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I bet she looks like that big round egg-lookin' thing from that quick shot near the end of the OP, that's basically the only shot of the OP left whose meaning isn't obvious by now. Bonus, slightly less confident guess: I bet Kaiju Akane doesn't move or directly attack anyone at all and her massive body is just a shell to hide away from the world because poo poo is big and scary and full of people she doesn't understand how to relate to. The goal will be to get Rikka into the shell to give Akane a hug before Akane's freakout indirectly destroys the simulation somehow, with Alexis running interference because he's a fucker.
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Spiritus Nox posted:Bonus, slightly less confident guess: I bet Kaiju Akane doesn't move or directly attack anyone at all and her massive body is just a shell to hide away from the world because poo poo is big and scary and full of people she doesn't understand how to relate to. The goal will be to get Rikka into the shell to give Akane a hug before Akane's freakout indirectly destroys the simulation somehow, with Alexis running interference because he's a fucker. That's a good guess and even if it isn't literally true sounds like a good metaphor that they could use.
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ViggyNash posted:Well, shits from our perspective at least. I'm sure pigs and cows would have some words and bullets for us were they competent enough to manage that, even if they were all farmed in a 'humane' manner. Yeah, Madoka discussion would probably be better suited for this thread. Back on topic, I'm kind of curious how they manage to deal with Akane, fight Alexis at some point and also wrap up the whole fake reality plotline in a single episode. This has been really good so far so hopefully it won't trip up at the very end.
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I'm kind of expecting the show to leave a lot of questions - especially more technical ones about precisely how the setting works - unanswered, tbh. I'm not super worried though, the writer's been around a long time and worked on Big O back in the day, so between that and how good the rest of the show has been I'm reasonably confident they'll have the right ideas about which questions need answering and which don't in the time we have left.
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Spiritus Nox posted:the writer's been around a long time and worked on Big O back in the day, 
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Knowing that retroactively makes Big O make more sense, too.
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Akane's Kaiju is definitely going to be a psyche reflection of some sort. Either a shell as mentioned or just an u steady zombie blob that lashes out at whatever.
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Watched the first few of this and liked it, but got caught up with things until now. Just checking, is it worth continuing or was there a massive downturn in quality? Darling in the Franxx has made me cautious.
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Eponymous posted:Watched the first few of this and liked it, but got caught up with things until now. Just checking, is it worth continuing or was there a massive downturn in quality? Darling in the Franxx has made me cautious. It is extremely good and not at all like Darling In The Franxx.
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The latter half of Gridman is way better than an already decent first half, so no, it does not suffer from the Franxx fault.
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Eponymous posted:Watched the first few of this and liked it, but got caught up with things until now. Just checking, is it worth continuing or was there a massive downturn in quality? Darling in the Franxx has made me cautious. Ibblebibble posted:The latter half of Gridman is way better than an already decent first half, so no, it does not suffer from the Franxx fault.
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Eponymous posted:Watched the first few of this and liked it, but got caught up with things until now. Just checking, is it worth continuing or was there a massive downturn in quality? Darling in the Franxx has made me cautious.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UpCCmjYKRY also neat little fanmade music video
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Spiritus Nox posted:I'm not super worried though, the writer's been around a long time and worked on Big O back in the day. Ah, thats all I need to know to be confident in how  the ending will be.
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Spiritus Nox posted:I'm kind of expecting the show to leave a lot of questions - especially more technical ones about precisely how the setting works - unanswered, tbh. I'm not super worried though, the writer's been around a long time and worked on Big O back in the day, so between that and how good the rest of the show has been I'm reasonably confident they'll have the right ideas about which questions need answering and which don't in the time we have left. Wait a sec, this is a Chiaki J. Konaka joint?
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No, it's the one of the other writers on Big O, Keiichi Hasegawa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiichi_Hasegawa That said, SSSS.Gridman as response to/in the context of the Big O 2 finale (which involved a virtual world no longer being repaired after a cataclysm involving the creator of that virtual world, and the show also involved mass amnesia as a key plot point) is another interesting lens to view each show through. It'll be interesting if at it's heart, Gridman is just a slicker, non-noir Big O 2 at the end of the day. Real Edit: In fact, Hasegawa wrote my personal favorite episode of the first Big O series, "Winter Night Phantom," the events of which eventually suggest that the events in Big O are stuck in some kind of referential, dream logic-like loop. In fact, I want to say it was even the same episode number as Gridman's dream episode. So, if anyone can bring Gridman home with a solid closing statement, it's him. Ultraklystron fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Dec 21, 2018 |
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the real hasegawa charmpoint is that he wrote astro boy 2003
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Endorph posted:the real hasegawa charmpoint is that he wrote astro boy 2003 I actually watched that. I remember enjoying it, but fifteen years is a long time. Wonder how it held up.
