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I think I took a wrong turn guys

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OOC Post:

LOONG wall of text and POSSIBLE spoilers for the NieR Automata anime Cour 1&2

Some thoughts on the anime from me :3

"Watching" the Automata anime has been an interesting experience. I've heard a lot of negativity towards it and was unsure why, but I did recently see a whole thing about the production *nightmare* that it's been through, and that the animation is actually pretty bad because of time crunch.

This came as a surprise to me because I've actually been "watching it" in my pocket at work on Bluetooth. I kinda figured since anime isn't really my style anymore and I'm here solely for the characters that it wouldn't matter LOL... (I much prefer their models over their 2D designs)

I could kind of tell it looked like shit in episode 1, just from what I had seen when I started, but I brushed that off as me being negative about everything. I also was a little charmed by the shitty CGI?? It reminded me of a 2010 anime. The juxtaposition of 2B being practically rotoscoped over the game animation on top of the really off looking CGI enemies and vehicles? Total 2010s look.

I already intended to rewatch it all since it's deliciously short compared to a lot of shows, soooooo... I guess I will see how I feel about it! The story and writing has been, in my *personal opinion*, really really interesting. Seeing the game play out in a totally new order, sometimes entirely different locations for events or characters present...

In a sense, it has felt like fanfiction. That sounds like an insult, but I mean it like it feels like everything the fans were yearning and aching for. I.e. 2B and 9S simply getting to talk more, to eachother and to resistance members we barely see in game.

It occasionally takes a minute to be funny and let you decompress after all the depressing shit. Jackass just being Jackass and getting much more screentime feels like a special gift to the fans since she was instantly so beloved. The fact the "fanservice" in this show is just getting to see the characters in a comedic light says volumes about how sad it all is. And btw; if you loved Automata then this show is VERY fucking funny sometimes. A machine child tries to light A2 on fire with a kitchen lighter to help her stop being sick, and the dub actresses delivery of the line "Hey, hey just what do you think you're doing. Don't you dare." in like real fear makes me laugh so hard.

I saw it talked about as a product of the production struggles, but the way the show often slows down for an entire episode to let the characters breathe and interact with the world is so important to me. Getting to see 2B and 9S *actually* spending time together. Even after route C begins we get some excellent A2 interactions with the machines and other characters.

I just can't get enough of how the characters talk to eachother, how they spun some of the most empty dialouge-box reading scenes into something more, and how they keep finding ways to blindside and torture me with *actually* shocking alternate events.

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9S what'd you think of the anime?

I've heard of this anime stuff, but my pod informed me that it's dangerous.

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Attention Human Users: YoRHa Unit 9S's inbox is now online

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What game is he playing?

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Playback of recovered memory data initiated. There seems to be corruption in the files, it's almost impossible to make it all out. The data is practically lost...

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Image recovery successful... Memory data restoration at 50%

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Don't worry guys, Unit A2 hacked into my memory unit while I was away and deleted everything related to the Earth comic called "Homestuck".

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Pod, requesting recovery of image file known as "Mouf.jpg". The data was lost and corrupted when my old link to the human world was terminated. Memory data lost as well.

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Totally ooc and bad because I just started posting but in Ver1.1a when 2B finally says Nines, I absolutely lost my mind at her adding "Oh hey..." at the beginning. Totally changed the tone, it made me laugh way too hard

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Please help me I'm lost in Midwhich Elementary School

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"I‘m not quite sure what it means to mourn, or even if we have a soul to concern ourselves with…"