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*** Actually this troper, when I was learning Japanese, was taught to pronounce his name in Japanese syllables when introducing himself. It's [[Handwave:possible]] they're simply doing the same thing, rendering their names in a way that's easier for the people they're speaking too.
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** Well look at it this way: When you feel fear, you have physical signs (blood moving from your stomach giving it butterflies), and often an awareness of the practicality of getting away, but also your brain goes "ohcrapcrapcrapcraprunmustgoaway". The question of "what is emotion?" is an interesting one, but when talking about TheSociopath it seems to be the first two are considered irrelevant compared to the last. After all, you have butterflies in your stomach when you're attracted to someone, how can you tell the difference between fear and attraction if you lack the "ohcrapcrapcrap"?
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*** This is very heavily implied. Heck, the original poster touched on it when he said that "Contractors are becoming less sociopathic."
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***** WordOfGod has been pretty tight-lipped about the entire situation, actually. This Troper hasn't seen much of ''anything'' from the writers alluding to them being in a romantic relationship or having mutual romantic feelings for each other. As the above troper states, it's relatively ambiguous and shippers can ship whoever they want, or ship no one at all. In other words: if you want to see it, it's there. If you don't want to see it, it's not there.
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** This troper was always under the impression that Suou was a deconstruction of the self-insert MarySue. Given [[DeconstructionFleet the nature of the show]], it's entirely plausible.
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** I'm going to disagree with Mao, mostly because his reappearance solved some FridgeLogic I had with his death. I wondered if they still had the backup of his brain still on the server somewhere, and could just turn it back on. Made sense to me.
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** There are plenty of explanations for that: he could have the ability to decide which blood is affected, or he could be returning the blood to his own body when he does it, which would also explain why he doesn't pass out from blood loss.
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Fixing links to lolicon. Lolicon refers neither to the girl in question nor the theme or genre or whatever.
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* What the ''frick'' happened at the end of ''Ryuusei no Gemini''? I got parts of it, but you can only put so much down to "mysterious setting" and "brain occupied with ignoring the {{squick}}y {{lolicon}} subtext" before the GainaxEnding gets ridiculous.
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* What the ''frick'' happened at the end of ''Ryuusei no Gemini''? I got parts of it, but you can only put so much down to "mysterious setting" and "brain occupied with ignoring the {{squick}}y {{lolicon}} pedo subtext" before the GainaxEnding gets ridiculous.
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* Why does Wei turn his own hand into ribbons every time he uses his contractor ability? In a show focused on reality, Wei's the only one with a blatant secondary superpower. (The Russian McDonald's Flash didn't have any)
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* Why does doesn't Wei turn his own hand into ribbons every time he uses his contractor ability? In a show focused on reality, Wei's the only one with a blatant secondary superpower. (The Russian McDonald's Flash didn't have any)
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* Why does Wei turn his own hand into ribbons every time he uses his contractor ability? In a show focused on reality, Wei's the only one with a blatant secondary superpower. (The Russian McDonald's Flash didn't have any)
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If you needed italics, your \"what\" is probably not very flat.
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*** ...Wait, ''[[FlatWhat What]]''? I ''must'' see this page and quote, if only the confirm that totally cracked-out tidbit (as for the initial question, Mayu's collarbone fixation probably has to do with the fact that Hei was wearing a) a mask and b) a shirt that was neither his usual man-cleavage-showcasing button-up nor the skin-tight spy catsuit that's usually under the BadassLongcoat. Therefore, the most immediate object of focus would be the infamous "delicious collarbone." Also, she was drunk during the rescue. People think of some pretty weird things while drunk.)
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*** ...Wait, ''[[FlatWhat What]]''? ''What''? I ''must'' see this page and quote, if only the confirm that totally cracked-out tidbit (as for the initial question, Mayu's collarbone fixation probably has to do with the fact that Hei was wearing a) a mask and b) a shirt that was neither his usual man-cleavage-showcasing button-up nor the skin-tight spy catsuit that's usually under the BadassLongcoat. Therefore, the most immediate object of focus would be the infamous "delicious collarbone." Also, she was drunk during the rescue. People think of some pretty weird things while drunk.)
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* All the transformation sequences. Honestly, were they ''really'' that necessary? After just one of them, I think the animators would have realized that yes, the audience knows where those rifles of Suou's are coming from.
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* All the transformation sequences. Honestly, were they ''really'' that necessary? After just one of them, I think the animators would have realized that yes, the audience knows where those rifles of Suou's rifles are coming from.
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* All the transformation sequences. Honestly, were they ''really'' that necessary? Come to think of it, was ''all'' of season two really necessary?
