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I was just  on the concept that model kits are still a thing in the distant space future and Sidonia apparently makes toys of their own robots and the assistant operator of the ship has procured themThis is a silly show, how can a show where people get injured and die horribly clinging to some awful half-busted space ghetto be so hilarious
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Gyra_Solune posted:I was just Zeon and the Federation actually did this too in Gundam, presumably as vehicle for propaganda like how we real world people have army man toys and GI Joe cartoons and stuff.
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Gyra_Solune posted:I was just A lot of shows do that, actually. Full Metal Panic did it with the Armslaves, and so did the Patlabor TV series. And I am really fighting the urge to pick up Kotobukiya's Tsugumori Animation Ver. for myself. 
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Holy poo poo this episode.  This episode alone redeemed the adaptation if it needed any redeeming. Really gave weight to certain situations way better than the manga did. edit: Didn't realize the jetpack was a change, even though it felt strange. Yeah, I wonder their reasoning for changing that. Dessel fucked around with this message at 00:21 on May 6, 2015 |
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Episode four of the first season was when things really got going, so this bodes well for season two.
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Nihei starting to make it (semi) big gives me a glimmer of hope that some day we'll see an anime of Q Hayashida's stuff.
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Sad Mammal posted:Nihei starting to make it (semi) big gives me a glimmer of hope that some day we'll see an anime of Q Hayashida's stuff. Would watch the poo poo out of Caiman eating gyoza.
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It's pretty great that literally being brain hijacked by a mad scientist responsible for travesty onboard Sidonia and spoken of in terms that outclass our own of a potential Osama Hitler bin Ebola has made Kunato into overall a much cooler and nicer guy to hang out with
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May 12, 2015 02:34
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Is is just me, or have the expressions stepped up a notch in S2?
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Darth Walrus posted:Is is just me, or have the expressions stepped up a notch in S2?
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Gyra_Solune posted:It's pretty great that literally being brain hijacked by a mad scientist responsible for travesty onboard Sidonia and spoken of in terms that outclass our own of a potential Osama Hitler bin Ebola has made Kunato into overall a much cooler and nicer guy to hang out with I was actually thinking that myself. In fact, the whole situation just seems... better. The council of immortal morons has been eliminated so the captain can rule as a shadowy eternal dictator... but she's historically done a really good job and they were useless fools anyway. There's an ancient and ostensibly evil scientist who's started possessing people with mind worms... but he's actually a pretty decent guy, and has significantly improved Kunato's attitude. They've created a monster using Science Man Was Not Meant To Know... but she's totally up for this whole "protect humanity" gig, and loves kittens. I'm particularly impressed that they haven't gone with the really trite route of "Oh, now we have created this powerful Chimera to defend humanity... But she's terribly dangerous, so let's keep her in total isolation and treat her like garbage; that'll make her kindly disposed towards humans!" I mean, sure, they aren't letting her wander the residential area, but I don't think that's unreasonable - she nearly caused an earthquake by accident in that auditorium. It would be far too easy for a disaster to happen without any ill-will on Tsumugi's part. But they are letting her have visitors.
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OK, so that was pretty cool. Is there any word on whether there will be a season 3?
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Hungryjack posted:OK, so that was pretty cool. Is there any word on whether there will be a season 3? Purely speculating here: The ending montage with images from the first season seemed like rather a send-off, and the end of Season 1 had an actual ad for Season 2 at the end, so normally I'd say the chances are pretty low. However, Netflix is an extremely rock solid North American partner to have (and this is the first anime Netflix has been the exclusive North American distributor for), so that definitely increases the odds. My guess is Netflix will see how Season 2 does (it gets released on Friday in English) before deciding whether or not to greenlight it. Also, a Season 3 would bring it almost up to where the manga is, so it makes some sense to wait a bit. As it is, they've covered roughly 2 years worth of manga per season. All that being said, a Season 3 certainly makes financial sense, so, probably?
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In other words go on netflix and marathon the show over and over again.
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I'm on season 2 of this show, 3 eps in and every episode has surprised me pleasantly thus far.
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I just started watching this yesterday (though I've read the manga already), and I just wanted to say that Samari is my favorite character. I didn't think much of her in the manga but she's a badass. The point that made me post was someone being like oh man "Tanikaze and the hybrid are a perfect pair" and she's like "Hmm? Yeah, sure, I guess." Doesn't give an f about his harem.
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i really love this show despite the animation. i just wish there were more seasons!!! somehow i'm at 9 of 12 of season 2 already.
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The animation can be a bit iffy at times but overall I think it worked pretty well, especially for the space battles. What really stood out for me was the incredible sound design. It's just so drat loud it adds a feeling of weight and substance to everything from frantic battles to a simple flyby of Sidonia. If you haven't watched this show with a nice set of headphones and the volume cranked up to "permanent hearing loss" you are missing out.
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Really, the animation quality has increased significantly from the earlier episodes, to the point that its only really noticeable anymore in a couple isolated scenes.
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This show is better when it is about space battles and not real estate transactions on board a spaceship. Or the sleeping arrangements as it realates to a dolphin's penis.
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so the person in kunato's body is ochiiai right?
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Hoodrich posted:so the person in kunato's body is ochiiai right? Yup. Also, I think, in the body of the MIB who hangs out with the captain.
