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Yeah, this would have been the "everybody dies" bit if Kabu hadn't done the limiter release. But since he did, it broke the whole game and now the whole metaplot under which the humans have lived for years is in peril. His doing the limit release is what turned the big thrilling apocalypse into a joke. Speculation: Kabu somehow gets a message out of robot jail and Natsume has to find a way out of the giant Earth bubble and into the spaceship to rescue him. Mirage fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9emVslQhuBY Anyone know what this is about? Episode 5.5, but no English subtitles. Just got uploaded by Kadokawa not even an hour ago.
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Aug 8, 2020 04:52
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Electric Phantasm posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9emVslQhuBY It's just a recap of the first 5 eps.
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Aug 8, 2020 06:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3jR1YTV__U
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Aug 9, 2020 03:47
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It's interesting that the Tankers in the Power had coats that looked like they were made by the rolling gadoll that they fought underground. They also have the pics for the Stargate on the website:  http://decadence-anime.com/en/special-gadoll.html
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Aug 9, 2020 04:44
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Well this thing sure was a pleasant surprise. Weird anime with hyper-cute art styles like Kaiba are my jam so it was nice to see something similar used here. Also I love how fast the plot is moving with major plot twists happening in episode 2 that would take several seasons to get to in other shows. Legitimately wondering where this is going now that robo-dad got bird murdered.
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Aug 10, 2020 01:48
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Birdered, one might say.
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I'm still expecting an asspull, but Kamina's VA is like the Sean Bean of Anime right? Or was that somebody else?
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Aug 10, 2020 03:00
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There's no reason to believe Kaburagi is dead. He had his limiter on when he got zapped, and dying with your limiter off doesn't kill you unless you turn it way up (see the episode where he asked his protege not to turn it above 20%), which we don't know he did. Hell, for all we know the lightning only KO'd his avatar, not killed it. All this isn't to say that it's impossible he died, only that what we've seen so far doesn't really imply it.
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Aug 10, 2020 03:20
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Yeah, asspull is overstating it. There's also the plain narrative hole that nobody else would know what happened.
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Aug 10, 2020 03:30
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Personally my theory is that Boss's human body is toast but his robo-body will escape and join the humans in order to start a real resistance. This would explain the few seconds of him fighting in robot form you see in the OP.
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Aug 10, 2020 06:38
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The preview for the next ep is on the main website and all speculation on this is answered swiftly.
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Aug 10, 2020 08:53
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 Some reference to this comic popped into my head, mostly the *VOIP*, and it's slightly more relevant than I realized. Also, it's old enough to drive a car.
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Aug 10, 2020 18:20
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I wonder if this is going to turn into Kabu and the folks within the game trying to act out a dramatic storyline that keeps the bosses happy while most of them not knowing they're playing part
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Aug 10, 2020 23:31
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I really like how much this episode is building on the cyborg society. Especially the touch that all the management cyborgs have the same body model. And how much Natsume has changed Kabu. Loved the outcome of the Kabu/Donatello fight. I'm sure his gang are going to be core to the finale given they're in the OP Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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I definitely get the impression that Kaburagi doesn't want to talk to Natsume just to reassure her, but to reassure himself. He's come to think of her as the ideas person who can find hope in a hopeless situation.
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Ah, I had a suspicion that despite the way they're drawn, the cyborgs were physical and not virtual (the broken one in the ruins at the very beginning, them having to physically refuel), I guess this episode confirms it.
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They said he can't use his old account but what's stopping him from making the same appearance again, or similar enough so that people would recognize him?
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:They said he can't use his old account but what's stopping him from making the same appearance again, or similar enough so that people would recognize him? they're using real bodies, i wouldn't think there'd be a full-on character creator
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Tales of Woe posted:they're using real bodies, i wouldn't think there'd be a full-on character creator Didn't they say in an earlier episode that they could customize their human avatars? Edit: Or that might have just been the elites, I need to go back and look again.
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Tales of Woe posted:they're using real bodies, i wouldn't think there'd be a full-on character creator There are customization shops in game and they can sculpt the gadolls so I dont see why they couldn't alter the gears look at character creation
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Cyborg buttrape and poo poo mines. I was feeling nauseous through the whole thing. I hope that gadoll in the manufacturing facility gets rescued and becomes pals with Pipe.
