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Demon Lord 2099 • Maou 2099 - Episode 7 discussion (ani.social)
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Maou 2099, episode 7

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Alternative NamesMaou 2099:THE LORD OF IMMORTALS BLOOMING IN THE ABYSS E.E. 2099, 魔王2099: THE LORD OF IMMORTALS BLOOMING IN THE ABYSS E.E. 2099

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[–] Mercuri@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Seems universally agreed that the animation this episode was tragic. Like, forget the dragon mouth flapping like it's a wind-up toy, they didn't even bother to spend more than 10 minutes drawing it here:

Almost all the Dragon's movements were super janky. The special effects helped bandage the situation but definitely were not enough. Still I imagine it's an issue with the medium moving from LN to animation and the studio just not being able to handle anything more grandiose with the time and budget they had.

Marcus's last words were appreciably pathetic. "You're going to do the same evil thing you got mad at me for?" "Duh, I'm the Demon Lord." The moments of reflection with Machina at the end were descent enough. The love confession didn't even feel forced!

One thing I did really enjoy this episode though was the audio production. The music is great. And the epilogue during the credits felt REALLY good all-around. Makes me interested to see where they go now that Marcus is defeated.

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

His second form is a blue, animatronic dragon-human-skeleton hybrid, I see. Just a dragon would've been much simpler and, imo, cooler. Now it just looked like a reject Bionicle. Also, it would've been better to just leave the mouth open when he talked instead of this animatronic/pacman stuff.

Anyway, pretty okay episode, but the 2nd form really took me out.

[–] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The animation for Veltol got pretty rough in the latter half. They didn't even try to lipsync the mouth. That being said, I enjoyed this episode. Great payoff and it's only episode 7 of 12.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The mechanical jaw motion of his Zoid form was distracting to say the least.

Since this appeared to be the climax of this story arc, I'd have expected better, but Sir, this is a JC Staff production (re: low budget)

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The battle of final magic suffered from a common problem in many magic battles in that as it drags on, it all just winds up sounding like bullshit.

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I call it "Dr. Strange syndrome".

Nobody really understands magic, and the writers just have to make up shit to fill up the pages at the expense of a logical conclusion as to exactly why one side won and the other side lost.

At the end of the day, it's pretty much who fails to pull something out of their ass that's more impressive than whatever was last pulled out of the winner's ass.

Anyway, nice little end credit montage of the surviving characters enjoying daily life after the episode, and the Hero Gram and sword lady sales droid using public transit.

[–] Mercuri@ani.social 2 points 1 day ago

Nobody really understands magic, and the writers just have to make up shit to fill up the pages at the expense of a logical conclusion as to exactly why one side won and the other side lost.

Reminds me of Bojack Horseman where they're fighting the improv troop on the boat and they're literally just making stuff up that's absolutely ridiculous. I think this can work well when the series establishes the rules and conditions for powers and then doesn't break those rules (ie pull anything out of their ass). Sadly we only got the most basic explanation of the rules of magic in Demon Lord 2099 so it comes off as a "say wut now?"

That being said, the fight basically boiled down to Veltol surpassing the Familia device and that was good enough for me. I didn't need the extra nonsense about leylines and wordless casting.

[–] rikka@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago

Done!

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

At the end of the day, it's pretty much who fails to pull something out of their ass that's more impressive than whatever was last pulled out of the winner's ass.

For most anime, yeah. It's not just magic either. Many power systems have the same issue.