2015-04-05, 18:33 | Link #82 |
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They made a huge deal about the age thing so there's no way they're going to ignore something that goes so blatantly against it. My bet is that since they're vampire hunters, they're somehow special.
Personally, I just hope it's not going to be either or both of these things: - turns out that the vampires are actually the good guys because omg vampires are sooo coool; - the focus eventually shifts to the vampires and we'll have all sorts of eccentric and fun vampire characters and humans don't matter anymore. |
2015-04-05, 20:46 | Link #83 |
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I really liked the scenery; it didn't really seem like it was from an anime. It was gritty, dark, and set a nice tone. It's a shame the bright-eyed children ruined it. For living livestock, they seemed awfully cheery (shouting and conversing while escaping, really?), and I suppose it's callous of me, but I didn't really feel anything when they were killed.
As for the fallout from the episode, Mikaela is obviously still alive, as he's one of the guys on the key visual; he also seems to have regrown his arm or found a prosthetic somehow. Meanwhile, I wonder if vampire noble is really dead, being voiced by Sakurai and all, though he's also done quite a few one-episode-and-killed characters as of late. As for our main characters, so far Yu seems to be one of those stereotypical indignant protagonists with a hero-complex. I'll wait to see if he demonstrates any growth, otherwise, not my cup of tea. Mikaela didn't seem like a character I would like, but he kind of grew on me by the end when he showed he actually did have some spine. (Speaking of which, is he really voiced by Ono Kensho? It doesn't sound like him at all!) Meanwhile, not a manga reader, so I was expecting more of a full-fledged battle series, not for the setting to move to school. It was a bit unsettling seeing that, as well as the sudden appearance of the military guys. So far, it doesn't look like it'll shape up to be anything overly good -- more like standard fare to pass the time. Well, we'll see how it goes. And lastly, it seems Sawano's the composer for this. Good thing he seems to be deviating from what he has been doing as of late -- Aldnoah had a severe vocal overload. This soundtrack so far seems to a touch more orchestral. |
2015-04-05, 20:49 | Link #84 | ||
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Like I said earlier, my bigger issue was the fact that every adult practically died all at the same time, and not just died, but died violently and in practically instantaneously. This would mean that the virus has little time for infection or incubation, so little time to spread for the person to person, killing them before they could really spread the virus to another host. And for this all to happen at the same time, that would mean that everyone in the world would have had to have been infected at the same time, and everyone's immune systems would have had to be similar as well, as they all "gave out" at the same time. All of that is more ridiculous and hard to believe than the age issue. Actually, it would actually make more sense if this was some sort of biological or chemical weapon like nerve gas, one that could spread pretty equally and evenly over a population practically at once, and kill all at once. But again, this is a fantasy/sci-fi with vampires in it, so we have to expect some Quote:
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2015-04-05, 23:32 | Link #86 |
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Yes yes, lets kill childhood friend(s) in the first episode because that seems to be the cool thing nowadays. (I'm also looking at you AgK and insect invasion from mars... >_>)
Seriously speaking, I'm a bit disappointed as it wasn't as graphic as I thought it would be. I dunno, Mr. Vampire killing all his family actually was almost comical because of how it was animated, so even I didn't feel anything. Overall, it's just kind of meh IMO.
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2015-04-06, 07:42 | Link #88 |
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My best guess of how this is going, and I'm sure others have guessed as much, without knowledge of the original it's based on:
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As for concerns about the virus's effects and the speed with which it spread and other factors, first, one or two people were shown to take longer to die, we actually only know that five or six people in an intersection, a couple drivers and airplane pilots succumbed at approximately the same time. Moreover, we don't know how or when the virus was spread. Some viruses show little or no symptoms until they're pretty well set, so it wouldn't be too difficult with careful planning to inject a virus into one or two carefully chosen distribution methods that would infect a majority at similar times (locally) and then spread to the few remaining individuals, and if well-made a lot of people would feel the effects after very similar incubation periods; depending on the effect, one could possibly produce a virus that would leave a person healthy for a time and then quite suddenly put them on the brink of death. Imagine a virus that infects cells responsible for the heart's circuitry, which reproduces in the cells for about a week before overwhelming them and causing them to die. If infected simultaneously, you'd have a lot of people suddenly dying in manners similar to what was seen at around the same time. It'd be extremely difficult, and likely not quite that well-synchronized, but not really impossible. Last edited by BWTraveller; 2015-04-06 at 07:59. |
2015-04-06, 09:46 | Link #92 | |
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But since there was no resistance to the vampires, its assumes all the adults died in a single night at around the same time. That's extremely hard to achieve, also since this is a big city, we can say that it wasn't just locals but tourists as well. You'd have to infect them all, hope that the virus doesn't mutate and does exactly what it's supposed to do. Somehow has a mind of its own and hides its presence in the body until some time frame where they suddenly ravage the body all at once? So basically a person would be completely fine, and then the virus kills them instantaneously? And considering that they are spitting up gallons of blood, I'm assuming hemorrhagic fever? It would take a while for a virus to destroy cells to the point that their cellular infrastructure is breaking down, and these people should have all been feeling symptoms of some kind before keeling over, throwing up blood and dying. As you said, it would be extremely difficult to do, and nigh on impossible. Especially if all the adult in the world were killed at this one time. Even if it's all the adults in Japan, it's still really hard to buy. Well, it's just speculation, some of us don't want to spoil ourselves on the show by reading the manga or manga threads. We can still speculate on the series, it's all part of the fun.
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2015-04-06, 10:09 | Link #93 |
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Man I'm such a cynical bastard. As soon as I saw those kids going off to escape, I instantly thought "most of them are going to die now.".
I kinda wish the girl survived though. Well actually, I was surpringly bummed out to see them all die. For some reason I actually liked them all, and their happy meal scene never struck me as cheap emotional button pushing, even though that intent was obvious in hindsight. Overall, it was a good premiere. I see some are bothered the age selective death virus but that doesn't really bother me much either. For me it's just a part of the premise and I can just roll with it.
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2015-04-06, 10:22 | Link #94 |
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I suspect the virus and its nature is going to be a major plot point latter down the line. Lots of shows leave those kind of questions open till latter.
A good example would be the 'Angel' in Angel Beats and why is she's hanging around. Her nature not properly explained till rather late, and good stories often leave questions like that unanswered near the start. |
2015-04-06, 20:49 | Link #99 | |
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P.S: this is neither sarcasm nor a negative comment. Except that he's just interested in watching the anime and speculating. And manga doesn't contain much of the backstory either, unless you were talking about the stuff I mentioned from the prequel |
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2015-04-07, 10:01 | Link #100 |
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I like the fact that the original creator is going to be directly involved, especially since I've heard this will be surpassing the manga in no time since the original manga isn't really that far along. It will be interesting to see what they do.
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