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Fate/Zero Kotomine Kirei is better written than Voldemort. His character arc makes his motivations pretty clear.
BlazBlue Alter Memory 4
I don't completely hate this. There is still some of the BlazBlue fun seeping through. Sadly it is mostly drowning in the non-existent production values. The pacing didn't feel quite as bad in this episode, but the damage has been done, and at any rate it's just a step up from "unimaginably awful" to "mehhhhh".
Basically what I'm saying is where's my Platinum.
I don't completely hate this. There is still some of the BlazBlue fun seeping through. Sadly it is mostly drowning in the non-existent production values. The pacing didn't feel quite as bad in this episode, but the damage has been done, and at any rate it's just a step up from "unimaginably awful" to "mehhhhh".
Basically what I'm saying is where's my Platinum.
Nah, you're right. Having Voldemort be a cartoon sidesteps the uncomfortable idea of people genuinely rallying to his side and not because they're just awful, nasty people.
amishpriest99
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I think I have to agree with you in that the show from a technical standpoint is good, but the material it's working with isn't. As a whole it just isn't doing much for me so I'm likely just going to drop it.
To be fair, trying to depict Hitler in a grey light nowadays is damn near impossible. Not many good ways you can spin genocide.
I'll admit that I'm also influenced by the movies/Ralph Fiennes' rather cliched and corny portrayal of the character. But yeah, you bring up another huge problem I have with the story: every single person in Slytherin is a cartoonish stereotype of evil.
Worked for Orson Scott Card
Just portray him as making the MMO of his dreams and locking 10k people into it.
Well except Snape and Draco.
And everything once again, goes back to SAO.
They're the exceptions that prove the rule because the only way they get away with it is by acting just as cartoonishly evil as everyone else in Slytherin.
Like I said, it worked when the books were light-hearted and episodic, but when it gets serious, they create tonal and thematic dissonance.
Societies that commit such acts don't believe themselves to be monsters. It's not that Hitler wasn't a bad guy, it's just that the Nazis weren't such an extraordinary case that people can rest easy knowing they'd never be complicit in such things.
After all, we're the "good guys".
Well you have Gryffindors such as Dumbledore who are Machiavellian to the core.
They're also kids/teenager books. For the age group, it's fine.
However reading some of the reports from the concentration camps and stuff later, some of them knew what they were doing were wrong. You also get the people who just flat out didn't give a fuck.
Edit: I think it was Hoss who would go to his family every night with no worries after killing a swarm of people in the day. He just viewed it as a job.
Admiral Woofington
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Jesus this went from Harry Potter anime to concentration camps.
AnimeGAF you don't disappoint.
AnimeGAF you don't disappoint.
Yeah but with Dumbledore that stuff just makes you think "what a badass!"
Sure it's kids' books, but I think kids can have a better grasp of moral ambiguity than that.
Also, there's some disturbing implications to a school having a hat that easily divides the good kids from the bad, if you think about it.
Those were just the people who had to get their hands dirty. Most did not.
I thought the Dumbledore stuff depicted him in a morally ambiguous manner mostly because he expected and was planning for Harry to bite it at one point in the novels. There is also the stuff in his childhood where it showed that he wasn't that far different from some of the Dark Lord stuff.
I do wish we had seen more adults though in the novels as that might had shown different personalities of people who were in similar houses.
Huffle is like the worst house. Nothing worse than being stated that you're a boring person and then grouped with other boring people.
Save 'N Quit
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It's like playing basketball where half-court shots get 200 points and play ends. Of course everything else is rendered moot.
Well, you're not supposed to like them!
This really touches on my point. The good guy/bad guy mentality excuses a lot of bad actions.
When the alternatives are being pure evil, a hero (and likely dead man walking), and, er, a Ravenclaw, boring isn't really that bad.
When the alternatives are being pure evil, a hero (and likely dead man walking), and, er, a Ravenclaw, boring isn't really that bad.
I would take being evil, or at least viewed as such, rather than some forgettable shrub.
It's not even that they're boring, it's that they're destined to be incompetent. Griffyndouches are "brave," Ravenclaws are "smart," and Slytherins are evil and stuff. Meanwhile Hufflepuffs are the peasants of the social pyramid. They're basically the peons in a Warcraft orc army going zugzug while logging trees and shit.
Jex
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Caste Hat knows where you really need to be in society, even if you don't know it yourself. Thank Caste Hat for his wisdom.
The monocles would be in Ravenclaw.
Yeah, it makes no sense to not have most of the team dedicated to searching for the snitch while one or two people just camp in front of the goal. Also, the nature of the snitch chase makes it very difficult for spectators to follow.
quidditch
She made the point gain way too high. It should have been something like 50, that way the team does get a bonus but it's also not impossible to overcome it. TBF we also didn't see the average scores for a Quidditch game. Since some of them went for days, you could theoretically get scores in the hundreds.
I just checked the wiki, one game went for 3 months.
Still would be an awesome game to watch.
But that motivation "only" ended up to find out he some sick bastard, still make him very compelling character.
Joe Molotov
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Wait for Space Dandy to save anime next year, for real this time.
The problem isn't a character being a sick bastard, it's when the antagonist is a sick bastard because that's his role in the story rather than because he's a well-developed character with coherent reasons for his behavior.
Hellsing321
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All this Harry Potter talk and no discussions of Harry Potter waifus/husbandos? smh
KirbYuuYuu
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Ojamajo Doremi Naisho 13 END
Well uh... that was something.
But yes, clearly unfair to let Naisho compete with the other seasons. It was very consistent, and had numerous episodes with fantastic animation. Last episode also had that. Certainly nice that Toei was willing to give us this treat, something we can't expect from Precure (because differenciating cast members).
Spoiler for episode 12
But.... well, maybe I'll do two seperate rankings instead. Will start Dokkaan at some point in the near future.
Look at all this yuri subtext *MAJOR SPOILERS*This would be considered incest
Well uh... that was something.
Surprised no one pointed out Fami's uncanny resemblance to Doremi considering Fami is Doremi's grandchild. I guess it could be seen coming when you consider that she too has a massive steak boner.
Actually, TIME TRAVEL, I LIKE HOW ITS OKAY TO JUST WALTZ AROUND LIKE IT WAS NOTHING!
Actually, TIME TRAVEL, I LIKE HOW ITS OKAY TO JUST WALTZ AROUND LIKE IT WAS NOTHING!
But yes, clearly unfair to let Naisho compete with the other seasons. It was very consistent, and had numerous episodes with fantastic animation. Last episode also had that. Certainly nice that Toei was willing to give us this treat, something we can't expect from Precure (because differenciating cast members).
Spoiler for episode 12
I feel terrible when it was talking about being the seventh apprentice, because I was like whose the sixth? Well technically it's Momo, but she's prominent. I forgot about Pop.
But.... well, maybe I'll do two seperate rankings instead. Will start Dokkaan at some point in the near future.
Both of these are truth.
I think what this shows is that this season is so disappointing that Harry Potter has provoked better discussion than anything we've said about anime in ages.
ZachDeKoromaru
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This is my school life in a nutshell.
KirbYuuYuu
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It's because Harry Potter is a good showcase of developing an interesting world for all audiences, something none of the anime this year have done.
Pottermore sorted me into Gryffindor tyvm.
I only signed up to make sure I wasn't Hufflepuff material.
Thanks!
You'd think I would have learned this from my gaming backlog already.
Part 12 of the Sakuga documentary's up focusing on Tetsuya Takeuchi. Next one's gonna focus on Yuasa.
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