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* All the transformation sequences. Honestly, were they ''really'' that necessary? Come to After just one of them, I think the animators would have realized that yes, the audience knows where those rifles of it, was ''all'' of season two really necessary?Suou's are coming from.
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*All the transformation sequences. Honestly, were they ''really'' that necessary? Come to think of it, was ''all'' of season two really necessary?
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* Why does the second season not have more episodes? The first season did really well by having two-parters with really good but simple self-contained storylines that still built on the overall myth-arc. And that was just with Japan to play around with. Season two took place throughout Russia and Japan, and the massive change in the status quo could have been some good fodder for new stories. While I don't exactly mind the focus on the overall story, it's kind of lacking in flavor-text, as it were, and characterization is a little bit watered down due to the number of important characters. It would also have diluted the rampant pedophilia subtext. The OVA even pulled it off to some extent by focusing on Hei and Yin's interactions and characterizations on the island as well as the inspection of the contractor society, even though it only had four episodes.
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** This is in accord with episodes 3 and 4 in the first season. A character changed from a {{Muggle}} to a Contractor. As a Muggle, she was a normal girl with a full range of emotions. When she manifested Contractor powers, she suddenly became robotic and monotonous, both in the flashback and in the resurfacing.
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** This bugged me too. Maybe when they turn into Contractors they start off emotionally blank, then they slowly redevelop over time?
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**** That's just your personal opinion, [[WordofGod word of God]] has already stated them as being canon.
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**** That's just your personal opinion, [[WordofGod word Word of God]] has already stated them as being canon.canon.
**This troper doesn't really see it as lolicon, there doesn't seem to be that great a difference in height (at least in the OVA) between the two and the manager of the resort they visit posing as a married couple seems to easily accept that Yin could be Hei's wife so it doesn't appear the age gap between them is all that big.
**This troper doesn't really see it as lolicon, there doesn't seem to be that great a difference in height (at least in the OVA) between the two and the manager of the resort they visit posing as a married couple seems to easily accept that Yin could be Hei's wife so it doesn't appear the age gap between them is all that big.
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**** Problem is, why doesn't his moving at the speed of sound through air itself trigger existence issues? Surely the body is not made to withstand air resistance while moving at 340 km/hr? Unless he has some secondary powers not mentioned.
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**** Problem is, why doesn't his moving at the speed of sound through air itself trigger existence issues? Surely the body is not made to withstand air resistance while moving at 340 km/hr? m/sec? Unless he has some secondary powers not mentioned.
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****Problem is, why doesn't his moving at the speed of sound through air itself trigger existence issues? Surely the body is not made to withstand air resistance while moving at 340 km/hr? Unless he has some secondary powers not mentioned.
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** I thought that the series handled the interaction well enough to be neither 'fucking' nor 'pedophilia', seeing as all but a handful relationships are developed in a way that practically spells out: "''this is '''not''' healthy''". And then there's Suou's heartbreaking "confession": ("It hurt even more when you hit me. There are so many things I don't understand... but when you called me Suou, I was so happy. Then I found out it was to save [[spoiler:Yin]], I became confused. '''[[spoiler:You killed my dad.]]''' You're a terrible, good-for-nothing, violent drunk. Yet I became so lonely when we were separated.) That's bad enough coming from an abused wife, but this is from a kid, barely in her teens, who's been screwed up by events entirely beyond her control. If her character is being exploited, it's tugging at our heartstrings, not our nether regions. As for Norio, he's a nutjob and never taken seriously. It's interesting to note that Norio and Suou's age gap (~18 and ~13) happens to match that of [[RomeoAndJuliet another famously doomed couple]].
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** The Gaiden OVAs explain why Hei started to drink: [[spoiler: he became a drunken version of DontYouDarePityMe.]]
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** Good point. I was glad to have Mao there, but there's really no reason at all he should have been.
* Tanya's abrupt personality change doesn't mesh with any previous precedent. Most Contractors seem to retain their personalities for the most part; they just don't mind killing people. In contrast, Tanya instantly became a pod person. In fact, it's even implied elsewhere that Contractors are becoming less sociopathic over time, which makes her personality shift even more confusing.
* Tanya's abrupt personality change doesn't mesh with any previous precedent. Most Contractors seem to retain their personalities for the most part; they just don't mind killing people. In contrast, Tanya instantly became a pod person. In fact, it's even implied elsewhere that Contractors are becoming less sociopathic over time, which makes her personality shift even more confusing.
