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Flip Flappers is a currently airing magical girl anime by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, who previously directed episode 5 of the second season of Space Dandy, and served as an animation director on several episodes of Dennou Coil. It's also a show that has a really easily giffable ED. The Cast: Cocona is a quiet young girl with a future full of opportunities, soon to graduate from school. In spite of this, she seems a bit gloomy and indecisive. Papika is a strange, childish girl who appears to be about the same age as Cocona. Unlike Cocona, she doesn't go to school, and she has a rad flying surfboard and a cool flying robot buddy! And also a complete and total lack of care for Cocona's personal space! TT-392 is a robot. He can use a propeller to fly around, and he can tickle people. Don't open his cone. Uexkull, the buffest rabbit And the rest of the characters... So why should I watch this show? It's only the first episode right now and the bizarre structure means there's not a whole lot to talk about plotwise, but if you like the director's style in his episode of Space Dandy, well, you're gonna love the hell out of this show. Plus, there's some real fuckin good animation. The ED alone was animated by the director himself! Is this a reconstruction of magical girl anime? some motherfuckers said this to me as a joke. they're dead now. Now, let's Flip Flapping!!! (tn: "let's flip flapping" in this context means "let's talk about the cool and promising show flip flappers") The Colonel fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Oct 24, 2016 |
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I hope most of this show is just little adventures in strange settings with bare amounts of plot
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 03:43 |
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Parallax posted:I hope most of this show is just little adventures in strange settings with bare amounts of plot it seems like different excursions into Pure Illusion will be themed after fairy tales? since this time was Hansel and Gretel
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 03:46 |
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Space Flower posted:it seems like different excursions into Pure Illusion will be themed after fairy tales? since this time was Hansel and Gretel Hm. Was it? Aside from Cocona leaving a trail of candy for all of 30 seconds I don't see the connection.
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 03:47 |
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Space Flower posted:it seems like different excursions into Pure Illusion will be themed after fairy tales? since this time was Hansel and Gretel Pretty
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 03:48 |
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Parallax posted:I hope most of this show is just little adventures in strange settings with bare amounts of plot The after credits scene is an unfortunate omen of plot to come
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 03:50 |
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devtesla posted:The after credits scene is an unfortunate omen of plot to come If the plot goes to the insane places that scene implies, I'll take it.
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 03:53 |
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It's fine, the preview clearly showed Cocona in school again. Curious about all those other plot elements hinted at in the artwork and the OP anyways.
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 03:54 |
all the teases of an overarching plot in ep1 were good, so i hope it spins those into something good.
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 03:57 |
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Spiritus Nox posted:Hm. Was it? Aside from Cocona leaving a trail of candy for all of 30 seconds I don't see the connection. Flip Flappers drawing from the story is also a big possibility. I just thought that the different settings we see could've been from different inspirations.
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 04:03 |
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Something nobody's commented on yet: on a rewatch, I registered that the lady in Cocona's dream immediately after the OP is that optical illusion where the person is drawn so that they can look like either a maiden looking over her far shoulder or a crone looking slightly downwards depending on how you look at it. Interesting.
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 04:15 |
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that doesn't really work when you can see the shirt
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 04:21 |
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More assorted thoughts from the rewatch: The wishing jewel smells like Cocona, according to Papika. Wonder if that's a matter of Cocona smelling of magic (or whatever) or of the Jewel smelling like whatever you wish for? I like how Cocona never calls Papika by name until she's scared Papika's dead. That was rather sweet. Not sure what Cocona's deal is going to be with those glasses. She clearly doesn't need them to see, and she doesn't wear them often enough for them to be a vanity thing. So why put them on when she does? A momento from some dead parent or something seems too cliche, and at any rate the moments where she puts them on don't immediately appear to be tremendously sentimental. What was that glow on Cocona's thigh when she went all Mahou Shoujo? Was that the wishing jewel? Some sort of rune? Why her thigh specifically? I'm going to be generous and assume that it wasn't coming from, er, upriver. It's far too early to be married to this sentiment, of course, but something about our apparent villainous organization rubs me the wrong way as far as storytelling goes - though I can't really put my finger on what it is. The obvious assumption here is that they're letting Papika (and Cocona, her Candidate - whatever that means in practical terms) run around Pure Illusion and gather up fragments of the wishing jewel and then nicking the shards for themselves, which seems straightforward in a way that annoys me more than it feels like it should. Definitely looking forward to more. Spiritus Nox fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Oct 7, 2016 |
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Spiritus Nox posted:What was that glow on Cocona's thigh when she went all Mahou Shoujo? Was that the wishing jewel? Some sort of rune? Why her thigh specifically? I'm going to be generous and assume that it wasn't coming from, er, upriver.
