Anime Discussion Thread - Page 2762

It spent 20 episodes slowly building every character only to mercilessly kill the fuck out of them all. What the fuck did I just watch? What the fuck was the point?

I liked it a lot. I especially liked how, in the final episodes, they displayed the humans much more malicious and evil than the actual Shiki, and overall created a very grey morality. Why should Shiki be judged by the laws of humans? Pigs and other livestock don't get to judge humans for eating them. I really liked that about the series. Another thing I liked is how you really felt like anyone could die, at any point, and for the final "battle" I was actually rooting for a lot of the people. I hated some characters and I loved others, this is a good sign for a character driven show (or otherwise).

Maybe I'm a little disappointed with the horror and mystery elements. I think I remember being scared once and the main mystery was almost obvious, there were some nice secondary things to guess, though, which was nice. So while the mystery itself was almost banal, the show still somehow made you keep guessing about things like "did he die?" "will he die"? and so on. I liked how many characters that I thought would survive actually died (you know how it is, anime always build up a situation and it usually plays off in a certain way, they reversed that to good effect) and others who I thought raised so many deathflags to kill them a dozen times ended up surviving (it wasn't many, though. lol.)

What else can I say. The pacing was snail paced, but I guess I can't fault them if it kept me interested enough to marathon all the 24 episodes? The show looked moved so slowly but it wasn't a bad kind of slow, it felt heavy and light to digest at the same time. I wonder how they managed that effect.

I guess I can get a little more specific. About halfway into the show, I started rooting for the Shiki. I wanted them to have a community where they could live and enjoy themselves like a normal society. I really liked Megumi (pink), (green) nurse, and the head priest, who I thought was certain to die. The main protagonist died, lol. I was pretty angry with him, I hoped that he would integrate himself into society as a normal guy (a werewolf can do that, from what I gathered). The doctor's "ORENO SEGI DA" was pulled off quite well, too. I also got to watch that pathetic guy with the long hair die. Twice. Nobody ever liked him. He died miserably. It was glorious.

The ending is weird, too. It doesn't really feel like a story ended, it feels like the story continues and we merely saw the ending of a subplot. Undecided whether or not that is a bad thing. Hot restaurant girl (red) survived, really glad for that. Also what the fuck is with the shonen MC surviving? I thought they left him to the old man to feed? Did blue protag save him off screen? How did he know where he was?

I'm glad that priest and little girl survived, I'm also glad that the village got burned out. I guess that's all I have to say. If you've actually read everything then I feel like I should treat you with something as a reward, but I don't know how.

The first half of the episode wasn't particularly good, yeah. A lot of the battle felt static, for lack of a better word. There was beam spam and everything, but the scene kinda lacked energy, and it was like were just going through the motions of being a mecha anime. There's also the issue of why you would approach a giant ass cannon head on, but other series tend to do the exact same stuff in this respect.

The sheer amount of technobabble was ridiculous. That's not too big of a deal, but it kinda dilutes the mood of the scene in my opinion.

The start of the episode mentioned rights being granted through military service. It was reminiscent of Starship Troopers except that stupid shit like "reproduction rights" were included. I mean, c'mon...

The second half I really liked. I'd be quite happy if the rest of the series was just exploring the new world and culture surrounding it as opposed to some grand plot or war. But it wouldn't be a mecha anime if that happened, so that's right out. I hope they balance it ok.

Red and Chamber remind me of Sousuke and Al, which is a very good thing. It's gonna be hard to match Al though.