Anime Discussion Thread - Page 4736

Elsa finally calling those 2 out (well Lawrence anyway) on their silliness. Holo finally saying out loud she loves him, and I assume they made out after from what was said, unless she socked him one?. Lol good stuff.

This was pretty confusing. Most of it kinda made sense in the end but they left a lot of things vague (what exactly happened to Shun, Mamoru and Maria for example). The characters have been really flat and felt scripted at times, especially when they randomly brought in generic conversations like "everything is gonna be alright, right? yeah! I'm so glad". On the other hand it tackled a lot of philosophical themes. "The human as its own greatest enemy", "How far does society go to protect them from themselves (including conditiong, manipulating etc.), "Where is the difference between animals and humans" and other smaller things like the relationship between higher up politicians and basic foot-soldiers (that scene where Saki watched the Giant Hornet colony at war was powerful).
Because of this, it's very hard to rate. I think it was great but had some very obvious flaws. Its also better than anything I rated with 8 so far but worse than anything I rated with 9 so far. I'm going to give it a 9 for now but I may revise that later.

Good show, watched it in 2 days and it kept me compelled the entire time. Definitely took priority over NGNL, which I was forced to watch (and probably going to finish next). The characters are ok'ish, not great. I don't get the hate for Shirou. He acts dumb sometimes and his mindset, while being admirable, has its weaknesses and is responsible for some bad outcomes. But in the end, pretty much every character has a weakness, one way or another.
The setting is interesting but not very well explained imho, as far as borders go. Action and art/animation was what really made this stick out. Those were truly great.
7/10 in the end, looking forward to the next season.

the only thing that happened was the cyborg landing. "Very interesting." Indeed Saitama, indeed. xD