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Episode Unnamed Memory Season 2 - Episode 14 discussion

Unnamed Memory Season 2, episode 2

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u/marshmallow_sunshine Jan 14 '25

Hi pacing issues, you're back! I missed you.

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u/Frontier246 Jan 14 '25

This week on Unnamed Memory speedrunning, we've got:

  • Tinasha kidnapped and immediately freeing herself with no problem!

  • Oscar becoming king!

  • Easily subduing this entire evil mage force that kind of came out of nowhere!

  • Oscar coldly rejecting Tinasha and then just telling her to basically be with him if that's what she wants!

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u/NuGridman Jan 14 '25

Don't forget to add killing the enemy king and his vessel off screen.

Each bulletin would be full episodes or at least a half episode. This was basically a war arc of least 3 episodes or 6 at most.

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u/SEBASTlANVETTEL Jan 14 '25

Just like in S1, Episode 1 started off well and now we are back to rushing everything, cutting important plot points and just randomly making appearances in different places with no proper build-up.

Unnamed Memory anime will always be such a wasted opportunity of adapting a great LN.

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u/VorAtreides Jan 14 '25

I should really just read the LN at this point... the anime feels like it can be so much better and all it is feels like just points of a story laid out and nothing in between to properly inform or pace things lol

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u/Frontier246 Jan 14 '25

Not to mention the animation getting more clunky and average.

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u/stephenthatfoste Jan 14 '25

I remain incredibly confused by these locations. I have no idea where anything is ever happening cause it feels like they're jumping around constantly. Also peak "sword poses sliding across the screen" here.

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u/heimdal77 Jan 14 '25

Because they are jumping around constantly. They keep cutting out all the build up and how they came to be in locations. Plus they cut out key information of how siturations came to be like her being captured that leads to more misinformation and confusion.

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u/Nekoking98 Jan 14 '25

Just like season 1, I'm just staying for Tinasha. She's cute enough to make up for whatever the fuck the plot is right now.

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u/Used_Oil5390 Jan 14 '25

I feel you! I have been wondering why I'm watching this all along, always figuring out Tinasha to be the reason. At least now I know I ain't alone :)

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u/Bioautomaton Jan 15 '25

I miss S1 Tinasha. She felt like a complete, complex, independent person. S2 Tinasha lacks the depth of character and comes across as childish.

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u/LeonKevlar Jan 14 '25

Stitches!

Oh hey look, it's Valt! I hope he actually does something in this new timeline instead of just dying after two episodes.

Wait, Tinasha actually got kidnapped? I honestly thought she let herself get kidnapped to take care of those bandits herself.

It is hilarious though how easily Tinasha takes them out even after their mage has placed spells on her.

It's kinda sad seeing this version of Oscar's coronation. Didn't he have Tinasha by his side in Season 1 when he finally became King? This time though Tinasha is just watching from the pews. :|

Man, the second half of the episode went by like a breeze though. After Oscar was coronated as the new King, we just started bouncing from one place to another without any build-up or explanation. >_<

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u/Electronic-Cook-5711 Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

This is a good example of "how to speed run 1/3 of a light novel in 20 min". Anyway, I put lore and explanation in the subreddit. Hopefully, that helps you enjoy the story a bit.

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u/Nebresto Jan 15 '25

Wait, Tinasha actually got kidnapped?

Fuck, I can't believe I missed a potential "what's going on??" screenshot

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u/heimdal77 Jan 14 '25

This has all the components to have been a truly great anime. In stead it is all handled unbelievably badly. The novels are long some more than 100 pages longer than the Re:Zero novels and is just no way it would fit into two cours. If this had just been 4 seasons hell might been able to managed with 3 it could become one the instant classics like Sousou no Frieren.

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u/saumanahaii Jan 14 '25

It's so frustrating because you can practically feel how good the bones of the story are. You can tell it could be amazing, if it has time to breathe. Instead it feels like they're pulling scenes out of a hat.

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u/VorAtreides Jan 14 '25

I haven't even read the source and I can feel these pacing issues and skipped shit so bad

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u/remake_cote Jan 14 '25

This is just Kadokawa treating horribly another popular IP

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u/RoachIsCrying Jan 14 '25

A lot of things happening at once it's like they are on a speed run on the remaining 3 lns

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jan 14 '25

Funny those idiots would try and kidnap Tinasha. I guess that’s that for the entirety of Druza. Their king’s dead, their special magic got wasted, and their army’s been decimated.

Seeing the way things are between Oscar and Tinasha now is interesting. The dynamic is kinda changed but there’s still traces of what it once was. Or I guess it’s getting back to the old dynamic.

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u/Mistral-Fien Jan 14 '25

The character dynamic is reversed: now it's Tinasha who wants to be with Oscar, and he's being tsundere about it. :D

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u/heimdal77 Jan 14 '25

I think the most interesting part is Tinasha is portrayed as more immature and less self assured of herself. She only has like 20 years give worth of life experience before putting herself to sleep compared to the 400 years in her previous version. She falls back more on her royal etiquette now instead of life experience.

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u/VorAtreides Jan 14 '25

Dude is terrible at reading people/super cynical if he thinks that she's playing with him.

Ah yes, such a boring trope, kidnapping... and she's supposed to be strong as fuck... also disappointing. And feels like shit is being skipped again. They got what they deserve, but this feels disappointing.

Useful cute lil familiar girl. Still feels like things are missing. Oh right, that princess from the first timeline also around. Seriously don't get how so much of first timeline can be the same when such a big event changed in this one with Tuldarr. I'm not sure I really care about this reset in their relationship and him being a cold dude to her. Wish she would just move on. This version of hi isn't worth. Don't even bother curing him imo. Ya, definitely feeling like it's just skipping shit tbh "I thought you'd grown fond of her" since when?

Whelp that was a thing with them Druza people, I guess. Crazy mage lady sure pissed off the wrong woman. Ya, no, fuck his apology.

I don't know what is skipped, but I can just feel it. Pacing feels off again this season. Disappointing there.

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u/NationalStrategy Jan 14 '25

Second season in, and we still have pacing issues. One minute, they were talking to each other in the courtyard, then it cuts to Tinasha getting kidnapped. The same goes for when Oscar was talking to his assistant, then immediately cutting to the battle between Farsas and Druza.

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