Anime Discussion Thread - Page 5512

there wasn't really any real character development. Kagura basically for whole series was only saying "Yomi/sorry" or crying, Yomi didn't really seem that interesting, rest of characters are forgettable.

Plot. So we have the specters. Nothing much explained, but ok. So we have like two ministries fighting evil and let's just say, they have like no real methodology, tactics, strategy, nothing. Which you can clearly see in few episodes where they just charge randomly during battle. But that's isn't that important. Their 'spiritual team' sense some weirdness that appeared twice, none bothers to check it out, director is busy with doing nothing. Ugh. Also, that fight of her vs Yomi almost made me burst in laughs. :D

Story progression: well, you could say what's going to happen waaaay before it actually happened. You knew Kagura won't die in first two episodes (if I remember correctly, they even changed the 'slice' animation from 'first' part of the show and the latter one). You could tell from miles away how Kagura and Yomi became close and that Yomi will die in final epic clash with Kagura. That wouldn't be bad if the story was actually told in interesting manner, which wasn't the case. There was problem with pacing as well, but I guess we can blame that on the fact G-R: Z had only 12 episodes.

Also about that "epic final fight". When Kagura's mother died, her father went through a not-so-short ritual to bind the beast and his soul together. Ok. He dies then and... Kagura inherits the beast without any actual rituals, sealings, nothing. A beast that was clearly trying to escape and was supposedly really powerful. So...yeah. Makes sense.

Characters acting without logic, no actual strategy or thought in actions of a ministry (like, not even having anybody watching their 'watcher teams'. Know that wouldn't change the fact Yomi could kill'em without a problem, but still. And the main antagonist, simply boring. Another 'evil kid who will never fight but laugh and watch the outcome of whatever'. Boooooring.

Maybe manga explains this more, but I'm rating anime only. As as a whole, it's utterly mediocre.

As for Mirai Nikki, oh man, don't even get me started on this one :D

I really liked how they showed goblins as more than just ordinary mobs. They showed the really buff goblin and the crossbow sniper goblin too, that was pretty sick honestly.

Such a death flag raised when he gave his speech to the entire group then skipped over Haruhiro, who obviously is gonna be next in line to lead the group. His death was done right imo. Executed properly and didn't sell it too hard. When the priest master offered to pay for his cremation and Haruhiro denied it, I think that alone shows how much his character has grown and has to grow to be the leader of the group.

Also rip mahou grill. She finally started talking to Manato, lol, get rekt.

Blue-haired side pony tail girl next ep. *rubs hands together* New healer maybe???

Welp, they do know how to set up the hype. Also, fucking hilarious that Hishoko drew the short straw and ended up with the Steves.

Character Development: I could get that one could not like the character development in the anime, but saying that there simply wasn't any is just false. Is a 'character' different from the beginning of the series compared to the end? No matter what way you look at it, the answer is yes. Kagura did go through many major changes in terms of her outlook and how she thought, over the course of the show. The same can be said for characters such as Yomi and Noriyuki. So rather than not having any character development, its just that they didn't have character development that you liked. Which is fine, since that simply comes down to personal preference. You obviously didn't like how they developed the characters, while others did.

Plot: I'm... Honestly not sure what you are even talking about with a lot of this stuff. The job for exterminators is to go in and kill the target. I'm not sure if you were expecting Tom Clancy out of this or not. For predictability, its not like anime in unpredictably by nature, and when it does try to be unpredictable, it turns out as shit. But Ga Rei Zero did have a bit of unpredictability to it, especially considering its first episode. All of the preview material for the anime exclusively advertised the cast we saw in the first episode. And then the whole cast was killed to a man. And then the second episode seemingly repeated it. IMO the only way you could see through that is if you had prior experience with the manga, to know how it would turn out.

As for Byakuei getting passed to Kagura easily, reading between the lines can explain it pretty easily. Kagura has been being trained and prepared for getting Byakuei for her whole life. Kagura's father wasn't "meant" to have gotten Byakuei, given that he married into the family, was forced to take it due to Kagura being too young at the time to inherit it, not to mention age probably factored in (as it was remarked that everyone who takes Byakuei dies young.), which could all culminate into it being a trail to merge an unrelated/unprepared soul with the beast, compared to a young person who was groomed for it. Finally, there is Byakuei himself, maybe hes just into young girls. Ofc, this is all reading between the lines, so if you only accept things that get spelt out for you as fact, well... To each his own, I suppose.

I don't get what you are referring to with characters acting without logic. I'm not sure why you assume that they had no one protecting the Watcher Teams (unless we are going back wanting everything to be explicit). The main antagonist was boring, I'll agree about that. He's there just because he is in the manga, but he was hardly the antagonist that got focused on anyway, so w/e.

I mean, I guess its reasonable considering that Haruhiro will end up leading the group but would've liked Manato to stick around which wouldn't have worked. Quite the emotional episode but was needed.