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Blood-
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Re: Miyabi spoiler[repercussions for going rogue] - remember gents that the "magnificent breasts" defense is in play here, so I expect spoiler[nothing more than perhaps a good spanking.]
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Yamstarch
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Hopefully... *rawr*  [/img]
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Vaisaga
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Pretty intense final battle. A solid conclusion overall.
As a whole it was a pretty good show. People might complain that it doesn't do anything original but what it does do it does well. I'd be up for a second season and probably check out the novels too. |
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Cam0
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Well Tor sure is a tank. spoiler[Multiple gunshot wounds, impaled by a sword and a wound on his shoulder, and he can still fight back like it's nothing.]
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Yttrbio
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The OP seems to indicate he's some kind of zombie, and maybe that's not so metaphorical.
I can't really agree that it did what it did well. The show stuck to the formula, but not out of any love for the formula. It may as well have been written by a robot, for how little it indulged in the things that make that formula fun to watch. Edit: Well, that may be a bit overly negative. Early on, I had hopes the show might be interesting, but it just refused to build on what it had established. Also, absolute worst Light Novel Technobabble. |
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Yamstarch
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The ending left much to be desired. I enjoyed the series immensely as a whole, but I was hoping for a little more *pop* or twist to the finale. It was a bit predictable. I will give it that. My biggest gripe with this particular episode is when Tor spoiler[just gets right back up at the exact right time to save the day and has enough power and energy to perform an impressive final strike to K.]
An otherwise lackluster episode to an otherwise great series. here's to hoping for a lot more! |
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getchman
Space Cowboy Posts: 9120 Location: Bedford, NH |
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eh, that was ok. it was entertaining, but was kinda underwhelmed for most of the show. better than World Break
Nah, that dishonor goes to Mahouka |
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kgw
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Absolute Duo has done nothing specially bad, nothing specially good.
Pro: characters actually talk about their feelings, instead of going round. Ms. Rabbit becoming more than a bridge rabbit. Cons: nth "loser with a power bigger than what it seems win the day and the girls" LN adaptation, over, make way for the next one. |
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Blood-
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"Dark Professor BunBun!"
I rated this show Decent even though I recognize that, on a semi-objective basis, it is probably at best So-So. It didn't shit the bed, but it didn't do anything particularly interesting, either. Yet, I basically dug it. Dark Professor BunBun helped as did Miyabi's bigguns. I kinda want those two to have their own show... |
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Vaisaga
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No, definitely goes to this show. There are actually scenes where people go "Hm, hold on, let me think of a random English word to call this." |
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Random? Hardly. In fact, there phrases here are often achingly prosaic. El Awake? Okay, the El is random, but Awake is pretty on the nose. As is Exceed, Destruction and Blaze. Actually, there really weren't that many terms used and certainly not anything out of bounds for shows of this sort.
eta: now that I think about it, World Trigger is probably the King of Technobabble. Over half of each episode is usually given over to info dumps of one kind or another and then the info gets repeated in their chibi theatre thing at the end. |
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Cam0
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Although I found the use of English words to be silly and unnecessary, they still made sense and were easy to comprehend. On the other hand look at the plot description for Mahouka on wikipedia for example. You can also just go to Mahouka wikia and just find some page about magic. That show was filled with so much of its own terminology that you needed a Mahouka encyclopedia (thankfully we had you, lol) just to keep up with what was being said. All this just made me remember that Thesis thing from episode 23 for example. Was a bit of a head-scratcher. |
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DuskyPredator
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Episode 12 (finale)
I want to be positive, but first I have to say some negative things, especially with this episode. It was kind of a mess, not in that it tried to do too much, but it stuck a formulae so much that it did not seem to flow properly. First it was that the villain seemed to be evil for evil's sake, the show did spoiler[seem to want to say that he was also in pain and used and whatnot, but he just seemed to go from being defeated to wanting to destroy everything]. I especially want to point out that the glasses guy spoiler[running at him did indeed sound intense as he called him a bastard or something, but it just did not seem to match the scene where the war game had just ended and a opponent just appeared]. I would say it was too intense. The whole episode seemed to just be a back and forth of standard fighting formulae of these type of genre that you could totally drone out and know the general direction of what was going on. Granted spoiler[him getting stabbed] is an interesting turn, but it also felt spoiler[so extreme that it was unrealistic that he just got up without continuously having to hold his guts together that had gotten stabbed]. It kind of ruined the spoiler[fear of losing when we see him doing things like that]. spoiler[Going berserk] is also a good turn, but it also felt just like last time that one could see that it would easily go the same way, there should have been ways to make it look like it was a new level and to show the emotional baggage. It stays at about passable, but also quite mediocre. Moving onto more of what I would say about the series as a whole. I liked the teacher. From first appearances as just some clumsy woman in a maid and rabbit suit acting cutesy, to a psychotic slasher, and spoiler[finishing with having a heart of gold that would protect her students]. The teacher was just an interesting character that kind of drove this series that can act cutesy, play along with the harem-esq themes, or go completely dark. She was an adult, granted wearing a maid outfit with rabbit ears, and she was generally fun. I would like to say that highlights what I liked in general about this series in having fun. Plus it took a chance to kind of give focus to the romantic interest of one of the secondary characters in a likable way. In conclusion, this series is a cliché, but it still has fun, there is not too much special, but you might find a couple things that can catch your eye. I rate it Decent, it may have waivered at moments, but I did not waste my time. Bunny teacher raises it up a bit, as did Miyabi for personal opinions...... and gothic lolis are my guilty pleasure. And a callback to the well timed scene of Julie during the shopping. |
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Vaisaga
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I don't think the word 'loser' applies to Tor (aside from the fact he's lost stuff). While his Blaze is a bit unusual it's never portrayed as being inferior and he's never come off as an underdog. He's quite compotent in combat and social situations so he doesn't really fit in with other weak willed harem protags. He doesn't come off as particularly overpowered either.
Well I think that was more an issue of the Mahouka anime being inconsistent about explaining which things it explains. Still, most of Mahouka's techno babble is rooted in real science. Let's just meet each other half way and say that A Certain series is the worst
NANOMACHINES, SON!
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HaruhiToy
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That Duo oath at the end there sure sounded a whole lot like marriage vows.
Not that this anime is particularly complex, but I would never understand those two in such a supposedly intense spiritual relationship while living together aren't actually doing it with each other. If it were me I wouldn't see any way of keeping my hands off of her. I'm afraid Lilith will have to settle for #2 position. Miyabi #3 and she has the self esteem for it. Tomoe could stand outside and hand in towels when asked. Not a whole lot else to get out of this anime is there? Still I was entertained enough to rate in Decent or maybe one bump higher. |
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