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Katanagatari (TV).

Actually further discussion has made me think more about the latest one, and on the series itself. Katanagatari might appear like a fighting sword anime, but I think it is not...

Katanagatari can hardly be considered as action show so complaining about the lack of thereof I find to be rather silly. And Blood-, kudos to you for defending Katana... some people just love to bitch about show for being what it is (like slice of life series not having enough action and so on) or openly insult intelligence of others who actually like the said show. ADD? Very well might be, as dropping the show without crapping all over it and it's fans is simply not their style.

As for third episode - very enjoyable. I find it to be slightly better than first two as we finally see more than just Shichika & Togame dialogue, meaningless at times, for nearly entire episodes. The bandit queen is a rather interesting character, was she trying to repent for her crimes, well she chose an interesting way and method to do that. Love Shichika's attitude to killing. It's just his, well, job.

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RahXephon: half-baked pile of NGE Lite crap.

Now I absolutely HAVE to see it just so I can, in turn, bitch about it.

It's easily the most interesting of the set-ups so far, and without spoiling too much, it actually introduced some intruiging consequences and implications if they were to win(which, of course, they do.) It's just too bad it doesn't go anywhere; they win, the shrine maidens having all but vanished since the fight got underway, and it all gets brushed aside without any of the consequences for taking the swords being shown.

Talking(and badly shoehorned-in backstory) in the fight, that boring, unsatisfying fight.

Show, don't Tell: LEARN. IT. Those bits where that one maiden freaked out on Togame, or when they warmed just ever-so-slightly to Shichika when he helped with chores? Those were good and explained more, faster and were much more entertaining than endless conversations could ever hope to be. There needs to be more of that.

(and more of this) The blabber, while still mostly skip-worthy, does finally have some meat to chew into in the form of some Bakemono-esque metahumor on the subject of character desgin and storytelling tropes. At one point, Togame, who's writing a diary chronicling their journey, berates Shichika for how dull and lifeless his character is, how the ninja chasing them stand out much more(though she admits it's mostly due to trying way too hard) and browbeats him into adopting a witty catchphrase to compensate. It's no Ouran(PHONY!!!), but it's clever, insightful and kindasorta funny before it too wears out its welcome.

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RahXephon: half-baked pile of NGE Lite crap.


Now I absolutely HAVE to see it just so I can, in turn, bitch about it.

I have read your post before writing mine "Sparky". You have some points I won't deny that (or rather I should've made that clear in first place) but all your following posts are either flaming, insulting or attempts to pass your previous posts as "discussion" where the only post you ever put any discussion into was your original one (and the one you wrote to reply to me). You simply don't stop hating and insult others, who actually like the show, while you are at it.

Btw I don't think Katanagatari is a masterpiece. It's a good show in my books, and I enjoy it at that level.