Thread:Talk:Dinaranger/Dinaranger plot discussion/reply (4)

"they just stopped short of doing a good job of it"

Hoo boy, tell me about it. I picked up the series when Chapters 7-8 came out, and the sheer amount of plot hooks up until that point made it seem like the author had a grand plan, but it turns out he was just making shit up as he was going along.

Some of the most egregious things that stand out:
 * Why does Aoi seem to be smarter/more human than most ZOFA Soldiers? While all the others are basically anonymous rape machines, Aoi actually sets up several traps herself to ensnare her victims, and actually seems to get more enjoyment out of outsmarting the heroes than the actual conversion process. And let's also not forget that she still wears her glasses; she shouldn't need them if the ZOFA Cells have heightened her senses, so she must only be wearing them because she likes the look. That kind of behavior strikes me as being very... un-ZOFA Soldier-y. Is she only partially brainwashed because of the circumstances of her infection? Does she have some unusual pre-existing mental disorder which makes her more resistant? These are compelling questions which demand answers, I think.
 * How exactly did Miki escape in Chapter 12? Last we saw, two ZOFA Soldiers were literally one room over, and they were in the process of making a third. Chief Kamura couldn't have administered the Anti-ZOFA Cells by that point, since she was still working on them. In other words, these ZOFA Soldiers were literally one room away from Miki, and... you know what, if I try to make a timeline of events here, I think I might end up tearing a black hole in the space-time continuum.
 * And speaking of Kamura, where the hell is she?? Chapter 13, she gets caught. That's the last we ever see of her. This isn't What Happened to the Mouse?, this is What Happened to the Pink Polka-Dotted Elephant. She gets like one brief mention in Chapter 15. Did the author seriously think we wouldn't care what was going on with her that he couldn't devote a panel or two to her current situation?

Bah, I could rant all day. And the sad thing is, for all its terrible writing, I STILL enjoy the series anyway. If it didn't perfectly hit every single one of my interests, I'd have forgotten about it a long time ago.