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datora:
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Ep 03 out and ... looks like it's getting better. :)
[WhyNot] and [Commie] have some very interesting divergences in translation at several key points. Kudo's to [WhyNot] for translating more background signs & book titles & such, even when not needed. Nice touch ... and a key letter is translated @~14:30 that [Commie] didn't. Was it necessary for the plot? No. But, helped set that scene even better with it.
(click to show/hide)Saya-sensei is looking like she'll become a central figure to whatever the hell is going on. As I suspected from what she'd said previously, she appears to either have more direct knowledge as to what's happening ... or she's connected in such a way that she has some sort of direct empathy. Her knowing smile and some other behavior is getting creepy; not sure if she's evil. Yet. Maybe she's just being a really good psych counselor.
We get treated to a beautiful reading segment from the Little Bird story. Hope there's more of that ... seems inevitable as it also seems tied into the main plot. Some great artwork touches throughout the show, this book and a painting Yomi is working on.
Havoc10K:
+5000
for this show
I'm in love with it. The OVA arc started and it looks delicious. The alternate universe animation is so damn awesome.
I've been right from the very beginning, This is a true gem among recent anime's !
datora:
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I have totally NOT understood the lack of interest &/or hate on this show. It's a lot of fun. I think it's got one of the better mixes of psychological and action ever blended. Very dramatic switch between the abstract/surreal and "reality."
One of the fansub group pages I visited actually had a comment like: 'too bad there is so much school girl crap cause the shooting the fuck out of things is teh awesomes.' I have a hard time thinking that a group with that attitude can possible do a decent job on an anime where they totally miss out on what "awesome" means.
The only thing that's starting to wear on me is the vocals for the OP. Her voice is starting to irritate the fuck out of me.
(click to show/hide)Scene from Ep. 02 @~5:10, Kuroi makes pretty clear observation that Saya-sensei tells lies. On the one hand, the obvious thing to think is that the counselor is some kind of evils in this story, perhaps some sort of goddess of pain and feeds on the hurt. In this analysis, she is deliberately setting up conflict between various individuals. Perhaps it's even "better" the closer the friends are ... somehow it creates more "something" (pain, psych damage, whatever the goal is).
A lot of evidence might support this. Same Ep. 02 @~10:25, Saya-sensei observes that the dreams of friends are connected, for example. That's over-the-top. Any rational, reality-based counselor would never say such a thing and be serious about it, especially to young school children. It's mystical mumbo-jumbo. Except, in this world, she seems to clearly have a higher understanding of what is going on.
She has coffee cups that match the symbols for each individual in play, and keeps a marked profile on the relationships between them. But, it's her creepy smile where she seems to take pleasure in the pain of others ...
I note that she doesn't necessarily make coffee correctly for each student. I strongly suspect she's putting something in the coffee, too. Besides the point of feeding coffee to middle-shoolers ..?! It's a deliberate method of putting someone ill at ease and seeding discomfort and insecurity. That's in addition to her deceptive words & outright lies. What the hell is the agenda behind that?
However, that all may be deliberate misleading of the viewer by the authors. Too obvious? The flip side is that maybe she has a much higher understanding of what is going on and she is trying to manipulate the strongest players into becoming stronger for the greater good of all of them. She bears (at least some of) the pain herself to reduce the burden on others so they can continue.
A good counselor, for example, wouldn't coddle a patient in some cases. Telling someone that "nobody needs you" could be a very valid and necessary thing to say to someone to slap them in the face a bit and make them start paying attention to reality. The presentation of it in BRS seems overly brutal, but it might just be a bit of a mislead for sake of the plot on a valid psychological technique.
The most fucked up thing, to me, revealed in Ep. 04 is that the memories of the girls are being fucked with. And, not in trivial ways. It's like the events that cause pain are being erased as the pain is being fed on. Or, memories are being erased/blocked/changed in ways that cause the greatest pain and insecurity and disturbance in someone else ... growing the circle of psychological trauma beyond two or three individuals and expanding it.
Someone is deliberately creating damage, seeding 'evil' to cause conflict and pain. The fulcrum here, is it Saya-sensei? Or, perhaps she has to use her knowledge secretly to counter what someone else is attempting? Maybe it's some sort of Ender's Game plot, where she's trying to find/create a particularly strong protagonist (or group) that can be prepared to take on something much more profound than just their schoolgirl emotional baggage.
Havoc10K:
@Memories:
(click to show/hide)Blondie lost all her memories or most of them when BRS decapitated her "avatar".
She then lost consciousnesses and ever since then she felt like something happened between her and Yomi but felt bad telling her straight on so she tried to avoid her, and finally she asked her to let her go. This triggered another consequence. However the point is there, she didn't remember anything from before. It's possible she could have meet counselor-sensei years ago, probably soon after the accident, or even before it. She doesn't remember Yomi taking care of her and abusing Yomi.
This is especially visible with the team captain, she was taking counseling before she got the love letter and giving it, so after her "doll" was killed by BRS she lost consciousnesses as well and lost the memory of that. She says she doesn't even remember him.
We are now at the point where OVA started, leaving us with 4(?) episodes of main arc.
As for the OP, I actually like it a lot, I tried to find it on TT but to no avail.
ED song is also really nice.
--- Quote from: datora on February 25, 2012, 08:40:03 AM ---One of the fansub group pages I visited actually had a comment like: 'too bad there is so much school girl crap cause the shooting the fuck out of things is teh awesomes.' I have a hard time thinking that a group with that attitude can possible do a decent job on an anime where they totally miss out on what "awesome" means.
--- End quote ---
Lack of understanding the base of the events, if it wasn't for the "school girls crap" there wouldn't be the alter-verse where we would meet BRS and everything that happens there.
The OP animation also shows a vicious cycle of the girls "Avatars", one aiming at the other while another defends the aimed one and so on. This actually shows the paradox here, you can't make everyone happy, but you can actually try to make a set level of acceptable happiness. One where everyone is content to a degree, but not satisfied.
I'm hoping for the ending to be what I am thinking it will be. If i'm correct, we are up for a nice surprise.
GoGeTa006:
damn! this is getting really fked up. . .
that counselor is freaky!. . .and Im assuming she is the red-eyed girl in that alternate world?
anyways, Im noticing that the characters that have that weird eye looking thing have their alter-egos in that world. . .cause that basketball chick (that dumped the guy so epicly) doesnt have her eyes like that and she didnt have a "fighter" in that alternate world. . .
so. . . Iono but im liking it
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