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[Neonivek]

It was setting up a contrast indeed with a bit of a spoiler.

But what I mean is... they trounced their opponents so badly that their new abilities seem kind of meaningless in terms of strategic use.

I haven't seen what they are like up against worthy opponents.

[Furtuka]

Oh thats what you mean. Eh I felt like the effects of the upgrades shown were pretty clear, Lightning goes ridiculously fast like the GP-01 and has more missiles, Winning has close combat capabilities now + funnels and so is more than just an upgrade for teammates, and Burning has more crystals to vent excess particles from so it can let loose and doesn't blow itself up. But yeah they're holding back their full abilities considering that

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It's increasingly more and more obvious that Star Winning can transform to a full HG, and Build Burning's model comes with effect parts where all the blue parts of it get set on fire.

Next week should be pretty interesting. If I'm reading the translations of the brackets correctly we'll be seeing the gunpla academy go up against whatshisname voiced by Sugita. The glimpse we saw of his MA was pretty clearly a wing from SID, which is weird since AGE's contract shouldn't be up for expiration for another 2-3 years. Unless Bandai did some negotiating in preparation for Try this time.

[Neonivek]

Ohh yeah for sure.

Next episode will definitely have a more worthy fight.

I am kind of glad they are skipping the non-sense contests like they did last time. a few of them were fine, albeit random, but a few seemed REALLY mean to some Gunpla players.

[Furtuka]

I miss the silly matches actually, they gave the show a nice light hearted charm and added to the feeling of how self aware the show seemed. And they felt more to me like a way to test how well rounded the contestants were so their actual control and building skill shined more rather than just their fighting abilities. But that was the professional level competition so I can sortof see why it wouldn't be in the nationals.

[Neonivek]

It seemed to be there to somewhat cull people of lower skill (to get rid of a country having a dreadful Gunpla pilot)

But some of it were things that were... Not fair.

Like the beanbag throw.

The Random weapons wasn't EXACTLY fair... but... well... you know what you were getting into.

[Furtuka]

What was wrong with the beanbag throw?

[Neonivek]

What was wrong with the beanbag throw?

Seems like a REALLY mean amount of precision to require.

I mean I know the Gunpla's controls work via magic... but still.

[Frumple]

I'm, uh. I'm not sure fairness has anything whatsoever to do with the gunpla battle stuff. Like... at all. Something like half the entire thing is coming on to the battlefield with the most overpowered piece of machinery you can cobble together, and if there's anything regarding standards or limits I can't recall any. This is not a contest of fairness, ha. These things are contests to see who the most unbalanced bastard in the land is

[Neonivek]

Well think of it this way.

It is like if Boxing had a Swimsuit portion of the fight.

[Furtuka]

Hmm well looking it up it doesn't seem that bad to me and there was a bit of context missing as the bean bag toss shown is a team game often done at sports day events at Japanese schools and what wasn't shown on screen was that the players can stand directly underneath the basket when throwing and pick the bags right back up off the ground if they miss.

[Reelya]

Well the new season of Milky Holmes is back to normal. Meaning: it's completely insane. They tried to make it a normal detective show for 1 season, which failed badly - a show which is known for pure randomness, sight gags and one-liners etc really shouldn't ever try a serious spin-off. So for the new season it's like they dropped a whole lot of LSD before animating the first episode to let people know the tone they're going for.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[i2amroy]

Spoiler: Poi (click to show/hide)

Okay, this is like, really, really late of a response to this (like over 10 pages ago), but seeing how I just got around to watching this and this bugged me enough that I looked it up I figured I'd post it here. Apparently ending things with "poi" is used as a comparison modifier (child->childlike, for example) and so is basically being used the same as the valley girl accent uses the word "like". ("Like, like, totally yeah".)

Just in case anyone hasn't looked it up in the last week.

[Furtuka]

I've heard it was given to her as part of a reference to something that happened with her actual ship counterpart, but I can't quite recall the details. Something about something confusing happening in her last battle or something?

[Furtuka]

*Frumple please disregard everything I said regarding my attempts at explaining the setting of G-Reco, with each episode its looking like I got a lot of that wrong and probably aggravated the issue rather than fixing it.

Spoiler: Anyways (click to show/hide)

today's episode felt really short for some reason. I guess because of how the battle was cut short by Rockpie calling everyone out on how their fighting and gambit pile-up overload was ridiculous and is gonna mess up the photon battery supply if they keep doing it while the Kashiba Mikoshi's in dock. Also it looks like Aida's trying to make herself more useful. She's shown herself to be better at leading rather than piloting in recent episodes, but something tells me she might be getting a better suit at some point soon. The main part of this episode was really odd honestly. I'm still not sure what was going on with Noredo this week. However the scene where she's told to go into political studies instead of being a nurse and the bit where everyone works together to clean up makes me think Tomino came up with the idea for this episode pretty early considering his obsession with the next generation being the only ones capable of fixing the predecessors mistakes, and how part of the shows inspiration was his dissapointment at how the cleanup of the Fukushima incident was handled.

Oh yeah and by the way the G-Self HAS A GODDAMN SELF DESTRUCT NUKE HIDDEN IN IT AND THATS PART OF WHY CUMPA HAS BEEN TRYING TO GET A HOLD OF IT THIS WHOLE TIME SO THAT THE RAYHUNTON FACTION'S FOOLISHNESS DOESN'T BLOW EVERYONE UP ...well that and also because its the most advanced MS Towasanga's produced so far BUT STILL

Spoiler: Recently revealed upcoming MS (click to show/hide)

and finally

Spoiler: PLASMA CLAW (click to show/hide)

[Hawkfrost]

Oh boy oh boy oh boy.

Episode 3 of KanColle just aired. I guess we know what direction the show is going now.

Spoiler: Like, actual spoilers (click to show/hide)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So, we all going to take bets on the likely "twist" that that girl will reappear as a turned-enemy later?