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That ending song is neat because it also exists in-universe and Michiru has a very personal connection to it, so it playing in Episode 4 messed her up for a moment. I love media integration like that.
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Episode 5 surprised me cause of how much more ridiculous and silly it got all of the sudden. Baseball being so deadly was pretty out there, too. :')
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Yoh Yoshinari is on his way to becoming one of my fave directors
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and now it's time for some not self-care
e: okay that's half of the thing converted to a draft, the rest will be done tomorrow and then I'm finally done with Valvrave
e: okay that's half of the thing converted to a draft, the rest will be done tomorrow and then I'm finally done with Valvrave
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https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-featu ... and-sendai
What are you using to cope with being forced to stay inside?
Liz and the Blue Bird. It’s an anime movie that’s keeping me sane. I can watch it multiple times and still have fun analyzing it.
Taka's shrine to Liz and the Blue Bird and Sound! Euphonium
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(also I need to track down that special edition blu ray)
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Previously on im looking at anime
and now the conclusion
So a couple of weeks ago I finished playing Nier: Automata
(or at least, I got to the point where it fully crystallized its thesis but I digress)
you know when you’re just happy to be experiencing a piece of media that’s novel and cool, and it’s challenging you to reflect on your own preconceived notions and broaden your horizon on what storytelling can do?
and after experiencing it it just keeps lingering in your mind and
Yeah so Valvra--
[Content warnings still apply. sexual violence and just general stupidity that makes me question everything]
Now I make these little writeups to further my understanding of media, to train myself to become a better “reader”. This was originally spurred on by feelings of awe, by experiencing things that left a positive impact that I wanted to… investigate I suppose.
How did a film, a series, a book, a game manage to make me feel so good?
And as I’d dig and learn more about the way something was made, the thinking behind creative decisions, the greater context in which it existed, I’d often grow to love and appreciate it more.
This is the exact opposite.
Every little piece I turn over just reveals more nothing. There’s no sense of direction, no real weight to anything. It is an endless barrage of noise and visuals that apparently belong together by virtue of being in sequence.
Its “storytelling” devolves into meaningless nonsense, but it is in that nonsense that it loses any shred of humanity. There’s simply no regard, appreciation or respect for the characters starring in it.
And I can’t tell whether that’s intentional or not.
It just seemingly does not care for its characters.
In the end I'm just left with countless questions that the series is incapable of answering.
There's just nothing. No meaning, no purpose.
There’s simply just no point to Kakumeiki Valvrave's existence.
someone who makes bad decisions wrote:fuck this shit
fucking fuck fucking shit fuck fuck shit shit fuck shit fuck fuck shit
me during the few moments while clarity of writing the last part wrote:Valvrave feels like something a Twitter AI bot would generate after being fed plot points and character descriptions from other, much better series.
a man, broken wrote:I think I truly, genuinely hate this series.
the poor people reading this thread wrote:what the fuck
and now the conclusion
So a couple of weeks ago I finished playing Nier: Automata
(or at least, I got to the point where it fully crystallized its thesis but I digress)
you know when you’re just happy to be experiencing a piece of media that’s novel and cool, and it’s challenging you to reflect on your own preconceived notions and broaden your horizon on what storytelling can do?
and after experiencing it it just keeps lingering in your mind and
Yeah so Valvra--
[Content warnings still apply. sexual violence and just general stupidity that makes me question everything]
Now I make these little writeups to further my understanding of media, to train myself to become a better “reader”. This was originally spurred on by feelings of awe, by experiencing things that left a positive impact that I wanted to… investigate I suppose.
How did a film, a series, a book, a game manage to make me feel so good?
And as I’d dig and learn more about the way something was made, the thinking behind creative decisions, the greater context in which it existed, I’d often grow to love and appreciate it more.
This is the exact opposite.
Every little piece I turn over just reveals more nothing. There’s no sense of direction, no real weight to anything. It is an endless barrage of noise and visuals that apparently belong together by virtue of being in sequence.
Its “storytelling” devolves into meaningless nonsense, but it is in that nonsense that it loses any shred of humanity. There’s simply no regard, appreciation or respect for the characters starring in it.
And I can’t tell whether that’s intentional or not.
It just seemingly does not care for its characters.
In the end I'm just left with countless questions that the series is incapable of answering.
There's just nothing. No meaning, no purpose.
There’s simply just no point to Kakumeiki Valvrave's existence.
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I watched Season 2 of One Punch Man.
I liked Season 1 better.
I liked Season 1 better.
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it could be a translation/localization quirk but i dont fn know maaaaaann
so to pilot the Valvrave you need to give up your humanity and become a "vampire"
you become immortal and are able to swap bodies by biting people
But apparently there's a shadowy group of Illuminati people pulling the strings who were at some point formless energy beings that came to earth hundreds of years ago (yes, that is what happened).
And they are one of them is part of the main Valvrave or something?? and you become kind of like a hybrid human/alien???
And... uh... maybe they're referring to that because some of their essence goes into the pilots.
