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Winky posted:
Glad someone else noticed that.
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Jan 7, 2014 04:16
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A 540 mile per hour fast ball.
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Jan 7, 2014 04:23
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Powerstone posted:A 540 miles per hour fast ball. Expect nothing less from the spherical coffin.
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Jan 7, 2014 04:35
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What's with the rear end itch stuff? Was it that he couldn't wait to get his butt in the stadium seat?
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Jan 7, 2014 05:01
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I bet it's hemorrhoids.
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Jan 7, 2014 05:02
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Winky posted:
Huh. That's a really weird mistake, considering it's written correctly in the GP Base. Then again, it's not exactly the first time I see an anime get a name right then get it wrong in the exact same chapter... Azubah posted:What's with the rear end itch stuff? Was it that he couldn't wait to get his butt in the stadium seat? I spent the entire episode asking myself this. In the end, I just assumed it was weird Japanese comedy that wasn't funny at all.
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Jan 7, 2014 05:03
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Clearly Ral was literally butthurt over all the young love going on.
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Jan 7, 2014 05:07
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So I finally saw this episode. A) The entire last sequence was almost a shot-for-shot reference to Whirlwind! Iron Leaguer and in particular Magnum Ace's 44 Sonic on Fire special move which Reiji performed directly as it appeared in the show. (Right down to slamming into a baseball bat and sending the opponent flying.) Much of the same staff worked on Iron Leaguer and G Gundam and I can't help but wonder if some of them worked on this episode too. B) It's really dumb how Reiji's injured wrist didn't matter in the slightest. He got three pitches at full power which is what he would have gotten even without an injured wrist, and he was at a handicap against a pro baseball player while having never played baseball himself which was similarly gimmick-handicap without the injured wrist. It didn't actually seem to matter to anything Edit: And of course Reiji and Sei rolled 44, thus setting up the entire god damned 44 Sonic thing. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Jan 7, 2014 |
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Jan 7, 2014 05:14
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Azubah posted:What's with the rear end itch stuff? Was it that he couldn't wait to get his butt in the stadium seat? This is someone's theory: quote:I think it might be "shiri ga aoi"? something about an inexperienced, still maturing rear end? I can't search butts anymore so I'll accept that
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Jan 7, 2014 05:30
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ImpAtom posted:B) It's really dumb how Reiji's injured wrist didn't matter in the slightest. He got three pitches at full power which is what he would have gotten even without an injured wrist, Full power? Luang was pretty disappointed with the first two balls. More than that, the injury gave Sei a valid reason to bust out his final trump card and served to push along the Reiji/Ayla subplot. It is kind of a shame the writers don't seem to be taking the chance to have the protagonists actually lose while they can though.
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Jan 7, 2014 05:51
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BlitzBlast posted:Full power? Luang was pretty disappointed with the first two balls. More than that, the injury gave Sei a valid reason to bust out his final trump card and served to push along the Reiji/Ayla subplot. Sei had a valid reason to begin with. They were up against a cartoonishly skilled baseball player and Reiji had literally never played Baseball before in his life. The wrist thing had no actual impact on their success and you could have cut it from the episode and not lost anything.
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Jan 7, 2014 05:55
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Azubah posted:What's with the rear end itch stuff? Was it that he couldn't wait to get his butt in the stadium seat? He's getting goosebumps at all the lovey dovey crap.
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Jan 7, 2014 06:03
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That episode was fantastic. I could not stop laughing the minute the stadium popped up and it just kept getting better from there. Especially the little batter's hat perched on Luang's suit's head horn thing. I love this big dumb show so much, and I recognize maybe a third of the suits at best. Sindai fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Jan 7, 2014 |
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Jan 7, 2014 06:10
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Might as well post this here too. I challenge everyone with gunpla to try and do this pose better than the RX-78-2 2.0. Without an Action Base.  If you have the Blue Frame 2nd R you basically win.
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Jan 7, 2014 07:06
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BlitzBlast posted:Might as well post this here too. You're lucky i'm working in Alberta, and my Blue Frame is still in its "you want NONE of this." pose.
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Jan 7, 2014 07:26
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Really enjoyed the episode. For some reason I enjoy the Reiji and Aila subplot. Kinda disappointed the battle with the Thai champ wasn't really a fight at all. Also the RG system making the Star Build upgrade from HG to RG was a wtf moment in my head. First time I've heard of 44 being an unlucky number. Really want to know what was going on with Ral's rear end. I'm surprised that no one has pointed out the best worst mobile armor ever that is appearing in the next episode.
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Jan 7, 2014 07:31
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4 is unlucky because in Japanese it sounds like death or something, so 44 must be double unlucky.
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Jan 7, 2014 07:34
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I like the clay baseball cap. The next event seems to be some kind of Wacky Races/Steel Ball Run thing.
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Jan 7, 2014 07:37
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Sindai posted:4 is unlucky because in Japanese it sounds like death or something, so 44 must be double unlucky. To clarify, Japan has two different names for the number four yon and shi, based around how they adopted the language and writing. The latter pronunciation, Shi, can also mean death, among other things and is considered an unlucky number. Likewise nine, or Ku, is considered unlucky because it sounds like the word for torture, while eight is sometimes considered lucky due to the shape of the Kanji. Among other things, Nippon airlines don't have any #4 or #9 seats on their planes. As far as the rear end itching, its kinda a rare thing but my best guess is that it is supposed to be a joking superstitious response to the upcoming 44. Like how you sneeze when someone is talking about you... but with your rear end itching. Japanese people are strange sometimes.
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Jan 7, 2014 07:46
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I'm hoping Ral's itchy rear end turns into a major plot thing. Like that's how he senses Newtypes or something. "Asscatches".
