I am not a Kanukafag and I don't mind Kumagami but was there any reason for this replacement? Some kinda voice actor issue?
>>22890973I don't think there was any intention behind it. Or at least not one I'm aware of. It's not especially overt but there is still a kind of sense of actual time in patlabor. So when she was established as leaving in a half year or or that was bound to just catch up. As a Kanukafag I'd have liked it if they waited a bit longer than just before the halfway mark but she still came back often enough. But yeah. I suppose it was just a normal progress of the show.
>>22890973Kanuka was the only character in the show that did not feel like it was written by a Redditor, so i appreciate her presence alot.
>>22891007You spend too much time posting on reddit, bro
>>22891007Redditors write? I guess you would know.
>>22890973Mentioned since episode 2, not to mention that they did give her a 2 parter send off but also made sure it wouldn’t be the last we see of her, also kumagami wasn’t just necessarily an OC made for the show, she appears in the original manga
I think I'm the only person who really likes Kumagami. She fills the same role as Kanuka, but they do bring very different energies
>>22891343I feel like a crazy person whenever I post about how they're opposites and how that's fun. Appearance, personality, motivations, background, relationships with the rest of the cast, role in the story, even their roles in the SV2 outside of "Ota's handler" - complete inversions of one another. It's all a joke and nobody seems to notice.
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>>22891343My only complain about her is how she became too similar in style with the rest of the cast. Yeah she is le funny in alot of cases, but that is the momment the series became somewhat one dimensional and flanderized. The characters were not contrasting enough to be memmorable and the departure of Kanuka made it even more apparent.
>>22892094Yeah there wasn't really the same give and take. Being able to shout at Ohta is all well and good but there was more in Kanuka and Noa teaming up for missions and conflicting.
>>22892101Back then i used to think " damn this chick is just an edgy mrs perfect and she sucks, not wholesome or hillarious at all ". However time passed, i changed my opinion and grew to like her because a story needs many archetypes and personalities to make it lively. However, if you ask me what's the "worst" character, it would be Shinobu. She is the most dry and uninteresting character in the show but luckily she didn't appear much so she stays inoffensive.
>>22892142>if you ask me what's the "worst" character, it would be ShinobuGay.
>>22890973Patlabor was incompetent outside of the third movie. It's pretty well known.
>>22890973i don't remember the exact source for this, but i think it was because kanuka was just too competent compared to the rest of SV2 and the writers got bored of her because of thatcompared to kanuka, kumagami is scared of ghosts and has that thing with utsumi
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>>22903687Satsuki-sama?
>>22906621ha
Someone post combat.webm /m/ hates mine because COMBAT audio
>>22900078>kumagami is scared of ghosts and has that thing with utsumiI think this is one of the weakest aspect of Patlabor's writing is how everyone must be some sort of dumb niche instead of being professional police. There was no nuance, just extremely one dimensional and the only character with that nuance got replaced with another generic gag character. And i guess what, the movies are universally praised and everyone in those movies acted like Kanuka.
>>22906621Retard
>>22906660>There was no nuance,You don't know what nuance means or you haven't pay even the remotest bit of attention.
Kanuka is ugly.
>>22906669I don't really care what you think or what your personal opinions are. I don't find the character's gags and flaws to be remotely funny. It takes me away from the story content and unironically lost me on the characters i might invested in. The best character in the show is Alsfone because it is a giant robot who doesn't speak.
>>22906680That's nice. You're an idiot.
>>22906681Well pardon me for lacking sense of humor enjoyment. Most of mecha i watched don't have gag shit every 5 seconds.
>>22906660Kanuka is the only character without a nuance. She's the Mary Sue of Patlabor.
>>22906786She's got nuance. It just shows up moreso in the TV side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmoxSrJmav8
>>22906621Seems I'm not the only one. Kanuka feels like what older Satsuki'd do if she somehow wasn't still as filthy rich as she was after the end of the show.
>>22909967I wouldn't go that far, it was just that image reminded me of Satsuki but yeah you can't deny some similarities.
>>22909971I might, but I feel like both are just aligning with some hyperspecific trope, that is evading me rn.
>>22909967Retard.
>>22906786>Kanuka is the only character without a nuance. She's the Mary Sue of Patlabor.You seems to be not understanding what a marysue is. A marysue first of all, needs to have alot of chances to prove her competence and actually wins time to time again. Kanuka is none of that, she had her own failures and very rarely having actual action spotlight. She is the typical 6th ranger/secondary hero you usually see in tokusatsu. And these characters always not-blending in and that's actually cool.
>>22906938That retard doesn't know what is he saying. Kanuka teamed up with Noa during Griffon fight. Kanuka got her ass beaten by it, meanwhile Noa bitchslapped the fuck out of it. Her main spotlight in the scene was her cleaning up the scrap. Retards just pissed that Kanuka isn't another quirky funny character, so they are making up reasons and character depictions that's never there in the series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHghXEDumxA&loop=0
>>22906786>Kanuka is a transplant from <comically portrayed as modern deteoit> America>Is as such exceptional at combat and combat related things>Wtf they didn't flesh her out enoughI knew enough, if you want more that's fair because she's a fairly uptight/secretive character/a professional there to do a job, but that doesn't mean it's not nuanced enough, shes just a reserved personHer archetype as well>Hime cut>Transfer student typeIs naturally a mysterious trope tooIt's her thing
I love patoreiba
>>22890973Kumagami is the Patlabor manga OG character. She appeared very early along with Richard Wong. Kanuka appeared in manga much later.TV series is kind of a mix of manga and OVA, so when they decided to animate the Griffon arc from the manga, they had to include Kumagami too.
>>22906673I don't like you
>>22913722She got Batman'd.
>>22906673OVA Kanuka is the best. OVA character designs are the best in general.
>>22913798floofnuka
>>22909967I wonder how they would get along.
