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The author of that manga loves V-tubers, iirc?
(Still better than Gendo)
Well, that escalated quickly.
I'm disappointed, since both creators had hits in the past.
Poor Ginka and Gluna had to die for this?!
Like letting htings breathe is great sometimes, but i actually feel WfM has been perfect at letting stuff breathe when it needed to breathe, and when it wants to go hard... oh boy oh boy.
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Same Woman Six Episodes Ago: "This orphan I've been secretly experimenting on to become a war machine has failed. Feed him to the incinerator."
Fascinating moral compass you have there.
The silent credits at the end of the first episode.
*chef's kiss*
WfM:
I am so glad I’m not the only one going through this same exact thing
It’s like someone went “what if I took bleach, but maybe only explained a fifth of what was happening at any given moment.”
Also like I can appreciate things Just Happening and maybe we don’t linger on it in the moment that it did… but at some point we gotta take time to acknowledge that when it’s a major event, instead of just “and now we are moving on!”
Like the whole goddamn situation with
Hell I still don’t know how the fuck the Culling game is actually supposed to work or what it’s really meant to do to further Kenjaku’s ends?
goddamn this plot is trying to break the sound barrier it's moving so fast.
Also, something I find interesting is it's the original Aerial in the ending theme, not the rebuild.
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I didn't expect to enjoy it this much but every character they introduce is absolutely ridiculous in a way that juuuuuust warps the trope enough to be a little bit of a surprise every time. Just some good ole goofs with solid comedic timing. They never run a joke or gag into the ground. One or two beats and then they move on.
Man.
This isn't a defense mind you, just my reading of the character. And I would argue that doing horrible experimentation to your own daughter is somewhat worse than doing it to random children, in an academic sense. (In a practical sense either way what they're doing is utterly unforgivable.)
pretty good huh
I initially thought the Culling Game's ruleset was way too convoluted for what was essentially dozens of chapters of straight fighting. But I think the real problem was that it took until like 70% of the way through the arc to get a handle on what the bad guy's motivations even were. When you don't even know what the point of the Culling Game is, then of course all the fighting is going to feel weightless.
It's to be seen if like her original inspiration she'll have a change of heart at the last moment.
I agree that it looks like they're positioning Earth + what remains of Jeturk to be the protagonist faction.
I saw some notes on That Website We Don't Link To that suggested it was originally intended to be a love story between two female characters, but executives shot the idea down. That could have been an interesting change.
You are in a military academy branch for code breakers. You are literally training yourselves for war. Why are you talking about cheating and playing fair as if all this was just a game and not preparing you for how you need to think regarding information warfare.
Anonymity is the only one who, as far as I can tell, is actually treating this whole set up as the prelude for what they’re training to be
Character motivation spoilers. Don't read if you haven't seen this.
The other big black cat is the second Keystone they talked about. It failed to prevent the entire worm from escaping in Tokyo, but it is a good boy and follows along to help them. I assume it is a more negative keystone as there's a strong duality balance in most Japanese cultural stories involving this kind of sealing or pairs of things, hence why it influenced the aunt to say those things, but I don't think it's deliberately bad. It was the cat that rocked up outside Souta's grandfather's hospital window, when he told it that it wants to help. So it follows along to be the second keystone needed to seal the worm. As does smol cat.
They're both gods (kami), neither really have standard human motivations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_the_Left
The Minister of the Right (Udaijin) is the Sadaijin's deputy, which is probably why Sadaijin is the bigger cat dominating the smol cat with licks. If that is the reference, the implication is that these keystones have been sealing this worm for at least 1300 years, with the worm occasionally escaping and being resealed again. (Such as, for example, being heavily implied to have caused the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo in 1923, which grandad was probably around for and probably saw Saidaijin at the time.) I suspect the implication is that it's been even longer, but who knows if there were other keystones.
That earthquake hangs heavily over the movie. Not only does the worm clearly represent a mushroom cloud, there is a deeply rooted fear in Japan that an earthquake as strong as the Great Kanto earthquake may hit Tokyo (or another major populated city) once again. So it's the shadows of two apocalpyses hanging over the city when Suzume is forced to slam Souta in. Hence all the focus on the everyday life of the city that will be obliterated.
Interesting.
Follow up questions; don't read if you haven't watched Suzume yet!
So does it matter that keystones were used on the Worm in the Everafter? Is that how that is normally used, or does that represent a change in the system going forward? And is there a special reason why Suzume's gate is the only one people can physically enter? Is it just the implications of the devastation of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami?
As for why that door, I don't have any easily available reference to guess at the answer. I suspect it's symbolic and related to the disaster, which affected the country heavily. It probably makes mythic sense, as the worm probably does. As you can see from those warning messages, earthquakes are just part of their life and have been for their entire history.
For all this I'm just making educated guesses. This is what I meant when I can only feel a shadow of what's going on. I suspect for anyone born there the movie would range from hitting on a visceral level, to being way too blunt about it. It kinda hits you on the nose with these references. But that's how this director works.
Is he referring to subbing in his doubles to use Pharact, or is he suggesting that like, even “Elan Ceres” is a fictitious identity to protect him from something in his past?
Is the original Elan Ceres even Elan Ceres???
G-Witch(Elan)
https://apnews.com/article/suzume-anime-makato-shinkai-8bbf2ae1b1e60fee7db2ef4c05f80390
More Suzume stuff
So I guess if we’re numbering them I thought this was Elan 1
I think I’m with you on the idea that there is no “original” Elan Ceres, and that they’re all basically test subjects for Permet research (it should be noted too “Enhanced Person” is the term for anyone with Permet augmentation/infusion; so Sophie and Norea would be Enhanced Persons too, as would Eri and the other, now gone, Vanadis pilots), with varying degrees of value (presumably 1 is the largest success, and the subsequent Elans are trying to replicate it?)