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Bango
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I wouldn't be shocked if the two were just a touch older even, and just fit into the school. I know a few 20-21 year-olds who still look (and act. ugh) the part.
Ep 1 - Well that was fantastic. I love the art, the pacing and it was like everything they showed us contributed. There was no wasted time. While I'm not a big fan of Frog Smile's character type he does fit in very well. I'm looking forward to seeing the mysteries unfold, like what their goals are, what the girl's problem is, how she adds anything to the terrorism effort and what their past is. Hopefully that's better than blade children. |
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ookamigirl
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spoiler[The aftermath. Not a pretty sight.. Wonder what their motives are. Lisa's life isn't a nice one. She might have gotten herself in over her head. Looks like the duo has just begun.. They sure know how to tick off the authorities. It was interesting watching the police think. That basement guy shows the intellect needed to stop the duo. Good episode.] |
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Stark700
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Episode 2:
The episode was pretty good. I find how they spoiler[did the youtube video to be kinda interesting. Goes to show more of how the terrorists work their way in the world. The riddle itself was also interesting but I wonder how everything connects together in the end. It's sort of like pieces to a puzzle that fits together.] spoiler[Twelve] was pretty funny with his trolling. And we also get another bombing too this episode on a building. OST is strong as ever while I also found the spoiler[Oedipus] to be interesting. |
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danilo07
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Episode 2 was pretty good, but I still remain skeptical about direction the show is taking.
Recap sequence at beginning was most likely a stylistic decision rather than production one.It seems to me that this anime wants to be more like western drama rather than usual anime.Usually recap sequences in anime are much longer and the content from previous episodes isn't cut as quickly as it was here.The only thing Watanabe lacked was a narrator with deep voice saying "Last time on Terror in Resonance" and boom you got yourself a deal. I hope Lisa has some narrative purpose other than just standing around and uttering pretentious,LN-esque lines ("Smile bright as sun and stare cold as ice ".....somebody shoot me ). I was bothered by the fact that spoiler[ no-one died when an entire building collapsed. Most likely the creators were afraid that they would alienate people if the leads were horrible and unlikeable dicks, so they kinda softened their illegal actions. But now they have made the story illogical. Unless they evacuated the entire area surrounding the building because couple sprinklers were activated, people would die from all debris.] I think I might know the basic idea of their plan.spoiler[If the solution in riddle is Oedipus who is now equated through riddle with police ( blind and broken ), then the only way police can bring any good to society is through it's death ( The corpse of Oedipus brought good luck to Athens in legend ). Interestingly, I also suspect that Lisa Mishima is reference to Yukio Mishima and Kenji Sawada who 12 mentioned also famously played one Yukio Mishima 's alter egos in a famous film called Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.Yukio Mishima tried to revolutionize the system but failed and committed suicide.] |
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Yttrbio
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And no craps were given. What are the odds that the point is going to be something treated as incredibly important but is really just an immature simplistic whine?
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leatherhead333
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This is really giving off some serious Death Note vibes. That old school detective is going to turn into L i just know it (at least he better!
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Arata really feels like a less dramatic version of Light (especially at the end there with his creepy smile). Still this overconfidence is bound to bite them in the but sooner or later. I agree with danilo07 about spoiler[the casualties thing though. That part is quite B.S. If i had to guess there is probably nobody who was killed in the police stations bombing either.] I'm sorry but you simply can't calculate that spoiler[everyone is going to be able to escape on time and be out of harms way before the bombs go off. That's just stretching things imo.] |
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Knoepfchen
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Wholeheartedly agree with previous posters about spoiler[nobody dying in the Metropolitan Building bombing being a) highly unbelievable, and b) off-turning for me, because] I was hoping for the boys to, well, really be terrorists, who, however justified their cause, cross the line in the first episode, telling us what direction this will take. That was such a daring start, and now they take several steps back, it seems. spoiler[Now, if nobody died from the second bombing this episode, I will be rolling my eyes next week. There was no evacuation this time, and the police is the boys' plaything, or so it seems, so if for some miraculous reason we end up with just a broken arm or two, that's going to stretch the credibility to an uncomfortable extent.]
