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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #20535 on: December 24, 2014, 09:21:00 pm »

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... thing I've been noting, though, is I'm doubtful the show has actually, well... shown that.
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... all that said, there's still plenty of completely ridiculous stuff going on in Ep 11. Omnom Foureyes (... are the food people ever going to actually be a substantial plot point?) pausing to pose and style his hair was just beautiful. Supposedly ace pilots continuing to do that bughumping crazy "let's idle down, open our cockpits, and have a chat in the middle of a raging dogfight" thing. Sweet mother of hell they just flew out of their machines to have a slap fight in the middle of space, while shit explodes all around them. Teenagers ;_;

Though I'm not sure what excuse their trainer-dude had for trying to kick the pilot instead of the enemy machine :-\

Miss Nepotism got a second hit! Against an immobile target within spitting distance! And still fails to make a combat kill, ahaha! Sweet zeus aida you suck. And not like the SUCers. Well, maybe like the SUCers. They've seemed generally incompetent, too.

Ooh, there's that mention of the curse thing. Sorta'. No indication of it having anything to do with SUCism, heh. I guess it might be implied if you think hairboy and horohumper are SUCers, but... I can't really recall any mention or indication of that :P

Anywaaaay. On to twelve.

E: Oh, also that piano-etc. bit that kicked in around the, uh... 11 minute? 15 minute? Somewhere in there. Mark. Was pretty nice.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #20536 on: December 24, 2014, 09:27:04 pm »

I kinda like how it changes gears so much like 'Yup, dead, this one dead 100% no take backsies" and in fact mentions this very fact with the boss of night raid saying 'No of course there isn't a revival Magical power, why do you think the king made all of those magical weapons in the first place?'
Course, there is a kinda weird
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Also, SAO? Which one is that?
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #20537 on: December 24, 2014, 09:27:52 pm »

Oh Bellri's pretty religious. His mom's part of the capital government after all and they're pretty much the vatican.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #20538 on: December 24, 2014, 09:35:16 pm »

Oh Bellri's pretty religious. His mom's part of the capital government after all and they're pretty much the vatican.
It would be nice if the show had made any physical indication of that. Well, the first bit. And frankly the second bit, too, because I've not noticed a strong connection between the secular (scheduling/repair/capital guard) and religious (space-pope) bits. Hell, even the one CG dude that I can recall specifically mentioned as a SUCer was noted for apparently unusual behavior. If hairboy is religious it's left-field as the blazes, t'me. I've not even noticed anything that would hint the dude is a regular church-goer...

Honestly, the SUCing has felt... kinda' taped on? Coming from a pretty religious area, you tend to get more, y'know... mannerisms and whatnot... when you're dealing with a population that actually has a high instance of faithful. I've not even got a half-hearted religious vibe from... basically anyone. Even the pope has been figurehead-ish :-\

E: Though, yeah, Ep 12 actually seems to be ramping up that facet of things a bit. Mostly out of nowhere, but hey, I'll take it :V
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #20539 on: December 24, 2014, 09:39:27 pm »

I think the religion is mostly built around being a tool to enforce the taboo and keep people from asking questions about the elevator and batteries without that many other aspects. We haven't gotten to the part explaining the fishier bits of the taboos yet.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #20540 on: December 24, 2014, 09:52:55 pm »

I kinda like how it changes gears so much like 'Yup, dead, this one dead 100% no take backsies" and in fact mentions this very fact with the boss of night raid saying 'No of course there isn't a revival Magical power, why do you think the king made all of those magical weapons in the first place?'
Course, there is a kinda weird
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Also, SAO? Which one is that?

Sword Art Online. The plot is different, but both are action/harems with colorful moe art style and lots of over the top battles. I think they'd appeal to similar viewers.

Akame ga Kill heavily overplays the
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #20541 on: December 24, 2014, 10:13:30 pm »

Someone put a bunny on hairboy's spacesuit :3

Also oh gods alive I just realized they're apparently putting faith in Aida the Unaiming's aim. AHAHAHAHA "She's not particular capable" ahahahahahahahahahahaahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Also trackball eyes are pretty amusing.

oh sweet hell that long range missile pose. Why. wHy. WHY. "Fear the explosive power of my mecha-taint!" ;_;

On the other hand, go Omnom. DANCE THE LASER DANCE OF DEATH, WHEEEEE

I love how ponytail's just like, "Shit, why did you bring her."

