Kudos to the voice actor for the dragon spirit dude. He is really trying
He actually sustained the atmosphere for a bit. I really love feeling the fear and trepidation from his words. You can tell that he's a charismatic person (spirit?). He's basically lying by cherry-picking what he wants others to hear. Added to the lightning background, his words are extremely compelling.
Also kudos to Wangquan Wumu's voice actor. His character is...short xD but you can really see how brave he is and how much potential he has. He's confident, but not arrogant. He even apologizes for being rude to an elder, but uses cold logic to point out the other's lies and crimes. And I love the little details of him trusting Fan Yunfei even though the dragon spirit is sounding so appealing and intimidating.
Put together, I love that dynamic of a charismatic cult leader vs. a young, budding hero. I'm really looking forward to seeing that development. 'Cause y'know, they are intentionally constructed as foils of each other. The spirit leader wants the best for his race (the yaoguai) and will sacrifice both humans and spirits for that greater aim. He represents how good wishes (perhaps especially when combined with mysterious, strong power) will lead to folly, but also how those innate good wishes are perhaps only tainted because of outside corruption. He's shown to genuinely want to protect his brethren (including Fan Yunfei, who rejects his ideologies) even with his dying breath. Meanwhile, Wumu represents the best of humanity...or rather, the best of both worlds. He teaches us to go out and explore the world before making conclusions about those different from us. In addition, he represents the tragedy in having high potential, in being a prodigy--he is ultimately killed by his father, a human who is just as obsessed in power as the dragon spirit he fought.
Both of them die in the same spot, because of the hideousness hidden in both human and spirit nature (greed). But at the same time, their memories live on through Fan Yunfei, who constructs his own beliefs through his brief time with Wumu and the dragon spirit, and continues to discern good and evil. now, we will not talk about how he tried to kill Susu in the first season. That was probably OOC. Hopefully.
Btw this donghua is showing how someone with a stutter is more funny in theory, 'cause the audience is susceptible to impatience when it's actually acted out.  But that's cool too, I just gotta become more patient, I suppose.
More miscellaneous notes:
-I'm pretty sure they are trying to give Yujie more screentime and I really appreciate it
-Xueyang's general costume is lovely
-I keep remembering how Dian and Lei reminded me of small Fallon and Kenshin in GGaD xD some day I will draw this entire season's main cast,,,

-Galaxian-

I still find it funny how after Time made a few posts just hyperfocusing on the impracticality of high heels in combat F/GO made an event with a shoes tier list

-Galaxian-

I feel like maybe my tendency to call people names and say just the weirdest things comes from me being Chinese
Like I open one (1) video and the first comment is
"咒腕很棒，他對於工作的付出，已經到掏心掏肺的程度了。 對敵人也一樣，可以問狗哥，他很清楚。"
(Cursed Arm is terrific, his work contribution level is practically heart-tearing [Chinese idiom]. It's the same towards his enemies, you can ask Dog Bro [Cu Chulainn] to verify, he's very cognizant on that fact.)

Imagine punning on a wholesome comedy video about a doggo's death in an entirely different series. At least English just relegates itself to "LANCER GA SHINDA" when Lancer actually dies. This is basically the equivalent of "Hey remember when he stabbed you"

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

I still find it funny how after Time made a few posts just hyperfocusing on the impracticality of high heels in combat F/GO made an event with a shoes tier list

-Galaxian-

While I did focus on the impracticality of high heels in combat, I would likely participate in a shoes tier list event for fun. And I'd even rate them not on like, practicality too, and based off of different perameters

Btw I do apologize if I sound like I'm unnecessarily cranky or something, I swear I wanna be more positive and all that (including around you guys) but getting chased off for something I don't feel like was wrong just gives me the wrong vibes. I'm not saying the dude was racist or anything, he probably was having a bad day or is just not a very gracious person. But culturally speaking. In Chinese getting chased off is implicating that the one being chased off is like a dog (derogative). And I'm not completely immune to cultural implications like that, even though I know he probably didn't think about that. 
I dunno, I just feel like it was broad daylight, we weren't soliciting/loitering or anything, we didn't even stay for very long. Situationally speaking it just irks me. Like yeah it's your lawn. What are you gonna do with it? Stare at the grass? He didn't need to use it or anything, and again, we weren't destroying any part of it. 
Probably just a stupid thing. I think maybe I just don't process things very well and have a history of being told off when I haven't done anything (too?) wrong. Yeah, maybe that's it. I'm just sensitive like usual.

