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Jul 8, 2012 05:54
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Ka-pe! made a comeback!
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Jul 8, 2012 08:59
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Jesus Christ. 10 highly intelligent people--including one who solves a Rubix Cube for relaxation--can't figure out that you solve a puzzle quickly by starting with the goddamn edges.
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Jul 8, 2012 12:16
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I also liked how they were picking the pieces up and trying to fit them together in mid-air, maybe Japanese people don't do jigsaw puzzles.
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Veryslightlymad posted:Jesus Christ. 10 highly intelligent people--including one who solves a Rubix Cube for relaxation--can't figure out that you solve a puzzle quickly by starting with the goddamn edges. Right? When Nanba/narrator was like, "We'll have to try every single piece." I nearly poo poo a brick. Why would you ever reduce an entire task to trial and error?
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Jul 8, 2012 17:04
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I'm more interested in the alarm that's going to destroy Team B (it's team B right?).
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Jul 8, 2012 17:09
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Great episode, but their puzzle solving abilities pissed me off so much. Start with the edges and you can eliminate a good 40-50 pieces from the pile. I want to know what the third team is up to. If team A has the clock that Fukuda broke, and team B has the alarm, what is team C's trial?
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Jul 8, 2012 17:55
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PaganGoatPants posted:I'm more interested in the alarm that's going to destroy Team B (it's team B right?). Yeah, it's team B. The only person who seemed to be at all good at puzzles was Nanba's friend in Team B. I knew I liked that guy.
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Jul 8, 2012 18:13
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Valsu posted:Great episode, but their puzzle solving abilities pissed me off so much. Start with the edges and you can eliminate a good 40-50 pieces from the pile. Existing without a main character in their ranks.
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Jul 8, 2012 18:23
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That guy on team B making all the comments about astronauts with familys is an rear end in a top hat. And seriously loving paranoid, too, to such an extent that I'm astonished he made it this far...
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Jul 8, 2012 18:59
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The_White_Crane posted:That guy on team B making all the comments about astronauts with familys is an rear end in a top hat. Being that paranoid is a good thing. It means you think you're important enough for others to want to sabotage your chances, which is better than thinking you're not important enough, like Nanba was doing in the first several episodes. And if anyone is trying to sabotage your chances, you'll definitely stop them from succeeding, because you're stopping every single attempt against you even if they don't exist. sure as hell won't make you any friends though. And I'm still convinced 2/5ths of every team is a plant.
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Jul 8, 2012 20:47
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Vincent Valentine posted:I'm still convinced 2/5ths of every team is a plant. Yeah I keep going back to that, but it seems too simple and the whole flashbacks/internal monologue argument still seems relevant, unless they've been messing with us and there's more to said backstories/etc than meets the eye. Though I don't really know why everyone's first assumption wouldn't be "JAXA is messing with us" whenever something weird happens. If Mutta hadn't witnessed the tampering it ultimately wouldn't have even mattered who broke the clock, just that they have to come up with a solution for the broken clock. I'm wondering if the alarm issue in team B might actually be one of the members thinking ahead about that kind of scenario as an alternate timekeeping mechanism (I'm guessing the alarm isn't a proper clock alarm and is just the sort of thing that can be set in intervals).
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Good_Haro posted:Yeah I keep going back to that, but it seems too simple and the whole flashbacks/internal monologue argument still seems relevant, unless they've been messing with us and there's more to said backstories/etc than meets the eye. People can still have previous jobs before becoming a plant at Jaxa. Not only is it extremely likely you have had jobs prior to working in the space industry, it makes your plant more believable as they don't have to make things up on the spot. Internal monologues for plants seems like it's more to trick us, the viewers, into believing them. And if that's the case, "Jaxa is messing with us" should be the first response, even if it's Furuya who carries out jaxa's orders.
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I was expecting quiet rubix cube guy to be an autistic savant or something and solve the jigsaw puzzle in about 3 minutes. He seemed to be struggling just as much as the rest of them though.
