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Perfect 10 | 33 | 49.25% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 21 | 31.34% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 9 | 13.43% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 1 | 1.49% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 2 | 2.99% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
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 | 1 | 1.49% | |
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2013-02-09, 19:24 | Link #81 | |
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2013-02-09, 19:32 | Link #82 |
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Do you any of you think the the queer rats can "gain" PK abilities, or is it something you can only be born with? If it is a possibility, I wonder if that's actually Yakomaru's final goal in order to be "equals" with humans. The only thing that could worsen the current situation is if a creep like Yakomaru had those powers of his own...
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2013-02-09, 19:53 | Link #83 | |
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If indeed Maria is the mother of the fiend (and Mamoru the father, which oddly never seems to get mentioned) rather than "blaming" Maria or Saki, it seems to me it would be the fault of the village elders who decided to murder Mamoru in the first place, thus causing he and Maria to flee. Like almost everything else that's happened this would be humanity being hoist by its own petard - all of the disasters befalling them (including the engineering of the queerats as a slave race) are coming home to roost now.
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2013-02-09, 20:07 | Link #84 | |
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I mean don't get me wrong there were definitely aspect of the series I enjoyed before it jumped the shark and it created some very good atmosphere at times but I think this series is on a whole other league when it comes to really effective horror.
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2013-02-09, 20:12 | Link #85 | |
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What made Another stood over the recent horror anime I've was the mood. The creepy school, with the creepy classmates and the creepy "WTF happened 15 years ago?!" mystery |
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2013-02-09, 20:14 | Link #86 | |
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I certainly wondered about this. Though we obviously haven't seen an actual calendar it seems as if 12 years have passed, roughly. Even if Mamoru and Maria conceived a child immediately after we left them, it would still be barely 11 years old - not too young for puberty, but pretty darn precocious.
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I agree. It's just that I can understand why Saki would blame Maria before blaming herself. Really, Maria doesn't deserve much blame either. I know some folks probably won't like me writing this, but I honestly think Saki blaming Maria might be, in part, a case of a scorned lover lashing out a bit.
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2013-02-09, 20:22 | Link #88 |
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I feel as if I've complained a lot about the music in this show so I'm happy to announce that it was used very effectively this week. I literally had shivers during the fire scene it. Saki's facial expressions and the beautiful animation certainly helped, but it was the music that really got to me. Well done!
Also, I noticed in this episode how well they've handled the development of Saki and Satoru. Following a character from childhood to adulthood can be difficult for even the most experienced writer. It's common for a writer to get one stage accurate but not the other; portraying both convincingly is very difficult. For this reason I was struck by how believable Saki and Satoru are as adults. They are just as believable at their current stage of life as they were as children. I don't feel that their adolescent stage was handled quite as well as the other two, but getting two of the three right isn't half bad
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2013-02-09, 21:07 | Link #89 |
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I remember thinking it was totally badass if Maria actually travelled "half the world away" like the one episode's text. But I guess she was much too close. Darned show, killing two of the best characters. And Mamoru.
I remember when I thought the society was pretty iffy. But then they revealed just how much of the world had died after PKers appeared. And then how one akki could wipe out everyone in the area. So I can't really blame them too much. Happy Ending, go! You can do it, SSY! |
2013-02-09, 22:10 | Link #90 |
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Saying that the fist few episodes weren't gore-y is one thing but stating that the fist ten episodes were excellent horror is a wholly different ball game. Even the first few episodes were silly as fuck with the random doll close-ups. Sure it was good at making the most mundane things ever tense but if the jack-in-the-box doesn't come out of the box when the cello starts playing and the singing saw starts wobbling the first three times you sorta stop expecting it to. Heck, even Scary Movie did the horror thing better than Another. And despite the titel it doesn't even strive to be scary.
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2013-02-09, 22:13 | Link #91 | |
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Another's visuals and BGM and characters were all very effective at setting a disturbing horror mood, imo. Not quite on the level of this episode of SSY, but still pretty good by anime's standards for horror.
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2013-02-09, 22:56 | Link #92 | |
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Even putting the fanfic ideas aside, I certainly think there's a high possibility that Maria was lobotomized, because I just don't see her having given birth to a child that becomes a pet killer for the rats on her own free will (and the revelatory scenes with the lobotomized queen would have more literary purpose). Which does sort of beg the question of why the presumably child isn't killing the rats. Unless the child has been "lobotomized" as well.
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2013-02-10, 01:20 | Link #93 | |
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1. Bonobo gene kicks in during high stress. I'd say their escape qualifies. 2. Pregnancy happens. 3. Months later, Mamoru is still sick and/or Maria is starting to show. 4. They come across Queerats. By this point we know that Yakomaru has been in power for a while, so it's possible they are offered shelter under one of his colonies. 5. Using the knowledge of the false minoshiro, Yakomaru devises a plan to use the child as a weapon. 6. Mamoru is killed soon after, or just after the child dies. Maria either dies during birth, or just after. 7. From then on, the child is raised as "one of them". This isn't unusual in human history, for another species to take a human child and raise it as their own. Said child adopts the behaviors of the animal, and "rehabilitating" them to be human again is extremely difficult if not impossible. 8. Who knows how the child was raised after that, but the results demonstrate themselves. If this scenario were true, it also explains why the bones matched records. Assume they were found after about a year. That's plenty of time for the bones to be stripped of flesh and made to look damaged by any means you desire. Keep in mind that the feedback probably only works assuming that the user believes they are human, and the user assigns human like traits to a non-human entity. But, if this child has been raised without any exposure to humans, how would he know what he is? I doubt Yakomaru did anything but fill the kids head with junk. Or taking it out. If they were using spears and lobotomy years ago, and are now using guns and chemical warfare, what about medical science? Plus, the society had ways of handling powers in young children. You certainly don't want one to have a tantrum and kill someone for not giving them candy, so it's probably wiser to "turn it off" until they reach a more mature age. Like they did with the kids in the village. But this kid never had that.
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2013-02-10, 02:05 | Link #94 |
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That image immediately made me think of Hiroshima. Look up some of the old US military footage from shortly after the bombing and you'll see what I mean. And it sounded like the dialogue under the image was referring back to when Tomiko told Saki about nuclear weapons. Maybe the image really is supposed to be Hiroshima, and it shows up when Saki is remembering what Tomiko told her before.
On another note, I find myself wondering why the humans never came up with some way of "jamming" a fiend's Cantus - some way to "disarm" the fiend without inflicting pain or death. Because with no ability to fight back, they're just a bunch of sitting ducks. |
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2013-02-10, 07:37 | Link #97 | |
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2013-02-10, 08:22 | Link #98 |
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I have a question regarding the death feedback.
Is it a natural aspect of their power (i.e. everyone has this when they are born) or a result of the hypnotism? If it's the latter then obviously the child doesn't have it. And how the heck did the squeerats train him anyway? If they just let him figure out himself I'm sure a lot of things have been blown up in the process |
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