-Galaxian-

I'm for sure not the canonical Ritsuka Fujimaru who supports good and tolerates evil, I'm just the little goblin who tags along with people who don't really want to be overanalyzed.

-Galaxian-

"Behind me you'll see the City of Danbury Sewer Plant, and we are going to rename it the John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant. Why? Because it's full of [crap], just like you John."

-Galaxian-

I need to stop waking up randomly because my mind remembers I didn't spell a word correctly in a post. I think this is a character flaw

-Galaxian-

I forgot to add that it's possible daytime me is feeling bad because of stress
Some sources of it include a certain bastard emailing their mom again pretending to be a decent human being (the pretending factor is what irks them) and also just general stuff, including some future stuff and some past stuff (very specific I know but I don't really wanna start going on an apathy rant,,, not that this doesn't count already)
Anyways I also wish I could blacklist this thread for you, I really do. But too many spoiler tags is kinda tacky,,, I'll figure out if I can't just start putting everything on a personal doc again. Sorry.

-Galaxian-

Time wrote:

Whichever ones they will present concerning the grading. Whether it be practicality, coolness, how professional it looks, drip, how much it fits their character, how ugly it is, originality, how hot/cute/handsome/attractive it makes the character, color, whatever, really.

I'm not exactly one of those people who's immersion is destroyed as soon as there's one minor impracticality in the media I am partaking. It's moreso as long as it fits with the tone given, I am fine with it. Exceptions included, of course.

I am delighted to inform you that the actual parameters are how stabby or existent the shoes are
Also the "how ugly it is" in that list gives the same vibes as "I can stab someone's eyes out" xD

So what scale would you use to rate and how would you rate feet (little to no shoes)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

I am delighted to inform you that the actual parameters are how stabby or existent the shoes are
Also the "how ugly it is" in that list gives the same vibes as "I can stab someone's eyes out" xD

So what scale would you use to rate and how would you rate feet (little to no shoes)

-Galaxian-

Nah. In my opinion "how ugly it is" does not translate to "I can stab someone's eyes out with this". Here's an example that Ash brought up last time we talked about shoes, Bayonetta. I know it's not "I can stab your eyes out with these" but they still fall in the same group of "I can severely harm someone with these shoes". Because she literally has guns on her shoes. But I wouldn't necessarily call her shoes ugly. They're just high heels with guns strapped on them, and they more or less go with her entire outfit.

How would I rate footwear when there's little to none at all?? Well, in a normal shoe tierlist, they go in their own area: No shoes/disqualified. If it was just purely barley any footware/no shoes, I'd first wonder why I'm doing this, but then I would, grade on whatever the perameters are placed. If it is just me grading default, I would say normally things associated with good hygine. Cleanliness, clipped toenails, etc.

However, an alternative way of looking at footware that I realize that I would natrually default to is how well the footware fits the character. Lets take barefoot/little to no footware as an example. No shoes are usually reserved for only but a few characters. Innocent characters, more etheral, wonderous characters, and characters who can fly/levitate (usually this type of character still carries a similarity to the previous two traits I stated tho). If the shoeware fits the character, that would be nice.

Last edited by Time (July 29, 2023 02:24:07)

shoot I just updated my entire post

it's odd I'd never think I'd see a game like this.

What are normal expecations?

I am somewhat confused ngl xD but here is the Memorial Movie for F/GO 2023
I just had to share it lol. It's beautiful.
OG version (Japanese song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L02aPFAhTCk
English version (song w/ English lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlj5Z3wWE_U

Major Servants featured: Saber (Artoria Pendragon), Archer (Arjuna), Lancer (Karna), Rider (Iskandar/Alexander the Great), Assassin (the First Hassan/the Old Man of the Mountain), Caster (Merlin), Berserker (Frankenstein's Monster/Fran), Ruler (Jeanne d'Arc & Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng), Avenger (Jeanne d'Arc Alter), Shielder (Mash Kyrielight)

The conclusion is that someone has Ying Zheng bias. Or Jeanne bias. I mean there are two of them (Ruler Servants or Jeanne)

-Galaxian-

I finally got one of the guessing things for Fujimaru Ritsuka Wakaranai xD (Episode 31)

I love Ryouma/Oryou/Izou lol they have such a vibe

-Galaxian-