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I just wonder if the the new avatar of Kabu is going to be a character we recognize already.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I just wonder if the the new avatar of Kabu is going to be a character we recognize already. I'd be more inclined to believe this if they'd hit 'continue'
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I just want to see the humans react to the real bodies of the cyborgs.
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Sindai posted:I just want to see the humans react to the real bodies of the cyborgs. I'm hoping the cyborgs are actually 5 inches tall, and people just see them as toys.
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Maxwell Adams posted:I'm hoping the cyborgs are actually 5 inches tall, and people just see them as toys. take another look at the very first minute of the series
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That feel when the guy you're fighting rips apart your head exposing your brain, and then you fall into sewage
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Heh, poo poo for brains
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So, I don't think anyone's mentioned this but since they're called cyborgs that means they have a biological component to them.
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It's been brought up. They're post humans.
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Nitrousoxide posted:So, I don't think anyone's mentioned this but since they're called cyborgs that means they have a biological component to them. Somebody posted the entry from the website glossary that said cyborg doesn't have the meaning it used to have anymore. They are completely mechanical now.
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I was of the opinion that the brain part was a human brain, since in the episode with Mikey there was a scene that looked like when a cyborg is trashed/reaches end of service they take out that part and put it in a new body. And it would go together with them saying the cyborgs belong to the system and the company behind the system acquiring the rights to humanity.
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Xelkelvos posted:It's this, I think. Now, there could be an argument that they can't be cyborgs as these aren't human bodies at this point and are just consciousnesses in a shell, but that's basically semantics about what constitutes a cyborg.
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Aha, I knew Kaburagi's squad had to be in the OP for more reason than just misdirection. Though it explains why Kabu's old partner has such a low opinion of him, because if they've been in the Poop Jail this entire time, then Kaburagi is the only one who actually sold out, drat. I wonder if the show will ever go back and elaborate on Kabu's relationship with Minato, since they don't actually seem to relate to each other much.
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this makes me think that there is still some human inside them left, but not in a clean "some of the body is mechanical" sort of way. like they've replaced so much of their bodies with machine that whatever biological components are still left makes up some 5% of the body or something, if they were just humans that kept becoming machines until they were 100% machine i think the description would say something like "Though they are still called Cyborgs, they've progressed into being entirely machine" rather than this more ambiguous wording. so yeah, maybe they've still got a human brain, or at least part of their brain is still biological
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ninjewtsu posted:this makes me think that there is still some human inside them left, but not in a clean "some of the body is mechanical" sort of way. like they've replaced so much of their bodies with machine that whatever biological components are still left makes up some 5% of the body or something, if they were just humans that kept becoming machines until they were 100% machine i think the description would say something like "Though they are still called Cyborgs, they've progressed into being entirely machine" rather than this more ambiguous wording. If I had to guess, they are probably ship of thesus cyborgs, humans who replaced bit by bit until it was all artificial built upon a human consciousness.
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my thinking is that if they were that, they'd straight up say "these guys are 100% machine" instead of leaving the wording ambiguous. i think we're kinda meant to be looking at them and going "ok so where is the human under all of this?" rather than "so they're basically androids" i think they're like, one step away from being ship of thesus cyborgs
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We're obviously supposed to see them as human enough to sympathize with the downtrodden of them. That's probably all that really matters though I wouldn't be surprised if this ends with Kabu and some others breaking their limiters so much they end up back in "human" bodies permanently.
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ninjewtsu posted:my thinking is that if they were that, they'd straight up say "these guys are 100% machine" instead of leaving the wording ambiguous. i think we're kinda meant to be looking at them and going "ok so where is the human under all of this?" rather than "so they're basically androids" It's a semantics/philosophical thing, I feel. (Also remember that it's a translation, albeit a rather professional one so there might be room for error.) Is human consciousness something that is considered another component of the human body or is it distinct and separate? Put another way, if this was a reverse situation where it was a human body (say put into a vegetative state for some reason) and a new AI consciousness was implanted into the body, would it be an android or a cyborg?
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