Maria the Virgin #04 — Failing Debate 101

February 1st, 2015

  

Here I was hoping firearms might make things interesting.

Impressions:

This episode was a complete mess of totally random scenes slapped together. The England witch was perhaps the worst part of it. Apparently witches are all up in all the wars, including this one, but it’s only a problem if you’re stopping battles. Profiting off them (somehow without affecting them) is 100% perfectly hunky dory. There was also the spectacular argument presented of “If there are no more wars, then who will soldiers kill? Since there’s no war, they’ll just have to go around killing other people instead,” to which Maria sat there and squirmed uncomfortably, overcome by that ironclad logic.

After another trip to drunken mocking of virgins, we go into flashbackville, where Ezekiel tells people they’d be better off dead than accepting medicine from witches. And helping people is such a foreign concept to the angel that it drives her to frustrated bewilderment. I don’t think that “will of the heavens” covers it, guys. As long as the only ‘proper’ things to do are pray and die, and anything other than that will not only incite the wrath of heaven, but is a completely alien concept to them, one side is hopelessly moronic and continuing to present it as some kind of ethical quandry between two sides is laughable. The show really needs to drop the exceptionally half-assed philosophy because it is laughably godawful at it.

Next Episode:

 

Shredder!?

Posted in Maria the Virgin | 15 Comments »

15 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Xander says:
    February 1, 2015 at 10:47 am

    Hey, it’s not “ironclad” logic but it was a real problem throughout human history, beyond this show. It’s quite “laughably awful” of you to dismiss this topic.

    Mercenary soldiers without a job often had to be put down by their former employers using force during this period, so the issue would need to be addressed. They’re not all going to simply peacefully become farmers.

    Even today, it can be hard to reintegrate soldiers into peaceful society after a conflict has ended and their services are no longer needed. This still applies to many civil wars. Maria doesn’t have a good answer for that, nor is there a single universal response, but I think the show is absolutely correct to pose the question.

    I’d address the other question, but I think your complaints are too half-assed for me.

    • Aroduc says:
      February 1, 2015 at 11:04 am

      Yeah. America still struggles to this day with ex-soldiers forming into bandit groups and raiding cities because the moment you join an army, you’re infected with permanent insatiable kill-lust.

      • Xander says:
        February 1, 2015 at 12:08 pm

        There is an entire world that extends far beyond America and its professionally trained volunteer army, which isn’t even fighting on its own soil to begin with.

        From the last days of the Roman Empire to the Chinese Revolution and recent African, Middle Eastern or Latin American civil wars, ex-soldiers and mercenaries becoming bandits is no laughing matter.

        • Aroduc says:
          February 1, 2015 at 12:24 pm

          Right. Because of the insatiable kill-lust disease.

        • DmonHiro says:
          February 1, 2015 at 1:56 pm

          You’re making yourself sound very foolish. Is it on purpose?

        • Aroduc says:
          February 1, 2015 at 2:57 pm

          No. I’m making fun of the show’s ridiculous argument by using it completely by accident.

          Look, if you want to argue that there are impacts by taking a group of soldier (or refugees, or any group) and dumping them into a population, then yes, of course there are. But that’s not the claim the show made, nor what I’m disagreeing with. It said “If soldiers aren’t killing each other, they’ll just find other people to kill.”

          And that’s ridiculous.

        • DmonHiro says:
          February 1, 2015 at 4:57 pm

          That WAS pretty much the reality back then. Life was cheap, and mercenaries who did not have any other skill saw nothing wrong in taking what they wanted. They were not good people.

        • Aroduc says:
          February 1, 2015 at 6:09 pm

          And the only thing stopping them from preying on defenseless peasants is signing up for the army so they can fight other people trained and equipped to fight.

          Or being conscripted.

          Those farmers they pressganged had the kill-lust just waiting to break out.

  • Germanguy says:
    February 1, 2015 at 1:47 pm

    When you break the Wall of killing some other Human, you will lose the respect of preserve Life.

    But there is a difference, killing someone of defense or aggression

    • Germanguy says:
      February 1, 2015 at 1:49 pm

      and i get a feeling this Bernarde will use the “Church” to start a War against the Witch

      • Germanguy says:
        February 1, 2015 at 1:53 pm

        and i get a feeling the finale of this Anime will end with this

        One of the 10 Rules of God:

        2. Thou shalt have no other gods beside me

        • Germanguy says:
          February 1, 2015 at 1:59 pm

          Thats why it is important in how the Witch Maria see her herself in the Hearts of her believers

        • Germanguy says:
          February 1, 2015 at 2:01 pm

          right until now, she is some kind of a Guardian or a Saint, without hearing the voice of God or one of his messenger. Okay, Arc Angel status is it not

          i must say, this Anime should be looked with some strong believe in his Religion, or his thoughts will get astray

  • Sanjuro says:
    February 1, 2015 at 3:03 pm

    Why are you all talking about wars and killing when a small owl boy succubus still doesn’t have a penis? What the hell is wrong with you all.

    • Aroduc says:
      February 1, 2015 at 3:18 pm

      Are you kidding? Japan has had a chronic genital shortage for decades. That’s why they have to be censored. It’s not to block people from seeing penises and vaginas, it’s to cover up that they’re using bananas and koosh balls. There aren’t any penises to be found for anything, let alone owls.