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The speech about his dad and wanting to put a big smile on her face. Bring it on! ------ Yeah I thought Seishin becoming a werewolf was plot armor/deux ex in the worse way.
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2010-12-31, 18:23 | Link #1962 |
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I would have prefered, that nats got away and saved a few of the shiki like Tohru and Rits with maybe like megumi escaping in her own. Since it wasnt there fault that this happened. I was just wanting sunoko and the monk to die.
also yeah ur not the only one who that it was cheap he became a werewolf. When nats was being turned he was so weak he couldnt even move, but the monk was rambo in disguise. He can be half dead and carry heavy luggage around, be hacked open, drive, carry said luggage after being hacked, and still hurry to sunoko's location after reviving.
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2010-12-31, 19:10 | Link #1963 | |
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2010-12-31, 19:17 | Link #1964 | |
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And Natsuno, Megumi and Tooru are prob the driving force for DVD and manga sales. Sunako has her fans also. I doubt that many people were watching this for Seishin. Toshio's cool but he won't sell much either.
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2010-12-31, 19:23 | Link #1965 | ||
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But why two main characters? Because from a storytelling perspective, any author would focus on the jinrou, of course, because they're the ones who really have the power to choose. That said, I agree that Natsuno coming back was a distraction - though not for the same reason as you. Rather, he was a distraction from the contrast between Toshio and Seishin. My other theory is that Natsuno was Spoiler for possible novel spoiler:
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2010-12-31, 19:29 | Link #1966 |
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Count me to the side that sympathizes with Sunako. I was very glad to see her leave the village with Seishin, as I couldn't regard her as a villain at that time any more. If you asked me some 5-6 episodes ago, I wouldn't give a damn about Sunako and other Shiki and I would root for the villagers. But in the latest episodes, it's turned into a total warfare where both sides are equal and no morality and ethics apply there. It's live or die, a situation where both sides are going to do their bests to keep on living and defeat the other side. The human side were those who started the last showdown, but I cannot blame them for that. However, at that point of time, I was already able to choose whom to root for freely since the human side has turned into some kind of beasts too. And my choice was probably influenced by the great voice acting of Yuuki Aoi, so I wanted Sunako to survive. That's why I also wanted Tatsumi to get away from his pursuers so that he could go help her. Nevertheless, I was cursing those who killed Megumi as well, and that had nothing to do with Sunako, so my sympathy with Shiki might had had some other roots. Simply, I felt very sorry for them. For Sunako, for Megumi, for Tooru and the girl whose name I've managed to forget already, even for that bloody Seishirou who wasn't even a Shiki.
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2010-12-31, 19:30 | Link #1968 |
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I know this is semi-terrible considering there are vampires etc. but from a realistic standpoint is 3 sticks of dynamite bundled together really enough to permanently kill tatsumi + natsuno? If we go with the only way to kill a shiki/jinrou is destroy circulatory system aka heart/decapitation then even a close range explosion is not exactly a guarenteed kill. Sure theres a chance the ribs are going to be broken by force of explosion and impale the heart but I would think besides the obvious force of explosion/burns/maybe having a limb torn off I dont think there is that good a chance for them to die. Sure its going to put them out of action for a while but from a mythbusters standpoint I would have to say it would probably be a bust. Which leads me to my next question what happens if a jinrou loses an arm? Will it regenerate/reattach or are they going to be stuck with 1 arm.
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2010-12-31, 19:34 | Link #1969 | |
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2010-12-31, 19:37 | Link #1970 | |
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But yeah, a second season is definitely never happening. The sales have been too bad to allow for a continuation. Which, honestly, doesn't bother me - even though Shiki has ended up being the series of the year for me (along with Oofuri 2) and I expected to feel severe withdrawal after the last episode, I still feel completely satisfied with the finale and would rather leave the story at that. The amount of closure felt perfectly fine, leaving some things to be pondered upon, but not too many as I'd feared from the 22 ep. constraint.
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2010-12-31, 19:45 | Link #1971 | |
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2010-12-31, 20:19 | Link #1972 | |
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2010-12-31, 20:21 | Link #1973 |
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So much Megumi hating.. If you want to hate and blame, it should be at Natsuno, because he's the one who created the monster. Love is a powerful thing as well, he really should have just told her he didn't like her, instead of just leading her on.
Like I said before.. Tatsumi had a hand in turning her further against Kaori, most of the time she was just following his orders. That's how I see it.
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2010-12-31, 21:26 | Link #1976 |
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Is that any worse though than pretty much every other shiki? It really does not matter whether she killed out of hunger, jealousy, hate or any other plethora of things. By raw body count you would see sunako as being 1000x the monster Megumi was. Either way I would have liked Megumi to live just because she was a colorful character unlike most of the Shiki who seemed fairly boring. I mean just imagine how crazy the shiki would have been if Megumi was leading the parade instead of Sunako it probably woulda been doomed to fail quick woulda been an interesting ride.
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2010-12-31, 21:27 | Link #1977 | |
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What I meant was, that by not addressing the matter head on, it blew up in his face. Some people don't get the hint, unless you tell them straight forward. It may or may not have worked but there would've been a better chance of her not being so obsessed with him. Most things started from orders, but yes she enjoyed it, I'll admit that. In all honesty most people who like someone get really jealous, if the person they liked was way into someone else. She really wasn't set on targeting Kaori, till Tatsumi said what he said. It doesn't help that she has a very pretty character design and always wore the best outfits and had a good voice actor.
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2010-12-31, 21:41 | Link #1978 | |
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2010-12-31, 22:19 | Link #1979 |
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Actually, I'm curious now how Toshio was able to pull off the reveal in the novels. Here he only managed to out Chizuru because she thought Toshio was under his influence but he was actually helped by Natsuno, if Natsuno didn't bite him I don't see how that would have worked. Plus it looks like Natsuno set the fire that destroyed the village and got both Kaori and Akira out of the village, he ended up doing a lot of small things and I'm curious how all that worked out in the novels with him dead.
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