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Is Koma a reference to any preexisting Japanese hero? It seems like it might be beyond the more typical parallels to Toku heroes or other characters from that era. Same with the secret recording of the former PM. Also, this episode seems to have dropped a tidbit about some intervening event involving Kikko (unless I missed something in a previous ep) and losing her "Queen Candidate" status that's probably related to her evil queen form any why it hasn't shown up this season.
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Xelkelvos posted:Is Koma a reference to any preexisting Japanese hero? It seems like it might be beyond the more typical parallels to Toku heroes or other characters from that era. that's because Emi turned it into that youkai thing at the end of the last season I figured.
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May 16, 2016 12:09
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Xelkelvos posted:Is Koma a reference to any preexisting Japanese hero? It seems like it might be beyond the more typical parallels to Toku heroes or other characters from that era. I don't know about any heroes this is parodying, but she's merged with a Komainu, like you normally see outside of shrines. Maybe this is like Lion-Maru? quote:The basic premise of the series is that the main character has the ability to transform into a superpowered anthropomorphic lion, usually wielding a katana. The original two series were set in feudal Japan and were, essentially, tokusatsu versions of the samurai dramas that were extremely popular at the time.
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May 16, 2016 13:54
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Lurking Haro posted:I don't know about any heroes this is parodying, but she's merged with a Komainu, like you normally see outside of shrines. I think that's a spot on reference to that character. There's a person on Reddit who keeps a running timeline and does a bit of analysis of the episodes. The PM in this episode is based on the real Tanaka Kakuei who did indeed serve from just after the war into the 70s before being brought down by a scandal. Instead of being secretly recorded like a certain other American President at the time, there was an expose in a magazine about unsavory, but not illegal dealing that he did before resigning to avoid it going to the Diet.
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May 16, 2016 16:40
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I just caught up on the past two episodes, and they were great and all, but everything got outshined by Sawblade Housewife
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May 18, 2016 03:43
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I didn't expect literal giant G.I. Joes this episode.
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May 20, 2016 20:10
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So instead of communism, the US has declared war on yokai? I guess there's a sense in which killing in the name of secular democracy is directly opposed to the old religious traditions, but I never would have thought of it as an extension of killing off the native Americans. Maybe that makes more sense for the Japanese though, who experienced the weight of US cultural imperialism firsthand. The US would be the brutish country to murdered its own past, and are trying to kill everyone else's traditions too. Not that Japan hasn't done similar things to the Ainu and whatnot.
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May 20, 2016 22:12
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That was a good episode. I also just found out it was an (the?) Urobuchi episode. Also, also: dang 
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May 21, 2016 20:40
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Tragic how cyborg Vietnam PTSD turns you into a Metal Gear bad guy:
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May 22, 2016 16:50
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I might have missed it but did they ever explain why Kikko can't be a candidate for demon queen anymore? Something to do with the Claude business at the end of the first season?
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May 23, 2016 01:11
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Centzon Totochtin posted:I might have missed it but did they ever explain why Kikko can't be a candidate for demon queen anymore? Something to do with the Claude business at the end of the first season? Emi turned her demon queen personality into a youkai that separated from Kikko at the end of the last season.
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May 23, 2016 01:16
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Ok that sounds kind of familiar, thanks. Did Uru explicitly say that?
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May 23, 2016 02:13
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Centzon Totochtin posted:Ok that sounds kind of familiar, thanks. Did Uru explicitly say that? We saw Emi do it, and i'm assuming that it's the reason. I might be wrong.
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May 23, 2016 03:15
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if she can't transform into a demon queen, how is she gonna be a demon queen?
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May 23, 2016 03:20
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Good point but I didn't remember the demon queen getting separated from her (I don't know if it got banished or sealed somewhere or is just gone now). Have the events for the second season been more or less linear besides some Jiro flashbacks concerning fumers and the Raito episode?
