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fandomsecrets2013-01-23 06:51 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-01-23 06:51 pm
[ SECRET POST #2213 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2213 ⌋
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(Anonymous) 2013-01-24 03:12 am (UTC)(link)(ot, but on re-reading this, if it weren't for the murder and genders, I feel like this is potentially a passable description of Sailor Moon.)
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(Anonymous) 2013-01-24 05:40 am (UTC)(link)Shiro doesn't remember this for about half the series. His memories have been masked by the cat, who's a Strain, which are pretty much mutants. Her ability is to create illusions, so she kind of affects everyone around her in terms of memories and images. Eventually he gets his memories back and goes to confront the Colorless King, who's in Shiro's original body. That...doesn't go well, and the Colorless King escapes. That's where the plot leaves Shiro for a while.
Then, we have Red vs Blue. The Red King is Mikoto, and he's out for vengeance for his murdered clan member. Power-wise, he's really unstable, and if he ever loses control, there's a big sword that hangs above him (a representation of his power, and all the colored kings have one) that will come crashing down and sort of destroy everything ala atomic bomb style. The Blue King is named Munakata, and his main goal seems to be to keep Mikoto from accidentally killing himself or those around him.
That's the background.
Final episode: Mikoto doesn't realize Shiro isn't the Colorless King and goes after him. The Colorless King, who is alive, kind of jumps bodies to avoid being detected. The Colorless King is crazy (he absorbs the personalities of the bodies he possesses) and his goal is to become the last king by making all the other kings destroy themselves, hence how the plot got started. Munakata (the Blue King) isn't okay with this plan, so he goes after Mikoto. The Reds and the Blues sort of invade an island and fight for like two episodes.
Blue King and Red King end up fighting. Shiro manages to catch the Colorless King by trapping him back in the original body, so Shiro + Colorless King are in one body. Shiro goes and confronts Mikoto. Mikoto kills him, thus avenging that Red Clan member who was killed. Mikoto then loses control of his sword, and the Blue King kills him to save them all.
Reasons People Are Sad:
Final episode killed the two favorites, Shiro and Mikoto. It also sank at least two or three big ships (Red and Blue King was a big one, as was Shiro and his friend who actually turned out to be a dog Strain.)
What the show did right was the twists--we think Shiro is the murderer right up until an alternate solution is presented, because he seems that guilty. Also, his friend--the dog--is only revealed to be a dog in the last five minutes of the series.
What is did wrong was everything else. None of the characters got much development or had any big motivations, and it was all very cliched in terms of story telling. It was rushed--the series would have been better if it was twice the length, but as it is, there were too many characters (around thirty with names, I think) to give any of them good story lines. I hear it's getting a second season, and I'll probably watch it, but my expectations won't be high.
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(Anonymous) 2013-01-24 05:58 am (UTC)(link)this was a good recap
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(Anonymous) 2013-01-24 06:08 am (UTC)(link)I think what they were trying to accomplish is create an anime tied in with those novels/manga that could be enjoyed by both original fans and new fans which obviously has been done wonderfully before (Baccano anyone), but they just completely screwed the pooch on it. In the end it really comes across more as... like open any book and read, without having read anything before, only the last two chapters. That'll give you the feel of it.
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(Anonymous) 2013-01-24 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)lol you must be new if you think either of those ships are sunk because half the participants are dead(ish).
Mikoto being dead doesn't stop Reishi from having had feelings for him (and while I ship them, I don't think Mikoto saw Reishi as anything more than a decent friend who'd do what was right no matter what; I do think Reishi was fond of Mikoto more than simply as a friend/rival king...), so the ship sails on, it's just super tragic now.
And we can't be sure Shiro's dead, either; he's the Silver King, immortal, so he'll likely be back SOMEhow, whether it's like before or as some kind of apparition or appearing to Kuroh or Neko in a dream or what remains to be seen, but they wouldn't have made that allusion to him not being dead if he really WERE never going to show up again.
Also was it confirmed that Kuroh was a dog strain? I always assumed it was Neko using her illusion powers to make him look like a dog so they could get away...
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(Anonymous) 2013-01-24 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)As for Kuroh being a dog Strain, there are a few things that make it make since. There's his nickname, and there's the fact that in one episode he claimed to be able to "smell" the Blues coming after them. The biggest thing, though, is that psychic hand he has. When Mikoto died, the Red Aura left all the members of the Red Clan, taking the fire power with it. Kuroh had to naturally have that psychic hand, or else it would have disappeared when the Colorless King died initially. So, he's some kind of Strain.
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(Anonymous) 2013-01-24 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)Wow, thank you! Greatly appreciated the "reasons people are sad", and what the show did right and wrong bits :) Didn't know about it being a tie-in, either (thanks too, da, calling it the last 2 chapters of a book seems very apt).
This helps a lot with the confusion. I understood "amnesiac potential murderer" to be the main story hook and would read it in most any setting, mutant/psychic/clans included. But when I'd try to read about a character to figure out how they fit into that story, the description would explain how they fit into the mutant/psychic/clans set-up instead and often pointed to several more universe-specific terms that I just didn't know about. What I managed to get about the set-up itself never really clicked in a "that's an interesting universe" way, either, but that could be a matter of building to it in the prequels. The premise still has legs for me, but it seems like this iteration puts a lot of faith in that you'll like the characters enough to hang on for everything else that just sort of happens, and it looks like that's a divisive point.
Anyway, thanks again!