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Glordit
Joined: 11 Sep 2020
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 Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 11:08 am
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This series frustrated me so much. I loved the narrative, characters, how the world worked but the complete lack of explanation for almost everything made it hard to watch.
Even The Fire Hunter was able to at least give us some explanations on why the world was the way it was and how things generally worked.
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Andrew Cunningham
Joined: 01 Feb 2006
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Location: Seattle
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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 11:17 am
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This went so full-tilt boogie with the jargon bukakke and wild worldbuilding that it looped back around to entertaining, and I just rode that crazy train all the way through, not trying to parse any of the details. Not super inclined to pick up the novel though.
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Greed1914
Joined: 28 Oct 2007
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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 11:33 am
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I think that underground battle is where things really started coming apart for me. What was happening on screen was interesting to look at, but I didn't have much idea on why the characters behaved in some pretty specific ways. Music seems to have some sort of power, but not much to go on as to why. People could fill certain roles on the fly like it's totally natural, but there isn't an explanation there. Terminology was seemingly so important that it would be placed on screen, but not important enough to explain most of the time. You'd have characters that freely called themselves "good" or "evil" but not behave particularly differently. I think some of it also got left on the cutting floor for time because you'd unceremoniously find out something happened to a character from a previous episode by someone just talking to Belle.
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bassgs435
Joined: 21 Mar 2015
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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 12:37 pm
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As a fan of other Ubukata works (Mardock Scramble, Fafner Dead Agressor, Heroic Age), this is interesting as a look to his earlier self and how his writing got polished and evolved in his later works, and I look foward to where he takes this. It's definitely rough and don't blame anyone who is turned off. But it's stil fascinating to me personally
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AQuin1904
Joined: 13 Nov 2021
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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 2:57 pm
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| Greed1914 wrote: | | You'd have characters that freely called themselves "good" or "evil" but not behave particularly differently. |
This is definitely on the innkeeper's exposition in episode not being clear enough. "Good" and "evil" are synonymous with "Topdog" and "Underdog," the two sides everyone in gets arbitrarily assigned to one of when they move to the city.
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AiddonValentine
Joined: 07 Aug 2006
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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 3:12 pm
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"Tow Ubukata"
Well, there's your problem right there. I get the feeling there's only so much they can do with the source material
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Terraziel
Joined: 01 Jul 2023
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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 3:27 pm
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| Greed1914 wrote: | | Music seems to have some sort of power, but not much to go on as to why. |
Was this true? I mean I didn't get that sense at all, the only real connection to music is the singers, the rest of the terminology seemed to just be the author calling a spade a trombone and claiming that counted as world-building.
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