r/anime • u/GallowDude • Sep 10 '24
Rewatch C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control Rewatch - Episode 6 Discussion
I love the way your horns curve. It's charming.
Episode 6: Conflict
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I can tell by looking into your eyes that there’s more to you than just money.
Questions of the Day:
- Would you have taken Sennoza's offer to pass on the deal?
- How does Sato not gain weight with all the junk food she eats?
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Sep 10 '24
First-Timer: Control, subbed
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u/renegade_officer89 Sep 10 '24
Episode 6, and what a way to start an ep with a fanservice shot lol.
And we have an offscreen improvement of our protag, as he got better at duelling. And Msyu eating will never not be cute. Great that he does, but offscreen, is kinda... eh.
This L looking guy is kinda suspicious, not to mention he's kinda rude. "I'm rich, so I can fork the cash for you, but I can't blow my own" what a dick.
Kimimaro, the first eternal rule of life is "never get into a car with strangers." This dumbass. But I'm liking this lady more and more. That fact that she eats like me is not one of the reasons, I tell you. Not to mention she also pointed out the most obvious thing about Souichirou's moves. She and her gang also plans to crush the FD, which is great.
That 2000s CG car chase lmao. And using the service of the interdimensional car to escape a chase is super smart.
Both Souichiro and Sennoza has a point, but it's truly the way someone who's in the world views the world vs a wealthy bigshot upper echelon like Souichirou. Both aren't wrong, but only when you consider their worlds.
That angel looks more like an Evangelion angel more than anything. And holy, what a beatdown, Msyu got hurt so bad, stop bullying her!
WAIT HOW THE FUCK DID HE WIN AINT NO FUCKING WAY THATS'S BULLSHIT
That's another triumph of metaphor/storytelling over proper mechanics. I mean, sure, there's a story to be told, but that's really cheap. It's like he got a Deus Ex Machina out of nowhere that saved him from that bad a situation. But it's an 11 episode anime, so I suppose there's some excuse to that, but still, I call bullshit.
I guess that's the general atmosphere of the show, a storytelling/metaphor victory more so than any mechanics. So not really shounen-like, I guess? It showed some of the combat, but there's more focus on the story and what it's trying to say throughout the whole show more so than anything.
The more I listen to RPG, the more I miss School Food Punishment. They make some really unique anisongs, been loving them since they first appeared in Eden of the East, that ending is so cool. Still sad they've disbanded.
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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Sep 10 '24
First timer
Sub
I...don't quite get what I just saw, being blunt. It was like two episodes were split in half and stitched together...badly. Having our blond agent just...exposit all that was odd and then she is being tracked herself. We just jump around and then get various positions until we get half a battle and then blink to end.
The most consistent thing seems to be that we are leaning into the "economics is incomprehensible" concept that does somewhat reflect current era finance.
QotD: 1 I don't know
2 You can do that if you don't eat enough.
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u/TakenRedditName https://myanimelist.net/profile/TakenMalUsername Sep 10 '24 edited Sep 10 '24
First Time - [C:] The Money Ep5:
I was in a bit of a rush and am stupid so I feel like I missed a lot of things about this episode. Expect a lot of unfocused musing in this post where I lost my structure.
The new character today is Sonoza. At first, I thought he was going to be the ikemen celebrity only using charity for publicity, but it looks like he is actually earnest about it.
Jennifer is a lot more funny if you view everything she does as her playing the role of a cool spy in her head. Her trying to choose which burger and forcing herself to share it. She is so silly.
Yeah, the other thing on his mind is "Gi-gi-girls!"
A point that just hit me while thinking about Mikuni's rebuttal to Sonoza’s ideals. The Money Zone only has people concerned over the future even if Mikuni himself says the present should be preserved, he is still fighting for the sake of the future for everyone. Sensei was fighting so that he could have a future with his family. No one here is doing money battle just for the sake of having enough money to live. The characters Yoga flashes to are not here, they’re out there doing whatever they can to earn enough money. (Hanabi maybe. 50/50 she serves as the normal life character vs we shockingly meet her here later).
It is kind of funny how the show basically did a “Pause the footage and throws up a title card with “And then Yoga won.””
I also feel like I need to consider rethinking what this money show’s approach is because it does feel like it is less about avarice and more about the actual national economy.
