2013-02-15, 01:28 | Link #12081 | |
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Likewise, you say that the skill-switching is indistinguishable from character development. If that's the case, I'd say it's just character development and that theory of yours is trying to justify things. Unless the story explicitly says otherwise, that's the only way I can see it. |
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2013-02-15, 01:36 | Link #12082 |
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Given, Lupus, that Ajimu has stated that Devil Style was a "personal skill", I think you might be accurate.
It is probable to read that and see a weak attempt at character development. Though, to be honest, using skills to induce change is really cheap in and of it'self if the skill isn't the product of the change, like with Devil Style, in my honest opinion. But I know that didn't happen often in Medaka Box. Most of the time the change in skill was a product of the inner change it'self.
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2013-02-15, 01:44 | Link #12083 | |
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The GLK characters don't do this... although it's possible that they are simply unaware of the differences between the two, as I doubt every Skill holder was involved in the Hakoniwa General Hospital's program. |
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2013-02-15, 03:06 | Link #12086 | ||
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Feel free to hate her, hate the writer, whatever. That's not my problem. My problem is when people don't actually pay attention. This isn't subtle. Medaka Box is not a subtle series. Quote:
Me explaining what the series is blatantly telling us isn't an excuse for bad writing. Bad writing is bad writing, it doesn't matter what I say about it. You seriously think only good writing can be talked about or analyzed? |
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2013-02-15, 03:12 | Link #12087 | |
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2013-02-15, 03:26 | Link #12088 | ||
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Could you specify when the story explicitly says that skills = personalities. |
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2013-02-15, 03:38 | Link #12092 |
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@Wolf: Oh, yeah. That page. It really confused me when I first encountered it.
[Lupus starts reading page] "Wait, how is changing someone's supernatural skill 'disgusting'?" [Reads rest of page] "HOW IS A SKILL A PERSONALITY?!" I tell ya, it came out of nowhere for me. |
2013-02-15, 03:47 | Link #12093 | |
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The page also tells us that Iihiko posseses a skill or skills. Interesting thought, huh?
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But alright. Even if it was that type of "personal" the newest narration overshadows it anyways.
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2013-02-15, 04:01 | Link #12095 |
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Maybe his skills themselves are also of a higher dimension of power? You know, kinda like the Bleach thing.
I mean, the page does say they are even stronger than Real Eater... It does make you realize just how broken Contradictory Conjunction is, however. Even Yuzuhira with a shallow understanding of Iihiko and Shiranui was already able to do far more to the fusion than Medaka's Vibratory End Mode could even hope to do. I guess it's fitting to have such power with such a glaring weakness to them.
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2013-02-15, 04:29 | Link #12097 |
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What could possibly be more broken than Contradictory Conjunction in this manga?
Even the strongest character of all Hakoniwa Academy was humbled by it. Even a style-using Medaka could not reach that beast of a fusion, yet a shallow Contradictory Conjunction user seemingly did for quite a while. Doctor Tsurubami gets cooler the more I think about, haha. The imagination this guy had to have. Too bad he was killed so early.
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2013-02-15, 06:25 | Link #12098 | |
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