2009-06-17, 20:10 | Link #1501 | |
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He is fast enought to get behind someone and punch him - as far as I know that this would be enought to kill off about anybody and if it was a good guy that discovered that kind of ability in a battle it would be 3 second win. Yet he summons motocicles and not kill his opponents. I hope that his weakness isn't something like he can't turn fast enought to dodge some kind of attacks Oo
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2009-06-17, 23:45 | Link #1503 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Stanford, CA
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In Bleach, for instance, the higher-class captains have the shunpo technique, yet they almost never use it to directly K.O. an opponent, much less a protagonist. In One Piece, there is the "Soru" technique, which is also relatively the same thing, and yet, no one has successfully used it to assassinate a main character. What I don't get is why are you picking only on Racer about this thing, since almost everybody else suffers from the same problems? Also, ask yourself this - would you really prefer it if he killed Natsu and Gray with his top speed? What then - he remains unstoppable until the right opponent is able to neutralize him but he kills a bunch of people beforehand? After he is dealt with, half the cast is dead. There are indeed some series that kill off main characters regularly, but they are in the seinen category. Face it, in shounen almost nobody important dies and if s/he does, it is always in a grand way with a lot of drama and foreshadowing. Besides, not using his top speed to kill his opponents is not the worst thing in this series. How about characters being able to withstand insane amount of damage which would supposedly kill them and still being alright at the end? In the end, if you are annoyed by such cliches you are better off not watching/reading shounen. I don't consider Racer's "arrogance" to be anything unusual compared to other villains at all.
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2009-06-19, 00:32 | Link #1504 | |
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Luffy by learing Soru could keep up with Bruno and by mixing it with Gear 2nd he beat the crap out of him by being too fast for him. In Naruto we have Yondaime sneak on this shinobi that wants to finish his team, and his fight is so fast that you could miss it while blinking Oo As long as the enemy can't keep up with you it should be OK to kill them, unless your speeding up move is not working then you go to cling fighting. It's not that he dosn't kill anybody but he doesn't even do enough damage to be considered a threat for me - he's more of a jerk pushing everybody. There are stories that can't be told if people in it are realistic or intelligent - like hounted house movies when people don't even try to run away.
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2009-06-19, 03:57 | Link #1505 | |
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Luffy did not defeat Blueno with one swift move but beat him up and again did not kill him. Yondaime only killed random fodder. Once again, I fail to see why Racer is any different in that regard. He also pretty much took care of both Natsu and Gray in their first fight. If Wendy wasn't there they would all be dead.
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2009-06-23, 12:23 | Link #1509 |
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Oh someone actually died! O_O
ok obviously still gotta be skeptical about it all but heres hoping! Well Midnight is up and about now. Now I know I'm not the only one to think "ehhh he's pretty cute!" also I read Ieatmanga scans and all I gotta say is they had a awesome credits page! Soooo gotta find that image!
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2009-06-23, 12:55 | Link #1511 | |
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2009-06-23, 16:33 | Link #1518 |
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Racer is probably dead, since Brain felt it and the Oracion Seis are probably connected in a way. I don't think Leon is dead, though, since a good guy doesn't die unless in a very grandiose way. He probably pulled an ice shield at the last moment or something...
Anyway, I'm pretty disappointed with Racer's end and the explanation of his power. This chapter basically ruined his character. I guess it was my fault for having high expectations for a side character. It's times like these that I wish I were writing the story.
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2009-06-23, 17:38 | Link #1520 | |
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I'm very disappointed with Midnight - he's a dude with total make-up plus I can bet he'll be all EMO too. I hate society...
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