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toprak
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:35 pm
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Ep 17
Sho is insanely powerful. Joker saved Shinra, If he didn't, might be his brother would kill him.
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toprak
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:38 pm
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Ep 18
Arthur's donkey, looool.The captain's meeting was quite the interesting one given the unique nature of the participants. For not just the captain but also a number of their elite squad being exposed as traitors must be bad for the empire. Even though the rookies of the 8th have some skill its effectiveness is limited by their lack of combat experience.
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toprak
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:44 pm
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Ep 19
Wow, simply wow, I just shocked what tamaki and maki did, I was thinking they were useless forever but they weren't, they proved that to me.
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toprak
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:47 pm
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Ep 20
Lieutenant and Arthur kicked ass. Hinawa, in particular, was badass, but I thought Arthur with his new samurai-knight form was cool as well.
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toprak
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:48 pm
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Ep 21
This shit with Lisa was pretty generic, and the fan service was as poorly placed as ever. I can't say either the stuff with her or Sho was very impactful from a narrative point. Just box-standard shounen.
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toprak
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:50 pm
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Ep 22
Jojo vs Dio as fire brigade maybe Sasuke vs naruto, I mean it was so generic.
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toprak
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:51 pm
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Ep 23
Shinra and Sho's moment was quite emotional, but sadly, it was ruined. Haumea took away Sho, but glad the 8th managed to save Shinra. Also, nice Burns vs. Shinra going to happen again.
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toprak
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:53 pm
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Ep 24
It had potential but they've ruined it, I hope they will improve it the second one. 4/10
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Joined: 07 Mar 2009
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2020 5:11 pm
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Season 2, Episode 1
I enjoyed the first season so I'm stoked for season 2. I like the wacky humour and the action scenes are pretty cool. But mostly, of course, I'm here for the beefcake...
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DuskyPredator
Joined: 10 Mar 2009
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 2:55 am
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How could they fail at making firemen look sexy? Just an animal in it or something. Maybe I have just been taking peeks at the fireman calendar that is hanging in my house, June has a duckling. They seriously could have just asked the girls what would look good instead of try the exact same method that lost the previous year. I guess that it would not be funny otherwise.
The also fought a big guy. I was a little bit between thinking that it was cool and wondering if it was a bit of a weird escalation of an opponent that was just meant to reintroduce them.
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ACxS
Joined: 03 Aug 2019
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:59 pm
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I expected the series to start off with a filler episode. Probably for the better; diving right into the plot would've been hasty. Just refresh the audience's memories on who does what (although it hasn't been that long since the previous season) and go right in from the next episode onwards.
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DuskyPredator
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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 12:35 am
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Season 2, Episode 24 (finale)
Okay, I don't know a lot about that series, but I know that was the moon from Soul Eater. Are Fire Force and Soul Eater connected? Apparently they are by the same author, but the moon flickering from a normal one to the one from that series like it has been hidden by an illusion makes it feel like they could be same worlds sort of thing. I tried starting that series a couple times, but I only managed to get through Soul Eater Not as a weekly show.
As for back on Fire Force, I was kind of disappointed by earlier episodes of the season, I remember thinking that it felt like it was dragging and I was losing interest. But then it started getting good, I can't remember what part, but I think that it involved Arthur. The radiation beams were kind of cool. Then it started feeling like it was getting a bit too full on, like losing some fun element by being a bit harsh. Super relevant to a late episode of the season when it suddenly had a whole lot of people being killed and becoming zombie, right after a whole bunch of goofy death flag flashbacks, which did feel much darker than the series had been before.
In the end, I don't have super fun with this show. It has some enjoyable battles, and even occasionally the comedy could work for me, but a lot of the time it does not get a super lot of interest, things that I could take or leave. I also think it at times has a habit of getting a bit mean spirited, and I don't think the girl's habit of accidentally stripping has ever been a positive aspect of the show. My rating is Decent (6/10).
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ACxS
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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 5:03 am
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Final episode:
I'll be frank: I was never a fan of this show. The concept was interesting but I had a big problem with the directing in the first episode. I discussed in another forum how the show had poor atmosphere and storytelling: shounen shows like My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer (and maybe Jujutsu Kaisen... haven't followed that show but I'm hearing good things) are setting benchmarks for the genre.
Fire Force is a poor man's version of it; it felt like an imitation of Shinbo/SHAFT's signature direction style with the the muted, one-shot scenes (interestingly, I found out later that the first season's director was employed by SHAFT and worked with Shinbo... figures). Plus, the show indulged too much on the characters' tics and eccentricities, to the point that it's frustrating. Oh yes, and Tamaki's fanservice moments were too blatant to be remotely amusing. I wasn't even sure if I wanted to follow the second season, and the only reason I eventually did is simply to know where the story is going.
This season changed my mind: it's actually better than the first season, and it's mostly because the direction style changed (unsurprising; it's a different director this season). The season focuses more on getting the plot going instead of each character's weirdness or just trying to be funny with its own brand of humor. I still see them, but there's less of Arthur's idiocy, Tamaki's random fanservice, Karim's repetitive and circular speech impairment, etc. It actually doesn't feel like a chore to follow the show this time round, and I'm actually happy about it.
So, like Dusky said, the moon is directly lifted from Soul Eater, which was creator Ookubo's first work. He's making a Ookubo universe, a la TYPEMOON, Marvel, DC, Capcom, etc.? We don't know; it's an interesting revelation. Another thing I'm wondering: why did this season wrap up as though it's the grand finale? Is the manga still being serialized now, so there's no third season developing yet?
6/10 for me. I gave a 5 for the first season, and I was being generous too. The second season redeemed itself, even if by a single point.
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DuskyPredator
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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 5:45 am
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I do think the second season was certainly an improvement in areas, but there were also parts that I was kind of dead on that I kind of put the consideration of watching the first season as a requirement.
The tic thing is a problematic part, it was a reason why something like Black Clover really clashed with me and I eventually dropped it. A character quirk is okay, but not when it is something like the majority of its character. A character can especially be improved when they might act in a way that might be contrary to their usual quirk, a little bit like when they were all high for the overseas episodes, but not just being high. It is maybe why I think Arthur can be the most interesting when he could shift into a more serious mode as well as goofy.
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ACxS
Joined: 03 Aug 2019
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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 8:47 am
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But too bad: characters tics are very much one of the tents of the shounen genre (My Hero Academia, Demon Slayer... they're all very guilty too).
And that's the thing about shounen: it needs quirky characters. You never see apathetic characters in such shows because they would go against the spirit of shounen (or seishun). Every shounen has this embedded message that tells the audience how youths need to be passionate about something... whatever that is.
P.S. I'm glad I dropped Black Clover right after the first episode. What I thought would be a one or two-cour show, it ends up ongoing now even after nearly 150 episodes. It would've been torturous for me.
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