No.6700
Seeing this for the very first time with this thread! It does seem interesting at first glance, I might give it a try at some point. In the meantime, please tell me, why does he wear the mask?
No.6702
I have not watched the latest ep yet but I was definitely not feeling the last arc so I'm glad to hear it picks up again.
No.7133
I find the simplicity part of it's charm and how it acknowledges it's simplicity with the animation styles. They don't try to stand out with interesting frames, it just fits in very simplistically making it easy to understand
No.7134
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>>7133Hm, I could see that. It does look a bit simple, but it still looks great. Unlike a lot of other shows that focus on making a few seconds look really amazing at the cost of the rest, this one just keeps things looking pretty good at all times. The 3D looks pretty decent, too, especially for what must be a limited budget.
I also just really like the fights in this. It's cool to see the abilities and artifacts. The way that everything is a mystery really adds to the excitement of seeing things in action.
No.7141
>>7135I'll be getting up to speed with it tomorrow... I'm interested in seeing how it goes since manga readers have hyped it quite a bit.
No.7160
>>7135Yosh, so we're at the Invader Rights Association arc, which I often see this referred to as the best part.
What's nice about this story is that there are several characters with reasons to go against the status quo and they're not inflexible in how they choose to go about it. The timeloop arc in the manga had more bonding moments between Hisui and D that help explain why she'd cozy up to an invader (although it was worth skipping for the sake of pacing), and Yumeko has her uses for D in enacting revenge against the rangers, and with Usukubo's reveal his harem has been assembled.
Can't help but unfavorably compare this to ffffucking Dead Mount, as this series actually has setup and payoffs even while introducing more people.
Now... I'm gonna go lay down a bit.
No.7346
I think there's a lot of bad options. It's a very distopian show where the only decent option is the status quo. So far no one other than the rangers have been able to move the story while the fighters or pacifists are dominated by monsters who are in turn destroyed by rangers.
Cute yellow or D might try to effect the story but the rangers could do or overpower any of the things they're trying.
Hibiki is useless and not engaged with the story.
No.7352
>>7346>the only decent option is the status quoThing is, this whole mess comes from the status quo being bad. The rangers did some fuckery to get their divine tools, to power up Red (who, remember, is superhuman even without transforming), and instead of eliminating a threat to humanity they decided to drag it out and build an industry off its spectacle, so after many years there are now several people coming together to get back at them. Weight of their sins, internal contradictions, you know how it goes.
>>7337I'm thinking Red's nature ties into the bioresearch the yellows carried out in the past.
>lookalikesQuite possibly.
Besides that, it was a fast episode but it was by no means incomprehensible. Rangers got baited, then IRA (begorrah!) used their viral fame to pull their next move, and the keepers decided to follow the congregation assuming something would go down.
No.7357
>>7352It's not really a bad status quo, and Green Butai is the only one actually doing it's job while the others dick around and Pink is relegated to service tasks. Blue idk... the anime didn't explain it. Red of course being the frontline troops who do nothing causes the biggest issues.
The inequality creates problems, but the Japanese "Co-Existence is not an objective truth" suggests that there is a wrong side here and it's not trying to both-sides the issue. The monsters are in the wrong, and D is only correct in that he's a person who grows empathy as he deals with others.
No.7358
>>7357The monsters are obviously in the wrong and the executives have all been soulless monsters, but the rangers still handled the situation poorly and the bad things happening right now, like the kaiju attacks, are a consequence of that. The ideal timeline would've been the one where the invasion is quickly dispatched and rangers act according to their duty without forming this perverse system of half-assed exploitation.
No.8028
Well, hmm, manga readers hated it.
They heavily abridged the whole arc, skipped over a lot of the stuff that made it good as well as several plot points required for later parts to make sense, and super rushed the resolution with anime-original stuff. 42 manga chapters condensed into just 6 episodes, over twice as fast as the standard 3-chapters-per-episode, to give you an idea. Shame.
No.8041
>>8028sounds like maybe they weren't sure if they got another season or not