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[Reelya]

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I'll hold that the Spice and Wolf economics is more realistic than what sounds like the almost game-show format of C where he has "sold his future" and has to "perform in weekly tournaments called 'deals' to win back his future."

Hell, the "deals" sound like they involve pokemon-style creatures called "assets" which fight along side the "entre" (entrepeneur) who put his "future" up as collateral.

The "deal" is described as:

A battle between Entres and their Assets. Each Deal lasts 666 seconds (11 minutes, 6 seconds), with hits and damage affecting how much money is gained or lost. Dealers use their money to summon their Assets' attacks, or perform "Direct" attacks by creating an energy blade to confront their enemies by themselves. Each Entre is obliged to take part on a Deal once per week but can avoid taking part on one by paying half of his/her fortune.

It's pokemon but with some finance terminology tacked on top. You can actually learn about some economics with Spice and Wolf. C is based on economics the way spiderman is based on Arachnology (study of spiders).

[sluissa]

You can actually learn about some economics from 700-1000 years ago with Spice and Wolf.

Fixed. Good show, but economics have changed quite a bit since we stopped using horse carts and gold/silver coinage.

I would recommend Hyouka for current season anime.

[Reelya]

I'd still contend that it's more applicable than C as a lesson on trading. Some of the trading tricks are still relevant (dodgy scales being one example).

Also the haggling tricks may be declined in the west, but it's alive and well if you went to a market anywhere in the third world. And they still use horse and cart in many places.

[Neonivek]

I am find Kenshin to be sort of odd

In that it is actually a anime that doesn't waste a lot of time, unlike almost all the others I seen that can have nothing happen and call it an episode. There were several points I almost left because I thought an episode was over but it was only at the halfway mark.

It actually uses its time well and usually has a good fight.

If Prince of Tennis was more like that and actually shown me Tennis matches and not a series of stills (Ohh boy does Prince of Tennis abuse those action still shots.) I would have loved it a lot more.

Kenshin the anime is still rather harsh to its female protagonists though... but it is an anime where being a woman is practically a disability (in fact... One episode outright admitted that being a woman makes you weak... and actually didn't try to contradict it)

[Kobold Troubadour]

Hmm...War, Economics and useless meat ~YAY~

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Maoyuu Maou Yuusha is interesting eh?

[Neonivek]

It is rather interesting.

Being that it is a fantastical world filled with demons, gods, and spirits and yet it is almost completely background detail because everything that happens could have happened normally. Explanations are not that of grand spells but of perfectly natural causes.

This is started to feel like the Japanese equivilant of shows like Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

[ToonyMan]

Spoiler: Muv-Luv Alternative Episode 9 - Latter (click to show/hide)

Hooboy.  We're rocking in for a bumpy ride.

And we do indeed find out what Yuuko-sensei's big plan is.

Anyway onwards:


The BETA that attacked us were cut down in numbers as they retreated but 20% still successfully made it back to H20.  Rats.



We get our probably last mission from Yuuko-sensei here.  A-01 is quite small now.

The biggest reveal of course being how the Hives actually work and the fact destroying the "core" of the Original Hive appears to be what we'll have to do.

Otherwise the BETA will absolutely destroy us.  Thanks to knowing how the Hives work now unless we destroy H01 then every BETA on Earth is gonna know every damn thing about us and will possibly create G weapons of their own, fuck.


It's a cool plan at least.  I look forward to see what goes wrong.

I still feel like we're sorely lacking something...


The mission we're doing was dubbed Operation Cherry Blossom while Operation Trident is in case we fail...it's pretty much Alternative V so we need to get our shit straight.


Lots of incoming Sumika CGs...she is suppose to be the main heroine after all. (sorry Meiya)


This CG makes me realize how amazing Takeru's appearance has changed.  I recall back in Extra or even Unlimited he felt like a bumbling doofus (though he still is sometimes) however his contenance just feels mature and hardened.  What a good soldier you.

Here's a similar positioned CG from Extra:

Progress.


We do need to make up for the utter lack of Sumika until Ep8 after all.


While Munakata and Kazama were sent to a hospital Akane managed to stay on the base with her injuries.  Kind of nice.

I also noticed that Chizuru definitely feels off.  Ever since the 12-5 incident something has definitely been off with her...and it's kind of better I think.  Her voice is so shaaaky.


We manage to all get the Honor Guard's mecha and Kasumi will be going out on the mission with us this time.

Oh I except everybody to die, yes.  Takemikazuchi look awesome I think too so yay.


I AM SO HAPPY LOOK AT MY GLEAMING SMILE


This totally took me back to Extra, product placemeeent.


...And we end with a nice fully animated scene.  Marimo-chaaaan  ;_;


LET'S TAKE THAT FUCKING ORIGNIAL HIVE YEEEEEEAH

As a final wish I do want something kind of amazing.  A simple "we saved humanity from the BETA on Earth!" won't cut it for me.  The BETA are also on the Moon and Mars after all.  My hopes are for just anything crazy awesome that involves time shit and international political intrigue.

Did Episode 9 live up to my expectations?

Kind of.

The action was great, being the first real BETA fights, but I still wish they focused more on the international political intrigue!!!  I feel like Episode 6 was the only one that did that successfully, darn.

ON TO THE OPERATION CHERRY BLOSSOM ARC

By my predictions this is going to be long as fuck.

Let's GET IT ON

[Neonivek]

FINALLY!

The first female victory over a named character. It sure took long enough.

Mind you there have been a lot of fights... but they always end with the woman losing, usually embarassingly. This is actually the first real victory.

[Techhead]

I'll hold that the Spice and Wolf economics is more realistic than what sounds like the almost game-show format of C where he has "sold his future" and has to "perform in weekly tournaments called 'deals' to win back his future."

