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so they had 4 trials and all of them were supposed to show that one of them can't do one thing but they get through with friendship and the ones being good carrying the noobs, correct? First one, Lina couldn't sing. Second one, Earth couldn't dance. Third one, Water couldn't type. But what was the fourth one and why did they show Water instead of Wind? Because it's not socially acceptable to make fun of people's intelligence and you can't show that on TV. You wouldn't just bully a kid with downs, would you? Clearly Wind's lacking in that regard and probably didn't understand the task at hand but because they couldn't show that, they ended up showing Water to push that "friendship" theme real hard.
Now here's the thing. If Water pressed correctly because friendship and Wind is mentally challenged resulting in pressing the wrong button that means that someone else pressed the wrong button as well to make up for it. I'm just going to assume that Water pressed Water and Lina pressed Lina at this point because we saw Water pressing Water and the second one because #Friendship. That leaves us with Wind pressing Earth (had she pressed Lina or Water one of them would have died), not out of ill intentions but just because she's not the smartest one around. That leaves us with the conclusion that Earth is a backstabbing bitch that pressed Wind to save her own ass, only to realize that Wind screwed up resulting in happy end.
None of the other 3 realizes that because Wind doesn't know she didn't understand the task. Water and Lina pressed the right buttons and think everyone did because noone died and no drama à la "OMG SOME OF YOU BITCHES PRESSED MY BUTTON INSTEAD OF HER OWN" afterwards. Only Earth knows that she tried to murder Wind
That's what happened. They couldn't show it on TV because it's a kids show
I remembered this when I was watching this episode and decided to comment. Is that what really happened in the source or is that what you think happened?
If you think that Wind is not so smart then she could of easily just picked herself since its a picture of her. Although you do make some good points why would Earth try to murder Wind when she just saved her in the dancing trial.
Toad's theory doesn't really make much sense and is pretty much just there because he dislikes Earth most likely or wants her to backstab. If Wind is as challenged as is assumed why would it make sense for her to click on Earth instead of herself. She seems perfectly able to read and even if she misunderstood it clicking on herself makes sense if you given a lineup of 4 people without any outside knowledge it then clicking yourself makes sense which would have been Winds thought process.
I see it as them not showing Wind because that wouldn't be as interesting as showing Water struggling and sacrificing. Wind basically doesn't hesitate in anything she does so she'll have just clicked herself without any thought or inner monologue. Wind is clearly intelligent enough to understand all the other tasks and save her friend when she needs to so just assuming she doesn't understand the last one is pretty silly. If anything Toad is making fun of Wind more than the show is.
I think a day after I wrote that I got back in irc, checked the thread and told people something along the lines of "wow, I can't believe people actually took what I posted about that amaburi episode seriously. Was clearly just me making fun of lazy writing and adding a funny spin to it to make up for it". iirc, Uta answered with "well ... germans... jokes..." or something along those lines. Guess it's true after all
Anyways, I like Earth, turning her into a murderer just happened to be the only way to make it possible. And it makes perfectly sense if we take the general assumption that I posted above as granted. The setting was one of the girl is bad at something, as such she fails at one task and the other 3 girls make up for it, so by definition Wind could not have pressed Wind because she has to fail to follow the pattern. She could not have pressed Water or Water would have died and she most likely did not press Fire because Water <-> Fire friendship. So it's got to be earth by process of elimination.
Btw, even more correct would have been to say Earth is super smart, saw that comming and pressed Wind not out of ill intentions but to make up for it as the 2nd theme of the episode was that one of the girls was super good at something and was able to carry the rest despite her opposite failing so hard. If we assume it's about intelligence that means Earth is super smart and Wind is ... goofy. Though that spin would not have been as funny, so I chose not to write that and hoped noone would realize.
Lol I see. I do think it's likely that Wind is just good at everything as a gas expands to fit a space where as Water while still being a fluid is almost as good at everything. Earth is rigid and Fire requires contact to be effective. Idk there's a lot of ways you can make up shit for this. Everything boils down to Sento > Ele girls anyway.
Well at least the recent Dragon Ball Kai episode was super funny even though I've seen it 3 times already I think. (maybe minus better animation/graphic? but I dunno I wouldn't notice anyway since I haven't seen DBZ since a long time)
I'm impressed how Yokoi is more bothered that Seki is doing something else during literature class than actually being impressed with Seki putting what he learned in physics into real life application.
Well finished the main storyline thing in Fate/HA + Show Spoiler +
Well it was overall pretty good. I enjoyed a fair amount of it. Ofc annoyed with the random unnecessary rape/sex scene thing that they just had to insert for caren fanboys to whack off too. Caren was alright I guess, another odd ball person. Had a lot of nice scenes of character interactions and some background that expanded on some things. Somewhat weird that Shirou wasn't really Shirou but oh well. Going to explore the Eclipse thing now.
Finally caught up on Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete. I stopped watching after 2 eps b/c i had a ton going on but since i had nothing to watch i figured id rewatch those and the rest of the 9 eps. released. I gotta say, this is getting so good. Man. So So good. It's got a really great time travel paradox going on with a lot of SOL also. The characters are pretty good I'm having a lot of fun with this.
alright wtf can someone explain to me why all these translations for LNs have people 'smiling wryly' I thought it was just a weird quirk of the first translator but after reading two other translated novels it seems like everyone enjoys overusing that little phrase
I refuse to believe everyone in Japan is constantly wearing a smug smirk
On December 03 2014 17:53 andyrau wrote: alright wtf can someone explain to me why all these translations for LNs have people 'smiling wryly' I thought it was just a weird quirk of the first translator but after reading two other translated novels it seems like everyone enjoys overusing that little phrase
I refuse to believe everyone in Japan is constantly wearing a smug smirk
That depends on what LNs you're reading first of all...
oh btw, i have a question for everybody.
why do people think protags in anime/manga/LNs/VNs are suppose to represent the common everyday people? From what i can see, they seem pretty special...
i find in romances where the female is the lead they seem to be more normal average (tho cute/pretty but no one notices but the male interest or rivals)
been too busy spending time on non-2D girl but i managed to watch crossange on monday night:
These magical people seem to be really incompetent compared to norma lol. How the hell norma is supposed to be inferior to them? Norma just break whatever 'magics' they cast; it feels like these magical people are better at using magic to do housework isn't it. I can almost see the development will go something like 'norma' are the rulers of the original world and then something weird happened ie magical people take over, Ange the new ruler in the end happy ending etc etc.
I don't think I've ever heard people saying they represent common everyday people. Some characters are just so cliched and poorly done that if the writers tried making them normal people it would be a vast improvement.
@Sera - I think it's unfair to look at the mana people now and expect them to have always been like this. They are incompetent because they don't have to do anything in their society where as the norma's are forced into military training and to rely on their own resourcefulness. Think it'll turn out that they used to live together with the norma fighting the dragons while the mana helped them in support but the norma's gradually lost more people in the war until they got betrayed by the mana users.
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