#infullmoon

HELP

oh Vane please you need to ask first, not after

kinda living up to his dog nickname to fetch something before thinking about the implications

smh smh

Yeah…but with that, it means this whole “Manga Route 2” is a 50 chapters worth of flashbacks with flashbacks right after everyone died in Manga Route 1 (how did yaki!Ayano retain other flashbacks from Seto, Kano, Haruka and Takane).

That and it also possibly mean this Route is the 1st Route (or at least one of the first Routes) because Shintaro got his Retaining Eyes since “before he was even born” (Mekakucity Actors, Episode 11), or to speak, before he was born in the future Routes, aka all Routes after this “Manga Route 2”

It coooooould be more accurate to say Shintaro was always like this in “Manga Route 2″ (if this one of the Routes before the 1st Route and that he went on with his life like this) buuuuuuuut then getting the Retaining Eyes, the following Routes made him remembered too many things and got depressed over trying to retain memories of Ayano, so he became xx!Shintaro before becoming the Shintaro we all know again.

AH! Yes I’ve finished The Ancient Magus bride by now! :D

I liked it quite a bit, yes! :D I enjoyed watching it a lot and I REALLY like the character of Elias. But more than that what I liked the most about the show which I was NOT expecting is its strong focus on the importance of existing. Both for yourself and for other people.

The entire show is, essentially, about a person battling with the idea of suicide and the worth of existence, as well as concepts of death and life. All of which I found extremely moving. It was not something I had expected of the series at all and I liked it a LOT.

I was also really really REALLY happy with the attention the series gave to like... accurately portraying Faeries. Something which is VERY important to me. The show took a lot of care in really making sure it captured how faeries tend to operate as well as their own unique grasp of “morals”. And how Faeries can be very strong allies but even when they will literally die to protect you, you should never completely trust them. Such as Chise’s close friends constantly trying to drag her away to the Faerie world. As well as things like Queen Titania and King Oberon’s relationship. Which is equally romantic and passionate but also very aggresive and in constant competition with each other. Things like that which really showed the Mangaka and the show writers really did their research. Something I extra appreciate since Celtic faerie lore is so very far removed from Japanese folklore. I just really appreciate the extra effort into getting details correct.

On top of this I also really liked the characters. Elias is extremely likeable despite is tantrums and problematic nature of wanting to eat his wife. And Chise, despite being very low-key and morose does not come across as boring and flat as Bella Swan did in Twilight for instance.

My only nit picks are the one instance near the middle of the show where Chise recovers from what was shown to be a very serious injury, and she seems to quite literally “shake it off” which bothered me as it felt rather contrived and dramatic convenience to have Elias react a certain way. I’m not sure if this situation was better handled in the manga or not. And I felt the main villain of the season was written to be very strong and interesting, but the pay-off at the end of the season felt a little rushed and lacked the gravitas the show had been building up to at that point.

Also there were one or two very small moments where I felt scenes or visuals dragged on too long and I have a suspicion it was to pad the episode’s time.

However, I did really and sincerely enjoy the show very much!! and I look forward to whenever a second season will be made! :D and I hope the problems the first season had regarding its main villain will not be present in the second season.

I also look forward to seeing Elias and Chise’s relationship deepen as they’ve managed to at least make a start by this point. And I want to learn more about Elias’ backstory, as well as have questions answered about Chise’s parents. I wish the show would have a moment where she truly opened up her lingering fears and sadness regarding her mother to Elias, as a good romantic couple and story would, but I don’t know if the show would do such a thing with the tone its going for, or if they will just have Chise deal with her own internal problems herself and “become stronger” for it without the input of her husband. Because the latter tends to happen way more in Anime than I really like. Which would be fine if it were not for the fact that a romance is about building a relationship between two people. And I’d like to see these characters lean on each other a little more.

I really enjoyed the internal growth of Chise in season 1, but I am hoping Season 2 will build upon this and start focusing on the two characters as a growing relationship, and we don’t just have a repeat of season 1 dealing with internal conflict. I enjoyed it very much for season 1, but we need to move forward and I don’t want the story to lean back on its strengths and stagnate as a result.

