Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20161228230634/@comment-25936766-20170104234459

KNN005 wrote: 1) According to the urban dictionary "kino" can mean "the act of flirt via touching someone of sexual interest". Not sure I want want that nickname.

2) Anyway, new issue: I still stand firm in my belief that a lot of cast members need to die one by one over the course of the series. We need more signs that the epic stakes are getting higher.... Will more death help the show? Or should things stay as they are?

3) Should things get darker and more dire or revert back to it's more Saturday Morning first season?

4) Some people likely hate that there's even cussing now. 1) Oh. Didn't even knew it had meaning before. I always read KNN as "Kanino", is that better?

2) Depends. The ocasional death can work. It can be used for a variety of things. Like reminding the audience about the danger.

However, killing off characters too much only makes things cheap, reducing their impact, and can potentially make people stop caring about the characters because "what's the point in getting too attached to anyone if they're gonna die?".

At the same time, a character's death can have a much lesser, or even negative impact in the audience if it's not a good death. Such as being killed by a convenient occurrence like a Deus/Diabolus Ex Machina, or by an Ass Pull, or by being uncharacteristically stupid.

3) They should not get darker. Or at least, if they do, let it become darker gradually, not suddenly. Volume 3's finale was very polarizing precisely because it was an extreme case of sudden Cerebus Syndrome, jumping from Light-and-Soft to Dark-and-Edgy in just a few episodes, a heavy contrast with the lighthearted show that attracted that audience.

Getting more dark risks angering the parts of the audience that hated that. They should at least go at it slowly.

4) Murican parents always complain when anything even slightly similar to swearing is in a "cartoon". They don't mind blood, they don't mind mutilation, but cursing? How dare they?!