User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E5 - χeep μoving φorward - Impressions/Recap/@comment-98.17.225.176-20171116035304/@comment-25936766-20171116042559

"Giving speeches/explanations while not looking at the person they're talking to the entire time" is not exclusive to Anime. I've seen it in all kinds of media, including western media. And personally, it'd be more boring and weird if they stared at them for the entire speech like some sort of owl.

Being "a whole room apart" is not even a problem. You don't need to be glued to someone to speak to them clearly, especially in an empty room.

And it's perfectly fine to look the other way while explaining one's motivations. It's only "insulting" if they never look at the receptor at any moment.

In this case, Ruby was perfectly aware that Oscar was there, listening. And even after "turning away from him" she only did that for, what, 1 minute at most?

It's a severe non-issue.

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The Sea Dragon Fight. Which, I repeat, was a fight. Nothing to do with her arc or her goals or her character, beyond her interactions with Sun during said fight.

I would understand not caring about Blake's arc due to something related to her arc. But for a fight? That didn't have anything to do with said arc? It's just a stupid reason to stop caring about something.

By that logic, you should've stopped caring about RNJR's arc the moment they decided to take on a bunch of rocks with blades instead of just letting Nora hammer-blast it to pieces from the get go.

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V5E4? The best episode? You must be drunk then.

Yang's fight had decent choreography but lazy animation, and while fluid for the most part, it was boring, slow, and nothing at all like what we were promised with her Character Short, and especially nothing like Monty's fights in Vol.1 and 2 (which were made with an inferior program and budget).

Which is important because Monty's style of making fights, with more emphasis on flash and speed, DEFINED THE SHOW ITSELF and made it as popular as it is.

The whole RNJR segment of the episode was like 90% just telling us info we already knew, and the 10% that was new was stuff we should've been told years ago.

The only saving grace is the last 8 minutes, and only if you deliberately ignore the animation of the background characters: That is to say, their absolute lack of animation.