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| Only took this many episodes to finally get some semblance of Zai's backstory. Higan grieves over Emma's passing just as a letter challenging him to a duel arrives from Zai. Meanwhile, Mike and Jason aim to disclose the data they've hacked from AUZA to the public, only to hit a snag: Emma's external memory drive is encrypted, thwarting their plans. We're hit with this philosophical BS about "wEaKliNGs LiKe HiM hAvE nO rIgHt tO bE hEre." Okay, but did you have to KILL HIM DUDE?! I mean, geez, talk about going from one extreme to another. Oh... yeah, no, if this is the story, Zai was never going to side with them. This man was 100% going to side with the leader... HOLD THEM OFF BY YOURSELF?! All of this... and they even told him... Yeah... like I said... he was never going to join them in this... he just... he couldn't... his loyalty is to the Ninja. And that final CG fight in this episode is just this show summed up after that bomb-ass episode 1... just garbage CG action. Sigh. The long-awaited rematch between Zai and Higan... hopefully, it won't be CG. |
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| That was some good shit right there. Nice setup episode that I think shows this story is really about Higan and Mike not Emma. So her death, while sad, made a lot of sense for the story. This shit is so good. I can't wait for the next episode. I love the angle they are going with where everyone is trying to clean up their past so they can have a good future. Lastly, the music was on point this episode too. The armor is off boys we are going to have a real fight for those that didn't like the CGI ninjas. |
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Only took this many episodes to finally get some semblance of Zai's backstory.
Higan grieves over Emma's passing just as a letter challenging him to a duel arrives from Zai. Meanwhile, Mike and Jason aim to disclose the data they've hacked from AUZA to the public, only to hit a snag: Emma's external memory drive is encrypted, thwarting their plans.
We're hit with this philosophical BS about "wEaKliNGs LiKe HiM hAvE nO rIgHt tO bE hEre." Okay, but did you have to KILL HIM DUDE?! I mean, geez, talk about going from one extreme to another. Oh... yeah, no, if this is the story, Zai was never going to side with them. This man was 100% going to side with the leader... HOLD THEM OFF BY YOURSELF?!
All of this... and they even told him... Yeah... like I said... he was never going to join them in this... he just... he couldn't... his loyalty is to the Ninja. And that final CG fight in this episode is just this show summed up after that bomb-ass episode 1... just garbage CG action. Sigh.
The long-awaited rematch between Zai and Higan... hopefully, it won't be CG.
Higan grieves over Emma's passing just as a letter challenging him to a duel arrives from Zai. Meanwhile, Mike and Jason aim to disclose the data they've hacked from AUZA to the public, only to hit a snag: Emma's external memory drive is encrypted, thwarting their plans.
We're hit with this philosophical BS about "wEaKliNGs LiKe HiM hAvE nO rIgHt tO bE hEre." Okay, but did you have to KILL HIM DUDE?! I mean, geez, talk about going from one extreme to another. Oh... yeah, no, if this is the story, Zai was never going to side with them. This man was 100% going to side with the leader... HOLD THEM OFF BY YOURSELF?!
All of this... and they even told him... Yeah... like I said... he was never going to join them in this... he just... he couldn't... his loyalty is to the Ninja. And that final CG fight in this episode is just this show summed up after that bomb-ass episode 1... just garbage CG action. Sigh.
The long-awaited rematch between Zai and Higan... hopefully, it won't be CG.
| @IzanaSolos Zai is someone is not only duty bound but wants power so it isn't shocked dude is ruthless with everyone. I don't think the CGI is that bad as I found the fight with RJ to be really cool. |
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| Now that we've gotten to the inevitable and long-awaited Higan vs Zai fight, it makes sense to now get Zai's backstory. He had it rough and was cold toward everyone until meeting Higan and Mari. The action scenes during the backstory were fire and more reminiscent of the pre-Gusoku gear action. Speaking of Gusoku gear, I remember worrying that this fated battle would be fought entirely in those suits rather than traditional hand to hand combat, and hoped that at the very least it would be a half and half type thing. Looks like I'm getting my wish, we got part of the fight toward the end with them in the suits (with a fire insert song in the background) but now those have been shattered. Looks like this show's action will go back to its roots for this climactic battle with some fire 2D animation. IzanaSolos said: Only took this many episodes to finally get some semblance of Zai's backstory. Right before his final fight against Higan is literally the perfect place to put his backstory. Anywhere earlier in the series, when he was never the focus until this episode, wouldn't have made any sense and would have felt out of place. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| Should have been a show about the past (Gungrave meets Basilisk), much more interesting this way. That's where all the cool fights, sick backstories and chemistry is. Only watching it to set as completed, show dropped the ball hard and I feel sorry I recommended it to so many people... |
| This episode was fine. At least there were some nicely animated fights for once, despite the garbage CGI mech fight at the end between Higan and Zai. It was somewhat interesting to see Zai's backstory but, for whatever reason, I just cannot bring myself to care about the plot in this anime. I don't know if it's because it's so cliche or if it's because of the lack of exciting animation, but either way it's just boring. |
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MasterHavik said:
ice setup episode that I think shows this story is really about Higan and Mike not Emma. So her death, while sad, made a lot of sense for the story.
ice setup episode that I think shows this story is really about Higan and Mike not Emma. So her death, while sad, made a lot of sense for the story.
