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Perfect 10 | 22 | 34.38% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 22 | 34.38% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 13 | 20.31% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 6 | 9.38% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 0 | 0% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 1 | 1.56% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2014-07-22, 20:44 | Link #81 | |
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2014-07-23, 03:27 | Link #82 |
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I don't think I've seen a character who started out and remained as OP as Tatsuya in an anime. (I'm not a LN reader)
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2014-07-23, 05:43 | Link #84 |
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I honestly like it too, really. The series makes it clear that Tatsuya is basically Batman in high school. Having others show up often (note: often) who can coincidentally compete with him is a little contrived. The series is more 'Batman: The Drama' than 'Batman: The Action Adventure'.
They do show up (the recent ep made it clear that at least magically outside Tatsuya's specialties, his opponent in Monolith WAS better than him in magical versatility and outright blasting), but they don't show up so much it feels weird.
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2014-07-23, 11:43 | Link #87 | |
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In the absence of an objective narrative voice, the audience is left only with Tatsuya's own deliberately muddled descriptions of his own powers. This obfuscation gives the audience the impression that Tatsuya has no meaningful limitations on his powers, as he seemingly produces powers at whim to solve whatever issue crops up. Tatsuya's explanations of his powers throughout the series vary depending on who he is talking to and what the situation is, so it's blatantly obvious that at least some of the things Tatsuya says are about his abilities are lies or half-truths. The audience is left to determine what, if anything he says is true, which means its quite easy to assume that Tatsuya is simply some unlimited magical badass who simply feigns magical incompetence to avoid unwanted attention. Knowing Tatsuya's limitations, I felt quite a bit of tension during this episode's show down with Masaki, but if I hadn't, I might have just assumed that Tatsuya would make up some new ability to win, and then feel justified in feeling so when he healed all damage and cast a spell we'd never seen to take out Masaki. I just really don't think this show benefits from just letting people see the action without explaining what's actually going on. |
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2014-07-23, 11:54 | Link #88 |
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Well, how would you handle it then? Info-dumps aren't exactly good either. I personally had no issues with the "new" abilities used in defeating Ichijou... because they weren't exactly new, nor were they unexpected. As I said, his self-restoration was shown very clearly in episode 3 (shown, and not told by Tatsuya). His flash cast ability was told by him and Mizuki. With the way he was acting there, the feeling was more that he short-selled his abilities. Last but not least, flash cast as a name was mentioned in the last episode. In my opinion it's handled just right for the medium. You can't just apply the LN standards here.
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2014-07-23, 12:54 | Link #89 | |
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2014-07-23, 13:31 | Link #91 |
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Best episode so far imho.
A lot of people comment on how OP Tatsuya is, but I personally thought that this fight showed his vulnerability (was a bit disappointed since I like Tatsuya). I was shocked that he had doubts of whether he could win or not (not just in this school match, but on a real battlefield as well). Even with the limits set on him and him trying to hold back, I did not expect him to get injured and have to use his regeneration ability, unless he had planned it all along to get to Misaki. But otherwise, it was a even battle throughout and Tatsuya just took advantage of the one opening he saw. I'm sure Tatsuya would win in a battle with no restrictions, but not without problems or sustaining injuries based on his doubts this episode, which surprises me considering he's been untested this far. Of course, not to mention Tatsuya has stated he has the strength to put up a fight with his aunt.
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2014-07-23, 14:54 | Link #92 | |
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2014-07-23, 14:57 | Link #93 | |
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George's invisible bullet is a line of sight spell. Why? Why is Miyuki's Nifflheim so impressively difficult, while other spells (like, I don't know, Hattori's gas ball) aren't? Why is Mine Genesis a family magic, and what does it mean for other people who want to imitate it? All we have are ad hoc pronouncements that ultimately mean very little. Info dumps are just a lot of minutia that doesn't do much to paint the big picture of how magic works beyond the role of CADs. |
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2014-07-23, 15:10 | Link #94 |
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/preemptive modding on
Before anyone jumps in with a 50 page essay on proposed answers to Anh Minh's questions, let me remind everyone that any answers posted in this thread must not use any novel information. Anime-provided answers are all that are permitted here. Any answer that uses novel information must be posted in the novel forum. A link to any such post is permitted here. /preemptive modding off
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2014-07-23, 20:19 | Link #96 | |
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About Limit: With the reference to flight ability using magic, it's save to assume that every person has different ability to perform how many spell activation that he/she can use and also the speed of it, as performing spell activation somewhat drain stamina if not mind. Miyuki can easily use flight magic but a test subject from facility exhaust from it (CMIIW even Taurus mention they shouldn't be playing as they not as good as Miyuki) About nifflheim: I'm also using flight magic as reference, we all already know that flight magic is composition of three activation spell (CMIIW jump, accelerate, decelerate), and Tatsuya also explain that the user must be able to control the spell activation timing or the flight magic will fail causing accident, that's why Tatsuya creating a device for assisting those activation. Nifflheim on this context should have many spell activation that the user must handle with accuracy. George's invisible bullet & Mine genesis : I don't know about this, because this mechanic can be plot specific.
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2014-07-24, 02:25 | Link #98 |
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I always thought that more tiring spells use more psions and since nifflheim is a powerful spell it uses a lot of psions which is why it's considered so difficult and tiring.
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