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Originally Posted by kuromitsu
Well, even a few extra scenes or lines here or there would go a long way. Not that it would completely fix the problem, but it would make the transition a tad more natural. That said, I'm not expecting much either (at least not on this front), but hope never dies and whatnot.
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It'd still come off as *sudden* given its, well, sudden appearance.
I'm used to the characters acting like different people between episodes, but Kagura's was a real extreme. It was his entire character, not that it was much, in this show.
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Originally Posted by kuromitsu
Er, I don't think it was lost in translation, I've been saying that this is the case for a good while now, and I think it was made pretty clear earlier... It's just that Kagura actually getting around realizing this was delayed until the last episode with no hint for it whatsoever, so of course his turn of heart (if it can be called that) didn't have a proper foundation. |
By translation, I mean from Jap to Eng. I don't think the subs did it much justice from the pictures I've seen floating around from the subbed version. (Same with the "bitch" thing, which he simply does not say. Pathetic or depressed or bottom of the barrel is much more accurate.) The English translation makes it look like he just threw up his arms and gave up everything all of a sudden. Where its more accurate to say that he simply realized (rushed as it was) that he loved Sylvia, not Mikono, and realized it. He didn't have a turn of heart, which is almost what it looks like in English, he just made a realization. (Of course, if you fix the translations you'll get the Kagura and Zessica shippers mad.
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That said, I think it would have been better for him to do the suffering and chat with Sylvia, to give him a bit of closure on that front. Otherwise, he's just left in a state of loving Sylvia, dead as she has been for 12,000 years. But I guess that's par for the course in this show. Yunoha's in love with a dead person, Cayenne is *ahem* friends with a dead person, Zessica is in love with a taken person, and Kagura is in love with a really, really dead person.
Guess we have the ground work for AQ3 already.
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Originally Posted by kuromitsu
I think that they just screwed up the pacing and development, as with so many other things in this show.
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When they killed Jin, something in the show just up and died.
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Originally Posted by KleenexGhost
Hopefully it will fill some plot-holes or offer character development. What did they do with the first two episodes?
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Changed scene order, added two seconds of fluff, and nothing changed.