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Honestly I kind of suspect that they're going for a relatively strict "don't do anything Miura didn't tell them about" thing and running into a minor issue where he probably laid out a lot of plot beats but would've spiced them up with more dialogue once he actually got there himself.
It's also complete made up bullshit.
Even with a union there are clear processes to fire employees who are not meeting the standards of their job requirements or have disciplinary issues.
The reason management hates it is that it's a process, and in most cases can't be done arbitrarily or immediately. It also requires management to do work in documenting the issues, meeting and working with the employee (and often their union rep) and following through.
It's EASIER to fire employees who don't have a union, that is all.
Yes but in practice that means even if everyone else is doing everything right the people doing a shit job are hanging around for ages while the whole process plays out. Which is just annoying and frustrating and sometimes enraging for everyone to deal with. And not just in management since their coworkers have to deal with that shit too. And every single person is not always doing everything exactly right in reality. And the disciplinary process can involve a lot of "give the person a chance to get their shit together" stages. And sometimes it's just easier/faster to make it someone else's problem.
It's just like the legal system. If you can afford the lawyers to do it for you, there's a bunch of protections within the legal system for you as a defendant. Unions basically establish a similar system and make sure you get every right you are entitled to. Which is good, obviously. But you know how everyone gets pissed at how Trump keeps getting to delay consequences for his actions because he can afford to pay to file more motions and more paperwork and make everything take forever so the legal system can cross every t and dot every i? Same kind of thing.
It's lazier, management doesn't have to do the work of documentation or having to talk with people, or investigate what's going on in that person's life. There may be very good reasons that individual performance has been impacted but let's not find out about any of that, it gets in the way of our being productive for the company.
On a personal level it's a means of separating out people with empathy from those who don't on the corporate ladder. A self-selection, if you will, for those who can climb higher by not giving a shit about those around them.
You can go back and rewatch the first episode. Since it's after the rest of the series but has no context on the first time through.
I've never had to deal with, as an officer emeritus, "under-performance" as the sole reason for someone being fired. It has come up in addition to other complaints like "unsafe work methods" or "sexually harasses coworkers" or "unrepentant bigoted comments", but it's not something on it's own that can really get a person fired. At least, not in my line of work.
the art's good technically but the rest of it feels very...sparse, maybe? Part of that is due to how (relatively) fast it's moving through new plot beats, but even when it lingers on scenes there's not much flavor to the dialogue and internal characterization has basically disappeared. There's a few points where I'd love to have more character work to dig into but it's just not there. Miura was really, really good at knowing when to use silence and when to let characters chatter and everything feels a bit awkwardly quiet or too straight-to-the-point these days.
Right now it feels like a lot of the cast is technically present but the writer doesn't have a good handle on how to use them, so we just get these perfunctory little check-ins. Puck has probably suffered the most from this, it's definitely arguable that he'd been sidelined before but uh. You got any opinions on these events, little buddy? No? No?
speaking of characters who are sort of absent
in conclusion, sword big and heavy to wield
I still want to see the shape of how he wanted to end it.
At least they're making an effort, more than Satoshi Kon got.
The problem is that like dogs, he's loyal.
not fire explicitly, but start them working towards that, encouraged voluntary separation, or... put them on a management track, apparently.
Iirc they said the reason they're continuing on with Beserk at all is that everything published since matched with the story outline they had been told.
It sounded like they were in constant contact about it, and he's following Miura's wishes pretty closely to the letter.
No, saying that their assertion was based on 10 to 15 year old information is pretty outrageous and out of line with everything they've said about their process. It's a pretty malicious suggestion, frankly.
I gave them the option of just skipping to the end, but no, they feel like they want to 'do it properly' and watch the whole thing, which shows impressive persistence, I guess.
Positive:
And Negative:
The issue I have is that the characters are flawed in LOTS of ways, so it isn't inherently out of bounds for him to be homophobic. The problem is, the author almost certainly holds that view themself and treats it as a given, and an obvious source for simple gags, with zero thought put into it. Every other character in the team is equally homophobic, it's only unusual how emphatic Kazuma is about it. Hopefully, since I have no expectation for the author becoming more enlightened about this, they at least move on from it, and don't try to make it a bit that never goes away.
I think Mori and/or the folks at studio gaga probably have a pretty recent outline for the series. In interviews Miura has mentioned that Mori was partly responsible for coming up with Farnese's character - he's been close to the writing process for a while.
That being said! Miura also spoke openly about how his creative choices were at least a little fluid - the berserker armor, for example, was something he came up with during the Tower of Conviction, not long before it first appeared. That's absolutely fucking wild, considering how important it is to the story! He wasn't winging it, but there were a lot of decisions that weren't set in stone, or at least, developed as the story did. Standard long form storytelling stuff, executed really well.
I think this is a little bit of what bugs me about this whole project. I understand why you would try to adhere so closely to what Miura left behind, but in some ways I think authenticity is already off the table. We'll never get the ending to Kentaro Miura's Berserk because he didn't get to finish it. He didn't leave behind a script or storyboards for the rest. What exists is basically an outline with a lot of holes in it - and one that surely would have undergone many changes, at that. It can't be adapted, it still has to be created.
Right now it feels like the creative team is trying to add as little as possible to what they have of Miura's thoughts, but they're also still releasing a monthly* manga and I don't think that those choices can hold together. It just feels like there are holes everywhere and they're afraid to start filling any of them in, despite how empty the work feels as a result. It's done out of respect, but in some ways it feels to me like they're parading around something that just shouldn't be shown as is?
I know a lot of people would be pissy little freaks about it, but I think they have to start writing Koji Mori and studio gaga's Berserk. Not to say they should toss the notes away or whatever, but that I think they gotta start filling out the missing details themselves. It won't be the same, because it can't, but maybe it'll feel like a labor of love and not one of obligation.
*look, it's more of an aspirational monthly
Konosuba DIIISCOURSE
But I vaguely remember the gag being that while said person may or may not have certain equipment, the gag was that Kazuma was down to smash no matter what the answer was and he didn’t know how to reconcile that with himself, which I would say in the moment is a fairly flawed human emotion rather than a purely homophobic one.
But that’s the movie, if the show recontextualized this/I’m just remembering wrong then you won’t get no pushback from me for that being some fucked up homophobic nonsense.
A little bit of relevant Konosuba lore/backstory. The title of the story is Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! and it's essentially just completely ironic. A more accurate title for how the story plays out would be Konosuba: Reality is Often Ultimately Disappointing. Our "hero" is a NEET who was a loser in the modern, mundane world, but he then gets isekai'd. He meets a beautiful Goddess who tells him of his charmed destiny to reincarnate into a new world as an overpowered hero... except she's an empty headed, meanspirited moron and this charmed destiny is more akin to a contracting firm, grabbing people en masse to try to defeat a certain demon lord. To face the demon lord, you have to beat his generals, which are all types of well known monsters, usually with a twist. The first one they fight is a Dullahan, for example.
So, in the movie: