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One thing I should mention for people put off by the premise is that (very mild future spoiler) Elias is an ancient, alien, and rather naïve monster with virtually zero idea of how marriage or romance works, so him picking up a teenage girl as a bride is far less predatory than it sounds. Chose is basically living with a friendlier, better-dressed Cthulhu.
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RottenK posted:thanks for posting that spoiler because that was the one big issue i had aftear seeing this up on Crunchy and reading the premise Yeah, his thought-process is basically as follows: 1. I want to be more human. 2. Humans fall in love and get married. 3. To be married, I need a human female as a bride. 4. I have purchased a human female. 5. Oh poo poo I have no idea what the next step is supposed to be. The rest of the story proceeds from there.
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Oct 8, 2017 00:49
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Ccs posted:She sells herself into slavery? That's incredibly dumb. The_White_Crane posted:TBF his giving her a tracking device without telling her was kind of creepy. Most of her decisions are consistent with someone who's not quite actively suicidal, but is self-destructing pretty deliberately. Apparently, being a fairy magnet hasn't worked out too well for her. Also, voluntarily entering into indentured servitude was an actual, historical thing. Still kind of is in regulation-light markets.
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Oct 9, 2017 09:32
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Tarezax posted:Elias is secretly a moe character To be clear, this is not a joke. This is an actual statement of fact. Superhero moe is out, skeleton moe is in.
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Oct 10, 2017 19:09
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Blank Construct posted:Seems like they could have excised slavery entirely and still achieved what it was going for. Not really. It sets out that Chise is severely self-destructive, and that the broader magical community is not a very nice place. Both of these will be important going forwards.
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Oct 12, 2017 15:05
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Blank Construct posted:There are multitudes of other ways of showing a character is self destructive my dude. Not many others that show the great and the good of her new world happily going along with her self-destruction, though.
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Oct 12, 2017 18:02
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Let’s be real here, though - at this point, he’s basically confining her on suicide watch.
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Oct 26, 2017 19:38
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There Bias Two posted:So far this episode didn't seem lovecraftian in the least to me. ‘The Cats Of Ulthar’ covers very similar territory to this arc, and may have been an inspiration.
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https://twitter.com/vestenet/status/927326125809917952
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Nov 6, 2017 01:50
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Yeah, Joseph is literally the Wandering Jew, only he learned magic to find a way to free himself from the curse. Guess Jesus didn’t reckon he’d be able to keep himself sane enough for long enough to make himself a serious threat to others. It’s weirdly admirable, in a way.
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Nov 27, 2017 03:11
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I will say that I thought the direction wasn’t great this episode. The choreography was sloppy, and the tonal shifts were very oddly-placed. It kind of felt like they were copying a bunch of manga panels without looking at how they felt as a unified whole.
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Nov 27, 2017 03:34
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Mordja posted:I mean, most of the "fairytale" mythology in this is heavily Celtic/Nordic, and the OVA is Japanese so I guess it presuposes that all fables are true in some way. That’s exactly the problem, though. A good adaptation takes into account the differences between the media, conveying the general experience in different ways with a different toolkit. Manga-to-anime comic timing tends to be particularly hurt by this - a one-panel joke can be a funny and incisive detail on a page, but an obnoxious distraction when you add sound and colour and make it take up the whole screen for several seconds while the voice actors say the lines. Good adaptations either cut that stuff out, leaving the comedy to more overtly comic scenes where it won’t damage the tone, or find some other, less jarring way to lighten the atmosphere. Similarly, the panel-to-panel style of direction hurt the action here - characters would teleport around and jump between situations without a clear sense of flow or place. Animation brings a touch of the third dimension to a scene, and they’re not taking advantage of it. Compare how, say, Blood Blockade Battlefront adopts its action from page to screen, and you’ll see what I mean.
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Nov 27, 2017 05:15
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Also, Joseph clearly has memory problems, and it’s unclear whether it’s because of his own experimentation, because of the curse itself, or simply because the human brain is not designed to retain two thousand years of information. Whatever the case, it makes his immortality significantly more hellish.
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Nov 27, 2017 15:29
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Levity is no bad thing. This particular method of injecting that necessary levity, though, is pretty inept, and suggests the director doesn’t really get adaptive storytelling.
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C-SPAN Caller posted:FMAB has plenty of tonal whiplash since all the gags were drawn in the same style as the manga. It by no means ruined the show but it was very noticeable when it happened, like in this show. FMAB was an accurate adaptation that happened to be extremely good, but could have been potentially better if it breathed a little bit more in its own medium. Using what the medium adds and avoiding what no longer works.
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Ccs posted:Hmm there's a school arc now? I do enjoy wizard schools but the only examples in anime I've seen have been crap like Irregular at Magic High School. This will probably be much better. If you want a good wizard school show, try Iruma-kun. It's incredibly wholesome.
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