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The Devil Tesla posted:I haven't watched yet but I'm excited to be disappointed. That wasn't disappointing at all!! Everything came together like clockwork, and became sufficiently hosed up. Easily one of my favorite shows of the year. devtesla fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Dec 11, 2015 |
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 When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I murdered you.
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efu efu efu efuThe Devil Tesla posted:
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Dec 11, 2015 05:52
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This miiight be my fav show this season. or that one about bones, idk
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Dec 11, 2015 05:59
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Fangz posted:How is this a rocks fall, everyone dies ending? If the doctor does die despite everything we've been through it feels anti-climactic and the mystery still exists but it's now impossible to solve w/o all the pieces
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Dec 11, 2015 14:14
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Alder posted:If the doctor does die despite everything we've been through it feels anti-climactic and the mystery still exists but it's now impossible to solve w/o all the pieces What? What mystery still exists? The point of rocks fall, everyone dies is that it's a random non-sequitir. I'm speculating that a certain ending happens because it would be a thematically logical conclusion to what this show has been about? Fangz fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Dec 11, 2015 |
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Dec 11, 2015 17:19
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Fangz posted:What? What mystery still exists? Like why she wanted to have relationship with her uncle? If she valued freedom so much why commit homicide to be locked up for the next 15 yrs? If she felt the downside of being completely alone why put her daughter through the same ordeal by having her kill her only family?
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Alder posted:Like why she wanted to have relationship with her uncle? If she valued freedom so much why commit homicide to be locked up for the next 15 yrs? If she felt the downside of being completely alone why put her daughter through the same ordeal by having her kill her only family? Because anime. I don't think this is going to be one of those stories where the characters have motives or philosophies that make sense on any level besides "it's an anime."
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Alder posted:Like why she wanted to have relationship with her uncle? If she valued freedom so much why commit homicide to be locked up for the next 15 yrs? If she felt the downside of being completely alone why put her daughter through the same ordeal by having her kill her only family? Because she loved him and wanted to have his child? Because freedom was in terms of doing what she wanted without other people telling her no, so being locked up in that room (which she had built *before* the murder), she was free and happy? Because she never felt the downside of being alone because she was never alone throughout that ordeal, it was the *daughter* that had that realisation?
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Dec 12, 2015 00:28
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Rand Brittain posted:Because anime. I don't think this is going to be one of those stories where the characters have motives or philosophies that make sense on any level besides "it's an anime." It was a book originally though. And not a LN, an actual book.
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Dec 12, 2015 00:36
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Fangz posted:Because she loved him and wanted to have his child? Alright I admit it. I'm confused by everything the more I think about it  I kinda want my own island full of tech gizmos and VR rooms now.
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Dec 12, 2015 04:20
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Rand Brittain posted:Because anime. I don't think this is going to be one of those stories where the characters have motives or philosophies that make sense on any level besides "it's an anime." Lol okay bro
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Dec 12, 2015 04:28
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I shouldn't be surprised about goons missing extremely obvious, double underlined themes, but here you go: Magata achieved some measure of freedom from worldly concerns, and is able to only think about the things she wants to. Saikawa is infatuated with the idea of living like Magata does, but one very big worldly concern keeps him grounded (that's Moe). The tension between physical confinement and freedom of thought is the core of the story, which is why the climax takes place in a sensory deprivation tank. There's nothing physically to do in the tank, but for the characters in the story it frees their thoughts. Now that might sound like bullshit to you, and honestly I agree. Sensory deprivation tanks freak me the gently caress out (they were originally developed as a kind of torture), and in general you are supposed to be freaked out at the idea of trading physical freedom for the freedom these folks seem to want. I think for a locked room mystery these are interesting themes to have, and I love the way they play with them.
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Dec 12, 2015 04:48
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Rand Brittain posted:Because anime. I don't think this is going to be one of those stories where the characters have motives or philosophies that make sense on any level besides "it's an anime." To be fair, in real life many people are mentally ill and do, in fact, do things that make no sense and don't really further their own objectives.
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Ytlaya posted:To be fair, in real life many people are mentally ill and do, in fact, do things that make no sense and don't really further their own objectives. Pretty much my final conclusion, I guess. Oh well another series completed.
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Dec 12, 2015 08:25
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I don't really think it applies here, but resolving a mystery with "bitch be crazy" is never a good idea.
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Dec 12, 2015 09:37
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Ytlaya posted:To be fair, in real life many people are mentally ill and do, in fact, do things that make no sense and don't really further their own objectives. True, but it's frowned upon in fiction, especially as the solution to a mystery--at least of a Knox's Rules fair-play mystery.
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Dec 12, 2015 16:32
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Were there any Mystery rules that this series broke?
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Dec 12, 2015 20:44
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Xelkelvos posted:Were there any Mystery rules that this series broke? I assume a bunch. It wasn't trying to follow the usual formula.
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Xelkelvos posted:Were there any Mystery rules that this series broke? Let's check! Knox's Decalogue posted:01. The criminal must be mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to know. Might fail at 4, depending on how charitable you want to be to the OS shenanigans, and the mother/daughter switcheroo might fall afoul of 10- does it count if the villain has to take lengths to conceal the deception, and the twist is signposted? Oh, and Moe's actually pretty smart, so technically it fails 9. The intent of the rules, though, is that the mystery should be "fair"- a sufficiently attentive and thoughtful audience should be given enough information to figure out who did it and how, before the detective tells them. I think it's fair by the spirit if not necessarily the letter of the law.