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Jul 9, 2012 02:49
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I just noticed that the "sun" in the new opening is Hibito's hair.
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Jul 15, 2012 08:24
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This show features the most underwhelming space photos.
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Back to the plant speculation I think, that for sure two of the guys on each team are given instructions to do stuff. This weeks space photo is Moscow if anyone's wondering. The Russian flag is admittedly hard to see but I know that cannon.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Back to the plant speculation I think, that for sure two of the guys on each team are given instructions to do stuff. But keep in mind, they could be getting fed these instructions with the impression that cooperating will help their chances of getting picked.
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Mr. Fowl posted:But keep in mind, they could be getting fed these instructions with the impression that cooperating will help their chances of getting picked. Yep, and it's probably happening during the "doctor visit"
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Jul 15, 2012 19:40
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Rexides posted:Yep, and it's probably happening during the "doctor visit" Or when they got the puzzle they got the alarm beeper thing.
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Jul 15, 2012 20:07
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I don't think so. The doctor check-ups are way more private, and allow confidential communication to go through. Also, notice how chimp dude was totally fine with the clock getting busted after his check-up. He is the new plant, and understood that the clock was the work of the last one.
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I had a gigantic grin on my face the entire time while watching episode 17. The only thing that I thought was a little silly was how the 'Green Card' thing was supposedly a huge revelation. It's easily the most logical explanation for all that's happened, and so practically everyone should have realised it.
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Jul 22, 2012 05:02
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drat you JAXA!! New ED has really grown on me. I love it.
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I did expect the whole alarm thing to be more about 'Hey, there's this weird noise in a space capsule, maybe we should find out what's causing it in case it's something bad.' than just trying to sow discord.
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Is this week's space photo of the three astronauts that died in the chute malfunction? That's pretty chilling if it is the case.
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paragon1 posted:drat you JAXA!! Oh god those last few minutes were absolutely great. I can't decide what was better, Mutta's magical handshake with Serika or Serika and Hoshika's reactions to "drat YOU JAXA". I can't wait to find out what Mutta's green card is. I bet it's something incredibly goofy.
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pandaK posted:Is this week's space photo of the three astronauts that died in the chute malfunction? That's pretty chilling if it is the case. The picture is the crew of currently embarked Soyuz TMA-04M.
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Sorry Corals posted:No, that accident is fictional. Soyuz 1 ended in a similar parachute failure resulting in the crew (of one) perishing. Story goes he was not particularly cool and collected about it. http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage Sad story really.
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Breaky posted:http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage Oh my God that picture of the casket with the charred remains  
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Just caught up on the last 5 episodes, and all I can say is Mutta is still a fantastic protagonist  Also I don't like the new OP song but that loving dance makes up for it completely.
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New Episode: I'm sure we all know by this point that Mutta is going to space. He's the protagonist, after all. But it makes me sort of wonder what's going to happen to everyone else on team A as a whole. They all seem to get along really well as friends. With this episode, it's pretty clear Team B is going to go their separate ways after the exam but not so much with Team A I wonder if we'll see what happens to the ones who don't make the cut as the series goes on.
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This episode really had me rooting for Kenji hord. It's weird too, because he's kind of an overachieving winner and that can be pretty annoying, but between his rationale, the way he handles conflict, and his general personable nature (NO ONE WHO IS FRIENDS WITH MUCCHAN CAN BE A BAD PERSON ) he's gone from being "that Phoenix Wright looking dude" to "one cool supporting cast member."
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Jul 29, 2012 09:25
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Man, I love this show. I'll admit to tearing up a bit when Makabe realised what 'ka-pei' meant.
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Goddamn if this episode doesn't make me like Kenji. That whole thing at the start makes him look awesome. Mutta does a good Michael Jackson and Bruce Lee.
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Sakurazuka posted:Man, I love this show. That was such a great moment. This episode definitely warmed me up to Kenji as well.
