Comments on: Rental Magica – 07

By: sawari

sawari — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:06:09 +0000

“There are 3 types of lies: White lies, Damned lies, and Statistics.”

By: choco

choco — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:18:09 +0000

i’ll remember!

By: Zzz...

Zzz... — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:15:25 +0000

Yeah something like that…remember statistics = love

By: choco

choco — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:30:17 +0000

I see what you’re getting at. Your saying that they think Lapis is a threat because she attacked them at the very end. When they should really be asking, “Did she mean ill intentions when she attacked or are we getting ahead of ourselves and assuming that she is bad?”

If we were to compared this to reality, it would make a huge difference. When you first meet or see someone, you either have good feelings about this person or bad feelings. They have dilemmas on which one to choose. But if you were to get to know that someone, then you would know what kind of person this is. So if Homani, Mikan, Nekoyashiki, Kureha and whoever I did not mention, got to know Lapis instead of pushing her away from Itsuki, then no suspicions would arise.

By: Zzz...

Zzz... — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:07:24 +0000

And other than unsubstantiatable evidence nothing had conclusively shown that Lapis or anyone meant Itsuki harm until she went yandere at the very end. Based on all that happened before that the characters cannot conclusively say that she deliberately put him in harm’s way. The viewers have the God’s Eye and we can say afterwards that the duck was indeed a duck. But the characters only had suspicions until the big reveal. Embracing that suspicion but not examining the alternative put them in the wrong. Just what if the suspicion prove to be just paranoia?

By: choco

choco — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:31:30 +0000

@Zzz…: But for someone to realize their wrong, they have to have proof shown to them that they are wrong. No proof was provided of Lapis being trustworthy. This is the reason why animes are suffering.

Even though you can’t based philosophy to anime, there is always some kind of connection between them. Ppl just like you will make that same connection.

By: Zzz...

Zzz... — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:17:37 +0000

Hehe…my post was actually suppose to be sort of tongue in cheek. I know I can’t expect any sort of deep philosophical thought in a anime based off of a visual novel series.

But I do think that there is a lack of plots with the twist “what if I’m/we’re wrong?”…if there is more of that it will open up more possibilities…stem some of the stagnation that anime seems to be suffering from nowadays.

By: NovaJinx

NovaJinx — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:36:05 +0000

“(or at least the characters are under that position)”
Eh, meant to say under that impression, sry for the lack of though in my posts -.-

By: NovaJinx

NovaJinx — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:34:54 +0000

People always treat each other with a certain amount of suspicion and considering the events and all the trouble Lapis had caused, I’d say they had a good reason to be angry at her. I mean, apparently she can be controlled by her master to do his bidding at any time (or at least the characters are under that position) so even she herself doesn’t have any ill intends, she can’t be trusted to just hang around Itsuki whenever and wherever.

By: choco

choco — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:51:09 +0000

well it wasn’t there fault for killing the basilisk. They were hired to do so. And they can’t back down from a job or they’ll be erased from the Associationâ€™s registry. After all, Astral’s slogan is lending a mage to meet your needs of that customer.

They treated the stranger like total shit because they did not know who she was and all she did was cause trouble for them instead of helping. And also she was a homunculus created by an enemy of theirs.

Most people believed that they are good guys, but deep down they know they are bad once they reflect on themselves which is what you have say about the whole Socrates thing. Maybe somewhere in this anime, things will change.

By: Zzz...

Zzz... — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:06:30 +0000

The children of Astral, well actually anime main characters in general, seems to have a very shaky grasp of morality.

First they mercilessly beat up and slaughter a chained up beast that’s been trapped in a dark room for who knows how long…then they treat a random stranger like a total shit then actually dared to act surprised and victimized when said stranger goes emo after all the bad treatment and lashes back.

I think a few years in boot camp is in order for all of these little monsters don’t you?

See I hate Negima with a passion but there is a line in there that I absolutely love…

“Sensei…in the grand play of life you must consider yourself one of the good guys. But have you ever considered that you are actually a bad guy?”

People should follow the teachings of Socrates more. You must always reflect on yourself. Examine you own life.