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Days: 118.9
Mean Score:
7.27
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Days: 16.6
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7.29
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All Comments (74) Comments
Sorry if anything in my comment offended you that wasn't my intent, and I also watched years ago so my memory is probably as reliable or less so than yours , and I am willing to debate about it if you are willing to but I understand if you aren't.
I disagree with your kaiji review and i would like to bring up some points to defend the show cause i am a fan but i would prefer to do that in the form of a discussion. Starting with what about kaiji the character did you find implausible?
Thank you for your work !
Greetings from Portugal.
Given what you've said, I'm assuming your background is in statistics, which is no further from theoretical physics than theoretical computer science. How is it you have trouble with Greg Egan and follow GLL, which is even more technical? I'm starting a PhD in theoretical CS this fall and I don't understand their posts sometimes.
I seriously doubt anybody's going to come up with an efficiently computable strategy for chess which allows White to always win, given how it's at least PSPACE-complete. (I can be a computer science nerd and say that in the absence of such, chess as it is played is also trivial because it relies only on heuristics and processing power - if a player is actually going to brute force at each stage. Then the only meaningful sports would be ones in which players are expected to come up with algorithms on the spot and the best algorithm wins - that is, programming competitions.)
Anyway, at the end of the day, I suspect several sports anime are popular not because viewers are interested in that sport in particular, but because they can possibly identify with the protagonists in terms of liking *something* and striving towards it. In Chihayafuru's case this is easy to do because the characters have more depth than most shounen sports. Also, the fact that they are into an obscure sport which people constantly don't take seriously, but they decide to do it anyway can be seen as admirable (yes clearly you don't think it should be taken seriously, but there are people who are willing to ignore that).
And I'm sorry for being pedantic but Tic-Tac-Toe and lottery analogies aren't appropriate. Tic-Tac-Toe is a trivial sport not because it only involves reflexes, but because it allows the first player to always win.
I'd like to ask you something about your Chihayafuru review though, because it wasn't clear to me and I do really like that show. Did you mean to say that you think karuta is worse than the average sport? If so, in what way? Personally I don't really like any sport, but I thought the show presents karuta in a reasonably interesting way - at least enough to keep me invested in it for the characters' sake, and the characters are the main reason I like the show.