Anime Discussion Thread - Page 5335

Felia is just obnoxious and the rest of the characters have nothing going for them except raw stupidity.
They know that Maura has the capability to transform into some sort of super-mech, yet they never bothered to ask, how that actually works. You know, that thing that already saved their asses and will probably safe it a couple dozen times in the future, too.
They also never bothered to ask about her powers.
And they somehow decided that it was a good idea to not keep a low profile after being chased and attacked by military mechs in the past. Strolling through the street seemed like a much better idea to them - coincidentally in view of that other obnoxious dude and Otto, who just happened to look through his spyglass at the exact right time in the exact right place. I guess it was the only way, so that purple-hair dude can stumble across them by mere chance in this fucking gigantic city.
That guy miraculously can control all stuff in the city (even the flow of the sewer system, it seem) and get cameras to follow them everywhere... even though some of the camera angles he was watching them from are simply impossible.
When the construction mech attacked, they somehow did not think of using Maura... because that would make sense. It's not like they had to hide his presence or anything, there were no other persons around them during any stage of the chase or fight... probably because involving bystanders would have meant extra work for whoever came up with the story.
Deciding to get into that wagon was a brilliant idea, considering that they knew that someone was hijacking stuff all over the city and knowing that they were targeted - and not for the first time, too.
Then purple-hair dude can suddenly project animated and voiced holograms at any part of the city that he so wants. Why Kuon and Maura did not interfere against the hologram that was driving Felia towards the fucking door of that cart is beyond me. It's not like Maura is tasked with protecting her and has shown the capabilities to distract people even in his tiny form.
Mechs fighting on top of the cables is alright, holding onto them snaps then, however. Because reasons. The MC also happened to drive his thing at exactly the right place at exactly the right time to make an impossible jump that would completely smash him against the card and break every single bone in his body.
But the episode is not done with stupid stuff yet. For whatever reason purple-hair dude raises the protection in front of his window, just so that the snapped cable can smash through it at the end and graze his head in such a way that only cuts some part of his hair in a ridiculous pattern. It ends with that guy walking out of a building just to get spotted by the military guy that wants his help for whatever fucking reason.

Off the top of my head:

How on earth did "clean war" become a thing at all? People have been fighting wars for a very, very long time, and it has never been humane. Things like the Geneva Conventions are attempts to make it less barbaric, but even in modern times, massacres and atrocities still happen. Even if objects came to dominate warfare, there's no reason to stop once the enemy object is destroyed. In fact, the best time to crush the opposition is when they're routing.

Sabotage and guerrilla warfare isn't a new concept. I don't know why they all act like it is. Surely the powers that be have been trying other methods to defeat the objects? Infiltrate the technicians and assassinate the elite. Poison their rations and take out their supply route. Feed them misinformation and lead them into a trap where your own object can take them out. There's a ton of shit that nobody is seemingly doing.

The enemy has no mechanized or air support because they have an object. Thing is, combined arms exist for a reason. It's not like tanks stopped being used once RPGs were invented. Even if they can't take on an object directly, they still fulfil important functions in an army. Are you going to have objects patrol enemy territory 24/7? How do you respond to multiple threats if you only have an object? Who's guarding the supply trucks and other logistical elements? Hell, the cost alone would probably mean that objects are grossly inefficient for most of these applications.

Now that I think about it, the combined arms thing is something that Muvluv got really right.

EXECUTE THE SOLDIERS WITH THE MAIN GUNS. Great idea.

As for your concerns about combined forces....well they still have them? I don't see your point there, just cause the enemies base got wrecked and caught with their pants down doesn't mean they didn't have them....I mean their own army swooped in with tanks and stuff once the object blew up and the dudes were literally clearing the runway for planes in episode 1. They still have these things and this directly led to the mcs not getting killed lol.

One thing I will give you is the "clean wars" thing because humanity sucks like that. Though that thought got pretty much overturned in episode 2 where the Object moved in to completely massacre everyone.

Isn't the point that the objects make everything else obsolete? One of the characters mentions that they being there and everything that's not directly related to the object seems like wasteful spending, so maybe the other guys were trying to cut expenses. Their tier 2 object did manage to beat the princess so normally they should've won that fight.

But you're right going so far as to only have an object seems extreme. And executing them like that with the object is just silly lol, the guys have rifles in their hands they could use that wouldn't decimate their own base. And not being able to cancel self-destruct sequences is a little strange, it didn't even look like it ejected the pilot either. And why would they even be executed in the first place shouldn't they be put in prison to be used as hostages?