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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Dang, I got the whole espionage feeling this episode and the military flair running around town. Episode had a good balance of eerie and liveliness though. So much shit still going down in the streets though and no safe haven for anyone.  |
Stark700Apr 26, 2016 7:38 AM
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| lol am I supposed to find it touching the moment when that ugly 30 years old fat man reveals that he is avenging his lover??? Wtf is wrong with those pedos? Not as good as the last episode but still good. |
| “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.” ― Saint Augustine |
| This Episode have even stronger "Spy" vibe in it. At least until that "Revenge" revealed. I thought it was an earthquake. Because it'll be funny he got startled like that for an earthquake. |
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| Not as good as the last episode, i was expecting a bigger twist at the end, this revenge thing didn't make much sense, it was pretty confusing and out of blue(disgusting). But it remains good. So it will be a MC per episode... who was the guy of the episode?, they all have similar faces |
lezermanApr 26, 2016 10:29 AM
| This episode confused me because I didn't recognize anyone but the ending kinda cleared things up a little The outcome of this whole thing was brutal as fuck O_O The entire tone and atmosphere of this episode worked really well and the spy themes were on point as usual I really need to study episode one by learning all of the names of the trainees as well as what they look like because for the longest I was very lost as to why we were following these people xD Good episode overall tho....Dat yaoi tho lol |
TokoyaApr 26, 2016 10:37 AM
| All those spy fuckers from the D-agency and regular characters look the same. How am I ever supposed to tell who is the spy in the episodes -_-. I mean last episode it was obvious, however, I still didn't know the guys "name," since all the spies look alike anyways. Also wtf is up with the pedobear at the end of the episode lol. Does he want a wahburger and some frenchcries that his loli boy toy couldn't fulfill his pedobear tendencies anymore? For real, go call a wahmbulance... Also if I was the dude with that opium, I'd be smoking that shit or throwing some in tea :D! I honestly didn't like this episode that much 2.5/5 |
| I should've paid attention a bit more since I got lost a bit especially since I didn't recognize most of these people but otherwise, a pretty interesting episode. |
| These self contained spy stories are working well for Joker Game but I hope they got more to it though. Moving forward thus story was really close to what reality had been at that time. Everyone wants a piece of royalty and that's how people get to the wrong side. |
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| I couldn't even tell which spy was the focus of this episode considering they all look the same. |
| Seems like people are at fault for not uinderstand the anime. Yes this isnt ur cliche easy to digest anime u actually gotta think for once. |
| Damn. Two older guys and a boy... ew. Damn pedos. I liked the MC this ep as well, but last week's episode was better |
| Not bad, but I didn't enjoy this last couple episodes as much as the first two... I hope to see a more complex arc that last more than one episode. |
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Mushelox said: Because its not being spoonfed to you. The problem with most anime's narrative structure is that it translates things to the viewers like they are stupid and use heavy exposition to make people understand things.moodie said: Seems like people are at fault for not uinderstand the anime. Yes this isnt ur cliche easy to digest anime u actually gotta think for once. This doesn't really have anything to do with thinking. The spies didn't get a decent introduction making it harder for viewers to remember them AND their faces actually look similiar. Also this episode was kind of meh - I didn't really care about the whole (rather obvious) mystery and this episode's spy appeared for such a short amount of time. I'm beginning to doubt whether this "1 spy / 1 episode" formula was a good idea ;/ |
| Hmm, not as interesting as last week's episode but still not half-bad. It would seriously help if it was easier to tell these spies apart, but then maybe the point is that they're supposed to be hard to differentiate from one another. Still needs improvement though, even if that is the case. |
| i couldn't tell the reporter was fukumoto at all. interesting episode tho. i like the art but it's really araki-ish sometimes, to the point i struggle to tell some characters apart. |
| It was a good episode, But the previous ones were better. The captain was a broken man, He went crazy before he was killed. Didn't expect the Yaoi xD Sort of expected the reporter to be the spy after his insinuations. Need to go back to the first episode and learn the names of these D agency guys xD |
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| Ok episode. I don't like the episodic formula of the last two episodes. This episode was a bit too over the top in the last part. I would have liked to see how Honma discovered that the captain snapped and start selling opium. Too short to be memorable. |
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| It was fun playing spot the MC this episode. Wasn't as mysterious an episode, but still alright. I got strong Canaan flashbacks during the street scenes. |
| I have no clue what i just watched, but the ending was pretty sick. |
| Shanghai was one crazy town in the late 30's. I wonder if at some point all the spies will be together on one episode. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| Game over for me, I fail to spot the spy for this eps. xD |
| I get way too confused at this show |
| Moral of the story learnt: Never trust your superiors. It was a bit confusing at the beginning, but a good episode nonetheless. |
Re:Zero nice troll ending.  |
| lol thats not yaoi thats pedophilia tho its not out of place since a lot of nastier stuff happens during wars |
| I think this episode was a failure. I could identify all the characters in this episode, so that was fine for me to understand the plot. But I think the plot was too cliche. The MC this episode wasn't even the spy... wut!? Still I like the MC we have here. This episode bumped my ranking of the show down. I really don't like the episodic formula. I just don't see how this can work. With a great set up in the era and background themes, they can have a good over-arching plot. But they chose short stories which means they are throwing away the potential of international and domestic conflicts. |
