Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite Episode 3 Discussion

Novak popping out of nowhere to harass Rafal feels so forced and out of place. At least the Simpsons made it a comical satire, in here the author couldn't give a proper reasoning for Novak to hound him after several days or even weeks had passed since their last encounter. If Novak felt he was corrupted by Hubert's teachings in episode 2, why did he wait until now to continue his hounding?

Also, do they hand out poppy seeds to heretic prisoners? I feel that they would want to avoid these priosoners to kill themselves before being tortured and burnt alive. I see no other way why would Rafal had poppy seeds in the first place. And if they plan to make it a huge ruse with a fake death later on, that's a stinkier diaper full of poo worse than the historical innacuracies.

Rafal tearing down the deal given him by the church was only lacking upbeat J-rock music to cement the shonen tropes of younguns defying the unfair status quo established by big bad mean adults. Thank god this is a seinen, am I right guys? /s



Like where?

It's not bad, but it's very average. Any knowledgeable guy that knows about animation wouldn't call it amazing. Just because they are being faithful to adapting the panels of the manga that does not equal to amazing animation.

No way. Is Rafal really dead and now we are following new characters? I loved Rafal though! He was so relatable. His struggle with doing what’s best for him vs what’s best for society was so powerful, and it resonated with me. I hope we find out he was able to survive or something, but it’s kinda cool that the theme of truth passes on from one person to another. I’m hyped for the next episode! (10/10)

I hope Gigguk, after this episode, has decided to make a video about it, because more people need to jump on the weekly. This shit is shaping itself to be legendary. Legit only a small amount of people are watching it aside from the Japanese audience (because they probably knew what was coming). It was also #1 top watched tv series on Netflix Japan beating Re Zero, Blue Box and Dandadan.

I liked the boy , probably not continuing the anime now

The level of writing of this show is really high. When I first started watching this anime, I didn't know it would be so...good. This third episode is the best one so far. I hope it continues to be this good.

Why did it take so much time between their inital meeting until Nowak went in to hound Rafal and question Potocki? If Nowak was so certain that Rafal was already in cahoots with Hubert he should have made it his top priority, specially since someone that had been involved in heresy readings/teachings could have fled town and start a new somewhere else. This feels like pretty bad forced drama.



I watched the episode carefully (I love it when fanboys think they have some sort of gotcha argument). Rafal never had any internal monologue that would state he was fearful of getting handed to the inquisitors. In fact his relationship with Potocki was pretty solid, he forgave him several times when he was disobedient of the strict rules. Potocki wasn't going to hand him anyway (specially since he was a heretic that had to recant his statements), it was all due to the forced and badly written introduction of Nowak.

I'll just humor you and will play a hypotetical scenario. You don't think that these ruthless inquisitors hadn't met another wise guy before Rafal that would have kept any suspicious belonging that would aid him into killing themselves before being tormented to death? Frisking the fresh to be tortured prisoner should had been their priority once they had him ion custody. This is as cheap as it is as contrived and pure writer's convenience as Gaby using a loosen brick to smack the only guard in a whole prison wing in Attack on Titan.




This is where you should really focus on proper reading rather than make terrible argumentations. I never said that going against the authority was a exclusively a shonen trope, I did it in a mocking way given how common it is in terms of storytelling in that demographic to shock and awe the gullible preteens and claim "that's a badass character, I wanna be like him when I grow older".



Quite the opposite. His character was established as someone that kept his head low and didn't want to get in trouble with anyone by sticking to the rules no matter how unfair they were, it was even in his very first monologues about being a crowd pleaser among the class. His sudden change and martyr role in just a few days goes against his whole character that was built upon years of societal repression.



The storyboarding is just as average as it's animation. My original point wasn't that it was important, it was that the other guy was overreacting about the quality of the animation by saying "it's accurate to the source" which is absolutely plain non sense as some sort of animation quality measurement.



The reception is just as average as the story and the animation. If the numbers of people jumped drastically after episode 3 based on MAL numbers or other viewership in other sites you would have a point, but it's really not.

It was unbelievable, they caught me off gaurd, Rafal died 😭, though I understand its pretty realistic, he was playing too dangerous, researches, theories are passed from different people and generation before they get proved, so at some point he had to die, but still..;_;

This is where your verbal diahrrea falls apart. Nowak had NO REAL EVIDENCE of Rafal being a heretic. In a cop show this would be considered hounding/fishing on just a vague hunch (because the heretic they killed lived in the same premises). Nowak did indeed feel like he had nothing better to do by suddenly telerpoting itself in the most cheap anime way into Rafal's path.



Actually you do need to give proper motivation for your characters in order to connect the dots in a story. Either use internal monologues (which are the cheaper and easiest way to brief the audience) or use proper visuals with show don't tell. Your whole argument is just as bogus as Nowak's cheap motivation on a "maybe".



This is the most nothingburger reply in order to discredit what I previosly stated. His age has nothing to do with stablishing a pattern in frisking prisoners regardless of their age. Again, if a lot of people in those times where afraid of being killed at a bonefire the normal "procedure" would be to frisk everyone before putting them in a cell. The whole point of killing people in the bonefire is moot when there's no one to kill in an exemplary manner to deter others to follow this path.

I even placed a good example of "contrived writing" with Gaby's escape in Attack on Titan which you didn't even bother to refute (because you have nothing to actaully stand on).



Fanboys aren't ready for good writing like mine, they immediately fully support bad storytelling and contrived writting just because someone popular wrote a popular manga with zero criticism from it's readers. It's even more laughable when fanboys cling to a manga just because it was published in a seinen publisher, as if bad storytelling and cheezy directing was somehow unnexistant in this demographic.

My point was exactly to ridicule the whole over the top shonen theatrics and it's even more laughable now that you have to pull out the word seinen as if that means anything to the cheesy over the top acting.



Are you even reading and processing the bullshit you're writing inside your own head? Of course we need to see the transition from a character that lived his whole life with his head down in order to survive in this world into a martyr. That is again 101 storytelling. Him being irrational doesn't add up at all, sounds like you're overthinking something that wasn't properly depicted with visuals and proper storytelling. It boils down to "lulz he's so random so anything is fully justfified".



Where are these numbers? Normally when people claim that X or Y show got a boost in viewership they provide actual evidence (link to a page with metrics). I'm sorry but this is just hogwash bullshit from you with nothing to stand on.