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Good luck finding the drat thing. Sony did thier somewhat shoddy dub (Lara Jill Millar was like 30 different people in that thing) and buggered off to parts unknown with it.
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Took me 30 seconds but ya know, depends how legal you want it lol E: ugh either dub only or HK subs for half of it, forget I said anything
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chiasaur11 posted:I actually watched that. I remember enjoying it, but fifteen years is a long time. Wonder how it held up.
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God I cant wait for the Pluto anime
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Eponymous posted:Watched the first few of this and liked it, but got caught up with things until now. Just checking, is it worth continuing or was there a massive downturn in quality? Darling in the Franxx has made me cautious. Franxx was never bad 
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chiasaur11 posted:I actually watched that. I remember enjoying it, but fifteen years is a long time. Wonder how it held up. I only saw some episodes of the wonky dub but it's consistently one of the most gorgeous television anime ever made
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ViggyNash posted:Franxx was never good
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boredsatellite posted:God I cant wait for the Pluto anime I was over the loving moon when that got announced, I loving adore pluto.
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It sounds like I've been living under a rock and missed something amazing. I loved the manga for Pluto. When the hell did this get announced?
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Pharohman777 posted:Ah, thats all I need to know to be confident in how Keep in mind that one of the conditions of Cartoon Network funding season two was that everything would be explained, which is one of the reasons Big O's finale was as whackadoodle as it was.
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CrashScreen posted:It sounds like I've been living under a rock and missed something amazing. I loved the manga for Pluto. When the hell did this get announced? it was pretty lowkey, no PV or anything, so I can get missing it.
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Also, that wasn't the first time a Pluto series was announced.
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Ahem, I kindly ask you to not misquote me about Franxx, which was good. I wasn't around for that thread so IDK what the goon sentiment was, but I generally enjoyed it and thought it did a lot of cool things especially in the first half. It certainly went off the rails in the second half, but for me it had the same escalation whiplash and subsequent feels-punching that made Gurren Lagaan so drat lovable and memorable, albeit somehow less coherent.
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general sentiment is that it's like that meme image of someone shoving a stick in their own bicycle wheels and falling over and the stick depending on your view is either - The main romance - Weird undertones about sexuality and relationships - Another loving space finale, this time barely animated - The complete waste of 90% of the cast - some combination is all of the above
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Blockhouse posted:this time barely animated
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In general Gridman has really shown very little of what made Franxxx uncomfortable from the outset and as many people have pointed out there's no overlap in the major staff so it's not really appropriate to use one to determine the quality of the other. For Gridman I am cautiously optimistic about the ending. I was surprised that end of the field trip was not the world just resetting as I had posted, but was in fact what people were speculating was that part of the world existing only for the brief moment that it was needed so I feel like I'm excited that other speculation might also be true with regards to Akane's social and mental problems and how all the characters fit into what might be a simulation to help her rehabilitation. I do think maybe that might be a bit much to cram into a final episode, but as I was surprised before, I feel like it's reasonable that I could be surprised again.
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Gridman only has one episode to ruin it's sterling reputation, so this last episode will have to be bad on an unprecedented scale to really do that. Franxx on the other hand built up it's catastrophic plunge in audience endearment starting around the mid-way point culminating in a villain reveal and entire final arc of absolute garbage. Gridman has it's work cut out for it if it wants to be turned on by the fans so absolutely like Franxx was.
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Considering the homage to toku and mecha we've seen, I'm very much looking forward to the OP kicking on and and Gridman Beaming something dead as heck
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galagazombie posted:Gridman only has one episode to ruin it's sterling reputation, so this last episode will have to be bad on an unprecedented scale to really do that. Franxx on the other hand built up it's catastrophic plunge in audience endearment starting around the mid-way point culminating in a villain reveal and entire final arc of absolute garbage. Gridman has it's work cut out for it if it wants to be turned on by the fans so absolutely like Franxx was. tbf the last episode is probably the easiest one to mess up.
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