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EP. REVIEW: Akudama Drive

That's not how immortality works, that's just a controlled cancer growth. Honestly, "that's not how immortality works" counters every point from Free Will to why not just have the brains in a jar some where?

Technological evolutions should work in the way of constant improvements so let's start with the hypothesis that two wetware bodies offer a more secure environment that whatever that Quantum Computer was, constantly changing, constantly shifting.

Once once I wrote that sentence I immediately thought "Oh, shouldn't it be Cloud based storage"? Rather than a fixated point that's subject to atomization... see "Moon", see "Moon" gone... the next step would be an Everywhere that's Nowhere. But they already have the plot macguffin being two immortal kids?

This is why you NEVER see what's in the briefcase or in this case, the Vault.

The destruction of the Earth will come long before the heat death of the Universe, even long before the sun goes supernova... no, this isn't that kind of Sci Fi series. Most anime aren't as their science fiction is only as hard as the body pillows they try to sell.

Dialing it back down to surface level: Immortality means forever and the human brain is large enough to hold other brains inside it, granted that there's two of them. No, I can just feel my eyes glazing over on that one.

Huh. Well. When this started I expected most of the characters in the first episode to die, but I didn't expect the takoyaki lady to be the only to (maybe) survive. I also didn't expect Courier to be dumb enough to enter Kansai aboard the shinkansen.
But boy, even if they went they did so with a bang. With several bangs. With lots of bangs. And a "fudge the police" as literal as it was bombastic.
Swindler got her title card right at the end just as she commited her biggest swindle (come think of it, she spent the entire series directing where to go), although I don't know how she got Hacker's... stuff, or why she set up a blackout (with so much of a delay).

On the other hand, what about Pupil? She seemed to be in the middle of a turncoat arc but that didn'ty go anywhere.

According to https://twitter.com/RanobeSugoi/status/1342189491692261376?s=19 the blu-ray will have 5 minutes of extra content about the executioners that had to be cut due to anime airing time constrants.

主な追加シーン
- シンカンセン襲撃時の弟子と後輩の会話。シンカンセンに対する価値観の相違。
- 運び屋との戦闘後、弟子と後輩のシーン。立ちすくむ後輩を見て弟子が思うことは…。
- 後輩のシーン。自分の意思をしっかりと示す。
- 運び屋と兄、妹のシーン。妹が垣間見せる覚悟。
- 処刑課のあるべき姿を問う弟子のシーン。師匠のビーム十手を握りしめて思うことは…。
- ビーム十手を握るボスのシーン。処刑課のボスと運び屋の一騎打ちとなるのか！？
- ボスと弟子の対峙。お互いのプライドがぶつかり合う。
- 銃を向ける女の子。その女の子を包み込む後輩。
- 未来を見据えて語る弟子のシーン。そこには強い信念がある。
- 師匠と弟子の関係性を象徴するシーン。そこにはあの名言も！！
- 颯爽とバイクに乗る運び屋。その後ろには兄と妹の姿が。最後の逃走劇！

Using his prosthetic arm to stabilize his broken railgun for one final finishing blow is also just pitch-perfect action film climax bullshit. It rules so, so hard. Sorry, I can't be more eloquent than that.

"The specific choice of words, that the rioters “caused damage” and thus brought this upon themselves, perfectly echoes mainstream discourse that treats property damage as more heinous than a police force that wantonly murders its citizens."

"This is what cops are as an institution, and they deserve no sympathy or well-rounded character arc for it. It's beyond reformation."

and its unequivocal hatred of cops fully assuaged those fears

This is what cops are as an institution, and they deserve no sympathy or well-rounded character arc for it. It's beyond reformation.

Especially in light of If anything is going to call itself “cyberpunk,” this is the bare minimum amount of revolutionary messaging I want out of it.

Please explain?

and its unequivocal hatred of cops fully assuaged those fears

This is what cops are as an institution, and they deserve no sympathy or well-rounded character arc for it. It's beyond reformation.

Especially in light of If anything is going to call itself “cyberpunk,” this is the bare minimum amount of revolutionary messaging I want out of it.

Please explain?

Reviewer having their "North-American-In-2020" glasses firmly welded on, and thus not noticing that the show is commenting on authoritarian systems and not the police per se. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Animegomaniac wrote:

That's not how immortality works, that's just a controlled cancer growth. Honestly, "that's not how immortality works" counters every point from Free Will to why not just have the brains in a jar some where? Technological evolutions should work in the way of constant improvements so let's start with the hypothesis that two wetware bodies offer a more secure environment that whatever that Quantum Computer was, constantly changing, constantly shifting. Once once I wrote that sentence I immediately thought "Oh, shouldn't it be Cloud based storage"? Rather than a fixated point that's subject to atomization... see "Moon", see "Moon" gone... the next step would be an Everywhere that's Nowhere. But they already have the plot macguffin being two immortal kids? This is why you NEVER see what's in the briefcase or in this case, the Vault. The destruction of the Earth will come long before the heat death of the Universe, even long before the sun goes supernova... no, this isn't that kind of Sci Fi series. Most anime aren't as their science fiction is only as hard as the body pillows they try to sell. Dialing it back down to surface level: Immortality means forever and the human brain is large enough to hold other brains inside it, granted that there's two of them. No, I can just feel my eyes glazing over on that one.

My eyes are glazing over on this explanation, like seriously WUT?

and its unequivocal hatred of cops fully assuaged those fears

This is what cops are as an institution, and they deserve no sympathy or well-rounded character arc for it. It's beyond reformation.

Especially in light of If anything is going to call itself “cyberpunk,” this is the bare minimum amount of revolutionary messaging I want out of it

SHD wrote:

Reviewer having their "North-American-In-2020" glasses firmly welded on, and thus not noticing that the show is commenting on authoritarian systems and not the police per se. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And the authoritarian system it's commenting on is the police. I don't know what mental gymnastics you managed to get "this show where the cops are a corrupt force that arbitrarily uses the label of criminality to justify violence" is somehow not commenting specifically on policing but you get the Gold.