Episode 2
So we've started on the journey of Ragna the Bloodedge, he's up against a formidable enemy once more. How will it all end?
***SPOILERS***
So Hakumen is being recalled, or at least being attempted to be recalled.... Unforutantely it isn't working and Ragna is told to run for it, instead he unleases a lot more power to beat Hakumen (for some reason I keep trying to type it as Karumen.... So if any mistakes do happen I apologize in advance!)
Noel manages to wonder in on Nu, turns out that Noel and Nu are identical units (Noel being #12 Nu being #13) and they both decide to take each other out. Noel has a slightly better time of it then Ragna did but then snaps out of it and after her life flashes before her eyes...... Ragna saves her.
So after teasing Ragna for a bit Nu and him finally start the fight, and he's not doing badly! Noel is out of the count, Rabbit is off spouting her nonesense as always and Hazama oversee's the proceedings. After the "loop" is finished Noel wakes up just in time to try and save Ragna from going with Nu to destroy the world.
Hazama is happy, Rabbit not so much and Noel saves the day! WOOHOO for the good guy. I don't want to tell you what dumb jerk sounds like in English, but ohhhh how cute!
A much better structured episode, if only because it WAS the big battle.
Hopefully now that the loop has been broken and Ragna and Noel are together the story will flow and won't be jerky, as I said last week the worst way in my eyes to make a anime out of a game is to have it feel like you are watching someone PLAY a game. I've always wanted TV shows made out of certain games to take the "action" of the game away and have the story flow right in front of me and that is what BlazBlue is now able to do if it so chooses.
I think the success of the show will all boil down to whether it sticks to events happening jarringly in the story or else structure the story so that events happen in a formerly order. A bit like Pokémon. You see the beginning the middle and the end of the event, not just "randomly walks to random place A for no reason and meets random character Z on a mere coincidence that makes no sense" which episode 1 felt like.
This episode didn't have anything that COULD go wrong, Ragna was down there TO FIGHT Nu so after destroying Hukeman it was the natural order for him to find Noel with Nu.
I think the story is something that people will enjoy but taking viewers out of the show by having random events that work in the game (because you buy a game to play not necessarily worried about how the story fits together as long as you can see the story happening) play out in a show.
There isn't much to say about the actual episode, it might just be the stream I'm watching it on but the anime seems very.... I don't know, kind of flat? It feels like looking at a picture through a layer of dust. You can see it but it isn't crisp. That could be down to stream quality but if that is an artistic choice in how to do it I think its failing. It kind of looks like its had the lightness turned up on the picture (like I used to have to do all the bloody time with my old TV!)
Its set a good precedence for the series but I still feel it is falling just below where DANGANRONPA was at the beginning of its series. Yes maybe two different things entirely but the feeling of the game hasn't really kicked in, the characters haven't kicked in. Its still in first gear trying to explain things but also keeping them a mystery. I like it, I enjoyed the episode but you are just sitting there waiting for that kick to hit!
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