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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ----------------------------------------  damn, the OSTs were awesome |
| The story is much clearer in this episode and I think it is an improvement. The transformation scenes are now available though they did not impress me a lot. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Awesome episode! And so it seems these tarot users are subject to a rather cruel fate. Having to kill people and being the only people in the world that can remember them ;_; |
Alright episode I guess, the monster sure made an appeal to me this time around. |
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| So her aunt and uncle will never remember they had a daughter? The power of the sun makes plants grow superspeed. And that line the cat said... "Now she won't die in vain"... something is up here. Even more than the obvious things. Luna is in love with Akari. Sun x Moon shipping. Seira and Ginka are so mismatched in that gym class. So Akari couldn't bring herself to fight and ran away? But the people who run this thing seem fine with that. And she runs straight into another enemy. The choice: placidly bear witness to all the attacks knowing that you could do something about them, or fight them, knowing that in doing so you are killing people all the time |
| There is no such thing as shit taste. Only idiots who think everyone should have the same taste as they do. |
| Those "Daemonia" in combination with that organization remind me of Pandora Hearts. |
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| I wonder if "Sun" card will have ability to "cleanse" souls.. So she wont have to kill nonstop? Oh well.. this anime is really weird xD It feels like watching Koerean mmorpg fully animated with really dark theme xD Oh well anime is really fun ^^. I always welcome dark, cruel, unique, bloody anime.. since they dying off -.- (mostly cuz of annoying law that Japan has set..) I mean I would to love seeing Corpse Party and Cage Of Eden fully animated |
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| 21 Elemental Tarot users? So the Fool is missing? |
| I don't trust the talking animals. Always expecting another QB behind them...  Also, I too ship sun&moon =) But my REAL love here are... the tendo sisters \o/ |
| I want Rambo in a mecha-suit with a laser-chainsaw gun that fires nuclear warheads, fighting the love-child of Predator, Alien, a group of Bangladeshi terrorists, and Satan. (Actually that would be a pretty sick show) - StopDropAndBowl |
| Alright episode. It's nice to see them still making things dark. It's just hard to care for some of these scenes though. |
| My Anime Blog: http://www.Entravity.com/ Episodic overviews of the latest anime. |
| Sucks that her aunt doesn't even remember her own daughter. Interested to see what the other tarot abilites are like. |
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| So she does remember her cousin but It's awful how no one else does. Wordsmith said: But my REAL love here are... the tendo sisters o/ They are extra cute. Moar Tendo sisters plz. |
| great episode... so it is clear how she forgot her cousin in episode 1... it is getting interesting and dark... xD |
| Akari's transformation is more drastic than the others, is it just because she's the MC? Not that I mind that much, she's cooler when she transforms anyways. A lot of battle cries in the battle scene. Still looks pretty interesting, though it's not like it's the first time I've seen the whole monster being humans thing. |
| 2nd episode not much better, but still like the animation |
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| I was hoping for great things from this anime but after seeing the second episode, I'm not sure I like it. The pacing felt incredibly off, as if they were rushing to animate as much as they could into this single episode. |
| Go ***k yourself. Polite as usual, lightXTC |
| Another good episode. It cleared some things out for me. It seems like their personalities somewhat change when they transform. The battle scene was not bad and their powers look interesting. |
| Magical girls forced to murder people. This is for me. |
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| well, i guess i liked how the story is much clearer in the 2nd episode... |
| good episode, digging the OP alot |
| That was a good episode, answered a lot of questions from the previous episodes, but... Did I miss something? Why did the day repeat itself? Were we just seeing the fact that their memories were altered so that Fuyuna never existed? If that was the case, they could have done it in a better way, than repeating a day because that just made it confusing. It lead me to think that everytime they defeat the Daemonia (is this what they're called?) the day repeats itself due to the existence of the person being erased. They could have made her wake up the next morning, with no trace of memories within anyone about Fuyuna rather than repeating that day. Oh well, besides that, it was a good episode. |
