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Ashlotte · 2009-01-28, 18:40

Never read the manga...Just disappointed for other reasons.

The first episode had a great morbid feel to it what with the random deaths and seeing such an unexpectedly brutal fight involving a girl that looked rather fragile at first. That coupled with an actually interesting male lead made me pretty excited...

Now here we sit with episode 3...The fights are still somewhat hard hitting, but they defiantly lack the umph of what they showed possible in the first episode...Some of that probably stems from this contract sillyness...They started this series with a good ol' slugfest, but now there falling back on that tried and true shonen junk of power-ups replete with little show-off scenes that completely disrupt the flow of action. They also feel rather silly when you look at the tone the show tries to set at times with the one in episode 2 feeling downright OOC which leads me to my other main gripe...

And thats what their doing with the lead....Episode 1 he had a slight aura of pensiveness about him in episode 1...He genuinely cared about those around him, but couldn't bring himself to become too involved with them. He has little of this emotional intelligence now and just lashes out at people with little in the way of showing what he's really thinking about...

I guess you could argue that he's become more callous because of what hes learned and seen in previous episodes, but the way it's presented just comes across as childish undirected anger for no reason and makes him genuinely hard to like in any respect...

Kaioshin Sama · 2009-01-28, 19:57

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Originally Posted by Malkuth

We should take your, Kaoru Chujo and SuperKnuckles advice then and refrain from further discussing the manga in this thread.

Well there is a manga thread I'm sure you know.

Eisdrache · 2009-01-28, 22:44

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Originally Posted by Kimichi

That coupled with an actually interesting male lead made me pretty excited...

what D:

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Originally Posted by Kimichi

And thats what their doing with the lead....Episode 1 he had a slight aura of pensiveness about him in episode 1...He genuinely cared about those around him, but couldn't bring himself to become too involved with them.

WHAT DDD:

Its just ridiculous how Keita stands around being oh!, ah?, uh..., no "please" stop, huh?, while Kuro is getting beaten by various guys. Ok he punched one with a chair. I actually liked that. But well thats all about it. And then suddenly BAM he goes all gar and does Digimon evolution synchro with Kuro.

Not really my definition of interesting.

serenade_beta · 2009-01-29, 15:49

...

Spoiler for ep4:

v1cious · 2009-01-29, 20:08

is the color screwed up on anyone else's channel? everything is green.

Kaoru Chujo · 2009-01-29, 22:23

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Originally Posted by Malkuth

...We should take your, Kaoru Chujo and SuperKnuckles advice then and refrain from further discussing the manga in this thread.

Hey, now I feel bad. I'm not totally against talking about the manga. I've done it myself. It's just that if we do too much of it, the anime gets buried.

Not that it might not bury itself. I enjoyed ep4, but it was certainly slow. I'm getting the feeling that the director of Emma and writer of Marimite don't know how to do shows like this one. There may just not be enough interpersonal meat in the story for them to make it like those animes, and they may not know how to do an action show that will appeal to action fans.

Rawgers · 2009-01-29, 23:02

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Originally Posted by v1cious

is the color screwed up on anyone else's channel? everything is green.

Yea. It was green for me (the 8 PM PST one). I wonder why..

Spoiler for ep 4:

Ichy · 2009-01-31, 15:58

Is it wrong to enjoy it when Kuro gets the shit beaten out of her?

Deathkillz · 2009-01-31, 16:04

^ Yes.

I think so, unless you are a sadist you enjoy watching cute girls getting hurt which automatically puts you into the category of "wrong" anyway

yozaku · 2009-01-31, 23:49

I think eps 4 is better

at least keita not as useless as previous eps

orion · 2009-02-01, 02:59

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Originally Posted by Ichy

Is it wrong to enjoy it when Kuro gets the shit beaten out of her?

Nooooo! Don't listen to Deathkillz. It's okay to enjoy seeing her being beaten to a pulp. It's shonen. Her payback to the opponent is always worse that way.

But that teacher was really getting into it. He was sick.

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Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo

Hey, now I feel bad. I'm not totally against talking about the manga. I've done it myself. It's just that if we do too much of it, the anime gets buried.

I also enjoyed it when the manga readers were commenting on the differences.

Shiroth · 2009-02-01, 06:33

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Originally Posted by orion

I also enjoyed it when the manga readers were commenting on the differences.

& i'd like to discuss these episode with anime only viewers like myself, though a lot of them come in here, see all the manga talk and walk away without posting.

So yeah, less of it please? Give the anime only viewers more of a chance.

Ichy · 2009-02-01, 07:06

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Originally Posted by Deathkillz

^ Yes.

I think so, unless you are a sadist you enjoy watching cute girls getting hurt which automatically puts you into the category of "wrong" anyway

Well I guess I have to see the doctor soon

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Originally Posted by Shiroth

& i'd like to discuss these episode with anime only viewers like myself, though a lot of them come in here, see all the manga talk and walk away without posting.

So yeah, less of it please? Give the anime only viewers more of a chance.

I watch the anime first, then read the manga.
Problem is I always lag a few episodens behind so there is not much to comment on.

***Pellissier*** · 2009-02-01, 11:43

New Megami scan

Spoiler for slightly NSFW:

+ another scan:

orion · 2009-02-01, 12:01

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Originally Posted by Shiroth

& i'd like to discuss these episode with anime only viewers like myself, though a lot of them come in here, see all the manga talk and walk away without posting.

So yeah, less of it please? Give the anime only viewers more of a chance.

But we already know that this is an alternate universe title so seeing hidden manga comments shouldn't matter.

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Originally Posted by Pellissier

New Megami scan

Spoiler for slightly NSFW:

Oh, they're playing the fanservice angle early due to pissing off the manga readers.

