This episode was, of course, a key turning point in the narrative of the Crusader Dad canon. While up until this point the series had been mainly a slice-of-life drama involving the father struggling to turn his son to a righteous path of study, combat training, and the true faith, here we see the very real consequences of the conflict that has always been stewing in the background. The conflict the father was always preparing his son for - the day the weebs take the holy land. We finally learn that the father is not disgusted by his son's tendencies toward anime due to simple personal preference, but because affiliation with Japanese animation is a key characteristic of his mortal enemy. Knowing this, his extreme acts of aggression to discourage these tendencies can almost be understood.However, the Father himself seems to recognize the fact that his repression of his son's tendencies may have done more harm than good. Notice at 0:12 how the son's initial hesitation about taking up his father's sword are not for the seemingly obvious reasons: that his combat skills are considerably worse than his father's, or even that he agrees with the weebs due to his own love of anime and "related media". No - his stated reason is "I'm a heretic
