2013-07-20, 02:50 | Link #801 | |
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There's also the fact that neither of them, as well as nobody important to them, has died yet. In fact, I'm pretty sure that neither of them have even sustained lasting battle injuries (well, with the exception of Asagi's ulcers ). So that gives them much more reason to be content. As their successes builds up, it only makes sense that any discontent they feel over their situation would fade a bit. A certain confidence must start to settle in, and so would a sense of security. Should one of them die, or sustain severe harm in battle (enough to put one of them on the shelf for months, say), then I would expect the rest to express more discontent over the situation. But as is, it makes sense to me that they'd just roll with their situation, and hope that this war will end soon.
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2013-07-20, 06:29 | Link #805 |
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"What's this? You jumped two ranks? Amane, did you die in combat?" was such an amazing line. The bits where Izuru causes everyone to swoon was pretty darn great as well. Although, they're not really even bothering to hide Kei's feelings now are they?
Yet again, absolutely superb animation and some great battle scenes. Apparently the ladies are upping their armaments too. Did Kei always have so many guns? The enemy is apparently using some mobile armors for their dimwitted generals now, too. As always, the action scenes in this are top-notch, and they've been getting better and better. So a bit of the bad, now. I'm going to keep this short, but the fact that they were able to hack into the outpost and acquire that MJP information... They were able to do this how, exactly? There's no reason whatsoever to think that the MJP would store the most classified data they have in the computers of a frontlines outpost where they're not even stationed. Wireless isn't a proper justification for that either, for very many reasons. Honestly, there are so many better ways for them to have learned about Teoria's defection. The one that they chose is very much a stretch. Apparently MJP isn't such a secret organization after all. Also, to the discussion of the content of the team to wage this war: Perhaps it needs to be said again that they're fighting a war for the survival of mankind by their evil oppressors who created them for the sole purpose of consuming and enslaving them. At this point what would be more surprising is if they DID have problems fighting to save humanity. That's not really something you walk away from, nor is it something that leaves you much room for thoughts about what you'll do after. Plus, that phase of discontent came and went a long time ago.
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2013-07-20, 06:52 | Link #806 | ||
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It's a refreshing change from sputtering, blushing tsundere-esque denial. Quote:
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2013-07-20, 08:29 | Link #808 | |
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Don't you just hate it when they nerf the OP too hard?
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2013-07-20, 09:46 | Link #809 |
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Support the campaign to nerf Gary Stu's hard! For when it comes to Stu's, there's no nerf that's apparently too hard.
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2013-07-20, 11:50 | Link #810 | |
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Speaking about the op, is Ange really going to be in the team for long? I get a feeling he's either going to be transferred to team doberman, KIA or detached to form a one man unit. He doesn't show up much in the op and the only part where he's show is when he's with team doberman. |
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2013-07-20, 16:24 | Link #812 |
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Do you really think the public perception is that homogeneous? There's always going to be a variety of opinion on any subject and child soldiers is a highly controversial one. It's very easy to imagine there still being groups debating the necessity of the new AHSMB pilots having to be children and considering that the public believed for a good while that the Team Rabbits weren't all that they cracked up to be, you can imagine that debate only further intensifying.
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2013-07-20, 18:45 | Link #813 | |
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Our modern definition of what a child soldier is, is pretty perverted by the media. It's a term that carries a negative connotation because we think of African kids running around with AK-47s because they have no other options. This is literally as far from that case as is actually possible. It may seem like there should be some moral objections to what's going on here, but honestly I can't think of many reasons why there would be. Yet again, this is the survival of the human race we're talking about. When the survival of even a single country is at stake it's not unheard of for the young and old to be put into military service. Just as well, they were already taken into a program to adapt them for space, so any objections to doing odd things to children have come and gone years ago. The second point for me to make is that besides the whole "end of all human civilization as we know it and slavery as mindless drones" bit, is that they're also getting borderline royalty treatment. At the end of the day, they want to do it and it's not like they're being manipulated into doing it. There's little gain in raising moral objections when it's a situation where there's no reason to harbor them. They want to do it, and it's completely necessary. Edit: Also, it needs to be said that the MJP wasn't introduced at the start of the war. They started sending out Team Rabbits after the Wulgaru had already invaded and completely and entirely mopped the floor with the human race. Even if that delay was because the ASHMB units weren't ready yet, it still happened that way. When you're in the very real process of being absolutely annihilated, having something come along and finally contest that annihilation doesn't leave you the room to complain.
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But even then, some members of the public could easily just claim that it doesn't have to be children that pilot the ASHMB and a lot of the public were at one point convinced that the ASHMB pilots wasn't their silver bullet, so there's no reason why there can't be any objections other than the "anime public" line.
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That's the in-canon reason. The meta reason is that while this show has an overarching war narrative, it also has a fair bit of lighthearted comedy. Such lighthearted comedy would be hard to maintain if the elements that you're talking about were focused on more. A balance between heavy drama and relaxing comedy is struck. I think MP does a good job of balancing the two, but the price is that certain elements have to be downplayed to make it work.
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