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Friend turned me on to this a couple days ago. I haven't watched that much anime in one sitting since I was a 16. I'm 28 now. Although I did miss where the name Benisuzume came from. Is that a manga thing they forgot to explain, or did I doze off and miss something at one point?
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Gibbo posted:Friend turned me on to this a couple days ago. It means 'crimson hawk moth', I believe. Just an operating name for a fast, agile, and very red Gauna.
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Aug 8, 2015 10:27
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I was having trouble with Netflix subtitles and watched the second half in English. 'Crimson hawk moth' is such a mouthful when they're saying it every 10 seconds.
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Aug 8, 2015 17:38
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LegoMan posted: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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Aug 8, 2015 19:03
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I finished the first season yesterday. I'm really enjoying it though I just cant see the story going anywhere yet. The story is pretty bleak, I like it.
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Aug 9, 2015 08:43
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Catching up on season 2. I didn't expect the squeaky, rubbery sounds, but it works.
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Aug 9, 2015 20:18
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She's basically a big balloon animal.
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Aug 9, 2015 21:04
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Mango Polo posted:I didn't expect the squeaky, rubbery sounds 
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Aug 9, 2015 21:53
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Ok I liked season 1 well enough, but now i'm halfway through season 2 and I think the anime levels have gotten too much for me. The next episode description says that the horrific tentacle abomination becomes jealous over the protagonist moving in with the genderless love interest. I instantly lost all interest to keep watching. I get that it's probably supposed to be, uh, subversive, is that the right word? I mean that sentence I just typed is pretty ludicrous. But it actually feels shoehorned to me instead. I like the sci-fi concepts, and the gauna are really bizarre in a good way, and the background intrigue has got me interested. But are those things going to be worth powering through the lame romance drama and formulaic anime slapstick? I don't think I can stomach another scene where the protagonist sees some tits and gets his face pounded in. I'm totally OK with just accepting that this isn't the show for me. Fister Roboto fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Aug 11, 2015 |
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Aug 11, 2015 08:03
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Fister Roboto posted:Ok I liked season 1 well enough, but now i'm halfway through season 2 and I think the anime levels have gotten too much for me. The next episode description says that the horrific tentacle abomination becomes jealous over the protagonist moving in with the genderless love interest. I instantly lost all interest to keep watching. I get that it's probably supposed to be, uh, subversive, is that the right word? I mean that sentence I just typed is pretty ludicrous. But it actually feels shoehorned to me instead. I like the sci-fi concepts, and the gauna are really bizarre in a good way, and the background intrigue has got me interested. But are those things going to be worth powering through the lame romance drama and formulaic anime slapstick? I don't think I can stomach another scene where the protagonist sees some tits and gets his face pounded in. So you slogged through a show with form fitting body suits, death violence for comedy, multiple "walked into the wrong changeroom scenes", and a giant living death machine that has a You might need to reconsider your interests.
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Aug 11, 2015 08:19
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Yeah, that's what I'm in the process of doing.
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Aug 11, 2015 08:24
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Fister Roboto posted:Ok I liked season 1 well enough, but now i'm halfway through season 2 and I think the anime levels have gotten too much for me. The next episode description says that the horrific tentacle abomination becomes jealous over the protagonist moving in with the genderless love interest. I instantly lost all interest to keep watching. I get that it's probably supposed to be, uh, subversive, is that the right word? I mean that sentence I just typed is pretty ludicrous. But it actually feels shoehorned to me instead. I like the sci-fi concepts, and the gauna are really bizarre in a good way, and the background intrigue has got me interested. But are those things going to be worth powering through the lame romance drama and formulaic anime slapstick? I don't think I can stomach another scene where the protagonist sees some tits and gets his face pounded in. There's a couple of slice of life episodes in a row that vary in quality. However there are a few decent but short robot scenes mixed in, as well as a couple of HOLY poo poo moments where stuff explodes in an extremely satisfying manner, followed by another slice of life episode and then a final battle that is three and a half episodes of non-stop robot violence. There's like three hours of content left in the series and half of it is action sequences. vvvv Don't be a dick. Avulsion fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Aug 11, 2015 |
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Aug 11, 2015 08:29
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Fister Roboto posted:Yeah, that's what I'm in the process of doing. I actually meant your interest in anime as a whole, not just this one. That's a strange line to draw. Gibbo fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Aug 11, 2015 |
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Aug 11, 2015 08:30
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I'm sorry you can't handle the giant death dealing hybrid abomination blushing at the thought of holding hands with  Tanikaze-san
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Aug 11, 2015 08:40
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Daler Mehndi posted:I'm sorry you can't handle the giant death dealing hybrid abomination blushing at the thought of holding hands with The idea of it was funny to begin with, but it started falling flat for me pretty quickly.
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Aug 11, 2015 08:46
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Yeah, the romantic subplot in this show is something that really drags it down. I do love looking at what a slice of life in Sidonia actually is, I just wish I didn't have to see it through the lens of Tanikaze's boring dates. I can forgive a lot of dumb stuff for an interesting sci-fi universe, but the romance subplot just has nothing going for it. I would recommend powering through it overall, but I can't tell you the romance ever becomes worth watching.
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Aug 11, 2015 09:47
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Blitzed through 2 seasons of this last week. This show is great. I'm glad I gave it another shot after the initial episode kinda put me off half way for a couple months. Couldn't jive with the animation at first but then got used to it. Is it heretical for me to say that this show is a better Evangelion? Maybe I didn't really understand Evangelion for what made it so universally acclaimed/beloved but to me KoS took everything about it and made it better. If I wanted to start reading where should I pick up having watched all the anime?
