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Kanos posted:It's pretty rare that a perspective character hasn't managed to justify their existence by episode 7 of their show. I get that he's not meant to be the actual protagonist, but christ, the fat dude managed to figure out a huge portion of the secret Sota is sitting on by doing searches on Nico. I'm sure the big twist is something like he helped Suicide Girl create Altair or something along those lines, but when he suffered his little crisis of confidence he tucked her away and Suicide Girl took it badly. It would explain why he's so ridiculously whiny about his art and also why he's afraid to tell anyone this staggeringly important and useful information. They probably should've translated the comments he flashes back to, but basically he got flamed real bad in response to making the drawing (they call him a dumb NEET and a plagiarist and all that). He obviously stopped drawing because of that. That's probably also why Suicide Girl committed suicide.
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Darth Walrus posted:I can't help but suspect that much of that was masterful adaptive scripting in the dub. They rewrote a lot. I never watched the dub, but I'm pretty sure it was still well written. And goddamn concise, too.
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May 22, 2017 05:09
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Darth Walrus posted:I can't help but suspect that much of that was masterful adaptive scripting in the dub. They rewrote a lot. I watched the sub, it was great. The scene where Rock tells Revy to stop loving with him was amazing.
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May 22, 2017 09:19
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Mordja posted:I never watched the dub, but I'm pretty sure it was still well written. And goddamn concise, too. There were scenes where the whole gag was a character being a blowhard who talks too much that were more concise than the average Re:Creators exposition scene. It's deeply weird.
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May 22, 2017 10:27
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I still think there's something going on with the animation studio/production process. The first episode was spot-on. I'm still waiting for a better scene than Selesia jacking that car and figuring out how it works while driving. Character development and plot at the same time?
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May 22, 2017 13:53
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Clarste posted:They probably should've translated the comments he flashes back to, but basically he got flamed real bad in response to making the drawing (they call him a dumb NEET and a plagiarist and all that). He obviously stopped drawing because of that. That's probably also why Suicide Girl committed suicide. Yeah this would have been kind of useful/important to read, though I appreciate the difficulty of subtitling a bunch of internet comments quickly flashing by and having it be comprehensible. Knowing this makes me even more perplexed why they're having Sota be so damned cagey about telling them about the damned villain, though. "I got made fun of on the internet" is a pretty bad excuse.
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May 22, 2017 23:59
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Vengarr posted:I still think there's something going on with the animation studio/production process. The first episode was spot-on. I haven't seen a show do such a nosedive from the first episode in awhile.
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May 23, 2017 00:34
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ahaha after all the whining about exposition, the show triples-down by having one villain fight using words as weapons and another one called "Blitz Talker" 
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May 24, 2017 03:53
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Hey man, at least "Blitz" suggests speed.
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May 24, 2017 03:59
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Why does the grizzled old man who fights with a gun have the ability to fly? This seems fundamentally wrong to me, genre-wise. I mean, yeah, sci-fi, but not everyone needs to fly in fiction! Selesia flying is already kind of weird since she doesn't seem to use magic or anything!
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Clarste posted:Why does the grizzled old man who fights with a gun have the ability to fly? This seems fundamentally wrong to me, genre-wise. I mean, yeah, sci-fi, but not everyone needs to fly in fiction! Selesia flying is already kind of weird since she doesn't seem to use magic or anything! Gravity manipulation seems to be his entire thing. I guess we're looking at a sci-fi/fantasy noir character like Batou from Ghost in the Shell or Hellboy.
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May 24, 2017 11:02
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Darth Walrus posted:Gravity manipulation seems to be his entire thing. I guess we're looking at a sci-fi/fantasy noir character like Batou from Ghost in the Shell or Hellboy. Batou and Hellboy can't fly either. Flying doesn't fit well with grizzled.
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May 24, 2017 11:15
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chiasaur11 posted:Batou and Hellboy can't fly either. Well, there's always Hannibal King, the vampire private eye. He can fly. Harry Dresden could probably fly too, if he put his mind to it.
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Yeah, it's not that it's implausible that he'd be able to fly with technology in a sci-fi setting, it's implausible that whoever wrote him would've given him that power, given the genre. Maybe Dresden could fly, but he doesn't fly because the writer never felt the need to make him fly.
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May 24, 2017 12:13
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Anyway, I just find it really weird that more characters than not can fly. Magical girls and wizards? Sure, why not? A knight with a flying horse? Cool. Flying... magic-knight kinda person? A bit weird, but I can accept it. Whatever the hell Altair is? Okay. Flying grizzled old gunman? Now that's just a step too far. That leaves three people who we haven't seen casually flying around (Jojo, mecha pilot, and word-power user), and I'm pretty sure all of them will fly by the end of the show, because their power sets certainly allow it.
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May 24, 2017 12:19
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Darth Walrus posted:Gravity manipulation seems to be his entire thing. I guess we're looking at a sci-fi/fantasy noir character like Batou from Ghost in the Shell or Hellboy. Really? He reminds me of Fullmetal Alchemist as much as anything. His gimmick also reminds me of the caster gun from Outlaw Star, now that I think about it.
