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Guess a good excuse as any to rewatch a couple episodes of Madoka tomorrow. Episode 10 is genuinely one of my single favourite episodes of any anime.
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This show is ridiculous.
In this episode they stole the Christ the Redeemer statue from Rio!
Fun!
“A good thing, too, because we’re gonna be testing his limitless capacity for forgiveness.”
to add this (the bolded part):
But I wanted to comment a little further on it. If you look at the full scope of Naruto, the world-building, the backstory, the sheer length, and all the characters, it's kind of insane considering that the author had to come up with all this as he was meeting weekly quotas for finished pages. Very little of it was planned out before the start, and even when he took a break to plan out the later portions (hence the time skip), Kishimoto was also working on the Kakashi sidestory. While I may not feel like the series really stuck the landing, it's still pretty incredible. It just makes me have even more respect for series like One Piece that have comparable scope, and have been going as long or longer, without running into problems. And I'm saying that as someone who never got into OP, but mad props to Oda. Basically, if I say that Naruto has problems, it's not meant as a dig at the series so much as a criticism about the business in which it was produced.
Fanfiction as a medium has the problem that there's zero filter between any person with a word processor and an internet connection getting an idea, and the general public seeing it. But there are a lot of good fanfic writers, it's just that the ratio is way out of whack. I recall seeing a fanfic writer once talk about how they only write stuff for finished series because it's a lot easier than 'writing about a moving target'. When it comes to something like Naruto, they get to enjoy a number of major benefits over the creator, because they're starting with a complete outline and fleshed out characters, then making changes. More importantly, they get to work at whatever pace they want. It's much more akin to being a novelist than the often difficult circumstances writers of serialized works have to deal with. It's easier, because it's monday morning quarterbacking hindsight is 20/20.
Also, Maple got special gear because she beat a boss on her first try solo. Do they ever specify that the gear that her friend got from soloing the underwater boss is also special, or is it just normal gear?
As a side note, I had an email last week from Square Enix that gave me a free month of Funmation. Not sure what caused it, but might want to check your emails if you play FFXIV or something. I think that's the only Square Enix thing I've done recently.
And then there is Monogatari where you are lucky if you catch a single word in the text flashing by.
Not that you really need to read the text but it is fun enough on a rewatch.
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Except that they don't do that. In fact, there's a part where they talk about how UA breaks students like Bakugo, who were the big fish in a little pond only to realize that everyone else at UA is just as or more capable.
His reasoning for why he wants the position evolves from wanting the village to acknowledge him to wanting to protect the village and his friends and family. And this gets examined in both positive and negative ways - for example, his relationship with his son is strained because he puts his official duties ahead of his family more often than he should.
But he'd be more able to protect them by acting as a peacekeeping mediator between the elemental nations, rather than the military dictator of Konoha. And again, I feel like the former better suits his personality than the latter. Naruto is a moral leader, not a technocrat.
Bakugo is sort of like an athlete who is magnificent on the field but rude and counterproductive off of it. His teammates find it difficult to fully condemn him because they might very well be dependent on him in their chosen field. This very thing happens near the start of the second movie, for example.
There's some grey area there. How much Bakugo's attitude is called out tends to be context-dependent I think. It's also important to note that he definitely understands he has an issue there.
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Bakugo does not have a mature attitude in regards to the power of words. In his mind, that statement was an expression of severe disapproval and nothing more. This is a severe character flaw, but I'm not sure if the author intends to deal with it or knows exactly how to do so.
and since then Pouf and Youpi have been putzing around, and the fights against them are going nowhere, and Ikalgo is doing stuff, and I would very much like for the plot to move forward
I mean, I know what happens with Gon and Pitou, and with Netero and Meruem
but I did not expect a whole episode of Ikalgo trying to trap a lobster in an elevator
The author also says they would not have done the in hindsight, so its essentially retconned away
Yeah the beginning and end of the chimera ant arc are good, the middle really drags
Ironically that episode was one of my favorites of that section.
Pretty sure you can blame Sony for that. They own Aniplex and Funimation.
Ikalgo is low-key my favorite ant
Also, are we sure her class isn't Blue Mage? Or whatever Quina's class was in FF9?
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Fate stuff gets pretty over the top, yes. Zero is pretty good.
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The Tower of God anime seems to be changing things just to change things
But not, events are playing out in ways that take the same amount of time, and are just different in ways that dont seem to add much?
Should I read this series? Cause I want more.
Granted, it wasnt till like chapter 400ish that it started to fall off for me
Deffo worth reading
My personal ranking of Fate series (not including the Heaven's Feel movies, which I haven't completed):
1) The Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II: Rail Zepplin
2) Fate/Extra: Last Encore
3) Fate/Zero
4) Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works
5) Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front Babylonia
6) Fate/Apocrypha
I have never watched the Studio Deen Fate/Stay Night, so I have no idea where it would rank.
400 chapters abs it’s still going?
Eh, I might just skip this