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Perfect 10 | 71 | 42.77% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 34 | 20.48% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 20 | 12.05% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 19 | 11.45% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 7 | 4.22% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 6 | 3.61% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 4 | 2.41% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 3 | 1.81% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 1 | 0.60% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 1 | 0.60% | |
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2010-06-18, 22:58 | Link #64 | |
Cross Game - I need more
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: I've moved around the American West. I've lived in Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Oklahoma
Age: 44
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I want my FMP Die Hard on a boat parody! With Tessa, in maid outfit, as unwilling sidekick to the McClane wannabe. You'd think they do it as it's pretty much a guaranteed to sell merchandise too.
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2010-06-18, 23:07 | Link #65 |
Tenshi's Defense Squadron
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Fighting against those who oppress the system
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but there is no guaranteed that we'll get the same budget effects. heck the OP was one of the best ones I've seen. I don't think KyoAni can pull it off.
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2010-06-18, 23:18 | Link #68 |
Mari-nyan <3
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Tokyo, Japan
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Why, hello there, Akira Ishida playing as Kaworu Nagisa-esque character.
This is going to end with a long round of "Congratulations!" from all the characters right? Better prepare that "Fly Me to the Moon" ending theme. In all seriousness, though, it was a generally badass episode. Wish this series wasn't so rushed though...
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2010-06-18, 23:19 | Link #69 | |
NOM
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Outside the Asylum
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At least, that's my view of how this world works, based on what was revealed this episode. 1Chaa: "We were only able to keep going because of you guys carrying on the fight" 2What's-her-name brown-haired GDM girl: "if the short time we spent here was just for us to enjoy the youth we never had..." 3Yuri: "I have no choice but to accept this one cruel, meaningless life!" 4What's-her-name purple-haired GDM girl: "Though, we really knew it without being told."
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2010-06-18, 23:23 | Link #70 |
ZC6 Eishi
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Honolulu Base
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I would have at least thought that KyoAni would have had a budget for at least 25 episodes, like all the other Key works. Although there are proabably more underlying reasons why Maeda gave the okay for 13 episodes only.
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2010-06-18, 23:35 | Link #72 |
Homo Ludens
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Canada
Age: 34
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If only this had been explained.
You'd think they would, given that they felt the need to explain that ANGEL ISN'T ACTUALLY AN ANGEL WHO KNEW. I doubt Maeda has enough creative control to decide the number of episodes. He's not even the director. |
2010-06-19, 00:29 | Link #73 |
Good-Natured Asshole.
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 34
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Man, they picked the worst possible path to take for the final boss. Someone we don't know and have never seen or heard of. I think he passed on as long as Yuri felt like passing on too.
So Yuri seeing her siblings thank her wasn't her real wish. She just wanted to pass time with people who she loves and who love her back (which her siblings were). What are you doing Maeda? >_< This is the first time we see Kanade smile, by the way, except it's not because of Yuzuru, so it's lame. |
2010-06-19, 00:46 | Link #75 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
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Pretty hectic ep, full of revelations, disappearances and fighting. I particularly liked the dialogue between Yuri and the other guy (nameless?), and how she rejected the chance to become God.
One more to go, it has been one hell of a ride. However, there are many mysteries unsolved, like Kanade's past and the identity of the programmer...second season, maybe? Or Ovas? |
2010-06-19, 01:05 | Link #76 |
On a mission
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Oohh, mind screwy introspection stuff and the appearance of Kaworu (Is he here to make Naoi happy and add to...?) Hah, I was thinking the only way the show could be remembered well at this point would be to have a screwy Eva-style ending. Well, maybe... *expects the last episode to be made entirely of stills and doodles. *
That was an extremely anticlimatic solution and the whole love thing was pretty cheesy but I still liked it. Shiina and Ooyama got to do some really cool things as once, and TK had an amazing whirlwind attack. To the enemies' dismay, Kanade was not only not nerfed, but she got a new Area of effect attack. Ah, screw balance. The best scene has gotta be when Yuri's getting overwhelmed by the shadows and the budget can longer afford to let her shoot more but the remaining SSS members pull through for her as well as the last scene where she wakes up in bed. So anyhow, she finally finds the room and a guy to explain the plot. Sadly, the guy doesn't really know either but Yuri finally comes to terms with herself. Also, lol at the Higurashi/Umineko face. She can be god! (So is this a prequel to Haruhi or what?) But nah, Yuri's no meglomaniac. Being the reasonable person, she finally accepts reality and can move on. 8/10; they made the best out of it.
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2010-06-19, 01:27 | Link #80 | |
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Join Date: May 2010
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I think knowledge of the person behind all this is skewing perception too much. If this were any other show, upon coming across something that seems strange, a viewer would try to think it through in context to see how it worked, or if it had any important symbolism. It seems to me though, that too often in this show when it does something that requires a bit of thinking to get, people simply say 'yet another plot hole or inconsistency, let's roll our eyes and add another to the count'. I'm not targeting you specifically, apologies if it seemed so; I've seen many worse examples of the phenomenon. ...Incidentally, I did feel the mass disappearance was a bit rushed as well, but it made sense. Regarding the episode itself, it had its highlights. Yuri's speech in class was an impressive one. I was half-expecting her to become a full-blown NPC when she was attacked by a shadow, but I suppose that would have been a bit too heavy a twist. Personally, I liked the idea of a program made to prevent love, and how it purposely couldn't allow it to exist within the world because it needed to be something to move on from. An unorthodox take on it that I've rarely seen in anime, but fitting in the setting. The guy in the computer room was an interesting idea as well; I got the impression he was, as mentioned, an advanced NPC created by the culprit, or some sort of projection of the program. The fact that the original culprit is already NPC'd as a 'victim' of his own program removes the sense of him as an enemy, and it's now more like Yuri is fighting against a voiceless, thoughtless system; a real sense of 'all humans are in this together, all of us trying in our own way to fight what the universe throws at us', which to me is obviously a metaphor for living our lives. Overall, unexpected as always, and an episode that brought up a number of interesting themes I'd be hard-pressed to find elsewhere. I'd say 9/10. |
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