Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190112144055/@comment-4010415-20190120194309

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: 1) Oh. I thought Cordovin used Lightning again, or just simple laser beam.

3) I know, I got the video myself (with the black "nothing happens" parts reduced) and recognized some of the moves.

Watching it again, yeah, the slices were there in the original (different color though). Though I'm still convinced it's a ripped off move, just not from BBTAG but from UNIB (UNIB came out in 2012 after all, and Exe:Late came out in 2013. Even the localizations came out in early 2015). And Monty didn't have much interest in being original, just on making cool things.

And speaking of the video, I see only about 3 or 4 parts of it were used in the fight (not counting the parts used already in V3 which are like half the video). Yang rapid-firing at Adam, the Second Type: Bloom part, the "Shadow Flurry" Adam does near the beginning, and his circular Blade Beam though I think that one was used in the previous ep.

4) See, there's a problem with that idea: Blade Beams. We have known since Vol.2 that people can shoot energy things with Aura, at the very least using a weapon as a medium.

We know his Semblance absorbs energy from blocked hits to power up his attack(s). Nothing says it just "creates energy things" with that energy, and both the Blade Beams and the Moonspike thing can be explained as Aura stuff powered up with the Semblance.

So the Shadow Clones have no explanation. A nice callback to Monty sure, but they make no sense unless Adam somehow has Shadow Magic, and there's no reason for his Semblance to be able to create Shadow Clones, that's a completely different power from what it's stated to be.

5) She blocked with both, the metal arm was just the more frontal one. But, it was still a fully-charged Moonslice, with more energy than the one he used last time, with a much bigger blast at that, like 2-3 times Yang's own size in fact.

And all it did was push her back and leave a tiny claw mark on her metal wrist. She didn't even flinch. Hell, aside from the twitching hand, she looks....well:

It's still breaking my suspension of disbelief. It wasn't just her metal arm that got hit so even if it was made out of Wolverine's bones she should've still taken some damage, not just a tiny mark. Especially since that Moonslice was much stronger than the one we saw in Vol.3.

It's nothing but shameless and stupid plot armor. She endures it without flinching or even her Aura flickering a bit, despite how strong it was, because the writers demand it, not because it made any sense. 1. Yeah, it was an ice Dust beam. She has different Dust cartridges in it that she switches between. Yellow for lightning, white for earth, light blue for ice.

3. Very true, plus we know that he was a big fan of fighting games and other Japanese games.

Also, I just watched the full cut footage with the audio on this time, and the music playing is Session, by Linkin Park. Shane said that Monty had animated the Yang vs Adam fight scene in Volume 3 to a Linkin Park song.

4. To be fair, when he used his Semblance in the Black Trailer, it affected everything around him, instead of just cutting the robot, so it's possible that it did more than just enhance the cutting power of his sword even back then.

5. She blocked with her prosthetic arm, while using her hand to steady it.

True that that giant beam should've hit more than just her arm, though, and she should've at least had her Aura flicker or something.