Rewrite Anime - Episode 11 “Countdown”

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#29

I’m also not impressed by these “jokes”. It’s so cringe worthy I can’t even watch half the time.The comedy should’ve been done with a long time ago, speaking of time I feel they’re wasting it.

I can see how some of this would play out better in the novel version making the girls have a more cohesive story and Kagari actually being a character. But it seems so halfed ass right now and they’re trying too hard to meld some ideas together, like Midou.

I wonder if they’ll do Terra? Or is just some made up route? I think they’ll have to because we haven’t had a closure for Chihaya yet or Kotori or even Kagari. If they do Terra, I hope they fix up the issues I had and make it less bleak.

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#30

Guys… Is it that hard to draw a giant dinosaur??? Like wtf. I guess Krivoy Rog and Kilimanjaro were understandable but Earth Dragon?? Come on… Don’t let me down, 8bit CG team…

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Like we can have beautiful dinosaurs in episode one,

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but now we can’t??

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#31

Since the Earth Dragon presumably will be on screen for more then half a second and move hopefully, why shouldn’t they do it in cg? The cg on the big familiars has been the best animation work in the series. Why does the first episode have hand drawn stuff? Because it’s the first episode; resources aren’t distributed equally over a series.

In her route, she’s afraid Kotarou is a familiar that she controls subconsciously. In the anime, Kotarou shows more dedication to Kagari than to Kotori showing that he has a will of his own. If that’s the case then Lucia should be fine too, and there was no alternative anyway.

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#32

Finally I have a reason to love Kagari…usually she’s always Kotarou centered…and only care about fecoff…

Today she healed Lucia…so I am starting to believe she’s have kind side.

I’m also confused the way of Kagari thinking…like in the earlier episode she doesn’t care naked in front of Kotarou (bathroom scene)… And in this episode…she’s angry and blushing…is that mean she is growing up?

For this episode I appreciate Kotarou’s underwear and Midou’s friends played piano

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#33

HAHAHA WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Where the Earth Dragon walks, bad writing follows, it’s the eternal rule forever attached to that beast.

It is hilarious and carrying this show, anyone who dislikes it is completely deluded into still thinking anything can seriously be enjoyed from this and needs to let go of those thoughts and enjoy the mess.

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#34

Realtalk the CG dragon looks 10x more beautiful than the hand-drawn one.

So what do I think of this episode? Very neutral. It had interesting points and it had bad points. I’m most disappointed with Lucia surviving, but at the same time, I’m not even surprised.

Getting midou to control the earth dragon is interesting (it’ll probably kill him), feecof jokes are getting stale… I’ve been desensitized to fanservice from watching anime too much that the whole bath scene doesn’t even bother me. I’d feel the exact same way if the dialogue in the bath scene happened, for example, while they were sitting by the table drinking coffee.

I guess the actual legit fanservice here is Kagari licking Lucia’s coffee-stained face. Not gonne lie though, I was thoroughly entertained by that scene. Call it a guilty pleasure, if you will.

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#35

You forgot to add “objectively true”.

Jokes aside, I simply cannot imagine Tanaka approving of the anime while still caring about the game he wrote. The differences are just too great. I’m repeating myself, but it’s really damn hard to take the anime seriously.

It wasn’t the pit that promised death. It was the dramatic way of falling and the buildup before it, which included 3 whole death flags. But I might have been fine with Lucia surviving if it was just that. What bugs me is the ridiculous outcome of the fight:

And then they just miraculously heal up Lucia by putting Kagari’s ribbons on the wound. -_-

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#36

Yet he is still credited for assisting with the scenario, and that scenario would’ve been written months ago. Diverting blame from Tanaka is completely nonsensical unless he actually comes out and says anything about it. With the amount of bullshit found under the Rewrite umbrella, he really doesn’t deserve the credit you’re giving him.

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#37

There’s an interesting point that I found in Reddit (I don’t know why I’m still browsing through it T.T) that I thought I should share:

Kotori’s secret garden has become a second occult clubroom, where Kotarou and his friends can forget about all the conflicts they’re embroiled in and pretend they’re just a group of friends, that everything is going to be fine if they all just stick together and weather it through, while avoiding thinking about tjings that are too difficult or sad. We saw the results of that kind of attitude I. ep 7, and if I’m guessing correctly, things won’t turn out too different for the neo-occult club.

I don’t really want to get anyone’s hopes up this late to the story, but I thought a turn of events such as this will be very interesting if this becomes the case.

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#38

@BlackHayate02 I think this is actually interesting, also I do understand what ya mean by what you stated in the last part (about don’t get your hopes up), but if that’s the case, then it was pretty nice of a touch. Not to mention that, sorry if I have to bring this up, the scenes that were inside of the garden, including the comedy sketch, rather demonstrates that. Not only that but (I have to repeat this again to backup my previous claim)The anime rather portrays one of the themes that I actually loved from the VN, which is basically how the characters do not honestly want to attack each other and don’t want to be in the state and fate they are facing against on. The deadly battle that basically awaits them, and it also showcases the Youth theme… at least from what I can get, the anime didn’t do the best thing as I hoped for, but it was pretty nicely done, rather decently in fact

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#39

Rewrite piano arrangement. Kreygasm.

I found it weird how Midou’s lapdog was playing the arrangement on the piano, but the song continues playing even after he leaves the piano.

