Thread:RCM9698/@comment-25132749-20161215190227/@comment-29707934-20170124191939

It's obvious that Najenda recieves orders, but from whom, how they think, their capabilities,... That's all an mystery for the Night Raid. They know there is someone/thing in control, but they obviously need more information for a succesful revolution.

The capitol obviously is changed as well, but you need a believable excuse why Night Raid can't be traced/captured easily. They need to have something to counter the Combine technology. Only Tatsumi and Wave aren't recognizable when they use their teigu. Hunters are scouts, so Night Raid would be on the lookout for them and kill them if possible.

First of all: I obviously don't want to anger or upset you, I just like discussing plot elements. Since I consider badly written romance that doesn't belong in the story one of the biggest problems in modern day fiction, I like to discuss it with you because you do like the romance in AGK apparently. It goes without saying that I just want to have a friendly discussion and want to understand your reasons for liking the romance since I quite extensively described why I dislike said romance. However your only argument up to this point seems to be "I really like Mine and romance makes her more important". I am not saying you don't have any other reasons and I would like to know them to better understand why some people do like romances like this. While we probably will not agree in the end that doesn't mean it can't be interesting (for example I greatly dislike "tsun"-type tsunderes while I like the "dere"-type tsunders just fine, that doesn't stop us from having a discussion about one). I don't want to convince you to hate the romance, I just want to know why you like it when it seems to objectively speaking just badly written and forced (I am not alone in this opinion). While Kurome and Wave wasn't a great love story by any means, they were at least very close friends and nearly always seen together (they even fit the trope "those two guys". That makes them falling in love more believable then two characters that (certainly from Tatsumi's side) didn't have an special relationship at all before their romance.

As for your answer, I do think (ironically) that you are selling Mine sort. She had plenty of important moments (her rivalry with Seryu, friendhip with Sheele, her mission with Tatsumi) that had nothing to do with romace. If you change her motivation for going to rescue him from love to gratitude for saving her life, nothing really changes about the plot at all. The romance doesn't really make her significantly more imortant as a character in my opinion. In the anime it had the clear goal of just making her death more sad and in the manga it justifies a kind of happy ending. Neither really have that big an impact on Mine's importance to the story. So I certainly wouldn't remove her from the plot. Sidenote, while I hope you don't read the manga just for one character, their are plenty of characters like Mine in manga you might like because of that!

Since you like science fiction, you always have to have some reason to compensate for the vast difference in technology. Thats why I think that most crossovers of that kind aren't that great an idea unless they are really well written. AGK just works better with an other fantasy world with comparable technology and abilities (FoZ, FMA,...). Things like being able to blow up the sun don't work at all with the AGK universe. As how they would react, I think they would probably panic as would anyone when the sun blows up (in non-science fiction universes). An other serie you might like is Ender's Game.

P.S. Sorry for the spelling mistakes, I am kind of tired at the moment and don't wan to reread the entire text.