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    You should both be watching Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite.

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    Witch Watch 05

    I like the adaptation, It's hitting all the points it should, and the stuff it's missing isn't critical.

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    Currently Watching: probably a show directed at 9 years old girls, lets be honest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
    You should both be watching Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite.
    Tell me I'm wrong then:

    The cover art looks like generic "girls doing stuff", the synopsis also makes it sound like that. I don't care about girls founding a rock band and doing music. Shoud I still watch this?

    "She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court

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    Quote Originally Posted by MFauli View Post
    Tell me I'm wrong then:

    The cover art looks like generic "girls doing stuff", the synopsis also makes it sound like that. I don't care about girls founding a rock band and doing music. Shoud I still watch this?
    Yes. Because yes it does look like that, and yes, it is a satire of ojou-san series, and yes, it is girls starting a rock band, but not a typical light music one that are a dime a dozen since K-ON.

    But yeah, it is very different.

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    this is reaching a new level of stupid bullshit.
    I know Japan has a weird issue with girls having a spine, but this borders on suicidal. I'm worried for her. I should probably be more worried for everybody else there, zero sense of urgency for the "terrorist set bombs at a ball dance that all the noble kids attend". but also the bullying part... zero self-awareness.

    +1 for my prediction that prince is actually squirl, even though it makes no sense that people can do full-body transformations. and i'd also like to add a prediction that the other character is actually a girl, maybe she got a chameleon blessing.

    Gorilla Girl 06

    everybody in that army needs to be fired. this are NOBLE kids. you can't treat them like army fodder.
    as usual, the important stuff happens out of sight, like learning about the anti-monarchy group and that they escaped. I don't expect it to be interesting, since it's all so paint-by-the-numbers, but it should happen on-screen.
    starting a fire in a closed shed without checking the ventilation is how you get yourself killed.

    the romance lasted more than I thought it would.
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    Vigilantes episode 6:

    An entire episode basically spent on humanizing a rape-murder, culminating in having his past rape-target treating his wounds. Wow.

    "She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court

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    Quote Originally Posted by MFauli View Post
    An entire episode basically spent on humanizing a rape-murder, culminating in having his past rape-target treating his wounds. Wow.
    Japan: "Redemption!"

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    Not that I've seen that show... because I probably won't... but I want to discuss this anyway and give my 2 cents, even though it might be better listed in the "trope"-thread. I can already imagine what happened.

    The problem with this is always how quick it happens, not the fact that it might or does happen.

    If you want to show redemption, make it so that it becomes "real" and that the viewer might start to believe he/she deserves it.
    These kind of things need to happen to what you'd consider "main characters", because otherwise there is simply not enough screentime for them to overcome their stigmata and it becomes "cheap" to witness it.

    Whole (great) movies have been written and screened in which bad people or people in horrible situations process what they have done or what they are doing and start to regret it.
    These topics are simply not meant for a weekly series that dedicate like 5 minutes of screentime to it. It'll just leave a bitter taste and feels "preachy" and wrong.

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    Example of a story that did such redemption great: The Walking Dead. Not going into detail for spoiler reason, but if you know, you know.

    "She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court

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    Quote Originally Posted by KrayZ33 View Post
    These topics are simply not meant for a weekly series that dedicate like 5 minutes of screentime to it.
    I mean, you say that, but Vegeta is a great redemption arc.

    It takes forever, and he backslides multiple times. It makes it feel very earned.

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    I think Krayz meant weekly anime that don't have a fuckton of episodes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DarthEnderX View Post
    I mean, you say that, but Vegeta is a great redemption arc.

    It takes forever, and he backslides multiple times. It makes it feel very earned.
    Eh, actually Vegeta is total bs. Goku telling Kuririn to let Vegeta live was based on nothing. AFTERWARDS, turns out Freezer and his guys would have won without Vegeta's "help", but Goku didn't know that and Vegeta might have just returned stronger. And later Vegeta casually murdered hundreds of people to provoke Goku into a fight. It wasn't until Super where Vegeta was castrated enough to no longer be a ticking bomb for everyone in his vicinity. And really, can he be forgiven all the genocides he committed when he destroyed entire planets with civilizations on them together with Nappa and Radditz? "He did it in Freezer's command", yeah, but he clearly enjoyed it a lot.

    "Ad Hitlerium" is often ill applied, but in this case it's true: Vegeta is worse than Hitler. Would you forgive Hitler?

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    You have to at least pretend that anyone can be redeemed. Even if you don't believe it.

    Because if the bad guy doesn't believe redemption is possible, then there's no incentive to face turn. And that doesn't benefit anyone.

    Quote Originally Posted by MFauli View Post
    Eh, actually Vegeta is total bs. Goku telling Kuririn to let Vegeta live was based on nothing. AFTERWARDS, turns out Freezer and his guys would have won without Vegeta's "help", but Goku didn't know that and Vegeta might have just returned stronger. And later Vegeta casually murdered hundreds of people to provoke Goku into a fight. It wasn't until Super where Vegeta was castrated enough to no longer be a ticking bomb for everyone in his vicinity.
    Whether they should have allowed it is a separate issue from whether or not he accomplished it.

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