gwern comments on June 2016 Media Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 01 June 2016 10:30:35AM 0 points [-]

TV and Movies (Animation) Thread

Comment author: gwern 01 June 2016 05:18:12PM 2 points [-]
  • Short Peace (anthology; mostly good, with the fire story notable for its animation, and the final short film an engaging exploration of near-future warfare using networked soldier squads assisted by drones and robotic suits)
  • Death Parade (expansion of Death Billiards, as an episodic series; stories remain a bit heavily focused on suicide and murder, but while the dark background story arc ultimately ends in a whimper, the main story arc ends in a very emotionally satisfying way)
Comment author: ShardPhoenix 05 June 2016 12:50:00AM 0 points [-]

Death Parade

I watched the first episode of this, but found it too torture-porn-y. Is it all like that?

Comment author: gwern 05 June 2016 04:17:33PM 1 point [-]

No. I think that most of the episodes don't reuse the organ thing.

Comment author: Viliam 06 June 2016 08:39:38AM 0 points [-]

They use psychological torture instead.

Comment author: gwern 06 June 2016 06:54:11PM 0 points [-]

Yep, much better.

Comment author: Viliam 02 June 2016 08:40:50AM 0 points [-]

Death Parade is great! Except episode 2 which feels very repetitive, because it mostly is a repetition of episode 1, with added observations from a new character that will become important in the series. If you get bored by episode 2 just as I did, the important information is that the remaining episodes are just as good as the first one, so don't give up.

Comment author: gwern 02 June 2016 02:46:03PM 2 points [-]

What I liked about episode 2 was that I was certain I understood what was going on in episode 1, but then Decim disagreed with me; making matters worse, when I googled discussions of episode 1 to see what I missed, I found that everyone else agreed with Decim. Then I watched episode 2 and learned I was right all along. :) It's not often an anime surprises me like that.

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