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Kanos posted:Literally all of these things make perfect sense in the context of the setting. Can you explain the steam powered bow-and-arrow, then? This episode was much better than the last, but I still find myself getting annoyed by minor aspects of the setting, certain character actions, and the fact that everyone feels a pathological need to act like a badass and destroy potentially useful armor every time they want to go through a portal. And yeah, even while I'm critical of the series, I thought Mumei's actions in this episode were realistic, even if they didn't necessarily "make sense" when looked at from a distant perspective.
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I enjoyed the episode well enough, but I would love to ask the person in charge of worldbuilding why they decided to suspend the railway precariously over the middle of the gorge, rather than across either of the perfectly flat pieces of land to either side.
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May 20, 2016 14:38
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Major Ricardo posted:Why did they need more speed to begin with? Wasn't the plan to let the titan get close enough for their cannon to shoot it exposing the heart? It isn't like the speed helped them anyways other than to create Dramatic Tension The way I justified that mentally was that the big zombie could match the speed of the train, but the smaller ones could not, so the traintop defense crew would be less likely to be overrun.
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May 21, 2016 04:41
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C-SPAN Caller posted:Trains going faster do more damage to themselves and others because of physics. But... they were travelling AWAY from the fused colony, so relative velocity was reduced with their increased speed. Even if they were headed toward one another, given the difference in hardness between the majority of the zombies' bodies and the armor on the train, there might be a point, velocity-wise, at which more of the energy of the train passes through the zombies, as opposed to being directed at the specific site of collision, becoming more inelastic, like a heavy and slow bullet's penetration as opposed to a fast and light one's. Physics is just generally weird in this show. We see all kinds of poo poo falling on the zombies and incapacitating them, and we see Mumei piercing them with a normal steel sword, but bushibro needs that special sword to pierce them, despite the explanation being the relative hardnesses of the zombies' heartcases and steel.
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May 21, 2016 17:02
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I liked Mumei somehow forcing the wooden mophandle through the Kabane's chestplate. Physics just keep getting weirder. I have to say, though, I can't really stomach Biba. "I'll liberate you from your fears and your obligations and your body- I'll liberate you from everything" or whatever was way over the top. At the same time, though, the episode had some really good moments that were entirely too brief. I really liked the idea that the Liberators were going to escape with the engineer and master key, leaving everyone from the Koutetsujyo almost literally up poo poo creek without a paddle. Hybrid colony and the different kinds of blood in that case are fascinating in a worldbuilding sense, but that's equally frustrating since I can't help but think that we'll never learn where they came from, at least in the show. Also, my new favorite character is the guy who hits Ikoma with a stick every time he gets too full of himself.
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Jun 10, 2016 14:56
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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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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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