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[Reelya]

BTW for your viewing pleasure, a review of Best Anime: Chargeman Ken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uczvIKDcnS4

EDIT: or Chargeman Ken in one minute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9vlqMwRUIg

[IronyOwl]

What did I just watch and dare I watch it myself.

[Reelya]

It's the hairs and the fingers that get me the most in that anime.

[scriver]

BTW for your viewing pleasure, a review of Best Anime: Chargeman Ken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uczvIKDcnS4

At about 2:56, 2:57 into the video, did I retroactively come upon a reference in My Superhero Academidoria?

[Reelya]

Someone linked a youtube vid in a chat elsewhere, and it turned out to be a concert / live event for an idol anime called Lapis Re:Lights, which I'm guessing is the latest Love Live style idol anime. What was interesting was that it was a livestream, so that's the first time I saw anything like that when it was being streamed in realtime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlSrjMjgwRc
A little too bubblegum pop for me, i prefer the chunkier stuff in Symphogear.

Lapis Re:LiGHTs also sounds kind of soulless. It's one of those "mixed media projects" where it's a mobile game, manga, light novels, concerts, CDs etc etc etc all launched in rapid succession to try and bootstrap a franchise out of nothing. Unlike Love Live which follows 9 girls in a pop group, Lapis Re:LiGHTs ups the ante by having 7 separate pop groups (wikipedia) ranging from two members up to five in the main group. You can just feel the marketing potential dripping out of ever pore here.

[MCreeper]

MCreeper casts "identify girl".

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yep, those are pantaloons. With Boots.

Got an anime mod for Shogun 2 (bad models, no twinkie!) and wonder what girls author put in as faction leaders. In order:

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Date
Hattori (also ninja)
Hojo
Ikko-ikki
Mori
Otomo
Takeda
Tokugawa
Uesugi
Matuke (agent)

There i also Oda (Nobuna ) and Shimazu (Saber).

[Frumple]

Well, some of them are from porn. I recognize at least two (the ones with green backgrounds) from Sengoku Rance, I'm pretty sure. I'd confirm but I'm currently on lunch break in a public library and ain't gon' trawl through friggin' h-game nonsense right now

[Reelya]

That would make sense, since presumably that game's set during the Sengoku period, so those characters are in fact meant as stand-ins for the various characters. Is that Oda Nobuna the same as the one in the anime Oda Nobuna no Yabou? I was thinking she might be, and hearing that the other characters are from a game set in that period (which is a wargame too) made me think she would be.

[MCreeper]

She is. Also found that ninja is Guemon Hachisuka from same, and the last one is Noel from Blazblue. And Date is Date. From Nobuna. Who knew.  Seagirl remains, i guess.
EDIT: Forgot Chosokabe, but i guess she is with other green ones.

[Frumple]

Yeah, all those green background ones are from Rance. Including the one posted after. The Uesugi actually appears to be matched up, but the rest aren't. If you care enough to go looking for a H-game's roster to see for yourself, there's apparently anime character database sites that have the portraits more or less clean (honestly looks a lot like your mod might have straight lifted them from the first site I found, really), but I can't be arsed to link what will probably be your first results from "sengoku rance characters".

[Reelya]

BTW there's cosplaying, then there's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCd395Conck&list=WL&index=4

[scriver]

BTW there's cosplaying, then there's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCd395Conck&list=WL&index=4

Did she win? She deserves to win

[JoshuaFH]

I was browsing through Netflix and happened on BNA (Brand New Animal) and from just watching it for a second, I thought "This is Kill la Kill... but it's not."

To give a short review, BNA is a great watch, it really typifies everything you'd love about a Trigger production. It just isn't as good as many previous Trigger works.

It's about a world where there's humans and beastmen, which are animal people, and the beastmen are ruthlessly discriminated against by the ruthlessly racist humans of the world. The beastmen are forced into their own self-governed city, and their position in the world is rocky at best. The whole plot, as you can guess, is a very blunt take on modern race relations; but I wouldn't consider the show to be a good metaphor in this respect, so I wouldn't judge it in that regard.

The main character, Michiru, is a human girl that has turned into a tanuki beastman and now has to suffer the same racism that they experience. She goes to the Beastman city and has to make a new life there. She immediately befriends Shirou, who is a questionably moral, and highly wrathful, vigilante of justice in the city. From this point she is hurtled into a series of events, which segue into one another very quickly (as you'd expect from a Trigger production), and Michiru uncovers more and more beast powers as a coincidental side effect of her adventures.

I won't spoil anything, but I thought that the show's largest failing was that it was simply too short. BNA progresses along its plot as quickly as Kill La Kill did, but it's half as long; so at episode 12, it's around the point that Kill La Kill is ramping the stakes up to new heights, whereas BNA is just ending. On the one hand, the opportunity to completely reuse KLK's plot structure was there, and you can't blame them for not wanting to just copy the same dramatic ups-and-downs that KLK used; but on the other hand, I'd have loved it if they did cause it KLK was really good and I loved it.

I'm not saying it should have copied KLK, but I am saying that the plot had a lot of potential to ramp up in any number of directions, but it just didn't, which I found kind of weird for Trigger, who love ramping shit up to absurd degrees. I was really fond of the characters too, it's a shame that their story just ends right at the point where it was getting really good.

I feel another re-watching of Kill La Kill is necessary, I just feel so blue balled by BNA.

[Reelya]

I was looking up some tracks to put on my mp3 player and one of them was the 2nd OP for the anime Kakumei Valvrave: very schocky but entertaining in the same way as Code Geass, since it was in fact written by the same person and has a number of similarities. The 2nd OP is the best thing in the show so looking for new songs I thought of that one to add.

Anyway, recently I've been getting into the singer Nana Mizuki (best known in anime from Symphogear: she voices Tsubasa and does the opening songs). So when I checked out the song I was looking for, it turns out that's that was by Nana Mizuki as well (as a guest vocalist). So you ever have that thing where you liked a song, and years later got into some singer or band, only to later discover that other song you remembered was also by the same person?

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av38440246/

[MCreeper]

Got a sick urge to watch some sick magical girl style anime and thought that Oda Nobuna would fit the bill. But then i look at the cover and here he is: shit-haired, turd-faced non-entity. And then i open the video and lo, it's the worst one. And then i reconsidered my newb's classification of Ordinary Japaneaea Schoolboys to add the fourth one: "Hero", "An Hero", "Fuck the World" (although i didn't see one myself), "Pissfaggot Masochist". At least those seem to have gender-swapped versions. And no, i will not cease spewing pofanity at this decent forum if it will prevent me from making a reference.  Eh, Kill la Kill, here i come.
EDIT: Shit, no. Too sick. Damn it, two google check fails in a row. First, surprise main character that is revolting, second, everything present on screen at any time except main character i very deliberately revolting, both times i had no idea about that before i opened the video.