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Raenir Salazar posted:A good general needs to figure out the strengths and weaknesses of his subordinates in order to wisely determine their disposition in battle. Glory hound aggressive commanders like them are similar to Admiral Halsey, Patton, etc; Generals who wanna meet the enemy and punch them in the face the sooner the better. They're good assets, guaranteed to give battle and give it their all. More cautious generals on the flip side may allow and enemy to escape or pass by them rather than engage when they need to engage.
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Eh, Arslan can't really afford to execute or isolate those guys, but charging heedlessly forward is a good way to gently caress up the army's formation and getting people impetuously killed. I feel like he should have reprimanded them at the very least, but that isn't the style of Arlsan the Moe. This show may be a fantasy adventure, but Tanaka still takes time to bash aristocracy. Love it.
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dogsicle posted:yeah Etoile had super obvious eyelashes that seemed to suggest "he" is female. it did seem like she had breasts, the flashback seemed like a "you're a girl, you can't go to war" deal, and then to seal the deal she wore "drag" to infiltrate Peshawar. Even if she is actually a boy, I doubt Parsian law has anything about homosexual relationships, especially if the king is in one
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Xelkelvos posted:Even if she is actually a boy, I doubt Parsian law has anything about homosexual relationships, especially if the king is in one
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if it weren't for that endcard, I wouldn't cadre if this episode just didn't exist. nothing happened
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dogsicle posted:if it weren't for that endcard, I wouldn't cadre if this episode just didn't exist. nothing happened It was basically a set-up episode before the climactic fight. A number of scenes weren't unessential, but a few of them could have been slotted elsewhere with no ill effect. I am curious as to this prophecy that Andragoras is talking about and how it relates to Arslan and Hermes. It may be the main reason Arslan was adopted and his presence tolerated, even though he wasn't of royal blood and that a legitimate heir
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Newest episode up and the first of two inevitable confrontations.
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Reading the manga as the anime goes along, Arakawa puts a lot more effort into characterizing everybody than the anime staff did. Which I guess is fair, since her deadline is "once a month" and not "finish it in 24 episodes", but still, even though everyone looks the same and the major plot points are all the same, the comic crackles with so much more energy...
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Now THAT was a good episode. Everything is finally coming to a head at last and Arlsan is finally stepping into his role as king. Can't wait till next week.
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Sep 13, 2015 23:31
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Finally, the moment the entire series has been leading up to is happening next episode: Arslan and Etoile kissing
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Sep 13, 2015 23:43
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Adelheid posted:Finally, the moment the entire series has been leading up to is happening next episode: Arslan and Etoile kissing You better not be lying to me! 
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Adelheid posted:Finally, the moment the entire series has been leading up to is happening next episode: Arslan and Etoile kissing I doubt Etoile is about to kiss some filthy heathen. Even if he is cute.
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Sep 14, 2015 01:48
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This show is so consistently good, gonna be sad when it's over next week.
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Adelheid posted:Finally, the moment the entire series has been leading up to is happening next episode: Arslan and Etoile kissing Please. The show will only tease them maybe kissing if you go read the manga for five more years.
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Well, I guess I understand why the last couple episodes have seemed low-budget, given that they were obviously working on this one for several weeks with all their money devoted to it. God, what a good episode. I can't believe how many frames of animation went into Arslan and Etoile's passionate embrace
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Adelheid posted:Well, I guess I understand why the last couple episodes have seemed low-budget, given that they were obviously working on this one for several weeks with all their money devoted to it. God, what a good episode. I can't believe how many frames of animation went into Arslan and Etoile's passionate embrace Even still, there were a few scene that had terrible quality like Alfreed first getting to the top of the wall.
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Think this might be a 26 episode course, there was definitely a preview for next episode this time so one or two more.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Are we going to get more Arslan? I'm sure we'll probably get some in a year or two after Arakawa does more of the manga
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Farangis using the power of righteous baps to throw off the enemy archers' aim was my favorite part of the episode. I am glad there are at least one or two more episodes. I thought this was going to be the final episode. I was waiting for a "second season production confirmed" blurb after the ED and was surprised by the preview.
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Holy poo poo that got intense. That ending scene with the Lusitanian ladies makes me think of the time I had to read the Mainz Anonymous in high school. Hit me pretty hard.  grrarg posted:Farangis using the power of righteous baps to throw off the enemy archers' aim was my favorite part of the episode. I am glad there are at least one or two more episodes. I thought this was going to be the final episode. I was waiting for a "second season production confirmed" blurb after the ED and was surprised by the preview. Actually, this was the only bad part of the episode in my opinion. Maybe it would have worked better if she had visibly used magic, but as it was it seemed she had +5 Plot Armor. It made me think of a completely different historical document--the point in the Baburnamah where Babur mocks a noble who believed some sycophantic imams and believed he was blessed with invulnerability. The guy died pretty quickly.
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Getting pretty tired of this stupid black magic horseshit, and the cliche'd *shows up just in time to see mentor figure "killed" by protagonist to cause misunderstanding* reared it's head, otherwise a good enough episode.
