's words come out a little less innocent than she seems to notice, and the fact that he has a growing crush on her.
- One of the demons can be seen reading a book about holidays in Japan and notes at how interesting they were. A Mama nearby radios Isabella about how her farm would be trying out this "holiday". Emma admits she doesn't understand what "Children's Day" was, but found it to be fun in the end.
- Emma's reaction into seeing a plane in the Epilogue Special Dreams Come True after the ending is priceless while the other kids are used to this.
