Episode 31 aired!
Episode 31 aired!
Last edited by Buffalobiian; Sun, 07-08-2012 at 10:07 AM.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrhg, fucking ep ended right when the real shit was about to go down! >_<
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"Always be yourself... unless you suck."
I always wonder why people are willing to explain how their technique works in the middle of the battle in Shonen anime. There has to be a balance between explaining techniques or mechanics to the audience while retaining a realistic situation in the battle. Wouldn't it make sense for characters to talk about their abilities and techniques after the battle (or if the characters are going to explain their technique, why not just do a monologue with their thoughts)?
But, nonetheless, great episode!
Funniest censorship ever, apparently when you lose an arm sparkles come out.
Little girls are made of sugar, spice, and everything nice. Psychotic murderous clowns should at least be made of sparkles.
Peace.
I have to do it all the time when gamemastering D&D because my players are too stupid to figure it out otherwise.Originally Posted by enkoujin
Nah, that's like, a Nen force field holding in the blood.
Yup, somehow I feel like Hisoka is going to tell us he learnt how to doppelgang himself in the spur of the moment... and that the one cut is his double, explaining the sparkle that is Nen, you're right.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
That's what I forced myself to think, in order to avoid censoring ruining this show in my mind.
At least they didn't cut out most of the Kastro fight like the original anime. Sure it would've been better to see lots of blood, but no seeing any is the price to pay to actually animate the fight, which is full of gore in the manga.
Episode 32 aired!
Last edited by Buffalobiian; Sun, 07-08-2012 at 10:08 AM.
FINALLY, an episode superior to its counterpart in the original hxh tv series! And what an episode this was. I think I'm a little gay for Hisoka. For those of us who've seen the original series and OVAs but haven't read the manga, this episode clarifies a number of things and just makes the intricacies of a nen fight so much clearer. For example, and without spoiling, I suspect that Kastro is either self taught in nen, or had a shitty teacher, based on his inability to discern even the smallest bit of information about hisoka's abilities and fighting methods (beyond the fact that he was using some kind of nen).
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
It was a jolly good episode otherwise, but the bloody lengthy explanation and flashback to the fight were annoying. In the end its only purpose was to suddenly and without any solid reason explain Hisoka's techniques. That should have been left to a later time when Gon and Killua understand them. Besides, who cares about Kastro anymore, including the tiniest specifics of his defeat? Machi could have talked about the audience when she mused Hisoka will have forgotten Kastro's face by tomorrow.
Funny how Hisoka's nen manipulation is similar to Sasori's/Kankuro's
And that girl's technique reminds me of Kakuzu's jutsus.
I was also annoyed at the in-ep recap and lengthy explanation for a fight that wasn't that important.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Hm, as someone who watched the old anime, even though the action is good, it´s getting kinda boring now. Having to wait a week for stuff you already saw, well ...
Anyway, I thought that Kastro not noticing Hisoka´s aura strings was a bit unbelievable.. You´d think for some who mastered the double technique, he´d know the very basics of Gyo, aka putting Nen into your eyes to see the aura of Nen techniques. Yeah, yeah, Hisoka explained how Kastro was so focused on his fancy double technique that he deleted the basics from his memory, but ... it made Kastro look too much of a fool imo. Less explanation would have been better, like "Hisoka´s gruesome magic tricks shook Kastro off and made him forget to use Gyo", instead of this dumb "he forgot about Gyo due to the double training".
Yeah, but let´s not confuse which came first
I don't think "showing the audience that what happened was completely thought out and not just a bunch of bullshit" qualifies as "without any solid reason".
Then what was your splendid reason? The other Phantom Troupe member, who is a master of nen use as well, needs to go through Hisoka's fight in excruciating detail as if it was something novel to her? She fricking knew everything that happened from the beginning, so why on Earth was it necessary to make it look like she thought it all through in Hisoka's company? It's poor story telling, that's all. It's as if the audience was sitting in that same room, listening to a lecture, and not a meeting of Hisoka and Machi alone. It made about as much sense as the infuriating studio laughter that ruins sitcoms. But unfortunately it's still a part of the shounen textbook.
A better way would have been to leave the explanations to later, until Gon and Killua need to figure it out. That way, when they are still struggling to get it, it would feel natural to explain it to the audience as well.
I just told you. It's for the benefit of the audience.
Sorry you think it's bad storytelling, but really, there's no such thing as "good exposition", because there's no such thing as a seamless way to deliver a large complicated chunk of information to a casual, invisible observer(the audience) without it coming off as awkward.
But it's still completely necessary for the audience to know what the fuck happened.
Right, because that's always the best time for a giant fucking infodump. Right in the middle of a fight so it completely ruins the pacing.
If that was the only other choice, then it's true it would ruin the pacing of the fight and it would be even worse than using the second half of the episode to flashback the first half. But possibly there could have been other ways, such as Wing explaining it to Gon and Killua when they start their formal training under him. Then it would have been a literal lecture in every sense of the word, and nobody could blame the show for making it look like a lecture to the audience as well.
Hurm. I think you're just nitpicking.
Episode 33 aired!
Last edited by Buffalobiian; Sun, 07-08-2012 at 10:09 AM.
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