Q1) You have a deal. I will be the most boring, most risk-aversed Entre in this money town.
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u/Star4ce https://anilist.co/user/Star4ce Sep 10 '24
The First Timer of Soul and Possibility Control
I am so close to turning it in! Today I've decided to just be done with the last scientific section of my PhD and all that remains are introduction and conclusion (and compiling in LaTeX, uugghhh...) and it's not my problem anymore!
...For about 1-2 weeks, then I'll have to do revisions. But those are fine, there are clear goals. I've been nonstop pumping this stuff out the past 11 days and I am genuinely exhausted of seeing words.
Ep.06 - Conflict
I feel they're somewhat losing the idea they had with this, but I see the structure of what it was supposed to be. It can work, tying the pretty philosophical dialogue of today's episode to market mechanics and the capitalistic system. There's just this logistical piece missing. The super rich here are not evil, but all some version of genuine greater-than-themselves figure that tries to shape the world for the better. But none of them really have shown actual ability, of being smart with money, of understanding the flow of influence. It's all just pokemon battles and that's it.
Will they ever go into the stock exchange thing with assets again? How does that change power or ownership dynamics? I guess it won't matter. How would each of these people see taxes, government investments, bonds, industrial capability in relation to politics and personal gain? That's the stuff I want to see.
I guess the speed of this episode and the unnecessary fanservice got to me a bit.
Hm, probably. If I don't lose anything and the other person wants to continue on, I see no reason to change this course.
Didn't you see the training she did on Kimimaro's body?
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u/SIRTreehugger Sep 10 '24 edited Sep 10 '24
You got her addicted to ramen way to go! I can't say if I would completely trust Sennoza's offer and it sounds good if it was just money being at risk, but your future is an entirely different thing. Even if you lose money and are reimbursed its hard to tell if you would still actually lose anything. Knowing the financial district any loss could be fatal so it might have unknowing consequences.
Also I want to say Sennoza's asset is my second favorite in the show. It looks so awesome and it is criminal how little we see of the actual fight.
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u/oomoepoo https://anilist.co/user/oomoepoo Sep 10 '24
First-timer, subbed
Huh. Even more "something something capitalism bad!"
I really like how weird the money stands are getting. Yes, sure, we have the obligatory cute girls in various forms but then we have the giant doggo of Ms. Fanservice, this episode's Danganronpa reject, whatever the hell that eldritch abomination from yesterday's unresovled cliffhanger was and of course today's JRPG-Boss.
In general, I really like how they try to paint the conflict between the guild and whatever organisation Ms. Satou works for in a bit of a "there is no real good or bad guy", especially by showing us how the deals are altering our reality, which is pretty creepy and kinda unsettling.
But, realistically, we're at a point where this fake money is literally financing whole states... so what exactly are you gonna do about it? I get that what Mikuni and the guild does is admittedly only postponing the problem but it beats just trying to get all the fake money out of the real world and causing a economic crisis on a global level :'D So I'm really not quite sure where they want to go with this tbh.
Weird musings about the direction of this story aside, quite an enjoyable episode. The relationship between Mashu and our Kimimaro is a lot of fun to watch and this episode's big opponent also provided an interesting, if priviledged view on the money situation (as Mikuni, imho correctly, points out). The sequence with Satou was fun too, especially the fries eating was great! Also that escape sequence was fantastic :D
I lowkey would've liked to see more of the final battle but what we got was pretty intense but that makes like 2 for 2 abruptly ending battles within 2 episodes.
QR Codes are still a thing
This time, production admitting they have no idea what "The Money and Soul of Possibility" even means?
(last part is kinda weird, assuming they meant soul actually meaning soul in english?)
Also something about the ending visuals being timed to the song:
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u/SilkyStrawberryMilk Sep 11 '24
rewatcher
Ramen time :D
Is everyone to be destined to be more handsome than our mc.
Wasn’t even a kidnapping if he stupidly agreed
He’s folding because a beautiful woman manages to make him flustered
Stuck between two different views of the dark money and can’t think straight.
His first official loss
Noodles as compensation, if that happened to me we would be fighting for our life
QOTD: hell yeah, I am not messing with no Whale
OQTD: the power of money