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[Flying Dice]

Word is that in addition to R3 and the movies they're also going to release a Code Geass spinoff series based on an AU even more extreme than the one with Guyver Nunnally. It's going to focus on a young, ignorant prince banished by his distant, delusional father, only it's not Lelouch. Kid apparently is raised in extreme wealth and privilege, goes through some major trauma at a young age because of the hidden barbs of his father's repugnant personal philosophy, resurfaces in the press years later, and then kills his father in the seat of his power to take the throne for himself.

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[IronyOwl]

Alright, I lol'd.

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I wonder if The Legend of Koizumi is still going, and if it'll have anything to say about recent developments if so.

[Cruxador]

This is a great season if you like cute girls doing cute things, which I do. KyoAni, Doga Kobo, Trigger, and JC Staff all on deck. Demi-chan is good too, although it's not exactly the same thing since it has a very attractive major male character.

Seems a bit of a dead season outside of that genre, but that's to be expected for winter.

[Tack]

Finally decided to get off my butt and watch K-ON.
Took forever to find it though, the license in Oz got bought so a lot of sites had to take it down so Madman could get their profits.

First impression, is it basically seems like a better drawn, more wishy-washy Beck.
... Okay maybe Beck is the only other music anime I've ever seen.

[Reelya]

You don't watch K-On for the music, it's a cute girls x things show, with a "music" theme.

For other music-related animes, try Detroit Metal City, Nana, Nodame Cantabile and Sakamichi no Apollon. Or if the cute girls is more your thing (e.g. you want more K-On type stuff), Hibiki Euphonium and/or Love Live.

[Oneir]

While the anime I confused LWA with... had everyone be bewildered and constantly moan about how this girl WHO SAW HER MOTHER COMMIT SUICIDE (and blame her for it, may I add) for some reason isn't happy go lucky not even a month after it occurred. All the children finding her totally weird, adults constantly bemoaning how she isn't acting lady like. She getting betrayed and ending up in slavery. Yet this is still what I considered on the cusp a sort of "Lesser Jerk World".
-Though to admit that might be because everyone is a total jerk to her... UNTIL she meets the man in her life... then suddenly she is surrounded by nice people.

Ah, yeah. Mahoutsukai no Yome / Ancient Magus Bride is a weird one. If you overlook the...absolute uncomfortable weirdness...of an inhuman wizard buying a slave to "marry" (albeit in a kind of asexual arrangement?), it's an interesting story.

I was going to say there was handwaving about how her magical weirdness caused all the terrible things in her past, but I don't actually remember if they bother with that? She just gets stuck with the jerk people and spirits and things that want to eat her.

[Tack]

You don't watch K-On for the music, it's a cute girls x things show, with a "music" theme.

Good to know, I'll keep that in mind.
Not really a fan of the 'cute girls and X' genre. I think Non-non biyori is the only one I've ever seen, and I didn't get through it.
Unless Nichijou counts. I don't think Nichijou counts.

[Neonivek]

I was going to say there was handwaving about how her magical weirdness caused all the terrible things in her past, but I don't actually remember if they bother with that? She just gets stuck with the jerk people and spirits and things that want to eat her.

There is some implication... but it is also equally likely that magical weirdness is a very ordinary part of everyday life and only she can see it.

It is a lot like Yokai Watch in that respect... a game and anime with impressive unfortunate implication.

[Cruxador]

While the anime I confused LWA with... had everyone be bewildered and constantly moan about how this girl WHO SAW HER MOTHER COMMIT SUICIDE (and blame her for it, may I add) for some reason isn't happy go lucky not even a month after it occurred. All the children finding her totally weird, adults constantly bemoaning how she isn't acting lady like. She getting betrayed and ending up in slavery. Yet this is still what I considered on the cusp a sort of "Lesser Jerk World".
-Though to admit that might be because everyone is a total jerk to her... UNTIL she meets the man in her life... then suddenly she is surrounded by nice people.

Ah, yeah. Mahoutsukai no Yome / Ancient Magus Bride is a weird one. If you overlook the...absolute uncomfortable weirdness...of an inhuman wizard buying a slave to "marry" (albeit in a kind of asexual arrangement?), it's an interesting story.

I was going to say there was handwaving about how her magical weirdness caused all the terrible things in her past, but I don't actually remember if they bother with that? She just gets stuck with the jerk people and spirits and things that want to eat her.

I think it's briefly mentioned in the manga, but the OVA trilogy focuses on it.

[Reelya]

Ah, yeah. Mahoutsukai no Yome / Ancient Magus Bride is a weird one. If you overlook the...absolute uncomfortable weirdness...of an inhuman wizard buying a slave to "marry" (albeit in a kind of asexual arrangement?), it's an interesting story.

Well that's what Beauty and the Beast is all about as well, really. Also a staple of fairy tales in general.

[Neonivek]

Ah, yeah. Mahoutsukai no Yome / Ancient Magus Bride is a weird one. If you overlook the...absolute uncomfortable weirdness...of an inhuman wizard buying a slave to "marry" (albeit in a kind of asexual arrangement?), it's an interesting story.

Well that's what Beauty and the Beast is all about as well, really. Also a staple of fairy tales in general.

Well... sort of.

Usually there is a bit more then just the Beast being like... the perfect guy and giving you everything you want... and there being like no problems.

Well unless he was going to kill you.

The Beast in Beauty and the Beast, typically had a FEW hang ups...

If anything the story reminds me of Eros and Psyche... just without the conflict of understandable suspicion.

[Cruxador]

Ah, yeah. Mahoutsukai no Yome / Ancient Magus Bride is a weird one. If you overlook the...absolute uncomfortable weirdness...of an inhuman wizard buying a slave to "marry" (albeit in a kind of asexual arrangement?), it's an interesting story.

Well that's what Beauty and the Beast is all about as well, really. Also a staple of fairy tales in general.

Well... sort of.

Usually there is a bit more then just the Beast being like... the perfect guy and giving you everything you want... and there being like no problems.

There's definitely problems in Mahoutsukai no Yome though. Huge and constant problems. They're just not as obvious as literally confining her to his house, he only does it figuratively, and she helps him do it. Beauty and the Beast's overt problems aren't an accurate metaphor for marriage any more, so Mahoutsukai does it differently. Sort of like how first wave feminism isn't really relevant any more, so modern feminists are different. And I say "sort of like" but that's not really a simile so much as the exact same thing.

[Pancaek]

Alright, I lol'd.

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I wonder if The Legend of Koizumi is still going, and if it'll have anything to say about recent developments if so.

Did they ever continue translating LoK? I read up to the ending of the original arc, with Hitler on his moon base playing mahjong against Koizumi, Rommel throwing a spanner in the works, Hitler going super Aryan and summoning two supernatural hitlerjugend and Koizumi's final rising sun at the end which kills Hitler and his soul gets taken to the afterlife by Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt. There was a new arc after that, but the guy who translated it quit working on it. Man, that manga sure was something else.

Fakeedit: I just checked myself and it seems someone did continue translating it. Though I'm sure nothing will ever top Mahjong against Hitler, I'm excited nonetheless.

[Jopax]

I'm sad there wasn't more of it in anime form, the handful of episodes that came out were top-notch comedy gold, never was much of a manga reader, especially in the electronic form.

[Pancaek]

yeah, the ova's were pretty dang good.