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AnacondaHL posted:I thought the source of this was a shoujo, so all of that I just shrugged off like meh w/e.
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Yeah, unfortunately the quick description of the series paired with anime's penchant for unsettling and uncomfortable situations like that do this series a huge disservice. Once you get to learn about Elias more you can 100% see how this situation ended up happening.
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Oct 10, 2017 14:50
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AnacondaHL posted:You misread me, I'm not shrugging off the series because it's a shoujo, I'm shrugged off the portions of the premise that I personally found questionable because I thought this was a shoujo and thus I thought I was not part of the intended/target demographic. Anyways, I recommend reading the manga if you can. The artwork is often quite beautiful, even if the human characters can be a bit samefaced at times(the scientists are the worst offenders of this). The two-page spreads are really something, as shown.
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Oct 10, 2017 18:25
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Martytoof posted:Didn't realize I wasn't supposed to watch the OVA before the series, ideally, so I did both yesterday. The whole ho hum I guess I'll just sell myself into slavery thing felt a little too out of the blue to take seriously but I'll roll with it because the OVA was interesting enough to keep me watching. definitely portrayed in a good "irrational thinking of a mentally disturbed and suicidal person" way
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Oct 11, 2017 17:13
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Blank Construct posted:I think my objection lies with the broader institution and Elias' complicity not really being developed after the opening, but it'll get there eventually I suppose. Look Looooook Just trust us when we say read the manga or watch the show. Things do get addressed. The magical realm and humans who interact with it aren't painted as morally righteous people a lot of the time, hell, most of the time. Stop posting if all you are going to do is grouse about potentialities that people have repeatedly tried to be vague about in answering, otherwise you can just go read a wiki.
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Oct 13, 2017 19:24
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Jackard posted:May I be the first to say, these forums.
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Oct 15, 2017 04:49
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Not going into specifics, but if you enjoyed the darker aspects of faeries and otherworldly beings of european folklore and such, you're probably going to like this series a whole fuckin' lot
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Oct 23, 2017 03:23
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Nitrousoxide posted:Having watched episodes 1 and 2 now, the entire time I spent watching this I had a dubious look on my face.
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Oct 26, 2017 19:01
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Nitrousoxide posted:I want to be clear, my problem isn't with there being a story about a slaveholder and his slave. That's fine. My problem is with the tone this show has about the slavery, and the viewers who want to justify Elias's slavery of Chise and ascribe noble motives not even hinted at to him.
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Oct 26, 2017 21:28
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Elias is also protecting her from a wide variety of beings who would love to have an overcharged walking mana battery to exploit/devour, as well. His purchasing her was not ideal, for sure. However, considering the other beings at the auction, this is kind of the best case scenario.
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Oct 27, 2017 14:32
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OnimaruXLR posted:Honestly if crippling depression was all that it took for characters in fiction to stop yakking about how they never asked for this and how they just wanted to be normal and how they wished all this exciting supernatural action never happened, then I would wish all the world's most ruinous and debilitating suffering upon all of them
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Oct 29, 2017 06:29
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Even perfect immortality, where you suffer nothing directly, sucks rear end because everyone around will die first. There's no end of media discussing that particular problem. But again, we fall back to the physical and mental issues as previously discussed.
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Nov 28, 2017 01:06
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Oh, right, duh, how could I forget. Akatsuki no Yona deals with immortality real well too. It's also an incredibly good series in general.
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Nov 28, 2017 01:43
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There Bias Two posted:Did you just spoil a plot element that wasn't in the first season? Arghhh. I guess. At this point it's been a thing for years in the manga. Will they make more of the anime, I felt like it would be a one and done thing like a lot of series's adaptations.
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Nov 29, 2017 06:01
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Yeah the whole series is all about never fully trusting the fae and otherworldly, because they are, in every sense of the word, not human. Except cool old dragons, because they're rad.
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Feb 20, 2018 20:38
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chapter 46 I love that Joseph is just your friendly neighborhood existential threat now.
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May 23, 2018 09:56
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Yeah the only real solid similarity with it and Harry potter is it's a wizard school, that's it Harry potter didn't invent wizard schools
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Feb 22, 2019 14:14
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Well, the anime got to the part previous to this current school arc right? So there'd hopefully be a good bit of a wait to let this build up a buffer to adapt from so we don't have a Fullmetal alchemist issue.
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Mar 13, 2019 03:18
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there's a new chapter. https://mangadex.org/chapter/650740 I just want to talk a little about how much I love this page in particular and the skill of the author in depicting Elias, a character who has an unmoving bestial skull for a head, as having varying emotions(chibi form notwithstanding) despite the bones never changing shape. It's all in how they look at him, what angle he's at, that gives the perception of a smile or frown. It's really, really good, and this page in particular makes it more obvious than normal. 
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Elias is entirely justified in being as clingy as he is because Chise is a disaster magnet
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Oct 13, 2019 13:59
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