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| Dialogue has always been this show's weakest point, so I was worried about how Gosso would handle it. But he really nailed it this time. Not everything was amazing, but things like finally giving "Geto" a real name, Kenjaku, worked really well. His ultimate goal seems to be some kind of instrumentality, and I usually don’t like stories where destiny is so set in stone. So it was great to see Toji mess everything up. Kenjaku can basically do whatever he wants, which feels a bit much. Some more explanation on the rules would’ve helped. The new guy at the end also seems to have the same technique as Nanami, which is interesting. His whole segment at the end as well, that whole two minute cinemascope scene was absolutely amazing, felt like watching the CSM movie all over again. The OST was great, the SB was solid, and the dialogue direction was really strong. Good shit Gosso. |
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| I don’t know, I always thought Tengen would have a deep husky male voice while reading this. Or maybe I just forgot if they ever showed or mentioned that wouldn’t be the fact lol, but anyway, this arc is so heavy on info dump that sometimes it feels like you’re watching two people talking on a podcast. I still feel the author made things overcomplicated.. just for the sake of it, and yeah, eventually had to write things full of inconsistencies. It wouldn’t show up now, but yeah, we’ll see in due time. Anyway, the guys know what they’ve to do now. Protecting Tengen and participating in the game(pretty obvious but hey). For rules and stuff, I’m actually kinda assuming the narrator would definitely narrate going forward.. I mean no way, anyone who’s watching will remember every small detail, without going back to this episode and pausing at selected timestamps. Angel and Takaba are here, and yeah, that ain’t going to be the end. Going to get a LOT of new characters from here. Am waiting for Maki stuff tho. |
| This would be what the simple-minded people would call the Yap episode. But the director storyboarded it so fucking well, it was really easy to understand. But I won't be surprised if many people get filtered out of it. All the explanations might be too much for the casual JJK audience who aren't too nerdy about all this stuff. LOL. So, it's understandable. I can tell this episode is gonna get a lot of hate. I hope I'm wrong tho. But, I think they did a great job at explaining stuff. I was personally pretty satisfied. Shoko looked so fucking beautiful in that short part. Yuki and Maki were serving the entire episode. Hakari mentioned as well. And, first look at Takaba, my boy. But, Poor guy. Also, the character animation during the entire Takaba part was chef's kiss. So good. Choso and Yuji's goodbye was sweet as well. :') He was crying... Big Brother Choso. |
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| I'm not at all fond of the JJK arcs after Hidden Inventory and Shibuya Incident, but man Culling Games Arc was such a slow excruciating pain to get through in the manga and when it's not involving action scenes, it really isn't handled that much better in the anime imho, especially with the dialogue, which....holy fuck...it's such a god damn drag to sit through that yappathon, almost as bad as that in Tensura S3. I understand the basic need for explaining the schematics of the game itself but it's needlessly far more complicated than it has to be. |
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Holy(or should I say Cursed) Infographic! some much data, information and charts I have to pause the video every few minutes. Just on the surface level, it built hype and tension quite well. |
| I knew this episode would be hated because it has a lot of dialogue and information and people are allergic to it XD |
| Yap session episode explaining the rules of the Culling Game, and while it may be a chore to sit through all that info (most of which a lot of us won't remember 💀), I like the way it was presented. Props to whoever directed/storyboarded this episode. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. Take me back to the days before MAL became infested with Twitter's favorite buzzwords. |
| Opening already growing on me. Holy exposition. Luckily it's not as overwhelming if you have already read the manga. But this is only the beginning. Particularly looking forward to the explanation of a certain cursed technique xD |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| I respect the efforts with storyboarding an episode like this to make it at least a little more interesting. Sure it isn't Monogatari-levels of great with handling heavy exposition scenes but at least there was some level of trying. It was really exhausting to sit through and fairly boring since the exposition even in the manga felt so heavy, dragged and forced out of nowhere for a series like this, but it could have been worse like sitting through some of the Slime meeting episodes from the latest season. |
| This felt like watching one of those corporate training videos they show you on the first day of the job to keep you from cutting your hands off with heavy machinery |
| People last episode: How I will get Culling Games rules without pausing? People in this episode: Too much info. Tengen would be in a big company if had work. Great presentation, point by point, very didactic. Want to learn how to present like that. 360 , giving dramatic lightning when others are talking. |
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| "I drop kicked that child in self-defence" - Technoblade |
| Damn, I almost forgot that dialogue heavy chapters were always the weakest part of the manga because Gege always write them in complicated and long way. Anime tried really hard to make it look nice with good animation and direction but still doesn't make it that better. Most of the anime onlies will not understand it and even if they somehow did, they won't be able to remember it for too long, as manga and anime as a medium is not the same. Although some fanboys will still try to convince people that there is nothing wrong with the episode even if things are crystal clear that this episode is definitely not normal . |
| This was an ABSOLUTE DUMP of lore. It's basically just the complicated part of the last episode of 2nd season but for a whole episode. I'm probably gonna have to further research this to get an idea of what's going on. Thought the red lining was pretty cool though. |
"Like rowing a boat, we enter the future backwards. All we see are scenes of the past, and no one can control the views of tomorrow" - Wit Studio  |
Reply to Ryuseishun
I'm not at all fond of the JJK arcs after Hidden Inventory and Shibuya Incident, but man Culling Games Arc was such a slow excruciating pain to get through in the manga and when it's not involving action scenes, it really isn't handled that much better in the anime imho, especially with the dialogue, which....holy fuck...it's such a god damn drag to sit through that yappathon, almost as bad as that in Tensura S3. I understand the basic need for explaining the schematics of the game itself but it's needlessly far more complicated than it has to be.
