>Episode 2 is 10/10
>Episode 3 is this season's band episode
I used to think that maybe Nakashima was actually a good writer, and it was only working with Imaishi that made his scripts garbage. Guess I was wrong for giving him the benefit of the doubt. This managed to be MoTW without even trying to tie into the overarching plot or further character development or foreshadow anything, and it just Furuota crying about Gods to make it seem more serious. This felt like a one-off OVA side story more than anything.
>>140569872
As expected of the hack that wrote TTGL and KLK. This was even worse than the band episode. Literally the only bad episode in the series.
When will these cock-hungry sluts realize that Jiro doesn't have time for pussy?
>>140570544
Justice is best girl.
>>140569872
I honestly think anon mixed this up. 15 felt way more like Nakashima's style, nothing about this felt like it was written by him.
>>140570544
>They_see_Jiro's_dick.jpg
>>140570987
I know you want to pretend the awesome episode was Nakashima's doing because you're desperate to pretend he's a good writer, but that's factually wrong. Look at the credits for 16 and pay attention to 脚本 中島かずき.
The Butcher's episode is next week, isn't it?
>>140571273
Episode 20.
how is S2 compared to S1?
>>140571646
That far out? Damn.
Anyone know if the manga on the official site is just an adaptation or if it's the Kiko spin-off manga?
>>140571672
Episodes 1 and 2 are everything you want and more. Episode three was boring.
>>140571646
Where are these listed?
>>140571679
The manga adaption does things different. You can read it on comic-walker.
http://comic-walker.com/contents/detail/KDCW_KS02000028010000_68/
The Kikko-spin off shouldn't be out yet.
>>140571735
There was a twitter post during the Superhuman-Festival event where the staff told everyone in which order the episodes would be written by which scriptwriter. Can't find that twitter post anymore, though.
All I can tell you for now is that episode 17, which will air next week, will be written by Masaki Tsuji.
https://twitter.com/mtsujiji/status/722772830136377345
Episode 18 and 19 will be done by Aikawa again, and then it's episode 20 with Gen Urobuchi.
It truly saddens me that there isn't more lewd art of this series
>>140571964
Ok, so the one available is just the normal manga adaptation, and the actual new story is later.
>>140571964
>Episode 18 and 19 will be done by Aikawa again, and then it's episode 20 with Gen Urobuchi.
Oh I mixed it up, I thought that 17 was Urobuchi and then back to Aikawa for 2 and then over to Tsuji.
>>140572036
Yes. The Kikko-spin off will be drawn by a different artist named Mutsuki Nago.
>>140571991
Can't be helped. Niche original show for niche audience with not very much fanservice to allow fan artists to really make detailed body studies and to draw lewd fanart.
>>140572206
I know discussion this week is slow, but since we're on the topic of the spin off I'll ask again. Anyone here interested in lettering, cleaning, etc. if I translate the manga?
Left or right /a/?
>>140573311
I choose neither, because
>no Earth-chan
>>140573492
Enjoy never having sex with your waifu
![[HorribleSubs] Concrete Revolutio - 15 [1080p].mkv_snapshot_04.19_[2016.04.23_20.38.55].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Yj6F4L3.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Concrete Revolutio - 15 [1080p].mkv_snapshot_04.19_[2016.04.23_20.38.55].jpg")
>>140573940
>caring about hands
>>140569872
I liked episode 3 more than 2.
>>140574511
What is your opinion of episode 16 compared to episode 15?
>>140574614
Episode 16 was better Episode 15 was too much exposition *if I'm remembering correctly.
>>140574511
Your taste is objectively shit.
>>140574698
>too much exposition
Ah right, too much story telling and thematic development. Better to just have one off side stories that are nice and easy to follow.
>>140573311
Mahou shoujou> Evil yokai
>>140575208
>We will have 20 minutes of explaining the plot
>perfect way to develop the story and characters it's not like we've had 14 episodes to do this
OKAY
>>140573311
I hope Kikko wins da Jiroubowl.
>>140575283
>Complex story with non-linear progression, a large cast and several competing factions
>Full secrets and espionage and scheming
>"Why are they wasting time developing all these ideas and ideologies? What can't they just beat up one new bad alien each week?"
You sound like the kind of idiot who complained season 1 didn't make sense until people started making charts to explain it to the retards.
>>140575413
Yeah there's no way for them to build on the over arching plot each episode... Each episode has to be isolated and disconnected and then we must have a exposition dump to fill in the gaps.
You are really really smart. Luckily Season 2 doesn't seem to be doing that.
>>140575525
>Each episode has to be isolated and disconnected
But that's exactly what episode 16 was. Are you genuinely retarded, or just pretending.
>Episode 15 was just an exposition dump
>...
Oh, you are retarded.
>>140575525
>Yeah there's no way for them to build on the over arching plot each episode.
