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XerBlade
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Location: Depletion Garden, Nashville, TN
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:59 pm
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Lauren wrote: | if people can't see Tora (except children sometimes), why does he appear on TV |
Normal people can't see him when he's in his spirit form. When he... powers up and goes physical basically... (lots of swirling spirit energy can force this to happen, part of why I said it in the cliche way), anyone can see him.
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Gina Szanboti
Joined: 03 Aug 2008
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 6:57 pm
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Episode 5
That was the most conveniently situated tv I have ever seen in the long tradition of handy news reports.
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noigeL
Joined: 14 Feb 2012
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 1:32 am
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Just finished watching episode 4. This story was one of my favourites from the older OVA series, so it was interesting to watch this condensed version as a comparison. The OVA told the same story in two parts, and it came later in the run (after Hyou, for example). I don't know which is more accurate to the manga, but I wish the TV adaptation had done a two-parter as well.
As a two-parter, the OVA established the Gamen family as incredibly scary and fearsome monsters (the violence helped with that too, but I understand TV has restrictions), plus there was a lot more humour with Tora in the city. Most importantly, the OVA really established Mayuko's fear and Ushio's desperation, with the former constantly running for her life from horrifying demons, and the latter helping her barely escape but unable to effectively stop the Gamen.
By halving the story, the TV version just runs by too quickly. It's not badly compressed, but it just wasn't enough.
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vanfanel
Joined: 26 Dec 2008
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 7:46 am
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I'd love to be watching this, but here in Japan it's being shown on exactly five channels nationwide, and the streaming options are all PPV after the first episode. I guess I'll watch when the discs hit the rental outlets.
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AnimeAddict2014
Joined: 16 Feb 2015
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 5:36 pm
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so.. instead of showing a skeleton of a young child
they used a shoe and blood instead...i guess it still works..
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chex mix
Joined: 28 Mar 2015
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 8:26 pm
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Episode five felt lacking in energy in a way the previous episodes never had any problem with.
I couldn't bring myself to care about the exorcist or his sad cliche of a backstory. Mainly because he would not stop the obnoxious whine-yelling of names until I wanted to smack him to unstick the needle from the record so we could move on.
I want Tora to develop a cheeseburger addiction, now.
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malvarez1
Joined: 17 Nov 2008
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 9:05 am
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chex mix wrote: |
I want Tora to develop a cheeseburger addiction, now. |
I think you'll be pleased, then...
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meiam
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 10:13 am
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A... I really don't like obnoxious kid character so this episode was awful for me, they really couldn't introduce Ushio past in another way?
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killjoy_the
Joined: 30 May 2015
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 7:35 pm
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I don't know exactly why this episode didn't click for me, it had a bunch of stuff happening that I usually like (Main character's past being explained and showing how much he's grown, Tora becoming more of a friend instead of his in-between that was getting annoying already, an enemy that was really menancing), but none of it 'clicked'. I kept getting annoyed by the apparent "monster of the week with a message at the end" vibe the episode gave me.
Knowing that I missed the post-credits scene (I don't usually stop watching at the ED, but this particular episode I was already in a sour enough mood to not want to watch it), I guess this cements a drop for me, since I really don't feel like going to watch it now.
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Sahmbahdeh
Joined: 05 May 2015
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 10:04 pm
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I wasn't as thrilled with this episode as I think I should have been. The pieces were in place, but none of them connected in anything more than a rudimentary, "okay" way. Also, I found the scene switching really awkward and hasty. I am interested in the promise of a continuing story arc, though. Considering just how enjoyable every episode has been up to this point, I'm looking forward to it.
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JaggedAuthor
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 10:16 pm
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The story featured in episode six constituted two OVA episodes, and the additional run time definitely worked to the series' advantage. They've expertly condensed other two-episode stories into single installments for the TV series, but this week was the first time I felt like too much content was being crammed into 24 minutes and some change.
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relyat08
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 1:32 am
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Was Nakamura using a cell phone inside the snake's belly? Wasn't this manga written in the 90s? I'm so confused right now...
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Sahmbahdeh
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 6:03 pm
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And now we get the best episode yet! Ushio and Tora is constantly surprising me with how much emotional range it has and how deftly it can handle various tones. I am now fully invested in this show's story. If it can maintain this level of quality, it may be one of the best shows of the year.
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AnimeAddict2014
Joined: 16 Feb 2015
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 8:45 pm
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so the journey begins..
i've always wondering about that piece of cloth on the spear...
maybe later there will a time Ushio will need to remove it
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doubleO7
Joined: 17 Jul 2009
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 10:53 am
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killjoy_the wrote: | Knowing that I missed the post-credits scene (I don't usually stop watching at the ED, but this particular episode I was already in a sour enough mood to not want to watch it), I guess this cements a drop for me, since I really don't feel like going to watch it now. |
Well, just so you know, most of the post-credit scene was repeated at the beginning of Episode 7. So it's not really a big deal that you missed it.
relyat08 wrote: | Was Nakamura using a cell phone inside the snake's belly? Wasn't this manga written in the 90s? I'm so confused right now... |
Well, it's not like there weren't cell phones in the 90's. It appeared to have a touchscreen though, which I assume was something they updated for the modern adaptation. An unnecessary change IMO, if that is the case.
Still, she managed to make a phone call from the belly of a giant sea snake. Japan must have damn good cell reception
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