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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Wait... so he's not your guy in those 2 shows? I thought he is based on your jumped reactions of him returning to the shows.

Nah, but it's always fun to see a returning actor. For me, anyway. I like the Everyone's In Everything nature of casting on these shows, how you can't choose an actor at random without them having been in at least four different toku series. I think that's neat!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I'd actually expect similar reaction of what you did to Saya from Faiz... or Yuka at first, which I want to explain about louder eccentric isn't the sole way of acting (and having only that as your trait is equally one-noted) and those that aren't like that is cited as bad acting, monotone as in unable to emote (I've seen Hiyori's getting that as a flak), and bad acting or "no personality", which is just a lazy and egocentric view of people and a very superficial judgement.

Everyone's going to have their own reactions to art, but I feel like anyone who'd write off Hiyori at this point just isn't paying attention to her acting? There's a lot of specificity to her performance, where it seems like every time she opens her mouth to talk she's terrified she's just going to start crying and never stop; or how she desperately wants to be reassured, but she's convinced she's got no one looking out for her. It's... she's doing something with this part, and it keeps Hiyori from ever being a character that lacks personality.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Other than that, how would you compare this series' Truegami to usual "monster of the week" characters?

Poorly? The thing with a monster-of-the-week plot is that, even if it's random and repetitive (the monster just keeps showing up and murdering people), that's okay because a lot of these monsters are animals. The Worm in this one isn't the problem, because it doesn't need (at this point in the arc) to have a multifaceted goal.

The problem is that Truegami does, but his method for achieving it is nonsensical. The only way it works if ZECT can predict, with 100% accuracy, when and where the Worm is going to strike. That is something they've never ever ever shown an ability to do. Also, it requires the Worm to show up someplace, kill one person, and then leave. In almost all of their previous appearances, the Worm show up in groups, and the potential for mass casualties (if the Worm moved to a large population center) is high. Here, it requires the Worm to have no particular goal or hurry, and for ZECT to be practically prescient. It's a ton of things that have to break Truegami's way for the trap to have any chance of working, and that's not great writing.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Wut?? Sally?? Name's Yumiko Takemiya.

Sometimes there are jokes!