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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- So intense :o This season really isn't wasting time on the action as we got to see Sousuke again doing his job. In the meantime, they managed to reach the hostages. I have to admit, they're not shy to show violence this episode too with the action. I mean, tha gunshot to the head and blood... Sousuke's risky moves really makes him a guy that I respect this episode. Wraith is also quite a badass! Sousuke better bring Chidori back... |
Stark700May 4, 2018 6:19 AM
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| Now everyone knows about Sousuke. Hopefully they see if it wasn't for him and Chidori both Kyouko and them would have been blown to smithereens. I hope Leonard gets what is coming to him, that sorry bastard. |
| This episode is the best episode I have seen in this entire season so far. Everything was intense and felt very important. The action was also fantastic to witness. Poor Sousuke. Can't wait to see him bring Chidori back somehow! |
| Same. So far it's the best episode. The animation is amazing; I've never appreciated the ED song more than now that it's used as bgm to Sousuke's confession scene; the emotions in this episode is quite intense-- both the tension at Sousuke and Chidori's end, and the satisfaction with the Daanan's crew's sorta reunion. The episode left no breathing room with every second packed with action. That's ok though, I don't really need to breathe in this economy. |
| Bring her back or die trying is his goal! |
| The Arbalest vs Codarls was definitely better animated than Mao's M9 vs Behemoth A. Not too happy with the changes they made to the plot from the LN. Also has finished the LN a few days ago, I hope they extend it or have a season 5, otherwise it will be very rushed. |
| I knew we'd see that student council president again. This episode was pretty intense, this is already the best season of FMP for me. Yeah, I could complain about some of the CG and a few writing details like how abruptly Chidori seems to have gotten used to her Whispered abilities... but with everything it's giving me, I can forgive it for all that. |
| "EVERYBODY, CLAP YOUR HANDS!" "PLUS ULTRA!" |
Hard agree. Though they kept the braids intact and that's alright. |
| What an incredibly good and intense episode. Why are so few people watching this on MAL? Leonardo Testarossa joins the list of most detestable characters of all time. Why the feck did they have to make him so incredibly overpowered. Can't he bleed a bit even when he wins? |
| "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 |
| Fuck Leonard, seriously. Too bad it seems he will last for a time and will probably survive this series unless the studio rushes a lot of things. But still. The part when Kyouko was impaled by the debris made me cringe, that must be incredibly painful. Thank God she survived. Wraith is hot, I almost forgot she spended most of the previous series disguised as a fat dude. And Sousuke's classmates finlly learned about his true identity... Fumoffu now looks a bit more somber knowing the outcome of this episode. Seeing Ono-D that devastated was sad. At least Tessa and the members of Mithril managed to escape, though I think that, unless I have imagined things, one figure entered the Tuatha de Danaan... Maybe is Kalinin? |
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| 3/5 it was ok. Sadly compared to the last 3 episodes even more of the Novel was omitted. Also the plan that Sousuke used to free the school was actually his own in the Novel and he had to taze and sedate Kaname to get her out of the picture because she wanted to sacrifice herself right from the start. I don't like the extremely fast pacing. Would've liked to see some more of Tessa's awesomeness but oh well... Otherwise it was good. |
| Glad I didn't read the novels I guess as I only know the basic summaries of the story going forward. Seeing so many complaints regard the differences is already getting annoying. Glad I get to enjoy what we get vs what I would want. Even based off the changes I am seeing I think this adaptation is great so far. I like some of the changes too. Just be happy we are actually getting more FMP. But can't please everyone. |
GundamSoulMay 4, 2018 12:08 PM
| Changes are to be expected. You can't do everything in the novel. The author himself has worked on the script so I'm sure he knows what he wants to do. Great episode this week. The shit really hit the fan. Can't wait for more. |
