I'm always open to suggestions (and would like some if you have any). Does anyone know if they are still renewing TWGOK for a third season. I keep up with the manga I'm pretty sure it mentioned they were recently.
I guess this week they had to meet their ecchi quota, all those scenes in the first half. Jinbei is hilarious, but apart from that it was just the standard type of episode. I think insect summoners are a bit compelling so hopefully they have a deeper plot as the rest of the anime goes on.
So I went home this morning and found a speeding ticket in the mail. One of those roadside speed camera vans. On private property. How is that legal? $150 bucks Im charged. But fuck it. I got K-on figures. Life is still groovy. YOLO.
I realized my desire for purity and the misunderstandings from last night had almost turned me into something I would've hated down the road. Taking a step back and re-evaluating myself for the greater good.
I realized my desire for purity and the misunderstandings from last night had almost turned me into something I would've hated down the road. Taking a step back and re-evaluating myself for the greater good.
This guy right up there is the most incredible moron of the initial D universe.
I can't believe it.
No meaning ? i didn't think about it ? What the heck did you expect ? Why do you blame ryousuke when you're the one who pushed her ? WTF
Gargantia ep 3 got nothing on this episode. This is the most b*llsh*t argument i've ever seen since god know when.
The only thing remaining , right now is : WHY ?
Anyway this episode was still great because ryousuke is a BOSS as usual ..Incredible tension and incredible battle. Dat cliffanger.
Mini Sengoku Basara: Chosokabe and Mori 1 - 7 (end)
This special was absolutely hilarious all the way through. Never thought Id end up a Chosokabe and Mori fan after this but the episode when they were stranded at sea was awesome and then even better when they had to nurse each other to health. I havent laughed and liked a special as much as this in quite awhile. I wish there were more. Greatfandomsupport.
It's pretty amazing to call someone who is essentially a collaborator with an apartheid regime who helps crush resistance movements and conquer other countries a hero. Suzaku is the most loathsome character in a show full of awful people. His character suffers more than anyone else from Geass' poor writing.
You might classify collaboration as something inherently despicable, but that's a personal judgment. Even in reality, not all collaborators are "evil/villainous" and not all resistance fighters are "good/heroic" regardless of whatever else can be said about their particular causes. Thus I wouldn't consider such a thing a flaw of the writing, in the end, but actually one of its limited virtues. I believe the first season handled that sort of conflict well enough. Suzaku was in fact portrayed as a typical Gundam hero for much of the show, always trying to be comparatively upstanding in his behavior, though one placed in the role of antagonist and in contrast with Lelouch's portrayal as more of a villain despite being the protagonist. Of all the possible changes one might consider making to the series, at least I wouldn't alter that equation.
I really didn't know how this show was going to deal with the events of the previous episode. While I might have hoped that the ink-orgy would lead to a palpable, lasting change in the characters and the direction of the story it almost felt to dramatic, to damming and too raw to be allowed to stand. How could they possibly move forward with this hanging over them? Therefore I'd imagine that the writer would hand wave or undo the events in some manner to allow the story to survive. That would be the cheap way out, at least. Thankfully, that doesn't appear to be happening and while Kasuga might have briefly thought he had escaped execution it was clear from the language of the visuals that this wasn't going to happen.
It's actually quite hard to think about the events of this episode in isolation, as it's own self contained narrative because of how it follows immediately on from the aftermath of the previous episode. So crucial is the link between these two episodes that the director even included a few cuts from the previous episode before the opening to this episode to get you in the right state of mind. I think this is pretty telling of the fact that the slow, dialogue-free opening of this episode can't possibly stand in isolation. It has to be the cold water that releases you from the heat of the finale. The problem is that, as this is a weekly series it's been an entire week since that powerful scene. If you were to watch episodes 7 and 8 back to back I imagine this contrast would be even more powerful and effective than it already is. Including a few moments from the climax of episode 7 kind of works but it's not really ideal.
Now, I understand the reasoning behind the extremely slow sequence in this episode. I get it. I've seen the technique used before and I've even defended its usage in works such as Neon Genesis Evangelion. However in this particular case I feel like the director went too far. From the end of the title sequence to the first words of spoken dialogue six minutes of time passed. It's not so much the fact that they went so long without talking, it's rather that they went so long without showing us anything in particular. Hundreds upon hundreds of seconds flew past and yet we only actually had about 11 cuts. One cut in particular lasted one hundred seconds and it was nothing more than Kasuga and Nakamura walking forward agonizingly slowly. I don't care how pretty your visuals are or how beautiful the music is when the actual content is so painfully mundane.
