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eps 4 really horrible . lotte sound like reading the script.

LOOOOOOOOOOL what the fuck are you talking about? Get to the point already.

>What is Bully? Oh, that was a game?

>replying with random non sequitur shit and broken machine translation in a transparent attempt to troll me

Try harder. Up your game considerably if you want me to bother with your next posts.

So episode 4 was about Twilight-fandom?
Even the reference to Mortsyn doesn't make it any better. The best part was actually Sucy petting a (poisonous?) mushroom.

Episode 3&4 were both very boring, remembering me that I am not a Gainax/Trigger-Fan, but an Imaishi-fan.



Well on a superficial level you can say... erm how to put it. If you take a look on LWA and the first impression is really unavoidable a Harry Potter in an all girls school.
I don't want to argue that it is a Harry Potter in an all girls school, but this very first impression of it is too strong to not just have it stuck in your mind.

The show is played very very safe. It kinda lacks the excitement, boldness and visceral action I know Trigger for, but like I said in this post, its Imaishi's stuff I seem to like and not Trigger.
Maybe I am starting to talk redundant stuff by now repeating myself, but so far the show is still pretty uninspired. Harry Potter was riding the magical school stuff for 14 year and maybe I am just a little bit tired of it.
Considering how Kill La Kill had pretty weak start as well I kinda hope this one will get better as well.

I stopped taking rorisnob serious before I heard him making reviews of some summary-text. He is making money of his pseudo-intellectual elitist bashing on shows giving his cute little pawns just what they want to hear.

Say what now? Have Japan finally acknowledged the greatness that is Ore-sama? Guess I shouldn't hold off watching this now; Have to show my respect.

I won't necessarily disagree with that. But consider for a minute; there's no need to actually answer, just to ponder: what would have been your first impression of shows like Evangelion or Madoka if you watched them as they aired, with no previous information to soften the blow, and how would it contrast to your impression upon finishing the show? I know the examples I'm providing are quite extreme and very unrepresentative of LWA, but I'm doing it to make the point obvious: first impressions can be very deceiving. There is an aeons-old saying about not judging a book by its cover; it exists for a reason, and that reason is not providing marketing help to book publishers.


Trigger played it very safe from the first LWA anime, and their most recent full series, Kiznaiver, had none of it (though it's also not in Okada Mari's style, so there's that); in the adaptation department, they're also playing it safe, as displayed by Inou Battle, which, despite overflowing with Trigger and Gainax references (some of which I lol'd extremely hard at) and having a very Triggeresque art style that made the references feel completely at home, generally kept to the original work and didn't do anything crazy. As a whole, Trigger plays it safe, except when they don't; the thing is that, when they don't, they go full throttle, with a lot of due emphasis on full.


My point was "if you look at things superficially that way, you'll turn into a rori clone, so be careful to avoid that pitfall".

My US high school year actually wasn't so bad compared to what most people make their high school life in US out to be, to be honest. But that is offtopic.

Posting Asuka only proves my point, my dear Hinoe.

that being said...

why Twilight? And this entire episode feel like Kill la Kill episode 3(was it?) all over again...

^ Still missing the point like there's no tomorrow...

With that said... The Twilight reference looks like a random jab without much behind it. It's probably just as famous in Japan as elsewhere, and just as comparatively bad, so they made a reference for the lols of it. 120 volumes of random, fanfiction-tier garbage that makes the author figuratively wet? Sounds like Twilight alright.

I would have liked Harry Potter, actually.

Man they are making main character so annoying. She's having character regression instead of progression. I recommend watching Tweeny Witches instead of this it's the same setting done much better.

At least they made her stop shouting "CHARIOT THIS CHARIOT THAT CHARIOT4LIFE" every 10 seconds after 4 painful episodes.

As anyone who played RTW as the Julii will doubtlessly know, chariots are a horrifying infantry-mowing tool of doom... at least until Marius comes along and gives you far better units. Having expanded into Gaul as the Julii, I suffered long and hard at their hands, or rather, under their wheels, no thanks to those barbarians from Britain who thought, and for good reason, that it was a brilliant idea to use those units as, of all things, the generals' bodyguards. Chariots are basically what turned my armies into the BC equivalent of cannon fodder.

And why am I ranting about that? Because, as a result, I am inclined to being fond of any change that de-emphasizes them chariots in any way or form.


With that said, KillMininal, you sure you don't want to spell that as "CHARIOT4LYF" instead?

eps 7 really brilliant , I can't stop laughing

The show is growing, it's not only the concept of LWA that's similar to Harry Potter but I get the same feeling of quality from it. The Harry Potter movies are not the best movies but they create something amazing and incredibly entertaining, I get the same feeling from LWA where the show atm isn't the best but it gives me the most entertainment/enjoyment out of everything that's airing right now. It's just pure fun.

It do feel like that the show is actually building up to something in the second cour and they are just introducing everyone/everything right now in an episodic way but they will probably make a more coherent story soon.

Ursula-Sensei is a nice secondary character. The way she always monitors the kids, letting them grow even by making mistakes but still being their present to then give them guidance is really exemplary. Well Akutso is really lucky to have her as her mentor and she should be more respectful towards her.

>> Airing Soon <<

24/7 At least according to the front page. Never rotates off.

It's one thing to say she's annoying. It's another to say she has no character, though. She's definitely not the latter, and I'm hoping none of you guys are suggesting this.

Episode nine kinda took me out of the world. Before it the LWA world felt kinda weird with only (what we've seen) one class and one year of students and the rules for magic was pretty w/e but I've still not seen it as a big problem. Episode nine kinda made it questionable though

Regardless of what I said though, episode nine had a few beautiful scenes and it was quite entertaining but on the other hand, it was maybe the weakest yet, which is still far from something bad.

I've enjoyed the movies quite a lot but the series ain't doing it for me. I'm bored of it, it feels like every episode is filler. Guess I shouldn't have expected much of it.

After episode 1, the rest of the first dozen eps really did have a bit of a filler feel to them. At the least, they were pretty inconsequential, even as 'character building'. From 13 on, however, the story's actual 'arc' starts to kick in and the show gets good again. at least in my opinion. Even though it's pretty obvious where this show is probably going, I can't help but be interested in seeing how they get to that end point. This show still is one of the best of the Winter '17 season even if the best episodes didn't start to come until the Spring '17 season.