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ZENSHU Episode 10 Live Reaction (FULL)

🕑 Added 2025-03-09 19:53:00 +0000 UTC

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Dennis Janssen

I once watched Akane ga kill. I can't remember anything about it anymore, but I was depressed as hell. Will this be the same? Were they baiting us with all that hope at the beginning? What is the root of the voids? what causes them to appear? Where do they come from? Maybe the keys lie within these questions.

Bryan Gonzalez

I haven't seen Platinum End, but I have seen Death Note. That's a good example of a dark and edgy story with the MC failing in the end. But it was justified; I have no complaints there. Was Platinum End dramatically different?

AH Brandon Reviews

I did see it, I don't think you need to justify them losing. Sometimes you don't win and this isn't her universe it's another's authors it makes more sense to lose than win. At the end of the days it's opinions no one's is the right one so try not to get caught up on other people are wrong cause they disagree with you. It feels way more arrogant to think someone's opinion is wrong cause they like something you don't. Platinum ends ending is one of my favorites, everyone dies and many people didn't like it. Doesn't make my opinion wrong or theirs

Bryan Gonzalez

See my comment on last week's episode about tragedy. A tragic ending is still good, but only if it's justified. If the author wins here, it's unjustified and thus a bad end. A sad/depressing/tragic end CAN be good, but that's hard to achieve. And if you develop a following that goes, "No, actually, it's good, it's just no one else gets it," then your arrogance is showing. And you're in denial about just being into gore/snuff or a general interest in watching others suffer from the safety of your screen. I've seen too many authors do this, and the people who gather around them to defend them are just the worst. Popular things are popular because in the Venn diagram of all the things they could have gotten right or wrong, that center overlap is significant. For IRL examples, look at rotten tomatoes and how they rate particular works. They rate them poorly, yet the audiences love them. And they have the balls to call the audiences stupid. That's just peak pretentiousness; be mindful that you don't fall into that trap.

AH Brandon Reviews

if everyone dies that wouldnt be a bad ending for me those are probably my fav endings overall, they are just depressing

Bryan Gonzalez

I'm still in limbo here. It doesn't feel good. It could still go either way for me. This feels contrived compared to the earlier episodes, where things felt more natural/believable. BUT, and I hate to give authors undue credit, but if the meta here is a commentary about directors/vs the audience, then this is genius. This whole journey could have been Natsuko learning what it means to walk in the audience's shoes with a hostile director, earning the emotional facets she was missing, and learning what it is to create great work. But this only works if they beat the director. If everybody dies, then it was just a bad show. I would be very upset if they got me to watch the whole season to give us a lousy ending. And then I'll have to suffer through the commentators: "Actually, this band end was good because..." sorry, bud, they got you too.