No Game No Life (light novel)
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| What an episode! I do believe, however, that Shiro and Sora's win was just impossible unlike the rest of the games that were played. How could Shiro possibly know where to put the pieces? Even if we assume she figured out how Sora positioned everything because she knew how Sora would play, how could Sora manipulate every move played from the beginning of the game? Eh. I don't know what to think of it. Oh well, it's just an anime |
Kitoge said: How could Shiro possibly know where to put the pieces? Actually on the LN they saw the board before Shiro started to put the peaces... the anime was forced to shorten the story |
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| I think this could have been explained a bit better, but this was certainly a unique way to get someone on your side and to get their memories, and their possible elf girlfriend. So I guess the actual game with the Eastern Empire will be coming up in the next episode. |
DarkMoonWolf said: Kitoge said: How could Shiro possibly know where to put the pieces? Actually on the LN they saw the board before Shiro started to put the peaces... the anime was forced to shorten the story Oh okay...actually wait...how'd they see the board then? I thought a spell was made to conceal it from them? |
| ye he is really over powered, but i didn't really get how could shiro play a board game without seing the board... even though she's half kuhako |
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| I admit this episode was rushed and needed a better explanation but it was still good nonetheless. 3/5 for this episode |
Kitoge said: Oh okay...actually wait...how'd they see the board then? I thought a spell was made to conceal it from them? Too tired to write... gonna copy paste instead: I'll also add the rest of the chapter, since it will probably answer many questions most people seem to have: Edit: added references and the rest of the chapter |
DarkMoonWolfJun 4, 2014 1:44 PM
Personal tastes are like peoples behinds, each one has its own, and only those who wants to find [...] will smell one another. |
| as a hater of this show, i never thought i'd post this, but this episode was amazing. This episode starts by exploring a bit of Shiro's past, and focus on Shiro's struggle to find her brother and get the memories back. Yes, there was some minor fan-service, but i'm fine with that. Looking forward the next episode! edit: raised my score (again) for this series because of this episode. be thankful. |
DreamingBeatsJun 4, 2014 1:12 PM
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Takuan_Soho said: Kaioshin_Sama said: Don't take this the wrong way, but you don't really sound like a person showing a lot of confidence in this shows overall appeal. Still the approach to try to convince people by what more or less looks like making concessions as to where the show falls short and dropping expectation levels is an interesting one. If you can somehow make it work then that's pretty impressive I've gotta say. I'll just offer in the mean time that what if maybe just maybe the act of having to drop that expectation of strong characters in itself makes the show not particularly great for a lot of people. I mean not having strong characters to identify with and experience the show through.....that's a pretty big concession to make for some and can easily be the difference between good and mediocre or even poor. I hope you try to understand that as time goes forward. Don't take this the wrong way, I am not as "vested" in appeal as you are. I do not really care whether the show I like is popular or get so pissed when a show I hate is popular. Besides, I like the characters and had already pointed out your mistake above. This is going to sound cliche as fuck, but who are you really trying to convince with all of this hostility, you or me? You make it sound like you're already convinced of your absolute inherent and uncontestable and universal correctness every single time you go to interact with someone, but there's something that keeps nagging at me making me wonder if that's really the case and why it's so important that you win this grand argument you seem to feel you are involved in. Yes that's fine you like the characters, I and other people have a lot of problems with them though so again it comes down to different standards. Now you probably think it's a matter of people just watching it wrong or taking them the wrong way or whatever, but guess what, people are different and there's no right or wrong way to watch a show, just ones own way. You can't just force people to magically adopt a totally different context specific standard for a show and expect it to have the same effect for them I've always felt, it just cheapens the experience and the eventual end rating if you have to make concession after concession of your values and standards of quality just