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He seems to gently caress with his watch whenever he flies, so it's probably a gravity manipulation gadget or something along those lines. It feels a little out of character for a character who looks so hard-boiled, but it already feels weird for a character like that to shoot exploding gravity bombs out of a revolver instead of just shooting people to begin with.
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May 25, 2017 00:59
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He just shoots people too, the gravity bomb got pulled out because talky girl was blocking all of his regular bullets.
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May 26, 2017 00:21
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Yeah, I know, it's just "gritty film noir hitman" and "loading a gravity explosive into a revolver" already don't scan together to begin with so gently caress it he has a flying watch too.
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May 26, 2017 02:50
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Kanos posted:Yeah, I know, it's just "gritty film noir hitman" and "loading a gravity explosive into a revolver" already don't scan together to begin with I certainly never got that memo.
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May 26, 2017 03:22
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Kanos posted:Yeah, I know, it's just "gritty film noir hitman" and "loading a gravity explosive into a revolver" already don't scan together to begin with so gently caress it he has a flying watch too. Nah, he'd fit in perfectly well with a WW2 setting with leanings toward the occult.
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May 26, 2017 08:29
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Just checked, and Pixiv seems to love drawing MUP, which is cute, in a meta way.
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May 27, 2017 19:22
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Of course the Madoka refugee does a grand heroic sacrifice to save the embittered, doomed warrior she's got an unspoken crush on.
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May 27, 2017 19:30
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eonwe posted:how is this the loving best thing followed by an okay thing followed by nap time followed by a return to the loving best thing
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May 27, 2017 20:04
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eonwe posted:how is this 
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eonwe posted:how is this Seems as though some are really unsatisfied with the pace and/or overly talkiness of some of the episodes, but so far i really like it.
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May 27, 2017 21:40
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It's good but not great. Feels like it has too many characters or focuses on too few.
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That was a really great explosion sound, and also a nasty cliffhanger.
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I like Meteora. She's chill and cool in my book. The bits about her trying to figure out her role in the world was pretty nice. Rui is bit of an rear end but he's alright. Wish we'd see him more often.
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a kitten posted:Seems as though some are really unsatisfied with the pace and/or overly talkiness of some of the episodes, but so far i really like it. It wasn't just being talky. It was being the bad kind of talky. David Mamet once wrote a memo about this kind of thing that made the rounds on the 'net. Basically, every scene should be dramatic. Every scene should be characters advancing to or being set back from a specific goal with clear, emotionally involving stakes. So, Ghost in the Shell's internet forum episode? Good. We know what both sides want (Information on the Laughing Man, with the Major having the side goal of preventing anyone else from piecing too much together.), we know what happens if they can't accomplish it (the Laughing Man's crime sprees continue, the Major has to arrest or kill some nerd for knowing too much.) and the whole episode is spent with people debating their way to their goal. The Meteora exposition? Abysmal. There's no drama, and no conflict. They were already planning to take down MUP because come on, she could not be broadcasting "Would-be evil overlord" more if you paid her, so there's no practical change to anyone's goals if she's planning to destroy the universe or just drive up rents in Shibuya. No-one bounces off her, no-one has goals that get advanced or hindered because of the scene, nothing HAPPENS. Also, the viewer surrogate is just the pits for the first half dozen episodes, minimum. Haven't caught up with the last few, but from what I've seen, he doesn't get better.
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chiasaur11 posted:It wasn't just being talky. It was being the bad kind of talky. They've at least explained what his deal is - he's unhelpful to the heroes, but mostly because he's a giant blob of PTSD who's pretty sure he helped drive his friend/girlfriend to suicide, and can't admit his connection to Altair because it would involve admitting to the awful poo poo he believes he's responsible for. He's basically a somewhat sympathetic minor antagonist at this point. Bad news is that it looks like they've killed off an interesting character who looks like they were set up to be part of one of the show's cuter couples.
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Darth Walrus posted:They've at least explained what his deal is - he's unhelpful to the heroes, but mostly because he's a giant blob of PTSD who's pretty sure he helped drive his friend/girlfriend to suicide, and can't admit his connection to Altair because it would involve admitting to the awful poo poo he believes he's responsible for. He's basically a somewhat sympathetic minor antagonist at this point. Ah yes, a child and an adult, what a cute couple. 
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Mordja posted:Ah yes, a child and an adult, what a cute couple. this is anime, knight-lady is probably 17 at most
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Astro Ambulance posted:this is anime, knight-lady is probably 17 at most Yeah, I figured she was pretty young - she reads very much as an angry teenager in over her head. Especially since her being a child soldier seems like exactly the sort of overwrought tragedy that her creator would dump on her.
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May 28, 2017 02:45
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Shiiiiit, dudes I hope Mamika isn't dead and that she can see Alice again
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May 28, 2017 04:28
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New drinking game: Everytime Meteora starts saying some bullshit that everyone around her immediately accepts drink until she shuts up
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sockpuppetclock posted:New drinking game: Everytime Meteora starts saying some bullshit that everyone around her immediately accepts drink until she shuts up Thanks, now I have alcohol poisoning.
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