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EP. REVIEW: Restaurant to Another World

Well he was the admiral, so he may not have known how to do that part. Maybe if he were the navigator he might know, but I don't know that the captains would have known.

The thing is, I like the atmosphere. I like the characters and the premise, and I don't mind answering some of the world-building questions myself, like about the doors and who can go through to where. (I like the theory that perhaps if you're touching someone headed somewhere else, you may be able to accompany them.) So I can't quite figure out why the show as a whole isn't working for me.

Northlander wrote:

Didn't the latest episode just show us that it doesn't matter which door you enter from? So far, it almost looks like the doors are set up so that you return home through the door you entered from. But that still doesn't answer my question of what happens if two people were to enter the restaurant from two different doors. Damn it! Am I going to have to resort to the MST mantra?

There's like eight people who use the doors, what are the odds of two of them using it at the same time, from two different doors?

I'm surprised no one has brought up another inconsistency: So the Black dragon isolated herself to stop killing people with her death wind or whatever, but the moment the door appears she doesn't hesitate to go inside even knowing there are people on the other side. Considering the lengths to which she went to protect humans from her deadly magic, it's just inconsistent that she wouldn't even hesitate to get back in contact with people, knowing it would risk them getting killed. It's like the backstory was just a convenient device to justify her awkwardness but then they conveniently forgot about it

I'm surprised no one has brought up another inconsistency: So the Black dragon isolated herself to stop killing people with her death wind or whatever, but the moment the door appears she doesn't hesitate to go inside even knowing there are people on the other side. Considering the lengths to which she went to protect humans from her deadly magic, it's just inconsistent that she wouldn't even hesitate to get back in contact with people, knowing it would risk them getting killed. It's like the backstory was just a convenient device to justify her awkwardness but then they conveniently forgot about it

Nekoya's presence gives them both a chance to interact with others and actually eat (there's no indication that Kuro has been ingesting anything on the moon).

CrowLia wrote:

I'm surprised no one has brought up another inconsistency: So the Black dragon isolated herself to stop killing people with her death wind or whatever, but the moment the door appears she doesn't hesitate to go inside even knowing there are people on the other side. Considering the lengths to which she went to protect humans from her deadly magic, it's just inconsistent that she wouldn't even hesitate to get back in contact with people, knowing it would risk them getting killed. It's like the backstory was just a convenient device to justify her awkwardness but then they conveniently forgot about it

I did wonder about this, too, but just assumed that the death aura doesn't apply in a humanoid form. (And another inconsistency: why doesn't her death aura also kill plant life?)

Rebecca wrote:

Nekoya's presence gives them both a chance to interact with others and actually eat (there's no indication that Kuro has been ingesting anything on the moon).

The comment about the Moon being "magic-rich" suggested to me that she didn't need to eat anything because she could just absorb the magic from the moon.

zrnzle500 wrote:

Well he was the admiral, so he may not have known how to do that part. Maybe if he were the navigator he might know, but I don't know that the captains would have known.

Regardless of what justification may be fabricated about this scenario, the fact of the matter is that the apparent lack of effort on the admiral's part is clearly a gaping plot hole. Unless he was an incompetent seaman, he should know the basics of navigating by stars. And I don't take it he was an incompetent one, given that they praised him so much.

I liked Aletta's little adventure in the other world. Also it's a little strange that Kuro doesn't speak though voice but telepathy, Red can clearly speak with her mouth and her mind so Kuro probably can as well. She even addressed that she would only link Aletta and the Master into the loop when it related to them, so why not just speak to simplify it?

Another odd note about Kuro compared to the other dragons is her name, In the sub the others had their names translated to their color (Red, Blue, Gold, Green and White) but Kuro isn't translated to Black, she's left untranslated as Kuro, just a strange thing that sets her off the pattern of the other dragons.

Oh please. You obviously have no idea what it takes to navigate using stars and sun if you're saying this.

Snakebit1995 wrote:

I liked Aletta's little adventure in the other world. Also it's a little strange that Kuro doesn't speak though voice but telepathy, Red can clearly speak with her mouth and her mind so Kuro probably can as well. She even addressed that she would only link Aletta and the Master into the loop when it related to them, so why not just speak to simplify it? Another odd note about Kuro compared to the other dragons is her name, In the sub the others had their names translated to their color (Red, Blue, Gold, Green and White) but Kuro isn't translated to Black, she's left untranslated as Kuro, just a strange thing that sets her off the pattern of the other dragons.

Not really. Kuro was presented as her name, rather than her color or title. While granted its a little confusing for westerners, considering we don't really have anything similar anymore except Smith (which isn't often used as a fist name to begin with) there is a distinction between words and Names.

Which is why subbing and dubbing Tatsumaki's name as Tornado in One Punch pisses me off. It's not the only example but it's the one most readily to my memory.