Deca-Dence

Both shows are great, and if we talk about execution both shows are done pretty well, Deca-Dance only have 5 more episodes to give 1 step ahead and take the AOTS spot.

The faulty Gadoll from episode 6 will mutate and go berserk.

how good is this show? what makes it good?

The story is interesting and the characters are great. Highly recommend.

On a base level, all of the technical aspects are solid. Good music, good VAs, good designs, action is animated well. On the actual particular level of the show, it manages to execute on a usually poor idea, the whole "post apocalypse is actually a set up/videogame world." It's a unique spin on the idea that avoids undercutting the importance and significance of the "fake" world and this works primarily by how strange and surreal the "real" world of the cyborgs is. The setting is explained very early on and then the show delivers on the dramatic irony of the audience, and one of the POV MCs, knowing what's going on while the other POV MC is still in the dark.

It also moves along really quick. The major thrust of the plot shifts in episode 5 and things are probably going to be moving swiftly along from here. People have complained about the pacing, and it does seem to result in the side characters not being as strong, but the main characters are solid. They develop a dynamic and relationship, and then the central premise upends their usual dynamic. The MCs are changed by the interactions with each other and this makes them begin to move through the story differently than they did in the beginning.

The above makes it standout for me. The side characters again could be better, but it feels rare for a story to be moving through its conflict as rapidly and logically as Deca-dence does. Both in the actual narrative and the main characters' developments.

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It's at least as breezy as Planet With, but to me that felt more like a two season show smushed into one and (so far) this one feels more like it was actually planned as a single cour

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Oh yeah, forgot about Planet With. Which I shouldn't have, because I love Mizukami, but perhaps being more familiar with his manga works made it less prominent in my mind. Mizukami's stories tend to have a kind of breadth to them that he no doubt found it hard to work into a single cour framework. It still had his eye for larger casts and emotional writing, though.

I guess for me, my standard for anime originals is shit like FranXX. Which had somethings going for it but horribly wasted a lot of its two cours worth of episodes and had the classic problem of moving in fits and starts. Going back through the archives after catching up recently, I saw people calling out Natsume's training arc and the quick move through to the "final" boss as feeling to rushed. But I don't think it was rushed so much as quick. Natsume being competent at fighting isn't really the goal of the story, so it doesn't feel weird to me she can get good and follow through so quickly. The real point of her story is her maturing and coming to terms with the situation she's stuck in, which reaches a crisis point when she breaks down in front of Kabu over whether she can keep remaining positive in the face of the seemingly never ending fight. Her becoming competent in one episode is to facilitate that eventual emotional arc, which builds over a few more episodes wherein she's thrust into new situations because of her competency.

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It's important for the characters to keep developing and keep encountering new situations for them to interact with and respond to, which keeps the flow of the story and characters going. It would've been easy to hammer home the same points with more battle of the week episodes, but I think it's to the show's credit it doesn't waste time. Natsume wants to become competent, so now she has to be in her first fight. She's won her fight and earned the respect of her comrades, but now she has to deal with a seemingly no win scenario. They overcame that, but now it's clear there may truly be no end, so how does she react to that. Same goes for Kabu, who we get a backstory for, him learning the truth about Natsume, training her, coming to care for her, choosing her over his own safety, then confronting the consequences of his actions and similarly being forced into a seemingly no win scenario. All to show how the characters have changed because of their interactions with each other.

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>maou
>great
Are we watching the same show? There's nothing original or even keeping my interest.

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Hug the bully, Natsume.

>dub

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yuck.
are these VAs even good?

Nishimura is best known as Mikasa from SnK and Kurisu from Steins;Gate

It's just really fun that our main grizzled soldier man is actually a cute cartoon robot.

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>Kaburoody-poo

Cringe
Based

That is probably my favorite part about him.

>the generic "technology is evil" morale every anime has
"To be an error, and to be cast out, is a part of God's design" - William Blake
The message so far has nothing to do with technology being evil. Natsume isn't rejecting technology, nor is there any reason to think she will when she finds out the secret. Most likely she will join forces with robot Kabu to overthrow the corporation. The message is clearly about acceptance, how embracing those different from us allows us to evolve and grow better, and also against the current state of the world where mega-corporations gain more and more power over our lives. Neither message is exactly original or cryptic, but they have nothing to do with a general rejection of technology.

I want to hugged by all the 3 girls at the same time.

Robo Kabu is the best part of the show.