It was kind of nice seeing a straight forward fist-fight between Shogo and Kogami. No weapons, no magic, no robots, no nothing. Just two guys duking it out. It feels like it’s been awhile since I’ve seen something like that so it was a welcome way to handle their showdown. It also vaguely brought up [...]
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Who is it? There are a couple of people who you’d assume the ogre has to be (Maria or Mamoru) but is that too obvious? We don’t get a very good look at the attacker due to some crazy looking psycho-fog so nothing can be confirmed at the moment anyways. But if I had to [...]
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Maria & Mamoru have to be alive right? I might be a bit thick but I’m pretty sure Tomiko was just covering for them during that meeting because she knows that they wouldn’t attack a village for some twisted sort of revenge. Of course a lot of things can change in twelve years, especially people. [...]
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I’m a bit surprised at how quickly society seemed to degenerate into madness right after the large supply of sybil-cancelling helmets made it into the hands of the people. Is it really that easy to destabilize an entire city like that? Maybe the people really were that suppressed by the big-brother order and were just waiting [...]
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I’d say that’s a pretty successful timeskip if I’ve ever seen one. Everyone’s a bit older but it all feels very familiar and they introduce the state of affairs in the world calmly and gradually. No overbearing narratives describing everything little thing that has happened, yet you still feel as though you haven’t missed all [...]
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Now that was some Initial D. I think this one has to be my favorite episode of Fifth Stage to date. A great ending to the RX7 vs. Supra battle, a spontaneous 350Z vs. R32 GT-R race, and some great insight into the motivations behind Project D. What more can you ask. I knew the [...]
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This week we delve deeper into the societal issues that have cropped up since the Sybil System was put into place. The focus is around a series of seemingly random crimes that occur without warning and all share one common element. All of the culprits don helmets (provided by Shogo Makishima of course) that allow [...]
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Nearly half of this episode is dedicated to reading the letter that Maria left behind for Saki. This sequence is done incredibly well both visually and with the words themselves as it felt like Maria was truly pouring her feelings into it. Saki continues to read as we’re shown flashbacks of the two first meeting [...]
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Well they got me. I said there was no way the Supra would be racing on the touge due to its weight disadvantage but guess who Keisuke faces off with in this episode. That’s right it’s the Supra. I think I just got caught up in the technical aspects of the cars and forgot that this is a [...]
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