2015-03-25, 19:57 | Link #61 |
Princess or Plunderer?
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This bickering around which should stay or which should be scrapped is the problem that lies in adapting an anime series about Kancolle. There's so many admirals that have their choices in who should get a spotlight (i.e., some people don't like Fubuki as MC, some want less KitaOoi scenes, some wanted the other fleet divisions as MCs, etc.,) and they have lots of considerations to make (especially where to use in-game logic) in the story.
Is it even possible to meet at a compromise point?
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2015-03-25, 20:17 | Link #62 | ||
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2015-03-25, 20:27 | Link #63 | |
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2015-03-25, 22:58 | Link #64 |
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And even then there were compromises done simply to give everyone in the first series sufficient screentime, Miki's obsession with the Producer the only romantic angle that carried over from the game, and the last third of the show focusing on Haruka's insecurities plus Chihaya's trauma felt heavy-handed.
Ditto with Cinderella Girls -- while giving the Producer a face and a personality worked surprisingly well (the staff themselves were surprised themselves at the Producer's popularity), it was a big gamble too, as it could easily just devolve into an idol harem. The Kantai Collection anime suffered from similar, if even worse production compromises. You can see that Kadokawa desperately wanted this to work, and they tried to tread on as few toes while trying to please everyone... which just raised a ruckus anyway from more finicky watchers anyway. Not that there weren't legitimate complaints (pacing for example, consistent mood another), they tend to get drowned out by the people raging on, say, Fubuki being the MC, and not their own character of choice...
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2015-03-25, 23:43 | Link #65 |
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Fubuki is the safe MC of the starter ships. I don't think they wanted to go with a MC that wasn't a starter ship (even though many shipgirls can hold their own in fiction). I suppose the other starter girls had too much baggage or attachements (or didn't fit the art style as well...Murakumo)
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2015-03-26, 02:43 | Link #68 |
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I hope in the sequel that they don't dance around the line between plot and no plot. Either write a serious story or just make it plotless with SoL as main focus. No trying to do both as i don't think that worked for this season.
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2015-03-26, 04:24 | Link #69 | |
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I don't get the hate on bucky as MC... Too OP and plot armor?
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2015-03-26, 04:34 | Link #70 | |
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On my end, the handling of her growth felt... clumsy and her Akagi fangirlism should have been toned down a little. I am a TTK who picked her as starter ship and would have been fine if another starter ship like Inazuma or Samidare was picked as protag.
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2015-03-26, 05:29 | Link #71 |
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As a rare specimen who doesn't play the game, the scenes with the admiral had no impact on me at all. Did those who play the game could connect to him/her? Had his scenes any impact on game players? I'm really curious because him missing and magically reappearing had the same emotional impact on me as watching paint dry.
So I would be perfectly happy if the admiral dies a slow and horrible death between season 1 and season 2 and the girls are left on there own. Wish for next season: I just want one abyssal focused episode with MC Hoppo! |
2015-03-26, 05:37 | Link #72 |
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From a game-player's perspective, the Admiral was pretty incompetent actually -- lots of the stuff shown, like not stockpiling resources prior to an important Event, are no-nos among veteran players (for example, in the actual in-game Midway Event, I had amassed 400+ buckets and 100k+ resources in prep for it). Nevermind the implication that they only managed to win in the final episode because the admiral used his credit card to buy the 10-bucket pack from Akashi's shop.
That said, I'm fine if the series keeps the same character dynamics for the sequel, for continuity's sake. However, the production really has to get a better screenwriter -- the two-screenwriter thing didn't really work, as it just caused whiplash between the serious vs. SOL segments.
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2015-03-26, 06:59 | Link #73 | |
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Also the shipgirls really don't need to be afraid of injuries and shrapnel and stuff like that. From what we saw they cannot lose limbs or even get scars. All they need to do is take a bath and their skin is as smooth and clean as before. So any kind of damage taken is nothing else but an annoyance, maybe an annoyance that hurts but nothing with lasting effects like being unable to shoot a bow anymore thus being a useless aircraft carrier, etc. So "death" aka sinking was the only thing the shipgirls could be really afraid of and which the viewers could agree with as fear as a bath or bucket cannot undo death. People in our real world would kill for such a bath or instant repair buckets for humans. XDDD |
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2015-03-26, 07:04 | Link #74 |
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-An admiral with face and personality please, so I relate better to how the girls feel like when he actually went missing (well since they went with dead silence figure, it's kind of hard to change this...gdi)
-Tenryuu, RJT, other naval bases -A better writer & director to make the battle episodes better... the non-battle epis are actually fine -Physical and emotional developments ONSCREEN into Kai Ni (overcoming crisis, or even better together so they can Kai Ni a bunch of girls at the same time, etc) -More voiced Abyssals |
2015-03-26, 07:48 | Link #75 | |
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2015-03-26, 08:59 | Link #78 |
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Actually i don't mind Fubuki as an MC, The real problem lies with Diomedia themselves..they took more of what they can chew (i believe they're handling four anime concurrently? one of them i believe is cross-ange? and because of that they're short of staffs)..this lead to rush out for production datelines and time which lead to poor to below average quality anime (direction and plot wise, their animation is ok)...i rather (if they're gonna make a second season) see them pass to another company affliated to them so as to not to compromised the "quality"of the said "titles"...I understand that diomedia doesn't want to miss out "big titles"but what they're doing right now is counter productive and missing out making big profits so to speak...quantities over qualities.
Like others already been said, Diomedia really need to change the screenwriter or the director..the season gotten worse after half the season (specifically after episode 5).The anime stuttered irregular flow/pacing and inconsistencies show up more especially in the later half of the season. That being said, i doubted they going to change the staff that they have for future sequel (and complaining here is kinda useless in this forum...you think they're gonna listen or read this forum)...we can only hope they would improve if they still sticking with the current production staff.
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2015-03-26, 09:08 | Link #79 | |
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2015-03-26, 10:24 | Link #80 |
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I have another idea for season 2. Have all the Shiratsuyu class (yea, we'll see poi again) under the command of a new Teitoku. For the ending antagonist, see Harusame with Destroyer hime.
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