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May 23, 2016 03:59
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Centzon Totochtin posted:Good point but I didn't remember the demon queen getting separated from her (I don't know if it got banished or sealed somewhere or is just gone now). More linear, but there's still some shuffling of events. This episode is set as one of the ones furthest forward in time besides the parts set in the literal future. There's also a whole year which hasn't had anything set in it beyond a single flashback and that's in Shinka 45. That's where a few things that haven't really been answered happened like everything regarding Kikko Edit: This episode is set in September of Shinka 49. The last episode was set in September Shinka 48. Everything's mostly the same it seems with the exception of Fuurota who seems to have permanently left the Bureau. Xelkelvos fucked around with this message at 21:56 on May 23, 2016 |
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May 23, 2016 21:51
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Man, so Imperial Ads is trying to correct the world so that it's our world. Also, baby Emi! 
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May 28, 2016 02:43
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This episode really wowed me. Lots of amazing reveals, the Teito lady finally getting some development and is it just me or was the animation noticeably better this episode? Also, the three NUTS robots are references to robots from 70s mecha anime. The one that was fought is a reference to getter-1 of getter robo (I was on the fence about this until i saw it flying with a cape in the next episode preview)  the second is a reference to Raideen from the show of the same name  the last one i'm not sure about. Dai-Apolon maybe?
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May 28, 2016 03:00
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The PM getting nailed on another scandal with an American firm this time is probably a reference to the Lockheed-Martin scandal in the 70s the same PM that he's a reference to was involved in. Also, lol, instead of OPEC, it's djinns and rocs loving up the oil industry.
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May 28, 2016 05:25
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Although pretty, this last episode felt super disjointed/disconnected from the rest of the events so far. I'm starting to wonder if the show is going to manage to stick the landing. 
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May 28, 2016 16:25
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I'm not following everything either. There're a lot of characters showing up that I either don't recall or don't have a clue who they are or why they're there. Also, really, really weird alternate dimension vibes at the end of this episode. Sure, alternate dimension. Got it. But this was somehow really strange. The atom bomb at Hiroshima not exploding but delivering a baby (Jiro) instead in one dimension and exploding in the other? Just weird. I figured Emi is centuries old, so young girl Emi was a shocker. Unless she just did that to be on the same level as Jiro. I really wish Kikko could be evil again too.I liked evil-Kikko best. Why isn't Jiro considered a superhuman? With that crazy arm, you'd think.
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May 28, 2016 16:40
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Dan7el posted:I'm not following everything either. There're a lot of characters showing up that I either don't recall or don't have a clue who they are or why they're there. If you are talking about the three people talking to Jiro in the office, that's the Giant Alien Guy/Grossaugen, and the fusion android couple. Took a while to recognize them. Emi changed her look into the current one when Jiro berserked when the ape monster originally appeared. As for why Jiro isn't considered a superhuman, they also don't consider youkai as superhuman. So maybe he just isn't human in the first place?
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May 28, 2016 17:14
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I think the argument originally was that Jiro is just a regular human with a nuclear dragon riding around in his body, rather than a person who was human and developed superpowers. It's obviously not the case, but that's what he was told growing up.
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May 28, 2016 17:17
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I think that Jiro's insistence that he's not a superhuman is more an ideological thing. Remember, he said Rainbow Knight was an excellent superhuman even after learning he was just a guy in a suit. Superhumans are an ideal to Jiro, and he feels as though he hasn't reached it yet.
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May 28, 2016 17:25
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Lemon-Lime posted:Although pretty, this last episode felt super disjointed/disconnected from the rest of the events so far. I'm starting to wonder if the show is going to manage to stick the landing. The direction was disjointed, but this was actually the most connected to the rest of the series this season has ever been. It was pretty much entirely callbacks to the first season. I think we're out of vignette mode and back into the main story. Incidentally, I found it interesting that the translation chose to use yokai untranslated this time, as opposed to calling them monsters or whatever it normally does. I mean, it makes sense when they're being directly contrasted to djinni, but you'd think they'd go for consistency to keep the terminology straight. These sorts of creatures increasingly been the focus of the series, with several recent episodes focusing on gods, "bogeys", and devils, who all have a somewhat alien perspective on humanity and maybe shouldn't be considered superhumans at all.
