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You ever called a number and had a generic female voice speaking to you and attempting to use speech-recognition software on what you say?
Hoshino could sound like that lol. In fact, I'm so used to hearing that that I was basically wondering if she sounded "too human".
On a side note: Revolutionary Girl Utena is a masterpiece and I love it dearly.
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I was going to write a whole thing about how it's secretly Good, Actually but really it's basically just a completely ordinary LN adaptation. But it's basically inoffensive and does enough things adequately enough that I had a lot of fun watching it. Hiro Shimono plays the protagonist and is wonderful and moe as usual, Rie Kugimiya... does Rie Kugimiya things. The OST is sometimes great, the character designs are appealing, the animation usually looks good (well, it's Deen, so it's sometimes also not so good but... okay), and generally look and feel is solid. Overall plot and character development is mostly limited to first and last three episodes, with the middle six being episodic character introduction stuff, but it's fairly satisfying when it does happen (and the middle episodes are mostly fun anyway). Ryuuji and Rose's relationship does develop somewhat over the course of the series and it's cute. The obligatory normal girl who was in love with main character since before the start of the series... exists, but is much less doomed-to-be-eternally-unhappy than usual and the scenes with her were actually fun...
Well basically all of this is just "It's not amazing but I liked it anyway" which is basically the case, yeah. Really, it's mostly that it avoids excessive fanservice stuff, has more or less an actual plot with an ending, is kiiiiiiiiind of not really very harem-y (though maybe it technically is), etc., and while what it actually is overall is just "generic LN anime"... that's kind of okay with me? It's basically competent and imo fun so... I like it.
Wait, who are you thinking of?
I'm thinking of the two girls with the blond hair and red bows.
I have no idea what the Nisekoi one is called. Chitoge or something.
If anything Elsword is far more guilty of in medias res confusingness.
Also "In Media Res" scenarios almost never have that ridiculous an amount of "what are they on about" dumped on you at once.
That doesn't really cover everything -- obviously, we've got very little information about why the Chain Chronicle is important or why the fairy is the essence of the world or whatever -- but I figured that those things would just be revealed in due time. As well as the boy's backstory. And so on.
I mean, it's not like all stories give us a dump of the setting info right at the beginning. Keeping the audience in the dark about certain things is a thing.
Anyways, I know the Chain Chronicle TV series is just the three movies split into episodes and I can understand why they would go for the action filled opening, but it is still an affront to narrative that you can only really afford in a "we don't really care, here's some action" movie-type thing.
I'm not saying Chain Chronicle is the worst thing, but it is definitely not well done and I didn't care enough to watch more.
Now, I can't personally judge by the theater portion of their performance, but I feel like if the playing field were leveled, Ako had a real chance at beating Tsubasa. I guess all of the hang ups were supposed to be presented as why Tsubasa did actually win, but in any case:
Tsubasa:
Ako:
Basically, I think Ako deserves her spot in S4 (losing to Tsubasa just means Tsubasa is better, since she'll still graduate and leave her spot in S4) more than she's giving herself credit for. This whole thing made me respect Ako much more as a character.
Also I can't talk about this episode without this:
Obviously, it's set in modern times and is about transforming sentai, which is like the opposite of what you're looking for.
I think fantasy is particularly bad at real-life analogues because we just don't think of people before modern times having modern ideas, even though what's changed about how we live isn't us exactly, just the technology we have access to.
So we imagine that before like, 1920 or something, everybody absolutely believed whatever horserabble they were peddling or they were like an Trickster/Thief/Rogue type you could spot from a thousand miles away.
Granted, last year I watched Seisen Cerberus : Ryuukoku no Fatalite, in which the main villain tries to get all the states to battle each other so he can set a murderous dragon on them all, after which he'll sell them all "effective" dragon battling weapons (and basically war+scary murderous dragon=lots of weapon sales anyways=$$$). It mostly wasn't about that though. It's one of the many reasons I consider it a favorite though.
Tales of Zestiria the X was less clear with Bartlow's aims for being Alicia's foil and his motives for starting a war. I guess like, genuinely just being a ridiculously nationalistic idiot is a thing that happens in real life, but they never explored that far enough for me to say they did it in a subversive way.