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The usual adaptation jank aside, I thought this was one of the better episodes we've had in weeks. Glad we hit this story, getting into some revelations about Satsuki that IMO make Toriko's character in particular much more interesting, plus I'm glad we got to see Natsumi. She's not like a massively important character or anything but I've got a soft spot for her.
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What's with her hair though. It looks like she spilled dirty motor oil on the top of her head and can't get it out
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I was actually expecting the other girls hand to come away dirty after she patted her on the head earlier. Fun ep! Getting some interesting plot revelations now, I'm curious to see how it will end up wrapping up the season.
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The novels obviously have more time to explore some of the nuances of what's happening here, but I've always really, really liked how quietly and casually they drop the revelation that Satsuki was almost certainly a deeply creepy and predatory groomer even before she got Taken by the Otherside, really casts a lot of what you think you know about Toriko in a new light. Also, something you might've forgotten about - it's not just Toriko and not even just Akari that was close to Satsuki. Kozakura's also mentioned being very taken by her previously, to the point where she was willing to wander away from her only companion the one time she got taken into the Otherside with Sorawo - and remember, Kozakura is terrified of the place, far moreso than Sorawo and Toriko are - because she, too, thought she might find Satsuki. Spiritus Nox fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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I've only read up until the translated portion of the manga but I had my doubts about Satsuki for a while now. I've been suspecting she was an Otherside creature who happened to stumble into our world. And yeah, agreed, this was one of the better episodes. What the gently caress, Sorawo. (Don't confirm or deny this if you know I wanna have it revealed to me)
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It's really starting to look like someone reordered the anime episodes at the last minute. Remember how they used the hat to escape from the beach in episode 7?   Sorawo doesnt...  
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I wonder if some episodes had production issues and they decided to reorder them instead of delaying the broadcast
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I'm going to be real curious what they do since it sure looks like we're on course to use 2 episodes on rescuing the soldiers from Station February for our finale. I don't hate that story in the book, it's fine, but it has some of the least interesting spooks in the bag IMO and it has basically nothing to do with Satsuki, despite us spending the last several episodes drawing out the increasingly clear fact that Satsuki is exceptionally bad news.. I wonder if they're planning on reworking the events of that chapter to include Satsuki somehow.
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Tamba posted:It's really starting to look like someone reordered the anime episodes at the last minute. Haha I was wondering about this, I was going all "??? didn't that hat fall apart?" at the TV screen.
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Sindai posted:I wonder if some episodes had production issues and they decided to reorder them instead of delaying the broadcast If they were were always planning to end the season on Kisaragi Station part 2, you'd hope that they would have at least fixed the most obvious continuity errors (the guns and the hat) The third option is: Some executive: "Ratings are dropping. DEPLOY THE BEACH EPISODE  "
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Oh god you're right the misordered episode IS the beach episode.
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drat you guys were right, they really are gonna make the rescue the finale. That's kind of a shame, it's a great story but it serves better as an intermediate arc, not as a climax. God this season's a loving mess.
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I'm still holding out a little hope that the rescue is only one ep and we can still hit Little Bird In A Box - the final story of volume 2 - for our finale episode. That's still maybe the most harrowing story I've read in any of the books so far, and a decent enough end-point. Moreso than Rescue, anyway - even with my concerns about how well the anime's production will be able to sell it.
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yeah that would easily be the best way to end the season, and it's not like they had to do the anime original episodes either. this week's episode was an anime original one and it still had a continuity error in it with the hat, really just bizarre.
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Its amazing that the adaptation has been mostly okay except for the one big error with the hat and beach episode and it just keep standing out like a sore thumb. Gonna need an anime original episode to explain it
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I'm also increasingly dubious about the amount of time we've spent on the Station February chapters. They're fine in the novels but not the two I'd pick to expand to fill a full third of the show's runtime - especially if it costs us any sort of confrontation with Satsuki after all the buildup to that they left in.
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Maybe it'll get another season.
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It's especially frustrating given the end of the third novel seemed like a really obvious and great way to end the anime, and they're just... not going there.
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Given there's like 5 minutes of content tops left in this arc I'm pretty interested to see how the rest of the episode next week wraps up at least
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SeanGaffney posted:It's especially frustrating given the end of the third novel seemed like a really obvious and great way to end the anime, and they're just... not going there. they wouldn't really have had time to get there properly. end of the second would have been fine
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https://twitter.com/TsuzuriYuri/status/1371961793430519812 The sixth novel has officially hit JP store shelves!
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Good ep, looking forward to the conclusion!
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Started reading the manga--hell yeah, just absolutely digging the vibes of this one. I'll get around to watching the anime, see how it turns out. But thanks thread, I'm psyched to have picked this up.
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Well that was a nice way to end the season. I'd love to see more of the series so I hope they adapt the rest of the light novels, but seems like I'll probably have to pick up the light novels themselves for the time being.
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Yeah, given the all the constraints imposed on this final episode by the production limitations and the still-odd decision to leave in a lot of the foreshadowing around Satsuki Maybe Being Not The Greatest without much of the actual payoff, I thought the finale turned out about as well as it possibly could have - and it turns out that's still pretty good! Still very much recommend the novels to anyone whose interest was piqued by the show, they have much stronger pacing and a number of plotlines - from Toriko and Sorawo's ongoing relationship to the Satsuki thing to Sorawo's backstory - get much more concrete and interesting material there than the anime was able to get to.
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Aside from the issues with the hat/beach episode the adaptation was pretty good. Ending was a good mix of hooks for a sequel/people to read the LN while still be a good end point as well
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If it gets a sequel they’ve definitely found their voice as an adaptation, I’d be happy to see them tackle a lot of the later content. Maybe it’ll even get a sliver of a budget next time too who knows?
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I think the issues they had with this season and the show's general low-budget feel are going to create a mixed reaction for it. I feel like if I was a new viewer this show would be intriguing but not particularly memorable.
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