Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.17.68.254-20130907025506/@comment-9090085-20150414033943

73.Anon.52 wrote: While it is somewhat uncommon...I have actually seen "POV"(for lack of a better term) shots done like this before in anime, where a character is asleep/unconscious/on another plane/groggy, where the audience watches a scene the character cannot see, from a vantage that may be outside the body, yet the animators decide to apply a "filter" due the characters status... so it's stupid but not without precedent.

... Did you re-watch the episode? Because (despite how valid it is) that technique was not used here: Yang is unconscious before the darkness comes; there is no correlation between Yang and the darkness.

73.Anon.52 wrote: Ominous tension doesn't work for you? Neo practically shits her panties when she see's Raven, we have no idea what the character wants with Yang when she pulls her sword and teleports out like a boss. "tension" isn't the word I'd use... Raven's first act is to save Yang; her second is to kneel and check on Yang's well being; Then she faces Neo and draws her sword dramatically. After that she gazes down at Yang... and nonchalantly leaves. Most of her "ominousness" come from her appearance(Grimm mask that's her "face"; dark powers), so much so that almost no-one noticed the darkness.

Again, she comes across as distinctly "heroic" in this scene.

... There is something else; the shift to darkness is very "sharp"(I think that's the right word), and only the background is affected. Again, I'm no expert, but that seems a bit... off, for mood lighting.

73.Anon.52 wrote: I never said they weren't... I was merely stating that some locales outside the kingdoms without humans likely have little to no grimm activity... as grimm appear to be drawn to humans... wastelands might not have as many. ... My thought process ran along the idea that there is a limit to the distance that Grimm can detect humans, so if they "spawn" too far away from humans, they don't find anyone to kill them, and they grow larger. That snowballs, resulting in territories far from humans full of Grimm.

Something like that.