16 didn't even try to do that, and 15 was all about the bigger picture. You're stupid.
>>140575231
>Mahou shoujou
You sure?
>>140575715
Simply a nice, innocent mahou shoujo.Being the demon queen just makes her better.
>>140573311
Has anyone translated this yet? I might have some time to do it tomorrow, but if it's already been done I don't want to waste my time.
>>140576654
I don't think there's any translation for it now.
>>140569872
The band episode was still pretty decent.
This week's was plain bad.
>>140578461
Well, I know what I'm going tomorrow.
![[HorribleSubs] Concrete Revolutio - 16 [720p].mkv-0001.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/0E4427Q.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Concrete Revolutio - 16 [720p].mkv-0001.jpg")
>>140573311
I always liked Kikko more but Emi is growing on me
>>140578549
Band episode was good, just not amazing like the rest of the season. This week was indeed just plain bad.
>>140578755
Don't fall for Emi's tricks.
>>140578751
>going
*doing
Episode 6 was but it was still kind of related to the overarching plot. This one was just bad.
Bad plot, bad animation, bad everything.
>>140581097
>but it was still kind of related to the overarching plot
This is the first episode that could be completely erased from the series and it wouldn't change a thing. Sasuga Nakashima, you fucking hack.
>>140581279
It could have been a nice standalone episode, but no, the whole thing felt really stupid and random. Thunder gods possessing demons and making flowers grow on people's heads because of a ski event-- I mean, what?
It's really bad when you manage to make your episode sound stupid in a show about superhumans.
>>140581645
It's not just the premise, it's the utter lack of interest, suspense, tie-ins to the story, cool animation, plot progression, etc.
It was all just so lame.
I just want Earth-chan justice edge mode
can I have some already
>>140573311
>muh Jiro senpai
Kikko a shit
>>140582022
There's still 10 episodes to go. Jirou-senpai can't assemble his Justice team in one episode.
>>140582022
>>140582138
I almost screamed out loud when he woke her up from her coma in season one to get her into the justice squad. Her and Raito were my favorite side characters, so them all bro'ing it up will be GOAT.
>>140582063
You're a shit.
![[BudLightSubs] Concrete Revolutio - The Last Song - 01 [720p].mkv_snapshot_23.38_[2016.04.09_20.46.49].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/W3HHoR6.jpg "[BudLightSubs] Concrete Revolutio - The Last Song - 01 [720p].mkv_snapshot_23.38_[2016.04.09_20.46.49].jpg")
So guys, what do you think this is about?
>Justice
>Freedom
>Peace
What do you stand for /a/?
>>140584805
They are held back by the government, and Jiro gots to let them free
>>140584805
Something really deep that I can't begin to fathom yet, or the more literal interpretation like
>>140584940
said. Of all the people in the bureau, them 3 are the most likely ones for him to save.
>>140584875
Jirou-senpai
>>140572498
I hope you find someone who can do it because I'd like to read it
>>140573311
Emi a lying shit
>>140585079
I'll continue to ask in the threads and hopefully I'll find someone.
>>140569872
I want to fondle
>>140586579
Hope your name is Jiro.
>>140585175
Jirou isn't any better.
>>140569872
The band episode was more meaningfully integrated into the overall arc; the dastardly chocolate plot revealed the breadth of corporate involvement and the Beach Boys concert set up the strategic use of superheroes by the US.
This episode was just garbage. The most charitable interpretation is that it juxtaposed two reactions by regular humans to superpowers: superpower surgery on one hand and a retreat to earlier cultural touchstones on the other.
But the execution was so hamfisted. This episode should have come before last week's so that the Olympics and the bad kind of pride could be the work of the other Fumers.
It looked like we might have had some character points for Emi and Fuurota but they were red herrings. And then Emi's whole "control others" deal was massively undercut by the most non sequitur deus ex machina.
Episode 3 blew out all the momentum. I wish I had expected less.
>>140588150
Add in "and the band episode also gave some more foreshadowing into that girl band's role in the story" and I agree with your post 100%
>I wish I had expected less.
I didn't expect much to begin with given the writer, but this was still a disappointment.
What feeling is this expression trying to convey?
>>140588485
Mind control, hypothermia, and hypoxia.
>>140588617
>hypoxia
>hypothermia
>No mottling of the lips
No, it's gotta be something else.
>>140588825
>spiral eyes
>blue distal-proximal gradient
>gasping for air
Trust me, I am a kind of doctor.
>>140588485
confusion as to why Jiro wants to dick a filthy lesbian but not her
>>140589100
>spiral eyes
>blue distal-proximal gradient
Where did you go to medical school?
>>140589100
Actual doctor here. You're a faggot, but you still made me laugh, well done.
>>140584805
What >>140584940 wrote.
