Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190112144055/@comment-25936766-20190120190435

ChishioKunrin wrote:

1) Weiss didn't use ice Dust. The ice was from Cordovin's cannon. Cordo was trying to use a blast of ice Dust on everyone, so Weiss blocked her ice with rocks.

2) Though, if you think about it, back in Volume 1, she didn't use her Semblance while she was running pathetically away from the giant Nevermore, so maybe she has trouble using it when she's scared....

3) Here's the thing, though: Some of the animations in Yang vs Adam were actually made all the way back in Volume 3, possibly by Monty.

4) My theory is that, while his Semblance is similar to Yang's, it's not super the same... Adam's Semblance seems to use the energy to make energy-based attacks, considering the multiple long-range attacks that he did with it in both this episode and last episode.

5) She only blocked with the prosthetic arm, which is, well, steel, possibly even more durable than steel, considering Ironwood apparently had his scientists make the best prosthesis they could for her. 1) Oh. I thought Cordovin used Lightning again, or just simple laser beam.

2) So if you're angry, it shoots out by itself, but if you're scared, you forget you can do it? Interesting.

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.