A Futari-focused episode today. She was attacked by a hit squad sent from her previous gang. However, Peeps is able to fend them off while Sasaki came to an accord with the opposing leader. One thing I wasn’t clear on is how everybody here actually works for the Bureau. So, does this mean this guy is undercover as a gang leader leaking intel to the Bureau? Or, does he run the gang and uses his Bureau job as a way to gather intel about other psychics. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me yet.
I was expecting this danger Futari was in to be magical girl related. However, it seems that the magical girls are now after the Bureau itself. I am probably most glad that we are going to be involving Hoshizaki again. I think she is probably one of my favorite characters that has come out of this decidedly weird show.
Some other random observations:
It seems like Futari wants in on the slave-themed anime trend:
Peeps getting stabbed in the wing…was that intentional to test the effect of the weapon/psychic ability? It wasn’t very clear from the show
It looked like there was a second magical girl at the end of the episode. I wonder what will happen with that.
While I’ve been overall enjoying Sasaki and Peeps, it’s definitely trying to do too much with the runtime it’s got. I’ve never read any of the source material so I don’t know what it could/should have been but I can feel that it’s fumbling some of the many balls it is juggling.
Yes, I completely agree. In the beginning of the season, it was kind of exciting, all the new genres and story hooks that were introduced. However a lot of them feel undercooked and like afterthoughts (at least in the anime) with the benefit of hindsight near the end of the season.
I feel that light novel sites like Kakuyomu / Narou (where Sasaki was serialized) do not incentivize authors to do revisions much. Readers want new chapters to read and probably rate them higher than revisions. So authors write and write but spend less time going back and make sure things are consistent or make sense in the long run. They may make one major revision when the work is collected and published (like Tensei Slime), but they’ll also be under time pressure of a deadline in those cases (also like Tensei Slime).
It is not all bad; it ensures readers will have a huge amount of content to read continuously, unlike, say, more serious novelists who spends years meticulously making plot right before coming out with a single volume. But overall each title might be less satisfying and more prone to flaws like those you described.
Just off a tangent, Murata just voided several recent web chapters of One Punch Man manga and will be drawing completely new ones before they are collected for publishing. That is serious dedication considering each chapter takes many days to draw.
pretty sure she’s the same magical girl as we saw the previous time. You can tell because of her outfit: she’s still wearing the pelt of the fairy creature that infused her with power as a scarf, just as she described previously.
A Futari-focused episode today. She was attacked by a hit squad sent from her previous gang. However, Peeps is able to fend them off while Sasaki came to an accord with the opposing leader. One thing I wasn’t clear on is how everybody here actually works for the Bureau. So, does this mean this guy is undercover as a gang leader leaking intel to the Bureau? Or, does he run the gang and uses his Bureau job as a way to gather intel about other psychics. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me yet.
I was expecting this danger Futari was in to be magical girl related. However, it seems that the magical girls are now after the Bureau itself. I am probably most glad that we are going to be involving Hoshizaki again. I think she is probably one of my favorite characters that has come out of this decidedly weird show.
Some other random observations:
While I’ve been overall enjoying Sasaki and Peeps, it’s definitely trying to do too much with the runtime it’s got. I’ve never read any of the source material so I don’t know what it could/should have been but I can feel that it’s fumbling some of the many balls it is juggling.
Yes, I completely agree. In the beginning of the season, it was kind of exciting, all the new genres and story hooks that were introduced. However a lot of them feel undercooked and like afterthoughts (at least in the anime) with the benefit of hindsight near the end of the season.
I feel that light novel sites like Kakuyomu / Narou (where Sasaki was serialized) do not incentivize authors to do revisions much. Readers want new chapters to read and probably rate them higher than revisions. So authors write and write but spend less time going back and make sure things are consistent or make sense in the long run. They may make one major revision when the work is collected and published (like Tensei Slime), but they’ll also be under time pressure of a deadline in those cases (also like Tensei Slime).
It is not all bad; it ensures readers will have a huge amount of content to read continuously, unlike, say, more serious novelists who spends years meticulously making plot right before coming out with a single volume. But overall each title might be less satisfying and more prone to flaws like those you described.
Just off a tangent, Murata just voided several recent web chapters of One Punch Man manga and will be drawing completely new ones before they are collected for publishing. That is serious dedication considering each chapter takes many days to draw.
This is a great point. This is likely why some WNs just get completely rewritten once they get published (Eminence in Shadow Vol. 4+ comes to mind).
That guy is just nuts. The art is incredible, but the constant revisions caused me to stop keeping up with the bleeding edge of the manga.
pretty sure she’s the same magical girl as we saw the previous time. You can tell because of her outfit: she’s still wearing the pelt of the fairy creature that infused her with power as a scarf, just as she described previously.
Yes, but there is a second one now too along the right edge of the screen. I don’t think we have seen her, unless I am just misremembering.
holy cow i didn’t even SEE her!