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smurky turkey
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I like that while the goal is to find Gero a wife the actual events seem to be about performing crazy missions with powerful baddies to beat while possibly building up a harem/romance candidates. I like every part of that due to everyone having rather crazy abilities and the show being good at switching between goofy and somewhat serious. |
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Edjwald
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Yah, it seems pretty plain to me that this isn't going to be a monster of the week so much as a master-of-the-two-week arc format. But even though the framing device is somewhat predictable, the show itself is a strange one. I never expected, for example to see our MC threading his own vomit into something looking like amber jelly rolls as a party trick thinking it would make him popular.
And I thought it was cool how the sound master seems to need to have a network of conductors, like the pipes in the building, or those steel threads he was setting up in the forest. Not sure what the rationale is for the weird auditory hypnosis thing he's doing with women. Ear canals? |
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ACｘS
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I don't know why, but this show is now reminding me of Sakamoto Days. That's on top of Akiba Maid War and Spy × Family. What a weird feeling.
More interestingly, why is he hypnotizing only women? Because he wants to, or are they the only ones he can hypnotize? I have a feeling that this is where Kinosaki will be Gero's trump card, given his cross-dressing talent. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Because he wants to. It feeds his ego. He chose not to hypnotoad Shiori for whatever reasons, but had no trouble zapping her dad. |
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ACｘS
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I was thinking that too: why not just hypnotize Shiori to kill herself? I thought he couldn't do it because he would have to be close to her, and Gero has been guarding her closely. This raises the question: how does his hypnosis work? |
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Gina Szanboti
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In the Review thread I said, "I think Soundmaster has more going on in his head than just being egotistical or a perfectionist. His job would've been a cake walk if he'd used his control over her father to make him just fire Gero and/or replace him with someone incompetent. He apparently wants to do his thing on his own schedule and terms and competing with Gero is an interesting bonus for him." Someone else followed up with pointing out like you did that he could've just made her kill herself. With all that said, I'm thinking that along with or more than just being a perfectionist, he might be a bit OCD, and needs everything done just so, according to his plan (I might be overthinking this). I'm not sure how his earlier failed attempt at school fits in with his apparent fixation on killing her on schedule at the camp. As for how he hypnotoads people with sound at all, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Whatever, he seems to be able to pinpoint specific targets even in the presence of others nearby. Like, Shiori was as close to him as any of the other women at the party or on the bus, but he chose not to target her (unless I wasn't wrong when I joked that her hoodie protected her from his powers?  ). Oh wait, that was in the other thread too.  I said, "Maybe her being the only woman wearing a hoodie disrupted his hypnotoad vibes. Or the horn on top acts like a lightning rod for sound instead of electricity, sparing her the damage." 
I wonder when and how that's going to pay off down the road. 
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smurky turkey
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Seems like Naruko has been reading the comments here because he went for the suicide tactic. His brainwashing method is not without flaw though and can be overcome. The same goes for his overpowered tuning. I was going to say that his sound mastery is difficult to deal with but has no direct method of attack yet that violin at the end (the chainsaw hand was something else) seems to make that point moot. It is impressive how Naruko makes Gero and his abilities seem plain and limited in comparison. |
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Gina Szanboti
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So was giant uncle in the woods really him or an illusion, or golem or what? That was unclear to me.
Somehow I missed last week that the god of the horror legend was Lord Chladni! With so many patterns thrown in my face this week, it was impossible to miss. The patterns seen on Naruko's illusions and in people's eyes are Chladni plate visualizations of sound waves, named for Ernst Chladni, the physicist who invented them. Chladni plates show the "shapes" of sound frequencies, and the patterns formed depend on the individual plate's resonant frequencies, the material, the frequency and purity of the tone, and the shape of the plate. I haven't found a single tone that looks like Naruko's main pattern, so I'd say he's using a combination of tones to create them. Have some fun! BBC splainer lots of patterns w/ Hz shown Check out the humanoid shape in the center at 4221 Hz.
with music Very cool. this one at ~6:38 looks the closest, perhaps combined with the low Hz ones to get the curves. Handy reference  (click for larger image)
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ACｘS
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Okay, staging it like a suicide makes sense. Kinda? Making Shiori kill herself and make it look like an accident seems easier than making up the Lord Chladni lore, though.
Now that's pretty cool. I knew a Japanese deity named Lord Chladni was incredibly bizarre. |
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Gina Szanboti
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I can't remember if any of the vids I linked showed this, but one way many people vibrate the plates is by using a violin bow along the edge rather than a tone generator.
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smurky turkey
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That was a nice end to the season and series as a whole. A romantic partner was found who vibes with Gero and his unique interests and they get along great, mission accomplished... I joke yet it does kind of feel like the whole finding a partner/eventual bride mission aspect has been completed. I appreciate that Shiori is not at all helpless, she may not be a master but she can hold her own by being creative. She and Gero also showed some solid character development. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Her turnaround to sexy flirt seemed a bit rushed, like overnight. Like multiple personality switch. She could show interest without suddenly becoming a femme fatale.
I'm still not quite clear on how she pulled off her magic trick with the threads. Did she appropriate them from Naruko and likewise instantly master slinging them around? Ah well, she looked lovely in her witch costume.
Speaking of Naruko, his backstory sure took a dark turn with the old "kodoku trials" method of building your ranks, perhaps the stupidest way to make your group stronger by killing off all but one of your most talented people. |
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Edjwald
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@Smurky - Yah, I like the show - mostly because it's a snack bar loaded with nuts...but I'm not sure I like this idea that out MC is building a little black book of promising harem candidates each two or three weeks. Hey, we made a genuine connection. Now excuse me while I ignore you so I can go make another genuine connection.
@Gina - at least we saw Shiori adopting a personal and pulling off a major illusion under severe pressure *before* she did her little routine with our MC. Maybe she just looked at it as a magician trick. And yeah, I've seen the kind of premises where people in a cult or sect are pit against each other, wiping each other out to prove who's the strongest before. It would be cool to see a show where a bunch of kids in that kind of situation banded together to kill the douchebags running the system. Kind of a different take on the Assassination Classroom premise. |
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Gina Szanboti
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It's all over anime, like off the top of my head, Naruto had Sai's and Zabuza's backstories involve this, Kingdom employs it for Kyou Kai's revenge tour motivation, Dark Gathering had Yayoi and her room full of possessed dolls battling it out, Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens used it for Xianming's past (but with only a 50% loss rate), and InuYasha and Yashahime used it a lot with demons. I suppose the idea is embedded in the culture from ancient Chinese curse magic. There's a reason there's a specific name for it. I just think it's a really dumb way to lose a lot of highly trained talent even if the lone survivor is really badass. The one they killed was probably pretty badass too.
I feel like I've seen the scenario you describe with the kids turning the tables before, but I can't pull it out of my rusting memory banks. |
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ACｘS
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Bro deadass carved out a violin just to fling it at Gero, and nobody said anything about it. C'mon, you guys! 
Did anyone else get reminded of Eru from Hyouka here? Or am I the only one? |
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