UtsukushiiYume said: That was a good episode, answered a lot of questions from the previous episodes, but... Did I miss something? Why did the day repeat itself? Were we just seeing the fact that their memories were altered so that Fuyuna never existed? If that was the case, they could have done it in a better way, than repeating a day because that just made it confusing. It lead me to think that everytime they defeat the Daemonia (is this what they're called?) the day repeats itself due to the existence of the person being erased. They could have made her wake up the next morning, with no trace of memories within anyone about Fuyuna rather than repeating that day. Oh well, besides that, it was a good episode. Huh? I recall it saying they were wiped from the world's existence. |
vampko said: UtsukushiiYume said: That was a good episode, answered a lot of questions from the previous episodes, but... Did I miss something? Why did the day repeat itself? Were we just seeing the fact that their memories were altered so that Fuyuna never existed? If that was the case, they could have done it in a better way, than repeating a day because that just made it confusing. It lead me to think that everytime they defeat the Daemonia (is this what they're called?) the day repeats itself due to the existence of the person being erased. They could have made her wake up the next morning, with no trace of memories within anyone about Fuyuna rather than repeating that day. Oh well, besides that, it was a good episode. Huh? I recall it saying they were wiped from the world's existence. Their memories were altered so that her existence was, essentially, wiped. That's basically it. skudoops said: UtsukushiiYume said: That was a good episode, answered a lot of questions from the previous episodes, but... Did I miss something? Why did the day repeat itself? Were we just seeing the fact that their memories were altered so that Fuyuna never existed? If that was the case, they could have done it in a better way, than repeating a day because that just made it confusing. It lead me to think that everytime they defeat the Daemonia (is this what they're called?) the day repeats itself due to the existence of the person being erased. They could have made her wake up the next morning, with no trace of memories within anyone about Fuyuna rather than repeating that day. Oh well, besides that, it was a good episode. The day didn't repeat itself, what we saw was her memory being altered. Ah, I thought so. Well like I said, I feel like they could have done that in a more effective day rather than making it seem like the day repeated itself. |
| Hahaha. "People suffering is awful so I want to fight!" "Yeah, about that - we actually kill the people, sweetie." Reverse Madoka reference with granting wishes for a contract. Minor Nanoha reference. "Tsuki no kado, onegai!" This is definitely stylistically cutesy but somehow I feel like it works. Definitely it's own thing in terms of style. |
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| Looking at the art especially this episode it gave me the impression of the Black rock Shooter OVA which was set in a similar type of world. The story is dark not only do they kill a person they erase their entire existence the only ones that knew they existed are the girls. Quite a cruel fate indeed it's no wonder Akari's mother didn't want her to enter such a business. |
| The first half of the episode was kind of slow but it I liked that scene at the start of the mission with the weird mechanical room and vortex thing. I don't really like the character designs though since it seems a little weird how most of the girls' hair is bigger than their bodies. |
| Wow just wow!!! The girls have to fight even though they are killing humans(Daemonia). The burden they carry T___T. Poor Akari. I already don't like the raven and cat |
| yay a talking cat and raven. dont think past talking versions of those were good haha this series aint letting up on grim sounding titles either expecting tarot holders to turn to witches too. anyone else? |
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| did all of them kill someone precious to them? |
| What bothered me was their tarot to elemental abilities. Akari's element is the only one who seems to match her tarot. Seira should have been Moon IMO. |
xin09 said: did all of them kill someone precious to them? I don't think so. The dead guy at the end was the dragon they were fighting. Since they all grew up knowing about the Tarot Cards their experience was different. |
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| Pretty good episode. |
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| new madoka-like plot-twist incoming! |
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| I am really loving this show. Another great epiosde |
