Unlimited Blade Words #04 — Ready, And… Stare!

November 1st, 2014

  

People are talking here.

Impressions:

I like how they clearly had no idea what to use for Berserker in Saber’s little needless infodump and somehow ended up with a minotaur. Talk about racist against minotaurs. I’ve known plenty who are perfectly docile. You know, just like Sakura. The character who sat there eating up screen time with a blank stare and udders. I swear, every time she was on screen, they had to spent at least five seconds with the camera just parked on her blankly staring at someone.

And you know, UFOTable, I don’t think anybody would have complained if you had replaced some of the multiple eating portions and closeups of the food with more of Rin being attacked by Night at the Museum rejects. Hell, make the entire episode that. Give it a little tension of her being stalked by a bazillion undead dogs as she investigates instead of about 45 seconds tossed in with no relation to the nothing going on for the rest of the episode. And move it to an actual museum so she can fight the reanimated spirits of FDR teamed up with Pol Pot riding a mammoth. Or just turn it into an excuse to show her being somewhat competent against a swarm of skeletal velociraptors and other monsters instead of simply standing there taking pot shots at skeleton dogs and one oversized… crocodile maybe… which otherwise just fell through the ceiling because it followed the rest of them into the vents but was too fat.

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10 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • ali says:

    Aroduc: And you know, UFOTable, I don’t think anybody would have complained if you had replaced some of the multiple eating portions and closeups of the food with more of Rin being attacked by Night at the Museum rejects.

    who are you kidding, you would have still complained anyways.

  • Di Gi Kazune says:

    Umm… that has always been the Berserker piece.

    • Aroduc says:

      How many minotaur based heroes come to mind? Berserker or otherwise.

      And there’s no statute of limitations on making fun of bad imagery.

      • tondirr says:

        It doesn’t have to be a ‘hero’. The figure just has to be mythical or legendary. So it’s probably *THE* Minotaur, of the labyrinth of Crete

  • Kadi says:

    Remove some food segments? Are you NUTS? That would mean changing something from the game! Those people based Rin’s anime art on the VN art (ruining it), for… Gaia’s(?) sake. Now excuse me, I must run before those eyes catch me again…

    (Then again, we’ve had confirmation that the VN was their bible, prayer book and song collection since episode one so w/e)

  • jingoi says:

    We get to see more of nude Ilya here than in Prisma Ilya. F*** BD incentives.

  • Sanjuro says:

    You don’t know any Minotaurs. I’m probably not the only person to spot this lie but I’m probably the only one that’ll call you out on it. You can’t fool me.

  • Germanguy says:

    I was thinking that this Anime here, is showing us the Rin Path of Fate. But there is still much more Screentime for Him and Saber. How is the real MC here?