Shingetsutan Tsukihime So, I finished watching Shingetsutan...

FINALLY.

I quite enjoyed it, too. ^^ I'd be lying if I said it wasn't going to make it onto my favorites list. Was an awesome series.

Although, having also played Melty Blood, and read through the threads, it seems the anime skipped out on a lot of things. I'm wondering about more than a few of them. I know there's another game, but that's in Japanese still, isn't it? No news of a translation patch anywhere?

As far as favorite characters go, I joined a Ciel fanlisting, I think that says it all. Especially since I've only ever joined fanlistings before when pestered into it by a New Brunswicker.

And wow, I'm so late watching it... I didn't have internet when everyone else was, I was stuck in libraries

 

*psst* PM me a link to the H-game?

Yeah, I picked up on that, when I saw 5 or so characters in Melty Blood that weren't in the anime. Mech Hisui, Shion, Warakia... So I'm curious now, and I want to find out more about it.

 

Ok, I've identified Ragnaroks patterns.

Phase 1: Start to watch an anime
Phase 2: Start to really like that anime and talk about it a lot
Phase 3: Consume all things related with the anime
Phase 4: Adopt a female character as an avatar/crush, especially if they're motherly in some way. If the character isn't motherly enough, reimagine her as being so.
Phase 5: Find a new anime after a couple months. Go back to phase 1.

 

Cute

Phase 4 is wrong though. But you tell me, is it bad to want to acquire more material from a series?

Now, back to our regularly scheduled topic

 

I watched it too.

Altho it's a vampire story, its excitement levels are nowhere near Hellsing. Sure, there's a battle at the end, and guess what?

Spoiler: Tsukihime

The girl dies at the end. Haven't these japanese guys learned the phrase "happy ending"?

Anyway, i'd classify it as a "who am I and what happened to my past" story filled with tons and tons and TONS of flashbacks. Unfortunately, it's not as mindscrewing as evangelion. Some things are shocking, maybe disgusting, but it doesn't make you get too attached to the characters. Oh yeah, there are vampires, too, but pretend they're not and the story doesn't change.

 

Oh Luvweaver-chan, you and your need for happy endings. ^-^

 

Look, I have nothing against not-perfect endings, but this was a very ANGSTY event. I don't mind angst and suffering present in series (Saber Marionette JtoX, Full Metal Alchemist), but in the ENDING?

In any case, that wasn't my main objection to Tsukihime. It's just kinda... shallow. I prefer much deeper stories, Like Evangelion, FMA, FF6, etc.

 

"Life is a series of down endings."
-Clerks