How convenient that you can apparently enter in a game with someone without their informed consent and then become their temporary master and THEN transfer the ownership over you YOUR master. This anime feels like it's just making shit up as it goes at this point. This is only epsiode 3! Episode 3 is story building time and character development/introduction time NOT "lets make up random rules about how our slavery retainers work" time. It's too early to be pulling things out of your ass Dorei-ku, way too early!
Also doesn't Seiya already belong to someone? How many owners can one person have? Who is policing this system? There is no way this shit is legal and it seems to be readily available and freely advertised, is it facebook? I bet it's facebook.
Also also, how exactly does this thing CONTINUE to control people once it's removed and also a long distance away from them? That doesn't make sense. I seem to recall a previous episode saying it can be removed for short periods of time but we never covered distance and I assumed it still had to be on your person to be effective. This technology working while the owner is no longer wearing it and is far away from it is the same logic as if I were to claim that because I touched a computer once I can just surf the internet wherever I want. No. Nothing works like that. Even if it somehow could work like that how is THAT possible but the fact that Yuuga ordered him not to get in any duels against anyone else not effective, should it not have stopped him somehow? That's convenient and selective.
The way that dog walks is atrocious and it's head position is weird af on top of it's weird monster feet, wtf? Have the artists ever even SEEN dogs? This thing looks like it's mostly Wombat with some anteater thrown in.
Why is it wearing a slave retainer? Dogs do whatever you want them to anyway, they're dogs. What kind of messed up shit do you need a SLAVE dog for?! D: I am now worried about this wombat, is he ok?
So wait, taking it out makes you untrackable but it can still control you if you're not wearing it? OKAAAYY.
I like how this episode clods along straight into one convenient plot device after another. First Seiya is tricked into becoming someone elses's slave's slave, then he ends up with the rest of his group and they too easily figure out that he had a new master, then we meet Shiori, who ends up in a duel with a customer in disguise and while that's happening they happen to be hit on by some guys who become the object of their game, almost get raped but get away, then as they're safe and in a park Shiori admits she lost triggering her to become the slave of the one who she was supposed to enslave, and then Muscles McJerkface waltzes in and steals her with face punches, shorty gets away and happens to run into Julia who "wants to help" is taken into a car and boom! Another duel! Cue convenient app that tracks everyone wearing this device that has to be in violation of so many privacy laws. (Really whose policing this shit?)
THE DOGS NOT A SLAVE IT'S THE MASTER!?!?! That's the best damn thing I've seen in this entire anime thus far.
I bet that drop slave master dog for something stupid next episode though. This anime is a dumpster fire lol.
I'm renaming this one Convenient Plot Devices: The Anime.