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 04:55 |
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This show seems like it has some vaguely unsettling and/or dark undertones (EG: robo-brain) and I hope we get some more of that. Especially if it's going to be pulling material from Hansel & Gretel or even any of the other Grimm's fairy tales.
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 08:12 |
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i'm pretty sure robo-brain was mostly meant as a gag, if flip flappers gets very serious and dark about anything it's probably going to be character drama
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 08:22 |
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Everything about the shows visual style really clicked for me. The contrast between the two mains also worked well (But it's way too early to really say it'll hold) Curious to see where they'll go with it story wise.
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 08:41 |
when I flip, you flap.
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 14:42 |
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I'm gonna call this FliFla after the name of the animation team. And what a great first ep, lots of show-don't-tell characterization and everything looked cool as hell. Make sure you didn't miss the after-credits scene, everyone!
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 15:39 |
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oh, wow. this is looking really, really pleasant like now i think this is probably the thing i will look forward to most each week
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 20:50 |
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this was weird but the music made me feel happy so i'm going ot keep flapping
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 21:17 |
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I, too, was somewhat surprised when Cocona started glowing from the general groin area. It seemed ... unnecessary.
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 22:51 |
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yes indeed let us talk about how the character designer chose to position the glowy thing on cocona and whether or not it was placed intentionally near the i can't loving finish this sentence
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 23:00 |
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everyone should stop flipping out and start flapping
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 23:11 |
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Futaba Anzu posted:everyone should stop flipping out and start flapping I said a flip flap, The hippie, the happy To the flip, flip flap, and you don't stop, a rock it a kitten fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Oct 7, 2016 |
# ? Oct 7, 2016 23:22 |
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 23:22 |
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a kitten posted:I said a flip flop Close, but...
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 23:25 |
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http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm28823947
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 23:28 |
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If nothing else, it's still the funnest show title to say of the season.
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 23:28 |
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Spiritus Nox posted:Close, but...
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 23:35 |
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Here's cool art https://twitter.com/oyuyyy/status/784311300688007168 https://twitter.com/danny_crgx/status/784136794061189120 https://twitter.com/mayuge1017/status/784029306464772096 https://twitter.com/mebachi/status/783963631062966272 https://twitter.com/binobinobi/status/783950347949580288
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 23:46 |
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Decided to watch the first episode on a whim. It's pretty and weird which is all fine and good but I hope there's a good plot too
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# ? Oct 8, 2016 00:55 |
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The Colonel posted:Is this a reconstruction of magical girl anime? its deconstruction, friend
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# ? Oct 8, 2016 10:19 |
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:its deconstruction, friend i thought the joke was that Madoka deconstructed it, and this was now reconstructing it
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# ? Oct 8, 2016 10:22 |
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https://twitter.com/kokosac/status/784747965894111232
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# ? Oct 8, 2016 14:35 |
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Watched the first episode on a total whim. That was cute, but I don't know if I'll stick with it...devtesla posted:The after credits scene is an unfortunate omen of plot to come ...wait, after credits scene? *watches* Okay yeah, I guess I'm in.
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# ? Oct 8, 2016 17:49 |
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Ban anyone who didn't watch the whole ED to have noticed the post-credits, imo
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# ? Oct 8, 2016 17:55 |
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Space Flower posted:Ban anyone who didn't watch the whole ED to have noticed the post-credits, imo I watched it while I was tired and ended up dozing off during the credits. Oops.
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# ? Oct 8, 2016 18:03 |
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Nobody told me diebuster was getting a sequel.
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# ? Oct 8, 2016 18:12 |
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darealkooky posted:Nobody told me diebuster was getting a sequel. No Lal'c No Sale.
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