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Darth Walrus posted:Yup. Also, I think, in the body of the MIB who hangs out with the captain. The captain's henchman is a clone of Ochiai that they made after they killed the original and found out that all his research notes were locked with his brain pattern or something. He's Ochiai's body without the evil megalomaniacal personality. Meanwhile the personality is running around taking over people's bodies with those brain worm things.
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Avulsion posted:Meanwhile the personality is running around taking over people's bodies with those brain worm things. And he's so much more useful than Kunato ever was! 
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The_White_Crane posted:And he's so much more useful than Kunato ever was! To be fair, he didn't set the bar very high.
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Avulsion posted:The captain's henchman is a clone of Ochiai that they made after they killed the original and found out that all his research notes were locked with his brain pattern or something. He's Ochiai's body without the evil megalomaniacal personality. Meanwhile the personality is running around taking over people's bodies with those brain worm things. Right, I just wasn't sure if he'd become/been allowed to become himself again after getting unleashed. Several of his scenes did seem to suggest that.
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Avulsion posted:The animation can be a bit iffy at times but overall I think it worked pretty well, especially for the space battles. Yeah, the sound design is absolutely fantastic at selling what exactly each weird sci-fi thing you're seeing is made of and exactly how ludicrously powerful it is. Not to mention the VFX on stuff like the Graviton Beam Emitter are absolutely stunning. I want to see that moon get vaporised in IMAX. Any time a weird, futuristic thing is on screen this show is incredible. Then it switches back to relationship drama with stiff, plastic, inexpressive character models and I just kind of zone out and look at the pretty background art.
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Could someone please give me a highlighter of the key points of Season 1 because I started watching Season 2 and I have no clue what the gently caress is going on.
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SalTheBard posted:Could someone please give me a highlighter of the key points of Season 1 because I started watching Season 2 and I have no clue what the gently caress is going on. Season 1 comes before Season 2 and explains everything and looks really cool. tl;dw: Indestructible aliens destroy the earth and most of the human race. A thousand years later Sidonia is the last human colony ship wandering around in space, it's been a hundred years since they were last attacked by aliens and they've gotten complacent. They find this weird kid in the bowels of the ship who was raised by his crazy hermit grandfather on a steady diet of videogames and combat simulators. Aliens show up and gently caress up their poo poo. All of Sidonia's ace pilots panic and die in their first real fight. Weird kid doesn't panic, kills aliens, becomes hero. Weird kid's girlfriend gets eaten by aliens, turned into boss level alien ace. Aliens hurl small planetoid covered in tentacles at Sidonia. Giant robots sent to clear off the tentacles so Sidonia can blow up the planetoid with a mile long planet buster missile. Dead Alien Girlfriend kills most of the robot pilots, weird kid duels Dead Alien Girlfriend while surviving pilots fly inside the
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Avulsion posted:Season 1 comes before Season 2 and explains everything and looks really cool. I watched Season 1 last year when it came out, but I couldn't really remember much. Thank you for the recap!
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I finished S2, wasn't as riveting as S1 but enjoyable overall. S2 felt more 'anime' than S1.
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Well, poo poo. I finished it. Production values have ruined other anime for me. And season 2 JUST came out. Season 3 is going to take FOREVER.
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Just finishing off season 2 now, episode 11 was so, so good.
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Just binged the entire season, season two had maximum tsundere scenes but in a good way. I haven't seen a show use this degree of physical harm as comedy in quite a long time.
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Just finished season 2 as well. Really enjoying this show. It's going to be a long wait for season 3. Couple things I didn't quite follw... didn't Kunato's sister get her head chopped off? How is she still alive? Also, for the pilot of Tsumugi Is the pilot actually inside Tsumugi? If so, how come Kunato didn't get injured when she got wrecked by the Higgs blast? The pilot doesn't seem to actually do anything either since she is autonomous.
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Superglue. Crumple Zones. Failsafe Mechanism.
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Good cosmetic surgery, and who cares if the brain died: the nematode is probably driving the body around like a mech. I think Kunato mentions, internally, that he doesn't want to use a nematode on Izana's grandmother because he needs her scientific ability, and once you go brain nematode, there's nothing left of the original mind. Tsumugi converted most of her mass into some kind of lens thing to deflect the beam as it passed through, so no explosion, but all that mass burned up and she 'shut down' to regenerate. As for Kunato inside, they have gravity generators on the Sidonia to counter some amount of accelerating, they could conceivably have similar, but more locally effective versions on their frames (and grown into Tsumugi) to reduce the forces from maneuvering or crashing into things, though in the higgs beam deflection there's little-to-no blast, so he's just stuck. Tsumugi's pilot is there to theoretically keep her from repeating what happened 100 years ago, which was apparently caused by chimera from one of Ochiai's experiments. It's not spelled out what exactly they can do, but it's probably something you can't undo, like the nematode.
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I've been binging on this (I've never been heavy into anime but someone posted a picture of the Sidonia made in Space Engineers so I got interested). Besides the standard "everyone is too ashamed to admit their feelings and would rather blush and look away" it's really good. The sound is probably the best, when the big gently caress-off cannon fired you could almost feel it. One thing I kind of say "duh" to myself about the captain's mask being A way to hide that she's been the same person forever. I just assumed it was some kind of cool way of making the captain look totally emotionless during stressful situations so's not to affect the crew.
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