Now, I understand the counter-argument to this: the whole point was that is was slow and lengthy, so that both we and the characters could reflect on the actions that they had undertaken and to allow us all to come down from that peak that had been reached. That's exactly right, but they could have achieved the same effect without devoting quite so much time to it. Three minutes, at most, would have been plenty. I just don't feel like they did enough with those six minutes to justify their existence and it started to feel like padding before it was over. After all, if you want to argue that the scene was effective because it went on so long how long is enough? 8 minutes? 12 minutes? 24 minutes? I felt what the director wanted me to feel after a few minutes. A few minutes after that, however, and I just started to get bored. What's worse is that when I arrived at the very satisfying end of the episode I felt like the director had kept those earlier sequences as long as they were just so that enough time had been filled to allow the episode to end right here.
With that put to one side and I can safely say that the rest of the episode was great as usual and I had no other substantial complaints. Hosanna has already deal quite nicely with the symbolism in final scene but there's a few bits and pieces I'd like to mention:
We see Kasuga wash away his sins quite easily as he purifies his body in water but of course this is rather ironic because we know that it isn't that easy. If anything his burden is far heavier than before because of the actions he's taken.
All the scenes between Saki and Kasuga are noticeably awkward. Consider the framing here, with Saki far away from him:
In other words, you can practically tell where things are going to proceed based on the imagery alone because you can see how far apart these two people are. Meanwhile, you can see how intimate this shot with Nakamura is:
Meanwhile, the director demonstrates a real fascinating with extreme close-ups of people's eyes, to allow us to get an extremely powerful impression of what they're feeling:
Kasuga has turned away from what he's done and there's a really strong visual conflict in the image between the rigid, cool concrete and the colourful and organic natural image. It's a split that runs right through the middle of him. I would assume, although I may well be wrong on this, that it
represents the conflict within himself between the part of him that wants to confess and come clean and the part that wishes the entire affair to be hidden and buried
So galactic moron finally realised that he was an idiot. The end of that race was great however ... i was wondering why they had that third guy there for something so personnal but in the end it made sense.
And the good thing is that we finally have The final showdown !! A battle of stratégies ! A battle of skills ...COMING SOON
So I guess with the last episode, we triggered a new "arc" basically in the show. An arc where basically, Clow Cards are on the move against Sakura. And now we get a new teacher, who is obviously mysterious.
So a Maze Card activated and stuff, and the mysterious teacher ends up saving them. Because she was the one to overcome it, she got the Clow Card but gave it to Sakura
And it can't be Cardcapter Sakura without someone being connected so someone right?
So the teacher is connected to Toya, Sakura's brother
. I guess that's something that is looked out for when dealing with the sexual deviant nature of this universe is how everyone is intertwined in some way considering character growth has barely happened.
This make sitting through 95 episodes of stupid protag all the fucking worth it.
I don't think I can even put into words all the glee I was feeling as this episode was going. It was like multiple bitch slaps on the stupid protag over and over again. It was glorious.
So, if any of you are interested, I made a new video on Youtube where I talk for a bit then paint in super fast forward so you don't have to watch for 2 hours. It's about 22 minutes long if you all want to see what I do with a lot of my spare time.
I guarantee you unless you just drive super slowly, 99% of people would break the speed limit there. Its literally just a cash grab and thats why its specifically put on that road.
This make sitting through 95 episodes of stupid protag all the fucking worth it.
I don't think I can even put into words all the glee I was feeling as this episode was going. It was like multiple bitch slaps on the stupid protag over and over again. It was glorious.
You do know that they arenot going to let this one go , right ? The MC has to win ..you're aware of that, the question whevener he will use the power of friendship , the power of the cards or the power of the *sspull to win.
Of course they can choose to use all 3 powers at the same time too
The Infinite Stratos pakaging was incredibly nice. Far better than a show of that caliber deserved. Dusk Maiden is a MUCH better show. I didnt realize it came with a soundtrack!
You do know that they arenot going to let this one go , right ? The MC has to win ..you're aware of that, the question whevener he will use the power of friendship , the power of the cards or the power of the *sspull to win.
Of course they can choose to use all 3 powers at the same time too