| Didn't mind the changes too much from the light novel. The general gist of the plot was still retained with Leonard demolishing Sousuke, Chidori forced into Amalgam's hands, and the remnants of Mithril having to struggle to escape from Amalgam's attack. I was a little disappointed they cut out Tessa making an effort to get her hands dirty during the escape, but it didn't kill my enjoyment of the episode too greatly. I suppose for those not familiar with the light novel, some quick notable things cut: * The plan against Amalgam's hostage mission at the school was all Sousuke's idea in the novel. Chidori was subdued by a tazer from Sousuke as she was in hysterics and prepared to give herself up to Amalgam in the light novel and manga. I suppose the anime take made Chidori's character a little better in this regard, though her reaction to the situation in the LN and manga were more believable since she was not as used to being in life-threatening situations as Sousuke was. * As mentioned, Tessa made her efforts to contribute to Mithril's escape from their base in the LN as she was armed with other Mithril agents fleeing. Besides nearly being captured, one thing cut from the anime was that Amalgam agents were also about to rape Tessa before Mao saved her and the wounded Mithril agent. |
ggultra2764 said: Didn't mind the changes too much from the light novel. The general gist of the plot was still retained with Leonard demolishing Sousuke, Chidori forced into Amalgam's hands, and the remnants of Mithril having to struggle to escape from Amalgam's attack. I was a little disappointed they cut out Tessa making an effort to get her hands dirty during the escape, but it didn't kill my enjoyment of the episode too greatly. I suppose for those not familiar with the light novel, some quick notable things cut: * The plan against Amalgam's hostage mission at the school was all Sousuke's idea in the novel. Chidori was subdued by a tazer from Sousuke as she was in hysterics and prepared to give herself up to Amalgam in the light novel and manga. I suppose the anime take made Chidori's character a little better in this regard, though her reaction to the situation in the LN and manga were more believable since she was not as used to being in life-threatening situations as Sousuke was. * As mentioned, Tessa made her efforts to contribute to Mithril's escape from their base in the LN as she was armed with other Mithril agents fleeing. Besides nearly being captured, one thing cut from the anime was that Amalgam agents were also about to rape Tessa before Mao saved her and the wounded Mithril agent. Yeah. Those sound like improvements to me. Which makes sense since the writer of the LN is working on the series. |
| How much action and also enough violence, I really like how the adaptation does not try to reduce the impact of the fights, not losing the anxiety for the battles, since one of the main points of FMP in my opinion are the great battles, it is possible to feel the climate of war, even more with the deaths that occur all the time, has been the best of the season so far in my opinion Well, I still got pretty angry with Kaname in this episode, I like the thought that there are things that men should protect even if it costs their life, so even handing over herself to save Sousuke still makes me angry, already Tessa on the other hand it's always sweetheart, it's easy to understand why the soldiers would readily risk their lives for her .. Ah, and when I saw that amorous exchange between Melissa and Tessa, I could not help remembering and referring to Gauron's phrase for Sousuke in the final episode of the first season of FMP, which was marked for me, "Aishiteru ze Kashim!" , it can not have been just a coincidence .. |
drama_menckMay 4, 2018 3:44 PM
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GundamSoul said: Yeah. Those sound like improvements to me. Which makes sense since the writer of the LN is working on the series. Again, I didn't mind much either way. Changes are inevitable for adaptations. But as long as the general gist of events and themes are retained, I don't care eitherway. Was just commenting as I noticed this episode made some slight changes to its events while the earlier episodes faithfully adapted the LN to every minor detail. |
| This is bloody amazing, exactly what I want from an action mecha anime! Sagara's despair was really well conveyed, kudos to the VA for an awesome job on that. The animation is outstanding, I could jerk off to those mecha battles and their smooth movements |
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| I love the fact that Sousuke's shenanigans during that year taught the whole school how to evacuate a building in record time :) |
| Man Arbalest got destroyed just like that it hurt my heart :( Everyone who skip Fumoffu won't understand with what they talking about. |
| Into the Internet! |
| Oh wow this is the first time we see Wraith, her real body and shes looks hot. Tomokazu Seki is killing it with his performance after so many years, his despair omg i teared up. Fuck Leonard dammit RIP Arbelest and AI |
| The Anime Binge Is Life -PolarCyrus97 2k17- |
