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Perfect 10 | 8 | 18.18% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 10 | 22.73% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 19 | 43.18% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 5 | 11.36% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 2 | 4.55% | |
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 | 0 | 0% | |
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2012-12-27, 03:41 | Link #62 | |
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Not that I don't enjoy his . . . unique . . . style in other works just not in this one.
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2012-12-27, 05:58 | Link #64 |
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I don't like the concept of the nekodamashi. One thing is to kill a child with no Cantus or weak Cantus, but they do a poor job in killing proper Cantus users. Saki and Mamoru dispatched the cats that attacked them quite easily. They can only attack with their fangs basically. I'd wager that a couple of Queerats armed with bows would make better executioners.
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2012-12-27, 06:25 | Link #65 | |
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And Mamoru didn't turn around.
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2012-12-27, 21:58 | Link #67 | |
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And she is telling the story so you know she survives til the end.
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2012-12-31, 03:16 | Link #68 |
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I don't think it's the necklace that's doing it; you recall from episode 4, Saki was also immune to the hypnosis defense that living library used on the cast. While she credits the glasses, I suspect that Saki may be naturally immune to the hypnosis, something not shared by her friends or other humans, a mutation that's specific to her.
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2012-12-31, 09:35 | Link #69 | |
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2012-12-31, 10:35 | Link #70 |
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While some would say it's plot armor, it's also the case that people who've gotten through and survived extremely dangerous situations have had plot armor of some sort... cause all the people who didn't died and aren't there to tell any story.
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2012-12-31, 17:44 | Link #71 |
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Depends if the character is telling the story from a narrative point of view and from what point in time. It could be right before they die at the end of the story. It's fiction - it's all up to the author.
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2012-12-31, 18:36 | Link #72 | |
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Saki does seem to have a natural resistance to whatever they use for the memory wipes(which may be hypnosis as well). |
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2013-01-02, 05:35 | Link #75 | |
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2013-01-03, 04:38 | Link #76 | |
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Think Kiritsugu of Fate/Zero. He was disliked by other characters in the series because of that conviction that he took, but he...would have caused a better peace if he was in a story with a happier ending. It's rather the same in SSY, the killers are disliked/feared, but have to remove the children for the survival of the whole community.
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2013-01-03, 18:32 | Link #78 | |
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Shacking the depiction of powers having no consequences has always been interesting; even back with Akira (and for what it's worth this series might as well be that movie's spiritual sequel). Realistically, if a being had unlimited powers, how likely is he to have "powers with out consequence"? I'd say unlikely. In all mythos if you look at the power of gods as the entity and not the personification we attribute to them, then this series isn't all that different. Power bending into evil is one of the common themes there too. The solution to their social dilemma is quite simple though: Don't live in social groups. Don't take that literally, I do mean it in every possible meaning, but it's even hard to come up with the right words to say it correctly. Anyway, essentially there's very little danger to anyone if you're not in a group or society. And with the power at their disposal there's little reason to be in one—food, shelter, protection, they don't need any of it. All of the symptoms and all the disasters, not only can cause damage only in social groups but they also can only occur from social groups. They're enemy isn't the telekinesis it's the desire to be social—as ridiculous as it sounds. Of course, apparently one is quicker to abandon their children then break up the chain. It's the proof that their society is worth more then their all their lives put together; or rather society in general.
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2013-01-04, 14:01 | Link #80 | |
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And how would you keep people away from each other? Tell them to stay within a small plot of land and never move around? Loneliness messes up people's minds in really bad ways.
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