Anime Discussion Thread - Page 3785

On May 17 2014 18:33 blahz0r wrote:
Ra is meh. + Show Spoiler +

On May 17 2014 16:53 goody153 wrote:

Sadly you can't play the card in legit games.

On May 17 2014 17:17 BLinD-RawR wrote:


blue eyes white dragon bitches.

On May 17 2014 07:55 Ecael wrote:

Eh, nationalism might've been a misleading word to use, but setting wise, the Japanese-centric worldview is a common trend with first the manga medium, then the otaku culture in general. The point is that the setting for the series is a caricature of the real world with very specific slants for the targeted audience. While in rettousei's case, Japan is not portrayed as a saintly nation that upholds honor and righteousness. It is kept around with random plot devices as to explain why the series takes place in it when the answer is as simple as that it was written for Japanese people.

Even accounting for that, a certain level of nationalism is present. The situation being described in rettousei isn't a reflection of how the world is today, but a project that the audience can easily relate to. Similar to how, randomly, in Alicization for SAO the bad guys turned out to be from Chinese and Korean servers, with some Americans mixed in. It reflects a particularly narrow and warped view of the world, one that you would see among the nationalist netizen spams on 2ch. Oh right, I am going to assume GAA is that China+Korea entity because I can't be arsed to remember nation names in the series in another language. How GAA got to the state that they are in now doesn't particularly matter, you could attach all sorts of explanations in the series for the tongue-in-cheek poke at the state of that nation, the intent of the author for that is fairly obvious given the audience. If you should take the cause of the downfall of that nation seriously, it only gets more hilarious because it is perpetrated by a single house of the mighty Japan.

So how does any of this reflect what you call good politics? Pandering to the readers to give them situations that they can easily relate to isn't really a problem, but it is hardly what you could call good either. Just because people die in acts of national interests doesn't make the interaction between nations any less juvenile. Even the situation within Japan itself is easily boiled down to a fake class struggle that is backed by foreign interests. Again, the kind of conspiracy theory that 2ch vippers love to eat up.

I am not simplifying anything to Clarke's law. Yeah I could've done without that Clarke quote but I thought it was something to show for people's fascination of mixing technology and magic. The magic system of rettousei was fine and definitely one of the draws for readers early on. It was a cute bit of lore, even if not particularly original, but it never really took off on its own. The system is elaborated pretty much purely to explain why Tatsuya is god and for no other reason. You know, the kind of chuu2 shit with kids imagining up settings for their Marty Stu. Loopholes? Yes. When something applies to literally every other character in the series except for this one, where [insert random reason] is used to justify it. That's a loophole.

If author actually stuck in the Hindu mythology reference in at some point then I feel even more justified for not putting up with more of the pain that is this series to bash on it properly. From what my brain retained up to around that American special force captain arc, there was minimal myth references. It is one thing if such references are planned in advance, but I saw zero signs of it in the early parts of the series. If that's your interpretation of the two's relationship, then I have nothing to say on that matter.

You realize the source was in webnovel format, chapter by chapter, with plenty of time for the guy to reflect to cater to reader preferences as much as he wants, right? You also realize that male characters are introduced one to two vols ahead, with minimal descriptions about them, to be fleshed in when they are needed to be paired with a girl, right? Well, that's probably more subjective than I would like to admit, so I will just have to ask you to wait until we are through with the anime and have people talk about how they felt on the matter. If you want to stick only to the source when that happens, that's fine too, but I suspect there won't be many other than ragz who has the heart to work through that series.

There isn't much to take from source to argue line by line except how characters should be shipped, and unlike what you seem to think, I don't actually care about the ship since the only character that I did like is still getting page space from what I heard, so...well, I could waste time going on about how hard the author is playing up the fake? incest, but if you don't think that it is going to happen after all that has happened in like, the first 7 vols, I doubt I can convince you other

On May 18 2014 03:33 ragz_gt wrote:
Nanana... WTF they dumbed down all the dungeons. I guess that means we won't get a proper Yuu arc...

Well, they already ruined Butterko so...

On May 18 2014 05:50 Sterlymobile wrote:
So after a lackluster Kanojo Flag first episode, the second one was quite good. There was some plot development and now some mystery into the story. Looking good so far hopefully doesn't disappoint.