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Look man, girls love Sephiroth. Doesn't matter that he wants to do [insert bad thing here]
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The ending to this show was kinda stupid, like they couldn't quite decide if they wanted to wrap it up all the way or leave open obvious sequel hooks But I suppose the whole show was a bit like that. And while it was stupid, it wasn't Guilty Crown stupid. And drat was it pretty!
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Jun 30, 2016 18:49
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Oh boy here we gooo
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Jun 30, 2016 18:50
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All things considered, this wasn't such a bad way to end things. Convenient, but not bad. They did leave lots of room for a sequel, though it's not strictly necessary. Kabaneri confirmed for still being a dumb action show in the end, but at least it went back to the good side of the dumb spectrum. I guess that's nice.
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Jun 30, 2016 21:47
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wielder posted:All things considered, this wasn't such a bad way to end things. Convenient, but not bad. They did leave lots of room for a sequel, though it's not strictly necessary.
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Jun 30, 2016 23:06
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They are making compilation movies for this. Rather strange, given the short series length, but they may want to increase their profits and improve some of the animation in the process. Grouchio posted:Still a far better deal then with what happened with Ultima IX, Wielder. You're breaking my heart here.
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Jul 1, 2016 00:11
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The ending for this was good enough for me and I kinda hope they don't continue with this in a second season unless they're really sure they know what they're doing. Biba giving Ikoma his white blood was pretty nice of him.
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Yeah the ending wasn't too bad. A decent 12 eps. I feel like if they start exploring it the massive goofiness of the plot is going to catch up to their oh-so-serious setting. Kurusu blushing was my favorite part of the ending. Also his hair.
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Me, I'd just be worried that if there was a second season, they'd try to set up Mumei as Ikoma's love interest. Especially given how heavily paired off Ayame and Kurusu are. The writing in this cour was mostly just inoffensively bad summer-blockbuster fare without much that was seriously unpleasant, and I just don't trust Okouchi to keep that up over a longer period after the rest of his recent original works. It does look like there might well be an S2, but this really does seem like a good place to stop off while the show's still fun.
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Jul 1, 2016 04:42
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They are making an MMO out of this. Which is only going to be released in China. Where they can't watch the show itself because it was banned for being too violent.
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wielder posted:Rather strange, given the short series length, but they may want to increase their profits and improve some of the animation in the process. Kabaneri did gangbusters on BD v1 pre-orders but only sold around 2/3rds of the pre-orders through. It still did extremely well on sales though. They're going to ride the merch koutetsujou until it derails, and a S2 will probably happen.
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Forgall posted:They are making an MMO out of this. Which is only going to be released in China. Where they can't watch the show itself because it was banned for being too violent. that's an odd choice, but it isn't like anyone outside of china is gonna miss out on much. "chinese tie-in mmo" is synonymous with "garbage that no one should ever play".
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I'm fine with a second season, let them go to some other Shogun's territory who actually has competent defenses and is winning against the Kabane as much as anyone, i.e. rarely losing stations instead of them constantly being overwhelmed, and with citizens not completely lost to fear. Our hero brings them Jet Bullet tech, they add that and the Kabaneri to their fighting force, and move out to stop the Kabane at their source. Add a proper antagonist on the Kabane side, like an intelligent Kabane leading them, and there you go. It'd be a hell of a gamechanger alone if he taught them that all you needed to do to stop becoming a Kabane is choke yourself to the point of dying, it might not work 100% of the time but that'd do a lot to assuage people's fears. Kind of the other side of the coin to how they reacted to him at first, instead of "he's a kabane kill him" it's "he looks like a kabane but he's sane and talking and fighting against them, wow this gives me hope if I'm bitten!" Imagine those suicide bags replaced with choke collars, and instead of always increasing the enemy's numbers you're making super soldiers on your side a healthy percentage of the time.
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Jul 1, 2016 16:02
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Give everyone the fetish devices so they can get off wherever they are!