Ryuseishun said: It's not complicated at all if your able to read lmaot's needlessly far more complicated than it has to be |
| Great build up episode, LET THE CULLING GAMES BEGIIIINNNN 🗣️🗣️ |
| So, basically this is all Toji's fault. |
| This be a glorified yap session that couldve been an email of an episode. No subtlety, no creative dialogue. Staff tried hard to make it look more interesting but damn this was a slog of materal they had to deal with. Couldnt be saved much. |
| Kept watching for a loong time to pause and read the rules. xp Oh so Fushiguro had his coming out as head of Zenin clan. Cool. Chosoooo! (ᗒᗩᗕ) |
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| @Nerdason Yeeees that was so corpo xD Even with meeting minutes - what are the current ARs for everyone xD |
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| Love the lore and more worldbuilding we got this episode |
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Reply to Jollyne7
I knew this episode would be hated because it has a lot of dialogue and information and people are allergic to it XD
| @Jollyne7 If its like a Monogatari, sure. can definitely take an hour of non-stop yapping and have fun with it fun due to NISIOISIN's writing to go with the directing. idk if that's the same situation here. |
Reply to SoulReaper01_
Ryuseishun said:
t's needlessly far more complicated than it has to be
It's not complicated at all if your able to read lmaot's needlessly far more complicated than it has to be
| @SoulReaper01_ I'm not sure why you immediately take offense but sure, "I cAnT rEaD" LMAO It's not so much a case of "ability to read" as it is just simply being needlessly more inflated and complicated than it should've been. If you personally liked the dialogue dumping, all the power to you, yapping scenes CAN be handled well in anime. I just think it wasn't done so here, simple as that lmfao |
RyuseishunJan 15, 9:52 AM
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| Damn whole episode of lore yapping but just through wall of texts. Atleast decent animation and flow chart made it bearable. Now I know why the manga had bad rep. Yay Mai Zenin arc, more pain incoming kill me already🥲😭😭 |
| PERFECT PREPARATION NEXT WEEK OHMYFUCKINGGOD IM SO GODDAMN EXCITED |
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| Holy fucking yap, Gege can not write dialogue lmao |
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| Meh episode. Next gonna be peak though, I can’t wait for it. I already want to see Kirara. |
| Clearly inspired by hunter x hunter, clearly a bad choice. Is the culling game considered jjk worst arc? it must be. The game itself is stupid, but trying to explain it with a highschool concept map is even worse. Props to the studio for salvaging the idea and trying to add some visual effects to prevent us from falling asleep |
| It was kind of boring tbh I didn't think they needed to yap for THAT long. Just skip the episode if ya know what the culling game is and what they plan to do from thee |
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| the Tengen discussion...overly long, overly complicated, needlessly intricate... and frankly i barely understood half of it. even after binging S1/2 and Movie 0 within days of Eps1&2 dropping... so less than 2 weeks ago when i finished that binge. too many on-screen kanji linked to subtitles for those as well as the dialogue subs... i was reading so much i barely caught the fun glimpses of the animation and character designs and acting skills. so basically... the worst infodump exposition episode i've encountered in my personal anime history of 30+ years. plus, i didn't get explanations of what i wanted. 1 why is the dead womb whatchamacallit older brother thingybob's older brother too? the MC, orange hair guy. did the brain parasite guy BIRTH the guy him/herself by possessing his MOM!?! flashback to his infancy with granpa bitching about a dead lady to his 'dad' but a moving living talking lady comes into the room? 2 why is Rikka back from 'heaven' and with her 'husband' again? movie 0 showed her... going to the other side? after he released her from the curse he put his elementary school love thing under when she died from that car crashing into her. 3 who that eff is the blond hot chick other than what's his face's mentor in "What kind of girl is your type?" technique? i member her from the flashback arc of S2 and i think she was in movie 0? but thaaat's all i got outta her. i DID learn that the flashback arc in S2 actually MEANT something effing happened! INSTEAD of 'oh gee nice girl got new hole n her head n ded for no reason... because a new replacement for Tengen's bangin bod swap showed up like POOF!' nahhh that was the preface of the end of the world as we know it and i don't feel fine... eps1&2 told me nice hammer n nails girl i thought was fun is ded. which I REALLY DON'T LIKE. she was fun, shoulda saved her. maybe stick her in a special room and timeslow her till 1 second takes 60 minutes to happen... while the soul morph curse slowly kills her off... till somebody can figure out how to fix soul morphy curse. i did learn animation frames old drunkard and the twin girls' daddy is ded. and his sons are all wankers who need to poof from existence. and the twin i like is about 100 plastic surgeries away from looking cute in her glasses again. but at least she isn't ded. and funny thing... Megumin shadow edgelord is HER BOSS NOW!? funnnnyyyy! heh! her kohai is the head of her family now... i chuckled hard over THAT lil bit of sophistry with their daddy's will. "Does Panda even have a brain?" ohh that made me smirk thinking how PO he would be to hear that... but also laugh a little over it since he's not really human. oh i also learned Megumin shadow edgelord's older sister woke up from her coma... which i thought was cool... but now she's gotta be a sorcerer in this game thing? that sucks. ah well, i guess i'll just chalk it up to 'yet another day in JJK World' and wait for ep 4 to pop up next week. :) |
just an ol school American otaku enjoyin the life. don't sass me kiddies, i've been otaku probably since before you were born. leave me in peace and i won't bother you either.  |
| no comment, folks. no comment x Oh nvm, Ieiri's here stealing the show lol |
dazedcowcow62Jan 15, 11:06 AM
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