I can kinda understand what people see in Shiki, but honestly speaking, …

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I can kinda understand what people see in Shiki, but honestly speaking, I really didn’t think it was as great as people tend to make it out to be. The ending, especially, seems like a mess… just takes a few seconds for the humans to know the truth, and suddenly, it’s a god damn slaughterfest with only a scant few putting up much of a decent fight.

They also try to force some sympathy for the okiagari… there were a few good eggs amongst them, to be sure, but in retrospect, this was the side that forcibly converted humans into them in the first place. And seriously, what human would WANT to become them? These have got to be some of the shittiest vampires in ANY form of fiction out there. I mean, aside from the typical vampire weaknesses, up to and including sunlight (taken to such an extreme that even SHADE can almost kill them… quite pathetic considering diurnal humans can get by just fine in their less preferred half of the day with just a little fire or electricity; how did vampire media manage to become so exaggerated from the classic Dracula, who only had his powers dulled in sunlight at worst?), they’re just a sitting duck during an entire half of the day, and even at night, they prove incapable of overpowering an average human. Also, they try putting a scientific spin on things yet still have some stuff that makes no friggin’ sense (as I recall they never gave a valid reason for okiagari being weakened by religious symbols). At least the jinrou seem pretty cool… though, the almost impossible odds of becoming one aren’t worth joining them.

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and this is why mainstream gaming in the west (or maybe just America?) saddens me nowadays.

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