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Thought it was implied in the cut scenes that Brigandia killed everbody (both Adventurers and Landers) that tried to flee the city or enslaved them (Landers). Otherwise it would be a very tame sort of tyranny. Regarding Santa - he would have to be one of the Ancients rather than an ordinary Lander. A rogue outcast from the missing Knights of Izsu perhaps? Will be interesting to find out his motives (a npc doing something unexpected).
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In re: Brigandia, I think it was more that no-one could really leave the city, since the TP gates were down and everyone leaving got killed at some point and respawned up there. I'm not really clear on how one could enforce non-economic tyranny in a city where violence is impossible. I guess in a Japanese school bullying style? "I'm going to tell you to do something and you will do it because of reasons." Or wait, was it just lethal violence that's prohibited? My memory of the first season is apparently a bit hazy.
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:In re: Brigandia, I think it was more that no-one could really leave the city, since the TP gates were down and everyone leaving got killed at some point and respawned up there. They just killed them outside the city limits.
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:In re: Brigandia, I think it was more that no-one could really leave the city, since the TP gates were down and everyone leaving got killed at some point and respawned up there. I think it's just MMO style combat that's prohibited; you could still grab someone weaker than you and manhandle them.
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I don't get it. I can tell what story they're trying to tell, but the quality of the storytelling is a night and day difference from the Log Horizon we're used to. What are the staff thinking? We can only blame DEEN for some of what's been wrong with the past couple episodes.
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I think they're having trouble working 2 simultaneous A-plots.
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Nov 1, 2014 20:20
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Probably trying to do two books in parallel and front-loading twice the setup wasn't the best call. I'm going to be optimistic and assume it'll pay off.
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ViggyNash posted:I don't get it. I can tell what story they're trying to tell, but the quality of the storytelling is a night and day difference from the Log Horizon we're used to. What are the staff thinking? We can only blame DEEN for some of what's been wrong with the past couple episodes. Why are you trying to pin storyboarding issues on the animation team
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Adelheid posted:Why are you trying to pin storyboarding issues on the animation team Yo. Read the post you quoted again, carefully this time.
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I actually liked this episode for having Akatsuki actually do some rad combat for a change. I think the scene was fairly well executed spatially. You could get a sense of space and direction the action was happening in.
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Desuwa posted:Probably trying to do two books in parallel and front-loading twice the setup wasn't the best call. I'm sure the payoff will be good eventually yeah, having to sit through twice the setup is rough. Especially since the way they jump from one plot to another is questionable. Like the brief raiding scenes in this episode really felt like filler because it didn't add anything new on that end; we already know they were having a tough time with the raid bosses!
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Honestly I just want to see Mr. Democracy getting trolled some more and then walking off somewhere and grumbling. Log Horizon 2 please give me more of that.
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I think the problem is that they have to develop both at the same time since they are both coinciding chronologically with Shiroe and Akatsuki meeting up after they both got killed.
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Since that's next episode hopefully it'll pick up after this then, yeah?
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I also liked that Akatsuki got to show off a bit this episode. She's pretty dull when she's just moping around all day. I don't think this season really benefited from the in media res thing it tried to do. The main risk with that kind of setup is that you lose the viewers from the get-go, which I think did happen, and then there wasn't much to show for it.
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Neeksy posted:I think the problem is that they have to develop both at the same time since they are both coinciding chronologically with Shiroe and Akatsuki meeting up after they both got killed. They could do one plot to its end and then start off the other and label it "so and so weeks ago".
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Srice posted:They could do one plot to its end and then start off the other and label it "so and so weeks ago". I think people would have gotten confused about both of them being dead at the same time, if two episodes went by without mentioning it.
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Srice posted:They could do one plot to its end and then start off the other and label it "so and so weeks ago". Or alternate episodes so we don't burn out on one plot line. Or in several different ways that isn't what they did, really.
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ViggyNash posted:Or alternate episodes so we don't burn out on one plot line. Isn't alternating episodes basically what they've been doing? Anyways, I thought this episode was a lot of fun. No idea why everyone's so negative.
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Bremen posted:Isn't alternating episodes basically what they've been doing? Same here. It had a good fight scene for Akatsuki, most of the build-up in this episode was either interesting or had a point and the plot seems chugging along now. Sure it didn't blow my mind or anything but I thought it was good fun.
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Bremen posted:Isn't alternating episodes basically what they've been doing? Not really, no. Episodes 2 and 3 were almost all Shiroe and the raid, with a few random bits about Akatsuki and Akiba in general that seemed out of place at the time. Then the show suddenly ignores the raid and focuses entirely on the random happenings of Akiba until Evil Santa shows up and everyone's fighting him, but there are a couple random bits showing the raid guys, but in no meaningful way. There was no transition between the two; we were simply ripped out of the raid - which I now wanted to see finished - and thrown into Akiba with no real context until Evil Santa killed that first girl.
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Well the raid still has a ways to go before it's over, so you'll see it finish. THem being dead together is just giving them the opportunity to pep talk each other. Well, for Shiroe to pep talk Akitsuki because Shiroe dgaf. And what's up with Evil Santa; can't you all just call him crazy murderer guy? he's not really santa or doing santa things, evil or no.
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Drifter posted:Well the raid still has a ways to go before it's over, so you'll see it finish. THem being dead together is just giving them the opportunity to pep talk each other. Well, for Shiroe to pep talk Akitsuki because Shiroe dgaf. But Evil Santa's more fun to say than random loco dude.
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Annointed posted:But Evil Santa's more fun to say than random loco dude. You had all built my hopes up until I watched that episode and then they were dashed. DASHED, I say.
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Drifter posted:You had all built my hopes up until I watched that episode and then they were dashed. DASHED, I say. He is evil Santa because he gives presents of pain and death.
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Dante Logos posted:He is evil Santa because he gives presents of pain and death. He also tells people "MERRY CHRISTMAS"! What a swell guy.
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ilifinicus posted:This latest episode gave me insight into what it feels like to be an MMO casual, what a strange feeling it must be to be Akatsuki tier scrub Nobody is spitting on her for being the casual scum she is my immersion!!!
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Caught up with this show just in time to see Soujiro in a pretty good action scene. I now am reading his sidestory manga, because the guy is cool. Things are obviously much slower than S1 but they don't seem too bad to me.
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http://a.pomf.se/cayqhj.webm nyanta in the english dub is perhaps too dashing
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Cake Attack posted:http://a.pomf.se/cayqhj.webm Please tell me this is real. Oh my God.
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Ahahaha that's amazing if it is the real thing. Good lord.
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If that isn't real then I'm gonna kill myself because there's no reason to live.
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I like that Nyanta voice though Serara really suffers from that generic little girl anime dub voice.
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Wait, that dub implies that Serara actually left the house. Checked the episode real quick. Serara is supposed to ask Nyanta how town was, instead of Nyanta asking Serara. Arkanterian fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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Nyanta is still the best character in the series.
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it's the real thing, that's a cake attack guarantee
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This seems to be the actor's first major role. He normally voices one-episode characters and background people.
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The voice is great, but the lines have him straight up hitting on Serara.
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Neeksy posted:Nyanta is still the best character in the series. He really is-nya~~~ 
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