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SonOfaMonkey
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@JesuOtaku Ah, that actually explains Nightow a bit more.
I'm inclined to disagree that all but super-devout Christians can be humanists while being consistent, since one of the main things humanism emphasises is, to borrow from Google, "the potential goodness of human beings." A basic tenant of most Christan denominations to my knowledge, outside of very universalist ones, is the opposite of that: human beings having greater potential for evil compared to good, instead relying on Christ to make up for the difference. The two ideologies certainly have many of the same ends, but different ultimate means, it seems to me. To be fair though, I just remembered that Catholicism is the closest a mainstream Christian group (and one of the biggest ones) gets to plain humanism, which again explains Nightow better for me. Must've been my Protestant thinking making me forget. |
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Cephalo the Pod
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I'm...very much enjoying the show episode by episode. It looks good, it sounds good, it has good characters. It's definitely fun.
But it feels just a little bit...empty. Like it's missing something. Plot, maybe? Sure, there's important world-building in just about every episode, but there really isn't much of an overarching plot yet that's taking the whole show somewhere. I was glad that the Blood Breeds appeared in Ep4 and that they've been reappearing with some regularity. I also feel like the show just has too much sometimes. Like, I was totally prepared for Femt to be the overall Big Bad of the 12 episodes, but then the vampires came in. That was a shame; I liked Femt. We don't know anything about some of the main members of Libra, like Chain Sumeragi or Steven A. Starphase. Leo's god-given mission hasn't been brought back up yet since the first episode, has it? To be fair, Leo doesn't have a clue where to start, and it could easily tie in with the Blood Breeds. I feel like I would enjoy this so much more if it had another 12 episodes. |
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Hameyadea
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Each episode is so jam-packed of plot and other stuff, that by this point, it would feel odd should there be a more relaxed, slowed-down one.
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DmonHiro
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OK, here's how it went. Let me pain a picture: It's Sunday. There's five of us in the room looking at the TV. Nobody is eating or drinking. All five of us completely focused on the screen. Five 25-28 year old men on the edge of their seat from what is basically a game of CHESS. The most epic game of chess in the history of fiction. THAT'S when you know you've made a kick ass anime. MAN was that good.
And don't get me started on the vampires. |
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LokiReed
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wait, this is only slated for 12 episodes?? I need 24!!!
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Eisenmann V
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I guess I'm missing something. The show looks nice, sure, but I've found it too episodic and disjointed to really catch on to it. When it's only 12 episodes, it feels like the show's wasting time.
Anyway, the tone of this article comes off as if it was an advertorial paid for by Funimation. |
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Key
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I feel pretty much the same way. (And I'm saying that as a big fan of Baccano! and someone who labeled Kyousogiga as the best series of 2013.) Of the nine shows that I'm actively trying to keep up with this season, BBB is invariably the lowest on my priority viewing list and the one that I am most apt to fall a week or two behind on. I just can't muster up a lot of enthusiasm for it.
I wouldn't go that far, and I think there's enough other reserved responses in this thread to put the lie to that. But if you want to personally regard it as the best of the season, hey, that's your prerogative. |
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Nyron
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The anime's skipped a bunch of subtler character moments for a majority of the cast except for Leo, along with whole arcs for some of the supporting cast members it was too much content for 12 episodes |
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DangerMouse
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Those two Pacific Rim guys
This. I love this show so much, even already re-watching the early eps with the new dub to catch more stuff going on, it would be amazing if it were to get a second set of episodes rather than end at 12. The dub needs to get on Toonami. 
I think you'll love it. Last edited by DangerMouse on Fri May 29, 2015 5:52 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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Hyro_10
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With some of the others on this, BBB is lost on me. Too episodic and almost every episode is stuffed to the brim with content. I don't like or dislike any of the characters since I haven't really gotten to spend quality time with them, and there's almost always some crazy event going on, wrapped up in the try hard to be cool attitude. My biggest issue is that there isn't a main plot for me to get into, sure you have the white & black issue but it just gets touched on every few episodes. I thought some major developments would have followed since the introduction of the Blood breed but nah. Speaking of the blood breed weren't they suppose to be like super dangerous? Leo falls to his knees and says " How have we been safe till now?". Yet Klaus walks away fine from a fight with one and then we have Zapp's master neutralize one on his own.
Well it's good that it's being praised, I hate to see a Bones show do bad. There shows have been a disappointment for me since Captain earth. |
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Cephalo the Pod
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Klaus walked away from a fight with one Blood Breed and one Elder (the 13 combined are probably what makes them so scary), and that was only because Leo figured out her name. If Klaus hadn't been quick enough with the name-sealing, the Elder would probably have killed him easily. Even then, Klaus is established as an utter ace. Anyone who gives him trouble is no one at whom to scoff. I haven't seen Episode 8 (just read Hope's review), but "Zapp's master" sounds like someone who'd be just as (if not more) exceptional than Klaus. |
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Hyro_10
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Fair point but that set up is what made it less scary for me. They never gave me a chance to feel how much damage they can do, instead we have a tough and pretty contained fight.
Again we or at least I never get to see how tough they are cause they're always stopped by aces. |
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Nyron
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blah blah blah manga manga episode 4 neglected to include a lot of things, like that blood breed woman's whole schtick, and some scenes where she was dismantling the police suits with a single finger They're also not necessarily scary just because they're powerful, they're scary because they're completely indestructible and as strong or stronger than Libra's best. Even though (half) of one of them got tooled by Zap's Master, it took a ridiculous effort and then proceeded to be an even bigger pain in the ass once it was defeated. I mean, think about that, a sentient pair of pants leveled a few city blocks and took some DBZ-power level shit to simply stop for a while |
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Hyro_10
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As someone with no knowledge of the manga I can only judge what I see from the anime. I didn't see indestructability, I saw two blood breeds get beat in a subway (correct me if I'm wrong, one might have escaped I don't remember) and one being stopped by a single person, who if I recall correctly was missing parts of himself too or looked like her was.
It's funny now that you point it out but I just attributed it to the over the top nature of the show. Just some explosions here and there nothing really. Hard for me to take the show seriously. |
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JacobC
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I can't imagine wanting to take it seriously! I mean, it makes me feel things sometimes, because it's well-written and produced and has nice mushy ideas about people and stuff, but it's still an action-comedy cartoon spectacle. "Taking it seriously" isn't really in the cards. |
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