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>>67830
Late to the party but...
I think the last thing you said was the ultimate failing of Chiru to me. Beatrice is, no questions asked, the best character Ryukishi has ever written and marginalizing her as a character just doesn't work. It didn't help that, in my opinion, Yasu was a terrible "person behind the character," essentially unworthy of being Beatrice (or her creator, anyway).
I know lots of people disagree with me on that and I understand it but I'm sick to death of passive female character portrayals and I also really dug the Battler/Beatrice sexual tension because sexual tension makes relationships totally awesome. Basically what I wanted was the trolling and counter-trolling shifting from genuine antagonism to sexually-charged playfulness between allies, but instead I guess her freaking dying and disappearing from 90% of the rest of the story was also fine, and by fine I mean "not fine."
That said, my biggest problem with Chiru is that it wasn't anti-mystery enough. I actually liked concepts like the Lion world and whatnot, and if I had my way the story would've gotten far, far stranger in the second half, focusing more on thoughts and moods than facts. Having to shoehorn in things like Erika's antics (which basically didn't mean much of anything in the end) or Will giving "answers" took away from some of the better parts of the episodes. Basically the philosophical and introspective parts, or the parts that made you question whether they're legitimate information or metaphors or bizarre in-universe fan theories.
And ep8 was pitifully rushed. Apparently the manga is a great deal better. Rereading ep8 recently it genuinely baffled me on the absolute pointlessness of some parts ("NOW YOU FACE ME, ERIKA, FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER!" "I have much more important things to do but heck yeah!") and the scene-cutting ("We just had an awesome-ass battle, didn't we Ange?" "We totally did, too bad the reader didn't see any of it."). Oh well.
Also I recently read When The Seacats Cry for the first time because honestly I never had before and the first three episodes were pretty neat. And also Kinjo and I apparently had a bunch of the same ideas because I noticed a bunch of similarities with stuff I was working on and now everybody's going to think I stole it I was referencing a brilliant prior fanwork, which was obviously my intent all along. Shame I had Episode Tres spoiled for me a while back as it made everything too easy to guess and it probably would've been genuinely surprising to hit upon the proper culprit.
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