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Viola the Mad posted:Holy poo poo that got intense. That ending scene with the Lusitanian ladies makes me think of the time I had to read the Mainz Anonymous in high school. Hit me pretty hard. She never does so though, her magic is always the very subtle sort and is never meant to be flash or visible. She communicates with Wind Djinn's and they do stuff for her.
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Raenir Salazar posted:She never does so though, her magic is always the very subtle sort and is never meant to be flash or visible. She communicates with Wind Djinn's and they do stuff for her. I don't think it worked very well, the way they framed it just made it look like the enemy soldiers were all graduates from Stormtrooper Archery School.
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RabidWeasel posted:I don't think it worked very well, the way they framed it just made it look like the enemy soldiers were all graduates from Stormtrooper Archery School. The least they could've done was put in some wind effects
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RabidWeasel posted:I don't think it worked very well, the way they framed it just made it look like the enemy soldiers were all graduates from Stormtrooper Archery School. But she says she's protected by the Djinn and we see the arrows miss. In a ancient epic like this, this is normal.
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The whole thing just comes over as surreal because the Lusitanian archers are laying down this withering hail of arrow fire which nobody in Arslan's group seems to be even vaguely concerned about other than in the framing shot at the start of the scene, the archers themselves don't seem to think that it's strange that they fired a few hundred arrows into a small group of people at close range and none of them are visibly hurt and just keep on wordlessly shooting even when Farangis starts to leisurely jam arrows through their necks. They could have done the exact same scene but had the Lusitanians rout or be visibly shaken by their inability to do any damage and it would have worked fine but in a show with a lot of obviously impossible swordplay etc this is the first time I've felt like it broke my suspension of disbelief (though the BAD GUY HAS EVIL MAGIC HELPERS BECAUSE HE'S BAD trope makes me roll my eyes pretty hard every time it pops up). RabidWeasel fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Sep 21, 2015 |
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Xelkelvos posted:The least they could've done was put in some wind effects This, in a nutshell. There needs to be something to show that this is supernatural, though it doesn't have to be flashy.
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Farangis' tiddies have always been a bit silly. A good episode. The nuns on the tower scene at the end was really uncomfortable. And also realistic, this thing has has happened before. And it goes to show that even when fighting with the best of intentions, in a just war, people who don't deserve it will suffer. Also I liked Hermes' fight with Daryun. But I've always liked Hermes and how he starts screeching and raging and making gutteral growls in the middle of combat.
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I'm hoping that the manga version will have a better justification for the guy with the gray bangs and the side he took than the anime. "I'm sure that once Prince Hermes is done selling out his people to a foreign power, letting them institute a state religion, committing a purge of Parsian culture, stepping on the necks of it's citizens AND satisfies his rampant, insane bloodlust against Andragoras and all affiliated parties AND fulfills whatever dark bargain he has made with the spooky shadow wizards he'll be a really great king, honestly"
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OnimaruXLR posted:I'm hoping that the manga version will have a better justification for the guy with the gray bangs and the side he took than the anime. "I'm sure that once Prince Hermes is done selling out his people to a foreign power, letting them institute a state religion, committing a purge of Parsian culture, stepping on the necks of it's citizens AND satisfies his rampant, insane bloodlust against Andragoras and all affiliated parties AND fulfills whatever dark bargain he has made with the spooky shadow wizards he'll be a really great king, honestly" lmao seriously. I wished Kubard/Kishward would just slap the poo poo out of him and wake him up to reality. Also yeah the nuns + barcacion scenes had a lot of impact
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OnimaruXLR posted:I'm hoping that the manga version will have a better justification for the guy with the gray bangs and the side he took than the anime. "I'm sure that once Prince Hermes is done selling out his people to a foreign power, letting them institute a state religion, committing a purge of Parsian culture, stepping on the necks of it's citizens AND satisfies his rampant, insane bloodlust against Andragoras and all affiliated parties AND fulfills whatever dark bargain he has made with the spooky shadow wizards he'll be a really great king, honestly" Most of the harshness of rules of inheritance and succession in the ancient and medieval worlds can be chalked up to an awareness that a power vacuum caused by unclear lines of succession and multiple claimants is a Very Bad Thing.
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Paracelsus posted:Hermes is almost certainly the legitimate successor, though, and Arslan almost certainly isn't. That means that Arslan's hold on the throne will always be contested, which can cause serious problems. On the other hand, Bigger Army Diplomacy which Arslan has in spades.
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Paracelsus posted:Hermes is almost certainly the legitimate successor, though, and Arslan almost certainly isn't. That means that Arslan's hold on the throne will always be contested, which can cause serious problems. Everyone knows that supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses. 
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A demo for the Arslan game was supposed to hit Japanese PSN today. Anyone try it yet?
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I have a gripe about the character designs. Mostly it's due to me having a raging fan-boner for Yoshitaki Amano's artwork, but the one that specifically grinds my gears is Farangese, who in the original OVA's looked like a badass Paladin, but in the 2015 series just looks like ridiculous cheesecake.
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