>>33230
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>>33284
I've just been catching up and I've been watching in Chinese this whole time. The animation studio themselves call him Firm Man in the episode so it's on the Chinese writers.
>>31683
And for clarity's sake, yes, he was rank 15.
>>37627
The direction plays into our anticipation of the hero power up really well, it's very satisfying. The disabilities remind me of Darker than Black, but seeing how immediate the effect on Nice 2.0 was it's much more versatile for the writers to utilise.
It's probably been discussed already further down, but I didn't get the impression even before ep 4 that it was complete public knowledge. I felt that the public has an idea that cheering and supporting helped, but weren't directly aware of the trust values and technology, so they don't know that immediate effect or the detrimental side of their beliefs. The reality is more cynical than what the public thinks.
>>38077
I've noticed this kind of tight writing a few times in both anime and donghua, and I think it's fairly common for CG works that have longer planning stages. Because the background assets and props have to be modelled and textured for every single scene - and here they also have to designate when 2D animation takes over - they're very efficient with packing all the story beats in limited sets. They're forced to cut the fat by the production itself.
>>39539
The second option certainly hit when he found an audience to his death. I would say rather than anxiety it was stress, the perfectionist OCD symptoms kept adding burden to his daily life. Even outside of beating villains he had to keep doing little tasks to fulfil the nagging in his head. His serenity comes partly from the image he maintains in front of a civilian, and partly because he must have been totally convinced of his way out of it all. All the imperfections can be wiped clean by ending it. No more fiddling.
>>39402
Donghua do exaggerate the effects of bullying, but I think it's kind of like finding out the quiet girl draws RPF comics about sad, sensitive Celebrity She Likes, then starts insisting she's an important person with a connection to them. Kids would rip into that, it's easy bait. Like people bringing up "your dad works at Nintendo" for years because you kept throwing a tantrum insisting on it. I don't think that is the source of her fear though, each villain using fear has had anger or frustration as motivation then preyed on something their audience/target feared. The PR teams fear narratives that harm their product, an unsolicited comic changing their hero is a real threat to trust values.
>firmsona
Pffft.