2008-10-14, 02:20 | Link #362 |
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So far I have to say I'm really enjoying this series.
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I do like the Touma character, though I think they could tone him down a notch. Just a bit too much pathos there at the end over Index's situation As for him surviving that fall and knocking out the other guy with one punch, I see it as just your standard action hero schtick. How many times have you seen <insert action movie star here> take enough punishment to kill a normal person 5 times over, then get up and punch somebody's lights out? |
2008-10-14, 06:10 | Link #364 | |
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I haven't been seeing any of those lately... Thought they've all but died out? Or maybe I've just been really good with my picks ?
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2008-10-14, 12:24 | Link #368 | ||
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I want photographic memory too...
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2008-10-14, 12:30 | Link #369 |
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I'm being off topic but, there are times when excellent memory is a drawback.
Human lives on through forgetting things, that's why we survive (Imagine if you couldn't forget -insert bad tragedy here- and keep recalling it every night) Back to topic, great first episode, in love with Index.
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2008-10-14, 13:32 | Link #370 | |
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but, the guys is just too damn awesome to be turned onto the green side Stiyl would probably be the 2nd most cool guy here, if not for his "OMGWTF?!" causing him to lose his confidence. He could have easily avoided Touma's punch like the first one if he kept his cool . that's a pretty lame cover up for Touma's character, imo. In a good way . |
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2008-10-15, 02:14 | Link #374 |
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It's best not to care too much about that.. If the ink didn't fade so conveniently, Touma wouldn't have found a way to take down the Innocentius.
Seems official website updated with episode three (they should update the notice at the top...)... Here's our guest for next week~ Spoiler for just a pic:
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2008-10-15, 07:51 | Link #376 |
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Ep 2
Why do shounen action series tend to be so ridiculously shallow and inane? I mean, they spend the majority of the episode fighting and talking at each other (I rue to call it "dialogue" since they weren't so much communicating as they were spouting words at each other and the audience). BFD. *Yawn* Wake me up when the characters aren't completely one-dimensional or the fight scenes don't resemble the ones from Shakugan no Shana that no one was interested in anyway.
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2008-10-15, 09:28 | Link #377 | |
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I mean, I know that you have the tendency to go a bit overboard when feel like dissing, but this time I'd say you're simply factually off. I for one have to say that I can remember no show in this season with higher production values - and Shakugan no Shana's fighting scenes were probably among the most popular and watched (and downloaded) shows of their respective seasons. So that's not too bad in my book In a nutshell, Index is no shounen action. Treating it as such is oversimplifying things tremensously. |
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2008-10-15, 09:53 | Link #378 | |
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I mean, in most other stories, people who can perform magic are usually the ones considered to be above the average human, this is the first time the role has been switched And if they altered the brain to allow the development of psychic powers, they lose the ability to perform magic... Something about it not being able to use the 'system'.
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2008-10-15, 18:41 | Link #379 | |
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An anime doesn't have to resemble DBZ or Naruto to be a shounen action series. Claymore, My-HiME and Idolm@ster Xenoglossia are all shounen action, the difference is that they're good shounen action because they actually bother adding a past, a set of motivations, and an intricate web of relationships to their characters. That's what makes their stories so involving... you actually come to care about what's going to happen to these characters. How can I bring myself to care about this lot: Touma: "I have no idea what's going on around me but I'm just hot-headed enough to not back down." Index: Two personalities, one a happy loli, the other a robotic loli with a library in her head. Komoe: Moe-blob psuedo-loli. Stiyl: Has fire magic powers and crap. Same evil smile on his face for the entire episode. When they weren't fighting, the other half of the episode was spent with them talking about the rules of the universe. It was basically a lecture to the audience. I'm not interested in that crap, I don't watch anime to get lengthy lectures about the magic systems of a fictional universe. Yes, they had to explain things, but couldn't they have figured out a more interesting way to do so than have two people, two very boring characters, no less, stand there and talk? I can only assume that this gets better once it gets out of its "set up" phase, because it can't get much more boring than that. I don't know why people are going nuts for it, though, since the episode can be easily split into long-winded explanations of the rules and a lengthy fight sequence which is all flash and just about zero in the way of genuine drama and suspense. Between this and the popularity of Shakugan no Shana, it makes me think you can just about forgo characterization and storytelling and still quell the audience with well-animated flashes of fire. Yes, popular anime are often crap. Don't worry, this doesn't keep me up at night anymore.
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2008-10-16, 02:03 | Link #380 |
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I think Sorrow's managed to nail my issues with this series.
While I sat through episode 2, my brain just turned off and to amuse myself, I replaced the script they used with what I would have written had I been in charge. The way my version and the version shown to us diverged were starkly different with most of the differences coming from giving Stiyl some motivation that we can at least sympathize with even if we don't necessarily agree with it. For example, that whole scene where Stiyl explains how important Index was could have been rewritten to say something along the lines of "she contains all the big important secrets and we cannot trust you to guard her because there are more powerful organizations that seek to get their hands on her. For the good of this world, we're taking her into our care because you have little understanding in the forces you're up against..." and so on. Bam. Clear motivation. Dialogue that's less pointless than the one that we got instead. And a revelation about more sinister elements lurking out in the whole wide world. Is this motivation particularly deep? Heck no! But by giving us even this much insight into the character's mindset, we can glean a whole lot more about his personality, making him feel real. Had they given us even that much, I could see the story become much more compelling than it has been so far, but until then, this is an exemplary result of shallow writing.
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