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owo? Fall 2020 seasonal anime thread? Yes! Yes it is. WARLORDS OF SIGDRIFAPermalink On twitter.com
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I'm a little stuck on this show. On the one hand, it's definitely NOT vibing with me. But on the other, it's not doing anything obviously bad that I can pinpoint in a sentence.Permalink On twitter.com
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If I were watching this casually I'd chalk it up to the show "not being my thing" and move on. But Tappei Nagatsuki wrote this. And he like did Re:Zero. I am almost contractually obligated to bring takes, given how much my Re:Zero opinions break people.Permalink On twitter.com
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Warlords of Sigdrifa is a show about cute teenaged girls fighting existential threats to humanity in WWII-era fighter planes. Re:Zero is a moody isekai horror about an otaku coming to terms with his own mortality. The two shows aren't exactly comparable.Permalink On twitter.com
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The last thing I'd want to do is get essentialist and say "because an author wrote something I didn't like nothing he does will ever be good". Still, from time to time, the stuff that bothers me about Re:Zero shows up in Warlords as well.Permalink On twitter.com
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The writing is very much "tell don't show". Re:Zero I think it a little better at this but not by much. Every episode has had a scene where the characters sit around and describe their personality traits. There are 3 at time of writing but ep1 is a 50-minute double feature.Permalink On twitter.com
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In episode 1 we're told Miko is clumsy and energetic but loves food, that Sono is the little sister of the bunch, and that Azu is the smart one who acts tough but is nice on the inside.Permalink On twitter.com
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In episode 2 we're told Miko is clumsy and energetic but loves food, that Sono is the little sister of the bunch, and that Azu is the smart one who acts tough but is nice on the inside.Permalink On twitter.com
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In episode 3 we're told Miko is clumsy and energetic but loves food, that Sono is the little sister of the bunch, and that Azu is the smart one who acts tough but is nice on the inside.Permalink On twitter.com
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I've seen a comparison to Deca-Dence, given that this is the "non-adaptation" of the season. So I rewatched the first episode of Deca-Dence and it's a world of difference.Permalink On twitter.com
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I came into Deca-Dence skeptical. But I came out of it in LOVE with Natsume after *one* episode. And I can tell you: it wasn't because Natsume was in 7 conversations in which she talked about her character traits to her friends.Permalink On twitter.com
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It was actually because the show put her in a relatable situation: having ambition but being stuck in a dead-end job. Being bullied for something she can't control. And then we just get to see how she deals with the hand life gave her.Permalink On twitter.com
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She's also just the goodest beanPermalink On twitter.com
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But if I have to hear the Sigrdrifa pilots tell each other what they're like ONE MORE TIME I will bash my head into a wall. Just act the way you're saying you act, instead of telling me that's how you act. Y'feel me?Permalink On twitter.com
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Second: the tone and characterization are fucking unbearable. In my Re:Zero Frozen Bonds essay I talked about how Emilia was nice to everyone all the time. And this didn't work for its own reasons. In Sigrdrifa, like, everyone is like this. CONSTANTLYPermalink On twitter.com
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The show wants to be Eva in the sense that teenagers are tasked to endure trauma and risk death save the world for governments. But all the characters are not only perfectly fine with this, but more fine than anyone could possibly be.Permalink On twitter.com
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The thing about Eva: its main cast Shini, Rei, Asuka, Misato... they're all deeply depressed. Because their environment has made them depressed. Because it is human to be depressed. They're not depressed all the time or in the same way. But their environment changes them.Permalink On twitter.com
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In Warlords of Sigrdrifa it feels like the setting, which, for all intents and purposes is dystopic and miserable, has no impact on the characters, who were ripped out of a kids' show.Permalink On twitter.com
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It's like Tappei recognized shows about cute girls being cute are popular. And he recognized that post-apocalyptic military stories are popular. But then didn't realize that you can't just mash the two together and call it a night. There's a gap you have to bridge there.On twitter.com
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Lastly: the show is weird around white people. The protagonist Claudia is a German who immigrates to Japan. And the show NEVER STOPS BEING WEIRD ABOUT ITPermalink On twitter.com
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The show also makes multiple remarks about Japan, its men filled with honor and pride, and its women who strive to be ideal women. Claudia's dad loved Japan. He kept a katana for his daughter and raised her to be the best of both Japanese men and women.Permalink On twitter.com
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So to sum up: after almost 2 hours worth of content - I don't like the characters - I don't understand the setting - I CAN'T stand the tone - the way the anime treats foreigners is strangely uncomfortablePermalink On twitter.com
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I've seen a lot of people say they expected better from Tappei Nagatsuki. But given that I was already skeptical of Re:Zero so I'm not exactly sure what to tell you here. Sigrdrifa isn't actively awful like Our Last Crusade or King's Raid. But it isn't doing anything well eitherPermalink On twitter.com