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Dzhay posted:I assumed it was just kung-fu bullshit, which has been established to be able to neutralise explosions and let you run on water. Fudou isn't nearly noble enough to do true kung-fu tho 
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Miku is a main character in the mobage so she should be save right? RIGHT? She should be until Fudou sticks the gauntlet on her
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Aug 5, 2019 06:06
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Normally I would say it's misdirection but Hibiki stabbed several death flags straight into Miku's heart. Your guess is as good as mine.
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Aug 5, 2019 13:28
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Clearly Hibiki just needs to break a piece off from Gungnir and stuff it into Miku's torso. It worked for her when Kanade did it, after all.
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Aug 5, 2019 13:55
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Death Flags only really affect you in Symphogear if you're a bad guy, it's fine.
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Aug 5, 2019 18:29
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Someone asked "what if the trick is that there is no trick", but an idea I might like better if this is some sort of double fake out is if Milaarc really did swing at Miku - but Bikky arrived at the last moment to take the hit instead. Could be a delightfully mean followup to Miku's outburst last ep.
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Aug 6, 2019 13:42
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Frankly, the fountain of blood was way too comical to be an important character.
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Aug 6, 2019 14:24
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Doesn't Miku have a hole in her skull from Vers implanting that relic into her a couple of seasons ago? The show isn't shy about putting her through adversity.
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Aug 7, 2019 13:35
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https://twitter.com/SpWhiteBs/status/1158787958117261312
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Aug 7, 2019 16:38
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Oh yeah Hibiki got her arm munched off that one time.
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Aug 7, 2019 17:46
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XV should cut off Bikky's arm for real IMO
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Aug 7, 2019 18:49
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Them kind of copping out on that is still disappointing.
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Aug 7, 2019 20:00
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On a less painful note: https://twitter.com/ftko_beerkuzu/status/1159109632129822720
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Justin_Brett posted:Them kind of copping out on that is still disappointing. This.
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Aug 7, 2019 20:45
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https://twitter.com/YameteTomete/status/1159921675758198785?s=20 Haha, look at the PV text trying to scare us, you can't fool me Symphogear 
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Aug 9, 2019 21:32
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i'm sure miku's just offscreen
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Aug 10, 2019 01:44
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miku is the cameraman
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:i'm sure miku's just offscreen in heaven
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Aug 10, 2019 07:48
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Godspeed, nameless car driver guy.  Looks like Tsubasa is gonna get mind controlled by bad dad and Maria will turn her back by invoking the bonds they share with their dead girlfriends. 
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Aug 10, 2019 19:42
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Chris is cool, Vanessa is cool, evil inspector guy sure had a lot of blood, Elfnein confirmed to have Carol's body (though I don't know if this was already known), and am I remembering wrong or did that thing at the end look an awful lot like nehushtan?
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The coiled vine-like stuff at the bottom definitely made me think nehushtan, but Maria saying it reminded her of "apple" and the fact they keep mentioning original sin makes me think biblical snake or the tree of knowledge Bonus: since Miku and Hibiki have been cleansed of original sin, they're the new Eve and Eve.
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Aug 10, 2019 19:56
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Kind of miffed that Tsubasa's bond with Hibiki and Chris is being shoved to the backburner in favor of Tsubamari stuff, but eh.
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Nodosaur posted:Kind of miffed that Tsubasa's bond with Hibiki and Chris is being shoved to the backburner in favor of Tsubamari stuff, but eh.
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Aug 10, 2019 20:04
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I admit, part of my bias comes from Tsubasa/Chris being my favorite pairing, but there's history there of those two being the ones to talk Tsubasa back from her darkest times or vice versa, while Maria... helped Tsubasa once with her dad, I guess.
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Aug 10, 2019 20:05
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On the other hand I feel like Maria's kind of struggled to feel as much like a substantial part of the team since G ended, so I very much appreciate the added focus.
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I'm really glad they're not walking back that Noble Red are loving evil despite fleshing them out some. They have reasons for it but it's hard to get around "Are you going to keep killing innocents?" being replied to with an incredibly smug "yep" even if we didn't have them kill 100,000 people and brutally murder a little girl on screen.Nodosaur posted:Kind of miffed that Tsubasa's bond with Hibiki and Chris is being shoved to the backburner in favor of Tsubamari stuff, but eh. I'm actually more disappointed that Chris barely interacts with Miku or noticeably cares about her despite Miku being a huge part of the reason why she flipped to the good guys in the first place. Nodosaur posted:I admit, part of my bias comes from Tsubasa/Chris being my favorite pairing, but there's history there of those two being the ones to talk Tsubasa back from her darkest times or vice versa, while Maria... helped Tsubasa once with her dad, I guess. The thing is that Tsubasa's core conflict has always been between singing professionally and being a fighter. Maria's been sharing that conflict with her since Symphogear G. That and one of Tsubasa's main issues for the past...3 seasons? has been her hosed up lineage and Maria's been the one on point to deal with that typically. Tsubasa and Hibiki haven't really had a huge amount of together time since season 1 when they were the sum total of the cast, and Tsubasa/Chris was a big thing in G but never since. They've been pushing Tsubasa/Maria since like GX, with them being the paired idol singers and having all sorts of scenes like Tsubasa quite literally princess carrying Maria out of danger in AXZ. Maria's my favorite gear though so I pay a lot of attention to her scenes. 
