I'm guilty of just wanting another Code Geass series to emerge.Quote:
Originally Posted by KrayZ33
My guess is Tatsuya will have to step out from his engineering role and compete to save the day for FHS.
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I'm guilty of just wanting another Code Geass series to emerge.Quote:
Originally Posted by KrayZ33
My guess is Tatsuya will have to step out from his engineering role and compete to save the day for FHS.
It sounded like he'd demolish the Male Pillar Breaking if he just used one of this military class spells.Quote:
Originally Posted by lelouch
Well I suppose thing there is to tell is Mari's strength is in multi-casting as opposed to single-spell ownage that is easily seen with the others. I see this as a sports competition of sorts so surfing really isn't a problem for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by ryll
By comparison, not knowing how Mayumi's magic works is nothing compared to not knowing how Tatsuya gets to use wallhacks.
And so they organize this event to make the students of the other schools, especially those below the first two (since I'd initially assume Suzaku goes to the second. Maybe it was even told, but I don't remember), to feel even more miserable? I don't really see how the student council president, who doesn't seem like an evil person based on her behavior in earlier eps, would enjoy competing against people as weak as her opponents were. She should feel embarrassed afterwards. It was like a pro going all out against an amateur or an adult against a child.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
But I suppose if Suzaku makes a dark horse of some lower school, it could shake the system a bit. As hard as it would be to cheer somebody looking like him, I still hope he will make the 1st school suffer as much as possible. Maybe he even has a few friends who can do the same!
That's the problem. It most definitely is not a sports competition, hasn't been portrayed that way, and most of the other events have clear military applications.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
These are military schools. Spies from other nations watching this (and I'm sure they are) are meant to get a feel on how strong Japan is, and how strong they will be in the near future.
It's still a sports competition. There are no military contests worth mentioning (unless you count wars as such). They are competing with their skills, agility, strength, and stamina. If that's not a sports competition, I don't know what is. Clearly this is not a lan party where dudes like Tatsuya would be sitting in front of computer terminals competing in who can reprogram devices the fastest. Instead we have people competing very much physically (and mentally in a very physically taxing way) and the support working to make sure the equipment is in perfect shape, just like in winter olympics.
The Olympics (except maybe the biathlon and Modern pentathlon) don't have events simulating rapidly firing at a normally overwhelming number of targets, smashing/defending building supports or other targets before your opponent can do the same, Miyuki's event of slashing at mid-air targets (seen in eps 8) and...surfboard race.
One of those events is out of place.
Come on, you aren't that stiff. The first (modern) olympics didn't have all the sports they have these days, either, and had others not present now. I imagine 50 years from now something might have changed as well. Obviously these mages have the kind of activity that suit mages. They aren't normal athletes so it would be stupid to make them compete (only) in the kind of events familiar to us. Also, olympics have lots of shooting sports. In the first place I mentioned winter olympics only to demonstrate how big sport events have the athletes themselves and then the background support personnel, because that's exactly what we have here as well.
The surfboard race isn't out of place at all in my opinion. Even if the events in general were reflecting some skills of military potential, it's still not so weird, especially in a place like Japan with lots of water. Especially when nobody but Tatsuya ever invested two thoughts in flying. Grab a piece of whatever and cross water at high speed. Seems handy.
HS - Episode 12 480p
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Flustered Mari.. <3
The Active Air Mine was so overpowering, I can see how it's anticlimatic. I guess some would argue the same about this show.
The funniest thing here is watching Tatsuya's "harem" develop with Miyuki's approval.
On a less positive note though... noticing broken ribs then telling paramedics what to do? Does battle experience play into this? Or does his X-ray vision extend to clothes/bodies as well? Wonder if Miyuki knows about this :P
I don't think he really needed to tell paramedics, that is, professionals, anything, but I suppose it's possible he arrived first and being so full of himself he naturally instructed them. Just like the advices everybody.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Pretty funny it's once again all up to Tatsuya to undercover foul play. The organizers and the hired professionals monitoring the events are doing nothing, as expected. The only one who can do anything is Tatsuya. While he's also checking everybody's equipment and even building them totally new ones. I wonder if anybody even asked the accelerating surfer girl what happened and checked her CAD. You'd think that would be the first thing to do, considering she didn't die and the device probably didn't get destroyed.
I have to say I don't remember when I last time saw as unexciting competition arc in any anime.
The hoops the author jumps through to fabricate even the semblance of a plot for this episode is astounding. He's basically fabricating tension (by the loosest definition) so Tatsuya can solve it immediately. Worse, he calls in specialists in their fields to confirm things he already knows...
