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harminia
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I didn't mind Charlotte. It definitely went in directions I wasn't expecting, and probably if I really thought about it I'd realise there were way too many things happening in a short period of time (especially last ep). And I didn't care about the second gang of characters that appeared, so spoiler[when one of them died] I didn't really care. And I didn't care heaps about the other characters, though Yuu's breakdown in part 1 was a little bit emotional.
But to be honest, I'm a simple girl, and when I see a dude maniacally laughing and growing more and more mentally unstable like spoiler[Yuu does in the last episode], I'm gonna enjoy the show. |
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invalidname
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With Charlotte, I was hoping for the next Angel Beats!, but what we got instead was just a somewhat more coherent Mekakucity Actors.
For everyone who thinks it would be better if it had been longer than one cour, the CEO of Visual Art's said at last year's Anime Central in Chicago that Maeda wants to do more with Charlotte, so maybe it'll get continued or revised in some form. To wit, there is a very slow-moving manga adaptation in Dengeki G's Comic that looks like it'll take a couple years just to get through the anime's main story, and maybe that would offer some room to expand. That said, I agree with Nick's point (and in Gabriella's episodic reviews two summers back) that Maeda seems to be a master of individual moments, not coherent overall stories, so simply having a bigger space to work with is in no way guaranteed to fix Charlotte's problems. After all, every time we've gotten a new Angel Beats! OVA, it has made the series worse, not better. [Also, speaking of Angel Beats, has anyone else noticed that the Heaven's Door manga has completely disappeared from Seven Seas' release schedule? Not a good sign.] |
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jr240483
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true enough. its definitely better than it appears, but the reviewer was right about the flaws if nothing else. the ending was clearly rushed, BUT considering how long the source materials is i wasn't surprised at the slightest. at least it had a quazi decent one and not one that had people scratching their heads like say in chaos dragon. however just like what Blood C: The Last Dark movie did for its TV series, its more or less a given that both series NEEDS a second season or a movie to absolve the mistakes that was done to the TV series. |
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Apollo-kun
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As somebody who actually isn't a fan of Maeda, as I really don't like Angel Beats and never got into Clannad, I absolutely adored Charlotte. It's one of the best anime I've seen in recent years. |
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russ869
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Why? Who says an ending can't just come out of nowhere. Even though you use Berserk as a counterexample, I interestingly enough see that ending as coming even more without warning than this one. Somewhere in the back of my mind I at least understood that spoiler[Yuu plundering all of the mutant powers in the world] was one possible (if utterly ridiculous) solution to the problem that at least made sense in the show's internal logic.. |
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Chiibi
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Um, no. I'd much rather have my powers stolen from me the way Yuu did it than be caught and tortured into insanity like Nao's brother. The people hunting down the teens with powers were eventually going to catch them and give them a far worse fate. Yuu wanted to avoid that. The victims were screwed either way; if you had to choose between: not having powers but your happy, normal life with family OR being treated as a quarantined freak experiment, which would you choose? |
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H. Guderian
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I actually was going to read this before work today, but I held off on it so I'd have something good to read afterwards, like a treat. It didn't disappoint. The 2nd half was an absolute trainwreck. You know how people lose their trains of thought? Here, they all met on the same track, and every loose train of thought in fiction converged to make the world builders of Dark Souls 3 skeptical such a collision was even possible.
I can't even see what they were thinking. All those character goods they need to sell? None of the characters from the first half do anything in the second. None of the new characters later on are memorable. In my circle this show has become the butt of jokes. Aside from the ass-pull plot turns that were interesting when they first arise, there's no reason to want to go back and watch this show. |
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TarsTarkas
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Yuu is no different than those other hunters, just his reasons for doing it. Also, there is not just 2 choices in life. Who is Yuu to tell us how to live our lives. Yuu took that choice away, just like the other hunters. People who take things from you against your will, always have an excuse for their actions. |
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Exalted Incarnate
Posts: 283 Location: In the memory of time... |
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I seriously hated the whole "haveing supernatural powers is wrong" idea the series had. It would have been more interesting if the main character embraced his power and perhaps even insanity but no the series tossed that down the drain.
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Chiibi
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That makes ALL the difference in the world!!!
Elaborate please? The series made it pretty clear those WERE the only choices in this universe. It was either the hard way or the harder way. Besides, lots of those powers were dangerous; he probably saved thousands of lives by taking them.
This is exactly what he did but he did it for the wrong reasons. |
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TarsTarkas
Posts: 5825 Location: Virginia, United States |
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Sounds like to me, a lot of those people who had dangerous powers, could be quite dangerous to the hunters also. Which is another choice that could be made. Human beings even those with powers, have plenty of choices and paths they can choose. Even in that universe. Yuu is just as bad as the hunters, because he did not offer, but took. If the people who wanted to forcible cure mutants in the X-Men series are villains, then Yuu has to be a villain also. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, but it is still the road to hell. |
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Chiibi
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A choice to do what? Kill everyone who threatens them out of defense? Yeah, that doesn't sound so good to me either.
If I saw a child playing with a loaded gun or a flame thrower, I would take it away from them.....guess I'm a bad person, huh?
Lol, that's funny. I didn't know hell was "having a peaceful life without being separated from your family". Boy, have I got news for ya..... 
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TarsTarkas
Posts: 5825 Location: Virginia, United States |
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I hear people screaming how Trump is going to take everything away from them, and you are saying you are fine with another person taking from you.
There is no problem if you want Yuu to 'remove' your powers. That is a choice that you made. But Yuu doesn't have the right to do that to people that don't want to their powers to be removed. Just like in the X-Men. Are you saying you would be okay with the Federal government forcibly removing the X-Men of their powers, maybe even killing them if they resist. Guess we agree to disagree, cause I for sure don't want people messing with me, or trying to change me for their own purposes. |
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Chiibi
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Lol I don't want my tax dollars paying for illegal immigrants, single moms who refuse to limit their childbirth and crackheads on welfare just to sit on their butts instead of working. If they have obtained things that don't belong to them in the first place, it bloody serves them right. They're a bunch of irresponsible crybabies who have been spoiled rotten by the government; it's time to get with the program.
I'm not really familiar with the X-Men franchise so we cannot use this to compare.
Okay but you're missing the point: Yuu didn't do it for his own purpose, he did it for theirs. He did it so they wouldn't have to suffer or accidentally die. So how does that make him a bad person? |
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TarsTarkas
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Pity, it is the best example.
If Yuu had sat down with all his victims and offered them his services and gave them the choice, you would be absolutely right. That was not what happened. So it was for Yuu's purposes, not his victims. Yuu decided for his victims. |
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