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NowonSA posted:Imagine those suicide bags replaced with choke collars, and instead of always increasing the enemy's numbers you're making super soldiers on your side a healthy percentage of the time. It's implied that knowledge of Kabaneri is pretty widespread among the nobles already, though, and "Use a tourniquet so the toxin doesn't migrate" isn't really a difficult concept. And they covered the whole "panic and distrust destroys your city down to the last brick" angle as well as they're going to this season. In the end, the show basically needs to turn into a political thriller to justify the worldbuilding early on, but I'm not sure what more can be done on the political side of things.
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It's a good thing for Biba's men that the pretty one made the deal with Ayame. If it had been the rat'stached string bean that Ikoma killed on the tracks, she probably would have thrown them out.NowonSA posted:It'd be a hell of a gamechanger alone if he taught them that all you needed to do to stop becoming a Kabane is choke yourself to the point of dying, it might not work 100% of the time but that'd do a lot to assuage people's fears. Kind of the other side of the coin to how they reacted to him at first, instead of "he's a kabane kill him" it's "he looks like a kabane but he's sane and talking and fighting against them, wow this gives me hope if I'm bitten!" Imagine those suicide bags replaced with choke collars, and instead of always increasing the enemy's numbers you're making super soldiers on your side a healthy percentage of the time. Taking that fear away from the general populace and giving them that kind of power would probably cause as many problems as it would solve for the country's rulers, so if the series did try to go in this direction, I imagine it would have to be done under their noses. It would also require everyone to start donating blood on a regular basis to keep their military fed, and that would be a whole new can of worms to open.
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Jul 1, 2016 20:24
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littleorv posted:Give everyone the fetish devices so they can get off wherever they are! It's just going to result in a lot of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrFCuUBGmPQ
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Jul 1, 2016 20:52
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Eh, show was alright. Was really nice when the rest of the cast came back and I remembered why I liked this show. Mumei even got to be a Good Character for a lil bit.
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Biba's right hand man being deemed not worthy of mercy by Ikoma might have been the moment of the episode for me. For some reason, I hated him a fuckton more than I hated Biba (and I hated Biba). So satisfying to see him gone.
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Jul 2, 2016 02:55
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Biba's right hand ninja/hitman/war criminal was way cooler than Biba so it's only natural he gets the coolest death.
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Jul 2, 2016 03:00
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A happy ending?! I don't think I'm ready for this yet!
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Jul 2, 2016 03:57
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I'm happy to see someone besides Sabin take out a train in hand to hand combat.
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Jul 2, 2016 04:37
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So when exactly did Biba give Ikoma the white blood?
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Raenir Salazar posted:So when exactly did Biba give Ikoma the white blood? If Mumei didn't act so surprised, I would've said she injected it. But yeah, after the Kabane giant collapsing and after killing Biba are the only times he could have gotten it and the first time Biba was taking pot shots at him. Continuity 
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Lurking Haro posted:If Mumei didn't act so surprised, I would've said she injected it. The only thing I can think of is Biba's suicide attack, where he stabbed Ikoma in the armpit with his halfsword, but I'm not sure how the injection side of it could possibly have worked.
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Raenir Salazar posted:A happy ending?! I don't think I'm ready for this yet! Well, every station we ever saw even briefly was completely overrun by kabane and destroyed, and half the time it was with the direct assistance of Evil dude Biba. I mean our heroes get away, but even they lost some people along the way, like most of the people in the back half of the train during the mountains for instance. They're riding off across the water, but it's hard to say that they don't have more suffering ahead given what we've seen so far. Raenir Salazar posted:So when exactly did Biba give Ikoma the white blood? I figured it was during their close combat session, but then he's shooting at him after saving him? Yeah that didn't make much sense. I don't see how it'd happen, but it'd be fun if Ikoma somehow pickpocketed it and used it on himself, and Mumei's like Nii-sama wasn't so bad after all when he was just evil all day every day.
