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⌈ Secret Post #2839 ⌋
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Re: Hatewatching
(Anonymous) 2014-10-13 08:31 am (UTC)(link)I feel like I was already writing an essay on Mahouka just in these comments~
That's absolutely why the writing in Mahouka's terrible. Nothing is convincing because it's shoved down our throats in an "I said so, therefore it's true" fashion. Or rather, Tatsuya said so. There's not even the slightest attempt at fleshing out the characters, their beliefs, or the ideology of the world in any way. Just... believe what I say because I said it. That's all. Flat characters have their uses but god, it's like Mahouka doesn't even know what the words "flat" and "round" mean in relation to characterisation. Mahouka's flat characters are shit, and its round characters... uh, don't exist.
There's this one bit in the show that really frustrated me - surprisingly, not one revolving around Tatsuya. There's another character who's equally as amoral and violent (unsurprising, since he's obviously set up to be a mirror for Tatsuya), and his specialty battle spell basically involves literally blowing people apart. Same effect as if you put a bomb into someone's body, then set it off - they blow apart from the inside. So there's this scene where a bunch of bystander students have just seen him doing this to the baddies, and in the aftermath of it the students are all cringing, terrified and sickened by what they've just witnessed.
Then the narrative outright tells us that those students are wrong for feeling that way, and that they just don't understand this character. He suffers greatly from these people's misconceptions! How dare they be scared of him and of what he can do?
It's exactly what the narrative does with Tatsuya as well, but that one moment just really pissed me off. How do you expect anyone to react after seeing you blow up multiple people? Why are you presenting this like it's moral and that - it's not even that the students disapprove of the killing itself, we're not talking debates on the ethics of war/the death penalty/etc - they're just normal kids who've seen people get messily blown apart in front of them, and they're wishing really hard they didn't see that, and also kind of on the verge of throwing up, and you know what? That doesn't make them bad people! They are not villains for being horrified by what they've just seen! Why is this so hard to comprehend, Mahouka?
That reviewer mentioned how the baddies are totally flat characters with not much intelligence between the lot of them - which is entirely true, but I think you've really hit a new low when even the bystander characters get co-opted into your strawman arguments.
I finished the reviews, and the reviewer mentions a lot of the things I noticed (don't think I go for his style of humour though - dick and fart jokes, meh), so there was a lot of vehement "yes, exactly!" while pointing at the screen as I was reading them =D His reviews are actually the first I'd heard that fans were protesting it's not a harem show? To which I say what planet are you living on and how do we break off communications.
Also there are some issues he didn't mention, and some he only just glossed over, so now I find myself in the strange, strange position of pondering whether I should seek out Mahouka meta analysis. The depths to which I have sunk!
I watched Mononoke earlier this year (it's an older anime though, released around 2007 iirc), and that's the last time I remember watching something I really enjoyed. ... Oh, and Mushishi! Buuuut that's about it. Shall try out the two you mentioned though - I'm basically just going to watch a couple of eps of everything to see if anything catches my attention. We shall see!
Re: Hatewatching
(Anonymous) 2014-10-14 05:22 am (UTC)(link)Re: Hatewatching
(Anonymous) 2014-10-14 05:40 am (UTC)(link)Re: Hatewatching
(Anonymous) 2014-10-16 06:51 am (UTC)(link)