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8/3/2025, 9:19:36 AM
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It doesn't just fail as a mystery, it fails as a both an occult and psychological thriller as well. It intentionally undercuts itself and all of its tension, stakes, and lore in totally stupid ways. I would have LOVED for the supernatural elements to have been properly emphasized and explored, like this big divine chess game between the various kami operating on a spiritual level whose powers manifest tangibly in the dream-state and more subtly in "reality" or some shit, but Raging Loop doesn't do that. Quite the opposite, ALL of the supernatural and thriller elements fucking evaporate, leaving only a really shitty mystery. That's literally Haruaki's power, to turn the story into a shitty mystery with shitty explanations.
Like, the explanations for the Feast mechanics were all the sort of bullshit you'd expect to hear from a dumbass arbitrary skeptic in a horror movie. How did this backwater-ass rural village with no cellphone signal get rigged with all this complicated expensive tech with nobody noticing? Maybe I can give them the hidden cameras as a freebie, but installing autolocks on a bunch of old tatami house doors that nobody can notice? How are their houses perfectly insulated to hold in the enormous quantities of anesthesic gas, which is so expensive it'd cost more than Fujiyoshi is gaining from this scooby-doo scheme, and what the hell is the delivery mechanism? Why did Chiemi disintegrate in Route 1? Why couldn't she ever kill the wolf guy on her armed outings if he was just some frail old douche who literally trips over himself and dies?
'cause the MC fucking said so. But if that's his power, it needed to be established SOMEHOW rather than tacking it onto a completely optional omake. In the story as the reader experiences it, those are just the actual stupid explanations for what's going on. It's just highly fucking inept as it stands. Good ideas are wasted on unforgivably shit execution.
It doesn't just fail as a mystery, it fails as a both an occult and psychological thriller as well. It intentionally undercuts itself and all of its tension, stakes, and lore in totally stupid ways. I would have LOVED for the supernatural elements to have been properly emphasized and explored, like this big divine chess game between the various kami operating on a spiritual level whose powers manifest tangibly in the dream-state and more subtly in "reality" or some shit, but Raging Loop doesn't do that. Quite the opposite, ALL of the supernatural and thriller elements fucking evaporate, leaving only a really shitty mystery. That's literally Haruaki's power, to turn the story into a shitty mystery with shitty explanations.
Like, the explanations for the Feast mechanics were all the sort of bullshit you'd expect to hear from a dumbass arbitrary skeptic in a horror movie. How did this backwater-ass rural village with no cellphone signal get rigged with all this complicated expensive tech with nobody noticing? Maybe I can give them the hidden cameras as a freebie, but installing autolocks on a bunch of old tatami house doors that nobody can notice? How are their houses perfectly insulated to hold in the enormous quantities of anesthesic gas, which is so expensive it'd cost more than Fujiyoshi is gaining from this scooby-doo scheme, and what the hell is the delivery mechanism? Why did Chiemi disintegrate in Route 1? Why couldn't she ever kill the wolf guy on her armed outings if he was just some frail old douche who literally trips over himself and dies?
'cause the MC fucking said so. But if that's his power, it needed to be established SOMEHOW rather than tacking it onto a completely optional omake. In the story as the reader experiences it, those are just the actual stupid explanations for what's going on. It's just highly fucking inept as it stands. Good ideas are wasted on unforgivably shit execution.
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