to arrive at a specific reaction or rating. Where's the genuine appreciation in that? It's a shame you can't grasp this and be able to empathize with other viewers. In every interaction I've had with you or seen with others in this thread you never actually seem to make any sort of real attempt to have a pleasant normal discussion with others or share ideas with them so much as force it on them and act indignant when people don't just arbitrarily agree with you. People have been trying to tell you for weeks now that you are your own worst enemy when it comes to these situations and don't do the show or it's fanbase any favor with the type of behavior you show with the just anti-social, hostile and closed-minded approach to discussing it. I honestly feel at this point that if you didn't absolutely force yourself on people and into direct bitter contention with them every single time you see a post that doesn't exactly conform to your specific views on how to watch and react to this show that nobody would have any reason to pay attention to you anymore. It's pretty ridiculous and pointless man, like I don't feel like being hostile or critical of you on a personal level cause I feel that sort of thing inevitably leads nowhere in the long run and I'd hope it's the same with other people, but you practically give people no choice with your behavior. Very "bad manner" as they would say in a lot of online gaming circles. Anyway it's a good thing this show is starting to see a lot more reasonable posters on both sides of the fence who aren't either ridiculously passive aggressive over it or super hostile and trolling towards the show cause frankly it's not worth it. As I understand it some people who are fans of the show also feel like the adaptation of the source wasn't as on point as usual this week. It might be off topic but I'm curious to hear more on that front as things go forward. |
PeacingOutJun 4, 2014 1:15 PM
TraviiN said: Everything was planned :3 blank OP fixed. Sora would have lost w/o Shiro |
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kitkatxz said: Botato said: You're welcome. It was an amusing read though, kinda surprised you made it this far into the show. Nah, the show isn't Mars of Destruction or SAO lvl bad x.x. Hell this show is actually pretty fucking entertaining to watch if i had to rated it based on it's comedy i give it a 9/10. (Excluding this episode....) Thanks for actually reading it thou... i had to type that on my Andriod... not the best use of grammar right there. Well, not that I agree with all of what you said here, but to each his own. The comedy part however, yeah that's one of the reasons I'm really enjoying this show. Haha now I understand why the post was not as organized as it could have been, it looked like a giant hate rant and that's why I said I'm surprised you made it this far, sorry for jumping to conclusions :p |
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| i'm calling it, a candidate for one of the best shows of the year! @@@@@ |
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| Loved the episode. As always, NGNL doesn't disappoint. This will soar to top 20. |
ollythirteen said: To its credit this show wasn't an easy drop like Mahouka or Black Bullet. The ironic thing, though, is this show is about games with main characters that never lose. In real life people who never lose at games are pretty boring to watch.. So I guess dropping this was the natural progression of things... Watch Akagi or One Outs to see games where the protagonist always wins that are actually very suspenseful. |
| Steel Ball Run anime when? |
| Wow! What an anime. x3 So, when it comes to making up rules and conditions for games to play in that world, you can literally come up with anything! D: Having there own existence....gone for a while....... Damn! What a plot. :3 It was a really good episode, interesting and awesome to watch! x3 I was sad not to see Sora the first half, but he later appeared at the ending.....good to see he is fine. x3 Anyways, good episode, as always! Next episode! Can't wait~! x3 |
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J87 said: DarkMoonWolf said: Too tired to write... gonna copy paste instead: I'll also add the rest of the chapter, since it will probably answer many questions most people seem to have: Edit: added references and the rest of the chapter thank you. This show is amazing and this episode is one of the best that i have ever seen and there is a lot of information compressed in 20 min only (i can understand why though). I don't understand why people complain about it! Actually today's 20 minutes covered the complete 1st chapter of volume 2 of the Light novel... I only posted the 5th and 6th part of chapter one.... believe me, a LOT of information was lost during todays episode. |
Personal tastes are like peoples behinds, each one has its own, and only those who wants to find [...] will smell one another. |
