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[Fatestayjedi]

Originally Posted by vernanonix

You fail to understand the big complaint here. A LOT of anime have a beach episode. Even the horror genre isn't immune to this it seems. Plus, we're sitting on a 13-episode anime. Instead of deepening the plot further, they added a beach episode and tried to make up for it with about 2 minutes worth of plot.

No,you fail to understand that the beach episode was needed before shit hits the fan again.It's like a calm before a storm.I wouldn't have liked it they would just be adding crazy plot twists every single episode.Plus it served as character development,not much but still a little bit.Deepening the bonds between the main group of characters,that will make it more emotional when someone dies.
Besides,we got to see the girls in their swimsuits,they at least showed their feminine side as others have said.Which is nice.

[Viduus]

Originally Posted by BGMaxie

I see that 7/8 episodes are plot related, they either give a more mysterious tone or explain a few things. This one here served to relax the mood and show a more normal thing. For the first time the girls having their chance to be femenine is pretty much well appreciated.

And in the end we have a gruesome death, with an even more mysterious thing to the phenomenon. So what is your complaint about pal?

I'm pretty sure I covered everything in my previous post of what my complaint was.

Originally Posted by Fatestayjedi

No,you fail to understand that the beach episode was needed before shit hits the fan again.It's like a calm before a storm.I wouldn't have liked it they would just be adding crazy plot twists every single episode.Plus it served as character development,not much but still a little bit.Deepening the bonds between the main group of characters,that will make it more emotional when someone dies.
Besides,we got to see the girls in their swimsuits,they at least showed their feminine side as others have said.Which is nice.

But apparently I need to do it again.

Listen, please, tell me what the point of that episode was. Yes, we got like 2 minutes of actually shit happening, but the rest of it was nothing but goddamn fluff. You want girls in bikinis? There's something called google for that, I'm sure you can uncover an almost infinite amount of videos and pictures with it.

You needed a beach episode to see the "feminine side"? What, then walking around in skirts the entire show doesn't show any femininity? Or better yet, couldn't they have actually included said sides in a manner which still fit in with the mood of the rest of the series? There's been pleeeeeenty of downtime in the so far to explore such things, and instead of wasting an entire episode on something that just reeks of bad writing and contrived fanservice.

As I said before, I like the series, I really do. I'm a fan of the mysterious death genre, and I've actually liked the pacing of the series so far. However, there's nothing more immersion breaking than this episode suddenly screaming "HERE'S SOME FANSERVICE FOR YOU!" in your face before finally, at the very end saying "well ooooook, I guess we should actually do something".

[Eurydice]

Originally Posted by Ryukl

I think the way to stop the calamity is by killing the dead one. I mean, they go on a trip, someone dies and the calamity stops, plus the extra's name doesn't appear on the class list as the extra. If you figured out who the extra was and killed him, then the calamity should stop because there's no extra anymore. The guy probably left some bloody knife or a weapon he used to kill the extra, that's just what I think. I don't know if any of you have said this but I don't feel like reading a few pages, this is just my 2 cents

My thoughts exactly. i mentioned it a few pages back. but i makes complete sense if you think about it.

[Ailly]

Anyone else surprised to find out the original Misaki was a boy? I kind of assumed it was a girl for some reason...

[BGMaxie]

Originally Posted by Fatestayjedi

No,you fail to understand that the beach episode was needed before shit hits the fan again.It's like a calm before a storm.I wouldn't have liked it they would just be adding crazy plot twists every single episode.Plus it served as character development,not much but still a little bit.Deepening the bonds between the main group of characters,that will make it more emotional when someone dies.
Besides,we got to see the girls in their swimsuits,they at least showed their feminine side as others have said. Which is nice.

/\ knows what's talking about.

Originally Posted by Viduus

But apparently I need to do it again.

Listen, please, tell me what the point of that episode was. Yes, we got like 2 minutes of actually shit happening, but the rest of it was nothing but goddamn fluff. You want girls in bikinis? There's something called google for that, I'm sure you can uncover an almost infinite amount of videos and pictures with it.

You needed a beach episode to see the "feminine side"? What, then walking around in skirts the entire show doesn't show any femininity? Or better yet, couldn't they have actually included said sides in a manner which still fit in with the mood of the rest of the series? There's been pleeeeeenty of downtime in the so far to explore such things, and instead of wasting an entire episode on something that just reeks of bad writing and contrived fanservice.