Actually, the upgraded elk balls has a pretty neat fighting style. It's still completely ridiculous and vaguely obscene, but it's pretty neat. Also that Vayeate looking machine-gun thing's kinda' alright.

"These aren't the actions of human beings!" But, uh. Sure, we can totally go in through the bottom. Let's have our friend trick them into letting us in :3
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*facepalms* Potential saboteurs possibly trojan horsing their way into our occupied space station. Eh, let's just let half of them (including the possibly-faking amnesiac who has displayed disturbing physical capability) run around without escort or oversight. Why do you all suck so, G-Reco.

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On to ep 13!

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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #20542 on: December 24, 2014, 10:17:44 pm »

Yhea, the 'Harem' parts are weirdest parts of it for me, I mostly liked the fight scenes and the 'anyone can die' thing of it, mostly because that was about the first one with that kinda setup, so it had a lot more impact for me.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #20543 on: December 24, 2014, 11:01:51 pm »

... ep 13's been hella' chill so far. Only vaguely interesting fluff was a background conversation that got cutoff part way. Pooh. Well, maybe that one-off comment by the space people but it was so one-off who the hell actually knows?

Did notice a couple things -- finally clicked what that upgraded elf balls' head looks like. Like something from the Megaman X series! Not complaining, I've always liked the style. Also the bit in the 14th minute totally looks like an SRW sortie, which is kinda' amusing. Then there was some half-arsed fire exchange, but eh.

... space napoleon. Oh dear. Worst part of it is his hairstyle, especially after the persistent joke I've been making about the Bullocks.

And hey, we might actually start to find out stuff! Like. Next episode.

...

Well, that's it for the night, and G-Reco so far, I think. It's... kinda' fun. B-movie style fun, mostly, so far, but fun.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #20544 on: December 25, 2014, 12:41:07 am »

Good to know you're enjoying it at least.

I feel a little guilty about not telling anyone other than Guni about Tomino's comments regarding the tone and target audience (that's it its meant to be an adventure story targeted towards children and not made with the current generation of gundam fans in mind. Some think he didn't even intend for it to have the gundam brand at first and was told to by Bandai. Though he did always intend for it to be set after the Universal Century went kablooey). Maybe it would have helped put in a mindset more suited to enjoying the show from the start or something. Ah well probably wouldn't change things that much. I'm just being fussy
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #20545 on: December 25, 2014, 01:06:21 am »

Finished Yuru Yuri. 10/10 for a slice of life comedy. Was fun. Was cute. Would recommend to anyone who likes slice of life shows with no plot outside of "cute girls do things and comedy ensues."

On an entirely different subject, I feel like watching sci-fi. Anyone got any recommendations for an anime with a "gritty" sci-fi setting, similar to Aliens or Starship Troopers or something?
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #20546 on: December 25, 2014, 12:19:32 pm »

Finished Yuru Yuri. 10/10 for a slice of life comedy. Was fun. Was cute. Would recommend to anyone who likes slice of life shows with no plot outside of "cute girls do things and comedy ensues."

On an entirely different subject, I feel like watching sci-fi. Anyone got any recommendations for an anime with a "gritty" sci-fi setting, similar to Aliens or Starship Troopers or something?
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #20547 on: December 25, 2014, 08:21:36 pm »

Terra ForMars does qualify but it is also bad and racist so I don't think I can recommend it.
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« Reply #20548 on: December 25, 2014, 11:59:47 pm »

Terra ForMars does qualify but it is also bad and racist so I don't think I can recommend it.
Lol he didn't ask for quality :P such a terrible series.

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« Reply #20549 on: December 26, 2014, 12:25:15 am »

Terra ForMars does qualify but it is also bad and racist so I don't think I can recommend it.
Lol he didn't ask for quality :P such a terrible series.
I thought quality was implied by the whole "asking for recommendations" thing. why would you recommend stuff you think is bad

I watched 3 episodes of Terraformars so far. Quality is kinda eh, and there seems to be more emphasis on the whole "superhuman surgery powers" aspect of sci-fi combat rather than "spehss mahreens dakka dakka dakka" that I like in my hard sci-fi. The bugs are silly. The art quality seems subpar at points. And so far the censoring of gore on Crunchyroll is silly. Blatant black bars kinda ruins the viewing experience. Have yet to see any blatantly offensive racism, Leafsnail, but I'm only 3 episodes in.

...it occurred to me, the series plays like a B-movie.
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