| That was a really interesting episode. At the end, I thought Sora & Shiro and Kurami & Fi were gonna kiss lol... |
DarkMoonWolf said: J87 said: DarkMoonWolf said: Kitoge said: Oh okay...actually wait...how'd they see the board then? I thought a spell was made to conceal it from them? Too tired to write... gonna copy paste instead: I'll also add the rest of the chapter, since it will probably answer many questions most people seem to have: Edit: added references and the rest of the chapter thank you. This show is amazing and this episode is one of the best that i have ever seen and there is a lot of information compressed in 20 min only (i can understand why though). I don't understand why people complain about it! Actually today's 20 minutes covered the complete 1st chapter of volume 2 of the Light novel... I only posted the 5th and 6th part of chapter one.... believe me, a LOT of information was lost during todays episode. Well, we can only hope that Bluray version expands the episode. It was clearly visible that they tried their best to include as much as possible while keeping current and next episode cohesive. Apart from that... wow. Just wow. Now excuse me, gotta read 3rd novel... |
astroprogs said: If HF ended up being a single movie, what would it need to do so it can get a high score from all of you? Not air. |
ollythirteen said: To its credit this show wasn't an easy drop like Mahouka or Black Bullet. The ironic thing, though, is this show is about games with main characters that never lose. In real life people who never lose at games are pretty boring to watch.. So I guess dropping this was the natural progression of things... And that's why anime isn't real life... People like you who try to make realistic comparisons are silly, anime is FICTION, the real question you should be asking yourself is: "is the show interesting for me?" not "is this show realistic enough for me?" I'm not hating on your tastes, but when people start to compare anime to real life it just gets plain silly. If you really don't like the show, then that's that, and it's your opinion and people should respect it. With that said, I enjoyed this episode, I loved the ending scene where they all cried. |
Aurioch said: DarkMoonWolf said: J87 said: DarkMoonWolf said: Kitoge said: Oh okay...actually wait...how'd they see the board then? I thought a spell was made to conceal it from them? Too tired to write... gonna copy paste instead: I'll also add the rest of the chapter, since it will probably answer many questions most people seem to have: Edit: added references and the rest of the chapter thank you. This show is amazing and this episode is one of the best that i have ever seen and there is a lot of information compressed in 20 min only (i can understand why though). I don't understand why people complain about it! Actually today's 20 minutes covered the complete 1st chapter of volume 2 of the Light novel... I only posted the 5th and 6th part of chapter one.... believe me, a LOT of information was lost during todays episode. I feel sad because they didn't adapt it all. I would have wanted to wait for one more episode, but oh well.. This fight was great in LN, but it was meh in todays episode.. And that meh was still pretty good. But I felt like they rushed it quite a bit. |
| Ad Astra Per Aspera |
| Yes! Sora is back! I love this episode and this anime so much. So emotional~ *tears* But that ending though. LOL |
Aurioch said: DarkMoonWolf said: J87 said: DarkMoonWolf said: thank you. This show is amazing and this episode is one of the best that i have ever seen and there is a lot of information compressed in 20 min only (i can understand why though).Too tired to write... gonna copy paste instead: I'll also add the rest of the chapter, since it will probably answer many questions most people seem to have: Edit: added references and the rest of the chapter I don't understand why people complain about it! Actually today's 20 minutes covered the complete 1st chapter of volume 2 of the Light novel... I only posted the 5th and 6th part of chapter one.... believe me, a LOT of information was lost during todays episode. Well, we can only hope that Bluray version expands the episode. It was clearly visible that they tried their best to include as much as possible while keeping current and next episode cohesive. Apart from that... wow. Just wow. Now excuse me, gotta read 3rd novel... Don't forget to read the rest of volume 2 first... you need to know how and why the new companions will join Imanity. Edit: typo |
DarkMoonWolfJun 4, 2014 2:39 PM
Personal tastes are like peoples behinds, each one has its own, and only those who wants to find [...] will smell one another. |
| Decent episode for me. The feels were there though. Kurami: "Hmm, I'll tell you later." Fii's reaction after that lol. xD Couldn't help but LOL at the end scene there. All 4 of them crying and saying "I was so scared" |
SandyBoiJun 4, 2014 2:50 PM