As I said before, I like the series, I really do. I'm a fan of the mysterious death genre, and I've actually liked the pacing of the series so far. However, there's nothing more immersion breaking than this episode suddenly screaming "HERE'S SOME FANSERVICE FOR YOU!" in your face before finally, at the very end saying "well ooooook, I guess we should actually do something".

You really are screwed up of your head if you think femininity is merely the clothes a girl wears....

Think it like this, suddenly they relax the mood then suddenly another creepy-ass death, there is nothing wrong with it, except that you as an horror-lover perhaps want a death each 5 mins or something. Ain't happening pal. Besides that's how the novel goes as well the mood-relaxing episode had a purpose, demonstrate that the phenomenon can happen outside as well, and also give some terrifying thing to the fella who stopped it half-year on his period, which also will serve to one thing to the class "what the fuck do we do now".

You ain't friendly of development huh? You just want to rush everything up.........bleh

[Ebhen]

Aah, the standard beach filler...

eeh... oops! chop, chop, chop... Hehe... Surprise! Well, not that big surprise actually, it was advertised a bit to obviously.
I was wondering about in what way someone would die the whole episode so it was a bit spoiled, but fun anyway.

What I don't like was the way that he was thrown up in the air and landed behind the boat. I have trouble seeing that in the real world. You get pushed under the boat about a meter or so when the boat goes over you and then you are hammered by the screw. You definitely don't bounce up after that!
But hey, all for the drama I suppose.


So... back to the classroom and search for the secret object? What can it be?

[Reila]

Originally Posted by Ailly

Anyone else surprised to find out the original Misaki was a boy? I kind of assumed it was a girl for some reason...

I agree, somehow when that was said, I just imagined a male version of Mei, in a black shirt and a red tie xD

[BGMaxie]

Originally Posted by xbeyondbirthday

I agree, somehow when that was said, I just imagined a male version of Mei, in a black shirt and a red tie xD

Thought it was a girl as well. Wonder what relevance does it have.

[vernanonix]

Originally Posted by Ebhen

Aah, the standard beach filler...

eeh... oops! chop, chop, chop... Hehe... Surprise! Well, not that big surprise actually, it was advertised a bit to obviously.
I was wondering about in what way someone would die the whole episode so it was a bit spoiled, but fun anyway.

What I don't like was the way that he was thrown up in the air and landed behind the boat. I have trouble seeing that in the real world. You get pushed under the boat about a meter or so when the boat goes over you and then you are hammered by the screw. You definitely don't bounce up after that!
But hey, all for the drama I suppose.


So... back to the classroom and search for the secret object? What can it be?

To be fair:

Self-opening umbrlla with unnecessarily pointed in skewering a throat after falling down the stairs

Completely random heart attack

Stabbing your throat with a knife, pushing it in further, and then pulling it out about 15 seconds later

Suspension of disbelief, man.

[Viduus]

Originally Posted by BGMaxie

/\ knows what's talking about.

You really are screwed up of your head if you think femininity is merely the clothes a girl wears....

Thanks for the labeling. My comment here was a direct response to

Besides,we got to see the girls in their swimsuits,they at least showed their feminine side as others have said.Which is nice.

so please, keep your snide comments to yourself.

Think it like this, suddenly they relax the mood then suddenly another creepy-ass death, there is nothing wrong with it, except that you as an horror-lover perhaps want a death each 5 mins or something. Ain't happening pal. Besides that's how the novel goes as well the mood-relaxing episode had a purpose, demonstrate that the phenomenon can happen outside as well, and also give some terrifying thing to the fella who stopped it half-year on his period, which also will serve to one thing to the class "what the fuck do we do now".

Except that's not what this was. There's been plenty of calms before the storm in the series so far. The visits to the doll shop, the hanging out and talking with Misaki, so on and so forth, and oh my, what's this, all without the need to jump into bikini's and splash water on each other? Shocking!

Look, maybe if the beach scene wasn't a completely cliched fanservice object in oh, every series ever what you're saying would have some merit, but please, don't try to tell me that's not all this was.

You ain't friendly of development huh? You just want to rush everything up.........bleh

I am. In fact, if you really want you can look through what I've said about other series I watch and see that I'm all about goddamn character development, but this was nothing but absolute horseshit. Don't try to feed it to me.

And, I say for the third time just so maybe you'll actually read it, this series has been all about setting up an atmosphere and pace with it's scenery, backgrounds, character interactions, and everything else you could throw in there that's involved in making a show. Episode 8 did nothing but break the immersion it's built up so far, to the point where even the oshit moment of the episode has been snoozed at by almost everyone who has posted here.