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smurky turkey
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I appreciate the show for moving things along at a pretty brisk pace. No overly long recon mission but instead getting roped into a war like situation between demon lords. One of said demon lords is mighty impressive with being able to use the weather as a weapon. Besides that the episode introduced a lot of characters and somehow I feel like most will not survive since the mission is starting too smoothly. Aki feeling slighted will never get old. |
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Edjwald
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Welp, at least the show is continuing the proud anime tradition of always showing clergymen in a positive light. Yeeps.
I agree that the demon lord who can open up a can of hurricane is pretty impressive, and I guess his comment about his grandfather explains the age thing. I'm not sure why he couldn't just tear the whole castle down unless he didn't want to lower the property values. I always thought Malta was pretty goofy and creepy, but he's starting to grow on me. I was going to say that the little butt rash was growing on me, but it just sounded too wrong on a couple of levels. |
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smurky turkey
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This week's episode sure was a showcase of ether abilities. Some were particularly weird such as diving through solid matter and basically being from Minecraft digging wise. Not all of them were winners though, that invisible step one is kind of meh and for a demon lord that darkness ability is a bit underwhelming. Fight wise the girls did okay enough versus the demon lord, they held their own for a little bit but they still have a lot to learn (especially regarding not letting their emotions control them). |
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smurky turkey
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That demon lord did not fail to deliver. Yeah, his ability was mid at best but he relied more on his honed skills than on said ability and went down putting up a good fight. Yashiro had to give it his all for once. I agree that the girls should find other work, not a single one of them is suited for it and if they continue as is they won't last long. The preview has me hyped with war in Tokyo plus finding out whatever Kiyoto was up to. |
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DuskyPredator
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I am putting forward my appreciation for an anime having an adult man not get weird around teenagers. He stood guard while they were bathing and there was no hint of him getting flustered like you would see in other shows. Just him acting as a guardian to give them hard truths and make sure no one tries anything.
It kind of feels weird that it has to be worth praise for an adult man to not leave a hint of being weird around teenage girl characters, because obviously they are not on his radar. |
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rapata
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S1E1-12: It's a good show, as testified by the binge watch metric. Especially the end of the cour improved over the beginning when things started getting more serious. Another case of graphic violence and goofy humor combined, but mysteries abound and story is moving forward fine and we're learning something new about the setting, avoiding getting stuck.
E13 first half: I wonder if Sara is going to tell Arthur where she's going... didn't he want to keep her away from danger, and Yashiro is getting them to go to pretty much the opposite direction lately. I guess it'll become clear in next episodes. |
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smurky turkey
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I love that the show is pretty wild with what can happen at any time. In most anime they spreak of dangerous situations yet you never feel it, here it is very much not like that. Plenty of characters have died already and now the bartender is at risk with the bar having been trashed (plus Tokyo being a warzone). The reveal segment was interesting and it explains why Jogamine is off with her basically being a zombie. The question is if her personality was always that quirky or if it is due to being brought back. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Yeah I'd say we just got an explanation of how Ishino is in the OP.
 The question is, did he plan that, taking his chances he'd be compatible, or was he a victim (and when did they acquire his body)?
Speaking of OP, the image of Jogamine being cut in half and multiplying kinda hits differently now, huh. So Yashiro didn't notice Jogamine's eyes were just like her dad's?  I still don't know if that's a character style or if the characters actually see them as we do and just think nothing of it.
Who won the card game?
Has the yearning for head pats always been this featured in anime? It seems like in the last couple years every anime with a character under 16 has them desperately fishing for head pats, regardless of genre. |
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smurky turkey
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The ishino in the opening might still be a fake out, if you watch both openings than a lot of stuff in it never happened and might even be considered a misdirect.
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Edjwald
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I've been on Ishino watch to the point where I'll be disappointed if some version doesn't show up. But that doesn't rule out the possibility that the OP is just a reference to him being a presence as a motivating memory or influence.
I'm starting to think that Jogamine's mentality might not be a bad thing. If she's invulnerable, maybe she could afford to keep her whacked out idealism. Kind of like the Tick from one of my favorite American cartoons back in the day. |
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smurky turkey
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Well, on the plus side the girls are growing and (re)defining the kind of Braves they want to be. All three of them showed some good qualities this week. It is a pity that there is no time to appreciate that though since Half Dragon really has gone all out with setting up a plan to corner them. The odds are stacked heavily against them and it seems like everything goes. |
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Edjwald
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Myself, I'm not usually a big fan of fight scenes that go on for multiple episodes (I think the two episode mecha fight going on in Snowball Earth has gone on for at least one episode too long, for example) but I really enjoyed the chase/fight on the 5/16 episode. It reminded me a little bit of the highway fight in Matrix II (the logistics, not the execution).
The fact that our MC was trying so desperately to put off using his E3 gave events some extra tension as well as providing a plausible reason for the young braves taking on so much of the heavy lifting. It was a pretty good mix of comedy, action, personal interaction, and varied tactics too, instead of a lot of repetitive yells and punches interspersed with lengthy monologues. |
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Gina Szanboti
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I don't know why Indo doesn't port right on top of Drit's neck so she can stab him before he can react.
The timing in this fight doesn't quite work. Yashiro said at the start it would take at least an hour to get back to Ed. They drive around and fight for awhile (hard to say how long in anime time), then run the last lap which is ~ 10K. Ave time to run a 10K is about an hour, if you're not hopped up on E3. Yashiro didn't dose up because it was going to take an hour to drive and E3 only lasts an hour. The girls were already dosed, so between however long they were driving and running, they should have well less than an hour left, yet Yashiro estimates they should still have another 50 min left. I mean, there wasn't much bullet time in this where the action got slowed down to show every action in slo-mo from 3 different angles, and the episode was 20 min, so I don't see how they have more than ~30 min left. I like the horse dogs, myself, especially that their hooves were shod. They'd really be cute if they weren't all lumpy pudding on their backs. The titan frame was pretty cool looking too. |
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smurky turkey
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Dragon Ball Z taught me early on that trying to make sense of the passage of time in anime is a futile task. They can say 5 minutes or half an hour all they want but it is often made far longer or shorter to match up with the story. Episode 19 not only had a lack of E3, it also had a lack of budget. Last week has some solid fights while this time a lot was reduced to sounds and offscreen action. I like that the episode made clear that E3 is not some liquid superpower. Yeah, a person on it is much faster and stronger than a person not on it but using it has severe consequences. Use it long enough and you become a junky who can no longer contain their impulses. |
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Edjwald
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Did anyone else notice that when that merc was talking about people who are as addicted to killing as they are E3, she talked about Ishino the Musician in the present tense?
I thought the sociopathic refugee from a black company was an interesting character, and Miss No-morals is a good antagonist. I also thought our junior woodchuc(koff) I mean, our braves in training showed some progress that was convincing because of the way it's been developed over the past however many episodes. This continues to be a consistently low-key enjoyable show - I would never list it among my faves, but I've never felt like I was forcing myself to watch it. It feels low budget production wise and modest in ambition, but it's got enough quirk and enough smirk and enough bizarre fusion of wildly opposite elements to feel fresh. |
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