How is this series popular?! There is no tension, no conflict that can't be optimally resolved by Tatsuya, and the sub-plots are ridiculous and strain plausibility.
It's times like these when I wonder, considering all of the shit anime that comes out each season, how hard is it exactly to get your storyboard animated? I seriously think if we brainstormed here on GW on a storyline for an anime, it would be better than most of the shit that comes out each season lately.
Mahouka is based on a popular series of light novels, like great many other anime. The studio is betting on the existing fanbase to be interested in the anime and, on the other hand, an anime is always a big boost for the LN sales. It's either that or a manga or a game (VN included) adaptation. Sometimes the studios try to be artistically more ambitious and animate an original story. But those are usually written, I believe, by established names in the industry. Animating foreign material is quite rare, all in all, even if you count old titles like the World Masterpiece Theater, which was a long series of foreign book adaptations.Quote:
Originally Posted by lelouch
If you have read any LN translations, you know they are very much worth the word "light". At first I didn't quite understand why in "Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou" the main dude was wondering if he could read the real novels the bookworm main girl was recommending, but then I thought back to the shitty writing LNs are so proud of and how uncomplicated most manga and anime plots are, and it all made sense. If the studios tried to animate anything decent, a big bulk of the otaku audience couldn't understand what's going on, even with all the fricking recaps and flashbacks. These folks aren't looking for a plot.
Not necessarily true. Look at the success of series like Shin Sekai Yori, Code Geass, Death Note, etc... All have very complicated plots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
Shin Sekai was based off an award winning novel (not light), Death Note was based off a popular manga, and Code Geass was an original that luckily people liked.
Some light novels are popular and already have a large fanbase, therefore guaranteeing sales, and also increases the sales of the LN after the anime comes out. Kraco is saying that LNs have sub par plots despite selling well, and honestly most of them do.
But then we have Fate Zero.
Also, a story plot can only be so complex. Execution is what matters. If you are still being surprised or entertained by plot developments or twists at this point, you have not encountered enough fiction.
arn't most LN made for kids...Quote:
How is this series popular?! There is no tension, no conflict that can't be optimally resolved by Tatsuya, and the sub-plots are ridiculous and strain plausibility.
the primary (!) audience are middle and high schoolers right? yes of course there are older people reading that stuff but thats not the target audience
its hard to guess for me what a middle schooler wants to read, in fact I'm suprised that they'd bother to read anything at all
so of course the novels are written so they can be easily understood and of course there arn't to many/deep plot twists, because thats not necessarily what a kid/young adult wants to read.
it wants a cool/funny character, a harem so it can self insert and stuff.
its probably why certain series sell well, even though we think they are ridiculous inferior to other shows/LNs
I can't really get to like this show myself, I watched it for some badass moments because the first episode looked interesting but my interest dropped pretty fast when that oni-sama bullshit kept going on and on
meh, what can I say, a kid's show meant for kids is probably not designed to fit my expectations
for this show it's like watching spongebob, I'm wating for the jokes kids won't understand
like this one Attachment 1680
even though this show has pretty much zero of that if you get what I mean... well my 2 cents
HS - Episode 13
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It's pretty funny watching these matches. Even if I don't understand all the magic, the stuff Tatsuya comes up with (be it strategies or magic) are so effective you'd want to call it cheating.
From what I gather, Tatsuya is powerful enough to dispose of his aunt but he must be in school to make connections so that he's got the peer support for when he does overrule the Yotsuba family.
I thought Suzaku knew Tatsuya already from shared history, being his eternal rival or even an enemy of some manner, but now it looks like he wasn't even aware of Tatsuya's existence before this sports event. I'm kind of disappointed, no matter how though Suzaku turns out to be. Because, if we are honest, for Tatsuya this whole championship is nothing but pastime and child's play. In other words, it would create a pretty meaningless sense of rivalry between them. So, we are left with the aunt as the ultimate opponent, and we have never even seen her nor any of her direct actions, save for Tatsuya's ambiguous situation.
HS - Episode 14
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Well finally! After all the buildup to the inevitable fact that Tatsuya will compete, he finally does. Prince and Prodigy may work well as a team, but Tatsuya can take them on himself since he excels in both their fields. That basically means First School has an extra player to use if the others are matched evenly.
I also need to see Miyuki just own the Mirage Bat contest.
What kind of scumbag tournament is this? Did Tatsuya really just take on two team members who aren't even on the team? Is there no registration process? Are the officials doing nothing about a clearly cheated scenario? What kind of fuckface crime ring bets on HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS? Do they not have college or professional in Japan?
Yeah, dropped.
I can only bother to watch one shitty, undeservedly popular, overhyped LN adaptation per season, and SAO is a masterpiece compared to this garbage.