I’m looking forward to Season 2 where the shaky foundations of the relationship can be strengthened with deeper trust between them as people. As I feel its the direction the story needs to work itself towards.

(also its just me but I really hate the theme songs haha ;v; )

jellydragons

lava lamps?

From this. This is such a fun topic - thank you so much for responding with these cool thoughts!

I find Sans’ post as judge a fascinating and somewhat enigmatic role. In truth, I feel as though him being a judge is, in many ways, rather ill defined. We only see Sans in this one instance acting as a judge over Frisk, and the best we can do to understand this situation is to look at what Sans does here across various timelines. To me I feel as though Sans’ dialogue in the judge role, combined with similar comments he makes elsewhere in the game, do not suggest he is a pacifist so much as they suggest he believes there’s no point stopping Frisk.

Evidence Sans believes there’s no point stopping Frisk can be found in his comments about giving up and in his comments about alternate timelines (SAVE, RESET, etc.). In short:

Sans talks about giving up several times. He even talks about giving up when it comes to stopping the human.

Sans talks about trying to steer the human in the right direction in other hypothetical timelines where the human has different LV values. His comments suggest that there’s not much more he can do to get the human to change their trajectory.

Sans understands that timelines are jumping back and forth in the timespace continuum and he deeply suspects (or knows) that Frisk is a time traveler. He knows that in the Genocide Route, the end result of the timeline is different than for other timelines. The end result of the Genocide Route is the destruction of the monster world... and that’s the only one where he steps up to do something about the human when he “judges” them.

So to me it seems like Sans letting the human by is based upon his ideas that there is nothing he can do to stop the human from killing people. If he stops the human in a fight, the human will just go back to a previous SAVE point and try again. So he gives up trying to stop the human, does nothing when he “judges” except suggest the human be nice, and only makes an effort to stop the human when the timeline is truly in danger (the Genocide Route).

And the longer version of what I just outlined:

yeah that sure helped "raising up the stakes"

tho i feel like more than losing people close to him, it really was just.... the fact he was forced to fight the people he wanted to protect at all cost, that really is his breaking point.

and the way he reflects on that after the fact and wonder who he is supposed to protect when people on both sides are people he's meant to protect, is what really is going to raise the stakes with him.

Him losing more and more people though... genuinely is tragic. Like he just constantly has to watch them die in front of him huh.

Ironically he ends up being the knight that has the most ties to death in general. Like, all of them lost people close to them, but for Vane that's starting to be a high number of people + the fact he's the one who sees ghosts + the fact he's the one who dies in an alternative timeline. the guy is just followed by death all around, and his ideal would be to be able to protect anyone, ever, regardless of which sides they're on, which just have him stand in the heart of more and more death.

it's going to be tough on him for sure from then on. He'll probably have a harder time dealing with things that will ask for him to take sides into consideration, especially now that he knows that this caused the death of parental figures.

it's just something i'm thinking about, but whenever they go through with Mordred switching sides or not once his past is revealed, i do feel like this could work as a cataclyst to have Vane wonder just to which extends he can protect the people he cares about when protecting them would end up hurting others people he wants to protect. Something like that.

I do worry also about him keeping his grief away from Lancelot, though i'm glad he could talk it out with Percival at least... i just hope that him trying to carry everything on his own isn't a set up for him ultimately breaking later because he didn't rely on Lancelot.

HELP. I'm honestly 100% sure this is all real, Percival is just having another one of these moments where he's dragged into a situation forced to be the straight man while everyone around him is dragging him into loosing it up.

It's honestly so funny, meanwhile, because Aglovale is happy, Percival cannot actually be mad or genuinely complain. So now look at him. wearing bunny ears. So cute.

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OH MY GOD???????

That explains completely why Shinsha went completely out of control in this timeline where Seox didn't massacre the clan... holy shit.....

God the fact this boy has to go through the most traumatic act of mass murder in order to stop THE APOCALYPSE is truly fucked up 😭

And it would make sense indeed if the Karm clan was indeed involved in the experiments that they could only get worse if they were still alive, considering how much they kept experimenting with new poisons and drugs to amplify powers and stuff...