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EP. REVIEW: The Executioner and Her Way of Life

boldulysses wrote:

The most disappointing part of the straightforwardness of this episode is that the moral ambiguity

There is no moral ambiguity. What Menou is doing is evil. I think it is fair to say, even she knows that.

Yeah, she kills those evil ones drunk on their new power, but she also kills the innocent ones that just want to lead a normal life.

Excepting scale, what she is doing is no different than what the SS did in Nazi Germany and what the Sentinels do in the X-Men universe.

Agree that the Holocaust is (and always is) a poor metaphor. It's a trolley problem variant: Is it better to kill one person for something they may do in the future or to risk significantly more lives on the chance they don't...

lots of good stuff

....woof and you come to comparing Menou's duty to those carrying out genocide/the Holocaust- all because she kills kids that will 99% of the time go insane with power and chunk large parts of the world around them.

thadec wrote:

Proposing that James Beckett not be allowed to review any isekai titles in the future, or really shonen shows in general. It seems that Beckett has a real disdain towards the target audience - or at least what that audience likes and why - and will not be objective.

And I propose that he should be allowed to review whatever he wants, which I imagine will continue to happen.

DRosencraft wrote:

Hence, what I led off with - it's fine if they're expecting this is going to get the time to fully develop the entire story as an anime. But we generally know that's a rarity, hence why you don't normally attempt 1:1 adaptations of source material. This all would set up well as a written story with all the mystery elements, etc, knowing that the publication horizon is so far out for a written story. But when you have an anime that you're likely only getting 12 or 13 episodes to tell your story, 24 if you're lucky, more if you're really lucky. If the anime ultimately goes that long, it's fine. At the moment, it's setting up to be a poor decision by the anime team.

It's fun to see someone complain about a JC Staff show being too slow and being too faithful to the source LNs when an extremely common complaint against JC Staff LN adaptations is that they rush things and leave out stuff from the LNs (one of the most infamous examples being Magical Index. But I've also seen the complaint against better adaptations like DanMachi), JC Staff takes their time for once and it's now also bad. There's no right anwer, it seems

Florete wrote:

But this doesn't make any sense. Akari isn't getting killed the way everyone else is because she literally can't be (Menou tried, after all). Menou's whole purpose since meeting her is to get her killed, just like the rest. Death does not suddenly "matter" any more with her, it's just taking extra work. Are you criticizing the story for what you think it will do, rather than what it actually has done?

Well, yes, for something I think the show is going to do. If it turns out that Menou does, in fact, kill Akari without any kind of internal consequence, or the whole show ends up being about the technical challenge of killing her rather than any kind of emotional or personal struggle on Menou's part, none of my criticism is applicable. But given that she was introduced as a destined partner, and in contrast to the guy Menou did kill, I'm pretty confident about my assumptions about where the show is going, and at the very least, the show wants us to assume it's going that way, in order to shock us later.

The criticism is what you quoted about murder only mattering (to the show's framing, not to Menou) when it's an attractive female character (which the story's plot was written to support, by extending the duration of their relationship), combined with the main character being the murderer in question. Yes, that's a thing on the screen, and yes, it's a development I don't like.