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01-17-2021, 05:41 PM | #11 |
Reiei
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Maybe it wasn't that obvious, but the characters do change over the course of the show. Ogami used to bring his son into battle, and now he doesn't. This is likely just one of these changes, he pulls back after he immediately got wrecked by a flying sword.
There is also the fact that, unlike Dezast, Touma is or was once their ally. Maybe he wanted to pull back because he's still unsure on Touma's betrayal. Somewhat reflected on EP 17. |
01-17-2021, 05:55 PM | #12 |
Yodonna oshi
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Ah, I know, I shouldn't get upset by a show that is aimed at 5 - 10 year olds, and I realise I'm biased because I've obviously responded to Buster whereas I haven't responded to the other characters, but I just feel it's a bit of a shame, you know, especially as Kiramager manages to handle its characters so well, and the Girls x Heroine shows are just spot on every week. I will stop rambling at you all about this, because I don't want it to seem like I'm talking down to you all for enjoying something that I'm disappointed in. |
01-17-2021, 08:32 PM | #13 |
Fangirl-Type Humagear
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Personally, I didn't read that scene as Buster being weak, more as him being strategic and experienced. He and three other skilled swordsmen just got beat by an enemy who appeared out of nowhere and who they've never fought before. Not to mention, that unexpected foe is helping a former SoL knight who's suspected of betraying the guild. The last time that happened was 15 years ago, in a battle which cost many SoL knights their lives. I don't think we've been told exactly how many knights died, but I'll bet it was more than four. And Buster's brave, but he's not reckless, and he's not going to drag the other three into danger when it would be smarter to retreat and try to learn more about what they're up against.
But the line itself though is kind of a cliche villain line, I'm pretty sure actual villains have said it word-for-word when they just lost a fight but the writers weren't ready to kill them off.
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01-17-2021, 08:48 PM | #14 |
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Anyway, back to the current episode, I really liked Touma's gambit of waiting for the book to be completed and then destroying it at the last second, but that would get boring if he had to do it every episode so I guess I can forgive Yuri's "oh, just cut them down with me, that will work" reveal. I figured it would be revealed that some kind of special attack was the way to save the human-Megid, and at least it's better than Zero-One where Aruto's fears of harming the humans within the Raiders amounted to nothing.
But dang, I miss seasons like W where each MotW was a puzzle as well as an enemy and part of how the riders beat them was by figuring them out. Saber showed a bit of that with Touma using his book knowledge to help in fights, but not as much as I'd like. It could've been so cool if, for example, each human-Megid had a specific weakness that would destroy them without killing the human inside, and the heroes had to figure out each one's weakness by a mix of book research and observing it in combat. But Saber is clearly focusing on the big overarching mysteries and the struggles within the SoL, so I guess they couldn't make the individual MotWs too interesting without distracting from that.
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01-17-2021, 10:26 PM | #15 |
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Random nitpick but I wish they'd have Yuri stall his Henshin sequence more, purely because I want to hear more of that standby noise of his and it's a shame he just near immediately removes the sword right after inserting the book.
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01-17-2021, 10:42 PM | #16 |
Suprise Gamma Future
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It turns out Yuri was the secondary rider all along.
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01-18-2021, 02:52 AM | #17 |
Yodonna oshi
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I really hope I don't come across as overbearing about this, I'm just excited to discuss these issues critically, even though I know that doing so is absurd as none of us are really the target audience regardless of our opinions. あああ~! maybe the forthcoming Buster spin off manga is designed to shut up old people like me, lol. |
01-18-2021, 08:39 AM | #18 |
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I still find it extremely ironic that Kenzan, an impulsive person who thinks more with his blade than his brain, is a member of the Sword of Logos ('logos' referring to the persuasive technique that relies on logic and reason).
I bet he's the type of guy who can't be bothered reading a book for his school project and just looks up the plot summaries online.
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01-18-2021, 08:56 AM | #19 |
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Watched 17 and 18 back to back and it was cool.
Not my favs episode but I like what they did with Yuri being a fish out of the water from 1000 years ago. What I didn't like is that patient of the week trope being back coupled to the 2-parter though. I find it slow and boring after the 4th fight vs the same opponents. But now that they established how to separate a human and megid i hope it won't take 2 episodes all the time. |
01-18-2021, 07:27 PM | #20 |
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I still find it extremely ironic that Kenzan, an impulsive person who thinks more with his blade than his brain, is a member of the Sword of Logos ('logos' referring to the persuasive technique that relies on logic and reason).
I bet he's the type of guy who can't be bothered reading a book for his school project and just looks up the plot summaries online.
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