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i get that the lesson of the episode is supposed to be 'small kindnesses done out of ignorance and privilege can lead to tragedy' but putting both these stories together without having elaina pay it forward in some way in the second one feels really off, like the show has abstained from making a clear point and just comes off as "poo poo happens i guess"
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Like someone else said the anime changed a few things from the novel that kinda muddies the point. Plus it led with two two pretty simple stories rather than the usual tone, so it comes off extra jarring.
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Oct 17, 2020 15:28
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Tales of Woe posted:i get that the lesson of the episode is supposed to be 'small kindnesses done out of ignorance and privilege can lead to tragedy' but putting both these stories together without having elaina pay it forward in some way in the second one feels really off, like the show has abstained from making a clear point and just comes off as "poo poo happens i guess" The second story really should have been a full episode. I get what it was trying to do, but it's a story that really needs subtlety and time to let everything snowball to the finale to make it actually land.
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In defense of Elaine (and for the record as an anime-only), she seems to come from a pretty pampered background and this is literally her first time out in the world. Alone. Also, from the previous episode, as powerful as she might be she can still be blindsided and is kinda clueless at things not related to magic. I really doubt she can show up somewhere, do whatever she wants and then leave without consequences. And the whole situation clearly rubs her the wrong way, she knows it is wrong but has no idea what to do. If this was the story of an older character then yeah she hosed up, but she is just a kid. Also the line at the end makes is pretty clear that she is still bothered by it. She has to live with the consequences of what she does (even inadvertently, like in the first half) and what she fails to do (second half).
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After sitting on it for a day, I think what might irritate me the most might actually be the stinger of the first part of that majotabi episode. The stinger presents it like there's a zombie apocalypse bearing down on hapless civilization when the novels just have Elaina see one person in the distance carrying a bouquet that may or may not be of the cursed flowers and ending on an ambiguous, unsettled note. The whole Plant Zombie Apocalypse doesn't even make much sense in context with the rest of what we're told about the cursed field - it's not trying to expand or conquer the world or poo poo, it's basically a big evil pitcher plant trap trying to lure in food to immobilize and consume. Dramatically changes the feel of the story from the novel.
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Oct 17, 2020 18:18
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Season 2 of Science Fell in Love announced https://twitter.com/comic_natalie/status/1317344613112320000?s=20
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Exia posted:Season 2 of Science Fell in Love announced https://twitter.com/comic_natalie/status/1317344613112320000?s=20 https://twitter.com/maaya_taso/status/1317435294489038848?s=20 ... somewhere nearby his big sister (literally the first tweet to appear on the "More Tweets" section) has to show up.
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This season has piqued my interest after a bit of a break. Both Akudama Drive and ... whatever Zuerst seem up my alley, with first episode throwing you into some bizarro world which seems intriguing. Though Akudama introducing the cast in dumb title cards felt extremely forced. Liking the world building in both so far, though Akudama Drive's seems definitely more forceful. Maybe they'll end up being bad shows but definitely a strong start for both. Jujutsu Kaisen is probably good but seems like extremely stereotypical and boring shounen to me. While I'm at it is there some sort of traditional, maybe pre-war student dormitory/school? type/architecture in Japan? The second episode's dormitory seemed very reminiscent of some other sources of media I've seen. Elaina and Moriarty are probably good shows as well but drat it's hard to give them a pass and give a poo poo about (superficially?) a cute show and Japanese depiction of Britain or whatever.
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elaina is definitely not a Cute Show, its a kino no tabi style storytelling/travelogue thing
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i give moriarty more leeway than it probably deserves because i like the idea of a secret war against what is arguably the most evil nation in the history of the world.
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I'm really enjoying Akudama Drive. The animation is movie-grade loving gorgeous and it's balancing its over-the-top stupidity with a good self-set internal logic rather than just pulling random poo poo out of its rear end. Well, except maybe the afterburner on the Bus, and that was just loving awesome. I really hope this show goes the distance and doesn't run out of budget or something.
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So, I checked out Magatsu Wahrheit after seeing a fair number of you give it positive buzz, and it's actually pretty neat. There ~are~ a fair number of interconnected moving parts -- in the first episode alone, we are introduced to:
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Oct 18, 2020 05:14
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I was pleasantly surprised by how good the first ep was! I genuinely did not expect the courier to be a co-protagonist, and thought he was just a throwaway character in service of the new cop trainee.
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It's based on a mobile game so I'm not sure how many threads might turn out to just be nods to the source material.
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Squidster posted:I was pleasantly surprised by how good the first ep was! I genuinely did not expect the courier to be a co-protagonist, and thought he was just a throwaway character in service of the new cop trainee. I'd say he's even the more compelling protagonist, so I hope he gets plenty of screentime. Also, lol at yet another character whose main foreshadowing that he's evil is that he's voiced by Kenjiro Tsuda. He's the vocal equivalent of a spiky wardrobe and a red-and-black paintjob.