That statement is so terrible, never mind the fact that Emma has literally been the driving force of the story far more than Mike. But I guess we got fridge the female mc for shock value and man's pain, amirite?
| @AfroWarrior27 This anime has made it clear from the start characters could die any minute, so being shock doesn't make it to the end because of a promise she made his late wife shouldn't shock you. The story was really about them when you think about it as Emma's character arc was pretty much done once she reveal everything to Higan. |
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| A duel predestined!!! kekeke |
| Awful episode, wish the anime would stop focusing so much on its story |
| first decent episode in forever with some 2D sword action, the pov stuff was cool. shame they went back to CGI mechs at the end there. |
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| duel saudara antara zai dan higan |
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| This is the first episode where I felt the anime going downhill like the general consensus about it, but it has happened before in retrospect. I'm not really picky about the plot, since it is a rule of cool type of series, but characters are not interesting nor flesh out properly, here we have 3/4 of an episode dedicated to flashbacks between flashbacks to flesh out a character before a lackluster short fight, supposedly before the final showdown. I personaly still like this anime but the rating is probably not going to be a good one in the end. |
| What the hell was Mike thinking? I'd prefer if the bros fought it out without the mecha shit, it just leaves a bad taste. |
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@MasterHavik literally none of the MC has died so far, and they more or less immediately replace her with the that pasty middles aged Neet.
And it pretty much is shock value because he death is so dumb and contrived when you think about it. It more or less relied on the characters making dumb decisions for it to even happen in the first place.
And it pretty much is shock value because he death is so dumb and contrived when you think about it. It more or less relied on the characters making dumb decisions for it to even happen in the first place.
| @AfroWarrior27 This reeks of you just being mad your waifu died than actual criticism. Also we don't know if Mike will make it to the end he nearly got snipe in the last episode if he didn't have body armor. So he isn't save. Our nerdy guy ain't safe either as he can't fight for shit. He isn't neet so....that's odd of you to bring up. Emma story was over. It wasn't shock value but a surprise as no one thought RJ's Kamui was rigged to do that. |
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| So is nobody gonna absolutely shit on the fact that this man was fed and raised by GOD DAMN CROWS?!?!?!?!?! WHAT IS GODS NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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So is nobody gonna absolutely shit on the fact that this man was fed and raised by GOD DAMN CROWS?!?!?!?!?!
WHAT IS GODS NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT IS GODS NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
| @Mystogan14579 Don't underestimate crows: they're very smart (and hold a grudge very well). |
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@Mystogan14579 Don't underestimate crows: they're very smart (and hold a grudge very well).
| @hawk222 CA-CAW CAW CAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW (The crows sent this message, it's too late for him) |
| Those suits got destroyed quite quick. Hand-to-hand combat coming up now or...? Auza guy destroying the place wouldn't surprise me at this point. |
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| This cliche can't be saved at this point. It is directed so badly as well. I would have dropped this at 9th episode but there is 2 more left so i will finish it. There are 2 good things about this anime which are opening and 1st episode. Other than these is so mediocre. |
defaulticusApr 14, 1:47 PM
| would have been a 10/10 episode if it weren't for the cgi suits. such a darn shame that uglified junk has become standard in modern anime, sad! either way still a good ep |
| this show has several problems like concealing the plot and the action on the show, thanks for trying but others couldn't realize that either and ended up as a dumb action shows. i.e hellsing ultimate 🤣 |
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| This show fell off significantly for me ever since the mechs came out; but this one episode was quite alright actually. |
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| I was hoping the suit would come off and it did. We can finally go back to raw H2H no-mech fight. |
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| Finally the shitty animated stupid battle-suits broke lol. Hopefully we can have at least some great last fights, like the ones in the first episodes. Story is pretty predictable, can already imagine what happens in the end. |
| Gotta say things are shaping up for grand finale to be a shitty CGI fight, which is a spit in the face of the great choreography we've had so far. I hope that's not the case with suits falling apart, but something's telling me otherwise. |
| Does anyone know the name of the song during the final moments of the episode? |
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| This episode was kind of okay. I liked getting the Zai backstory as it makes it easier to understand his motivation. Looks like he's coping with rejection just as much as he's doing it for the ninja code or whatever. Mike and the hacker scenes were stupid as usual. The fight at the end was atrocious visually, but it looks like they broke the armored suits? Maybe we'll get a nicely animated Higan vs Zai armor-less fight next episode? He'll still have to fight the main villain and other Auza enemies so we're not out of the woods yet with ugly CG armor fights, but I'm hopeful for one decent looking scene in the final episodes. Btw, what was the point of fighting with swords if the armor could block the impact of swings and stabs? Kind of dumb |
poemofdevilApr 18, 3:07 AM
| Ninjas doing ninja stuff! |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
| Hand to hand now please, the suits ain't the thing making it interesting Zai's backstory was depressing as hell, dude went through a lot |
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| Zai vs Higan after that backstory, it's gonna be action packed |
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