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didn't both pass out at some point? maybe biba woke up earlier and wanted to continue the fight, going so far as injecting ikoma.
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nerdz posted:didn't both pass out at some point? maybe biba woke up earlier and wanted to continue the fight, going so far as injecting ikoma. I feel like this is what happened, where Biba shot Ikoma with the white blood just to get him to not go crazy and fight him while he's still sane. Then Mumei stabbed him.
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So can anyone explain to me what was going on with Biba's henchmen at the end there? I mean they literally just were held prisoner, executed and drained of blood by these guys while watching them knowingly, willingly and unrepentantly murder three entire cities of innocent people. I know they needed them to get out but at least put them in cells and say you'll put them on trial or something. These guys committed legitimate war-crime level stuff here.
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galagazombie posted:So can anyone explain to me what was going on with Biba's henchmen at the end there? I mean they literally just were held prisoner, executed and drained of blood by these guys while watching them knowingly, willingly and unrepentantly murder three entire cities of innocent people. I know they needed them to get out but at least put them in cells and say you'll put them on trial or something. These guys committed legitimate war-crime level stuff here. Because they explicitly said that if they really wanted to they could have used force to get what they want; that they didn't is some evidence of decency in some of them; not all of them were completely on board with Captain Ahab. There's also the pressing need for trained soldiers vs the Kabane. I think there's also some sort of theme about fighting the true enemy and this is a way to partially break free of the cycle of human idiocy and madness.
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galagazombie posted:So can anyone explain to me what was going on with Biba's henchmen at the end there? I mean they literally just were held prisoner, executed and drained of blood by these guys while watching them knowingly, willingly and unrepentantly murder three entire cities of innocent people. I know they needed them to get out but at least put them in cells and say you'll put them on trial or something. These guys committed legitimate war-crime level stuff here. Yeah, despite there being prison cells in stations and whatnot the idea of keeping prisoners in an outright zombie apocalypse doesn't really fly. It pretty much boils down to kill them so they don't consume your resources, or put them to work for the good of your society or group. One thing I liked about World War Z is how they were like "We can't throw people in prison anymore, so let's just do brief punishments instead like whipping or getting put in old-school stocks, and if they really act up we just kill them or send them on a suicide mission." The book basically says "Who could afford to keep feeding and protecting someone who's not producing anything, and assign someone to guard them?" Of course that's just in the U.S., in other countries things were handled... differently.
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ahahaha this show I give it props for at least being aware of how one-note all the characters were, and having the cut-as-gently caress engineer girl do what she does best again for the finale.
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They added a few scenes showing that the young kabaneri didn't like the sadistic methods employed by the lanky kabaneri. If they shouldn't forgive him they also can't forgive mumei I guess.
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So was the shipwreck in the second to last episode supposed to be the source of the outbreak in Japan or am I reading too far into it?
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Jul 5, 2016 21:44
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Broseph Brostar posted:So was the shipwreck in the second to last episode supposed to be the source of the outbreak in Japan or am I reading too far into it? What makes you think that?
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Lurking Haro posted:What makes you think that? Conventional ships with sails seem out of place in a world full of steam trains. I'd think that Japan is still isolated, but there's also that white guy.
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Broseph Brostar posted:Conventional ships with sails seem out of place in a world full of steam trains. I'd think that Japan is still isolated, but there's also that white guy. Steam locomotives didn't come to Japan until 1872, after the opening of the country. It's not like steamboats immediately replaced all sail boats, so the ship can be from whenever. There are just too few hints to connect it to the Kabane.
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nerdz posted:They added a few scenes showing that the young kabaneri didn't like the sadistic methods employed by the lanky kabaneri. If they shouldn't forgive him they also can't forgive mumei I guess. Kinda weird they made a big deal about how rare male kabaneri are if they have the same number in the show as the female versions (including the one at the core of the one colony, I think?)
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what an odd ending. they were trying to go with a hopeful tone but the world seems much worse off than when the series started
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