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Jormungand (TV).

I know that this will air in two parts (part now and part in October), but how many episodes total will there be? 6 now and 6 later or 12 for each part?

tonight i'll bother to type up a few reasons the second episode sucked as well as some serious issues.

since so many of you [refrain from direct insults of other users]
1) the kid is a child warrior besides the fact real world child warriors being the most amoral killers which adult soldiers take seriously on the field. the kids are effectively brainwashed into following one group for whatever happens to be the rest of their lives. in other words the kid wouldn't suddenly get hired by someone he despises for their profession. but that aside the kid would be a loose cannon in her organization.

2) the knife fight was a pitiful joke (especially to anyone who knows anything about hand to hand with knives)

3) the entire premise of this anime is based on the weapons trade.
episode 2 not only makes a mockery of the people involved. but is so far off base in how the trade works the writers must be morons if not completely oblivious to the trade in general. anyone as incompetent as the arms dealers portrayed so far wouldn't even be allowed to buy the weapons they supposedly are selling and no one would ever hire these idiots if they did somehow come across weapons to sell.

4) the militia that demanded another weapons run (that's a laugh) arms dealers call the shots about whats for sale and available and in the field they are only as good as the weapons they brought with them. which would have been both trucks being emptied of their loads. the call for more wouldn't be made by some in the field commander but by the militias top echelon which the guy in episode 2 wasn't.

5)the entire show is beginning to feel like they equate the low end nutcase yakusa street weapons dealers as being international level dealers who supply armies. sorry but some thug who can sell hand guns to the local junkies wouldn't last 5 minutes in the international trade because no one would even meet with them in the first place.

there is a lot more to list but i have better things to do tonight the above is the obvious drivel in episode 2 as well as the show in general.

@dragoneyes001

Considering the confrontational nature of your posts I probably shouldn't even bother replying to you since you're likely to just blow off everything that I say and accuse me of being some type of rabid apologist for the show, but I feel compelled to try and refute the points you bring up.

Last edited by ggqt on Wed Apr 25, 2012 1:25 am; edited 1 time in total

dragoneyes001, you are absolutely right. I don't even know why TV shows try to seem realistic, how dare they even make a show like this.

Really. Pokémon makes an absolute mockery of real animal trainers, and the effort they put into making a living.

Don't even get me started on DBZ, we all know real martial arts can't fly or shot lazers.

swienke, you're completely missing the point of what he is saying, he's trying to argue the validity of the show it self, not the facts them self.

Now I personally have no opinion of this show either way, I just felt like pointing out how stupid dragoneyes001 is.

@ggqt

I'm well aware that dragoneyes001 was probably just looking for any little nitpick that could possibly explain his apparently reflexive hatred of the show, regardless of whether it had any validity or not. However, I tried to refute the specific points he brought up in order to illustrate that his hatred has almost no foundation, though he'll probably just make up new reasons to hate on the show.

Now, I can sort of understand it when people don't think an anime is realistic enough: despite the fact that animation is inherently unrealistic just by virtue of being animated, some people have a hard time connecting with a series that doesn't mostly adhere to reality. I think that's kind of sad, but I don't really have a problem with it. What I do have a problem with is when people blatantly misrepresent aspects of a series in order to fit it into their own constricting view, which is exactly what dragoneyes001 was doing: he was complaining about the series not being realistic, but all the facts that he listed to support his argument were nowhere near as egregiously unrealistic as he portrayed them, hence why I felt compelled to reply.

Ep3

Koko and her gang are in Dubai for some R & R. spoiler[However, a duo of assassins named Orchestra, composed of pantie-less teenager Chinatus and her mentor, a wild guy with sharp teeth, are out to kill Koko. What ensues is a gunfight in the streets of Dubai.]

I wouldn't mind if Jormungand eventually introduces a female character who isn't batshit crazy. They are hitting that gong pretty hard. Nevertheless, I continue to enjoy the fun. Although, this episode did have my least favourite action trope: spoiler[assassins who are ostensibly great shots missing with machinegun fire at virtually point blank range simply because the target being shot at is a main character.]

Exackery.

Jormungand: A Symphony of Farts.

Oh God, this dialogue. Laughing

Really not sure what to think of this show yet. It's far brisker than Black Lagoon, that's for sure, Koko's always an entertaining presence, if her humor doesn't always work, and while I was pretty eye-roll-y at Valmet's lesbian fits, it's actually refreshing, even kinda charming, how upfront she is bout her feelings. How many anime with weird lesbian tension played for laughs can you name where instead of getting titty-glomped in the shower squealing "KAWAII Isn't this adorable??? This is how human sexuality works!", one of them actually has the gumption to just ask the other out on a date? And actually do it...go on a date, I mean.

That said, this episode was really simple, and while that's good considering how convoluted the last two were, it kinda went nowhere fast and there better be a damn good reason they had to stretch it into a two-parter.

Oh, and that whole bit where, spoiler[after an extended shoot-out with infamous contract-killers who indiscriminately murder police, they try to crowbar in some godawful, tacky spiel about how weapons even corrupt the normal, good-hearted among us when unchecked. Christ, Jonah, if you're going to be dull as drywall, you could at least pay attention to the things you shoot at.]

Jormungand, you are terrible at being deep, terrible, so nix that shit while you're still in good graces, mmkay?

Oh, yeah, that bit where he takes out poilce snipers with an AK without even trying but then misses a little kid charging directly at him was pretty good, too. Dude couldn't hit the broad side of a barn if a tornado blasted him through it five minutes ago.

Oh, I forgot to mention I liked the part where they are spoiler[home-schooling Jonah]. I didn't think they'd ever bother touching on that aspect.

dragoneyes, calm the frack down. it's an action anime. it's not real life. and neither does it try to be.
i'd bash my head against a wall for every time someone complains about a friggin anime not being realistic but then my family wouldn't be able to identify me at the morgue...

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