Hell, the "deals" sound like they involve pokemon-style creatures called "assets" which fight along side the "entre" (entrepeneur) who put his "future" up as collateral.

The "deal" is described as:

A battle between Entres and their Assets. Each Deal lasts 666 seconds (11 minutes, 6 seconds), with hits and damage affecting how much money is gained or lost. Dealers use their money to summon their Assets' attacks, or perform "Direct" attacks by creating an energy blade to confront their enemies by themselves. Each Entre is obliged to take part on a Deal once per week but can avoid taking part on one by paying half of his/her fortune.

It's pokemon but with some finance terminology tacked on top. You can actually learn about some economics with Spice and Wolf. C is based on economics the way spiderman is based on Arachnology (study of spiders).

Spice and Wolf is absolutely more realistic. The condition [C] satisfies was an anime based on economics, not an anime with a sound footing in it.

[Neonivek]

That description however sounds less like a anime on economics and more of a anime VERY VERY loosely based on buisness... No wait not even. It would be an anime where buisnesses exist and it is about buisnesses fighting eachother for money until they go bankrupt.

Honestly I am not sure it would be a anime based on economics. I guess I would have to see it.

[penguinofhonor]

Holy crap FLCL's dub is horrible. I just saw a clip from it and it could be mistaken for a fandub. It was like they didn't have any voice actors that actually fit the characters that well, so they just went with the closest ones they had.

[ToonyMan]

 

Spoiler: Muv-Luv Alternative Episode 10 (click to show/hide)

FINAL MISSION

The infiltration itself was cut.  I'm not going to complain about that except for the fact we never actually get to see A-01 infiltrate a Hive.  Maybe Age are running out of budget (likely).


Takemikazuchis look so cooool.


Oh fuck that was awesome.

Synchronous S-11s?  Yessss


I never realized how badly Takeru's sprite sticks out.


Age decided it was worth drawing a shit ton of CGs, giving everybody entirely new armored suits, and wasting money on even more fully animated scenes...but I suppose they're going for an explosive finale right?

Right?!


STAB STAB STABS STABS


RRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEERRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUCCCHH

I love all of the new expressions.  For one mission.


IT'S THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE, TENTACLES YAY


Oh hey let's give the players some vague info on the true threat behind the BETA that we won't possibly see ever.


HITEI



These two images are me trying to screencap the fully animated scenes.  It's a terrible blurry mess.  They were nice but they pretty much gave away that

1.  This is the climax...maybe
2.  Meiya is their favorite character



Come on Shirogane kill your last supporting heroine.

Then there's a long 'epilogue' type sequence while I'm scratching my head furiously over what the fuck just happened.


Oh okay.


How come in Alternative I realize I'm in a loop?  Why isn't that the case all the times before...or is it?


And now everybody is dead.



Happy End



...It's not ever over yet folks.

Final Episode - MuvLuv

I can't give a guess what the shit this could even be about.  My exceptions are either complete shit or marvelous masterpiece.

Bullshit sensors tingling...

[Techhead]

That description however sounds less like a anime on economics and more of a anime VERY VERY loosely based on buisness... No wait not even. It would be an anime where buisnesses exist and it is about buisnesses fighting eachother for money until they go bankrupt.

Honestly I am not sure it would be a anime based on economics. I guess I would have to see it.

Well, there is some economics in it, but it's kinda like "What would economies be like if there was a secret world where people gambled on monster battles using money abstractly borrowed against people's futures?"

[Neonivek]

Holy crap FLCL's dub is horrible. I just saw a clip from it and it could be mistaken for a fandub. It was like they didn't have any voice actors that actually fit the characters that well, so they just went with the closest ones they had.

You don't always have to have a voice actor that is close to the anime voice actor so far as they are capable of projecting the character instead.

It is why the Canadian dub of Serena I consider to be better then the Japanese dub in terms of NOT BEING ANNOYING to me. Yet they both do their jobs of telling me her character. Serena's voice is no where close to the high pitch of Usagi but I think they do well.

It is why I consider the English dub of fullmoon wo sagashite to be absolutely garbage. Almost none of the voices properly project the characters involved. Ooshige having a mature soothing voice that never goes frantic? Are they even trying?

As well Fullmoon Wo Sagashite is probably one of the few times I actually outright saw the need for localisation. TRUST me when I say that a name like Wakaoiji REALLY sounds weird in english.

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Don't get me wrong... I am sure FLCL's dub is absolutely dreadful. I just wanted to say that so long as a voice fits a character it is fine even if the voice doesn't fit the original voice of the dub...

DANG IT! a better example would be Goku. Goku's dub voice is completely different then the original one... and I actually prefer it as well.

Don't get me wrong. There is one dub also where the english dub actually makes the main character MORE annoying... HOLY COW Excell Saga.

[ToonyMan]

Spoiler: Muv-Luv Alternative Final Episode (click to show/hide)

Extra HD



It's cool because my very first real Muv-Luv image is the second one.  :3


Lots of fresh CGs in the classroom.


The harem grows as character development weeps.

Also Mikoto is a girl still somehow.


Comedy.


NOWA

It's come full circle.  Final Episode was just Muv-Luv Extra.

...The Takeru I knew to learn and love is completely gone, like his existence is gone.  No one remembers him in the Unlimited/Alternative worlds and in Extra he's his terrible self except with a few loose memories that don't mean too much.

What the fuck.

The ED was the OP for Extra but rearranged, it did sound pretty cool but THAT'S IT?

HOW COME THE MAIN MENU DOESN'T LOOK ANY DIFFERENT?!


WHERE'S MY EXTRA BUTTON?!?!

WHAT

GOD DAMN IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

Uuuuuh what

<3  SAVE IN THE NAME OF TRUE LOVE <3

Okay fuck it I'll give it an 8 I guess...