GundamSoul said: Yeah. Those sound like improvements to me. Which makes sense since the writer of the LN is working on the series. To me it's watered down. Tessa is one of my favorite characters from the series and her being played down in this episode really annoyed me. And I can't see the reason why they would let Kaname have the spotlight when it comes to strategy instead of Sousuke. Doesn't matter that Shouji Gatou is involved. His original work packed more of a punch and had more grit. The previous episodes did a really good job though, so i hope this one's just an exception. ^^ |
| This new season is really going strong so far. Can't wait for more. |
vanetz said: I love the fact that Sousuke's shenanigans during that year taught the whole school how to evacuate a building in record time :) Laughed at that bit, the second sousuke is mentioned everyone is OUT this episode is my favourite so far really intense I liked that brief mech brawl. So excited for the rest of this season |
| Finally some mech battle, some good action. And off you go, Chidori, never liked you. Your character build is like uninvited guest with super power. Melissa looks like Major's sister. It is kinda bummer to have only 12 episodes. |
| This was a good-ass episode, I've been waiting so long for everyone to find out about Sousuke's true identity, and this definitely did not disappoint. |
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| I bet if only the fire alarm went off, the students are gonna be like "eh, just a fire drill"... PA: "It's Sagara." *Everyone gets up* Wraith disguised as a teacher Eri Kagurazaka really threw me for a loop. I thought the teacher turned into a badass all of a sudden. Would have been funny if the teacher and Wraith were the same person the whole time. |
| There are birds sitting on the Arbalest... Lots of action again this episode. The Arbalest got shot to bits, and now Chidori's been captured by Leonard. Tomokazu's voice really shined here. The sub going ramming speed against the Behemoth comboed into a headshot was clutch. So Sagara reveals his identity to his classmates and "expels" himself from the school. With the captain and Mithril successfully escaping the base and Sagara on his way to save Chidori, it looks like the next episode is where the real story begins. |
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| LOVED this episode 5/5 I was so surprised to see what happened to Kyouko when she got injured and liked Sousuke's reaction .. he was so mad ^^ And the goodbye scene between Chidori and Sousuke was so emotional T^T Can't wait for more |
| Wow that was amazing i'm so impressed. So much action and the animation was really good. Sagara going mad and destroying those mehcs. For the story nothing unexpected, but that's not a bad thing and feels like it's coming to an end which i'm only down, always wanted to see the conclusion (and mb the confession). Tessa's resolution as strong as always. |
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| "Six o'clock, range zero" is something that I would never like to hear in combat... It got particularly intense this week. The overwhelming power of Belial and Arbalest's demise, de Danaan's escape, CQC firefights, there was definitely something for everyone. Amalgam's failure to understand the concept of collateral damage also became brutally apparent. Nevertheless, this is where the fun truly begins. Or drama. I loved Sagara's astute declaration. |
| Arbalest in action with those three enemies are dem good. :D that flying saucer just got to me fast. hahahaha! anyways, so sad that Kyouko got hurt and classmates blaming sousuke is sadder. But hell, they don't know anything of what's going given the Student Council's announcement. :( Chidori adapting her Whispered abilities, dem. him talking to Leonard and Leonard being so affected with Chidori and Sousuke's relationship, waaaaa! there's sooo much to take and i gladly want to hug all of it. What am I saying? but dem. feeling is overwhelming that it's just so perfect. <3 I don't want this to end. >.< |
| This episode just reeked of awesomeness! |
| great episode but was disappointed on how easily he took down Arbalest and crushed it to smithereens |
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| The mecha physics seem all over the place and very inconsistent. They're sometimes way too floaty and other times grounded and heavy. Make up your mind Xebec. The action is once again derailed by the distractingly poor CG. Thank god the story is at least remaining interesting or else I would have given up on this by now. Hopefully after this season is up they'll pass it on to another studio. FMP deserves better than this. |
kingcity20 said: Oh for the love of -_- nvm gotta love MAL |