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** After the Gaiden OVAs, [[spoiler: the LikeBrotherAndSister explanation falls apart and Hei x Yin became canon.]]
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*** No, not really. All we see is that they're really close and Hei [[MoralityPet gets extremely protective of her]], which we already knew; it's deliberately left open, so a shipper can legitimately [[ShippingGoggles interpret their relationship one way]], while someone who disagrees can interpret it differently. [[spoiler:Sure, Izanami is all over Hei, but it's hard to tell if she's a SplitPersonality or a separate entity, and he mostly seems quite understandably creeped-out. Otherwise, all that happens is that they hug, which can just as easily be platonic.]]
*** No, not really. All we see is that they're really close and Hei [[MoralityPet gets extremely protective of her]], which we already knew; it's deliberately left open, so a shipper can legitimately [[ShippingGoggles interpret their relationship one way]], while someone who disagrees can interpret it differently. [[spoiler:Sure, Izanami is all over Hei, but it's hard to tell if she's a SplitPersonality or a separate entity, and he mostly seems quite understandably creeped-out. Otherwise, all that happens is that they hug, which can just as easily be platonic.]]
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** This troper skipped the entire second season really. The first season stands up on it's own and the ONLY plot hook is very transparent and was obviously added at the last second.
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* It just bugs me that the second season has a plot outline that sounds like a bad fanfic. To whit: A [[OriginalCharacter completely new character]] joins the original protagonist, who is [[OutOfCharacter turned into]] [[TookALevelInJerkass an abusive jerkass]] to [[SympatheticSue make us feel sorry for her]]. Then she becomes a Contractor, but her emotions don't change at all, with no explanation (and she gets a TransformationSequence!). From that point on, [[SpotlightStealingSquad most of the plot is about her]], even though at the end it turns out [[spoiler:she wasn't even directly involved in the scheme that got the whole mess started]]. A character who died is [[IGotBetter brought back]] with just a {{handwave}} (presumably because the author liked him), and most characters who survived the original are reduced to a few scenes at best: Kirihara is mostly shoved offscreen despite [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot her great story potential]], and Yin spends the whole time [[spoiler:either [[ConvenientComa in a coma]] or possessed by her shiny new SuperpoweredEvilSide]], which seems almost like a MoralityPet version of DieForOurShip. If this had been a story on fanfiction.net, I'd ask somebody to write a ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum mission for it!
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* It just bugs me that the second season has a plot outline that sounds like a bad fanfic. To whit: A [[OriginalCharacter completely new character]] joins the original protagonist, who is [[OutOfCharacter turned into]] [[TookALevelInJerkass an abusive jerkass]] to [[SympatheticSue make us feel sorry for her]]. Then she becomes a Contractor, but her emotions don't change at all, with no explanation (and she gets a TransformationSequence!). From that point on, [[SpotlightStealingSquad most of the plot is about her]], even though at the end it turns out [[spoiler:she wasn't even directly involved in the scheme that got the whole mess started]]. A character who died is [[IGotBetter brought back]] with just a {{handwave}} (presumably because the author liked him), and most characters who survived the original are reduced to a few scenes at best: Kirihara is mostly shoved offscreen despite [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot her great story potential]], and Yin spends the whole time [[spoiler:either [[ConvenientComa in a coma]] or possessed by her shiny new SuperpoweredEvilSide]], which seems almost like a MoralityPet version of DieForOurShip. If this had been a story on fanfiction.net, I'd ask somebody to write a ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum mission for it!it! I actually don't think it was bad, but it still bothers me.
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* It just bugs me that the second season has a plot outline that sounds like a bad fanfic. To whit: A [[OriginalCharacter completely new character]] joins the original protagonist, who is [[OutOfCharacter turned into]] [[TookALevelInJerkass an abusive jerkass]] to [[SympatheticSue make us feel sorry for her]]. Then she becomes a Contractor, but her emotions don't change at all, with no explanation (and she gets a TransformationSequence!). From that point on, [[SpotlightStealingSquad most of the plot is about her]], even though at the end it turns out [[spoiler:she wasn't even directly involved in the scheme that got the whole mess started]]. A character who died is [[IGotBetter brought back]] with just a {{handwave}} (presumably because the author liked him), and most characters who survived the original are reduced to a few scenes at best: Kirihara is mostly shoved offscreen despite [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot her great story potential]], and Yin spends the whole time [[spoiler:either [[ConvenientComa in a coma]] or possessed by her shiny new SuperpoweredEvilSide]], which seems almost like a MoralityPet version of DieForOurShip. If this had been a story on fanfiction.net, I'd ask somebody to write a ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum mission for it!