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Jan 7, 2014 08:34
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muike posted:I bet it's hemorrhoids. Maybe it's a tumor.
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Jan 7, 2014 09:29
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Caros posted:To clarify, Japan has two different names for the number four yon and shi, based around how they adopted the language and writing. The latter pronunciation, Shi, can also mean death, among other things and is considered an unlucky number. Likewise nine, or Ku, is considered unlucky because it sounds like the word for torture, while eight is sometimes considered lucky due to the shape of the Kanji. In China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam, the number 4 is considered to be unlucky because it's a homophone with "death" in pretty much all of those languages (not sure about Vietnamese actually). It can get really bad in Hong Kong when buildings omit every floor that ends in 4 and also the number 13.
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Jan 7, 2014 10:12
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Eej posted:In China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam, the number 4 is considered to be unlucky because it's a homophone with "death" in pretty much all of those languages (not sure about Vietnamese actually). It can get really bad in Hong Kong when buildings omit every floor that ends in 4 and also the number 13. Vietnam inheriting unlucky number 4 from China is news to me, though googling it seems to confirm it from Sino-Vietnamese. They're not homophones in native Vietnamese anyways. As for the itchy butt thing, I want to say it's referring to the idiom 尻が青い, which literally means to have a blue butt, but means something similar to "wet behind the ears/inexperienced/immaturity" but I don't recall what Ramba Ral specifically said, and it's a googled guess on my part.
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Jan 7, 2014 11:55
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Staff for upcoming episodes. Ep15 Script: Yousuke Kuroda Storyboard: Yoshiharu Ashino Episode Director: Seung Hui Son Character Animation Director: Kenichi Ohnuki Mecha Animation Director: Masami Obari Ep16 Script: Yousuke Kuroda Storyboard: Kazuo Sakai Episode Director: Kazuki Tsunoda Character Animation Director: Tetsuya Matsukawa Mecha Animation Director: Se Jun Kim Ep17 Script: Yousuke Kuroda Storyboard: Shinya Watada Episode Director: Shinya Watada Character Animation Director: Kayo Ikeda Mecha Animation Director: Munetaka Abe Continues to deliver, Bari then back to Kim.
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Jan 7, 2014 13:19
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Can anyone explain to me what this whole HG/RG thing is? I have no idea about Gunpla (more than what I learned from this series), and people keep pointing out that the Star Build Strike went from a HG to RG.
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Jan 7, 2014 14:45
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Blaze Dragon posted:Can anyone explain to me what this whole HG/RG thing is? I have no idea about Gunpla (more than what I learned from this series), and people keep pointing out that the Star Build Strike went from a HG to RG. There are different grades for the quality of the model. Real Grades are a step above HGs in terms of part quality, quantity, complexity and flexibility while retaining the size and affordability. When people said it went "RG" they mean that you could see its "skeleton" or inner frame, one of the characteristics of this line.
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Jan 7, 2014 15:01
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BlitzBlast posted:Might as well post this here too. Best I can manage with the Zaku Amazing. 
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Jan 7, 2014 16:00
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Blaze Dragon posted:Can anyone explain to me what this whole HG/RG thing is? I have no idea about Gunpla (more than what I learned from this series), and people keep pointing out that the Star Build Strike went from a HG to RG.  This is a high grade. It's a a 1/144 scale model of the Gundam, and it's completely hollow. Just plastic fitted together like lego.  This is a real grade. It's again a 1/144 scale model, but on the inside it looks like  The Build Strike didn't literally turn into a RG, the writers just used that acronym as a joke. I half expect to see MG or PG later on. Also the joke is actually two fold as far as I can tell. Not only does the Build Strike have an inner frame, but it's also referencing the Strike Freedom's inner phase-shift armor gimmick. Hence the glowing. BlitzBlast fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jan 7, 2014 |
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Jan 7, 2014 17:03
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I am surprised no one mentioned the best surprising part of the episode: Johnny Ridden got acknowledged in the same tier of pilots as Char and Gato.
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Jan 7, 2014 20:49
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Ready to BUY GUNPLA NOW, folks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyiGiegUm5c
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Jan 13, 2014 12:40
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I loving hate that I have to load up a vpn to watch this. PR is part of the US you know vvvv The music itself is worse but everything else is way better. Hahaha "Perfect SHits Cao Ni Ma fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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Jan 13, 2014 12:58
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The new OP isn't as great as the first one.  but It seems like that Exia variant that was rumored is the chairman'sEdit: Ramba Ral 
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Jan 13, 2014 13:10
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Of course Astray uses Fuinsaiki! Of course! Also Maxter! And Ral was amazing. Sei-mom still the best.
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Jan 13, 2014 13:30
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That "the final shot" diorama in the new ED made me very happy, the lyrics in the translation that I saw on the other hand are ridiculous. "Short pants spirit" 
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Jan 13, 2014 13:31
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Actual Shining Finger in the new OP! 
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Jan 13, 2014 14:24
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So Ramba Ral is actually just as old as Gundam itself?
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Jan 13, 2014 14:53
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Will Sei's mom ever stop having the most entertaining reactions? I don't think so. Good episode, new intro isn't quite as good as the last one. Its by no means bad, just that the first OP was so amazing that it was hard to top. Really looking forward to next week's episode as they've got good tension for it and its back to actual gunpla 'battle'. What was up with the Build MkII in the team battle anyways? The battle card at the end lists it as the Star Build Strike. It also really bugged me that they didn't take a pot shot at the BaCue at the end there.
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Jan 13, 2014 15:00
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Schneider Heim posted:So Ramba Ral is actually just as old as Gundam itself?
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Jan 13, 2014 16:02
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Caros posted:It also really bugged me that they didn't take a pot shot at the BaCue at the end there. Same, just loving shoot it.
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