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And here I was thinking they were going all  on us with the terrifying menace of the Kilt Gang.
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Neowyrm posted:So this show is pretty great. I don't think it's totally cooked yet, and there seems to be a lot of plotlines, but I'm excited. I've never watched a mecha anime all the way through, as it was airing, and the only anime I've ever done that with at all is Kill la Kill. Give Jojo a go as well. Everything so far is on CR, and it's basically KLK with extra manservice and slightly less weird incest stuff.
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Apr 17, 2014 11:15
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Neowyrm posted:Ah! You're actually not the first person to recommend Jojo to me. It looks completely ridiculous, and that's just my kind of thing. The ED for Part 3 is Walk Like An Egyptian. Sold yet?
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Apr 18, 2014 17:18
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I really love how this-was-written-by-an-eight-year-old this is, all the way from the title to our protagonist breaking out his friends from a military facility so they can play on the beach with a boomerang to the eeevil bad guy contacting his eeevil superiors by paper-cup telephone. It's like Axe Cop gone anime.
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Apr 20, 2014 11:59
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Daler Mehndi posted:Or a super robot anime. Eh, they're not usually so open about it.
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Apr 20, 2014 14:34
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Artum posted:Obvious kid wish fulfillment is the rule with super robot animes, stuff like Big O is by far in the minority. Braves I'll grant you. I mean, yeah, it is a story about your super-special robot buddies defeating evil with the contents of Dad's toybox. I guess I'm more used to written-by-an-angsty-teenager-trying-to-be-taken-seriously stuff like Escaflowne and Gundam, or weird-Uncle-Go-telling-bedroom-stories-until-your-mum-overhears-him-and-tells-him-to-leave stuff like Mazinger. I get that much super-robot stuff is written for kids, but there's a difference between for kids and by kids, if you get me. Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Apr 20, 2014 |
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Apr 20, 2014 15:05
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Cao Ni Ma posted:And a lot of people are saying that Akari's dad plan was dumb, I dont really think it that way. It was actually pretty genius in the "written by an 8 year old" way. The intent was never to get the guy out. He knew that the guy was basically L-Elf so the moment he was woken up he'd get himself out, regardless of who did it. It was just an extremely contrived way of getting the guy to see his son and have his daughter see her mom at the same time. I think this is close, but the plan wasn't for Eiji's sake. It was for Teppei's. The guy is still having a hard time adjusting to the whole Kiltgang thing, even with the help of his friends, so this was a way to help him reconnect to humanity. That actually justifies the complexity and riskiness of the plan - they absolutely cannot afford the Ark Faction getting a third Kiltgang, so keeping Teppei sweet is worth just about anything.
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May 4, 2014 17:39
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Daler Mehndi posted:So the Kiltgang want to feed on humanity's libido, and the various Earth factions can't agree on what's the best way to handle the threat. Would that sum up what's going on so far? Sort of, except that the reason they can't agree is that the Ark faction, backed by Macbeth, appears to be causing the crisis in the first place in order to justify their giant eugenics exercise.
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May 5, 2014 10:23
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I think the other thing is that all Kiltgangs are summonable from that big base on the moon (including Teppei's), so GLOBE's job is to prevent them from getting from there to here. You can't just summon one directly next to you and go 'lol I win'.
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May 6, 2014 10:37
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Ethiser posted:The character at the end of this week's preview looks like he stole his clothes from the Star Driver wardrobe department. It was always evil. The only thing that's changed is the particular flavour of evil.
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May 10, 2014 22:26
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Kanos posted:So, if I'm clear on this, the designer children are artifically created host bodies for Kiltgang intelligences residing somewhere around Jupiter in their big fancy ship that's out of juice. Because he was raised human (for a given value of 'raised'), spends most of his time in a human body, and prefers humans to the Kiltgang?
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May 21, 2014 23:20
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Kanos posted:He was raised in a locked camp by people who did things like attach shock collars to his head. They even make a big deal over the fact that once Daichi arrives and blows up the transmitter the base commander is like "Man I should have let you guys leave the building a long time ago". Thus the 'for a given value'. Despite this, he still seemed to be under the assumption that he was human-but-weird right up until he manifested Albion. e honestly seemed pretty surprised about the whole 'actually Galactus' thing.
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May 21, 2014 23:28
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Gyra_Solune posted:So Hana was pretty much 'No I'm a monster and you'll hate me because I can shoot a giant laser from my spaceship to save the world' She did make it fairly clear that she believes he'll hate her because it's supposed to be her job to kill him and she kinda-sorta-almost wants to. Which is generally kind of a dealbreaker. I think everyone knows by now that Daichi is cool with freaky space aliens who don't want to kill him. Odds on the Blume being this show's version of Samekh from Star Driver?
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Jul 6, 2014 16:30
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On this episode, it's interesting that despite Hana spending well over half the show being totally demure, passive, and sweet-natured, her Engine and Livlaster are totally geared towards offence. I mean, the Flare Engine seems to be loaded up with all of the guns ever, and whilst, say, Teppei's magic penis-gun can create a shield to protect his friends, Hana's will loving hunt you down. Also, jesus christ Puck  . I mean, everyone and their pet alien squirrel knew some form of that twist was coming, but I doubt many of us expected things to get that freaky.
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Jul 13, 2014 09:26
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Artum posted:Nice to see Hana continue to get more agency, doesn't quite make up for the first half of the series yet but its a start. A computer can run the same programs on multiple platforms, and Puck seems to be built with hyper-advanced Planetary Gear tech. The body is basically an avatar for his big ol' robot brain.
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Jul 20, 2014 10:28
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One thing I was thinking, though - they're drawing heavily on the Midsummer's Night Dream parallels, and in that, Puck was a loyal agent of Oberon in a low-key fairy civil war. What if the Planetary Gears' mothership has its own agenda?
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Jul 20, 2014 15:14
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Hidingo Kojimba posted:In fairness, there's been an awful lot of kids shows where the protagonist has basically never lost a fight. Though there are a couple who seem marked as cannon fodder - croupier-guy and idol-girl, for a start. Not sure which way they're going to jump on biker-girl.
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