Good ol' Gen. He's like the closet sociopath you invite to your tabletop RPG nights just because you can't wait to see what he'll do next.
I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serialWell, Opposites Attract. He and Nasu are actually pretty good friends from what I hear...
I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serial
That interview above also has Nasu in it, right below the bolded line.
(also, Cross Channel Yume Miru Kusuri, Jinrui Wa Suitaishimashita writer Romeo Tanaka)
Honestly, ALL these vn writers sound like sociopaths around a table.
edited 12th Oct '12 10:20:02 AM by Ever9
I bet Gen Urobuchi has poker time with Lynn Okamoto and Mohiro Kitoh when he's not hanging out with good ol' Nasu.
He also probably tries to find ways to outwit Hirohiko Araki And trying to be more over the top in his Grimdarkness then Araki is When it comes to super powers
edited 12th Oct '12 2:35:36 PM by Demongodofchaos2
Watch SymphogearI just wonder how Gen would fare in the Psycho-Pass world xD
There's no Part 1, I just thought it was funny at the time.Shinya: Akane! What's the Dominator say about his Psycho-Pass?
Akane: IT'S OVER 9000!!!
Shinya: WHAT?! NINE THOUSAND? There's no way that can be right!
Gen: Huehuehue
I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serial
That post is too OOC. Shinya never speaks in capital letters, ever.
Mohiro Kitoh would probably break the guns just from them trying to read him.
So would Dio Brando.
edited 12th Oct '12 4:21:39 PM by Demongodofchaos2
Watch SymphogearNaive because she didn't know about how criminal status is contagious and stuff or naive because of her actions (stopping them from executing a victim)?
If it's the former, well, they did simply tell her to discard all that shit she learned about on paper, so having top marks probably isn't important in that sense. You know, like people who got grades of A all over their report cards on subjects they will never use
I don't understand why people are complaining about the attempted rape thing on the basis of it being bad writing.
I mean, I could get it if people just didn't want to see it because it's disgusting, or because it makes victims IRL have to recall bad memories and suffer trauma, but that doesn't mean that, in writing, it is nonsense. I can easily see why that guy with a high number in...uh...criminal-ness, while breaking down, while having to surpress himself and blah blah, would want to resort to such things, seeing how humans are usually sexually driven beings. I could even call it "good writing" by that logic on the basis of it being realistic, though I suppose that it doesn't work for manipulating audience emotions as well specifically because people complain about these things rather than take it the same way as murdering, disease, arson, etc. is.
Being at the Heavens, control the land. Being at the Earth, remove its keystones. And lay bare the scarlet hearts of man!I think the controversy is that it was used to create cheap drama. Tastefulness and laziness aside, it seems rape was used to create a victim that the audience could sympathize with. Assuming that we're meant to feel sorry for declared criminals, then it shows that the guy is too far gone to be saved (at least by the standards of the people in the show) while the girl becomes an example that the system is not perfect. Could have another device been used? Certainly. Should it? Perhaps, but as long as it doesn't become a trend, the show should be able to avoid most Unfortunate Implications. It did get the job done fairly quickly.
They didn't even show the rape scene for long either, so there's that. I'm actually rather amused that people are complaining about the "unnecessary" rape scene when you could complain about the far more gratuitous human con carne scene.
Episode 1: I like the setting, the old guy and Kougami are cool, and the Dominators are slick guns.
edited 13th Oct '12 7:35:45 PM by fillerdude

By the way, regarding how Urobuchi Gen defines moe, there was this entertaining interview a few years ago with a bunch of VN writers including him, talking about another horror story, Kusarihime ~Euthanasia~.
Meteo: Her handicap didn't really matter to her. She's actually the strongest, maybe.
Urobuchi: We talked about this in the interview, but we wanted Jun to be more of a scream queen.
Tanaka: Yeah, we wanted her to be scream-elemental.
Urobuchi: But the scene where she was blood-splattered and crying had a lot of moe in it.
Nasu: The scene where she has a hatchet and a look on her face like "Look what I did."
Urobuchi: And the part where she was like "Uwahh, she's really scared!"
Tanaka: She was so harsh in the beginning, but in the second half she screams so much in front of your eyes. I liked that gap.
Nakamura: It was amazing how cute she eventually got.
http://www.tsukikan.com/misc/star-scenario-writer-interview.html