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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: redsniper on December 27, 2008, 01:15:46 am

Title: 'Black Lagoon' or 'The Saddest a Work of Fiction Has Made Me in a Long Time'
Post by: redsniper on December 27, 2008, 01:15:46 am: Spoilers abound:

So I'm watching this anime, thinking "Cool, modern-day pirates," and I get that, along with incompetent neo-Nazis, flying torpedo boats, and a Terminator in a maid's outfit.

Then I get to the Romanian assassin kids and I'm still thinking "Loli with a belt-fed machine gun, cool." Then some of their backstory is revealed, how they were sold to perverts and forced to kill, and I start to feel a little bad, but not any more than I usually would for fictional characters, which isn't much. Sniping scene didn't faze me; little boy (actually girl) screwed with the wrong Russians and got screwed in return. It wasn't until later, when the little girl (actually boy) was being ferried away on the Lagoon and telling Rock all the horrible things about 'her' life in great detail, that I began to truly feel sad. And then Rock tries to comfort her (him?) saying the world isn't so bad and the only way he/she can think to show gratitude is to flash him, and now I'm feeling like :blah:. Then finally the poor boy (or girl) gets blown away and the credits roll to a sad hymn-like tune and I feel like :( :sigh:. I didn't cry, but MAN that was a downer, the worst a fictional story has made me feel in ages.

Sorry, my friends are out of town, and I just had to discuss this with someone. ITT: sad stories.
Title: Re: 'Black Lagoon' or 'The Saddest a Work of Fiction Has Made Me in a Long Time'
Post by: Fearless Leader on December 27, 2008, 01:48:53 pm: I worse than "Milo and Otis"?
Title: Re: 'Black Lagoon' or 'The Saddest a Work of Fiction Has Made Me in a Long Time'
Post by: redsniper on December 27, 2008, 02:09:50 pm: Only Milo & Otis I know are the dog and cat, so no.
Title: Re: 'Black Lagoon' or 'The Saddest a Work of Fiction Has Made Me in a Long Time'
Post by: Bobboau on December 27, 2008, 02:46:50 pm: yeah, that show has some ups and downs.

the twins bit is defenately one of the most uncomfortable bits of work I've seen in a while.

the whole second season is quite a bit more srsbzns than the first, though Levi's engrish in the later eppisodes cracked my **** up.
Title: Re: 'Black Lagoon' or 'The Saddest a Work of Fiction Has Made Me in a Long Time'
Post by: BloodEagle on December 27, 2008, 03:51:13 pm: They're working on another season. :yes:
Title: Re: 'Black Lagoon' or 'The Saddest a Work of Fiction Has Made Me in a Long Time'
Post by: Bobboau on December 27, 2008, 04:09:50 pm: a third? SWEET!
Title: Re: 'Black Lagoon' or 'The Saddest a Work of Fiction Has Made Me in a Long Time'
Post by: redsniper on December 27, 2008, 10:53:36 pm: Quote from: Bobboau on December 27, 2008, 02:46:50 pm
though Levi's engrish in the later eppisodes cracked my **** up.
Oh inorite? Ending every other sentence with 'baby' made it hard to take things seriously.
Title: Re: 'Black Lagoon' or 'The Saddest a Work of Fiction Has Made Me in a Long Time'
Post by: Bobboau on December 28, 2008, 02:28:40 am: keep in mind though its intended for a japanees audience, they probly did a better job with english than most english actors do with a foreign language.
Title: Re: 'Black Lagoon' or 'The Saddest a Work of Fiction Has Made Me in a Long Time'
Post by: NGTM-1R on December 29, 2008, 07:31:14 pm: Quote from: Bobboau on December 28, 2008, 02:28:40 am
keep in mind though its intended for a japanees audience, they probly did a better job with english than most english actors do with a foreign language.

Nanoha's Intelligent Devices mock you. Of course, they got actual English speakers for them.