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Clarste posted:The direction was disjointed, but this was actually the most connected to the rest of the series this season has ever been. It was pretty much entirely callbacks to the first season. I think we're out of vignette mode and back into the main story. they've been using youkai this whole season i think, just like how they changed meteorterre to meteortail.
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I think the official position is that non-humans including yokai and other mythological monsters, aliens and robots, are not superhumans. Jiro don't give a gently caress, though.
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We've been a bit past due for a full timeline post, where is that at again?Lemon-Lime posted:I'm starting to wonder if the show is going to manage to stick the landing. At this point "sticking the landing" means "launching itself beyond the space-time continuum" and anything besides a weird Eva episode 25/26-esque ending would be a success.
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AnacondaHL posted:We've been a bit past due for a full timeline post, where is that at again? https://geekorner.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/concrete-revolutio-episode-20-the-soft-dictatorship-of-freedom/#more-8943 There it is as of this episode. edited to point to his blog instead since he never did update the reddit version. a kitten fucked around with this message at 17:16 on May 30, 2016 |
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a kitten posted:https://geekorner.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/concrete-revolutio-episode-20-the-soft-dictatorship-of-freedom/#more-8943 Sorry, just been busy the past week, and ill. I should hopefully get to it tomorrow, Thursday the latest, so I'd be current with episode 22! (Yes, that's my blog  )
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May 31, 2016 20:49
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Oh wow, thanks for doing those!
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May 31, 2016 20:57
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New episode is up. Robots get to gattai in this episode. Also, Most of Jiro's story becomes clear.
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Dang Jiro
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Aggressively hegemonizing Claude swarm.
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Jun 4, 2016 05:14
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Also, the movie versions of everybody are just wonderful. 
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Yeah movie Jaguar was great.
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This episode was yet again very good, and it said some really interesting things about Jiro as a character. Presenting Claude as Jiro of the past brings up parallells to Raito, with the main difference being that Raito sought to return to the way he was while Jiro rejected it. Considering Raito is, to put it gently, a bit nutty I wonder if the show is saying something about it being necessary to let go of your childhood beliefs in order to become an adult. The reveal that Jin viewed Jiro in the same way that Jiro viewed Rainbow Knight is also interesting. Jiro's insistence that he's not a superhuman is partially because he feels he doesn't live up to the ideal of them he has, but it's also an excuse to releave himself of the responsibility that carries. Jin's view of him strips that excuse away and forces him to view himself in the same light he views other superhumans. What's also interesting is that while Jiro grows increasingly unsure of himself Daitetsu seems to grow more and more confident that Jiro is right. I wonder if the show is going to end with a repeat of Rainbow Knight's death, with Jiro in the place of Rainbow Knight and Daitetsu in the place of Jiro. On a more casual note, the combination sequence was neat but I'm gonna miss centaur bot. Centaur robots are cool.
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Xelkelvos posted:also, if you can into moonrunes, there's this from 2chan via 4chan Old, but I think this is at least partially a JP version of this partial first-cour image somebody made, lining up dates and events in ConRevo with their real-world references or equivalents. Some seem like stretches, but others are pretty transparent in either name or location. 
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Jun 8, 2016 08:23
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I'm glad this episode dispelled the doubts I had about the show when the one before it aired. Also, just posting this here because it's a cool sequence: https://jii.moe/VknLr8Z4-.mp4
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Motto posted:Old, but I think this is at least partially a JP version of this partial first-cour image somebody made, lining up dates and events in ConRevo with their real-world references or equivalents. Some seem like stretches, but others are pretty transparent in either name or location. I found a newer version of this.  
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