hot take, but i genuinely think that anime fucked up the scene where falin rips her shirt apart. like, seriously. that moment in manga is sooo masterfully drawn, like, literally every element is important in that picture and integral to its beauty. the composition, the weight of the lines. she's screaming, her neck is bent to the side from pain, but her animalistic eyes look right at you. her body is solid, realistically drawn, so all the non-human features are even more accentuated, but she's also ethereal, almost angelic-looking. she's hauntingly beautiful, but also so scary and unfamiliar, you almost forget it's falin.
anime did an okay job (and most of the other scenes with her were great), but i feel like they didn't do it justice
Another thing i do appreciate about episode 17 is that it really hammers home how much the chimera is not Falin, not as we know her. Like even I get into the wishful thinking and love the idea of chimera Falin kidnapping Marcille for romantic reasons but that's simply not a possibility. It's not Falin. It's Falin being absorbed and used as a tool by the Red Dragon. The animation makes it so much more clear that the chimera is actively manipulating Laios in that one moment.
Horrifying. Like yeah she's hot but that episode really made it sink in for me that like... chimera Falin recognizes Marcille. She recognizes Laios. She just doesn't care. She'd kill them with a smile on Falin's face.