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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 20
    oh fuck yeah everyone should watch iruma kun, it’s wholesome as hell

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    Going to be a long year waiting for it.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    Man Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is just not clicking with me. Like, I can tell why someone would say it's good, and the imagination stuff is inventive, but I dunno.. I just get really bored watching it. Ah well.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Whippy wrote: »
    oh fuck yeah everyone should watch iruma kun, it’s wholesome as hell

    goddamn this pun

    damn i made another one, damn

    damn

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Watamote 174 came out

    Not really any big developments, just more stuff continuing to develop, and Tomoko continuing to unintentionally shatter Fuuka's sanity.

    - Fuuka really does seem like she's got a bit of a latent crush on Asuka or something. She's really bothered by her suspicions about the two of them, it kinda feels like Tomoko's old jealousy towards Yuu's boyfriend.
    - Tomoko moves up in her grade rankings, which is nice. Yuu moves down, which is... inevitable. Asuka moves down too so now she's in Tomoko's rank, which seems extremely intentional on Asuka's part.

    Actually to break into paragraphs: regarding Asuka, I find her writing really interesting. She's one of the very few characters where we basically never see her thoughts, even after all this time her motivations are kind of a mystery. Early on this felt like a pretty obvious writer's device, she sure seems like she's into Tomoko but to keep it a mystery the writing simply never lets the audience in on what she's thinking. It also keeps Tomoko from seeming like TOO much of an idiot, since she has no idea about Asuka's feelings towards her either. The audience suspects, but we're not certain, and that makes Tomoko's own lack of certainty understandable. It always felt a little bit like cheating to me though, they're kind of breaking the rules on this one character to keep the audience in the dark.

    Although as a digression within a digression, it's interesting how it's probably not like they're avoiding showing Asuka's thoughts in a Yuri Subtext way just to avoid The Gay Stuff from becoming text, cuz Ucchi's right over there on her whole ongoing journey of queer self acceptance. But for Ucchi it's that self discovery that's really her character arc, she doesn't have to get with Tomoko to grow. Asuka's thoughts not being shown suggest that she's on some other kind of arc.

    What's interesting to me is that as we've spent more time with Asuka her blankness has moved beyond just a device for the consumption of the audience, it's gradually become more obvious that none of the other characters have any idea WTF she's actually like inside her head either. She's obviously a naturally nice person, she's not some secret psycho. She lives that popular girl image really well so people like Fuuka just kind of assume they know what she's like, but she's actually very isolated, she barely seems to have any real friends. Asuka really reads to me like a closeted girl who's got most of herself shut off. She wants to head off to college and leave her whole crowd behind her. Considering Tomoko's constant awkward mixed signals Asuka doesn't know for sure if Tomoko's into girls for real, so she flirts with Tomoko in kind of deniable ways, and ways where it's entirely up to Tomoko to follow up or not, so that Asuka won't out herself.

    It's not like that's the only possible explanation for how Asuka acts, but at this point I think it's pretty much the most supportable interpretation. I'm still hoping we're gonna get a big development at the study camp with her.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    I started reading beastars and I kind of love legosi and haru. Like a lot.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    Okay I wanna watch some Gundam

    Where the fuck do I start

    I have Hulu, Netflix, Funimation, and Crunchyroll at my disposal

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Okay I wanna watch some Gundam

    Where the fuck do I start

    I have Hulu, Netflix, Funimation, and Crunchyroll at my disposal

    I haven't watched it myself but I have heard good things about Iron-Blooded Orphans, which is on Netflix.

    Ideally you would watch the original Mobile Suit Gundam, but I don't think that's available to stream anywhere.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Okay I wanna watch some Gundam

    Where the fuck do I start

    I have Hulu, Netflix, Funimation, and Crunchyroll at my disposal

    I haven't watched it myself but I have heard good things about Iron-Blooded Orphans, which is on Netflix.

    Ideally you would watch the original Mobile Suit Gundam, but I don't think that's available to stream anywhere.

    Mobile Suit Gundam Wing is on Crunchyroll, is that it?

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  • RadiusRadius Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Yes, Gundam Wing is the first Gundam series.

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  • OptyOpty Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Across those four sites you have access to all available Gundam shows according to because.moe so you can take your pick. Personally my first entry into Gundam was Gundam Wing (Edit: which is not the first Gundam series), but I don't know how well it holds up nowadays.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Nobody has ever watched all of gundam. don't tell lies.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Gundam Wing was my first foray into Gundam back in the day, but it's really not one of the best entries.

    The 08th MS Team (on Hulu) is a good one.

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  • MrGrimoireMrGrimoire Pixflare Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    I tried to watch all of Gundam once.

    I got halfway into the first episode of the original show.

    That's a condemnation of me, not the show, by the way.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    08th MS Team is probably my recommendation too

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Kana wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    It's amazing how refreshingly real Reina and Kumiko's relationship feels. No pandering, just distinct chemistry, right down to how differently they address each other when alone.

