Anime Discussion Thread - Page 4837

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 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"