Fuurouta, Kikko and Emi are symbolically trapped in the net of the government, and cannot or will not leave willingly on their own, because they do not want to see how bad the government is for using them to arrest or register other superhumans for governmental use, which is shown in their eyes being closed.
>>140589595
But Emi is elbow deep in that shit and knows what she's doing.
>>140588485
She just wants to be princess carried too.
>>140589655
She is an adult who believes that this is the way of the world. Also, as the yokai princess, she has a duty to make the world a better place for her kind. If she has to work as the government's lapdog to achieve peace between humanity and mythic monsters, so be it.
It is contrasted by Satomi and the Imperial Advertising Agency only considering superhumans from pure human origin to be of acceptable stock, while beings of inhuman origin are outsiders that should not mingle in the affairs of humanity.
Another important symbolic scene in the ED is when Emi is being shown with the giant skeleton yokai (and all the fossilized hands and lip and eye monsters from the first ED), and her hair then shifts to the other side when the wind direction changes.
>>140590008
This show has lots of symbolism and cryptic lines, but at this point I think you're getting into head canon territory.
Also, what does
>She is an adult who believes that this is the way of the world. Also, as the yokai princess, she has a duty to make the world a better place for her kind. If she has to work as the government's lapdog to achieve peace between humanity and mythic monsters, so be it.
Have to do with what I said? Her motivations don't change the fact that she's aware of what she and the government are doing, and is there of her own accord.
>>140590008
>>140590268
Emi's folkloric precursors are invariably close to the levers of human power. I'm not sure that characterizing her position with respect to the Bureau as "motivation" is apt.
To your point, I would submit that the symbolism in that ED scene is to be understood as being viewed through Jiro's eyes. He is not a reliable narrator.
>>140592466
>I'm not sure that characterizing her position with respect to the Bureau as "motivation" is apt.
Yes, but why?
>>140592553
Why does Kikko have a wand and a cute animal mentor?
Why does the time traveler work for the Time Police?
The point of the show is not to illuminate the origins of heroes.
>>140592730
I'm not asking you to explain her origins in depth, I'm asking you why you don't think the word motivations works here. I get that the show takes a mashup of pop culture, folklore and legendary beasts/aliens/scifi/monsters and uses existing knowledge of them instead of needlessly explaining each one's origins, abilities and affinities, but that's not what I was getting at at all with my question.
>>140592831
She doesn't need a reason to be complicit in the machinations of the government. It has nothing to do with duty to her subjects.
Emi is a kitsune. She is next to the he-man scientist because no one writes stories about losers being tricked.
>>140593097
>It has nothing to do with duty to her subjects.
I never said it did. I think maybe the comment I thought was directed at me was directed at someone else.
>>140593182
>>140592466
>To your >>140589655 point, I would submit that the symbolism in that ED scene is to be understood as being viewed through Jiro's eyes. He is not a reliable narrator.
If that's (You), we are in agreement.
>>140593321
>>140592466
Is not me, but I don't understand what the disagreement is about.
>>140593405
There are two posts asserting contrasting views on the degree to which Emi is controlled by the government as depicted in the ED.
I think the point is moot because the scene is from Jiro's point of view.
The point is doubly moot because being an accessory to the government is an archetypal aspect of her character.
I will disagree with all comers. Where do you think we are?
>>140593744
>as depicted in the ED.
I think the ED holds no particular significance on that front.
>I think the point is moot because the scene is from Jiro's point of view.
I'm not so sure about that.
>The point is doubly moot because being an accessory to the government is an archetypal aspect of her character.
Which is more or less what I said. I don't think she's being controlled, I think she's just doing what they want because it's convenient for her in terms of reaching her real goal, and they aren't hindering or hurting her. I rejected the "she's being used by them notion" because she's fully aware of what's going on.
>I will disagree with all comers. Where do you think we are?
I agree. I just like to be sure of what we're disagreeing on. We can all agree this was the worst episode though, right?
>>140593900
The strongest evidence is dramatic irony.
We know Emi knows about the power in Jiro's blood. We know that she has used Jiro's blood to thwart him.
Jiro knows that Emi wouldn't be a part of his nemesis. Therefore, he rationalizes her continued involvement with the Bureau as under duress. Fuurota and Kikko too, probably. Were-jaguar Rip Hunter has been compromised by the events of that episode last season with three of him. Note that he is not pictured bound in the ED.
>>140594372
>Jiro knows that Emi wouldn't be a part of his nemesis. Therefore, he rationalizes her continued involvement with the Bureau as under duress.
I 100% disagree with this. You place far too much stock in his faith and trust in her.
>>140594424
I 100% look forward to being proven wrong in an asynchronous reveal this season.
>>140594613
She'll try to backstab him and "control" him, and then he'll completely flip the tables and show her that he was expecting it all along.
>>140594729
I've been expecting her to backstab the doctor as he reaches peak antagonist to prove her love to Jiro.
>>140594845
I also expect that.
