Someone had to eventually to tell them they need to stop pretending they aren't dating and "he's a coward and you're a child" was an amazingly blunt way to do it. What a good big sis.
Cha Hae-in's deal continues to be mysterious considering how little she's done with all the screentime she gets (besides provide cringy fanservice). I was initially thinking she might be another Player but her dislike of the smell of hunters raises the possibility that she's either a magical beast herself (perhaps summoned by some hunter's skill) or has some class that uses monster abilities like a blue mage or something.
A spore print is an easy test anyone can do that will keep you from mixing up Amanita (destroying angel) and Agaricus (meadow mushroom). If the spores are cold brown like dark chocolate it's an Agaricus, if they're pinkish white it's an Amanita.
This is somewhat mycophobic, you could do the same bit with rowanberries and baneberries or lobsters and scorpions. Oleander branches are the perfect shape for roasting sticks but they can kill you if you eat food off of them or burn them in a campfire.
Nature is always dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.
It's a good thing the mold they found in the tomb wasn't harmful to people with a well functioning immune system or else spending hours studying samples there with no PPE would have been really stupid.
I love that she inadvertently fixed the sexist damsel in distress character just by pointing out that she could have agency (and giving her a role model).
I assume Serval Cat Mask was inspired by Kinnikuman as that's the only pro-wrestling anime I know of and the moves looked pretty similar.
Leucocorpinus Birnbaumii, also called "the flowerpot mushroom" because it shows up in flowerpots so often.
The "unraveled" one likely didn't have enough light and grew into a long string trying to find the sun. This is similar to the principal used when cultivating Enoki mushrooms to make them grow into thin white pins instead of the way Flammulina Velutipes typically looks in the wild.
Not the most interesting episode but we learned a little more about the world:
The Demon King's country is poor and has a poor diet, perhaps that's why he seems like such a good guy.
Demons have "totally legitimate cultural reasons" for wearing skimpy outfits. While this is obviously an excuse for fan service, it does raise the question of whether the Demon King is actually a demon.
One thing I'm still not sure about is whether the izakaya Dennosuke visits is a real place in the world, a real place outside the world, or a construct of his mind.
It seems like the point of this show is to give MAPPA animators the opportunity to take their shot at a bunch of classic anime scenes.
Episode 1 they did the giant warrior from Nausicaa and episode 2 is a Macross missile massacre.
The plot interesting enough so far, while this show did turn out to be an isekai, at least it's an old-school "learn a lesson" isekai and not a pointless power fantasy in a video-gamey world like the recent inescapable trend.
Most molds are about as closely related to mushrooms as flatworms are to humans