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Perfect 10 | 1 | 2.70% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 17 | 45.95% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 11 | 29.73% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 4 | 10.81% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 3 | 8.11% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 1 | 2.70% | |
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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2010-07-13, 02:03 | Link #21 | |
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This episode originates from Shana Novel Volume 0, that has not been covered at all in both Season 1 and Season 2 of the series. Whatever answer you want to know about the American model should be available in the next OVA episode.
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2010-07-13, 13:12 | Link #22 |
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Very good ova . Finally serious stuff .
Yes , i agree , those ova are more relationships issues . We saw the Cold Shana , no emotion for human but with Wilhelmina this is intense . But in the end , Flame Haze aren't different than Human , they both got strong relationship . Next ep = Action ? PS : Young Shana was so cute at 12:30 ! |
2010-07-14, 01:26 | Link #23 |
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I liked the previous two episodes, but unfortunately this one bored me to death. Where is Shana? And why isn't Yuuji there? I don't really care about some poor Torch, or about a Tomogara that we haven't even seen yet.
I also didn't like how apathetic Shana was. She hardly seemed to care about the people who had just lost their daughter. I mean, I know they are going to forget about her, but it wouldn't kill her to be at least a bit nicer to them while in the guise of their daughter. I hate to say it, but I was a bit disappointed in this episode. The only thing that I really liked was the visual display of what Shana sees as she interprets the Power of Existence she's absorbed from the Torch, like the connections and stuff. The overall animation was nice, though I didn't like the glacially slow pace of the episode. Was this episode the beginning of a Gaiden or something? Because this seems to me to be more like the "old" Shana.
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2010-07-14, 01:39 | Link #24 |
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It is. This happened after Wilhelmina and Shana went on separate ways after the Tendoukyuu was "destroyed" back in Hongkong and before Shana arrived in Misaki City.
Hate it as you might, but this is the old Shana, the same Shana from Season One Episode One.
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2010-07-14, 04:37 | Link #25 | |
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Marcus H.: What do you mean by "destroyed"? Do you mean that the Tendoukyuu was not completely destroyed and there is a slight chance that the Tendoukyuu can be rebuilt and resurrected?
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2010-07-14, 10:19 | Link #27 | |
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Yes, like others said, this Shana and the Shana from season 1 episode 1 are the same, remember Shana didnt give a care about Yuji being a torch at first either.
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2010-07-14, 15:59 | Link #28 |
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I for one was glad that there was no Yuji. He and Yoshida were the two characters that really got on my nerves throughout both seasons. Typically dense, unremarkable in any aspect whatsoever, characterless and utterly boring is how I saw Yuji. The typical lame male protagonist that was so common a while back. I'm glad that the more recent anime are moving away from that stereotype, and I'm especially happy that this OVA had no Yuji. Just when I was thinking I need to get my Kugimiya fix and dreading having to watch Yuji being boring and generaly lame all over, it turns out there was no Yuji. Awesome.
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2010-07-15, 04:51 | Link #29 | |
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2010-07-16, 19:45 | Link #31 |
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Oh no, he's not really dumb. He was just downplayed a bit because they want to avoid unneeded foreshadowing (Yuji, in the light novels, nearly killed Wilhelmina by fighting back using Blutsauger. This happened after being tied up and prepared to be executed, which is part of Wilhelmina's plan of displacing the Reiji Maigo.).
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2010-07-17, 00:01 | Link #33 |
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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I actually like Yuji a lot, not the Yuji from the start but the Yuji that he slowly starts to become as the series progresses. By the end of season 2 he is actually pretty reliable and can actually do useful things.
But yes novel Yuji is just sooooo much more awesome, the anime seriously downplayed him
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2010-07-17, 10:18 | Link #36 |
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It was a really interesting episode. Basically, it showed us how a regular Flame Haze feels and acts and how insensitive she is. And also how unaccustomed and unfamiliar they are with life of normal humans. Shana was unable to act humanly and gave off a rather out-of-place feeling.
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2010-07-18, 14:50 | Link #37 |
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The thing i liked the most about this is OVA was they never even came close to catching the bad guy. It focused as a reminder of the change in the Flame Haze of Nieneto no Shana (sp) to Shana. This helps maybe show why she had an interest in Yuji just after showing a kind of mercy she did with the girls family. This was not as good as Shana's and Whilheimas (learn2spell i know) OVA but served as a massive affirmation that characters have been developed.
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2010-08-11, 08:35 | Link #38 |
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Very nice.
An endearing "back to the roots" episode, talking about the things that, sadly, the main plot has a bit forgotten in the meantime to focus on just action and stretching beyond boringness a stalling love story. The tone is dark and sad, and it's good to rekindle a bit with what really are the horrible consequences of Tomogora's greed, and not just handwaving the collateral damages of a fight. Showing a life erased was very emotional and was done in a not-too-much-in-your-face way. As someone who always feel for the nameless victims that are considered unimportant because they are not the main characters, I approve. And as someone who is always ready to let himself be carried by the emotions of a show (if it's well done), I approve again. I voted 7, could maybe even have voted 8. |
2010-08-14, 04:06 | Link #39 |
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I vote 9 for this episode
When I first saw a small image of a guy giving Shana a bracelet I was instantly saying in my head "Who the bloody heck are you!" But then watching this OVA I realized that Shana took the alias of a Torch named "Junko" who recently died from a Tomogara, and Shana is in town to investigate, having to deal with the various situations the torch had before Shana just took all of her Power of Existence. I like this episode because it showed what exactly Shana was like before she went into the same city Yuji was living in, and how much Yuji had an impact on Shana's life as a Flame Haze. Personally at the start of this episode, I was loving the fact that Shana was back to her old traits of being "severally cold" to Junko and her family, heck even her boyfriend. Also how unfamiliar Shana feels having to live a Torch/Human's life. |
2010-09-14, 10:18 | Link #40 |
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Just saw this after a long break of not watching anime for a while. This episode rocked. This was the reason why I loved Shakugan no Shana back in the day. Really loved the badass nature of her character pre-Yuuji. Easily one of my favourite episodes alongside the Wilhemma-prequel arc when Shana was 'training' to be a Flame haze back in S1.
Hopeful thinking here, but I hope this is her character nature when S3 finally airs... although I highly doubt it. I was (and still am) somewhat annoyed at the fact that Yuuji made Shana into a *exaggerated* tsundere archtype. Don't mind a bit of tsundere and moe in my characters, but as the series went on, Shana was turning more into Louise (who I despise). This was the reason I didn't like S2 as much, as well as the fact it had sheer amount of fillers. Nonetheless, 9/10 for this episode. Last edited by Pocari_Sweat; 2010-09-14 at 10:43. |
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