2008-10-07, 04:40 | Link #161 | |
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2008-10-07, 05:17 | Link #162 | |
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Yeah I pegged her as my fav character after looking at the novel covers and trailer, she looked awesome in the OP too and her VA is Shizuka Itou as well! Last edited by Westlo; 2008-10-07 at 05:36. |
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2008-10-07, 05:51 | Link #164 | ||
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Also refer to the manga. Here, he was trying to extract Mikoto via "found the lost friend" extraction trick. His intent is clearly to save HER, not vice versa. Quote:
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2008-10-07, 06:51 | Link #165 | |
Somehow I found out
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Ep 1
Found that rather unengaging over all. I'm not sure if I'd call it mediocre (it's too early for such calls) but it had a lot of markers of a generic shounen action series, and the characters weren't all too interesting. I might be wrong, this might turn out to be interesting, but I can't see much in the way of potential from the first episode. The setting is a bit sterile as well. This pretty much struck me as this season's Shakugan no Shana. Quote:
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2008-10-07, 07:23 | Link #166 | |
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Hmmm... I think that "generic shounen" label doesn't belong here. Unless you use it in an extremely sweeping way, like nowadays every girl who shows a range of emotions from angry to sweet is called "tsundere".
"Generic shounen" in my eyes implies 1) a concentration of battles against progressively powerful opponents 2) the "fight - lose - train - improve - fight - win" cycle, repeated continuously 3) a strong focus on the male lead 4) comedy and romance generally only as side-plots I don't think that this really describes this show very well. The comedy aspect is noticeably higher, and particularly 2) will be wrong, as far as I know the material. That aside, I got a much better impression of the characters. Touma is pretty likable for a male lead. Index is at least a pretty unusual character, and I'm curious to learn more of her. I adore Mikoto (though this probably stems from the side-manga and needs to be developed in the anime first), and the remaining chars are also fairly unusual (see the loli-sensei). Quote:
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2008-10-07, 08:01 | Link #167 | |
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But the markers I'm referring to are as follows:
Yeah, we'll see. I'm not dismissing this series, since it's only one ep, I just can't see much to be impressed or excited about after that one ep, since it was all rather ho-hum.
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2008-10-07, 08:07 | Link #169 |
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From the point of view of him and his universe, it's weak. Obviously it'll be the case that as he learns to master it, it'll show its usefulness, but as we start out, the universe doesn't understand the power (because it's apparently so rare) and considers it weak by all its tests and standards, hence why he's Level 0. And it also has a side-effect that really screws him over that he'll inevitably have to learn to deal with.
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2008-10-07, 08:43 | Link #171 | |
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2008-10-07, 10:26 | Link #173 | ||
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2008-10-07, 10:35 | Link #174 |
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This anime needs more cool poses! Style is everything, Touma! I wonder if Touma's going to start calling his attacks any time soon. Touma! Your hand is the one which will pierce the heavens! GIGA IMAGINATION BREIKAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
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2008-10-07, 12:22 | Link #177 |
~*Eternal Bakaness*~
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The part where
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There isn't really much more to say then what people said already. It's the Shana of this season, it'll be a good series, but wouldn't be a master piece.
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