I did a double take thought I was going crazy for a second, thinking maybe he was using some special Gaia familiar pianist to continue hitting the notes after he left his seat, or if he got someone else to tag out to continue playing the song.

And then I realised I was overthinking the whole piano thing.
I felt incredibly proud that I exacerbated the smallest detail into such a long string of impossible theories about a magic piano in a seemingly insignificant scene.

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#40

I’ll admit, while the scene the OP image comes from was funny, it was probably a bit too kinky…

Otherwise, there was a lot to like in this episode. We got some more moments between the main heroines that helped solidify their dynamic. I feel there was simply not enough time for the anime to establish that for the later pathos to ring as true as it should, so I’m glad we’re getting more here. The escalation as Gaia and Guardian come closer and closer to a direct confrontation is also well-done. Most of what I feel the series has done a poor job of executing in the past (comedy, for one) seems to be done well here.

I do have my share of complaints, though. It was awfully convenient that Lucia not only survived through the previous episode but was healed by Kagari and Kotori rather easily. While we know a little bit about what Kotori can do, Kagari’s true nature is still mysterious. So having her be able to heal her felt like a cop-out that shatters the tension from the previous episode. I thought they were actually going to be bold enough to kill her.

In addition, the inevitable ham-fisted environmental themes are finally starting to come into play. Although I’m grateful no individual characters are being demonized, generalizing humanity as fools who wage war for no reason is a gross oversimplification of the way people and societies function. Her point about people solving their problems through conversation also fell flat to me, because in reality, nothing has been solved. No one knows what’s going to happen in the Salvation, and it feels like they’re running away from an event that my decide the fate of humanity. Both sides are working on hypotheticals, but the Key’s power is obviously beyond human measure. The sort of agreement the main characters come to only works from a personal level, not a utilitarian one. Many innocent lives are probably in danger.

At the same time, though, I get some of that ham-fistedness may be intentional, considering Kagari is the one delivering the dialogue I referenced before. But after having experienced numerous Tales games that tackle the subject in a similar, on-the-nose manner, I’m growing a bit tired of it. I still have hope the conclusion will prove my pessimism wrong, however.

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#41

The thing is, (Rewrite, Kotori route) Kotori using one of Kagari’s ribbons to heal Kotarou was supposed to be a huge one-time deal. Like, moreso than the accident with her parents, that’s what truly indebted her to the Key as a Druid. It was a huge ordeal and a huge plot-point for the entirety of Rewrite and a huge debt to the Earth itself, which required Kotori to basically sacrifice every ounce of her free time. For the Key to now just go around handing ribbons out to anyone who’s injured like candy on Halloween is just really…bad writing.

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#42

I’m not sure if you noticed, but… Kagari is slightly different this time around.

#43

Yes, I’ve noticed. And it still doesn’t change anything about her ribbons. Her ribbons which are tied to aurora and the usage of the planet’s life energy. Just because Kagari’s personality is different this time around doesn’t impact literally anything about Kotori’s obligation as a Druid or the fact that she still owes a debt to the earth itself. Kagari’s personality could switch every hour if they wanted, but that still shouldn’t impact anything about how the rules of functioning as a Key and using the planet’s life energy work.

#44

The rules or details about the whole deal or whatever are extremely fuzzy. Kagari has no problem producing ribbons, so who is to say she can’t give them away as she pleases. A lot of Rewrite can be toyed with under the lable of “it’s beyond human comprehension.”

#45

I don’t get the argument with healing ribbons.

In the original, Kotarou’s case, (Original, Kotori Route)Kotori inserted some of the ribbons from the Key into Kotarou’s body. However here it’s just used as some bandage (albeit given what Kagari is, that’s some expensive bandage…) and is shown as used on Lucia’s body.

While it’s true the ribbons have supernatural properties, it’s not anything more special when it’s applied as bandage. You can argue because of the HF Invasion (lol) that Kagari is more than willing to giving some out, but aside from that I don’t see that as anything as important as in the original Kotori route.

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#46

It’s cool that the only girls who has yet to join the Kagari faction r Akane and Sizuru, whose route are locked at the beginning of the VN lol

This episode is… Well… I am kind of disappointed that Lucia ended up alive. It makes the ending of eps 10 kinda pointless. I like Lucia a lot tho.

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#47

That was pretty nice episode. I’m very pumped to see where it goes next.[quote=“HeliosAlpha, post:44, topic:3192, full:true”]
The rules or details about the whole deal or whatever are extremely fuzzy. Kagari has no problem producing ribbons, so who is to say she can’t give them away as she pleases. A lot of Rewrite can be toyed with under the lable of “it’s beyond human comprehension.”
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Pretty much this. There’s not much point in discussing Rewrite’s lore and rules, because the original VN itself had glaring inconsistencies and contradictions. Hell, even Romeo’s routes had some stuff that had to be retconned on later routes. As far as I’m concerned the anime is pretty much doing it’s own thing with it, which is just what Rewrite needs, as long as the writers make it consistent this time around. It’s just a shame we’ll probably not get most of the route-exclusive content, especially Lucia (then again, while her route was awesome, it had quite literally nothing to do with anything).

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#48

It’s like in this anime they were making some kind of division with the girls in each faction, with two of them (Chihaya and Lucia) retiring relatively early from the fight and the other two will probably have to carry on with the weight of the “drama” in the last episodes.