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Dec 12, 2015 23:29
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No one spelled it out all at once, but people in this thread picked up on pretty much every salient point.
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Autonomous Monster posted:Let's check! No. 4 is about not making up how something works for the sake of fooling the audience. The OS stuff works just like real software does, so I don't think it breaks that rule. No. 9 depends on how you define smart. Moe has a lot of talents but there's a lot of stuff she's not perceptive about. For this mystery at least, she fills the sidekick role. No. 10 has that "duly prepared" part that sort of lets this one off the hook. I don't really pay too much attention to the mechanics of the mystery but it seemed pretty solid to me.
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That was quite clever, I'm very impressed. A little unsure if that was the last episode or not. It doesn't feel like there's anything left to do really other than wrap things up with Saikawa and Moe, but I don't know if that can fill an episode. I'd be a little surprised if Shiki actually gets caught, though, given how much of a head start she has. My one complaint with the mystery is its use of split personalities, which ultimately didn't contribute anything concrete to the culprit's motives. From a mystery perspective I'm glad it didn't, since it's a little dissatisfying, but as a story it didn't seem like there was any reason to include split personalities.
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Magata had a lot of weird character traits that didn't directly affect the mystery. The story was just as much a character study as it was a mystery, anyway.
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In the story's favor I think it approaches Shiki's actions and personality traits from a strictly philosophical view, rather than from a psychological one. Her "multiple personalities" is treated as an existential problem (how can a human live a life in which they don't compromise their innate potentials?) rather than as an abnormal psychology problem (does she really have a split in her psyche?).
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Dec 13, 2015 16:58
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I guess no one else bothered to watch episode 11 but I enjoyed it a lot and thought it wrapped up the series well.
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Dec 20, 2015 02:51
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I've been way busy and haven't, but this show rules.
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Dec 20, 2015 03:00
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oh good, it's over and i can marathon it!
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Dec 20, 2015 03:23
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I saw the last episode - and I have to say, I really liked this show. It's a slow-burn, and I felt I appreciated it more when I got to sit back and think about it, but I really, really liked it.
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Obligatory post gloating that my pregnancy theory was correct. I liked this show a lot too. I wish the direction was a bit more interesting, but the plot and characters and themes were all neat.
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In my estimation, Moe and Souhei were more or less on par with each other. Rather than her being a side-kick, I'd consider her a co-detective. I don't know if there's much difference, but her not being a side-kick reduces the impact of breaking rule #9, at least in my estimation. Granted, she was a bit behind Souhei in the final uncovering, but she was also an integral part of his overall investigation (Moe, what's 2^16th power, etc.). Also, Magata is loving nuts, so perhaps the multiple personality thing didn't do much for what actually happened, other than to demonstrate she's a complete loving crazy person. I think the biggest idea I got out of the conversations she had was her perspective on death. Another great part was Souhei actually meeting Magata in person and becoming obviously disillusioned with her via his conversations with this complete fruitcake. He lost his obvious infatuation with her as they continued to talk. Also, who would want to have a relationship with a woman who has historically murdered everyone she "loves"" Magata's personality disorder was a red-herring in solving the mystery other than perhaps showing how far she'd actually go. The 0xFFFF was important. I really wish my theory that the director's wife did the murders was true. That way I could gloat here. Alas....(I will never make a good detective). (Even though this is from a previous episode, I'll spoil it just in case) I don't fully comprehend how Magata got out of the room though. I'm guessing that she made a mad dash for the elevator when the lights went out and the security camera recordings were fixed to overwrite themselves during that moment. Did she program the elevator to be ready and waiting for her at that moment? All those people were standing there, so she had to be incredibly acrobatic and perhaps lucky to get by with what she did.
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Okay yea that was really good. I feel kind of sick but that was amazing.
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This was the murder mystery I've been waiting on probably many many months now after the severe disappointment of some of the previous aired stuff. I feel oddly enough that this series feels like a mini series more than a regular TV anime, like a movie they expanded. So good. The procedural and confrontation reminded me a little of Danganronpa and I hope there's more stuff out there like this. e: Two things stand out for me as being "awesome", the whole 10 minute stretch of 100% understandable reasonable English that I'm sure drove a lot of Japanese viewers nuts and everything regarding the Unix distro and programming terminology that as far as I can tell is 100% on point. Raenir Salazar fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Dec 23, 2015 |
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Raenir Salazar posted:This was the murder mystery I've been waiting on probably many many months now after the severe disappointment of some of the previous aired stuff. I feel oddly enough that this series feels like a mini series more than a regular TV anime, like a movie they expanded. Author was a programmer so it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of his mysteries used programming in some way. e. Turns out I was right, according to wikipedia. quote:Mori's writings are called "rikei mystery," which roughly translates into "science mystery." This is most likely because Mori uses his experience as a research scientist and weaves some kind of a science- or math-related problem into the story (for example, several math puzzles were presented in Mathematical Goodbye). However, Mori says that he is reluctant to label his novels that way, and he goes on to question what is really meant when people say "science".[16]
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