I feel like you're disappointed they didn't explicitly have a scene for every character where they monologued about their Tragic Past like a Kojima game.
Every character has a really well defined disposition, attitude, set of motivations, and yes backstory... the show just doesn't stop to tell you them, you catch their story through glimpses of their personality, lifestyle, decisions, stylistic choices... you know like real life.
Maine andDorio's names, character designs, interactions, and dialogue tells you everything that narrative essential about their characters and back stories, without having to spell it out.
Kiwi's interactions and relationships with Lucy, Faraday, Maine and Falco are all you have to see to start drawing out the past of her character... Even her design, she specifically chose Cyberware that didn't have a mouth and would prevent her from being expressive, purposefully alienating herself from everyone around her, fleeing the interpersonal Trauma implicit in everything she does.
These are characters are incredibly designed characterized and fleshed out, unique backstories and personalities are implicit in everything about them, StudioTrigger just followed the show don't tell school of thought (as you expect from litteral animators and artists) and embodied this in their characters and actions instead of stopping the show's breakneck pace.
And as for the characters who's inner monologues we do get ,its incredibly rich!
The entire reason David keeps doing merc work instead of ditching and enjoying his modest wealt and girlfriend is he feels he needs to become a great success in order to live up to his mother's dreams and retroactively undo his abandonment of her ambitions through success, He feels he needs to continue Maine's ambitions so as to render Maine's tragedy a success...
He's fleeing his Trauma by embracing the very danger that caused it.
That is very strongly characterized and very subtlety handled, and every character is like this!
This is how in 10 episodes they can cover so much ground at such a break-neck pace, and with so much style, because their writing, artstyle, plotting, and even music is operating at maximum efficiency.
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I feel like you're disappointed they didn't explicitly have a scene for every character where they monologued about their Tragic Past like a Kojima game.
Every character has a really well defined disposition, attitude, set of motivations, and yes backstory... the show just doesn't stop to tell you them, you catch their story through glimpses of their personality, lifestyle, decisions, stylistic choices... you know like real life.
Maine andDorio's names, character designs, interactions, and dialogue tells you everything that narrative essential about their characters and back stories, without having to spell it out.
Kiwi's interactions and relationships with Lucy, Faraday, Maine and Falco are all you have to see to start drawing out the past of her character... Even her design, she specifically chose Cyberware that didn't have a mouth and would prevent her from being expressive, purposefully alienating herself from everyone around her, fleeing the interpersonal Trauma implicit in everything she does.
These are characters are incredibly designed characterized and fleshed out, unique backstories and personalities are implicit in everything about them, StudioTrigger just followed the show don't tell school of thought (as you expect from litteral animators and artists) and embodied this in their characters and actions instead of stopping the show's breakneck pace.
And as for the characters who's inner monologues we do get ,its incredibly rich!
The entire reason David keeps doing merc work instead of ditching and enjoying his modest wealt and girlfriend is he feels he needs to become a great success in order to live up to his mother's dreams and retroactively undo his abandonment of her ambitions through success, He feels he needs to continue Maine's ambitions so as to render Maine's tragedy a success...
He's fleeing his Trauma by embracing the very danger that caused it.
That is very strongly characterized and very subtlety handled, and every character is like this!
This is how in 10 episodes they can cover so much ground at such a break-neck pace, and with so much style, because their writing, artstyle, plotting, and even music is operating at maximum efficiency.
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