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Aug 10, 2019 20:23
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I mean, Tsubasa interacts with Chris more than she does Maria in AXZ. She's there supporting Chris when she goes to meet with Sonia and Stephan and is always the one to notice when she's thinking too much about the past. It's not really ship tease, or anything, but I wouldn't say they ignore that those two are supposed to be close at all in the last season. Princess carrying and a shippy line or two don't really add up to much significant character interaction. She and Maria are really light on meaningful interaction in AXZ
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Kanos posted:I'm really glad they're not walking back that Noble Red are loving evil despite fleshing them out some. They have reasons for it but it's hard to get around "Are you going to keep killing innocents?" being replied to with an incredibly smug "yep" even if we didn't have them kill 100,000 people and brutally murder a little girl on screen. the issue is that all the maria/tsubasa stuff is mostly just light gags or visual things or maria being in the general vicinity of tsubasa while plot happens, while hibiki and tsubasa and chris and tsubasa had actual arcs relating to one another that impacted their characters going forward. some of this is just the writing differences between s1 and the later stuff, but still.
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Loool at the shipping wars. That said I feel the same way. The OVA shorts have shown more Chris interacting with Miku than was ever on the show past season 1.
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This is part of why, for all its flaws, S1 is my favorite season. The character arcs are actually the primary focus, with the fighting and singing serving to emphasize them. G had some of this too, but by GX it was pretty firmly a tokusatsu show where character stuff were quick asides between action, and often used for comedic relief. And that isn't a bad dichotomy at all, but it meant stuff I wanted more emphasis on or more exploration of kind of got sidelined.
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Endorph posted:This is part of why, for all its flaws, S1 is my favorite season. The character arcs are actually the primary focus, with the fighting and singing serving to emphasize them. G had some of this too, but by GX it was pretty firmly a tokusatsu show where character stuff were quick asides between action, and often used for comedic relief. And that isn't a bad dichotomy at all, but it meant stuff I wanted more emphasis on or more exploration of kind of got sidelined. I agree with this statement almost entirely and I think the lesser focus on character moments in later seasons is partially because S1 is really tonally different than the other seasons but mainly due to the cast size increasing, which lines up with your timeline. By GX we have six main girls plus Miku that they're trying to juggle character moments and interactions with, plus whatever the main plot is, in a single cour season. This led to some really ugly plotting in GX where you have a series of episodes which are basically "let's deal with the girls' problems this season in order going down a checklist so we can say we gave them all an episode". AXZ was a fair bit more natural about it, but even AXZ had some somewhat ham-fisted stuff, like the Unison mini-arc(let's invent a plot reason to have the girls interact outside their designated pairings, because we're so strapped for time that we can't usually fit in Shirabe interacting with people who aren't Kirika). I don't think adding the FiS girls to the show was a bad thing but it definitely marked the beginning of a departure from the rather intense focus on character arcs S1 had.
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Plus the point of the show is ultimately to sell character song CDs, so you can't have an episode without a fight because that'd mean there was no song. Some episodes in S1 had a concert scene but no fight, but of course a decent looking concert scene is a lot harder to animate (and justify) than a decent looking fight. And with twice the number of charcaters, that's twice the number of songs you need to advertise.
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i was ready to be mad at the car chase for forgetting what ogawa is in an effort to move things along, but then car clone happened and i was pleased
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I dunno, I felt like Tsubasa and Shirabe's pair up was handled relatively well.
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Nodosaur posted:I dunno, I felt like Tsubasa and Shirabe's pair up was handled relatively well.
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Aug 10, 2019 21:38
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Yeah, I'm really hungry for more interaction between those two, but. Eh. Wattaya gonna do?
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I agree too. Of course I don't begrudge the success, but the cohesiveness of the first season hasn't been close to being matched.
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Endorph posted:This is part of why, for all its flaws, S1 is my favorite season. The character arcs are actually the primary focus, with the fighting and singing serving to emphasize them. G had some of this too, but by GX it was pretty firmly a tokusatsu show where character stuff were quick asides between action, and often used for comedic relief. And that isn't a bad dichotomy at all, but it meant stuff I wanted more emphasis on or more exploration of kind of got sidelined. Season 1 is also the only season where Miku gets meaningful interactions with a character other than Hibiki and it's very good. To an extent I've felt this last season was drawing on some aspects of season 1's themes and i've been a big fan of that because the 1st season had really strong theming and worked with those themes in good and cool ways.
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Agree with everyone on there being too many main characters for a franchise with one cour seasons. But more importantly, did that guy actually say "show me the end of the world" while looking at Chris's butt and if so, why
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