lightXTC said: I was hoping for great things from this anime but after seeing the second episode, I'm not sure I like it. The pacing felt incredibly off, as if they were rushing to animate as much as they could into this single episode. I agree with you. As much as I totally dig the artstyle and tarot cards, the pacing and direction of this episode was a little suspect. Scenes either felt too short, with missing details, or too long, with no meaningful things being discussed in that time. However, I really felt they dropped the ball on the dark reveal. The fact that killing Daemonica means killing the person was poorly presented. Not only was it presented in passing as a sort of fact of the magical system, they really tried too hard to leverage Fuyuna's death, so much that it ended up being a little cheesy. Not only was the relationship between Fuyuna and Akari basically not developed at all before they decided to write her off, they took it into overdrive with Akari saying that she's rather die that kill her mutated cousin. If you really think about it, this reveal isn't even really morally ambiguous... I still dig the artystyle though, so I'm sitting this through. However, I'm not convinced this anime will deliver on the story side of things. Favourite is easy Sena, followed closely by Ginka. I'm sure they'll explain it, but when Akari transforms, she basically becomes a totally different character... It bothers me. Finally, please don't let this be monster of the week. underoath777 said: new madoka-like plot-twist incoming! Already revealed. Their role is to kill Daemonica, which incidently means they will kill the person as well. The only mystery left is Akari's mother, who probably just died to a Daemonica. Please stop comparing this to Madoka. You are only setting yourself up for disappointment. baka_epicz said: damn, the OSTs were awesome This and the art direction will bring me back each week. Although, the girls are a little too stick figured for my liking this episode. ___________________________________________ Ginka - Tank Luna - Healer/Disabler Akari - Melee DPS Sena - Ranged DPS |
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| The ending's probably something along the lines of MC sacrifices life the the good of tomorrow. Daemonias still exist. |
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Danyn said: The ending's probably something along the lines of MC sacrifices life the the good of tomorrow. Daemonias still exist. Madoka references... where they aren't even appropriate. Mahou shoujo's aren't even the ones making the wishes in this anime... so this doesn't even work.... |
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Omniknight said: lightXTC said: I was hoping for great things from this anime but after seeing the second episode, I'm not sure I like it. The pacing felt incredibly off, as if they were rushing to animate as much as they could into this single episode. I agree with you. As much as I totally dig the artstyle and tarot cards, the pacing and direction of this episode was a little suspect. Scenes either felt too short, with missing details, or too long, with no meaningful things being discussed in that time. However, I really felt they dropped the ball on the dark reveal. The fact that killing Daemonica means killing the person was poorly presented. Not only was it presented in passing as a sort of fact of the magical system, they really tried too hard to leverage Fuyuna's death, so much that it ended up being a little cheesy. Not only was the relationship between Fuyuna and Akari basically not developed at all before they decided to write her off I've heard something similar before on something, and I dont' understand why every relationship with one's close family has to be developed first. I felt for Akari extremely when she went through that. I understand what it means to have a cousin you're close to. I didn't need the show to waste time on explaining that just to have her die. Can't some relationships just be implied? Why does everything have to have buildup? There's only so much time thy get to run with the show, so they can't sit there and be a super expository of information. Fuyuna was a plot device to show Akari the horrors of what being a Tarot user are. If they had taken episodes to show more of the relationshp, then that would have meant even more time waiting for Akari to become a magical girl. Which would just be dragging the show out. The point of this show is not to debate whether or not Akari should become a magical girl (unlike a different series that people keep on comparing this to for some reason). I can't really say what the show's aim is just yet, but I know that's not the point. I applaud them for not wasting time on something which is a small (but still very important) plot point. |
| Madoka made in China? Haha. And is not that the anime is getting to me please? Although the theme is not the best, the weather is getting involved, the characters are at least sympathetic, and excellent soundtrack. There is an anime for everyone to love, but it is watchable, hopefully a bit better in dramas involving characters, which seems to be the focus of the anime. Incidentally, the crow was the best character in the episode 8D |
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| "death won't be in vain", the second I read that, I was thinking (maybe even said out loud) "wait what?!?!?" Aside from that, that OST man, I'm loving it! Definitely sticking with this series all the way. |
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