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| Probably one of the best episodes yet. Man, what a game that was. |
DarkMoonWolf said: Aurioch said: Well, we can only hope that Bluray version expands the episode. It was clearly visible that they tried their best to include as much as possible while keeping current and next episode cohesive. Apart from that... wow. Just wow. Now excuse me, gotta read 3rd novel... Don't forget to read the rest of volume 2 first... you need to know how and why the new companions will join Imanity. Well, if the translation of Baka-Tsuki is complete, I already did it (it ends with ep8, right?) ^^ Volume 1 as well. I simply couldn't resist X) |
astroprogs said: If HF ended up being a single movie, what would it need to do so it can get a high score from all of you? Not air. |
| The pace slowed a little bit down in this episode, and had to stretch my imagination to connect stuff (I haven't read the LN). Overall though it was a great episode, loved the tiny back story we got and loved how to colors changed when the game ended. Man I love all the colors that they use, simply beautiful. |
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| Damn, I was far from the truth with all my guesses. Stop playing with my emotion NGNL!! Sora was kinda lucky since they didn't what part of their existances would be lost during the game, it could have gone in a lot of ways. Sora always give so much evil looks, but in the end, he's softer than a teddy bear :3 |
| «Time is passing so quickly. Right now, I feel like complaining to Einstein. Whether time is slow or fast depends on perception. Relativity theory is so romantic. And so sad.» - Kurisu Makise a.k.a. The Zombie |
| I read the chapter for this episode 2 or 3 times xD but the ending was way funnier in the anime for me xD Great episode as always. |
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Aurioch said: DarkMoonWolf said: Don't forget to read the rest of volume 2 first... you need to know how and why the new companions will join Imanity. Well, if the translation of Baka-Tsuki is complete, I already did it (it ends with ep8, right?) ^^ Volume 1 as well. I simply couldn't resist X) You are absolutely right!! Sorry I mistakenly said volume 2 when I should have said volume 3. Mea culpa!! Anyway, please add that to your manga/novel list... It's easier to find out what you read before. Also to answer your question: Volume 3 - A Half of the Gamer Siblings Seems to Have Disappeared...? * Chapter 1 - Sky Walk/Disassociation Method (todays episode) * Chapter 2 - Blue Rose/Directional Method * Chapter 3 - Killing Giant/Guiding Method * Chapter 4 - Rule Number 10/Convergence Method * True End |
DarkMoonWolfJun 4, 2014 3:15 PM
Personal tastes are like peoples behinds, each one has its own, and only those who wants to find [...] will smell one another. |
ollythirteen said: * Yahzee, Wow you're so right! Silly me! Of course anime isn't real life! Um, there's just the little problem of anime being a form of art and the fact that the whole point of art is to emulate (copy) (real) life... There's also the small problem that anime emulates real life so well that some people, REAL PEOPLE, do things like date, wank to and even celebrate the birthdays of fictional characters. So yeah, I'm not sure your argument is a very strong one. Of course it isn't real life. It borrows heavily from it, though, hence my hypothetical scenario of dull OP always winning game players being uninteresting BOTH in anime and real life. I wouldn't say that the WHOLE point of art is to emulate real life. Isn't art a form of expression from it's creator? Something to show an idea or perhaps produce emotion? Surely you've seen some forms of art that hardly emulate real life by your grand "definition". And you're definitely quite alone on your opinion regarding winning people in real life are boring. Are you kidding me? Name me one type of winning game/winning sport team that isn't popular. Floyd Mayweather hasn't lost a boxing match, yet somehow A LOT of people keep watching him. The Miami Heat could very well be doing a 3-peat, and the New York Yankees are one of the most celebrated teams of all time, both are incredibly winning organizations. Sorry to say, but I don't see the connection you're making with "winning people in this show and winning people in real life are boring." So, "silly me" for me bringing up an OBVIOUS fact, that you still fail to see. Edit: You're entirely entitled to your own opinion, I'm not trying to convince you to like the show, I actually agree that the MC is fairly one dimensional. But when you post your own opinion with that kind of bashful mentality, what kind of responses do you think you're going to get? |
yahzeeJun 4, 2014 3:29 PM
| so much walls of text the ep was good but it was too short for me (maybe just for me) hope for an epic game against the werebeast |
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