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Demicol posted:Last episode was good and I liked this show overall. I might check out the LN's and hope there's another season in the future. I think I'm the same, mainly if a second season isn't likely.
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Okay episode, okay season. Not garbage, but recycling bin worthy. Would watch a second season if that ever comes around. As for the last episode what was the deal with the rabbits foot? Did it cause Ripple to come back or was that used to read Fav's mind? If the latter does that assume that Ripple would be convinced not to cut the master's device? She seemed like she would have done it anyway.
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Alpha Kenny Juan posted:Okay episode, okay season. Not garbage, but recycling bin worthy. Would watch a second season if that ever comes around. The Rabbits foot lets you have a Mulligan basically, in this case it probably reacted to Snow Whites desire to save at least one of the magical girls and saved Ripple by healing her enough to avoid death from losing an arm + Exhaustion. Snow White's ability is Telepathy (Slightly nerfed version where it only works on people in "Distress" which can still be fairly useful in combat), so she was hearing Fav the whole time and warned Ripple. We only heard Fav's side of things after Ripple got up; presumably Snow White in a rather fun character moment of pure awesomeness was hearing Fav's thoughts of concern about the well bring for his Terminal but we the audience was hearing it because it made for a more interesting scene. "I can still hear you."
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Raenir Salazar posted:The Rabbits foot lets you have a Mulligan basically, in this case it probably reacted to Snow Whites desire to save at least one of the magical girls and saved Ripple by healing her enough to avoid death from losing an arm + Exhaustion. Snow White's ability is Telepathy (Slightly nerfed version where it only works on people in "Distress" which can still be fairly useful in combat), so she was hearing Fav the whole time and warned Ripple. Regarding Snow White (minor but somewhat predictable spoilers about her power) her ability ends up covering almost all mind-reading, with the exception of people who are constantly worry-free and express no distress (who don't practically exist under normal circumstances). This is especially true during fights, where pretty much everyone would have some inherent concern over things like "I don't want to be killed by this girl." For anyone on the fence about reading the LNs, I recommend them - everything post-Volume 1 is considerably better than Volume 1 in my opinion, particularly in terms of being less predictable (from what I can tell there's no way to really predict who lives and who dies, especially in Arc 4).
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Ytlaya posted:Regarding Snow White (minor but somewhat predictable spoilers about her power) her ability ends up covering almost all mind-reading, with the exception of people who are constantly worry-free and express no distress (who don't practically exist under normal circumstances). This is especially true during fights, where pretty much everyone would have some inherent concern over things like "I don't want to be killed by this girl." Sounds more and more like Danganronpa.  I would legit like a RPG VN adaption of this series.
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Raenir Salazar posted:I would legit like a RPG VN adaption of this series. Only if its on mobile! This felt like a long prologue. I'm definitely interested in more. How much has been translated?
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AfroSquirrel posted:Only if its on mobile! 4 arcs and the 5th is being translated. I think that only 5 or 6 arcs are out in Japan, though; the translator has just been moving really quickly through existing material. If I recall correctly, the first arc (this anime) is Volume 1 and all future arcs are 2 volumes long. There's also one or two volumes of side stories that are pretty good (there's one that covers characters from the first two arcs). edit: The translations aren't mentioned on novelupdates last I checked, though the website linking to them (they're in google documents) should show up on the first page of google results.
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Dec 18, 2016 06:14
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This show was so loving good. I'd definitely watch a second season or read the LNs.
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Dec 18, 2016 06:45
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felt a tad anticlimactic, like it ended up being a superhero origin story, except we never got to see snow white hunting down terrorists and being a badass. i mean, she finally learnt some sick martial arts moves in the epilogue, but that's it?
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Phobophilia posted:felt a tad anticlimactic, like it ended up being a superhero origin story, except we never got to see snow white hunting down terrorists and being a badass. i mean, she finally learnt some sick martial arts moves in the epilogue, but that's it? There's more Snow White in future arcs.
