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daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#176: May 15th 2010 at 1:10:33 AM

I see... then we have pretty different outlooks. I'm kind of simple so that might be why I can't see it.

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#177: May 15th 2010 at 1:44:53 AM

There's still room for the recovery of his memory to have some effect. Or not, since they seem to be deliberately cultivating a 'things just happen' feel.

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#178: May 15th 2010 at 4:50:11 AM

Oh god... there is now an evil Tenshi now...

edited 15th May '10 4:52:43 AM by dandan550

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#179: May 15th 2010 at 5:27:27 AM

Cloning Blues? Or is this like the 2 Beatrices in EP 6?

Demot based on ep 7.

edited 15th May '10 7:12:49 AM by Mapi

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#180: May 15th 2010 at 7:21:01 AM

wild mass guessClearly, the appearance of the new Tenshi means that Kanade was schizophrenic during her life, and when she died, the both the voice in her head and herself each got a different body, since they were sorta kinda two different people.

The new Kanade is the Lawful Evil Knights Templar voice in her head, which is only acting now because regular Kanade is not doing her job as "Tenshi."wild mass guess

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#181: May 15th 2010 at 8:41:46 AM

I have to say, I don't really like Naoi's Heel–Face Turn. He went from credible villain to yet another comic relief character way too fast.

On the other hand, the stuff with Otonashi and Kanade  *

was cute and that ending was interesting. I just hope that the new Angel ends up lasting longer as a villain than Naoi did...

edited 15th May '10 8:42:54 AM by Nyktos

I guess it is.
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#182: May 15th 2010 at 8:46:56 AM

Indeed. Also, cue potential Mirror Match.

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#183: May 15th 2010 at 9:06:42 AM

I wonder if this one is actually an angel. If she is, I wonder why she looks basically the same as Kanade...

Actually, even if she isn't I wonder why she looks like Kanade.

I guess it is.
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#184: May 15th 2010 at 9:14:23 AM

Kanade Tachibana used Double Team! Kanade Tachibana used Swords Dance! Kanade Tachibana used Slash!

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#185: May 15th 2010 at 9:51:42 AM

If you're talking realism, hypnotism doesn't work like that, at all. And most memories recovered by hypnotism are fake memories constructed by leading questions. It's basically impossible for hypnotism to do anything it's portrayed as doing within the show.
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edited 15th May '10 9:51:56 AM by Taelor

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#186: May 15th 2010 at 10:34:05 AM

With the latest character addition, I'd like to say a few things:

1)Is it just me or the newcomer one has reddish eyes, while the one who was, ahem, befriended, has amber eyes?

2)Since it happened, can we call it... oh, never mind, disregard this.

3)Can we assume that the world somehow Spawns Tenchis for watching over it? And if so, and if the newcomer becomes a prez, I think we can safely assume that NPCs have simply relegated their safekeeping to this Defence Mechanism.

edited 15th May '10 10:34:54 AM by Faraway_2

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#187: May 15th 2010 at 10:36:15 AM

^ Re 1. [1]

edited 15th May '10 10:37:13 AM by Mapi

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#188: May 15th 2010 at 2:34:00 PM

Otonashi's backstory and death were pointless. But maybe that was the point. I don't know. Maybe not, it was his character. He's a guy who really devoted his entire life towards other people, first his sister, than once she passed away, devoted it towards a goal of being able to help other people, and in such a way I don't think really ever was able to live life for himself. Even at the end, it's still for everybody else.

And even in the current world, he's really still living for everybody else and not really himself. That's probably his hurdle to overcome.

I think at the end of the series there's not even going to be an antagonist. Someone compared it to Evangalion, and in that way I think they're correct. It really is a show about emotional baggage, and overcoming/learning to live with as such.

Now, I could be surprised again. Who knows, with how...off the wall things are. But that's what it appears to me.

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#189: May 15th 2010 at 3:36:44 PM

Naoi ... is so cute ♥♥♥

but the drama seems so forced. I feel bad for Tenshi though, and I'm glad Otonashi befriended her. I wish there was more legit romance in this show though, instead of speculative shipping. But it's so plot heavy that I don't think there's any room for it.

And the SSS's antics played for laffs behind their contrived backstories is seriously weird. Mood whiplash. Geh. Why do I love this show.

I'm so curious about this new Tenshi D:

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#190: May 15th 2010 at 8:16:34 PM

^^ I'll have to say i think the point of showing his death is to illustrate how pointless it all was.

At this point i wouldn't be too surprised if the rest of the series took a whole "Life and death are pointless, so you might as well live and die the best you can" theme.

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#191: May 15th 2010 at 10:31:47 PM

I think Otonashi's backstory jived with the way it was used; his life was basically useless, and right when he was about to change that, he dies in a train crash.

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#192: May 16th 2010 at 1:24:24 PM

So yeah, finally got around to looking at some of the voice actors. What was the first thing I discovered? Otonashi is Izaya. WOW. That is a serious case of Mood Whiplash right there.

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#193: May 16th 2010 at 1:39:59 PM

That's hilarious.

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
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#194: May 16th 2010 at 7:52:17 PM

Despair-sensei and Shinji Matou as well.

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#195: May 17th 2010 at 1:23:18 AM

I'm not convinced Otonashi's death is quite.. real.

If you remember from a few pages back, it's entirely possible that this story is really set in some sort of coma ward.. well, it *is* Key.

Meanwhile, Otonashi wanted to be some kind of doctor.

He may have been in a train crash, but I wouldn't be too surprised if he got out of it relatively unharmed; then, later, he joined/started a program trying to cure coma patients. The hypnosis didn't give him all his memories back, but hypnosis in general can't make you do anything you don't want; he's got a good reason for suppressing the later memories.

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#196: May 17th 2010 at 1:24:03 AM

Oh, and did everyone forget the Kanede dorm infiltration mission?

There were several abilities shown on that computer.. including one that would be relevant now... go have a look.

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#197: May 17th 2010 at 4:37:08 AM

Harmonics, yes. Hopefully it was a simple mistake that created the clone. After all that, it'd just be a sucker punch to reveal that Angel's still an antagonist.

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#198: May 17th 2010 at 6:35:15 AM

It's not like those are the only two possibilities. She could be an identical twin, or a clone created by someone else entirely.

I guess it is.
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#199: May 17th 2010 at 7:14:17 AM

Oh hey, isn't Zetsubou no Carnival a track from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei?

BTW guys, I think that we will have some giant and permanent Mood Whiplash at the end of the series, in which, the world where they live in will fade away or something.

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#200: May 17th 2010 at 7:58:17 AM

If not that, Bittersweet Ending or Downer Ending, or possibly Earn Your Happy Ending. Jun Maeda is good at this.

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