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ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

Grouchio posted:

The OP should add in a list of goons who know LN/WN poo poo, to the OP. Like a conclave.

what's appealing about this idea

honestly the more minimal talk is about the WN/LN before the anime happens the better, and especially no spoilers unless someone like, directly asks for them. if you want to talk about the WN/LN in depth, isn't there a light novel thread or something? or another thread could be made, much like how many anime franchises have a separate anime and manga thread

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ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

Even then, attack on titan had to wait like 4 years for a s2

Also I thought re:zero was a smash success like those too. It was certainly everywhere when it was airing, and for a good while after too.

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

imo the weakest part of s1 was the second "arc" in the mansion. i liked arc 1 a lot for introducing the concepts and being relatively short and snappy, and arc 3 was generally strong concepts with strong execution, but arc 2 just didn't really have much to sell me on it.

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

Him killing himself that one time was him saying "this reality is so hosed that I'm willing to go through death to get rid of it, because seriously this is just the worst" not "I'm totally cool with dying now"

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

LostRook posted:

So is Satella the half-elf n-word?

It's satan. It's like someone being born half goat with a pentagram on their forehead.

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

a child born who happens to look precisely like hitler, whose toothbrush moustache is permanent and can not be shaved off

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

I don't know if he regretted never having them, but there was one episode in arc 3 that had both the op and ed in it, and he said in an interview or something "I'm so glad we could finally have them both in one episode, they're both very good"

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

I think this conversation would feel a lot less gross if you leaned more into the "emilia's actions are a reflection of her personality and personal traumas, and a much more significant character moment than just a generic rejection of subaru being crazy" part and dropped the "emilia could've done better and should've been more mature in handling that situation" part

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

All of the dwarves are now hot elf babes

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

So that re:zero ova has been out for a while, but last I checked the only subs available for it were godawful. Is that still the case?

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

I think it'd have to be a bit more cruel before it actually would qualify as "torture porn"

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

I'd be interested in seeing that

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

She gives him the name satella as a test of how he would react, since she's used to being shunned for looking like the jealous witch and this guy is behaving as if he has no idea she bears that resemblance. I always read it as her going "maybe he just hasn't noticed, and as soon as he does he's going to get mad at me, better just spell it out for him and rip that bandaid while I'm still prepared for it" and Subaru's response to emilia saying "my name is adolf hitler" was a straight faced "nice to meet you Adolf! I hope we can become good friends"

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

EponymousMrYar posted:

Alternatively considering how she and everyone reacts to him after the first loop, there was some capital-S Shenanigans going on. (I'm pretty sure she told him her name was Satella in a public place and there was no reaction from the crowd.)

I haven't read the LN but IIRC in the Anime it's left ambiguous.

in anime it's like, on a loving balcony or some poo poo. it was reasonably private. also, her cat spirit thing whose name i forget reacted to it too (shocked -> "you have poor taste" after subaru doesn't react)

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

yeah ram states earlier in the show that she thinks she can take betty 1v1 when they're a little ways away from the manor, and ram is Extremely Dead from the cult invasion. even assuming betty is probably substantially stronger at the actual mansion grounds, the drop off in power is steep enough that her effective defense radius is actually probably pretty small vs that level of threat.

also puck would've been there during the attack and he's some kind of freaky elemental god. while they obviously didn't kill puck, they killed everyone else. the cult's attack was no joke

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

Very excited for Emilia But With Fuzzy Eyelashes

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

yeah you need to be quoting someone for that to be an issue

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

I've only seen one episode but it was a good episode so yeah

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

i was really hyped to love this episode and i kinda didn't care for it tbh. garfield's backstory is compelling but i don't really understand how it connects to his current actions nor do i understand his reasoning. also they really could've had an episode or two before the second story of garfield's mom, some distance between those beats would've really made it hit harder.

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

I mean we know roswaal is a witch cultist, he's specifically one of the ones that murdered rem and ram's village

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

AlternateNu posted:

Yeah. It's ambiguous from how it's portrayed in the anime.





When I watched I definitely took that first screenshot to literally mean "I stabbed your family" lol, guess it was more ambiguous than I thought

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

I think the pacing of it in the anime wasn't great. Every episode having an inspiring speech was fine, but they also tended to have the lengthy character backstory explaining why the character was making the speech happen immediately before the speech itself, which feels like a cheap slog once you get to the third or 4th time they've done it and gets confusing quickly. Switching around the timing of some of these events/when the backstories are explained would've helped a lot

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

has a date been announced?

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

LostRook posted:

Nope, just announcing the season.

Though from the visuals they put out they will be covering arcs 5 and 6, which would take more than 24 episodes.

i suddenly have concern that it will only get 24 episodes

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

well that does not bode well. re:zero was already pretty awkward in its action sequences (my rule of thumb is the shorter a re:zero action sequence is the better it is, which is why the white whale fight kinda blows), hopefully it isn't too much of an issue

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

probably pretty safe but not quite as safe as we'd like to be

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

trailer looks good, excited to see the princesses actually start fighting each other proper

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ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

i'm excited to see more of the sin archbishops, and for more than a couple of episodes

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