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  1. Sun, 06-22-2008, 01:18 PM #81
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    Quote Originally Posted by Everon
    Think of the horn as a metaphor and not a typical superhero powerup. The horn manifests itself during Shinkuuro's moments of helplessness. It represents weakness, not strength.
    Well what's the point of showing it if it was shown once? Unless he used it in the second half of 11 or epi. 12 since I haven't watched those yet.
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  2. Tue, 06-24-2008, 09:09 PM #82
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    The point in showing it once is so we can get a backstory. Let me try to explain.

    Shortly after we see the horn, we get a backstory involving the Hozuki. As it turns out, at one point in time, Shinkuuro wanted this monstrosity put inside him. He was eager to earn Benika's respect. But I surmise he's regretted it. To him the horn is artificial strength. And for viewer purposes it gives an insight on Shinkuuro and his non-static personality.
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  3. Tue, 06-24-2008, 10:37 PM #83
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    And that's why he gets beat like a bitch in almost every episode.
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    Artificial strength is a vague concept in any case. A human is the most perfected killing machine on this planet but not because we would have awesome physical strength, speed, claws or fangs. It's because we can build a goddam machine gun, howitzer, or even a nuclear bomb. So, having such a blade is by no means artificial strength. It's only artificial for Shinkurou because the dude is a miserable coward by nature, yet still paradoxically has no regard for his own health.
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  5. Sat, 07-05-2008, 02:08 AM #85
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    Just watched the final episode... decent conclusion, hated the execution. The last couple of episodes the dialogues have been quite bad, when in the beginning they were awesome.

    I'll wait for the manga to release a couple of more volumes and start reading that... from what I've seen around the anime split from the the story and went its own way.

    The fights were pretty good though, and the Initial D-like car chase was great.

    Overall, great unique series... glad I watched it.
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  6. Sun, 01-09-2011, 10:08 AM #86
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    None of you guys watched the OVA? Though it seems like it might not follow the tv sequence...

    Episodes 1-2 by gleam:
    http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=141803
    http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=181357
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