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[Gentlefish]

Adorf is currently watching PMMMMMM, episode 5.

"[04:17.59] <adwarf> I'm going to go ahead and guess that its this episode that Madoka becomes a PM"
You poor, deluded bastard.

Oh my god the feels. God Speed.

[TamerVirus]

Prime Minister Madoka? Now that's a concept I can get behind!

[Leafsnail]

They released the prologue ("episode 0") of UBW last week.  It's interesting, there's a lot of things that make more sense on a second go-through.  I have a feeling first-time viewers could be bored by all the talking though, at least the fight is good.

By the way does anyone want to read an excerpt from an interview with Nasu on female characters in moe shows and his own stuff?  It's a lot more honest and self-reflective than I expected it to be.

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(On whether K-ON! is an example of having good female characters)

Nasu: No, instead of female superiority, thats's just absence of men. It looks like girls are being prioritized, but if men don't appear to begin with, it's like nothing more than building a farm where there can be no antagonism. In that sense, women become more like mascots... it might mean looking down on them. Not by the creators, but by the audience. Speaking of my own works, people often tell me "Nasu-san, you really appreciate women's rights, because you write stories with strong girls in them", and I agreed too, but lately I started thinking that might not be the case. In Tsukihime and in Fate, the heroines Arcueid and Saber are the ones fighting on the front lines and the protagonists are behind them. In Kara no Kyoukai, the fighting is always left to the heroine Ryougi Shiki, and the protagonist Kokutou Mikiya becomes just the man who feeds the heroine. That composition is actually very male chauvinistic. When you think about physical strength and emotional strength, the latter is more difficult to achieve. Anyone can be strong if they pick up a weapon, but you can't become mentally strong just by obtaining a thing. In the works of Nasu Kinoko, strength in battle is possessed by the heroines, and the male characters symbolize emotional strength. When I noticed this, I felt like even I'm stuck in my ways in some respects. For example Arcueid is said to be the strongest in the world of Type-Moon, but at the same time because she's in love with Shiki she tends to give in to what he says. At those times the man is the one put in a superior position. If it were truly even, Arcueid could use her superfluous power to send Shiki flying. Like "you two-timing bastard!"

I'd want a truly powerful heroine to have the emotional specs to match. Rin and Saber and Arcueid aren't just dumb heroines. But, I can't say that the way the protagonists who only have emotional strength teach something to these perfect heroines doesn't look like a metaphor for how men win out in real society. If we're aiming for an even world, we shouldn't erase men like in K-On! or push the weakness of falling in love solely on the heroines, we should consider an equal relation.

(the original source seems to be down, but it's cited quite a bit in Japanse)

[Darvi]

I think episode 6 broke adorf.

[Gentlefish]

I think episode 6 broke adorf.

Quotes?

[adwarf]

I believe someone else is on the quote, but I must say this. QB CREEPIEST CREEPER >:I

[Darvi]

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[05:58.04] <adwarf> ... wow
[05:58.12] <adwarf> Holy, what, I
[05:58.13] <adwarf> uh
[05:58.16] <__Darvi__> You finished the episode?
[05:58.19] <adwarf> give me a bit to process what just happened
[05:58.42] <adwarf> Okay
[05:58.46] * Duckling pats adwarf
[05:58.47] <adwarf> So i think I've processed it
[05:58.57] <adwarf> QB is basically Satan
[05:59.01] <adwarf> This explains so much
[05:59.18] <Duckling> So it turns our Qbert is even more evil than you thought he was
[05:59.24] <Duckling> which was already a lot
[05:59.28] <adwarf> Also explains why they can suddenly get the shit beat out of them and live
[05:59.53] <__Darvi__> Mhm.
[05:59.58] <adwarf> I think I'll wait to watch more for tomorrow :I

[Furtuka]

I have made a deal with my slice of life loving friend that I shall watch the entire Monogatari series if he watches Gundam War in the Pocket and Gundam 00. Any preparations should I be making

[GreatJustice]

Get some popcorn, sit in your most comfy chair, and prepare for a lot of clever dialogue. I wouldn't really call Monogatari "slice of life", but it does keep most of the action contained to about 10% of the show. It is also one of the few anime series where philosophical arguments are made, and they are quite often actually meaningful and relevant in some way to my undeveloped Western mind (as opposed to most anime series, which, when they delve into anything deep, tend to either go for a shallow "POWER OF FRIENDSHIP CONQUERS ALL, WAR IS BAD, TEAMWORK IS GOOD" message or else a completely incomprehensible message). At any rate, I'm generally not a "slice of life" kinda guy, but I really like the Monogatari series for what it's worth.

[JoshuaFH]

Oreimo

[Sinistar]

I have made a deal with my slice of life loving friend that I shall watch the entire Monogatari series if he watches Gundam War in the Pocket and Gundam 00. Any preparations should I be making

Also, procure a baseball bat. Or a metal rod. Or just something long and hard so you can proceed to beat the crap out of him if he finds War in a Pocket to NOT be good.

[Nienhaus]

Oreimo

[RekkaAtsuma]

Speaking of 00 I finally sat down and crammed it.
I don't know Gundam well enough to say it was a good Gundam show, but I liked it. Even with all of my liked characters dying, lol. So yeah it's good enough to get a positive note from me.
Luckily, my favorite two characters survived, so yay!

I have to say it felt like a genuine super robot series after a certain point, that may be why I liked it.
(That And it had a team of Mecha instead of just one and one of said Mecha on that team gets uber bonuses because it transforms!)

[Flying Dice]

It was a better spiritual successor to Wing than SEED was to MSG, at any rate, at least as I remember it. Magic space whales aside.

[Carnwennan]

So, how bout that Ultimate Blade Works?

I thought it doesn't air for another week or so?

Either it started last week, or Hulu has attained time travel and decided to use it for the most frivolous of schemes.

There's an Episode 0! It's basically the prologue from the VN, but well worth the watch if only for the Lancer/ Archer fight- I must have watched that like 6 times now.

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I love the sound effect played when Archer just F**KING DISAPPEARS. The whole thing feels amaaaazing.

I also really, really like the character designs. I was a bit put off by the really pointy chins in some artwork, but it's nice. Characters don't seem to have overly large eyes like I felt they did in F/Z either (overly large for animu anyway)