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DuskyPredator
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Episode 2
Might be just my past of reading up quite a bit on spoiler[Greek myths], but I instantly put together the spoiler[sphinx connection when I saw the beginning of the format of its most famous riddle], probably one of the world's most recognisable. The riddle thing is a good touch, but honestly I have not spoiler[heard of that second one, and I probably should have been bothered enough to notice the difference]. These guys are like ESPers, that's why they spoiler[could calculate the events to cause not fatalities, perhaps their goal is not to harm innocents but scare scary organisation to let their friends go]? |
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Merida
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Hmm, the way they immediately cut to Nine saying "I'm waiting." after spoiler[the chief asked Shibasaki to return made me wonder if there's actually a connection between them.]
There must be a reason why spoiler[such an obviously capable guy as Shibasaki is at his current post and perhaps it's connected to the boys somehow...] I'm liking this show a lot so far and am looking forward to finding out more about Nine and Twelve and what Lisa's role will eventually be. |
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meiam
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This was so-so. Number one this is going way too close to death note territory, spoiler[what with the detective being the only one to figure out the real answer], not bad per se but a bit un-original.
The show is doing it's best to break realism, nobody dying in the first explosion, the two main character having no power whatsoever and still being able to perform all there doing (at least for now, maybe they'll reveal one later on). And yes I realize I'm saying that they should have super power to increase realism, but one big lie is far easier to accept than multiple small one. Nobody realizing that either of them or the girl where there at the moment. This is a bit more problematic because it feel like this isn't our world, rather it's just a weird alternate reality where human are just really stupid, and it's hard to care about them. It's gonna be a bigger problem if they start being preachy and having a moral attach to it. The girl still has no reason to exist really, but I'm sure that'll come eventually, right? Still is pretty fun too watch, but I don't see it getting anywhere near close to how influential death note was, despite having a big budget and star cast. |
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shiranehito
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Oh, I do think that probably spoiler[there won't be any casualties either in the second explosion. Nine seemed to go to the deepest spot in the building and set up cameras and watched them closely before detonating the bomb, so perhaps they are trying to terror people without actually killing people. Probably a lot will be injured so bad though, or else it's just unbelievable.] Why are they doing this, I don't know. They seem to be really enjoying this game, though.
I'm hoping for more depth in Lisa. All we knew here is that she has spoiler[over-protecting (?) mother who was left by her husband. Now I understand why Lisa was not pleased when texts from her mom came up while the texts were all just asking about her well being]. |
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Blood-
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That was my fear from the get go. I really hope to be proven wrong. Yes, it's true that it is highly implausible that there were spoiler[only minor injuries from the Metropolitan Building explosion,] but the writers have very little choice. A lot of us would have checked out, probably, spoiler[if innocent people had died. You can't have a show were your two leads kill innocent people.] It just won't fly. Anyway, production values remain excellent and I'm interested to see where this is all headed, so onward we go. |
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Gina Szanboti
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I think in Japan, due to all the earthquake drills and obedience to authority, evacuating the building could happen more efficiently than in Western countries. When alarms go off, they take it seriously and move where they're told in an orderly fashion. So I don't find that such a stretch.
What I did find hard to believe was that he could walk into the heart of the PD with no escort and no notice taken just because he was delivering lunch. Maybe internal security is that lax there, but I had to wonder. So far I'm really enjoying this, except for the girl who seems to be a waste of screen time at this point. |
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Crusher X303
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Its not only about just about civilians.... in large buildings not everyone is that fast or collected to move when needed. But it is also about the first responders that would have been there assisting them in leaving and trying to fight the fires that erupted. When that building fell people would have died. Also depends on what "western countries" to are comparing it to. Out here in Cali we know all about earthquakes and are prepared for them ( our buildings are designed specifically for them ), we have had drills, kits, etc. regardless not everyone is that perfect to evacuate an area cool and calmly. No matter how much practice you do when a real disaster hits people do not all react like they do when they are doing drills in a calm manner with no sense of urgency. Also in the next episode... if again spoiler[ there is no deaths and only "minor" injury how are the gonna explain away the debris falling from the build where all the pedestrians were walking] |
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ChibiKangaroo
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Well, we did have Death Note, as others have mentioned. However, it was made obvious to us pretty quick that Light was going to be a total dick and we would for the most part just love to hate him. |
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