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the guy has a ridiculously distinct voice and has been typecast as psychotic sleazebags, but he did play the main character if ID: Invaded a few seasons ago, and the worse he did was challenge a serial killer to a fistfight and then pull out a gun when he started losing
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Talentless Nana is fun, as as people have said has a stellar opening episode. I can absolutely believe people when they say it gets stupid fast (even after 3 episodes the setting basically falls apart if you think about the implications for more than five minutes, and I don't see how they can keep the premise going for even one full season without some deeply contrived bullshit) but for what it is it's super fun and scratches the Future Diary itch for deeply silly, over the top edgy shounen.
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Where are people watching Sleepy Princess? Is it up on any legit sites right now or no?
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Epi Lepi posted:Where are people watching Sleepy Princess? Is it up on any legit sites right now or no? Funimation according to Senpai.moe
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funimation has it this page can be useful https://www.senpai.moe/?season=fall2020&mode=calendar though sometimes a show is on two sites and it only lists one of them
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idolish7 has the strongest hijinks eps of any anime i've ever seen https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1317960669900140544/pu/vid/640x360/JYKexgY_cvkc33p5.mp4
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Oct 18, 2020 23:50
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squark this is the type of interchangeable scene seen in about every harem anime ever
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Oct 18, 2020 23:52
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the drunk singing, stolen pudding, and mistaken cat identity parts are harder to clip........
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Hidingo Kojimba posted:Talentless Nana is fun, as as people have said has a stellar opening episode. I can absolutely believe people when they say it gets stupid fast (even after 3 episodes the setting basically falls apart if you think about the implications for more than five minutes, and I don't see how they can keep the premise going for even one full season without some deeply contrived bullshit) but for what it is it's super fun and scratches the Future Diary itch for deeply silly, over the top edgy shounen. The answer to why the setting does not fall apart, is lots and lots of lies. Quite a lot of things being said are lies, or at the very least deceptive.
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Yashahime Episode 3: Holy poo poo Moroha keeps stealing the show, she's seriously the best
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Moroha being the brains of the trio was kinda of out of left field but makes sense in that she very much feels like a child of Inuyasha and Kagome
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Moroha being the brains of the trio was kinda of out of left field but makes sense in that she very much feels like a child of Inuyasha and Kagome She's a demon bounty hunter, so I'd expect her to know some stuff about weapons and demons. I'm more surprised that Setsuna doesn't know that much
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Phobophilia posted:the guy has a ridiculously distinct voice and has been typecast as psychotic sleazebags, but he did play the main character if ID: Invaded a few seasons ago, and the worse he did was challenge a serial killer to a fistfight and then pull out a gun when he started losing Yeah, I know, but they were totally using his voice as advance warning in Magatsu for how nasty the squad leader would turn out to be, just like Appare-Ranman did a season ago with the character he voiced there.
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I don't know which goon said that when he does that voice the characters he voices sound like "they're having a psychotic episode" and he honestly has honed that "barely restrained psycho fuckhead" down to a science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7fU7p3mA0I&t=49s
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Spiritus Nox posted:Funimation according to Senpai.moe AnimeLab has it as well in Australia.
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Spiritus Nox posted:Funimation according to Senpai.moe Looks like it's not one of the one's that's also on Hulu, that's annoying.
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i incorrectly remembered 1m lives as being more comedic in tone. instead, it is just edgelord poo poo.
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Talentless Nana and Moriarty the Patriot are fairly different shows but they can not help but make me hoot and holler
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My fave thing about Moriarty is just how "William" managed to worm his way into the Moriarty family: it was nothing more than a whim of charity, a bunch of rich nobles competing in an inscrutable game over charity, demonstrating who could virtue signal harder. The Penieres probably exploited and abused their orphan just as if not more than the Moriarties ever did, whilst reaping the social rewards for their actions. But WIlliam caught a lucky break, and all three of them are totally down with the plan.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Moroha being the brains of the trio was kinda of out of left field but makes sense in that she very much feels like a child of Inuyasha and Kagome I'm liking that she's clearly kind of dumb, but she actually has memories of the relevant stuff (ie she hasn't been living in the future for a decade and wasn't mindwiped five years ago). But it wouldn't be a Takahashi story if everyone wasn't at least somewhat emptyheaded.
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Some thoughts. Head somewhat empty. 
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Wark Say posted:Some thoughts. Head somewhat empty. And thus, the biography of Wark concludes,
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Moroha has her mother's charisma but her dad's brains
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Xelkelvos posted:Moroha has her mother's charisma but her dad's brains it's a powerful combination
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Xelkelvos posted:Moroha has her mother's charisma but her dad's brains I don't know. She's definitely reckless like Inuyasha, but she's pretty knowledgeable about weapons, demons and curses. She was even able to figure out that Towa and Setsuna are Sesshomaru's.kids based off their scent
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