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its fitting that she came from drossel cause this ep was dross joke 2: idk whats worse, this show or that my house almost burned down
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Davincie posted:its fitting that she came from drossel cause this ep was dross At least your house stopped burning.
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Feb 8, 2018 20:10
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Xelkelvos posted:I thought Violet would've been at least 16 or more. Not 14. Different art styles be damned, I can't make myself believe that the person they keep drawing here is younger than Yui Hirasawa.
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Feb 8, 2018 20:20
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Feb 8, 2018 23:25
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Xelkelvos posted:I thought Violet would've been at least 16 or more. Not 14. I would have thought 19. This takes the "23 is a grizzled veteran" trope a bit too far.
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Feb 9, 2018 00:08
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Spiritus Nox posted:Different art styles be damned, I can't make myself believe that the person they keep drawing here is younger than Yui Hirasawa. Wait. Just to be clear, Violet, in the present day shots, is 14? Like, younger than the characters in "A Place Further Than the Universe"? Younger than season 1 Mikazuki in IBO? What?
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Feb 9, 2018 00:58
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The age of 14 is by what other people have told her so it could likely vary upwards by any amount. What it really is  The age gap thing is a bit gross, but taken in context with the setting and the historical period it's emulating, it's not all that out of place.
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Xelkelvos posted:The age of 14 is by her own estimates so it could likely vary upwards by a year or more. What it really is It would weird me out less if the we didn't go from the first half of the episode kind of cinematically making a point of how uncomfortable and painful the princess found being paraded out in front of suitors at ten was to the second half basically going "but this particular arranged marriage is totally fine, they actually love each other just fine" tbh
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Feb 9, 2018 03:21
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i love that anime's been so relatively good for a while that when a loving ridiculous trope like that pops up again it's actually jarring to everybody
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Feb 9, 2018 04:14
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Was there supposed to be quite a gape in between episode 4 and 5? Because Violet suddenly being able to write super convincing love letters felt extremely jarring to me, like we missed some development on her end with her ability to create convincing prose. Also really bothered by Violet supposedly being 14, it just... doesn't click. I think I would've enjoyed this episode a lot more (not really sure why almost everyone in this thread seems to hate it) if it hadn't felt so jarring with Violet's jump in ability.
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Feb 9, 2018 06:03
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They said something about her having completed several jobs by now so I guess that counts as an implied timeskip.
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Feb 9, 2018 06:18
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Xelkelvos posted:The age of 14 is by what other people have told her so it could likely vary upwards by any amount. What it really is I take it as her recalling a time her age came up years ago. I could almost buy fourteen in some of the war flashbacks.
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Feb 9, 2018 11:10
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I'm going to pretend Violet is 18 now.
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Feb 9, 2018 16:57
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It's probably likely that Violet is older than 14 and just looks younger than her real age suggests due to things like malnourishment as an orphan stunting her growth
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Feb 9, 2018 18:54
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Spiritus Nox posted:It would weird me out less if the we didn't go from the first half of the episode kind of cinematically making a point of how uncomfortable and painful the princess found being paraded out in front of suitors at ten was to the second half basically going "but this particular arranged marriage is totally fine, they actually love each other just fine" tbh I don't think it was portrayed as totally fine. The princess was shown to be pretty traumatized by the whole process and separation from her caretaker, and I think there were zero actual romantic gestures from the prince, who just as likely was trying to cheer up a girl stuck in a lovely situation. Violet didn't indicate how she felt about the marriage, only that she was happy to bring the princess some peace.
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Feb 9, 2018 23:59
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Oh man this show show is beyond gorgeous but um *deep breath* YOU HAVE CREATED A FANTASY WORLD. NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO ABIDE BY THE GROSSEST TRADITIONS OF HISTORICAL PATRIARCHIES.
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Feb 14, 2018 05:08
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Not Keyser Soze posted:Oh man this show show is beyond gorgeous but um I'm pretty sure they want to do that in order to create a sense of a world like ours without necessarily being our world.
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Feb 14, 2018 07:58
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Not Keyser Soze posted:Oh man this show show is beyond gorgeous but um I don't think this is a "fantasy" setting so much as an alternate history.
