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Edjwald
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Yup, I meant Greed. I'm just going to have to start calling the Sin Archbishops the way I think of them, Fangs, Bandages, and Stalker-san. |
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Edjwald
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Make that Fangs, Bandages, Stalker-san, and Loli Creepo.
I've never claimed that this anime is perfect, but one thing that it does do really well is make villains that I really, really want to see get their faces punched in. And I'm not talking about Reinhard's father although that was satisfying. Some traits that all of the sin archbishops seem to have in common is the tendency toward really annoying insane monologues, an intimidating level of power, a delight in inflicting harm on helpless innocents, and a strange combination of narcissism and a lack of self-awareness. That Circe routine where Loli Creepo was turning hostages into monsters is an example. Stalker-san declaring women his wives and making them slaves is another. |
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Edjwald
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My eyebrows started to twitch when Subaru spent the first 90 seconds of his speech explaining how useless and weak he was over and over, but I did feel like he brought it home in the end.
I'm fantasizing that Emilia is going to lead the other captive wives in an uprising against Hubby when they get to the "Does anyone object" part of the ceremony. If even half of them are as powerful as Emilia is, that could be some serious comeuppance. |
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DuskyPredator
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Was the season only 8 episodes?
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Edjwald
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It's a sixteen episode season, and they broke it into two halves, the bastards. I think it picks up again in February.
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Edjwald
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It took me this long to hop back on the Re:zero train.
I've got to say, I am not a big fan of this new thing where there are 15 episodes with a big long break in the middle, so that you get 7 or 8 episodes, a cliffhanger, and then several months in between. The extra 2 of 3 episodes isn't worth it IMHO. Now if they had more double course anime by having a season long break between them, I'd be all over it. I like season 3 of this show overall. I was totally on board at first, but then the cast of characters kept expanding and the the show broke into at least one too many simultaneous fight scenes IMHO, making it hard for me to stay attentive and invested the whole time. I'm into the Garfiel/Wilhelm fight because the stakes are so personal for Wilhelm, and I'm into the Subaru/Emilia/Reinhard fight because I hate El Creepo so much, but I find myself watching everything else play out a little impatiently while waiting for the show to get back to those two storylines. And it's not that they're bad - it's just that as soon as I start to get into one confrontation I get yanked into another one, and then another one until it just feels like I'm getting jerked around I had a theory that the source of El Creepo's invulnerability was his large number of wives...like the reason he was collecting them and brainwashing them was that he was using them as some kind of energy batteries...but it looks like I was wrong. I sort of get what Subaru was saying - it sounds like El Creepo glitched himself into god mode by stepping out of the time flow...but I'm not sure why that involves him not having a heart (is it just not beating?) or what it has to do with the name Regulus. Guess I'll find out next week. |
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Edjwald
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Welp, looks like spoiler[I wasn't wrong about El Creepo being powered by his harem after all, though that nasty tumor looking parasite thing he was using as a power shunt was a weird touch.]
This has been a strange season for me. I remain a fan of the show, but sometimes the ride has been bumpy, and sometimes its been long stretches of flatland without a lot of diverting scenery. I have no idea how popular this season has been overall, but I've enjoyed the forward progress with taking on the douchebags of sin, and I enjoyed the deepening of several relationships between supporting characters, like Reihnard and Wilhelm for example. I did get extremely frustrated when the anime dropped a big hint about a remnant of Ren's memory being held inside...jeez...Gluttony and just let it hang there. I'm not one of the people who hates on Emilia and buys Ren merch, but I definitely want to see Ren back in action. And speaking of how annoying I find the sin bishops, I always have a hard time remembering which sin bishop is which because the sin they represent doesn't always correspond to their outer aspects or behaviors or powers in an obvious way. .I think of them as bandages, fangs, El Creepo, El Disgusto, etc. Or stalker, mind eater, wife collector, and larva lady. I still think the show overextended by having so many multiple fight scenes extended over so many episodes simultaneously. It took me a while to adjust to the tonal difference between season 1 and season 2, but I did it, and I liked season 2 a lot. I admire the show for not just recycling the same dynamic and tone season after season, but there's a danger in losing bits and pieces of its audience along the way without picking up new people to compensate. This season felt more like it was going for a Black Clover kind of storyline and set-up, and I'm not sure that's the fanbase that's still watching this show after season 2.. But I don't really have an easy, accurate way to gauge how many screens are actually accessing an anime, and Re:Zero has already been picked up for season 4, so maybe I should just shut up about that.. Again, I did enjoy the sense that a fellowship is forming against the evil represented by those who want to resurrect Witchy Poo, and I do find Al an intriguing character. As to the ending, I can't say that I'm sorry to see Julius getting the crap end of the stick. I've never entirely forgiven Julius for that beatdown he delivered to Suburu during Suburu's lowest point during season 1. I think of that particular stretch of the show as the floundering five, because it reminded me a little of the endless eight episodes that killed the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya for so many people. With any luck, the memory hole where public awareness of Julius ought to be has something to do with mind eater/fangs, and pursuing that escaped archbishop will put Suburu on track for helping Ren. Here's hoping. |
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Gina Szanboti
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And we're back with Season 4 Ep1!