But I don't know whether they knew of the energy aliens around this point because everything happens at the same time.
Rukino just blurts this out with zero context. Characters just take everything at face value and never try to learn more about the things they discover.
I'd also like to reiterate that, even though 5 other people become pilots and it's later revealed there've been more, Haruto is the only one who goes nuts like this
at no point do we see the other pilots lose control of themselves
so to pilot the Valvrave you need to give up your humanity and become a "vampire"
you become immortal and are able to swap bodies by biting people
But apparently there's a shadowy group of Illuminati people pulling the strings who were at some point formless energy beings that came to earth hundreds of years ago (yes, that is what happened).
And they are one of them is part of the main Valvrave or something?? and you become kind of like a hybrid human/alien???
And... uh... maybe they're referring to that because some of their essence goes into the pilots.
But I don't know whether they knew of the energy aliens around this point because everything happens at the same time.
Rukino just blurts this out with zero context. Characters just take everything at face value and never try to learn more about the things they discover.
I'd also like to reiterate that, even though 5 other people become pilots and it's later revealed there've been more, Haruto is the only one who goes nuts like this
at no point do we see the other pilots lose control of themselves
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I'm honestly at this point not sure whether I'm even explaining the Deep Lore of Valvrave right
but to check I'd have to go through the series again and honestly
but to check I'd have to go through the series again and honestly
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haha who am i kidding i will totally go through this again at some point when i make a yt channel later
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season 1's animation was so good, then they switched production to a different studio and I felt the series really suffered for it
didn't get past the first 3 episodes before I dropped it unfortunately
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so jesus is a hyperintelligent shade of blue and He's a component of the super robot and by driving the super robot protagonist-kun gets possessed by Him and His main drive is to sexually assault women?
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I...
legitimately don't know
I think(?) that the big robots were a weapons program that incorporate the energy aliens in some way to make something really powerful.
But the energy alien tech eats away at the pilots sanity/humanity (and also their memories (yes, this is also a thing)).
I guess the intent is to show that 'using these weapons is bad and makes you less of a human', but none of it lands because there's 5 million things that are happening at any given point.
the actual tech / magic(?) behind it is explained... but I'd have to go back in to see what exactly it was, because trying to divinate wtf all that was from memory is giving me a headache
this is why I keep saying this feels like it was generated by an Twitter bot or something, because I don't think a human really thought about any of this
legitimately don't know
I think(?) that the big robots were a weapons program that incorporate the energy aliens in some way to make something really powerful.
But the energy alien tech eats away at the pilots sanity/humanity (and also their memories (yes, this is also a thing)).
I guess the intent is to show that 'using these weapons is bad and makes you less of a human', but none of it lands because there's 5 million things that are happening at any given point.
the actual tech / magic(?) behind it is explained... but I'd have to go back in to see what exactly it was, because trying to divinate wtf all that was from memory is giving me a headache
this is why I keep saying this feels like it was generated by an Twitter bot or something, because I don't think a human really thought about any of this
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So looking over TV Tropes, apparently the Valraves are powered by Runes, which are "information particles" that can be generated by knowledge or emotion, and what happened at the end of episode 10 was the Valrave was low on power, so it possessed Haruto and forced him to rape Saki to generate fuel for itself. Apparently the commentary on the official blu-ray straight up says that scene was put there for shock value.
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okay this I knew
this was explained... maybe? like he went nuts cuz he needed to feedand what happened at the end of episode 10 was the Valrave was low on power, so it possessed Haruto and forced him to rape Saki to generate fuel for itself.
but that was never connected to the valvrave in the show as far as I can remember
again none of the other pilots experience these problems
Apparently the commentary on the official blu-ray straight up says that scene was put there for shock value.
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also congratulations Fits, your post is #666 in this thread
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It wasn't the animation that bothered me. It was the fact that Saitama wasn't the primary focus of the season. What I loved about season 1 was Saitama thumbing his nose at all the overdone fighting-anime tropes. S2 was mostly about all the other heroes, who just had cookie-cutter fighting-anime stories, so it didn't feel original at all. I loved the limited parts with Saitama, but overall S2 really strayed from what made me enjoy S1.
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ech that's a shame, I liked the part where Saitama was just chilling with the dude playing games but the "big plot" with the bad guy infiltrating the Hero Association was kinda boringOctavia wrote: ↑Sat May 23, 2020 11:21 amIt wasn't the animation that bothered me. It was the fact that Saitama wasn't the primary focus of the season. What I loved about season 1 was Saitama thumbing his nose at all the overdone fighting-anime tropes. S2 was mostly about all the other heroes, who just had cookie-cutter fighting-anime stories, so it didn't feel original at all. I loved the limited parts with Saitama, but overall S2 really strayed from what made me enjoy S1.
didn't miss much then
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anyway I think we're getting close to the next page so
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I watched Chikai no Finale, the sequel film to Euphonium so expect some cinemagraphs here soon
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DesunotoDaikatunaRevengeance wrote: ↑Sat May 23, 2020 3:48 pmi wonder from which anime just according to keikaku is