C Episode 10 Discussion

kirby_422 said:
What was with when she gave him george? the freaking ring said "WWTF is yours" wat?.... that's their offical spelling for george?

mesniac said:
Damn I'm not following at all.

What do the card colors mean/what do they allow?
How does one acquire multiple assets?
What was happening to Q (when there was the counter in front of her)?

Crii said:
@ Scul: Don't be so mean about it. D: Its not Mesniac´s fault that he/she gets confused at some parts. :/

Koi-Miru said:


Imma placing my bet on the tentacle thing that 'ate' part of the financial district *cough*cthulhu*cough*

negativedemyx said:


Might as well be cthulhu. LOL

AngelicFeces said:
Blah blah blah, give me more Mashyu and I'm happy.

Jacut said:
Hands down the best episode in any anime this year. That's about the most you can do in an animated TV series at the moment as far as direction, scenario, character development, music and battle sequences go.

AngelicFeces said:
Blah blah blah, give me more Mashyu and I'm happy.

xxSaspra said:
Wow, the series has been getting faster and faster paced. I found the beginning pretty interesting so I think that they could've stretched this out a few more episodes to slow down the pace.

wakka9ca said:

All that economy bullshit adds a bit of exoticism and novelty but you really have to turn your brain off to avoid the absurdity of all this.

ArcrexK said:
Okay, you've got a pissed anime watcher here.

For the sake of god, I feel like rage-quitting so badly. Mikuni sees [C] get reflected back and thinks 'god-dammn rich America, time to roll out the money press again.' Last time he sacrificed 20 years of his life, we can presume he is sacrificing something of equivalent value this time around (case in point: Masasaki asks him if he is fine with the possibility that he will have no future left).

What's the big problem here? Jennifer and whoever are really fucking stupid. After rolling off this spiel about how we shouldn't sacrifice the future for the present or whatever hypocritical bull-crap they were spouting off, they completely destroyed the Japanese economy. Goddammit, DO YOU KNOW WHAT HYPERINFLATION DOES TO A NATION? No, it's not just another '-flation attack'... All this bull about 'let's make people lose TRUST in the Yen!' is just pathetic - not even Hitler was this cruel.

Let's take a quick spin back to Economics 101.
Hyperinflation = mass printing and distributing of currency (in this case Yen) in a short period of time = Yen becomes worthless.
Problem? Japanese people are savers - a large majority of income is typically invested or saved in the bank. It's an Asian thing, really.
Result?

You've just devastated the livelihood of tens of millions of people who have stored their life's savings in banks. You've destroyed - not just destroyed, but completely and utterly fucked over the Japanese economy. This isn't some little country with a population in the thousands. There are a hundred million people living in Japan - and not only that, people worldwide will be seriously affected, with the rise of globalism and all that capitalist crap.

Oh, but surely it can't be THAT bad right? We can just switch to the US dollar! Whoohoo~ Or maybe the Chinese Yuan, or the Euro? WELL GUESS WHAT, IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.

Yes, that's right. There's no quick fix to this fucking huge problem you've created.

ArcrexK said:
Okay, you've got a pissed anime watcher here.

For the sake of god, I feel like rage-quitting so badly. Mikuni sees [C] get reflected back and thinks 'god-dammn rich America, time to roll out the money press again.' Last time he sacrificed 20 years of his life, we can presume he is sacrificing something of equivalent value this time around (case in point: Masasaki asks him if he is fine with the possibility that he will have no future left).

What's the big problem here? Jennifer and whoever are really fucking stupid. After rolling off this spiel about how we shouldn't sacrifice the future for the present or whatever hypocritical bull-crap they were spouting off, they completely destroyed the Japanese economy. Goddammit, DO YOU KNOW WHAT HYPERINFLATION DOES TO A NATION? No, it's not just another '-flation attack'... All this bull about 'let's make people lose TRUST in the Yen!' is just pathetic - not even Hitler was this cruel.

