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Episode Sakamoto Days - Episode 3 discussion

Sakamoto Days, episode 3

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u/AliceinTeyvatland Jan 18 '25

That shape shifting is straight up magic, I thought he's just gonna take off his mask like in Mission Impossible lol

Does this world have their own version of Mutants? I don't mind though, I kinda dig the magic user vs straight up hands guy trope whenever it comes up in different media.

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u/flybypost Jan 18 '25

Does this world have their own version of Mutants?

Shin can read minds and they all got at least the basic "shonen strength/stamina" going on. My guess is that there will be strong opponents who got some sort of superpower.

It's still throwing me off a bit. I expected a more mundane (but still ridiculous) solution to these fights. There's just a bit more "supernatural" than what I expected from how people talked about the series.

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u/Confident-Command-11 Jan 18 '25

You can treat it like spy x family man, don't think it as slice of life kinda thing that should be realistic. I mean even an Hollywood action doesn't make any sense most of it. Just fun for it.

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u/AliceinTeyvatland Jan 18 '25

Actually Spy x Family was one of the titles I've been basing it on at the start, that's why I'm not really surprised with Shin being a telepath. Like why not, Assassins are the fad right now, and SxF put a twist on it by putting Anya there. So yeah I was thinking even with telepathy I still think it was pretty grounded.

It's just that the way they animated the shapeshifting is straight up illusion magic lol Who knows, maybe he's using a super high-tech gadget.

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u/Confident-Command-11 Jan 18 '25

Yeah the same as with how tremendous strong yor is in sxf especially in the movie (her 1st almost full strength battle against someone) is straight up a regular shounen genre. Not a spy, Hollywood vibe kind of thing anymore.  But anyway in almost every action, spy in any media, shape shifting thing that almost never look real at all to me. 

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u/CordobezEverdeen https://myanimelist.net/profile/CordobezEverdeen Jan 18 '25

Yor literally kicked an entire moving car.

No fucking way that's grounded in reality.

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u/AliceinTeyvatland Jan 18 '25

Super strength is not new in spy and agent genres, I could think of like 5 Hollywood movies on top of my head right now, things like that are much easier to pretend to be a part of the story setting.

Now all I'm saying is that the way they animated that shapeshifting scene looks goofy as fuck if you want to be "grounded", why not just, I don't know maybe do a panning shot into a store shelf or someone's back transitioning back to him, you get to be mysterious and still keep it grounded lol

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u/S0phon Jan 18 '25

So what you consider "grounded" is whether it has appeared somewhere else and has nothing to do with it actually being grounded in reality?

That's a pretty novel interpretation of the word.

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u/CordobezEverdeen https://myanimelist.net/profile/CordobezEverdeen Jan 18 '25

you get to be mysterious and still keep it grounded lol

Sakamoto grabbed bullets with wooden chopsticks on Episode 1.

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u/AliceinTeyvatland Jan 18 '25

and I like that, it doesn't feel off because it fits the vibes. The one we got today is a whiplash, which took me out of the scene.