Originally Posted by
Akyuu
not sure why they felt the need to shove in giant skeleton bots in DI. i hear they appear in ikabey but still. they barely have the budget to make them look acceptable, much less decent. some good old telepathy'd suffice for machina to tell eleonore to fuck off.
think they more or less captured lisa and eleonore alright this ep, i guess that's one thing i'm ok with.
From the latest Dies Irae thread on /a/
http://boards.4chan.org/a/thread/165818510
Masada says that they're basically between the first two Ewigkeit stages. Something like "Look how strong I am, too bad you don't deserve seeing me pulling my actual weapon out".
Translation:
Originally Posted by
Masada
I've been getting lots of questions about the skeletons you often see in the anime; that's basically between Activation and Formation. The souls in possession are turned into an aura, but are not given the weapon's shape. It's similar to how Ren lets Marie walk around. In other words, it's a move that clearly shows that they're not using all their strength, so it's mostly used to clearly show their power in the anime. The regulars do it like this...
The head honchos like this...
And the boss like this
. Reinhard does something similar in the original work, but that was at the Creation rank and above. So if he were to use that at the same rank in the anime, it'd look way more gruesome... Probably.