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CaRoss
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Episode 5 has done a lot to tie everything together and set the stage for the shift to the future that was presented in the first three episodes. I'm quite excited to find out how exactly everything falls apart between Jiro and the Superhuman Bureau, but I think enough has been laid down to know a good chunk of why he's on such bitter terms with Kikko at least.
Hopefully this narrative thread can be treated well and come out spectacularly in the second half (and a bit) of the series. I'm eager to see how all of these plot threads tie to one another and what the endgame is, and we're only five episodes in. |
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Brack
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The show was originally reported as running for 6 months, did that change?
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Hameyadea
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Maybe it was cut down for some reason. Another possibility is that, like Sōkyū no Fafner: Dead Aggressor - Exodus, it was announced that it will run for half a year, but that's the total air time, not a consecutive one. |
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Blankslate
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I LOVED ep.7!
Not only did it touch on how public opinion is swayed and that good and bad aren't binary (heh, computer humor), but it also touched on how necessary lies are and that, in a lot of situations, lies are in fact "sweeter" (hence candy) than truth. I think I'm becoming a Sho Aikawa super fan. |
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maoyen
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Definitely the most underrated show of the fall. I love how morally ambiguous it is, and how everybody seems to be using each other in some way or another. It's no surprise that Jiro would go rogue. Jiro's own intentions are also in question, as it looks like he's planning to start some kind of war.
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BodaciousSpacePirate
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Was that really part of their plan to get Earth-chan on their side, though? What were they really hoping to accomplish by recruiting Earth-chan's archnemesis, especially considering he ends up siding wit the protesters anyway? If the plan was, "well, if Judas sides with the protesters, then clearly Earth-chan will side against the protesters, since she thinks Judas is a bad person?" because if so, that's actually pretty brilliant on the Bureau's part. Come to think of it, is Judas Earth-chan's archnemesis, a sort of Catwoman to her Batman, a Black Cat to her Spider-Man (there are probably other examples who aren't cats)? So far, the show has seemed pretty insistent that every superhero needs a villain, to the point where characters imply that it's just the way their world works. Based on past episodes, we can probably infer that every superhero is fighting some kind of ideological conflict: Fuurouta's childlike simplicity vs Campe's complexity, the classic "oh no, our record company is evil" thing, etc. If that's the case, then maybe Earth-chan's nemesis is Kikko, not Judas. After all, it felt like Earth-chan and Kikko did most of the fighting and arguing in this episode, while Judas basically just struggled to get by the best he could (although maybe that was the point). If Kikko and Earth-chan are supposed to be enemies, then what does that mean for the 1972 part of the story, where Jiro appears to be recruiting an incapacitated Earth-chan in what we can only assume is some climactic conflict between Kikko's allies and his growing team of disgruntled superbeings? |
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DuskyPredator
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Oh, so Judas' role was always to betray, just like the biblical figure. The very reason they brought him in was so that they could get him to switch sides the protest, a manipulation he did not even know they did, and this would in turn manipulate Earth-chan to be bias against the protests. We know Earth-chan was largely representative of public opinion perhaps as a by-product of the media, and one of the best ways to influence it is to put someone the public don't trust on the other side. Judas also seems representative of a certain subset of youth, inexperienced, kind of stuck in a gangs, and trying to find a place. I imagine that it has been a technique history that such people might have been used as a straw man by tricking them into acting a certain way in front of the media into gaining the public opinion to their side. Probably looking to far into it, but perhaps you could look into what Kiko represents. She has good intentions, or at least gets strength from helping others, her weapons are specifically pacifism, but gets accused of being a "witch" or manipulative. She was used with Earth-chan, representative of some sort of public opinion media, to get its attention, but could also be swayed against her for how others see her. I probably don't know enough about the time period of Japanese politics to make a conclusion, but it might be safe to say something about being connected to femininity which Magical Girls usually represent. |
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TheTsunami
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Something that wasn't quite pointed out in the review (but it was a bit subtle); when Earth-chan appeared to stop Japan from using kaiju as weapons of war, it wasn't the protestors' desire for help that she responded to. It was the kaiju themselves (she stands before them and we get a close up shot of one of the kaiju shedding a tear).
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Brack
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The family in episode 9 appear to be an ersatz Isono/Fugata family from Sazae-san. This episode's screenwriter Masaki Tsuji also wrote the very first script for the Sazae-san cartoon.
Which started in October 1969, the month after this episode was set in. Implying that the characters in Sazae-san ARE this family under new identities. Jaguar's watch and nickname are references to 1965's Super Jetter, a cartoon about a time cop from the 30th century travelling to modern day Japan to stop a villain called... Jaguar. His beast form is likely a reference to a couple of sixties tokusatsu pilots Jaguar Man & Leopard Man (one was a giant superhero, then re-piloted as a normal sized superhero) |
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maoyen
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The previews show a time cop appearing in the next episode, so it's possible Jaguar is a villain. |
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MarshalBanana
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Anyone know why daisuki is a week behind?
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vonPeterhof
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@MarshalBanana I'm looking at the site now and it's not behind where I am, and according to their announcements it should be the same everywhere. The latest episode is 9, right?
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FilthyCasual
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It's nice to finally learn about Jaguar Harkness.
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MarshalBanana
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Well right now they are they are reviewing episode 10, on Daisuki, at time of posting, it is only at episode 9. |
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vonPeterhof
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Edit: crap, wrong show. Let's try again: here, also episode 10, on Daisuki, screenshot as of three minutes ago (December 08 2015, 21:02 Moscow time), plus I also watched it there last night. Edit2: See you in another week, I guess? 
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