Let's take a quick spin back to Economics 101.
Hyperinflation = mass printing and distributing of currency (in this case Yen) in a short period of time = Yen becomes worthless.
Problem? Japanese people are savers - a large majority of income is typically invested or saved in the bank. It's an Asian thing, really.
Result?

You've just devastated the livelihood of tens of millions of people who have stored their life's savings in banks. You've destroyed - not just destroyed, but completely and utterly fucked over the Japanese economy. This isn't some little country with a population in the thousands. There are a hundred million people living in Japan - and not only that, people worldwide will be seriously affected, with the rise of globalism and all that capitalist crap.

Oh, but surely it can't be THAT bad right? We can just switch to the US dollar! Whoohoo~ Or maybe the Chinese Yuan, or the Euro? WELL GUESS WHAT, IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.

Yes, that's right. There's no quick fix to this fucking huge problem you've created.

And the worse part of this is? Mikuni's hard work over the past years - gets completely nulled by Kimimaro's deux ex machine. 'Oh, look, guess what I found? I have a BLACK CARD too! How lucky~' Couldn't the writers pull something a bit more clever than that? Jeez.

You know what, I seriously can't be bothered to rage about the fail economics anymore.

StormViruz said:
Still wondering as to who the hell is this "above" from whom he's following orders.

Monad said:
Sense, this show makes none.

Segmented said:
Hasn't Kimimaro's card always been black? If so then everyone really is bad at noticing obvious things. My first thought when they mentioned the 'Black Card' is that Yoga already had one so they were kinda wasting time..

Xieon said:
This episode was awesome.

I still don't get how the fights work (I understand all of the economics terms they are using, but I don't actually get the fights, but I guess it's supposed to be like that, they don't really need a reason to explain it, a lot of it is more of a metaphor).

Xieon said:
This episode was awesome.

I still don't get how the fights work (I understand all of the economics terms they are using, but I don't actually get the fights, but I guess it's supposed to be like that, they don't really need a reason to explain it, a lot of it is more of a metaphor).

Does anyone know if there's any talk to do more with this series? A manga, or more anime?

Or is it just going to end? Because personally I love this show, one of the best of this season, and I'm sad to see it end. It could definitely be longer, or a manga could be really good.

Any help is appreciated :)

Hypno-girl said:


As you know assets symbolise their entree's future while the financial district symbolise the country's future.
Entree are allowed to borrow money from the midnas bank at the cost of their future but they can also earn it in deals which they are obligated to participate at least once a week.

The principe of a deal is simple, there is three type of attack that Asset can use that correspond to the number of money the entree is wishing to bet on it.
The most money that is put into an attack, the more likely will it be stronger. I say likely because this isn't totaly exact.
An entree's money is also his future and the future is a very complex thing. Let's say if Kimimaro is betting 50% of his money into an all out attack, do not expect Mikuni to be able to block it without putting at least that much effort into it.

If the attack miss then the money is wasted, if it hit then it'll steal as much future as what was invested by the entree to it's opponent. I say future because future cannot be calculated with money, basically what they are trading is future but with the means of money.
If Mikuni want to shoulder C, it won't cost him money, he is trading his future for a future where he would have been able to shoulder C through money because money = future.

I still think that this story would do much better as a novel than an anime.
It is still interesting to think about why is the financial district is even there?
If a financial district lose all of it's money then it disapear, it's whole future is taken away by an unknown entity.
Let's take this a step further, what if the other planets in the galaxy were habited by human but earth was the last one standing with it's financial district and every other plannets's inhabitant disapeared. The earth being the last one standing the finantial district divided itself into country, when there'll be only one country remaining it'll seem as this country is the whole world and then city may have their own financial district then when there'll be only one city standing it will divide once again until it took the whole universe's future.
The only way to fight such an entity would be to spread the money and population, basically to not stay shut in in the confort of it's money but expanding the human race where it couldn't go and to use money to the greater good.

