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James_Beckett
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What really confuses me is the fact that people keep explicitly saying that Eiji's power is to physically dominate things, but a lot of what he does seems to revolve around the much more abstract control of will, at least in part. I've honestly given up trying to understand the rules of it, since I'm pretty sure the rules are whatever the writers need them to be for the scene to work. It really does make it hard to see us on those dramatic beats though. I always find myself asking "Well, if he can dominate (people/gravity/reality) why can't he just (Insert Easy Solution Here)?" The easy argument is that his powers have been limited, but since his powers started off being godlike, we don't actually know what "limited" means in this sense. Plus, we still have no clue why Floaty Girl picked that arbitrary amount of limitation, or why she can't just give him a little power back, or what her long term plan might even be. Like I said in the review, I liked this episode, but I still have a lot of questions the show doesn't seem super interested in answering, at least not in a terribly satisfying way. |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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zrnzle500
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Welp, gotta upgrade Eiji and Sena from probably dtf to df (as in definitely...you get the picture). Also other evidence is the trail of clothes leading to the bath(?). When they said they were not blood related the other week, I knew they were keeping this ship open, but damn I didn't know it was sailing to Port Sex
 . Also on that front, now we know who wears the pants in that relationship, though I guess in her case they're pajama bottoms. Then after being on the verge of giving birth two weeks ago, they gloss over Iyo's pregnancy with a "huh what happened to the baby". Then they hit us with a typical bath molestor female character. Then there is Eiji's "I gotta turn Rin back to normal". Isn't that trying to murder him, which is what she's doing now? Her experiences with him probably changed her mind on him, but how much was her will and how much was his domination? She is back to normal. A not horrible episode made the reviewer (and myself to a lesser extent) think it had some potential, and this just reaffirmed my original impression, which is worst of the season. Not Jiraiya's Ninja Scrolls bad but still.
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Catseyetiger
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To be honest I stopped watching after episode one! That's really rare for me! Seeing how many anime I have seen in whole or at least given a chance!
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Razor/Edge
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The thing with Iyo's pregnancy is a recurring thing that actually becomes pretty important later on. The anime won't make it that far, but the manga has gotten really interesting. Really, pretty much everything the anime has covered so far is huge misdirection. I don't know if the anime will get the twists that coming though.
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Yreva
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Honestly I love this and I can't wait for more
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SquadmemberRitsu
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As bad as Future Diary was from start to finish, the early episodes are nothing in comparison to the crap that gets pulled later on. So I fully understand your concerns.
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Hiroki not Takuya
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I'm waiting to hear Sena softly utter to Eiji "order, be my goshuujin-sama..." I'm loving this for all the wrong reasons but looking forward to the uncensored version
 I'm not even going to begin looking for this story to make sense, it's a fan-fic pure and simple. Where is it going next week? Daisy's la-la-land! (Eiji, I Am YOUR FATHER!)
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DuskyPredator
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Sometimes you just want to watch something totally messed up, and this show might be able to do that. Of course it is bad, but step siblings boning.
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#844391
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episode 5,
man this series is inconsistent, I was really getting into it in eps 3 and 4 but then it went downhill again in this episode. what is the deal with eiji's power, it's so damn inconsistent. he can control physics, air, gravity etc but when people wear headphones his power doesn't work on them? I thought it wasn't the verbal command that made things happen, it was his intent, after all bullets and air can't hear what he's saying. furthermore, even if he couldn't control them he should have still had full control over the domain around him (which rin walked into, since he was backing up and she was following him). he could have made their air around her thick or made a hole beneath her or one of a hundred other ways of stopping her. This is the problem when you give a character an incredibly OP power and then throw in a bunch of arbitrary weaknesses which make no sense. it ruins the whole flow of the series. |
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gedata
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spoiler[I guess there was so much to go off on in this last episode that the reviewer forgot to mention the fact that Hiragi apparently has the power to manipulate reality.]
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Key
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My biggest complaint about episode 5 is that it just doesn't make sense. It felt like several minutes of content that should have linked scenes together in a logical flow got excised, leaving behind a total mess. And I fully agree with complaints about the inconsistency of the MC's power use.
Really, ep 5 was one of the worst individual episodes of anime I've seen in the past couple of years. |
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DrunkAyanami
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Possibly due to the fact that the series really does its damnest to not really tell us what's going on? Seriously, some stuff happened, and some large portion of it was ridiculous. I'm sure the manga explains more, but the anime is a giant train wreck of.... I don't even know. At this point, I can't tell the difference between 1) terrible, terrible writing and 2) plot points that are being deliberately hidden from us. UGH. Even Mayoiga has proved less confusing this season. Although Mayoiga COULD still be genius hidden within....something. I'm not feeling that with Big Order Just confusion. |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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Pierrot.
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He finally broke lol. |
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