Malkuth · 2009-02-01, 12:23

After watching episode four, I am left somewhat confused, the fight in the end was quite boring, most of the story development came by indirectly talking about it, it felt like a friend of mine just recited a summary of the script. Also they introduced 4+ major characters (depending on how thing go in Okinawa)!

I also found it quite funny, that after Excel complemented Keita's intelligence, he immediately does one of the most stupid things, by punching Steiner!

Spoiler for the greater picture:

Spoiler for Manga-based critic:

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Originally Posted by orion

Oh, they're playing the fanservice angle early due to pissing off the manga readers.

Wise move ... and this is coming by one pissed-off manga reader :P

... and by the way someone should change that tag from seinen to shounen.

Eej · 2009-02-03, 02:32

Every day is angry day. Episode 4 was as awful as your average Index episode. A whole lot of words, followed by a shoddily animated fight scene and then more words.

At least George Nakata, Yukari Tamura and Noriko Shitaya keep things amusing.

germanturkey · 2009-02-05, 00:59

what the freak. in ep 3, he just STANDS there and is like, "sensei, what are you doing?" while she's getting her face punched in and choked.. wow. what a dick. then, after a 2 line conversation, he suddenly finds the conviction to fight, and they say "syncho" in sync with each other. like, i laughed at the stupidity of that part.

in my mind, that one scene was like a horrible fate stay/night...

eej, i agree with your blog about ep 4 too. what an idiot.

Shiroth · 2009-02-05, 06:29

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Originally Posted by germanturkey

what the freak. in ep 3, he just STANDS there and is like, "sensei, what are you doing?" while she's getting her face punched in and choked.. wow. what a dick. then, after a 2 line conversation, he suddenly finds the conviction to fight, and they say "syncho" in sync with each other. like, i laughed at the stupidity of that part.

in my mind, that one scene was like a horrible fate stay/night...

eej, i agree with your blog about ep 4 too. what an idiot.

After having the same life experiences as him, and being thrown into this situation, you're telling me you wouldn't react the same way?

Not all guys can be knights in shinning armor.

SuperKnuckles · 2009-02-05, 06:47

Yeah, but he is an ANIME character.

I think it's sorta understandable with him, because Kuro is the one with all the physical might.

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Ashlotte Clockwork Join Date: Oct 2006	Never read the manga...Just disappointed for other reasons. The first episode had a great morbid feel to it what with the random deaths and seeing such an unexpectedly brutal fight involving a girl that looked rather fragile at first. That coupled with an actually interesting male lead made me pretty excited... Now here we sit with episode 3...The fights are still somewhat hard hitting, but they defiantly lack the umph of what they showed possible in the first episode...Some of that probably stems from this contract sillyness...They started this series with a good ol' slugfest, but now there falling back on that tried and true shonen junk of power-ups replete with little show-off scenes that completely disrupt the flow of action. They also feel rather silly when you look at the tone the show tries to set at times with the one in episode 2 feeling downright OOC which leads me to my other main gripe... And thats what their doing with the lead....Episode 1 he had a slight aura of pensiveness about him in episode 1...He genuinely cared about those around him, but couldn't bring himself to become too involved with them. He has little of this emotional intelligence now and just lashes out at people with little in the way of showing what he's really thinking about... I guess you could argue that he's become more callous because of what hes learned and seen in previous episodes, but the way it's presented just comes across as childish undirected anger for no reason and makes him genuinely hard to like in any respect... __________________ No matter what enemy. No matter what ally. Mowing everything down with maximum destructive power. That is... "The White Devil of the Administration Bureau"

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serenade_beta そのおっぱいで13才 Join Date: Dec 2006	... Spoiler for ep4: Another... slow episode that barely does anything... Barely anything to say... ... Eat, eat, Protagonist gets mad, talk, stalk, fight... And just when the fight ends, we suddenly go into another fight just because Keita slapped the big guy... Something like that... Umm~... I guess a good thing is that the fight was more exciting than the previous episode?... Don't know... Tension too low... Well, there's a doppleganger of Akane... Seems she wants to hunt her other selves down to be a master route... Right... runs out of motivation __________________ -Blog --> http://tdnshumi.blogspot.com/ (Mainly about video games) -R.I.P. Hiroshi Yamauchi, Gaming wouldn't have been the same without you (9/19/13)

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*Pellissier* ♪~ Daydreaming ~♪ Graphic Designer Administrator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Italy	New Megami scan Spoiler for slightly NSFW: + another scan: __________________

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v1cious Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004	is the color screwed up on anyone else's channel? everything is green.

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yozaku Always Idle Join Date: Jul 2007	I think eps 4 is better at least keita not as useless as previous eps

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Eej wat Fansubber Join Date: Apr 2007	Every day is angry day. Episode 4 was as awful as your average Index episode. A whole lot of words, followed by a shoddily animated fight scene and then more words. At least George Nakata, Yukari Tamura and Noriko Shitaya keep things amusing.

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germanturkey Udon-YAAAAAAAA Join Date: Jan 2008 Age: 35	what the freak. in ep 3, he just STANDS there and is like, "sensei, what are you doing?" while she's getting her face punched in and choked.. wow. what a dick. then, after a 2 line conversation, he suddenly finds the conviction to fight, and they say "syncho" in sync with each other. like, i laughed at the stupidity of that part. in my mind, that one scene was like a horrible fate stay/night... eej, i agree with your blog about ep 4 too. what an idiot. Last edited by germanturkey; 2009-02-05 at 01:18.

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SuperKnuckles Anime Hobbyist Join Date: Dec 2004	Yeah, but he is an ANIME character. I think it's sorta understandable with him, because Kuro is the one with all the physical might.