Accel World

[Nihatclodra]

Originally Posted by randomredneck

Episode 5.

Ugh, I hate it when they do that. The asshole is about to get what he deserves, but the hero just has to forgive him, and spare him. Haru should have dropped his blue, bitch ass. The prick had it coming. That aside, that fight was awesome, and Black Lotus's true form is freaking wicked looking.

Think of it this way: Although he is a douchebag, he is relatively good at fighting. Black Lotus lost all her allies when she betrayed the other kings, and needs people to create a new legion. Haru, considering himself existing only for the purpose of helping Kuroyukihime with her goal, decided to spare him on the condition that he join the Black Legion Army (I forget it's actual name). Plus, this way Chiyu doesn't get caught in the middle of their fighting. It's a smart idea to not drag other people into a dispute when they don't need to be.

[randomredneck]

Dude, I don't care. Explain and reason it all you like, I've always hated when an anime does that. And that's that.

I hope Taku loses all his points like his punk ass deserves.

[Viduus]

Originally Posted by Nihatclodra

Think of it this way: Although he is a douchebag, he is relatively good at fighting. Black Lotus lost all her allies when she betrayed the other kings, and needs people to create a new legion. Haru, considering himself existing only for the purpose of helping Kuroyukihime with her goal, decided to spare him on the condition that he join the Black Legion Army (I forget it's actual name). Plus, this way Chiyu doesn't get caught in the middle of their fighting. It's a smart idea to not drag other people into a dispute when they don't need to be.

Eh, while I know the theoretical reasons, it's just such an overused cliche, one of the oldest. Sometimes I just wouldn't mind something going in a different direction, especially when the friend is really being an outright twat.

[truthillusion]

Originally Posted by randomredneck

Episode 5.

Ugh, I hate it when they do that. The asshole is about to get what he deserves, but the hero just has to forgive him, and spare him. Haru should have dropped his blue, bitch ass. The prick had it coming.

Agreed.

I've never been a fan of "Oh, you betrayed me, but I'm a real friend so I forgive you and stuff." Were it me, I'd have dropped him and spit on the corpse.

Also, the wing thing was spoiled for me because Amiami has the Silver Crow fimga preorder up and it shows it with wings and...well, something else. Speaking of which, the Black Lotus model looks pretty cool.

Anyways, very 'eh' episode. I didn't like the pity party half way through. OH GOD I SUCK SORRY I COULDN'T BE ABOVE WHAT I THINK I AM - WAIT IS THAT A HEARTBEAT YOURE STILL ALIVE LIKE I ALREADY KNEW I SUDDENLY HAVE POWERRRR! I think if it just stuck to the battle and had Porky have a "I CAN'T LOOOOOOOSE" attitude without his breakdown for when the wings appeared, I'd have found it more phenomenal.

As it sits, my least favorite episode.

[Etue]

Originally Posted by truthillusion

Agreed.

I've never been a fan of "Oh, you betrayed me, but I'm a real friend so I forgive you and stuff." Were it me, I'd have dropped him and spit on the corpse.

As it sits, my least favorite episode.

Same. I hope for more character development the next episode, although I like fighting episodes this fighting was pretty bland and not very spectacular.

[kargarus]

I do agree it would have been good if Haru

took Taku out for a change, but at no point did I think it would actually happen. There was no sign that it would pan out differently than one would expect.

It would be completely out of character for Haru to make such a move at this stage of the game. He's still getting accustomed to the things. He still lacks self confidence. He just simply wouldn't go all out and eliminate one of his few friends (yet).

[SoTaPoP]

Come on,

what's to hate about his decisions? Personally, I think if it didn't happen then it wouldn't of shown him trying to create a legion of his own, which was an important part of the episode.

[randomredneck]

I didn't notice

how short the broken off leg looked when I was watching it. Someone goofed a little.

[Nihatclodra]

^

That may be due to part of his leg disintegrating when it broke.

[greyweather]

Episode 5

So why would Taku have lost all of his points at once? I thought that was a level 9 thing.