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[Flying Dice]

Hm. Yagami Hayate was certainly sick in A's, and was remarkably kind, but she also wasn't necessarily what one would call 'meek' or 'well-behaved'. Especially in the sound stages...

Bit of a borderline example, though. I'm trying to think of something that's more of a direct subversion. Might be back here later.

[Aklyon]

Then again, Hayate being sick was mostly from the Book of Darkness. As soon as that cleared up she was out of this category, so there wasn't exactly a lot of time for her to be meek or well-behaved.

[Reelya]

The anime Sola uses the sick girl trope. Worth checking out if you like any of the "Key" anime series (Kanon, Air, Clannad, Angel Beats). It was developed from a concept by the main writer of Kanon.

Spoiler: plot twist spoiler (click to show/hide)

It turns out she's a psycho.

[ToonyMan]

I finished Kikokugai -The Cyber Slayer-.  That was so short geez.  I played most of it yesterday and finished it today.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The "Villains Conspiring" song was pretty good.  Too bad they only really got to do it in Chapter 2.  Where's our drinking tea CG?!

The setting was basically Deus Ex, or cyberpunk I guess.  Although Taolou took down guys by electrocuting them so it felt like Darker than Black.


The text style is also very neat.  It's third person narration and even Kong Taolou the male lead gets a bunch of sprites.  Liu himself doesn't hold back either.  The updated sprites in the remake look even better, although they went with the more in-style Muramasa look and not Demonbane-style.


SICKLE ARMS


Fuck yeah troll cyber slaiyer


TRACE, ON

It's only six chapters.  I did the first four yesterday and finished up tonight.  There's really no reason to put this off and I'm glad I played it.  If only it could hold the ridiculousness Chapter 4 had though.

Everybody dies the end

Urobuchi fin

It was...good?  I don't know how I feel for the ending but chapter 4 was great.  Screw you Urobuchi.  Although this is probably my second favorite read of his behind Fate/zero.  It's too bad the remake wasn't translated in English, it looks to copy Muramasa's style.

I'm going to miss this.  ;_;

[Korbac]

To answer your questions, flying dice : From CG, 'real' characters, the struggle of grey and dark grey morality, the depressing realism, and the fact that two best friends end up as enemies in the name of good.
From TTGL : Mainly the balls - out ridiculousness of the characters without giving any of them any explicit special powers.
From FMA : Generally falls somewhere between the two; strikes a good balance of feel - good and realistic dangers.

[Furtuka]

Various Gundam series?

[Reelya]

I tried a couple of times to get into Gundam, but it never "stuck". Though I'm a big fan of the various Macross series. One thing I've read people comment on is that Gundam is more about the machines, Macross is more about the people.

"Macross Zero" has pretty grey morality (as do pretty much all the Macross series'). The main thing defining the "Good Guys" is that the show is mainly from their perspective. The motivations for fighting from the protagonists on both sides of the war are almost identical down to the full-stops. It sort of shows how showing the same story from a different perspective can change who you "root" for as the hero. Also, epic aerial dogfighting.

[Mattk50]

That "more about the people" thing also applies to code geass. I've had a lot of people be cautious of my recomendation because of the robots, only to realize theres no real focus on them. The thing there IS a focus on there is the technological arms race between lloyd and rakshata. which is awesome.

I went to watch macross once but my brain shut down because of the actual planes in space.

[Reelya]

"Rule of Cool" for the space planes. But they're actually multi-purposed aerospace fighters if that makes you more comfortable. They're first shown operating within the atmosphere, before ending up in space. To work in atmosphere as well as space, you do need to have a plane-like aerodynamic. Look at the space shuttle.

Note that the aliens "pods" do not resemble planes, and it's noted in the script that the humans have an advantage on Earth, but once they head into space, the aliens start kicking butt.

Plus, in the OVAs Macross Plus & Macross Zero, they never leave the atmosphere at all. so there are entire seasons of Macross without any space action.

[Korbac]

The only thing I've really got against CG is how the ending pans out. Other than that I thought it was JENIUS.

[Reelya]

I haven't seen the end of CG: R1 or R2 yet, so no spoilers plz

[Korbac]

Oh man, you're in for a treat.

[Mattk50]

The ending ranks as the best in any piece of story i've read, seen or anything else. You go a tad bit close to spoiling it there korbac, might want to edit it slightly.

[Korbac]

Sorry guys, my bad. 

[Reelya]

Another one I'd recommend is "higurashi no naku koro ni", which is basically a huge "whodunnit" mystery about a series of bizarre murders, that takes two seasons to unravel the truth with lots of inexplicable (at first) mind-fuckery.

Not without it's flaws (toonyman would say it doesn't do justice to the source material), but it definitely ranks as one of the more interesting, convoluted and original series. (definitely one to avoid reading anymore about and just go in blind and try and work out what's happening by yourself).