Takt Op. Destiny Episode 5 Discussion

Goated_Weeb526 said:
Do the incidents in this episode take place after the incidents of Episode 1 or it's still flashback???

Kamisa88 said:
ep 2 3 4 is flashback, ep 5 is after ep 1, kinda lmao but you get the point

SSL443 said:
Actually an episode with some plot, but the quality of the writing still has mobile game spelled out all over it.

For some reason Felix is a mustache-twirling caricature with an affected personality, in place of actually being an interesting character with some depth. Meanwhile, Anna and Takt are shocked that he refers to Destiny as a weapon, despite the fact that this was already implicit from prior events in the story. This creates a sense of fake tension in the scene that is manufactured and has no actual basis in the plot. From their point of view, there is no reason to view the exchange as confrontational, aside from Felix's cartoonishly sinister demeanor. But their negative reaction is necessary in order to create a plot point leading to Felix becoming a minor antagonist, so it gets shoe-horned in with minimal justification.

In a nutshell, the scene on the train is yet another demonstration of bad writing. Characters lack the depth to be either interesting, or to provide other characters with the necessary motivations to advance the plot. We as the audience are "told" Felix is bad, instead of being shown him actually doing something motivated and logical to demonstrate his character. As a result, the reaction of Takt's group makes no sense in context of the evidence presented by the narrative. This is weak storytelling.

The other new characters are more or less one-dimensional caricatures as well, which is not surprising. These are the types of characters that would be expected in a game of this caliber. Valkyrie is a tsundere guys, did you get it? Wow, I sure can't wait to pull for her when the game finally comes out. The main cast of course has had zero character development since the first or second episode. Takt is if anything even more of a bratty diva, but that hardly counts as "development."

As for the action, no change there. No effort to do anything with the music premise, and no effort to elevate the action beyond what would be expected from a level in a cheap video game. In this episode, the bad writing even bleeds into the action, culminating with Takt's brilliant move to drop a small cliff on enemies that can, you know, fly. Leaving aside the fact that this makes no sense, this simple idea is somehow missed by everyone else in a shaky attempt to paint Takt as some kind of tactical genius.

The animation has become extremely repetitive at this point. Destiny jumps up in the air, shoots her gun, and then lands. It's boring and uninspired, but I'm sure a bunch of people who have never seen anime before will continue to think this constitutes "amazing" animation.

Anyway, this is probably where I drop the show. The quality has stabilized at a predictably low level, and nothing is really changing or developing on that front. With only seven episodes remaining, it seems every unlikely that anything particularly interesting or revelatory with happen, given how shockingly little world-building has taken place so far. Not surprising given that this show is pretty much just bait for the game.

Final conclusion: this show is embarrassingly bad, and only has buzz around it because of studio clout and the concordantly flashy animation.

error5000 said:
I suppose "inferno" is a reference to offenbach's infernal galop...? can someone enlight me there?

Nigwol said:

I think it can be reference to "HELL AND HEAVEN" Symphony nº1 by Oscar Navarro... just because there is another musicart with name "heaven" listed at fandom wiki page, and she also with unlisted "origin"/"basis" (same as "hell")...
So may be they just split one composition name in to two characters... may be just because it is kinda dum to give one character name "hell and heaven", especially considering opposite nature of both parts of the name

PS: also sound when she equips her "wheels" are pretty similar to sound that you can hear in one of the parts of that symphony

SSL443 said:
Actually an episode with some plot, but the quality of the writing still has mobile game spelled out all over it.

For some reason Felix is a mustache-twirling caricature with an affected personality, in place of actually being an interesting character with some depth. Meanwhile, Anna and Takt are shocked that he refers to Destiny as a weapon, despite the fact that this was already implicit from prior events in the story. This creates a sense of fake tension in the scene that is manufactured and has no actual basis in the plot. From their point of view, there is no reason to view the exchange as confrontational, aside from Felix's cartoonishly sinister demeanor. But their negative reaction is necessary in order to create a plot point leading to Felix becoming a minor antagonist, so it gets shoe-horned in with minimal justification.

In a nutshell, the scene on the train is yet another demonstration of bad writing. Characters lack the depth to be either interesting, or to provide other characters with the necessary motivations to advance the plot. We as the audience are "told" Felix is bad, instead of being shown him actually doing something motivated and logical to demonstrate his character. As a result, the reaction of Takt's group makes no sense in context of the evidence presented by the narrative. This is weak storytelling.

The other new characters are more or less one-dimensional caricatures as well, which is not surprising. These are the types of characters that would be expected in a game of this caliber. Valkyrie is a tsundere guys, did you get it? Wow, I sure can't wait to pull for her when the game finally comes out. The main cast of course has had zero character development since the first or second episode. Takt is if anything even more of a bratty diva, but that hardly counts as "development."

As for the action, no change there. No effort to do anything with the music premise, and no effort to elevate the action beyond what would be expected from a level in a cheap video game. In this episode, the bad writing even bleeds into the action, culminating with Takt's brilliant move to drop a small cliff on enemies that can, you know, fly. Leaving aside the fact that this makes no sense, this simple idea is somehow missed by everyone else in a shaky attempt to paint Takt as some kind of tactical genius.

The animation has become extremely repetitive at this point. Destiny jumps up in the air, shoots her gun, and then lands. It's boring and uninspired, but I'm sure a bunch of people who have never seen anime before will continue to think this constitutes "amazing" animation.

Anyway, this is probably where I drop the show. The quality has stabilized at a predictably low level, and nothing is really changing or developing on that front. With only seven episodes remaining, it seems every unlikely that anything particularly interesting or revelatory with happen, given how shockingly little world-building has taken place so far. Not surprising given that this show is pretty much just bait for the game.

Final conclusion: this show is embarrassingly bad, and only has buzz around it because of studio clout and the concordantly flashy animation.