what a cliffhanger honestly!! i'm so close to just reading the novels atp i don't know whether i can handle waiting another week, and then another week, and then....
i don't fully buy the idea that he went to heaven, but seeing princess acerola there makes me think that maybe she (the human) actually died when DVS made her into a vampire if that makes sense? so by extension, could shinobu have actually killed koyomi the human and not the vampire part? if you remember last time, gaen was the one that killed araragi which is when he was sent to hell for comitting the sin of being a vampire or wtv (it's been a while). this time however it was shinobu that killed koyomi, and considering they're two parts of the same person essentially, she couldn't actually fully kill him as an apparition?
i'm just rambling i don't have any clue as to what this would mean plot wise. either way, i really love the episodes that can just let you think about stuff after it ends.
it's a given at this point that the episode is a banger, 10 episodes in and every episode has been kino. loved seeing shinobu and hachikuji again after what feels like forever.
aaaaahhhhh what an episode. i can't wait for next week, i hope she finally sees her again. i still find it crazy how different shinobu is here compared to in kizu, it really shows how much she took suicide-masters lessons to heart.
i also kinda hope suicide-master isn't too against koyomi for what he ended up doing to shinobu, i'm really hoping they just catch up as friends lol.
3 weeks back to back 10/10 episodes how do they do it. the production was insane, the visuals are so stylish it makes it feel like you can see colour for the first time. like the school sequence??? sodachi is also such a perfect big sister to nadeko i can't wait till her arc gets adapted. the opening as well holy shit
And i dont agree with your take on "did you think killing me would be enough to make me die?" didnt you notice how they put 70+ different versions of it i think i see what you mean you want him to actually say it, but imo It was cool the first time now find something better.
i admit i watched it when it was airing (so mandatory 6 month break), i also distinctly remember not caring much for the first 6 episodes so if they were all stacked during them it'd make sense why i don't remember it as well. the second half though i felt tried very hard to shift the focus on characters that i just didn't care for in the slightest.
i agree with you when you say how can you make a super OP character interesting for more than a season, it's borderline impossible. i think the only way to do it realistically would be to make a season 1: 2 electric boogaloo. i think this shows only merit was the fact that anos just did dumbass shit that made it fun to watch as a comedy, and i felt like they just toned that down immensely during this season to focus on a haphazard, nonsensical plot.
it was never good, season 1 was fun to watch purely because of anos just doing anos things with his goofy ass one-liners. when you veer from all of that in season 2 to deliver a half baked, nonsensical plot with egregious pacing you lose the only reason why people watch your show. i hope in the next part we get more "did you think killing me would be enough to make me die?" instead of whatever tf was going on here
who's talking shit about the employees? it's like eating a terrible new menu item at mcdonalds and blaming the employee who made it. you'd be crazy not to empathise with the employees, but mappa as a company is at fault for even allowing it to happen on one of the most hyped shows this year. blame the suits, not the poor bastards at the bottom.
honestly i find it ridiculous when people come up with this "argument", same with 'well have you SEEN beserk 2016??'. why are you willingly eating the cocks of high level business execs who think cheaping out like this is okay? what do you stand to gain?
my hopes aren't high considering this was their premiere episode.. i'm praying it was a one off and the rest of the fights don't look like that, especially considering how gorgeous the 2d animation was in the trailers. i hope mappa don't waste the ip with cgman the entire season, though with the amount of dickriding in this thread they'll probably be fine regardless of what they do lmao