TianCheng said: Ok, I seem to have missed the glove part, so my bad there. As for the others, my points still stand.
Every single fight was an ass pull, there was absolutely no consistency in power levels (one episode she's trashing the main boss, the next she's having troubles with the underlings, then she trashes the underlings who get powerups in the meantime) she's inventing new powers on the spot when she needs them the most, etc..., it's like all the combat data is pulled right out of Fairy Tail or Bleach.
I ended up going in depth anyway.
In episode 3 Satsuki had just put on Junketsu which, as we see in later episodes, takes a large toll on her. It was the first time she used him/her/it so it would make sense that she wasn't experienced in using Junketsu. The fact that she won from Ryuuko can be attributed to her own skill.
Ryuuko defeated Sanageyama because of his overconfidence, not because she was stronger than him. In their rematch he wiped the floor with Ryuuko because he simply was much stronger than Ryuuko was at that point.
Gamagoori lost to Ryuuko not because she was stronger than him, but because he failed to realise that unlike every other offensive goku uniform before, Senketsu hadn't shown any sort of offensive ability yet, as the scissor blade is not part of Senketsu. Once Ryuuko and Senketsu were inside the vulnerable part of him, Senketsu could been any sort of weapon and it would have been effective. He didn't transform to fit the situation.
The fight with Inumuta was used to further explore the transformative abilities of Senketsu (and by extension the Kamui's ). It showed that a kamui can stretch and alter itself in a non-critical situation (a requirement for an ass-pull). Those abilities were shown later on in Nonon's fight with the spiked skirt and with Satsuki and Ryuuko's rematch in episode 15 with Junketsu's grappling hook and drill.
Nonon's extra transformation can be justified because her first transformation was just a fusion of the instruments of her underlings.The uniform would be useless if she didn't have her underlings around. It would make sense to make a stand-alone transformation.
Senketsu Mubyoushi wasn't a new transformation. Nonon's sound wave was vibrating at the same frequency as the resonance frequency of life fibers. Like a singer destroying a glass because their voice is being sung at the same frequency as the resonance frequency of the glass. Senketsu was heavily vibrating because of those sound waves and was being destroyed. He couldn't hear anything else because of that. The only things he would be able to hear were the things he was in contact with, namely Ryuuko.
Ryuuko asked him to focus on her heartbeat and match it's frequency. All Ryuuko had to do was stay calm and keep her heartbeat steady. Nonon's sound waves couldn't change Senketsu's frequency anymore and because of their constant frequency, Senketsu and Ryuuko acted as a tuning fork. Tuning forks emit a pure tone after a while when the overtones die out. The pure tone was the blast that was fired from Ryuuko, giving her an opening the cut Nonon with her scissor blade.
Senketsu shippu is going more in the direction of an ass-pull but I still don't think it is one. The naturals election arc was there to explore all of the powers of Senketsu (among others) and seeing as she doesn't get any more drastic transformations other than in the final episode, a flying opponent would be ideal to bring out the last of Senketsu's main powers. The fact that it was a drastic change and that it happened so fast was also a plot point, as stated by Aikurou and Satsuki.
After this no more important abilities get introduced. I could go on and write about the later episodes but most people's problems lie in the first half.
TianCheng said:
The ecchi or fanservice or however you want to call it (although I'd say it transcends both, and goes into the annoyingly unnecessary category) - that's my entire point - why is it supposed to be unnerving? Isn't this supposed to be a comedy? Or is it supposed to be a parody? Or action? Or ecchi (boob shots, ass shots, tentacle whipping, pussy grabbing, tit grabbing, etc)? That's the whole problem, it's trying to be everything, and failing to be good at anything.
I should note though, I'm not a stubborn bastard trying to defend my views at all costs, I'm simply expressing them, and looking for an explanation, if someone can offer one. For now, I totally don't understand what this was supposed to be, and why everyone is so infatuated with it.
The ecchi in general wasn't supposed to be unnerving, only the Ragyou scenes were. Being a comedy and an action series aren't mutually exclusive. It's also not a parody because it celebrates all those shounen tropes, instead of making fun of it. I honestly found the fanservice to be completely non-intrusive. There really weren't that many ecchi shots and most of them were simply the result of having skimpy outfits in the first place. Most of them were also visually overpowered by something else in the same shot or were just there for a fraction of a second. |