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this is like saying "i really like the character that the protagonists walked past in the middle of the fifth episode, never to be seen again, with no plot significance whatsoever"
https://myanimelist.net/character/101623/Female_Student
Even weirder/more obscure origin: Apparently this guy started out as a mention on some packaging proofs. His origin might have just been filler text on an internal document since it was removed from the finalized/released version of said packaging and never explained.
edit: also, if you look at far more popular things, the old Star Wars Expanded Universe added detailed backstories for so many random crowd fillers, so the basic concept isn't exactly unheard of.
It's ridiculous how the last shot in the OP keeps getting more cluttered. Maybe by Symphogear Vrains I wouldn't even be able to see everything on my laptop.
Also, the phone game's OP looks like someone thought they were directing for a different franchise instead. It would be hilarious if it weren't kind of depressing.
I like that Shirabe is in the exact same pose at the end of the OPs for GX and AXZ.
That shot from the XDU opening looks like something from the late 2000s.
Plus, Symphogear villains don't tend to stick around once they've been punched into submission.
It's kind of going the opposite with how AXZ's last episodes insisted that Hibiki is more important than previously established.
I wonder if they'll address how Elfnein so quickly decides to use drugs for every problem.
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1694905
Stats pages:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7528/Kujira_1952/stats
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9228/Wan_Wan_Chuushingura/stats
Presumably we're only counting "Completed".
By the way even though I don't care I'm still maximum hipster:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35510/Seizei_Ganbare_Mahou_Shoujo_Kurumi/stats
Meanwhile, I'm noticing a possible resemblance between Yurippe and Nao Tomori of Charlotte. Both are strong-willed leaders with a capacity for complex schemes and with loyal underlings to implement them.
That describes a lot of random fantasy evil overlords.
And "with loyal underlings" isn't really a character trait. Probably a good number of Megatrons have underlings ranging all the way from "unconditionally loyal" to "takes every possible opportunity to undermine him".
I think usually they just mean they look like each other somehow? I think so too, actually.
Two characters from Key original anime are sort of like each other? Quelle surprise.
You can't be serious.
It seems two of the main characters in the English dub are played by one person, which is kind of surprising.
If the thing about two characters played by one person is about Maedomari/Oikawa or Sugimoto/Konishi...well, I don't know about them yet but I don't know why you'd call any of them main characters.
However, there's a reason the two Kurobane characters share a voice actress; they do in Japanese and German too.
Also, does Jun Maeda like baseball a lot or something?
I don't know if those people exist.
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Follow up to a not-hugely-meaningful thing in chat, but FWIW if I had to give a grade out of 100 points...well, I guess I'd start by giving it a grade, so I'd give YuYuYu a B and MadoMagi a D, so going by a 90~100 = A etc. scale, and using midpoints rounded up, I'd give an 85/100 to YuYuYu and a 65/100 to MadoMagi.
Those examples always struck me as super subjective.
There's enough media that manage to keep the mundane things actually relevant to the characters' more important actions that I can confidently say that anybody with a half-decent imagination can write this up. Symphogear GX never gave any reason for Maria being any good at volleyball or even allude to past experience, but her advice on it foreshadowed her opinions on her own superpowers. Matoi the Sacred Slayer is kind of terrible with the whole idea of personal happiness versus responsibility since everyone does the same thing regardless of which they choose, but it never allows you to forget any of it since Matoi and Yuma like to remind you of their reasoning. YuYuYu's fixation on characters' favorite foods just about disappears when anything important happens.
A tightly-written story, where every little detail has its place, doesn't necessarily do that atmosphere, that emotional ride, any better than a story where a lot of details seem extraneous to the specific justification of the plot. Extraneous details can form part of an interpretation of the greater meaning of the story -- like how YuYuYu can be read as a contemplation on the meaning of heroism, one that goes beyond simply understanding the fictional setting of YuYuYu but is something that we can compare/contrast within our own lives.
And incidentally that's how I appreciate YuYuYu which is why I like it without being particularly interested in the setting or the rest of the franchise. I'm not sure what to call this value -- maybe "symbolic" or "legendary" -- but this is what I appreciate about it. And as in the same vein, I can see a story even just from listening to the soundtrack, or heck, even just listening to the twelve stars/flowers tracks and hearing how they differ from one another.
It feels unfair if I have all the information and you refuse to accept it exists.
No, seriously though, I'm pretty sure if there's no point to a scene it has to be cut because if something can happen before and after a scene that makes the in between bits feel like nothing you have an actual narrative problem.
Could you explain to me how YuYuYu's first season did that? Like, no, seriously, I genuinely think it didn't and I'd like to be proven wrong if possible.
Isn't this like reading one opinion piece and then deciding you have all the facts on a geopolitical situation happening halfway across the globe?
YuYuYu definitely has more detail than I can properly remember, but it's kind of ludicrous for you to exalt such things even though you point out anything specific less than I do.
Though even if you can remember more that doesn't actually address my criticism that none of this is exactly good writing. Having random scenes where somebody does whatever is far less impressive than making them relevant to something important.
It's a really poor one when every decision to actually do something besides one boiled down to "do what you're told because none of us have a choice in this". This is literally spelled out in episode 9.
You can do that with literally any kind of story if you're willing to stretch things. Which I guess in YuYuYu's case would be "I'm sure glad people have choices beyond just doing as they're told and ignoring any objections one might have".
Are you just doing that thing where you're just going on about how you're attached to a mental image you developed rather than anything that happened on-screen?
um...what?
They mention it a bunch of times, for starters, and it literally bookends the show, and the story clearly draws a contrast between the "heroism" of the club's mundane deeds and the "heroism" of saving the world, and on top of that the characters also display different ideas of heroism which can be compared and contrasted.
I don't know how you're making this analogy, but we're talking about fiction here, not real life.
An interpretation need not discuss all such details. In fact, no interpretation does.
1. Good for you; you can remember logos on trucks.
2. Meanwhile, you may have neglected the strong use of yellows, and sunset scenes, through the course of the show, which is something that contributes heavily to the atmosphere.
3. Let's not make this a e-peen contest to see who can remember more trivia.
And you may be more impressed than I by having a tightly-written story where everything is linked to something important. So you call it "good writing", which just goes to show that it's a subjective description.
Not all heroism has to do with making heavy choices. In fact, a good number of people in real life who are regarded as heroes of various sorts often say that they were just in the right place at the right time or that they were simply charged with certain duties that others regard as heroism.
And it seems you're basically reading a different theme from the story than I have. Which is perfectly fair.
I watched the entire dang show and saw everything that happened.
The only possible difference is that I watched the American English dub and presumably you and fourteenwings watched the Japanese dub.