Souls?

Crimson Seiko · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject:

Higure could have had plot significance if the writers wanted him to. You have to admit that barely any of the Cross Fusion Members had any relevence passed "being destined to stop Duo." Most them were just there for weird filler plotlines, to get crested, to take up screen time with henshin sequences, and then to vanish from existence afterwards (*cough* Jasmine, Nenji, Tesla, Charlie, Pride, Miyabi *cough*). Higure would have at least been entertaining (since he's so cowardice... you know he'd be the goofy, clumsy, odd-ball CF member). I like that Meiru got to be included, but why couldn't they just throw in one more? 13's an unlucky number anyway. (I still can't quite see Kero fitting in at all, though. Her suddenly being an ultra-strong net battler in the games was strange enough...)
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Guernsey · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject:

Kero powerful?! That's kind of strange considering that Toad Man doesn't appear to be a powerful navi but I lost to him 5 times in the games so I guess looks are pretty deceiving!
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QuickMan · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:26 am Post subject:

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Dingo · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:56 am Post subject:

If you think about it, both Navi alterations are useful in their own ways:

Soul Unison - Although Rock exclusive, it does provide a variety of "un-chipped" attacks and attributes at his disposal, leaving the enemy guessing as to what he'll do next.

Cross Fusion - IMHO, a really good plot device. I know it was over-glorified in Stream, but if you think about it, the idea was kind of required. The games could never introduce something like this, and the anime had to keep attracting viewers. At least this allowed the other characters to jump in on the action rather than having Netto and Enzan steal the show.

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Guernsey · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:15 am Post subject:

Dark Liger · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:04 am Post subject:

For this reason, I think Beast is on the right track. While keeping Cross Fusion in the mix, it's not overusing it. I think in order for Beast to keep up its good streak, it should have a good number of NetBattles, bring in all the Cross Transformations, and keep Cross Fusion to a minimum (mainly Netto, Enzan, Raika, Meiru, and Dingo since they're there)

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ComicX6 · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject:

Aquasoul was used briefly... *runs away*
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Dragonman .EXE. · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:10 pm Post subject:

junk soul needs to be used more. it was only used once :grr: Evil or Very Mad

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Guernsey · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:10 pm Post subject:

Junk Soul is OK but Colonel Soul should be used in the new series also.
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Amaster42 · Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Behind you.

Aqua soul has it's uses, so they should have used it more. Junk soul however... I think they just threw in so they could use all souls from BN4.
It is pretty cool, tho. And if you remember in an episode right near the beginning of Gospel*coughsatanicreferencecough*, Kero takes down Higure pretty fast.(True, Number man aint the best NetBattler, but...) All in all, I think if they used junk soul the way they did, just to have it from BN4, they could have at least put in Numberman, and Toadman in stream.(tsk tsk tsk, inconsistensy, shame :grr: ) Interesting thing to see in Beast will be if theres more than two beast outs.(While Falzar and Greiga are pretty cool, they kinda limit Rockmans options.)Thats all I wanted to say(Yes, I like using Parenthesies)(spelled right?)
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Crimson Seiko · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:44 am Post subject:

Speaking of Toadman, the only thing that REALLY bugged me about Stream was that Toadman didn't make a single appearance. Now, I don't have some affinity with the little guy or anything, but he was the Babamania ending... yet never appeared in the series. I don't quite enjoy that kind of inconsistency... it's like false advertising.
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Unknown Neo · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:57 pm Post subject:

Yeah that is odd, I wonder why he didn't?

Guernsey · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject:

Maybe they thought Toad Man wouldn't be a good character for Stream but then again I'm only guessing.
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Crimson Seiko · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject:

There's a lot of evidence that indicates that all 51 episodes of Stream may not have been written when it started, such as why we got Gyro Soul but no other EXE5 souls. I imagine they originally intended on Higure and Kero having some relevence in the series, but changed their minds at some point...
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Unknown Neo · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:02 pm Post subject:

Atleast maylu got some importance then just lan's best (girl) friend.
Yuriko was just an interesting addition.

Mugen.exe · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject:

Yeah. And Toadman should make more appearances. I really do think Stream wasn't complete when they started it. That would explain them stalling for so long with CF spam. They had no plot line plan for the future. Stream really seemed like two seasons in one in that aspect. 1st part, find a plot, second part, stop the bad guy who gave us cool stuff!!
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