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There Bias Two posted:I don't think this is a "fantasy" setting so much as an alternate history. I didn't recognize the map last episode. The Leiden in the series also has nothing to do with the real world Leiden somebody mentioned earlier in the thread. Leiden as used in the series means suffering and the country is called Leidenschaftlich, which means passionate. The countries last time are also called Thrush and Wing when translated from German. Lurking Haro fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Feb 14, 2018 |
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Feb 14, 2018 18:39
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The setting reminds me of Valkyria Chronicles - a romanticised early 20th century Europe.
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Feb 14, 2018 19:07
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Ah, yes, the alternate history where WWI ended differently, high grade mechanical prosthetics are common, and yakisoba is an international delicacy
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AnacondaHL posted:yakisoba is an international delicacy It isn't??
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Feb 14, 2018 19:17
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Maybe they're using a broad series of aesthetic decisions to convey a general sense of place and culture without having to commit to a specific real-world one
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Feb 14, 2018 19:21
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Not Keyser Soze posted:Oh man this show show is beyond gorgeous but um No, nobody is forcing them. But they chose to because it makes for an interesting story? It's certainly more interesting than anything going on with Violet.
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Feb 14, 2018 19:21
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:No, nobody is forcing them. But they chose to because it makes for an interesting story? It's certainly more interesting than anything going on with Violet. I would argue that there is nothing in that plot that couldn't be told about a 24yr old prince and a 17yr old princess with the same dramatic effect and drastically less creepiness. I will agree, though, that it made for a more interesting plot than the show's usual formula of "Killbot screws everything up. Everyone gives her way more leniency than she's earned."
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Feb 14, 2018 22:42
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Not Keyser Soze posted:I would argue that there is nothing in that plot that couldn't be told about a 24yr old prince and a 17yr old princess with the same dramatic effect and drastically less creepiness. Warbot in Accounting as a cute girl.
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Feb 15, 2018 12:09
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I enjoyed the latest episode. Violet is gradually starting to make sense of her feelings and learnt to not answer literally everything with 'I was trained like this by the military' (like when asked why she's not tired out after working all day). It was neat seeing some of the other girls from the doll class too. I'm a bit weirded out that nothing came of the grouchy captain from the end of the previous episode, it seemed that would have led into something. At least if she never understands emotions she'll make a great transcriptionist! Agreed that the age thing is a bit weird and an unfortunate trope. Maybe she means it was 14 years since she got put in the military?
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Feb 16, 2018 17:24
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Think of all the loaves of bread that had to be destroyed for our viewing pleasure, Kyoto Animation you monsters!
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Feb 17, 2018 01:36
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The main draw of the anime is the visuals, but what was so great about the light novel that it won awards and got such a fast adaption? Cause so far the characters seem pretty uninspiring and the worldbuilding is a mess. Smatterings of technology mixed from all different ages.
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Feb 18, 2018 01:01
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its been basically 99% anime original so far
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Feb 18, 2018 01:05
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I liked the feel of this episode. The observatory was cool and the change to transcribing old manuscripts was interesting.
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Feb 18, 2018 02:19
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ok but why didn't we get to see her gently caress up those guys on the pier at the end of episode 5 with her mechanical arms though
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Feb 18, 2018 05:46
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Well it's official. This show has a that scene. 
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Feb 22, 2018 01:41
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The latest episode was the first one that I felt like Violet's characterization didn't work against the show. She worked as an effective foil against the "complexity" of her client's emotions and wasn't completely oblivious how humans work while doing so. Ending was good too.
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Feb 22, 2018 02:03
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Yeah, episode 7 was a knockout right when I thought the show really needed one. Feels like we're about to shake the status quo up a bit too.
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Feb 22, 2018 02:05
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A drat fine episode. Now I've got to go find out who's been cutting onions here...
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Zark the Damned posted:A drat fine episode. Now I've got to go find out who's been cutting onions here... It's the animators that destroyed all the bread for last ep and all the eggs for this one, they are making some sort of meal
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Feb 22, 2018 16:14
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Hmm--pacing feels as bit off like we're rushing a lot of chapter all at once.
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Feb 23, 2018 01:54
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Alder posted:Hmm--pacing feels as bit off like we're rushing a lot of chapter all at once. Tough to say as so much of the show has had nothing at all to do with the novel.
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I thought the script was still a bit stiff here and there, but now we're really getting somewhere with the story.
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