It was good ...as a gymnastics routine.
If you insist on calling it a fight, it was terrible.
Got bored halfway.
It was good ...as a gymnastics routine.
If you insist on calling it a fight, it was terrible.
Got bored halfway.
We've had to endure much, you and I, but within the week there will be old men running the world
OLD MEN ARE THE FUTURE
Did you watch the pre-air webstream version of the fight or the version in the finished episode?
I think I saw both. It had a collection of required elements spliced with random acrobatic tricks accompanied by lively music, but absolutely no tension, emotion or impetus. Good for gymnastics routine but bad for fight. Same fight from manga was good. Something went wrong during adaptation.
I think they streeeetched it so hard it broke
We've had to endure much, you and I, but within the week there will be old men running the world
OLD MEN ARE THE FUTURE
Well, i wouldnt expect too much tension or emotion in a fight between a robotic drone and a robotic possessed basically.
And I wouldn't call two robotic entities jumping around for several minutes a good fight.
We've had to endure much, you and I, but within the week there will be old men running the world
OLD MEN ARE THE FUTURE
Better than having potentially cool fights stop abruptly for awkwardly placed infodumps (a la Kerry reminding the audience about origin bullet) or some inane line of dialog. Berserker's fights didn't suffer from this cause of "Grahhhh".
Haha, I know what you mean! XD I think some of those info dumps were still completely necessary though, for people like me who haven't read the novels. Kerry's reminder about the workings of the origin bullet was not one of them though, since it had already been explained before, so that was kinda annoying, ye. -_-Originally Posted by June
Yeah, I can agree with that. Kerry being Kuzuki-tier boring doesn't help.
We've had to endure much, you and I, but within the week there will be old men running the world
OLD MEN ARE THE FUTURE
2/10 they tried.
Linger: Complete. August, 1995. I met him. A branch off Part 3. Mikiya keeps his promise to meet Azaka, and meets again with that mysterious girl he once found in the rain.
Shinkai: Set in the Edo period. DHO-centric. As mysterious figures gather in the city, a young woman unearths the dark secrets of the Asakami family.
The Dollkeeper: A Fate side-story. The memoirs of the last tuner of the Einzberns. A record of the end of a family.
Overcount 2030: Extra x Notes. A girl with no memories is found by a nameless soldier, and wakes up to a world of war.
Aus Feuer ward der Geist geschaffen,
drum schenkt mir süßes Feuer ein!
Die Lust der Lieder und der Waffen,
die Lust der Liebe schenkt mir ein,
der Trauben süßes Sonnenblut,
das Wunder glaubt und Wunder thut!
In a world where Human Order is weak, humans cannot express any emotions.
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Only vampires can smile.
Can't believe this is canon.
The last four episodes were all right
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i got a super mukku frenzy
[12:37] <I3uster> if playing overwatch would save my mother from the deathbed
[12:37] <I3uster> id probably flip a coin
[12:38] <I3uster> to see if i play or not
[18:23] <frantic> spinach is like a caffeine zombie
[18:23] <frantic> in AX he would like
[18:23] <frantic> drink 8 shots of espresso
[18:23] <frantic> then he'd turn to me an hour later
[18:23] <frantic> 'frantic', he'd say, his eyes wild and his lips smug
[18:23] <frantic> 'i need coffee'
Btw, this anime is an absolute joke. There's no semblance of competence or intent in nearly any scene. Characters stand lifelessly and speak in near monotone, often times rarely discussing anything relevant. Some of the most evocative imagery from the VN is just cut entirely to save budget. The most immediate and rapid example is the ever iconic 17 piece murder scene at the very start. There's just an awful transition to Shiki standing over Arcueid's disassembled body in a pool of blood, followed by a lame flashback where she runs from him like a frightened girl as he raises his knife, only for ONCE AGAIN the shot to hide the action and just play a slashing sound effect. This anime traps you in an unending vortex of disappointment and boredom. There are minuscule moments of entertainment roughly every three episodes, but you're never smiling or thinking something was cool, the entertainment is solely in how badly they cut corners to animate certain things.
At 12 episodes running roughly 20 minutes each the runtime is about four hours, and I would wager that about 90 minutes of that time is spent on Shiki staring in an emotionless silence as a response to some weakly delivered line from Arcueid, Ciel or Akiha. One of the most offensive examples was when Arcueid told him to take off his glasses to look at one of Roa's Dead. You get a closeup of Shiki's unmoving face as he hesitates (with no visual signal of this hesitance) to take off his glasses, then does so, then shuts his eyes and pauses for another 10+ seconds before slowly opening his eyes. It never comes off as dramatic or tense, these long drawn out pauses are all blatant attempts to drag episode length out. Which is a travesty because they aren't out of VN content to adapt, they willingly cut tons of important bits to just show Shiki silently non-reacting to the world around him.
We all praise the soundtrack but it's usage is a near joke. Everyone remembers Justice, but you forget that it plays as Nrvnqsr walks up and begins anticlimactically staring off against Arcueid, rather than during an actual action scene like it was composed for. It plays again when Roa and Shiki have their final knife fight, but after a five second exchange the music continues to play its most intense part as the scene transitions to Akiha staring forlornly out her window.
But there was a scene where Kohaku namedropped Kugamine so maybe the anime was pretty good after all.
Everyone did, it's the last day.
shit BL says
Once and always and nevermore.
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