No.5611
>Futarigurashiyea
heck yea
No.5669
>>5668I don't like seeing cute girls die either, but Assassin girl keeps Satoko alive...
No.5671
So if I get it right this is a CGDCT anime but with murder and ninjas? Hmm might give it a try because I like the purple nija.
No.5686
>>5681Really? It seemed pretty upfront about it with the way Kuro plays foil to Satoko & Konoha by representing reformation, virtue, assiduousness, etc. All attributes one could think of to portray an upstanding member of society, yet she's the one struggling most in life while Satoko & Konoha live luxuriously and relaxed, free of any karmic retribution. Which seems to be slowly corrupting Kuro's view on ordinary life as well with the constant temptations.
In a way I guess you could say this anime is even more ruthless than Jashin-chan because at least Jashin would eventually get some form of comeuppance even if her immortality ultimately shields her from permanent consequence. Though say I'd Jashin's probably still more
scummy than either protagonist in this.
No.5688
>>5686Kuro is going to start gambling soon...
No.5696
>>5668I can see an ending where Konoha dies an unceremonious death and Satoko just gets rid of the body out of habit, all her efforts reduced to leaves blowing away on the wind. It would fit the way the last episode ended, showing that life in the system is infinitely replaceable and the empty hole left by a life disappearing will be covered over in an instant. The only question is whether it would be better for Satoko to replace Konoha and be someone else's DV victim or for her to die too and make the entire show a meaningless journey to be replaced by another.
>>5671It's a dark comedy that wears the skin of a wacky cute girls anime to create a sense of distance from the events so the audience takes the murders and abuse as lightly as the characters do.
>>5686>representing reformation, virtueShe ran away from her duty and her colleagues so she could be a lesbian moocher. She's garbage and her failure highlights to foolishness of throwing away the system for short-sighted personal passions.
No.5700
>>5697Every time we see ninja living their lives, following their hopes and dreams, and being close friends with each other (the only characters to ever feel anything for someone else's death) it only proves how invalid Leader's stated reasons for leaving were. Reminder that she roped a bunch of other ninja into dying just to cover her own escape and did nothing to help give them a life outside the village. She's the biggest scumbag of the entire show.
No.5708
>>5706not hag enough for me
No.5709
dat NEET slacker dream
No.5710
Arguably, Satoko didn't leave the system at all. The initial reveal that initiated ninjas participate in the death market shows she didn't exit it, just switched sides, and she did this purely by accident under threat of punishment. She subsequently fails at finding a job not just because the job hunt and its prospects suck (which would constitute social critique) but because Satoko is a totally incompetent girlfailure that everyone makes fun of. Like, she ended up finding herself putting down corpses BECAUSE she talked about it in the interview, and it was the only lead she succeeded at pursuing. I'm also not sure Konoha can be said to be a positive portrayal of living life the way you want, given that in her free time all she does is toy with her phone on bed, spending much of her money on the lowest form of gaming.
No.5712
>>5710>I'm also not sure Konoha can be said to be a positive portrayal of living life the way you wantI suppose it could also be attempting to comment on how people without lofty or wholesome ambitions - i.e. Kuro wanting to move abroad with her lover - get rewarded in amounts exorbitant for the life they life while earning it through underhanded or immoral methods. Perhaps.
No.5903
>>5686This post did not age well.
No.5904
>>5903The corruption of innocence…..
I haven’t watched it yet but I was guessing the gambling would be her downfall No.5906
>>5905Oh you’re right, it is. Didn’t even notice with the backdrop.
No.5911
Kuro could erase everyone's memory but she doesn't. That's the one thing that keeps her normal and respectable amoung a cast of crazies
No.5914
Baked shabtato
No.5916
>>5912Ganbare, Satoko! Become a ninja who can scrub off all the AIDS!
No.5943
>>5924Easily tricked hag.
No.5953
>>5945I was too quick on the post, she was just a tsundere!