ArcanaTrace said:
Great episode this week as usual, this anime seriously is one of the best this season.

I hope Masyu ends up with Kimimaro in the end and not have the crap Father-Daughter shit like that of Saber Marionette where the 3 girls got turn into the main protagonist daughters.

StealMate said:


No they don't need to participate in deals once a week. They can skip it as long as they want just like what the blonde chick with good Engrish skills is doing. About her final bout with Mikuni; did she really die? o.O

Hope it will be resolved in the final ep. Though I doubt, seeing that there are lots of subplots that needs solving and the pacing is awfully rushed.

The anime doesn't make sense but still I'll give it credits for being bad-ass plus its cool ending song.

And I a 100% agree with you on it being a novel rather than an anime.

taj69 said:
I like how some people were saying, "I must have missed something, I need to go back and rewatch some of the earlier episodes."
You didn't miss anything, this was badly strung together plot-wise. They intended to gloss this over with Engrish power up moves, similar to how most shonen battle stories go. But in those stories, the emphasis is on the moves, so they at least attempt to explain it. In C, they don't. And instead of Kanji, they use economic terms the average Japanese ( and English) viewer doesnt know as finishing moves. This is independent of anything real-world economy wise, just a typical move an anime studio would pull.

For those of you who don't know, there is a finite amount of resources in this world, and finite amount of money. It might be in the quintillions, but its still a finite amount. When one country gets richer, its usually at the expense of another country, or the earth (resources). It's seriously just survival of the fittest. Japan is looking out for themselves, and America is looking out for themselves. Nobody wants to be bankrupt, so to try and justify your own country as superior, correct, or righteous, is just like a frog trying to piss out of a well. It's real world consequences, versus stuff you learn in school.

Oh and in case you're not aware of it, everyone casts other countries as the villlian role. They do this to make it popular, by playing to nationalistic tendencies. Just like how America usually casts Asians as nerds. Unless its a kongfu movie. But if its a kongfu movie where the main character is a black kid, then the asians are villlians again.

ArcrexK said:

What's the big problem here? Jennifer and whoever are really fucking stupid. After rolling off this spiel about how we shouldn't sacrifice the future for the present or whatever hypocritical bull-crap they were spouting off, they completely destroyed the Japanese economy. Goddammit, DO YOU KNOW WHAT HYPERINFLATION DOES TO A NATION? No, it's not just another '-flation attack'... All this bull about 'let's make people lose TRUST in the Yen!' is just pathetic - not even Hitler was this cruel.

Let's take a quick spin back to Economics 101.
Hyperinflation = mass printing and distributing of currency (in this case Yen) in a short period of time = Yen becomes worthless.
Problem? Japanese people are savers - a large majority of income is typically invested or saved in the bank. It's an Asian thing, really.
Result?

You've just devastated the livelihood of tens of millions of people who have stored their life's savings in banks. You've destroyed - not just destroyed, but completely and utterly fucked over the Japanese economy. This isn't some little country with a population in the thousands. There are a hundred million people living in Japan - and not only that, people worldwide will be seriously affected, with the rise of globalism and all that capitalist crap.

zorapup said:
The idea for this show was appealing but the direction it took was a bit questionable. There seems to be a lot of thought behind the deals and rules within the Financial District. I have a feeling the writers were banking on the fact that they would receive 24 episodes this season but for some reason was cut to 11. Perhaps popularity of other shows won the bid to make a 24 episode series. In any case, everything is clearly rushed as there is some desperate attempt to wrap up this series with some decency. The past couple episodes were I admit, plot driven and action packed but again, it feels all crammed at the end with no real reason on why certain things happened; like how Jennifer or the organization she works for came up with the idea to macroinflate the economy for real. Maybe they'll explain in the finale.

If this does NOT end "happily" I'm not sure what to expect. It actually might be more interesting to see what happens to Japan once it gets eaten by that tentacle monster (what the heck is that anyway?) Sort of like a black hole mystery