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The Black Stones posted:That was such a great moment. This episode definitely warmed me up to Kenji as well. I already liked Kenji. I really hope he gets to go to space. However, I wasn't all that thrilled with the translation Crunchyroll did. Doesn't it mean do your best or try hardest? or something like that? Not good luck? I don't understand what the guy meant when he said that the decision for who would be an astronaut was going to be made in just one day. Seems odd.
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Jul 29, 2012 20:12
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The music that starts playing upon Makabe's realization is one of the best tracks ever.
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Dan7el posted:I already liked Kenji. I really hope he gets to go to space. However, I wasn't all that thrilled with the translation Crunchyroll did. Doesn't it mean do your best or try hardest? or something like that? Not good luck? がんばる【頑張る】 ﾛｰﾏ(ganbaru) 1 〔一生懸命に努力する〕 be tenacious; be persistent; keep at it; do not give ┌up [in] easily; give 《a job》 ┌one's all [everything one has got]; hold out; stick ┌to [at] it; 〔さかんに活動する〕 be full of ┌energy [pep, bounce]. ▲がんばり抜く 〔がんばり通す〕 keep going [hold out] to the end; do not give ┌up [in] half way; stay the course ･がんばり抜いた者が勝ちだ. Victory goes to the person who can stay the course. | Endurance is rewarded. | If you keep fighting you get there in the end. ･がんばって原書を読了する read a book all the way through in the original language. ▲〔競技などで〕 がんばれ! Do your best. | Keep it up. | Don't give ┌up [in]. | Keep fighting. | *《口》 Hang in there! ･がんばれ, 日本! Keep fighting, Japan! | Show them what you're made of, Japan! ･あと 100 メートルだ, がんばれ! There's only another hundred meters; ┌keep it up [″go it]! ･〔スポーツの演技などで〕 いよいよ本番だね, がんばってね. Right, this is it; ┌Good luck [Do your best, Show them what you're made of]! ･｢これから就職の面接です｣｢がんばれよ｣ "I'm just going to a job interview."―"Good luck! | Do your best!" ･金メダルめざしてがんばります. I'll ┌do my best to get [go all out for] the gold. ･私はまだやめない, もう少しがんばってみる. I'm not giving in yet; I'll keep at it a little more. ･ほう, がんばってるね. I am impressed by ┌your perseverance [your tenacity, the way you're keeping at it]. __am に強勢を置く. | You are working hard! __are に強勢を置く. ･よくがんばったね. 〔競技の後〕 (勝ったとき) Great!; Well done! | (負けたとき) Bad luck, but ┌it was a good fight [you did your very best, you really tried]. ･よくがんばったが, 負けは負けだ. You ┌did a good job [tried hard, put up a good fight], but defeat is defeat. ･いくらがんばってもあいつには追いつけない. However hard I try, I'll never ┌catch up [be able to keep up] with him. | It's no good; he'll always be better than me. ･最後までお掃除がんばった子にはごほうびだ. There'll be something for any of you who keep up the cleaning till you've finished. ･力一杯がんばれば合格できる. If you ┌really do your utmost [try your very hardest, put everything you have into it] you'll pass. ･もうこれ以上がんばれない, 疲れました. I can't keep on any longer [I've done all I can]. I'm exhausted. | I'm finished. There's no more fight in me. ･もうすぐテストだ, がんばらなくちゃ. The exams are right ahead. I must really ┌work [get down to it, put my back into it]. | The exams are imminent. I must work harder. ･もうすぐ山頂だ, みんな, がんばろう! Come on [Keep it up, Keep fighting, Don't let up now], everybody! We're nearly at the top. ･そんなにがんばらなくていいんだよ. There's no need to push yourself like that. ･この町では古くからの商店ががんばっている. The old shops in this area ┌are putting up a fight [aren't giving in easily]. ･親父ががんばっていてなかなか息子に身上(しんしょう)を譲らない. The father is pretty tenacious. He isn't handing over the business to the son easily. | The old man's hanging ┌on hard [*《口》 in there] and he's pretty reluctant to let the son take over.
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