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ikillchicken
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I want to be clear: I'm not dropping this because they made a dumb "I just want the white stuff in your body" joke. I'm dropping it because they have such a complete lack of respect for the intelligence of their audience that they then proceeded to have the other girl butt in to point out the poor phrasing and then had the main character repeat it in his head a half dozen times before finally blushing just to make absolutely sure we got it.
P.S. A show this bad has no right to have something as great as a humanoid crocodile in a suit and hat in it so I'm officially revoking their permission. I have the power to do that. |
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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You've got the wrong thread. This thread is for Magical Warfare. The Witch Craft Works thread is over there. |
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ikillchicken
Posts: 7272 Location: Vancouver |
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Ah, crap, you're right. This dopey, terribly written, show about magicians with no respect for its audience is being dropped because of awful exposition. There were no semen jokes. Yet.
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Blood-
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Yeah, a full exposition episode without any action at all is pretty brutal. I'll stick around to see if there's an uptick.
Anyone wanna bet that Twilight's (oi) previous female owner who now may be living life as a normal human is spoiler[MC's mom]? |
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DuskyPredator
 Posts: 15466 Location: Brisbane, Australia |
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Episode 2
Well I am not experience the negative feelings that others seem to be, I was not bothered by a heap of exposition. My first question at seeing the destroyed city being an alternate world was "how long has this existed", as it did not make sense that there would happen to be such a place just exist. So I was rather happy that we got a full explanation of it all, I can hold off on some action until the characters become better fighters. One thing I also noticed at a couple places is that I rather liked the music, the ED performer, nano, having done BTOOOM's OP and some songs in Arpeggio of Blue Steel, all of which are some good songs, I think I am a fan. The one in charge of music seemed to also do Arpeggio, there were a couple track I quite liked in the episode , the one that starts around 18 minutes being one. I will likely stick with this, I have a good feeling, it does not deserve the dropped gif. Well not such a good feeling that I know it won't be mediocre, but I feel better than early episodes than Accel World, which I am not sure why I feel like comparing the two. |
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Gewürtztraminer
 Posts: 1028 Location: Texas - Its like whole other country. |
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This season is rough, 5 continuing series, and 20 new ones (not counting shorts) that I am following. Unike past seasons, nothing is outright terrible to me, but nothing is actually 'good' either. Nevertheless, cuts have to be made, I can not keep this pace, especially with my 1000 episode owned but unwatched backlog mocking me.
I had actually thought about dropping this one after the 1st episode, as I enjoyed Witchcraft works more. After the 2nd episode of each, this one does not make the cut, and Witchcraft is on the edge and is probably a cut as well. I will let others pioneer, and will pick it up again later if I hear good things, like I did with Log Horizon, which I initially dismissed without even watching, but am now enjoying. |
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ookamigirl
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It's nice they provided all the info this time.
So far the plot is kinda predictable. Those three switched one school for another. It's ok though, but can't wait to see more fights. So far it's looking good. There were a few hints that the plot will be very interesting soon. |
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leatherhead333
 Posts: 1187 Location: Kansas |
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Yeah this episode was terrible. Exposition is nice but when that exposition is about as dull and cliche as humanely possible i really don't see the point.
This is some Fairy Tail level story telling. Having a random number of great warriors stopping a threat to humanity. Wow how long did it take for them to come up with that? Also the rule that the ancient magician made still doesn't make sense. Why would you make it so magicians can't fight each other in the human world? That's basically saying that a magician can just go do whatever they want in the world of humans. Destroying building, blowing up plants etc. they can basically get away with ALL of this because the law does nothing to stop them. Does no one seriously see how retarded that is? Has anyone at the school questioned this in class? |
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WhiteHairGirls
 Posts: 4713 Location: New York City |
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They can't use their special powers in the real world because then they would lose their powers. I think they can only use their weapons, which probably wouldn't cause much destruction. Also the winner of the war will get the untouched world as the prize. Why would they purposely mess up their prize? |
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FenixFiesta
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I think his issue is that in theory a magic user can still subvert this rule by indirectly killing people with magic, such as creating some sort of device that is powered by magic but shoots out lethal amounts of radiation or something similar (unless the spell compensates for the obvious subversion).
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leatherhead333
Posts: 1187 Location: Kansas |
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They have not stated that using magic in the real world would make them lose their magic. It's only if they use their magic on other magicians that will cause them to lose their powers. The reason the guy with the poison bees lost is powers was because he attacked Mui who was a magican. However his attack landed a small nick on the blonde girl which if untreated could have killed her. Basically this is BIG loophole that magicians can exploit. And the law stopping them from using magic on each other does pretty much nothing to protect humans should magicians decide to start blowing up buildings and junk. And i'm pretty sure they wanted peaceful coexistence with humans so properly protecting them doesn't sound silly to me at all. But they obviously failed to do that with such an absurd law. Edit: @Fenix That's also another problem as well. |
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Miranox
 Posts: 247 Location: Montreal, Canada |
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There are worse anime airing right now *cough* Z/X Ignition *cough* but that doesn't immunize Magical Warfare from criticism. I calls 'em like I sees 'em. |
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Spotlesseden
Posts: 3514 Location: earth |
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normally when a show get alot of hate that can also mean it';s popular too. The worst show normally gets no hate and no talk. |
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FenixFiesta
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The main issue is that Magical Warfare as an adaptation does not understand the concept of "show, don't tell", compare and contrast to the first couple episodes in Strike the Blood that instead of dedicating scenes that show that Yukina is unadjusted to city life that she made a lengthy exposition about it instead of having say the comical scene of going visiting a hardware store and Yukina making incorrect observations about what could be purchased at said store.
Had Magical Warfare been edited better, the exposition would have been made in a class room setting because the leads are ending up in a Magical Academy ANYWAY. |
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Miranox
Posts: 247 Location: Montreal, Canada |
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This is true but I doubt Magical Warfare is going to get the popularity that other Madhouse shows have. Looking at their history, this show is currently rated near the bottom of the list with a barely above average score. |
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