If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Last edited by Marik; Thu, 01-29-2009 at 02:41 PM.
Haha. Last time it was only two people, now the stairs stayed long enough there to allow a whole bloody army to march up. But you know all of those nameless, faceless golden knights are going to be nothing but fodder for the beasts.
Other than that, we finally got some very solid sounding information. If it was true, we truly learned a lot, explaining even more. Although still not Neeba's objectives. I don't honestly even remember enough of the first season to try to make guesses...
But there was no Fatina fanservice. What a letdown. I thought it would be a consistent running gag throughout the series.
So Kaaya (Ishara) is not a total bitch, but I still don't ever want to see a Kaaya x Jil ending. I'm sure we will and I'll be all disappointed, but whatever, I can accept it if there is a sufficient enough level of fanservice starring Fatina from now on.
The politics are starting to get interesting, I was wondering why we were still being shown the female guard captain. Gilgamesh is going to get more and more cruel and corrupt like that fat pig underneath him, and someone is going to have to deal with it.
One thing of note, we've yet to see the four slayers (or Allies of Druaga I think they called them) that the evil bastard from last season attempted to summon before Neeba and the Guardian (fake Druaga) killed him. They were in the caskets the guy kept having servants lug around. They showed up earlier this season as silhouettes complaining about something, and we haven't seen anything from them since.
I will seriously want to beat the shit out of Jil if he chooses Kaaya over Fatina. Fatina practically threw away her life just to be with him at this point, without complaining, in fact. I seriously cannot accept an ending where the main character ends up with a girl that has practically no appearance during the season (and consequently no development).
Kaaya practically used Jil and threw him away at her convenience. if Jil does the same to Fatina, then I hope Jil and Kaaya die a horrible death in the tower.
Peace.
Just watched episodes 3 and 4. I didn't like Melt and Coopa in the first season, but I really liked how they're presented in this season... Melt was awesome in the 3rd episode, quite funny. Thanks to Ki we get a better understanding of what is going on, and we get a better picture of the world where this is placed in. The first season didn't do a good job in my opinion with describing the setting... the Tower seemed to be the sole focus. Just as there are two Gilgamesh, I wonder if there are two Druagas. I would imagine that this is not the last we've seen of it.
And as you guys, I'm rooting for Fatina... though with the latest explanation a Kaaya pairing wouldn't bother me, especially since I can envision Fatina being wooed by Neeba.
I disagree. I think during the first season we learned all we were supposed to learn. It's just that nobody who knew more had any reason to say more. It's kind of a cheap way of telling stories to force explanations out of place to appear just for the sake of explaining things. When you concentrate on certain characters and their points of view, you must stick to what those characters learn and know. Unless it's a story with lots of narratives by some immaterial third party.Originally Posted by Munsu
Edit: Strange typo...
Last edited by Kraco; Mon, 02-02-2009 at 08:12 AM.
Be that as it may, it doesn't excuse the fact that they did a poor job with the setting. Wether it was for the better of the plot or to its detriment is something else entirely. The first season didn't restrict itself solely to the point of view of the party, we got some scenes with Gilgamesh and its advisors, we got scenes with the army, they could've easily sneaked in a couple of things to better describe their world. But again, the sole focus of the first season was the party's struggle to get to the top of the Tower, everything else was secondary. Was it was a good thing or a bad thing? Who knows. All I know is that they did a poor job setting up the setting clearly; there are many ways to do it without it being 'cheap'.
Some might consider the silence of Neeba and the whole "you're rookie you don't need to know" types of scenes to be just as cheap to keep the suspense and the audience guessing.
Not complaining, but whatever the reasons were, I thought that they didn't do a good job with the setting in a macro level. Some subplots and scenes seemed out of place at times or confusing.
Last edited by Munsu; Mon, 02-02-2009 at 07:34 AM.
I think the direction and pacing of the first season was great. Dangle a few mysteries, reveal some, create new ones, and leave a few for the next season. It never bothered me that some of those scenes were left unexplained -- probably because the deliberate demeanor of the show made me feel confident that all would be revealed sooner or later.
To be honest, when I was watching Druaga last year, I felt that some of the time spent on pure comedy could have been better used to show actual struggling and hardships to get to the tower, and with it, character development. In the end, the only significant battles that commit to (my) memory were the One-Eyed dragon fight, the one of the fight against Paacher or whatever (Wind assassin) and the Guardian. With the exception of the last boss, I don't think they lasted more than 1 ep each.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
I felt the same way. Some of the episodes felt like filler material, but the episodes that did not go this way were really good IMHO.
Peace.
Hmm, no one posted the release for episode 5.. by HorribleSubs:
http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=49618
I didn't enjoy this one much.
Neither did I. Other than seeing Gilgamesh becoming more evil, not much else happened.
Yeah. The enemies were kind of lackluster. And there was nothing but a whole clone army of those sluggish featherballs.
Yet another episode of no Fatina fanservice. Such woe.
Well, this series is our new En Fuego series, just like it's prequel. Too bad it got made in a piece of shit episode like this one.
I thought it was quite cool when Gilgamesh killed the dad, and it was wierd to see the reaction from the soldiers. Only the captain (or whatever the chick from the first season is) seemed to be disturbed by it, even if she didn't voice it. The "regret" scene later on was interesting too.
Just watched the episode, and it was a good one. Plenty of action, some Neeba and Kaya scenes, some Fatina kicking ass, and Gilgamesh going on a war frenzy. We also got some sort of kickass androids, and Henaro seems to have a connection to them.
Yeah, I wish she would have said what that connection was, she seems to be hiding something.
Aye, she keps looking at that weird compass thing, and it gave me an impression she was just waiting for them to appear.
A good episode. Still lacking Fatina fanservice, but had plenty of nice action. Though I can't really be impressed by how those nameless soldiers very predictably served the role of nameless deaths to supposedly make the enemies look more badass. That trick kind of got old already decades ago.
Physically, Kaaya looked a lot older than last season or even the beginning of this episode. Neeba and she mentioned that they only felt that they had been in the Tower a few days, but that people were already after them. We know that means six months later outside while the time is compressed inside, but I'm wondering how much time has really passed for the two of them. Or if it was just her outfit and demeanor having been in this depressing Tower. Maybe it was just me, but she looked a lot taller than I remember her being. She was almost even with Neeba, where before she always looked shorter than Jil.
I wasn't expecting the assassins to be androids, and the pink-haired one (voiced by Chiwa Saito) was really annoying.
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