>>5948Yeah, heh. Thought there'd be some serious plot development and the ninjas might come back, but I like this route more.
No.5956
>>5910I think she's still more a deadbeat than a manipulative womanizer, given it's a problem the her and Yuri are working on. Also if she really were as sociopathic as Satoko or Konoha then she'd have no problem
letting them turn Sayuri into potato fuel as well. And again the two are shown in complete opposition to compassion.
Konoha only Sayuri when Satoko leapt in front of Yuri, and Satoko only doing that because she tripped. A clever comedy setup, yes, but it really highlights the cold blooded killers those two are. Aside from that thinking about earlier theories I wonder if that's why she's got her 木葉 name.
No.5961
>>5956Okay, Yuri, just ignore the fact that she tricked other women before you with her masculine wiles, didn't care at all that she tried to murder you and instead wanted to keep her ex around as an orbiter in case she came in handy down the road. She's a liar and a cheat who puts worldly indulgences above her relationships with those around her.
No.6029
>>5961Maybe she's just easily attracted to others...
No.6288
>>6287Konoha is a killer, but Satoko is the psychopath.
No.6291
>>6290Yeah. Honestly, having Roboko for an episode, I don't think I can look at their relation the same as I did pre-Roboko anymore... They really are just colleagues, and now we know that that's mostly because of Satoko, not Konoha. Because Konoha was ready to go
intimate with Roboko. It was better when we thought Konoha was a psychopath who would never get close to anyone, but now she's lost the one person she was getting close to...
No.6294
>>6290I don't understand what Satoko is doing wrong in the first place that meant she couldn't be close to Konoha like Roboko was... She's been helping Konoha the most for far longer!
No.6331
dumb SHAFTards
No.6864
>>5961>>6030Can't believe that anonymous is scanlating the manga...
>>>/jp/96414 No.6867
>>6864Probably just a coincidence, but that would be cool if so. I'm never going to read the manga since it would be a major downgrade from the Shaft adaptation.
Well, not that I read much manga to begin with.
No.6884
So I checked the manga to see if the latest episode had been censored in some way just in case, and the actual differences were pretty interesting...
The beginning lines up with the start of chapter 13. In the manga, Marin (the groper) sees Satoko poking Konoha's boobs and getting the idea that it's her weak point, that's why she assaults them with the gropebot 9000. The alley encounter is then identical, and after returning home they immediately notice Satoko's boobs have grown, call Marin, and Satoko goes live with her for a few months to test out the machine.
Shaft shuffled around some scenes and had Satoko figure out her growth while chatting with Marin, so she could have a talk with her about Roboko after seeing the impact her death had on Konoha, and discuss the koroshiya's emotional state. They also show the downsides of being a titcow before leaving the house, or learning to overcome them after returning, which isn't present in the manga.
The biggest divergence comes after meeting Leader, what actually happens in the manga after discussing the possibility of memory manipulation they decide to try group therapy. This is a lie, and instead Leader takes Satoko to pachislot to distract her from the massages, while expending her own boobers with Marin's invention. Also, Leader can't resist groping Satoko in front of Yuri. No tomboy ninja ever appears, and largely everything after the brown advent in the anime is different, instead focusing on sentimental talk between Satoko and Konoha. Boobcrush scene is also original.
This tells me that Shaft is making an effort to amp up the yuri AND the ecchi AND the dark humor, which is good. It's a big upgrade in all fronts and they're doing a great job.
No.6887
>>6884hoping they do an anime original ending in which satoko leafs konoha
No.6928
The Gainax episode was amazing. It filled my spirit with warmth and a desire to do my best.
>>6884Nice. Good to see a lot of anime original content. I can't imagine the manga competing with the anime adaptation, it's just that good.
No.7015
>>7013>caught me way off guard, since it was preceded by the silly takeThat's what I love about ninkoro. The harsh contrast between the funny sections and Konoha and Satoko mercilessly killing their targets is so great; I particularly like it when it shows how everyone else was affected by the murder, or the victim's past life and forces you to dwell on the consequences of Konoha's job.
