@Piromysl
"I came here seeking answer why people keep watching show, that decided not to progress or improve past episode 3-4."
OK. here's my answers. you don't know what you're talking about. progress?
i'll start with the lines above. progress, what kind of progress? emotional? dude is a 'robot' with only one central emotional pillar in his entire brain. his sister.
he doesn't even hate his OWN MOTHER for experimenting on him. he doesn't even hate his OWN AUNT for controlling him and his sister. he doesn't even hate his OWN STEP-MOTHER or FATHER for getting married SIX MONTHS AFTER HIS MOTHER DIED! he doesn't even hate his own COUNTRY FOR TURNING HIM INTO A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION! he was PROGRAMMED that way.
it is not until Visitor Arc that his sister HERSELF tells him he is changing and becoming more 'human' over the YEARS she has known him, especially with their 'circle of friends'. he did not even REALIZE he was becoming more emotional.
in Visitor Arc, on the roof, on the bench, did you SEE Honoka, the cute light/illusion mage girl cuddling with Tatsuya and Myuki sitting next to the pair. the guy's progress emotionally has taken DECADES of his life since he was programmed.
do you mean forwards progress on a timeline? they start in the Spring and end up after October 31st. in S1. S2 goes forwards in time.
do you need to watch the brand-new English version of S1 that Aniplex of America released recently?
his 'super skill' as his own sister explains to some of their friends, in the military helicopter escaping the combat zone in S1. this skill, to read the past of any object alive or inanimate and copy that past and rewrite it onto the present existence of that object. in less than 3 MILLISECONDS he feels 150 TIMES what that injured PERSON felt in those entire 24 hours he can read of that person.
so. how many of his dead unit members does he bring back to life in that one 'Incident Arc'? how many of those dead comrades of his does he bring back to life MORE THAN ONCE!? imagine his classmate, gets his leg amputated at the thigh, the swordsman guy, by a gunshot. within minutes Miyuki summons Tatsuya outta the sky and he 'zaps' the dude back to 100% okey-dokey. your thigh bone, is the thickest and strongest bone in your entire body. dude's leg was SEVERED at the mid-thigh. so take those minutes worth of pain, multiply that by 150, feel that for a little less than 3 milliseconds. he does that without: passing TF out, grunting, blinking, flinching, screaming, pissing himself, going into shock, or reacting in any way.
that's not a 'robot' to you? it is to me.
"Two main leads go through little to no character development throughout the series, because they are already perfect in every shape or form."
they are perfect? wow. look that word up in a dictionary and make sure you know what it means. they aren't.
"Do you guys really enjoy empty shell of a character, that acts predictable and always solves every issue with no effort whatsoever, which completely nullifies all tension and makes the entire show boring?"
no effort. what? did you sleep through the entire 'Nine Schools Competition Arc'? did you not listen to Tatsuya list the injuries he got when that 3rd High guy BLEW HIM TF UP!? in Monolith Code? in real life, in Baghdad, Iraq i was blown up TWICE during my tour. it. hurts. like. HELL! ever ruptured an ear-drum? i have, one of those two times i got blown TF up! he didn't heal that one. he walks off the field with his two partners STILL deaf in that ear. ok his buddy, the 'Panzer!' screaming guy. for comparison. in the same fight talks about that 3rd High guy BLOWING HIM UP! more than once. and says, 'it wasn't exactly worse than that one time I GOT HIT BY A MOTORCYCLE!' ok. dude exactly gives us how powerful the 3rd High guy's explosions were... WHEN THEY WERE UNDER CONTROL and at a low level for the competition. did you not hear the 3rd High guy's internal monologue? 'oh crap, i didn't adjust that one!? i'm going to KILL HIM!?' he thought that was a killer level of his explosion he used on Tatsuya. so. if a low level version of that spell feels like being hit by a motorcycle... what would a KILLER level version feel like?
ok. no effort there right?
"Are you guys really enjoying watching this, knowing exactly what will happen next episode without spoilers?"
can you see the future? otherwise, STF about knowing exactly what will happen next episode. you can't know the dialogue, you can't know the cinematography, you can't know what the order of the scenes are. so unless you were first watching this show days or WEEKS after each episode aired, with a spoiler filled blog by somebody at your side on your phone or laptop or something... you. didn't. know. crap! and you're just puffing yourself up to seem smarter than you ever were in the past.
did you read the light novels?? before. you. watched. the show? did you have a highlighter or a pencil or something going, 'oh that's this line, and that's this line, and oh they skipped this?' marking your copies of the books? well, then i'd possibly believe you had a bit of foreknowledge about what could possibly be covered in the next episode.
"This is baffling."
nope, every 'opinion' you give is baffling. also, as to RESPECTING your opinions? nope, we don't have to. i certainly don't, because everything you've said in this thread up to this post i'm quoting has been highly misguided and entirely biased AGAINST this franchise. i only respect the opinions of people who can show they know WTF they're talking about and can back it up.
i like this franchise, because i've been watching anime since 1990 when i was 14 years old. i'm now 45 and find this franchise: VERY original and filled with interesting back-story, world-building, facts about magic which nigh on every 'urban fantasy' anime i have ever watched just kinda-sorta explains the magic and other 'stuffs', it tells an interesting story, and it looks great artistically. |