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One thing regarding future arcs is that, even though Snow White remains a character, she doesn't really become a central character again for a while (and even when she does she's usually not what would be considered a protagonist, even if she gets some POV chapters). So it's not like the first arc is the intro arc before going into The Adventures of Snow White; it just sort of introduces some of the setting and a couple characters that are of importance later. The dynamic between Snow White and Ripple is kinda interesting, though (end of Arc 3 spoilers) I wonder how she's going to react to finding out that Pythie is controlling Ripple now. I guess on the bright side she had previously assumed Ripple was dead, so "being mind-controlled" is arguably better than that, but it seems like the narrative keeps kicking her while she's down and taking away all her personal connections. My one gripe about later volumes (various arc 3 and 4 spoilers) is that almost everyone dies every single time. This didn't bother me in the first two arcs because the situation was one that directly encouraged a "everyone kills each other until only a few are left" situation. But in the third and fourth arcs it seems like it was less necessary in terms of the narrative. Like, it makes sense for Pukin to easily kill a bunch of other characters in Arc 3 (since Pukin is waaay stronger than them), but it wasn't an inevitable result like the situations in Arcs 1 and 2. This especially bugged me in Arc 4, because "they defeat Grim Heart and Shufflin without almost everyone dying" could have been a feasible outcome if not for Grim Heart/Shufflin having enough heads to cut off to resupply so many times (and Shufflin's power being so loving ridiculous). Also I was upset that Prism Cherry died because I liked her character design and her power could have been interesting.
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Dec 18, 2016 08:50
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I really enjoyed this show a lot, and if people reading the LNs say it only gets better from here on, then I'm definitely for more. I'll definitely have to read the LNs if season 2 doesn't look like it's going to happen.
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Show wasn't an all-time great, or even AotS, but it ended up being better-executed than it appeared to me going in. Could've done more to explain some of the characters, but it was willing to follow through on its premises and let its more intelligent characters pursue their goals in a rational manner.
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Dec 18, 2016 22:36
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It was good enough for me to want a second season.
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I think I'd want a second season especially for the fact that there is somewhat a consensus with the novels that it just gets better from here. I enjoyed the show though, for what it had to offer. I didn't have high expectations from the get-go but I appreciated its fast pacing.
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The last episode could have been more fleshed out but it was an enjoyable enough series, it filled the killing game anime gap I had after Danganronpa 3 finished at least. Since everyone has been hyping up the LNs I was thinking of checking them out, would I be ok to start at vol2 or were there some parts of the first arc that the anime didn't cover so I should start from the beginning?
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I still don't know if I liked this show. The concept was great, but everything about it seemed off. Some of the deaths seemed edgy and dark for edgy and dark's sake, and on top of that, it's genuinely difficult to get emotionally affected by someone like Nemurin getting murdered when she was only around long enough for me to learn her name. This goes for some of the other deaths too. I'm glad the writing supposedly improves somewhat as the series goes on.
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I wasn't a big fan of this show, though I kept watching it anyway. But enough people talked them up that I looked for later novel translations. I haven't gotten that far, but it's already drastically better than this was.
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Takoluka posted:I still don't know if I liked this show. I'm with you. I still managed to get through the entire series, so it must have had some entertainment value, but mostly it was just depressing. I struggle to find a point beyond "cute girl gore", and it felt like they just tacked on poo poo for shock value, like pregnancy and whatnot. Maybe it got more development in the novels to make it less artificial.
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I think they did a good job of avoiding the pitfalls that a show like this could have dropped into. Most of the deaths had some meaning and impact behind them, and weren't there just for the sake of killing someone. Most of them, because there's no way anyone was going to care about the Peaky Angels dying.
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Command Ant posted:I think they did a good job of avoiding the pitfalls that a show like this could have dropped into. Most of the deaths had some meaning and impact behind them, and weren't there just for the sake of killing someone. The Peaky Angels are those weirdly compelling horror movie murder victims where you cheer when they get shanked as part of some sort of kharmic justice. e: fixed. Raenir Salazar fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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So, if I wanted to read the LNs, how would I do it?
