Dorohedoro Darwin's Game Hatena Illusion ID INVADED Infinite Dendrogram Episode 8-9 Koisuru Asteroid Kyokou Suiri Magia Record Majutsushi Orphen Hagure Tabi Episode 6-10 Murenase! Seton Gakuen Episode 7-11 Pet Plunderer Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita Episode 9-12
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I had a whole notepad written up with this but I restarted my computer so I could load MonHun properly since I'd given up hope. Then ten minutes later, nevermind.
if we can't do it tonight, i wouldn't be too distressed since i have a lot of work to take care of but im here if we do it
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Well I'm consistently of the preference to watch rather than not. But I get you're loaded with work so without Rika, I dunno. It's probably more sensible to not watch.
I'd just like some certainty or affirmation of the situation rather than being left in limbo.
yeah, i know what you mean. is there anything you'd like to watch that we could do without rika?
im kind of being left in limbo with work stuff myself. i dont know whether people are working or not or what's going on. i haven't heard from anyone i need to get my part of the project done so other people can do their part but i'm getting radio silence
Well we can probably do Plunderer without her since she watched all of episode ten instead of nine.
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All right, I should be ready for watching shortly.
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Just let me know when you're set.
月
okay, im set you can start us off if you'd like
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Okey dokes. Yeah sounds good.
All right Let's start!
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Things really got violent at the twist of the last episode.
月
i remember the helicopter and the aluminum guy fighting and then stuff got weird well it was already weird
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They were about to down the helicopter then this black suit lady showed up. Licht is her old commander and it seems like they invaded this world way back when. Licht didn't want to be violent so she held a literal gun to the heads of the main cast and a kid until he snapped.
月
oh yeah
the literal power level stuff makes the exposition pretty flat it seems like there was a lot more worldbuilding for the show than actually gets used
we've been pretty constrained to the same little area for most of the show so far
yeah this is just super saiyan basically
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He's gotten so powerful he can teleport.
>>817915 I do kind of like when stories make up more worldbuilding then absolutely necessary for the focus of the story.
月
yeah, i do too. i think that's good but the story is pretty lol they really don't even try. they're knowingly being really shallow
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They've been good on some fronts. Like kinda answering the whole "why does the governing body restrict knowledge and technology about flight?" Though well they didn't directly answer it but the whole thing with the helicopter kind of answers it for us.
There's another indirect question they're sorta promising here too, that why the FUCK does this cook lady know so much in such depth about the Aces and their power nuances. Maybe it's not an answer they'll have a chance to answer in this anime season but it's one they will probably answer eventually in the series.
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they're trying to do a schierke & guts thing here it feels like
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A beauty to calm the beast isn't too uncommon a trope.
月
yeah, but it parallels guts' berserker armor too but just in a lot more cartoony of a way
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Oh yeah apparently Licht is also just what he calls himself in this world. In whatever place him and this girl comes from he was known as Rihito. Which is just the same syllables so it's not really a change but they were emphatic about it last episode.
So it kinda feels like these crazy people are from Japan or something. Which I'm kinda of curious how it links back to the MC since I'm pretty sure her and her mom had a very Japanese aesthetic we haven't really seen anywhere else in this world.
月
for being an undiscerning monster, he stands and waits a lot
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I've never really been all too sympathetic to the noble sacrifice philosophy. What good is alleviating other people's suffering when it's just burying yourself under it.
月
yeah it's pretty uninteresting pretty
月
pretty lazy writing too i think* just a manufactured idea to explain something that you want to put in your story
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Eh, I can kinda see where you're coming from, but there are real people that earnestly believe in the notion too. Or at least kid themselves into thinking that's what they're doing.
As long as it's a character trait people -real people can embrace, I'm generally of the opinion that it's valid narrative themes. Even if I don't believe it personally.
月
yeah, i believe there's always a selfish reason and that just sounds more digestible to say aloud
月
i have a very earnest and grounded approach to crafting a narrative i dont like glossy leaps
if you want to have gaps, just let there be gaps that allow your narrative style to come through without needing the explanation/exposition
it's better to give no explanation than one that feels like friction of course that's gonna vary to every reader but that's a given
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And this dweeb going around telling kids some exceedingly morbid parables. What's even the moral of that story after that mutation anyway.
really though im just rambling on my current train of thought at the moment im sure i'm ignoring a bunch of how i normally feel about it that just doesn't fit with my current mood so im not thinking about it i do like to stay grounded though for that very reason, so i always have a firm anchor to trace my way back to
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I guess I've got a bit of a two-pronged approach to my narrative immersion. Narratives being both believable and entertaining. A lot of dull narration can keep me immersed because it's something that I can't go "There's no way that's true" to even if the way it's presented is dumb or structurally tenuous. And honestly a LOT of anime falls into this space because while it's easy to establish a sufficiently reasonable premise it can be hard to present it in an engaging way.
A decent amount of course do fall into the only entertainingly immersive party because some times it's fine to throw reason away and just have fun. The best shows are ones that can do both for me and those are usually the ones I talk about and recommend to people.
>>817931 Before watching I was planning on giving her to like 02:10 before I went off and just laid down for the night. Not that I'm on a tight schedule or anything it was just a number I picked to have one.
Either way I took some melatonin around 02:00 so I'm definitely on the woozy train right now. Even putting together these thoughts is getting a bit funny.
月
yeah, totally fine to disregard natural reason for your show, as long as there's reasoning and consistency within the reference frame you set the show in you can make some simple, shallow rules to operate within and craft a really compelling and immersive narrative that's not at all realistic but a lot of times it gets screwed up when people try to introduce natural reason to their reference frame and it no longer fits, so now it's inconsistent and my immersion is broken
anyway, this project im working on is absolutely frustrating me anyway and i can tell so i need to go get it done and over with or whatever
that sounds good, have a good night
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Mhm, good luck with your work. Catch you tomorrow.
