Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri Episode 6 Discussion

ZetaZaku said:
Gate is the best example of how not to make a show. One sided slaughters just aren't entertaining to watch, especially if it's people blasting bandits with missiles. It was just dumb and badly directed (all those shitty cuts).

BUT, at least the episode was funny bad, unlike previous ones that were just boring.

Comander-07 said:
This is like the best anime season I have wittnessed.

without a doubt best episode in Anime history.
Rory, goddess of Loli and War, was really going crazy.
SDF played Wagner while attacking with helis.

Yes, yes I can die in peace now.

(for me Rory has won the battle for "waifu of the season" but it was weird that she punched itami, especially after the "very tight fit" episode.. I thaught she would make a dirty joke or something lol, I was wrong)

Jonny_Mhl said:
My issue is the hypocrisy passed in some points of Gate and not with the series itself, this episode has 2 strong points in this: First they shoot at the soldiers inside the city even when they stopped fighting

Jonny_Mhl said:
and the second is I still can't figure out why Kurebayashi rushed alone with a bayonet into the crowd when she picks on Itami about his behaviours even when he is a far superior not only in rank but also in experience.

HELLSATAN said:
But damn that was awesome why wasn't the first episode like this

katsu044 said:
"Overkill? JSD doesn't know the meaning of overkill!"

katsu044 said:
those knights done fucked up,kinda annoying the way they set it up though

ZetaZaku said:
One sided slaughters just aren't entertaining to watch

Takuan_Soho said:


This first episode was fine, you forget that this show is being aimed at a wider audience than just the manga readers. As a former non-reader, I can assure you that the first episode did its job.

But to answer your question, this episode was easier to animate. We now know the characters, so now they can show pure action without the need for exposition. The first had that huge handicap hanging over them.

I would also guess that they saved their budget for this episode. Prudent decision, it will make the 3rd BD a better seller, particularly if they add some small scenes, so they injected some enthusiasm just when in most shows, it begins to wane. One thing I have noticed from the first episode is that the writer(s) obviously read ahead, and they knew this was coming and that it was important to nail it. They did.

katsu044 said:
after watching the psycho pass movie kinda glad the gore was kept PG lol couldn't handle seeing so many people get shredded to pieces so soon already.



"Overkill? JSD doesn't know the meaning of overkill!"

those knights done fucked up,kinda annoying the way they set it up though

Takuan_Soho said:


Your first comment is just a segue into something I thought about. People say that this is boring because the JSDF is so OP to roman era armies. The funny thing is that they would be OP to MODERN armies (outside of the US, Russia, China, Australia, and several European countries) as well. Technology is that much of a game changer. Nuclear weapons aside, the US military would wax any country's military, including China and Russia (and the JDSF), almost as easily as the JDSF did in the Empire's armies and allies.

The difference though comes with the occupation. In asymmetrical warfare technology, currently, is not as OP, so if their was a coordinated guerrilla campaign the Empire could damage and even perhaps beat the JDSF (Vietnam defeating the US, though this was because the US really didn't want to conquer Vietnam, the JSDF really doesn't want to conquer the fantasy world either). But as will be later explained , this will not happen.


Aristocracy would be that annoying. Their sense of privilege, once reading history makes one truly understand it, makes even Communism seem reasonable. Japan still has a bit of romantic feeling towards Aristocracy because they still have an emperor, but honestly, had I lived under such a system (assuming, as would have been the norm except in fantasizing, that I would not have been so privileged), I would have chopped the head off of Marie Antoinette or shot down the Czar's family gleefully. Disney aside, royalty deserves nothing less.

zerorequiem_ said:
God, Rory is too damn alluring.

Pat_To_Do-List said:
I understand that the song the soldiers played when they're in the helicopters was a reference, but that's a bit weird. I mean, why did they have to play that song with a huge sound system? It felt like it was there for the sake of reference & nothing more. It's not well-integrated to the story itself.

Takuan_Soho said:


They hadn't stopped fighting, they were a bit in shock because of the helicopter, but they hadn't stopped fighting (as the various scenes showing their leaders calling for regrouping). What they had done was to form a shield wall, those are not only used for defense but also for offense. That they were lining up showed that they were not going to surrender.



Don't forget that the JSDF doesn't fight in the real world (being restricted to just Japan), so Itami doesn't have more combat experience than Kurebayshi, indeed she probably does have more (and her bayonet is attached to a machine gun), also remember that Itami ordered her to stay with Rori, so she is just obeying his order. But keep your points in mind because the writer WANTS you to think what you did because it becomes a great joke about two episodes from now.

oldskoolpunk said:


You were saying?

entropy13 said:
It has become tradition. Just with that it's already "well-integrated".

When the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment crossed the Iraq-Saudi border during the First Gulf War, they had M1 Abrams and M2 Bradley's playing the same song.

HELLSATAN said:
I seriously want a remake of the first episode.

greed2 said:
I kind of laughed when that soldier literally started the music, ride of the valkyries, as if that would ever happen in an actual military mission.

SNaG21 said:
First of all: Can any of you take the name "Pina Co Lada" remotely seriously?

Second: These split screens are fucking atrocious looking. Who the fuck thought these ugly things would be a good idea?

Other than that, great episode, but these split screens are agonizing.

llcruz said:
Couldn't they just go back at the end? They didn't need to leave him behind.

Jonny_Mhl said:
Well looks like all the Gate ''fights'' will be one-sided until the end. I can't call this a fight, it's a total one-sided massacre and I really hope this change in the next episodes.

3/5

Edit: loled at the choppers theme.

ZetaZaku said:
Gate is the best example of how not to make a show. One sided slaughters just aren't entertaining to watch, especially if it's people blasting bandits with missiles. It was just dumb and badly directed (all those shitty cuts).

BUT, at least the episode was funny bad, unlike previous ones that were just boring.

hinore said:


That ruined the LN for me. You don't leave your buddy behind with the enemy.

You kill everyone to free your friend and don't run, and this was supposedly written by an ex-JGSDF soldier. Maybe that's why he's ex: he's a coward.

I can't believe any soldier would ever allow that to happen.

19Pyro90 said:


I think she punched itami for his ignorance. He was grabbing her chest but when she looked at him he looked back like he didnt realise what he was holding ( shes a loli of course he doesnt feel anything) so she got offended by him not acknowledging her chest. pretty common in anime you see it at least 5 times a season especially in anime with a lot of small chested women

Genix said:


How is that a good thing?! Why do some people hate fansevice? Now I feel like reading the manga more lol

Also, @hinore:

Dude, it's called diplomacy. Building good relations with the locals would move more along their agenda. Didn't you see how the public reacted back home in Japan when news about the Fire Drake's slaughtering of the elf village? They pointed fingers at the Army for over use of force.