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moodie said: Seems like people are at fault for not uinderstand the anime. Yes this isnt ur cliche easy to digest anime u actually gotta think for once. Or every character looks like the spies from the D-agency and not to mention the spies look like each other on top of that. So how could you understand whats going on if you can't even tell which character is who lol. |
| Just to let you guys know that the glasses guy was Kusanagi(fake name) all along and his real name is Fukumoto(real name. Next episode will focus on Kaminaga. |
| I didn't like this episode. And it seems to be episodic series, which is a big disadvantage for me. But one thing is bothering me. All those neons on the streets. Really? In that year? Idk, but isn't it a bit too early for this? |
| Dub = fake crap. Always. |
| Admittedly, it was hard to keep track on the characters a times, since most look very similar to each other. Despite that, I felt that this episode was still pretty good. Our spy was the journalist, who gave enough key info to Honma which helped him with his confrontation of his corrupt captain. The ending of this scene was brutal and bloody though... >_< |
He may not have gotten screen time, but everything was set up by the reporter. So in a sense he was the "MC" this episode. |
ColdbladeApr 26, 2016 1:39 PM
| I know why they used Kazuya Nakai as Fukumoto's seiyuu,.. if it wasn't for his voice I wouldn't know who is Fukumoto in this episode. thanks god that his voice is very well known. most of the characters looks the same and they even change their hairstyle which make it even worse to recognize them >.< |
| The only reason I was able to figure out the identity of the spy in this episode was because I recognized Zoro's VA, and I know he voices one of the D Agency guys (Fukumoto). It really is difficult to tell these guys apart unless you can match the voice to the character, but I feel like that was done to add to the spy element. Maybe they all look similar because as spies, they don't want to stand out, so they'll all blend in as just another generic passerby if they have similar faces. Overall, this episode, as others have mentioned, was all right, but a step down from the previous one. For the first time since the anime started, I actually felt disengaged from the episode at times. The ending was pretty intense though, and it was weird how that guy who killed himself was in a relationship with that crossdresser who was killed by the explosion. I really didn't see that coming, especially since relationships like that are pretty uncommon in anime. |
| 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. |
| Each episode depicts a new side of the characters but I am still not able to connect them all |
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thebrentinator24 said: The only reason I was able to figure out the identity of the spy in this episode was because I recognized Zoro's VA, and I know he voices one of the D Agency guys (Fukumoto). It really is difficult to tell these guys apart unless you can match the voice to the character, but I feel like that was done to add to the spy element. Maybe they all look similar because as spies, they don't want to stand out, so they'll all blend in as just another generic passerby if they have similar faces. Overall, this episode, as others have mentioned, was all right, but a step down from the previous one. For the first time since the anime started, I actually felt disengaged from the episode at times. The ending was pretty intense though, and it was weird how that guy who killed himself was in a relationship with that crossdresser who was killed by the explosion. I really didn't see that coming, especially since relationships like that are pretty uncommon in anime. his voice is not just known for Zorro from one piece, also Hijikata Toushirou from Gintama although Zorro is more well known. but seriously his voice is very unique and he played many roles in many well-known animes |
| @Fay207 Well I know he's not only famous for Zoro, but I haven't watched Gintama yet so I chose another character that he voices that almost everyone who watches anime has at least heard of. I mean if I wanted to I could have easily picked Zapp from Kekkai Sensen or Soma from God Eater. |
| 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. |
| Neat. It seems the spy at work is Fukumoto this time, the tallest of the spies. The MP's corruption abroad. Fukumoto served as an "informant" to Honma (?) leading him into investigating his own boss, Oikawa. Fukumoto also "played" Kusanagi. Col. Yuuki again scores for the D-Agency, without shaming entirely the MP (pretty much episodes 1 and 2, but the field work done by one of the agents, not Yuuki himself). A very atmospheric episode, full with dark ambience of temptation and madness. I liked it! |
thebrentinator24 said: @Fay207 Well I know he's not only famous for Zoro, but I haven't watched Gintama yet so I chose another character that he voices that almost everyone who watches anime has at least heard of. I mean if I wanted to I could have easily picked Zapp from Kekkai Sensen or Soma from God Eater. I understand that, I just don't like to recognize him for one of his work while he had many other works. I just thought it's not fair for the seiyuu. |
Fay207 said: thebrentinator24 said: @Fay207 Well I know he's not only famous for Zoro, but I haven't watched Gintama yet so I chose another character that he voices that almost everyone who watches anime has at least heard of. I mean if I wanted to I could have easily picked Zapp from Kekkai Sensen or Soma from God Eater. I understand that, I just don't like to recognize him for one of his work while he had many other works. I just thought it's not fair for the seiyuu. Yeah I totally get what you're saying, but usually whenever I hear his voice my go-to reaction is "hey, it's Zoro." But I understand that's not the only role he's ever done, and I respect the work he's done for other shows. |
| 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. |
| I was a little confused at who the spy was in the episode, but it made sense at the ending. A little bit weaker than previous episode, but still decent and interesting. |
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| I have zero investment in any of these characters because the first couple of episodes completely failed to establish them. I can't even name a single character. |
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| For people who confuse the spies, if you are well known people of the seiyuu world, you could always look MAL page of the characters, see the seiyuu and later try to recognize the voice of the character, since all the mains have pretty recognizables seiyuus. About the episode, well, didn't expected the pedobear moment of the end, but I liked the previous episodes more. I knew the glasses guy was suspicious, and he ends being Fukumoto at the end. That was the best part. |
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| The only voice I recognized was the one from Ochiai (Dia no Ace). Well, at least I think it was his voice xD |
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