    Yeah there's a little detail in the first episode of the second season where when they're with their other friends and they're all sitting close-but-not-touching to each other. And then later there's scenes of them alone together and now Reina and Kumiko are sitting closer, with no room between them. Like their body language gets noticeably more intimate as soon as they're not around people they know. (but then after 201 Yamada went off to do one of her movies and the gayness mostly all disappears).

    This scene in particular:

    (0:54)

    I knew they'd never go there, but the exercise of restraint actually makes it even more effective.

    Yeah like Hibike was plainly never going to go Full Yuri, but I think while Yamada is in charge of it it's got a really wonderful queer perspective. Which is really even better because it's not primarily a romance.

    There's parts which drive me nuts where they're not willing to admit what's going on, but like Kumiko crushing on Reina early on is super well done.

    Especially since like the whole theme of the first season is being OK with not fitting in and disrupting the group. Which is a pretty damn subversive theme in a Japanese show.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Gundam Wing was bad but also kind of great. It's got one of those ridiculously stacked mid/late '90s staffs, all the characters and robots look so detailed and distinctive, the backgrounds are great.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Gundam Wing is where a ton of people were introduced to Gundam but it is very much an oddball series that I would not suggest as your first foray.

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  • Dee KaeDee Kae Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    As someone who was curious thanks to Dynasty Warriors Gundam, a whole lotta gundam is pretty awful. Kamille Bidan is the worst protag ever.

    And Char Aznable is just a dick.

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - Opening 1 | Just Communication 1:30
    https://youtu.be/oNJ4aBoRipg
    Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - Opening 2 | Rhythm Emotion V2 w/ Beeps 1:30
    https://youtu.be/ICOwBtm8L_s

    The most exciting part of Gundam Wing, it's a trap!

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  • CururuCururu Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Another vote for G Gundam here. It is by far not the most representative of the rest of Gundam series, but behold the power of its glorious ham!

    https://youtu.be/9QjPbSe0nRI

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Gundi wrote: »
    Gundam Wing is where a ton of people were introduced to Gundam but it is very much an oddball series that I would not suggest as your first foray.

    Wing is not an outlier at all to the point where 00 is essentially a remake of it.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Don't forget the ending for Gundam Wing, which was never used on Toonami for some reason.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0wTT5Tfafo

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Beastars update: Oh my god I cannot believe how invested I've gotten in this tiny sassy bunny and this huge awkward wolf having a romantic relationship. They are my weird dumb children! Except wait no that would be incest if they were both my children, uh, I am simultaneously two different people, and both of their mothers.

    Also Panda is the boss.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Mysst wrote: »
    Here's the thing, Mori

    Do you wanna watch a bunch of kids whine about the horrors of war

    Or do you wanna see a football robot punch a clown robot while hot girls sing America the Beautiful

    But enough about Jojo

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Mysst wrote: »
    Here's the thing, Mori

    Do you wanna watch a bunch of kids whine about the horrors of war

    Or do you wanna see a football robot punch a clown robot while hot girls sing America the Beautiful

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Fdj3pVW6w

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Most Gundam stuff is it's own self contained universe, usually 50ish episodes and maybe a movie and you are done. The U.C. universe which has the original Gundam series is one long continuous storyline.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    If you wanna go for the ultra depressing body horror combo Iron Blooded Orphans is on a lot of services and Gundam Thunderbolt is free on the gundaminfo youtube channel currently.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    I present to you my three favorite comedy pages by Murata:
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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    If you wanna go for the ultra depressing body horror combo Iron Blooded Orphans is on a lot of services and Gundam Thunderbolt is free on the gundaminfo youtube channel currently.

    Or you could just play Super Robot Wars, which has all the drama of Gundam without having to watch all those episodes.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    Mysst wrote: »
    Here's the thing, Mori

    Do you wanna watch a bunch of kids whine about the horrors of war

    Or do you wanna see a football robot punch a clown robot while hot girls sing America the Beautiful

    Yes!

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Mysst wrote: »
    Here's the thing, Mori

    Do you wanna watch a bunch of kids whine about the horrors of war

    Or do you wanna see a football robot punch a clown robot while hot girls sing America the Beautiful

    Yes!

    Awesome!

    Wait.

    Which one?

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    I'm way, way behind on Bofuri so I decided to actually sit down and catch up.
    Wasn't expecting suddenly vore but ok.

    And now maple is literally eating her way out of this Goatse demon

    This show is fucking wild, y'all

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    If you wanna go for the ultra depressing body horror combo Iron Blooded Orphans is on a lot of services and Gundam Thunderbolt is free on the gundaminfo youtube channel currently.

    Oh yeah, the Gundam Thunderbolt films are free to stream this month!

    I mean, there's context of the war that you won't quite understand if you aren't familiar with the UC setting, but they're pretty stand-alone otherwise.

    They're also, uh, kind of dark and nihilistic even for Gundam, IMO? Like, they're good, but not feel-good in any way at all.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    theres a horse that pilots a horse gundam

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  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Thunderbolt is

    A lot to handle.

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