Anime Discussion Thread - Page 4835

On April 23 2015 00:52 Zergneedsfood wrote:

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....?

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On April 23 2015 00:52 Zergneedsfood wrote:

i chalk that up to your complaint being nitpicky and incomprehensible tbh

maybe you should read between the lines as opposed to hoping that the story spoonfeeds you precisely the information you want to know? if you think that the story is deliberately saying "okay feel sad" or whatever that's....not accurate at all?

On April 23 2015 00:33 BLinD-RawR wrote:

its worth more than romance I'll tell you that.

On April 23 2015 01:03 Miragee wrote:


How so?

Well, I didn't focus on romance back then, either. xD

On April 23 2015 01:05 goody153 wrote:

games are the best

fuck school fuck interacting with people

(did i guess it right ?)

On April 23 2015 01:15 Miragee wrote:


I started with video games when I was almost 15. Does that still count as teen? I guess I wasn't focused on anything at all back then. Maybe a bit on sports but that's it. Just did stuff I enjoyed and didn't really think about it.

On April 23 2015 01:12 Unleashing wrote:
One thing that always puzzles me and once again puzzled me after watching Sokugeki no Souma is why stories, not just anime or manga use the whole "This school/institution/whatever is so hardcore only 10% get through!" as an argument/thing to prove that it's an elite school.
In the real world a school where only 10% got through would probably be seen as a pretty fucking awful school.

But i know that it's not the real world and just a fictional story, it just always struck me as something odd and never really helped convince me that it was elite on its own before actually seeing it demonstrated.

On April 23 2015 00:31 Toadesstern wrote:
Okay final words from me on that matter, let's put it real easy:

1) If I tell you my mom died, you'd (hopefully) feel sad for me and have compassion. Because it's really easy to get in my shoes for you because you are aware of how awful that situation would be.
2) If I tell you my favorite anime char died it might not feel that sad to you but if you get the idea that it means A LOT to me you will still understand it at least and feel sad.
3) If I tell some random person on the street who never watched anime who doesn't even know what that is my fav anime char died he'll understand it even less and will understand the least about why I'm sad out of those 3 scenarios (until he sees me crying or something a bit more subtle than that)

If it really means that much to her (and it obviously does), the impact would have been a crapton better with a slightly more fullish picture for us instead of putting this first without knowing anything about her or anything about why she cares so much about it. This way we'll most likely go back to ep3 at some point and be like "aaaw, so that's why she was breaking down that time" but it's not as impactful as the punch in the belly you get from being too stupid to realize it earlier and only seeing it once it actually happens.
Instead we're being told "you can feel sad now"

On April 23 2015 02:42 Ryuhou)aS( wrote:

This might be just from my experience but the whole thing seems pretty unrealistic. When i was in band, we had so many people we had to split up into 2 different concert bands (and a freshman band) and all the bands always got top honors in all the competitions. Of course there were some slackers, but for the most part everybody worked hard, especially in practices (even the slackers worked in practices). What it came down to though, was outside of school work. The slackers didn't do that, and the rest of us did.
Another problem is with the conductor. Again this is from my experience, but there were 4 conductors at my school, and all 4 of them worked really hard, and pushed everybody really hard to do the same. And there wasn't any "you guys decide what you want" or "come get me when you can play together". The conductors first job is to pull all the sections together. That's what they're even there for...to make sure that all the different sections are coming together to play as one. Also, if anybody was not really trying, they'd get kicked out of the band. I've seen it where somebody was screwing around during practice and they just kicked them out right there.

On April 23 2015 02:51 IceHism wrote:


I'm pretty sure this is basically the equivalent of a club. They won't have enough resources to get all those nor does this school actually have any reputation for a band to begin with so it's not like the most studious of music students would actually go there.

On April 23 2015 01:00 Toadesstern wrote:


second one: I am, that's the thing. I'm just saying it would have been more impactful otherwise.

On April 23 2015 04:45 MichaelEU wrote:


I will fundamentally disagree on that.

There's a beauty in leaving exercises for the viewer. For instance, you say they're playing a drama card here and that we should feel sad for the characters involved like her grandma died. But I didn't get that feeling at all. There's a certain tension, between senpai and kouhai, between students and teachers, between the ambitious and the conforming. Peer pressure is a big theme in school settings. Consider this in the context of Japanese culture where these things are very different from more Western countries. And I feel like episode 3 is a great dissection of that tension.

On April 23 2015 02:42 Ryuhou)aS( wrote:


I think finally understood what you're getting at here. it's more about the order of things and less about it actually happening. You wanted the back story of why she's so upset/why nationals means so much to her first and then showing how she's frustrated and upset.
At least i think that's what you mean.
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