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It 100 percent tells you but it's not blatant enough to be proof that she wasn't a goddess. Quote:
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2013-07-12, 18:02 | Link #342 | |
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People seem to forget rather easily how this all happened. There was never a mystery as to what girls the goddesses could reside in. Literally the first thing Keima does is make sure that the goddesses aren't located in girls outside his normal high school life. Even from a viewer's perspective, what would be the point in putting the goddess in a once-off character who would never appear again except for circumstances like these, over characters who have had some development as his classmates to varying degrees? The only true mystery was the identity of the final goddess.
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2013-07-12, 20:15 | Link #343 | |||||||||
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Perhaps it did not exactly addressed what Keima was asking, but I think it addressed quite alot of questions readers may have had regarding Weiss possession. It might have been a little too conveniently placed though, coming as it did right on the heels of the Tenri arc. Quote:
The unique thing about the Yui arc, IMO, was that Keima was initially stripped of the one thing he always had in all the other arcs: the initiative. This crops up in the Akari arc. It's always amusing to see Keima struggle when that initiative is lost. Quote:
I do think though, that it was a deliberate choice for Yui and Hinoki to be close run affairs, and Akari to No sell everything Keima tried. The last three arcs really started setting the tone for the goddess arc, and even, I think making failure in the goddess arc seem to be a possibility in the eyes of some readers. Quote:
Also, it created the sense of "scale". Having an entire squad of Spirit hunters trying to seal Hinoki prefigured the ending of the goddess arc. I think without that prior large scale battles, some manga readers may have cried Deus Ex Machina at the ending of the goddess arc. Quote:
However, I have a niggling feeling that they are going to set up Akari was the anti-thesis of Lune more actively in this adaptation. The main plot relevance for Akari was leading the cavalry at the end of the goddess arc. Without some set-up, that kind of plot development could have crossed into Deus Ex Machina territory. It didn't. Quote:
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Here's a dreadful idea. A comedy Shoujo romance, revolving around female Keima and male Yui. |
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2013-07-13, 09:57 | Link #344 |
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You'll have to forgive my bluntness ahead of time, as it's 7 AM my time and I've grown tired in more ways than one.
Spoiler for Hey, spoiler tags; because walls of text are detrimental to Asuki society.:
I suppose if I had to make a comment about all of this, it's that hindsight is a very troublesome feature of humanity. One of the harder things to do is alienate yourself from information you've already acquired, because it's not always clear when you're using that hindsight. As much as those captures are seemingly great and interesting, if you take them apart and look at the anatomy of TWGOK they're not necessary (I should start using * to reference a footnote that says "except Tsukiko and Yui") to the overall story. There are small elements of them that have some relevance and have some slight bearing on the story, but in some of the cases of the skipped material it's not even the characters themselves that are of relevance insomuch as what's happening while they're the focus of the manga. A lot of these bits and pieces that are seemingly important can truly be fit in with ease in other ways, even a single line of dialogue.
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2013-07-15, 11:26 | Link #346 |
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I think it might fit, you know. Think about it, each of these chapters are connected; some of the story of one chapter or two ends up in the same room or place in the span of 5 minutes.
While we read it as a manga, as the original source, it'll take at least 2-3 minutes to finish but it's a different story if it was animated; the whole scenes of 9 chapters are connected. Even the animated chapter 117 will only take less than 5 minutes or so. The anime has 25 minutes free slot; the op and ed will take 3-5 minutes, some unnecessary parts of the manga will cut out to fit the remaining time. But on the future episodes, they might extend it to add some flavors to the important events in the manga such as the date of Yui, conversation with Tsukiyo & Luna, Shiori, Haqua's torture scene( well, maybe), and the rest of the important parts. I'm sure they won't let us down. |
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