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Wait Nick, you're still watching Yuri on Ice, right?

Yep! The last episode actually felt particularly important, since it was the first time Victor really felt like a person. We only really got inside his head for the standard sports commentary, but that was definitely an upgrade over him being mostly comic relief.
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http://ask.fm/B0bduh/answers/139242187818 If its like that why do you bash so much in animes who try to show the weak and bad sides of humans and praise overly positive and naive shows like Hero Academia?

If you think I don't like shows which show the weak and negative sides of humanity, you haven't been around here for very long!
Incidentally, positivity is not the same as naivety - frankly, I find that notion itself to be kinda inherently adolescent itself. It's basically Hachiman thinking.
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How much has this American election cycle lowered your faith in humanity?

My general belief for a long time has been "most humans are not inherently good or strong, but there are some bright lights among us who lift us up as a species, and we all have to aspire to that the best we can." This election hasn't really done much to adjust that view.
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what is the story behind the blog title "wrong every time"

The immediate meaning refers to my general critical philosophy, in that we all bring our own perspectives to media, and so trying for any authoritative "final take" on a show is pointless - thus I'm always going to be "wrong every time." But it's also a quote from Madoka that represents one of my /other/ big beliefs - "if anyone says there's no reason to hope, I'll prove them wrong every single time."
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When did Kaiki "click" with you?

Koimonogatari. He was interesting in Nise, but I was more focused on that show's visual storytelling than its narrative. It wasn't until Neko Black/White that I was truly swept away by the show's character writing.

In regards to your nichijou writeups, do you not properly refer to a lot of the cast by their names because you are bad at names, or just as a personal "these characters exist pretty solely to drive gags, without actually being established people in their own rights. so they get gag nicknames" joke?

I'm not trying to be clever, I am just that terrible at names. It's not even specifically Japanese names or anything - I will just not remember character names unless they're repeated constantly, and have to look up names of major characters for shows I just watched all the time.
That said, Nichijou's lesser characters are often rarely referred to by name, but it's easy to understand who I mean if I say "Mohawk" or whatnot, so it seems appropriate here.
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This is about the Blazblue thing. I feel like a fine combination of world-building and storytelling is what writers should attempt to try. I mean, wouldn't it be great to have the best of both techniques for a great show? Not saying one is better than the other either.

Worldbuilding isn't really a relevant concept outside of genre fiction - evaluating shows based on that is kind of like evaluating them in terms of Story, Art, and Redheads, where the presence or absence of red-haired characters is critical to the show's value. But when it comes to shows that actually /do/ prioritize worldbuilding, yeah, there's lots of ways to naturally integrate that into the narrative. That's actually something videogames specifically are very good at, since most of their natural storytelling /is/ worldbuilding. It's much more graceful to convey narrative through the world around you than it is to stop the gameplay and have someone monologue exposition.
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(U.S. context) Is there room for a Dem/Leftist consensus, or are the incompatibilities too many? I ask from a center-left (ex:Obama-esque) perspective.

John Doe
In a saner America, we'd get to choose between a center-left and leftist candidate during our elections, and there actually would be room for bipartisan compromises. Both those groups share a legitimate desire to improve the country and the perspective necessary to envision real improvements, which is all that's really needed for that.
Unfortunately, since half of America embraces a party whose principal values are hate, fear, and self-interest, we're stuck in an awkward scenario where the center-left party can basically ignore all requests of its leftist base, since they have nowhere else to turn and the alternative is madness.
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http://ask.fm/B0bduh/answers/139134610986?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=answer_own#_=_ After the overt sexuality of ep 2 and 3 and Papika and Cocona's general chemistry, you don't think it's at all easy to read what we've seen so far as the story of a queer girl and puberty?

It's certainly an easy enough read, but I'm cautious about finishing authors' sentences before it's clear they're actually saying anything. Liking a show because you're assuming it'll validate some specific progressive message is one of the easiest ways to be let down by the show you actually get - in my case, part of my dislike for Kill la Kill almost certainly comes down to how disappointed I was when it turned out to not have anything to say.
(Granted I break this rule all the time, given my general policy is "assume the best of shows until proven otherwise." But that policy gets me burned all the time, so I'd be hesitant to extend it to stuff like this!)
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just read your Blazblue comment. Why are there writers who are so obsessed to worldbuilding over storytelling?

The question kinda answers itself: because they like worldbuilding more than storytelling. From before Tolkien onward, there have always been many writers who gravitate towards scifi/fantasy because they want playgrounds for all the proper noun Stuff they've thought up, moreso than they want to express a specific theme or narrative or character journey.
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Did the first episode of Yuri on Ice have different staff from the rest so far? I found that premiere really impressive but after that it's felt mediocre

Anime television productions are kind of like bands - you have all the time in the world to polish your first release, and then you're expected to make another one that's just as good right then and there. It's a little more complicated than that, but production schedules in general tend to get tighter and tighter as productions continue, leaving less time to animate cuts equal to the early peaks. Staff availability is also an issue, but this can often be an informal thing - like a director roping in several great key animators to make a stunning premiere who can't really contribute like that on a weekly basis. Different directors can also impact how the overall production fares - directing isn't a purely creative job, it also involves managing the team and schedule, and some directors are better at that than others. So while it's not as simple as "the staff changes," it's very common for later episodes of shows to not look as good as early ones.

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You've described much of FF's content as 'mindless' and 'a total muddle', which seems odd - it seems like a fairly simple FLCL-style 'repressed teen's fantasies become reality, sexual awakening/coming of age from hell ensues' story. Do you not buy that, or do you just not feel that's enough meat?

It's certainly a show about Cocona breaking free from her anxieties and embracing adventure, but I'm not sure the metaphor really extends beyond that, particularly when it comes to any sort of "sexual awakening." We'll see where the show goes, but so far it seems to mainly just be a loose template designed to allow for lots of episodic creativity.

What analysis did you read to understand the original Evangelion?

I don't think I read any. It was always very much my kind of show.
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Why do you think people have problems on the Mizore x Nozomi arc in Eupho? Is it "TOO TEEN BAND DRAMA" for them to handle and "could have been easily solved" if they were in their shoes?

maritenya
Not necessarily! Mizore and Nozomi are totally new characters, it seems perfectly understandable to me that people might find the focus on them abrupt and possibly unwelcome. I have to imagine that most people who are put off by teen drama in the abstract wouldn't still be riding the Eupho train.

Is there a legit way to watch Nichijou? I've come up blank.

Not at the moment, unfortunately. It's never been released outside of Japan because Kadokawa is bad, and it expired on Crunchyroll.

i think the worst and weirdest discovery i made this week was finding out the guy who runs the dril twitter is a neo nazi :/ you'll find the sources if you google it. just thought i'd tell you so more people know

He's not. If you're talking about the Keebler elves tweet, the backlash there was more reflective of exactly how silly some portions of internet culture have gotten than a shocking reveal of nazi sympathies. When "an absurdist riff on bigot symbology" becomes damning evidence of personal bigotry, you've entered the tumblr realms, where context is a foreign concept and problematic smoking guns are everywhere.
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Have you watched The Great Passage yet? It's like the socially awkward offspring of a drunken hookup between Uchouten Kazoku and Hyouka.

That description is a little too on the nose of my interests to fully believe, but I definitely do want to see it.
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