2012-05-08, 14:37 | Link #8823 |
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Xiammes@ He start when he see how yamada find out about Kurumi and the whole plan. After that he let Aruka take the chip and wound Yamada. Then let Blade past him to help yamada before that Aruka finish what she start(mean kill him).Then he keep eve busy until yamada heart stop and let her heal him/bring him back to life. The worry face from him was after Eve bring cruz back to life. People here (myself as well) think that Saten do this to make Yamada gain a boost of Eden seed .
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2012-05-08, 14:45 | Link #8824 |
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I don't think it was elaborate enough to wait till his heart stopped, remember they were being monitored and he had to cover his tracks. He couldn't simply just let Eve go right away after hurting Cruz, he had to make it look as legit as possible. Also I don't think they were relying on Edan seed, I believe it was more of a shock factor to make Cruz awaken faster. Saten wouldn't let Blade or Eve near Cruz till after Arca had done damage
Arca second attempt at his life took even Saten by surprise, though its unlikely that she was trying to kill him, just trying to A) Cover her tracks, B) Second attempt to awaken him. Also Arca blames Saten right away for her loss to Blade, even though she was in the room when Cruz exposed his power. Another attempt to cover her tracks, making it seem they weren't working together. All and all, Saten and Arca are some tricky bastards.
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2012-05-08, 14:49 | Link #8825 |
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Xiammes @ I think he took the chance. If you read carefully he wait that Disk say*yamada's heart has stopped*. Then we know what happen. Also after Eve finish to heal him and the other and Saten come back. The first thing he look was Yamada.(after his heart began to beat again). But i do agree with you that Saten was pissed to Aruka second attempt to kill Yamada.
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2012-05-08, 14:55 | Link #8826 |
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Personally I don't believe Eve even had a stigmata/edan seed at the time other then the normal amount for Needless, remember just having edan seed grants some pretty crazy regeneration that shouldn't be possible for normal doppleganger
The "Cruz heart has stopped", was most likely the flag to set off Saten to allow Eve to heal him.
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2012-05-09, 12:47 | Link #8828 |
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I don't want to sound like an apologist but the anime did pretty well given the fact they didn't know everything and that they were forced to end the anime at 24 episodes rather than continuing with the manga (the anime failed commercially in terms of popularity/sales).
They did a great job of finding all the loose ends, tying them together as best they could, and create an ending that was new and interesting. It wasn't the best ending imaginable and there were numerous unanswered questions but they really didn't have the time to create their own wrong answers for everything and then make up an ending on top of it, too. Yeah, there were faults with it but given their situation, I think they handled it alright. Although I do admit the biggest regret is not managing the series better so we could've seen the Cruz and Mio adventure arc and St. Rose!! I think we can all agree on that.
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2012-05-12, 00:41 | Link #8832 |
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Though the fansubs of the anime were, IMO, the reason for the manga scanlations to pick up. I remember before it was a pain to find anything other than some raws floating about and the first few chapters, but post-anime there just seemed to be so much more awareness.
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2012-05-12, 02:59 | Link #8833 | |
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But going back to the commercial side of it, I believe the DVD/BDs sold roughly only ~500 copies per volume which is a horrifying low number. The typical line many fans look to is around 3,000, so you can see how big of a miss it was here. Doesn't help that it was also Madhouse's worst team working on it, too. Then again, it was never meant to be a commercial success given the amount of funds it had going into it and the amount of advertising and merchandise, so maybe failure it a bit harsh and disappointment is a better word. As for the stream on Netflix... I'll pass. The only one who I thought did well was Eve's English voice. Cruz's English voice makes me want to slam my head into anything blunt or sharp repeatedly and Disk's English always sounded woefully bored. And the way they pronounced the Japanese character's names... ugh. I hope people aren't as elitist as I am and can enjoy the dub, but I just can't.
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2012-05-12, 04:26 | Link #8834 |
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I love the dub, Andrew Love did an amazing job as Blade and really stole the show and made up for the other mediocre actors. At least Cruz wasn't voiced by Haberkorn, I wish I could that fucker, ruining any dub he plays in. Cruz VA does a good job when she is play a girl and not a male. Not gonna lie, I found Needless on netflix last year, finally had a job and paid for Netflix to watch some movies, ended up getting back into anime big time.
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I'm actually kinda curious how it's performed in the NA market compared to the JP market. Hope there's enough going back to Imai Kami to fill his pockets.
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2012-05-13, 18:57 | Link #8840 | |
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Plan on buying the bluerays and that Eve figure when my tax refund comes in.
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