No.7017
>>7016I watched a couple episodes of it but really it was just a boring idol version of strike witches with no fanservice. Didn't really deserve my attention.
No.7018
>>7016I didn't register it because I wiped all of Luminous Witches from my memory as soon as I finished it.
No.7021
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>>7017>>7017This saddens Ginny...
No.7022
>>7016>Luminous WitchesI haven't watched the episode yet, but what, really?!
I'm surprised they pulled that randomly out of the aether because it's hardly even talked about as far as i know, even in SW circles.
Wait... did Shaft make Luminous Witches? Is that why? I figured it was Silver Link or something...
>>7017>>7018Yeah... my case in point.
>>7021I still remember a couple of the more sweeter moments in it, and also liked that they experimented with going back to having the familiars visible and such, but it does have a few major problems.
I though it had kind of a solid foundation for the setting and characters, but it really didn't have anything that caught your attention, especially not coming after SW season 3 and the Take Off! seasons, one that had a focus on action and story, and the other a focus on good humor and characters. LW didn't feel like it really focused on any specific thing and ended up spreading the character development and stories out too wide and thin.
And i'm kind of fine with walking away from pantyshots and such, as long as you replace it with something proper instead, but LW didn't really even do that, so it just felt a bit lackluster in the end.
Also, the idea of combining Witches with idol culture felt like such a "lets just shoehorn something in because we have no other ideas right now" kind of thing.
Anyway, i just realized this was probably a bit too long and tangential reply for a thread about the ninja anime...
Oh well... i'm just gonna sage my reply. Because i think a new thread for World Witches content would probably end up about as dead as the series itself probably is right now, sadly...
No.7025
>>7023I forgot who made it, but yes. It was a shaft thing I recall.
Wasn't the greatest entry into SW franchise, but you take what you can get with something as contentious as Strike Witches
No.7026
Depressing episode.
Feels like Konoha is going to snap at some point.
The character who hides their feelings but has a lot of unresolved issues because of it.
It's something A-2 Pictures tries to do a lot with their bland kuro-kami male protagonists but never manages to do convincingly
No.7028
>>7027I'm not sure about that, actually. Cold-blooded murder and Konoha's seeming detachment are prominently present right from the get-go, and the episode was still largely comedic. It used some setup and a couple minutes to give a different perspective on these basic elements, which is not the same as an overall shift or introduction of new elements.
No.7033
>>7028It is probably just going to be my own wish that it becomes a story of how Konoha's and Satoko's choices ultimately lead them to suffering.
But it's probably just anon commital 1000 chapter series that just has a lame ending at the end
No.7066
>>7026You know when you think about it Ninkoro has some of the greatest portrayals of evil in a long while. It's not some great exaggerated evil trying to kill everyone because they hate people or the scale of their destruction, but rather the acknowledgement of their evil while continuing their actions. There's some sense of hesitation when Konoha sees the order and then a sense of guilt when she sees class pres handing out flyers, enough guilt to the point where she starts to hand out fliers herself. Not in some malicious way where she's teasing, but just because she feels the need to do something in atonement but doesn't want to confront serious action or reduce her own quality of life.
It's a particularly mundane sort of evil that's even more impactful because of how possible it seems that you yourself could potentially engage in it. A comfortable life free of most stress where you rake in cash at the misfortune of others. Though separate from the real world the dials are turned up to 11 to make an irrefutable point. Reminds me of some of the best episodes of Hell Girl like the nurse one where the concept of Hell Girl and her role is really flipped on its head as the viewer and the daughter is confronted with what most would agree to be a clear abuse of the system for disgusting purposes. The reasoning for the assassination request being a parent who wants to eliminate competition is the icing on the cake. There's no justified killing there, just pure greed. Leaves a foul taste in your mouth around the whole thing.
No.7069
>>7028I think it was more serious than comedic and we're clearly seeing Konoha gain a conscious.