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SilverTalon01
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vonPeter, I'm not accusing them of using unofficial titles. I'm accusing them of incompetence.
That does at least explain where it came from so thank you for the explanation. However, like you said, it doesn't justify it at all. They took a word with a very clear meaning and replaced it with a made up Old English inspired word that almost nobody is going to have any clue what it means. To make it even worse, they had to rewrite the context of the line so that the character corrects himself which pretty clearly shows that whoever came up with that absolutely knew essentially nobody was going to know what it meant. |
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vonPeterhof
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Gina Szanboti
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What I find problematic about it is that it doesn't work well with subtitles. In reading a novel, you can pause to take in the word, but it's so unfamiliar that even people who speed read would have to pause the video to grasp its construction/pronunciation. If you need to use an unfamiliar word for its nuance or lack of a substitute, then use it, but if not, then pick words that can be easily read and understood on the fly. |
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vonPeterhof
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Cam0
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I don't even know how to spell the word, I only remember that it starts with an E and probably has a W somewhere in the middle. That's how I recognize the word but I might get confused if the word got used in context that isn't about races or Willem (the E word with a W in the middle meant humans, right?) |
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Morry
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Yeah, no. Tone's fine. Pacing may be going a bit too quick to make impact (Black Bullet flashbacks intensify) and directing could use some close-ups but I haven't had one problem with the tone. Last edited by Morry on Tue Apr 25, 2017 9:47 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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AsuraTheDestructor
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Not seeing the tonal inconsistency myself, as well. If anything, the light hearted tone to start makes the tragedy later on all the more worse, imo.
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Shiroi Hane
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Blame the producers: http://sukasuka-anime.com/chara/willem.html And the author: http://kareno.moo.jp/works/sukasuka/materialNoteForRevealation.html |
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meiam
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Yeah I really wish they would drop any hint of romance and just double down on the mentor side, as a romance it's just one in a millions generic fantasy. But mentor MC are pretty rare and could lead to interesting stuff.
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Chiibi
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NO!!! They need to get married. >:I Fight me. Besides, this anime is listed as romance as a sub-genre.
Boom, there it is. So don't wish for stupid things like for it to stop being what it is. If you don't like romance, you shouldn't have chose to watch it. I do, that is the reason I decided to research the series and then chose to watch it.
She was moaning because it HURT. xD Come on, have you never been massaged before? You WILL moan.....whether from pain or pleasure, unless you have a very high tolerance for being touched like that. |
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Gina Szanboti
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One thing that hasn't gotten old for me is the stampeding herd of children. If they threw one of those in every episode, I'd probably still laugh at it.
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ChibiKangaroo
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I agree that the episode was particularly off as far as the tonal inconsistency. This was mainly due to the fact that they kept injecting the rom-com tropes that were distracting from their attempts to set up a potentially serious and emotional challenge for blue haired girl to survive the coming battle.
We already had the exact same sexy-time jokes in the last episode, and they get retread here for reasons that we can only assume have to do with the writers' desire to reinforce the rom-com nature of the show. Blue haired girl spends a bunch of time at the start of the episode reliving the sex-massage that the MC gave her last episode and her moaning/orgasm, and much heavy blushing and squealing ensues. She asks our nameless horde of little girls what happened to MC, and they innocently inform her that he is "sleeping with" one of the other girls (silver haired girl this time), and she goes into a fit of jealousy and runs over there to find out what he's up to. Later, orange haired girl once again (and seemingly totally out of the blue) states that maybe the MC is sexually interested in the younger girls in the warehouse. Then towards the end, blue haired girl indicates that she wants to marry the MC. I think at this point, even Theron would have a hard time denying that this series is within an inch of being a full blown harem romantic comedy. Another episode like this would confirm that. I mean, the last two episodes have devoted significant screen time to the MC being teased by the girls about his sexuality or giving a sexual massage to his primary love interest that included plenty of fanservice shots of her half naked body, or MC being sexually preyed upon by troll girl, or lingering shots of the various young teen girls in their lingere talking about MC as a potential romantic interest. These elements have bogged down the sci-fi elements and any emotional depth that we could have already set up for the battle that could end blue haired girl's life. I feel like we should be connecting with her more on a personal level and learning more about her relationship with her peers and her philosophical understanding of her place in the world. Instead, most of the episode's content has revolved around her potential romance with MC. They also haven't yet fixed the problem wherein the younger girls are basically one big blob that moves about from room to room with no real distinctions for individual characters. This episode, I even noticed that it seemed like the animators had simply copied and pasted one particular green haired girl to make two girls. If that's the level of care they are putting toward the "gaggle," I think its probably clear that they don't serve much of a purpose other than as background. I did like the scene where MC was doing "maintenance" on blue haired girl's weapon. It was a creative and pretty magical scene and (aside from the quasi marriage proposal) was the one time during the episode where the tone was spot on. Also, I did like the scene between blue haired girl and lizard guy. It was good to see some interaction between one of the girls and someone other than MC, since I think the show was starting to get unnecessarily insular with its focus on the warehouse and that doesn't make sense to me as there seems to be a pretty amazing fantasy world that has been set up here. It would be a waste to not see the characters exploring that more and interacting with some of these various creatures inhabiting that world. |
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Inopethflames
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I like this show so far, not love but like, but what the hell is with the names in this show???
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AsuraTheDestructor
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^^ Way to go far too in depth with something that onto happened for 2 minutes.
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Nordhmmer
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Yes the anime would be far better if the adaption had stayed closer to the LN,where it is clear Willem only has an strict adult teacher/caregiver relation with the girls. [quote]Chiibi "Drama Fantasy Romance Sci-Fi"- Boom, there it is. So don't wish for stupid things like for it to stop being what it is. If you don't like romance, you shouldn't have chose to watch it. I do, that is the reason I decided to research the series and then chose to watch it[/quote] I agree with meiam-Willem's role as a mentor to the girls should have been played up and not muddied by the out of place and added fanservice. The anime's is leaving out far too much exposition at this point in my view,the pacing is oh so very fast at this point. The girls are cutoff from interacting with normal people-thus resorted to reading copious amounts of romance&fantasy novels and the watching of sappy soap operas.It is from those sources the girls make their sometimes out of place remarks on relationships. [/quote] Chiibi She was moaning because it HURT. xD Come on, have you never been massaged before? You WILL moan.....whether from pain or pleasure, unless you have a very high tolerance for being touched like that[quote] That was a blatant addition of fanservice on the part of the anime's director, my two cents as a reader of the LN, and totally out of place in sukasuka's story. The LN does not discribe Kutori moaning "ahh" in such a suggestive manner-the anime goes so far as to cut to black as Kutori lets out a very sexual "AHH",at the same time portraying release of poisoned venom as the glow of sexual contentment. Edit:Well I fail at using the quote feature,think all can agree on that much of my rant. |
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