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I like this show and I hope the twist ends up interesting enough to sustain it. Also, AnacondaHL hosed up by not making the thread title "Concrete Revolutio - The Times, They Are A-Changin'." 
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AnacondaHL posted:I am an unfunny person and have no idea what the connection between Bob Dylan and this anime is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSoC_KHu4_A Someone overdubbed it with someone else singing, from the sounds of it, but the film intro has the Dylan version. e; also acceptable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgcc5V9Hu3g&t=49s 
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Oct 28, 2015 15:29
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It's not very dumb or very crazy, honestly, but they're taking their sweet time getting to the twist. My original guess was it'd show up 4-5 episodes in and the rest of the series would take place in 47, but they might stick with being set primarily in the past until halfway through. Kind of hope that's not the case, as it would afford them way more latitude to lose the plot.
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Oct 30, 2015 18:55
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I mean, you can also just read the title cards that give you the year.
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Oct 31, 2015 10:05
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So yeah, after these last two episodes, it's becoming pretty easy to see why Jiro turned on the Superhuman Bureau.
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Nov 1, 2015 23:22
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a kitten posted:Definitely, I'm still curious to find out why Kikko and Fuurouta stayed considering all the deception. I get the feeling that Fuurouta's nature as an inherently child-like entity means he's bad at thinking for himself and just wants to stick around (hence why he was too stupid to understand the virus in episode 3). Also, it feels like Kikko's not exactly a saint (she has zero issues with all the deception), but I'd definitely be interested in knowing more about her motivations. I forget and can't check right now, but does future Kikko still have her familiar?
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Nov 1, 2015 23:51
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Only just getting around to watching this weekend's episode, but there we go, there's our reason why Kikko gives no shits about the Bureau's actions.
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Nov 17, 2015 22:11
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It is a two-cours show: http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/07/02/bones-plans-concrete-revolutio-superhero-anime Earth-chan not getting much focus feels pretty normal right now since the focus is still on explaining what's happening with the Bureau. I imagine that once the reveal happens and the show shifts to primarily being set after Jiro's split, they'll have more time to focus on the supporting cast.
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Nov 19, 2015 10:30
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Actually, does anyone have any info on how well this is doing in Japan? It's ended up being one of the weirdest/most ambitious shows in a while and I hope it's paying off for Bones.
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Nov 23, 2015 00:14
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I thought the colours on that truck looked familiar. (Also, Kikko's answer to that.) Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Nov 30, 2015 |
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Nov 30, 2015 00:37
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a kitten posted:Update: Masaki Tsuji and Gen Urobuchi will contribute to the scripts. This is good news! Wish the show weren't split cours, though, but I can understand the studio needing the three month break.
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Dec 12, 2015 14:51
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It's not that I feel burned or anything, it's just that I don't want to have three months of no new episodes for a show I enjoy.
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Dec 12, 2015 16:27
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I'm two episodes behind right now but  if you didn't think Kikko would turn out not smelling of roses. She's been completely okay with all the dodgy poo poo the Bureau has been pulling from the beginning and the show has outright stated she's lying about her true nature.
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Dec 14, 2015 01:49
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The Dr Manhattan and Thunder Cats ones seem unlikely but the rest seem like they're quite probable.
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Dec 14, 2015 09:49
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Finally caught up. The Jaguar episode was insanely good, and this week's was pretty great too.Darth Walrus posted:C'mon, we all know who Claude is. Did you see his left arm? There's no way Claude is Jiro, it's a different voice actor and Jiro's powers don't line up with Claude's. Unless somehow Claude's powers are the true form of Jiro's arm's power and Claude is an older Jiro from the future, but that seems very  .
Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Dec 14, 2015 |
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Dec 14, 2015 17:39
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a kitten posted:Its gotta be the brown haired kid in that picture. Who the gently caress he is exactly? That's still on the way. Jiro is adopted, so it's presumably Dr Hitoyoshi's biological son. The real question is: when and where did Kikko meet him? Man, the addition of outright time travel to this has really messed with our ability to make predictions.