| "On my own" It's still not letting up for me, I've loved every episode so far including this. So the Mithril sword shattered after all from Amalgam's hammer blows... the survivors in the TDD can regroup but without the Arbalest they'd have no choice but to lie low for a while. I'd expect Sousuke to rendezvous with them sooner or later. I wonder what happened to the Arbalest's wreckage though, that thing still has extremely valuable technology in it. During Sousuke's fight with the Codarls I thought the Lambda Driver was still involved (just minus visual cues) since the "cooling fins" of the Arbalest were out - I don't think those things come out when the Lambda Driver isn't in use. Also because both AS types have it and the Amalgam guys presumably always use it - we just don't get to see those force field-like effects because Lambda Driver-boosted attacks go through Lambda Driver "shields" like normal attacks (as seen in TSR). It's just less flashier now than the HK fight in TSR. Damn, the OP (in previous eps) appears to be rather spoilerrific considering I saw the wrecked Arbalest in the episodes before this. I can hazard a guess on what's happening next just from the sequences contained in it... |
animejas said: This episode is the best episode I have seen in this entire season so far. Everything was intense and felt very important. The action was also fantastic to witness. Poor Sousuke. Can't wait to see him bring Chidori back somehow! For me it felt the same. But damn it took 4 episodes to establish the premise of the season. It's a good premise though, totally looking forward to how it plays out. Based off the episode title for 5, I'm wondering if he's going "Mission Impossible" and going off on his own to save Chidori. Will be pretty intersting as I always loved his CQC sequences. That escape sequence was pretty awesome. I totally thought they were gonna blast Yang lol. For that Danaan vs Behemoth, it would've been so cool if instead of saying, fire all torpedoes and move to combat speed, something like, " FIRE ALL FORWARD TORPEDOES WITH SAFETY FUSE DISABLED, FULL SPEED AHEAD AND RAM THE BEHEMOTH. EMERGENCY BLOW." Then the whole bridge, not just the XO would be looking like her like- wtf are u crazy??? haha would've been awesome. Other that- it felt weird that Al had a premonition...I wonder what if it was supposed to mean something deeper about Al rather than just a foreshadowing. |
yngtadpoleMay 5, 2018 11:47 PM
| For what it's worth, the robots themselves really look good, even in motion. However, I do agree that the physics are all over the place with regard to how quickly they move and how much weight they possess. They should not be able to leap off surfaces or land on surfaces with minimal damage. Also, the destruction of the Arbalest was hardly as flashy or traumatic as it could have been, considering the fact that it used to be the most powerful AS in the series up to that point. The fact that no attention was called to the powerlessness of the Arbalest's Lambda Driver was really unfortunate. However, I understand that they wanted to put more tension into the relationships between the characters in the scene, so they do still have that going for it. Moral of the story, you have to be really, really on top of your game when you use CGI. Unlike limited animation where you can still use a ton of cost-saving techniques and still make the fights look amazing, by making the mechs even more realistic, everything from the physics need to be top-notch in order to maintain that suspension of disbelief... Also, there really is something different about the directing when it comes to the use of CGI. Like none of the fights with CGI mecha ever make the blood pump as much as 2D mecha fights. |
| Intense episode! that's all i can say! too bad Chidori was taken... 5/5. |
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mistressjaskra said: Huh...glad they altered it then...while understandable, Chidori constantly whining irrationally would kill the intensity that the show is gearing up. So not wanting to risk the lifes of the students in her school and especially the life of her best friend who is strapped to a bomb is "irrational whining" now? XD mistressjaskra said: I like that she was shown to be capable of using some of her capacoty as a Whispered and not just a princess to be protected. They've shown her fear and reservations, but also an ability to calm herself and think rationally...it makes her a much more likable character, I would argue more so than the Chidori we've previously seen. Problem is it doesn't fit with her coming character arc which is all about being resigning herself to her fate and not doing ANYTHING to oppose it for quite some time. This development that she showed right now is supposed to come at a much later time, so unless they change major parts of her upcoming development, this just won't fit. I agree, i like her more after she overcomes her inability to act but it's not really natural to have this development right before the one where she's supposed to have completely given up, only to get back to the way she is right now. We'll have to wait and see. |
| I am just loving the tone of this season. Every episode does a good job conveying it, too. |
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