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Cialis Railman posted:So, if I wanted to read the LNs, how would I do it? Google docs here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwUphuy8AsxEVDJfaXJrcHdMVU0 (Feel free to let me know if it's not okay to post this link.) Probably the biggest thing I like more about future volumes is that they have fewer terrible characters that you don't care about (like the Peaky Angels), and even the evil ones have more compelling/interesting motivations aside from just randomly being a huge rear end in a top hat. Especially Arc 2 (Volumes 2-3), which has a much better cast than Volume 1 in my opinion. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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Ytlaya posted:Google docs here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwUphuy8AsxEVDJfaXJrcHdMVU0 (Feel free to let me know if it's not okay to post this link.) Cool, thanks!
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I'd rather have watched a show about people getting happiness in their lives from becoming magical girls without the murdering one another part. A CMGDCT show if you will. Matoi has been the most enjoyable magical girl show for me this season. Flip Flappers has been more enjoyable than Matoi overall, but not because of the magical girl aspect of it.
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nielsm posted:I'd rather have watched a show about people getting happiness in their lives from becoming magical girls without the murdering one another part. A CMGDCT show if you will. I recommend watching Card Captor Sakura
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AnoHito posted:I recommend watching Card Captor Sakura Yeah I have a third or half of it on DVD, unfortunately didn't manage to grab the rest while it was available.
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On the subject of Not-Madokas, how did you guys feel about Daybreak Illusion?
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I started watching it after re-watching Yuki Yuna earlier this year , only about 5 episodes in right now and while I like the visuals there hasn't been much to the plot yet. I should probably finish it.
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Takoluka posted:On the subject of Not-Madokas, how did you guys feel about Daybreak Illusion? It was awful. Nonsense story and a weird subplot about the villain trying to breed with the fourteen year old protagonist.
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InspectorCarbonara posted:The last episode could have been more fleshed out but it was an enjoyable enough series, it filled the killing game anime gap I had after Danganronpa 3 finished at least. Sorry for the derail but this is the first I heard of there being more danganronpa anime, what's the watch order as it's in 3 parts, also was 2 just not adapted?
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Anime_Otaku posted:Sorry for the derail but this is the first I heard of there being more danganronpa anime, what's the watch order as it's in 3 parts, also was 2 just not adapted?
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Ah thanks, just where I'm looking at them Future, Despair and Hope are all listed completely separately.
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Takoluka posted:On the subject of Not-Madokas, how did you guys feel about Daybreak Illusion? There were interesting aspects to it and kinda gritty; but I think it falls short of better Not Madokas. Oh god Rebellion was awesome.
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Takoluka posted:On the subject of Not-Madokas, how did you guys feel about Daybreak Illusion? 
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im reading arc 2 of the series, lol at ripple beaten up by ronald mcdonald and colonel sanders
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Phobophilia posted:im reading arc 2 of the series, lol at ripple beaten up by ronald mcdonald and colonel sanders That's one of the side stories, right? Not Arc 2. The one where she meets and fights with Leonetta.
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The new Wixoss (I might watch the old one next season, since there's not too much that intrigues me) has been hitting some of the "Not Madoka" tones pretty well for me, for what it's worth. The setting is completely different, but the stakes are similar. I liked this show well enough that I'll probably try to read the LNs. What I've seen from glancing at the spoiler tagged sections intrigues me.
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Eldataluta posted:It was awful. Nonsense story and a weird subplot about the villain trying to breed with the fourteen year old protagonist. But enough about Sword Art Online II.
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Yuki Yuna is in a weird spot where it simultaneously has cool and lovely elements, like Togo being a paraplegic magical girl where her disability is treated realistically and with respect instead of fetishized, but at the same time it'll use her for blatant fanservice even though she's a middle schooler. It has good ideas, doesn't try too hard to be dark, and it's above average in a lot of ways but unless you're desensitized to that kind of stuff it's a tough one to recommend. Comparing yuki yuna to madoka is sort of misleading because yuna goes for a very different tone despite the obvious surface parallels, it's not violent in the way you expect.Eldataluta posted:It was awful. Nonsense story and a weird subplot about the villain trying to breed with the twelve year old protagonist.
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