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Q: Anime where dying made the character turn into a card?

mainlyetceteraTrying to find a scene from an anime I watched several years ago. I remember a scene where two characters (maybe villains) were blasted with light or fire. They then turned into cards, which spun in the air for a bit, then fell to the ground. There were two more characters, main characters, I thi...

 
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08:14
@Gao because these "cute images" are also a very complex form of copy.
08:32
ok, I know some WILL co crazy on this.
Official collab, get ready for your new Kitty Oscar plush.
 
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11:03
the old collab is an untapped treasure grove
 
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13:42
@SPArcheon-onstrike Come to think of it, Star Rail also has an issue with this
They seem to have not done this in ZZZ, but I feel like miHoYo is just really afraid of trying to sell characters without human faces
Like, for context, you can usually eyeball pretty quickly if any given character has a "playable quality" model. Stock NPC models have smooth textures and interchangeable parts, non-stock NPC models have distinctive designs but slightly "chunky" textures and overall just a bit of lacking polish, and playable-quality models are anything but.
@UnrelatedString "Seem"
Off the top of my head, there are exactly three characters with playable-quality models who aren't actually playable.
Two are major antagonists.
One:
And it feels like everyone fucking loves him
But he's too much of a robor so no playable for you
@SPArcheon-onstrike Yeah, just having a single bear is like, way more than I'd expect LMAO
@UnrelatedString I am past the "china likes them". Chinese idiots can get even more deranged that westerns one, thanks to their crying being closer to Mihoyo ears
13:53
lmao
Obviously this do not mean every fan is like that. You may even notice that I didn't call them "fans" on purpose.
Oh yeah didn't they revert some bug fix in Genshin on like less than a day because some employees got actual death threats over it
those are morons of the worst type.
@UnrelatedString death threats, doxing and threats to report them to CPP for "post selling changes".
@UnrelatedString have you seen the bug?
13:55
I have not
The one those weirdos have the audacity to call "intended gameplay".
@UnrelatedString ok, short version. Neuvilette has a charged attack that is basically Blastoise hydro pump
VERY powerful but it is a beam. So it has frontal range.
ON PC and on PC only, you can mess the mouse sensitivity setting to spin the camera fast.
So fast it causes graphical tearing
13:58
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
this is a comparison during the short life of the bugfix
@UnrelatedString For added context this is not the first time some Chinese deranged individual ends up on the news.
May I remind you when someone tried to assassinate the Mihoyo founders over a bunny outfits video and a single event in Honkai Impact 3rd?
or maybe you prefer how some morons hate for Scaramouche ended up with more death treats and actual cats killed?
14:08
??????????
@UnrelatedString short version, more idiots.
notice that these are probably the same who love Arlecchino for the same reasons.
Basically
- Scara base personality is somehow arrogant "tsun" type. Basically a Vegeta style character. He is male, so he gets all the hate.
- Nahida is a very popular character. Some like her for her story and how she was the first archon to actually do something for her country
Some instead thinks she is their waifu.
They hate Scara more because she takes him under her protection (notice that this is clearly a "he deserves a try at life" but these idiots see this as "stealing their waifu")
That's
A lot
Wow
- Scara is depicted as a black cat in exactly one cutscene.
Result: idiots killing cats.
then Arlecchino comes, is female, has a very strong and caustic personality, has others call her "Father" and the same gang is probably "please step on me Father"
14:30
The idol analogy is terrifyingly fitting...
@UnrelatedString Just so you know, Uta singing VA for One Piece Film Red got a ton of hate, so yes, the opposite is true too
real people get the same hate as fictional characters
it is also worth noting that in this mess Global players get the short end of the stick since the Chinese home community is so utterly toxic that everything Mihoyo / Hoyoverse does is to cuddle them
Yep πŸ’€
Exclusive content, better rewards, you name it.
I was just ranting about this some hours ago on another room.
And it sounds like they're even expected to make some rewards exclusive just to prove some kind of loyalty
@UnrelatedString see the bunny video thing.
14:35
@SPArcheon-onstrike That's not even a uniquely Asian phenomenon--I seem to recall hearing something about several of the actors from the Star Wars prequel trilogy getting harassed for years--but it does seem way worse over there
they got exclusives? "we deserve them"
Global gets a video? "DEATH TO THE DEVS!!!"
now China got another KFC exclusive collabs.
I would not care...
If that didn't include actual well made mini figures
MELUSINE minifigures, which does not exist in any other form.
now, obviously those are already on e(scam)bay at actually reasonable prices (about 70 for the full set) but...
Do you trust that piece of trash of a site?
14:39
@SPArcheon-onstrike (also just a quick terminology question, isn't Hoyoverse only the satellite branch they run in Singapore for international publishing?)
a site that shares your FULL details - including phone and email address - with the seller?
@UnrelatedString basically, I just use both names at random without overthinking it.
Makes sense
alas, those toys even move.
14:42
Damn
the top left you can charge and she will move her arm to flip the pancake.
The bottom left is a calendar and it the ads also implies the figure moves and makes some sound.
the top right is a charge-back windup toy
and I suspect that the coffee one probably is some sort of "Magic ball 8"
...Come to think of it, it's probably no coincidence that the closest playable character HSR has to not just looking human is also the character they have pushed the absolute hardest as waifu bait
And that's a low standard for not "just" human--she's allowed to wear a full body mech suit in combat as long as she isn't wearing it in the overworld and she gets a face cutout while in ult
@UnrelatedString Genshin has it own "censorship issues".
I don't see need for fanservice, but if you look at the game it is clear that some designs were altered or dropped.
Everyone knows the "big four"
four character whose outfits were censored, apparently after some "feminist" group reported them (notice, the word is used here only because that is the word the rumors use.)
Notice how Rosaria and Mona actually change, Jean is more weird level censorship and Amber is basically unchanged
Want a refresher?
Azur Lane was rated PG13. Now is PG16+
Goddess of Victory Nike is still pegi 12
yes, NIKE has the same age rating as Genshin.
Nike, the one with the strategically placed "third person camera" and gameplay involving "characters wearing very short skirts and knelling"
then you have Genshin on the other side, which makes characters half transparent if the camera angle gets problematic... and that is totally fine!
But then for some reasons when underwater they use another censorship that is the most poorly made I have seen in the last years in a game
who though that it was smart to use a bubble effect clearly didn't consider the resulting very low level jokes.
alas, other than the effect being quite ugly I don't care.
What is probably funnier is that it is pretty clear they also cut content in the game itself.
it is pretty evident that Inazuma was going to feature onsens and they removed them.
the actual furniture survived.
no way they made a model to be used JUST as a furniture.
15:00
LMAO
Will be fun now that Natlan will release.
All across the Inazuma arc you keep hearing that "onsens technology was copied from Natlan volcanic hot springs"
Now go figure that thanks to censorship there isn't a single onsen left in all Natlan.
15:39
It is also worth noticing that they made weirder changes in the past. Example
I couldn't care less for most of them but one gets on my nerves...
now... watch the Klee trailer.
and just try to image how cool it would be if she used that walk stile during her ultimate attack (maybe with an Anya face too)

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