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Dec 14, 2015 18:08
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The rate at which things are progressing in this episode is making me realise that the pacing for the first ten episodes was a little out of whack. Claude should really have been introduced around episode 4/5 instead of waiting so long. Super glad the plot is finally going places, though. That said, if the thing that makes Jiro quit the Bureau ends up being just the revelation they set Rainbow Knight up and that Daishi is an alien, I'm going to be a little disappointed, since that doesn't really seem enough. I'm also not quite seeing how Shiba goes from his present state to being a nutso bad guy later on. e; I only just noticed this shot in the ED,  :
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Dec 20, 2015 20:07
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Torquemadras posted:Superhuman Bureau, set up by Jaguar, the doctor & apparently several aliens; meant to protect superhumans, and they're actually honest about that. That's kind of a misleading statement, in that they profess to be honest about it but they certainly have very few qualms about doing some very dodgy stuff; they're either full of poo poo on some level, or taking an extremely long view of what "protecting superhumans" means.
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Dec 20, 2015 23:51
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Daishi going "but I really do want to support superhumans!" in this last episode felt pretty dubious to me, too. I mean, I'm sure he does, but it feels like he's always been a huge pushover whenever he's been on-screen.Torquemadras posted:Let's hope the show doesn't drop the ball - it's just getting really interesting these last two episodes... Yeah, same. I'm looking forward to the next cours and I hope it can live up to the show's quality so far.
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Dec 21, 2015 00:32
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Finally managed to watch this episode, and wow, I think this was probably the best episode in the show so far? It definitely seems like the second cours is actually going to deliver some answers. Also, this was a great Ultraman episode! a kitten posted:Back in Episode 5 in the very first shot, a member of Imperial Ads is talking about "getting some country girl into prime time", and throws a plastic-wrapped record onto his desk. The album cover features three of the Angel Stars - Fannie, Rose, and Arachne - in striped sweaters.  This is the rare show where I can't wait for it to end and have its payoff so people can dig up all of the foreshadowing and references.
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Apr 17, 2016 14:56
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a kitten posted:Definitely. Kind of felt like this was deliberately put in as a chaser after the very plot-revelation-heavy previous episode. A bit disappointing, but Jiro and Jaguar still managed to shout about the main conflict at each other, so it was okay in the end. With the way the show works, I'm expecting either the Bird Men or Amato to show up again later and have an important minor role. Anyway, while digging for a timeline to link to someone who bounced off the show initially but wanted to get back into it, I found this, which is a cool look at some of the media censorship in CR: https://formeinfullbloom.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/media-and-propaganda-in-concrete-revolutio/
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Apr 24, 2016 20:05
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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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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 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'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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Jun 8, 2016 20:01
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This episode.   The pacing for this second cours feels really weird, right now. There were a couple of episodes genuinely progressing things, but still a lot of episodes only tenuously connected to the "main" plot or whatever you want to call it, and now this week's episode just feels like it's jumped straight into the conclusion while skipping several stages inbetween. Also at Jaguar's theory about nuclear energy and world peace.
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Jun 10, 2016 16:21
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I don't agree that he betrayed everything he stood for and become everything he hated - he started a war to help a loved one protect the oppressed. It's not "absolute justice" or any such stupid, childish concept, but I don't see how you can argue that defending the youkai from humans whose plan is literally to dissolve them in acid over and over again for all eternity to power their cars isn't just. A lot of the show so far has been about Jiro wavering back and forth between his childish ideals and some kind of compromise with reality, and this just fits in with his whole character across the entire show. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jun 10, 2016 |
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Jun 10, 2016 23:15
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In any case, I'm slightly disappointed Magneto isn't Emi.
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That was a very well animated episode, but I can't help but feel dissatisfied at how the ending just pretty much resolves everything in under 30 seconds, and I don't think the show ended up quite as good as I thought it would when the first cours concluded. 
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