Many surprising revelations and poignant moments. It's worrying how the Fellowship has been divided up for different missions. Subaru and Co. are now off to see the wizard, so that promises to be fraught with dramas and wicked witches. On a side tangent, one tiny insignificant detail made me blink when Garfiel went to visit his mother who doesn't remember him. When he raised his hand to knock on the door, he was about to knock with the fingers of his fist toward the door. I can't recall any anime character ever doing that (unless there's a doorknocker, and sometimes not even then). Anime characters always knock on doors with the back of their fist. In extremis, they might pound on a door with the side of their fist. I've always wondered why that is. Is it related to the way of beckoning people with fingers pointed down instead of up? The only people who do the latter are tough guys taunting someone to fight. So is fingers-down seen as less aggressive? Is rapping with the back of the hand likewise non-aggressive? If so, then it would kind of make sense for Garfiel to knock with his fist toward the door, since he's naturally aggressive in almost all things.  I don't know why I notice shit like this when I can't remember important plot points I watched an hour ago...
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Edjwald
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As far as the door thing, I can only think of two possibilities offhand.
(1) Sometimes motions evolve from small things. Like we say hello by holding up a hand because in the old, old days it meant "Look, I'm not holding a knife!" Or some people still shake milk containers even though they don't have to anymore because the old milk bottle deliveries used to have thick clotted stuff at the top. Maybe the fact that some old Japanese houses were made of materials like bamboo and paper somehow evolved a different knocking tradition? Though you'd think it would mean that people would knock gently. (2) It's just a weird media style thing that somehow caught on. Like for a while, American gangsta movies had everyone holding their guns sideways. I was a little shocked that they're holding the Sin Bishops prisoner instead of executing them. Not because of any particular stance on capital punishment, but because these are people capable of destroying a city as was just clearly indicated. And with Anastasia now spiritually constipated or whatever, we have at least 3 main characters with varying forms of identity crisis. |
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Edjwald
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Just a bunch of rando impressions here:
I enjoyed the scenario with the sniper using some kind of magical rail gun. Those sandworms are an oldy, but they're a goodie. I found Suburu being Suburu for most of the journey fun enough. His relationships with Julius and Beako and Emilia all have a lot of context by this point, and the anime is stronger for it. "Found you?" |
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Gina Szanboti
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"Banzai, I suppose." lol
Can't say I'm crazy about Emilia's leotard, but then I don't think anyone looks good in one, no matter how great a body they have. Very suspenseful episode! I wonder what they were doing for water during their desert trek. Didn't see any barrels attached to the carriage. |
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minamikaze
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Well, considering that they are shown camping each night surrounded by huge walls of ice, Emilia's magic would seem to be a more than sufficient source of water during their journey through the desert. 
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Gina Szanboti
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Oh, good point. I somehow did not notice that (too busy reading subs). I guess she's not collecting ambient humidity to produce her ice from nowhere then. Pulling it from another world, a la FMA, I suppose.
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Edjwald
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I was wondering if the sniper could see or sense Subaru's timelines.
Ram said the sniper was focusing on Subaru, and they're supposed to be going to the tower of Oz to find some kind of seer who knows all, sees all. Let's just hope Emilia's not pulling the water from the same place the author probably is.... |
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minamikaze
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Oh, there actually are barrels on the roof of the wagon. Meili is shown sitting on them in the OP. Also, they can be seen at 7:26 (and a couple times after that as well). However, they are never opened so whether they contain water or something else is unknown. |
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