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Aug 13, 2015 16:41
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Razzled posted:Blitzed through 2 seasons of this last week. This show is great. I'm glad I gave it another shot after the initial episode kinda put me off half way for a couple months. Couldn't jive with the animation at first but then got used to it. The two shows don't really have much in common besides "teenagers use robots to fight incomprehensible alien monstrosities". Eva is a show about psychology(particularly depression and self-loathing) wrapped up in a blanket of bullshit nonsensical religious symbolism and giant robots while Knights of Sidonia is much more of a straight "humans fight aliens" show. Eva is universally known mostly because it was one of the first shows with mass appeal to tackle the subject material that it did.
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Aug 13, 2015 16:56
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Razzled posted:Blitzed through 2 seasons of this last week. This show is great. I'm glad I gave it another shot after the initial episode kinda put me off half way for a couple months. Couldn't jive with the animation at first but then got used to it. Evangelion is extremely overrated so yeah I guess so.
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Dr_Amazing posted:Evangelion is extremely overrated so yeah I guess so. phew i thought i was the only sane person in this subforum
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Aug 14, 2015 04:54
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Razzled posted:Is it heretical for me to say that this show is a better Evangelion? Maybe I didn't really understand Evangelion for what made it so universally acclaimed/beloved but to me KoS took everything about it and made it better.
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Fister Roboto posted:Ok I liked season 1 well enough, but now i'm halfway through season 2 and I think the anime levels have gotten too much for me. The next episode description says that the horrific tentacle abomination becomes jealous over the protagonist moving in with the genderless love interest. I instantly lost all interest to keep watching. I get that it's probably supposed to be, uh, subversive, is that the right word? I mean that sentence I just typed is pretty ludicrous. But it actually feels shoehorned to me instead. I like the sci-fi concepts, and the gauna are really bizarre in a good way, and the background intrigue has got me interested. But are those things going to be worth powering through the lame romance drama and formulaic anime slapstick? I don't think I can stomach another scene where the protagonist sees some tits and gets his face pounded in. My tipping point was in the episode where genderless love interest and gramma go for a girls' night out in those loving needlessly complicated fetish clothes. Talk about filler fanservice, Jesus. You've got a good series going so why not tone down all the harem bullshit.
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i feel like that's part of the show's weird charm like you've got this setting where it's implied the entirety of humanity is stuffed onto this old rusted spaceship on the run from horrible abominations that seem to be able to do literally anything to murder as many people as possible, and during this our heroes are engaged in LOL WACKY HAREM ANTICS, it makes for a really...i don't know how to put it, but it's a bizarre contrast that I like that said those space dresses were fabulous and i question your fashion sense if you wouldn't wear them because they're probably some of my favorite clothes i've seen in anything ever
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Evangelion on a surface level has transhumanist imagery, from a catastrophe making Earth less than habitable overall to cloning, mind/body implantation, alien/human hybridization and simulated nervous systems. Eva was also basically a harem for Shinji, though executed way better than Tanikaze's various interests. There's oddly prominent cross imagery in Sidonia with the launch area as well. Sorties lean heavily on lances being ultimate weapons in the first part of the series, mirroring the later parts of Eva. Ochiai's entire plan of becoming an avatar of humanity inside of a godlike super being of his own creation is identical to SEELE's supposed plan for the Eva series. I can see a lot of surface similarities or intertextuality between the series, yeah, but Sidonia doesn't have the teen angst/growing up focus that is literally the whole point of Eva. Sidonia is about learning what it means to be human in a different context. Though both Tanikaze and Shinji have rejected transhumanism the reasons and what that means are different.
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otterley posted:My tipping point was in the episode where genderless love interest and gramma go for a girls' night out in those loving needlessly complicated fetish clothes. Talk about filler fanservice, Jesus. You've got a good series going so why not tone down all the harem bullshit. I think it was more of an "OMG This will totally fit you now!" spur-of-the-moment decision. Remember that Yure is an immortal and probably lacks for real friends, and then the little interaction later implies that the white dress was the captain's and her responsibilities are why Yure doesn't get to have that kind of fun anymore, not that she grew out of it. I think Yure just also never got to dote on Izana until then. Yeah, a bit of fanservice, but you get to see that not all immortals are stodgy utilitarians like the captain, and neither even was the captain at some point. I saw worse outfits in that closet.
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So if I want to get into the manga, where did the anime finish up? Or what would be a good starting point?
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Sep 14, 2015 07:33
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Vahtooch posted:So if I want to get into the manga, where did the anime finish up? Or what would be a good starting point? Start with the first chapter. It's worth reading for the art alone.
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I am about halfway through season 1 and I cannot help but ask is the story of why there is a human bear like creature on board ever explained? I am loving the show, otherwise.
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dongsweep posted:I am about halfway through season 1 and I cannot help but ask is the story of why there is a human bear like creature on board ever explained? I am loving the show, otherwise. There's an explanation in the manga, it's a life support suit she wears over her human body, but basically the author just likes bears. Read fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Feb 17, 2016 |
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Thanks! Sorry for resurrecting what looks like a dead thread based on the dates, I only got as far in the comments as I was in the show and didn't keep on going in fear of reading something I would regret.
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dongsweep posted:I am about halfway through season 1 and I cannot help but ask is the story of why there is a human bear like creature on board ever explained? I am loving the show, otherwise. After a certain point I just accepted that there was a bear. Read posted:There's an explanation in the manga, it's a life support suit she wears over her human body, but basically the author just likes bears.  I like my interpretation better.Is there any word on when or if the anime will continue to the next season?
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