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Black Lagoon is first and foremost an action series. A small crew of pirates/delivery people who team up or fight with various criminal and paramilitary units. It's got a bit of everything, humor, drama, and pure ass kicking. It has some fanservice but the girls are all treated as very, very scary and the show does not shy away from showing how horrible the criminal underworld can get.
Pretty much everyone loves to fight, but those that don't aren't cowards. Quite the opposite.
This is from the 2nd episode, and it sets the tone of the show pretty well.
The fuck is "hate-sex"?
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Typically when two people can't stand each other yet have sexual attraction for some reason.
FWIW, as bad as the Special Administrative Zone is, the big issue is that once you get that Zero is an heir to the Brittanian throne and has mind control powers, you not only get a means and a motive for the Special Administrative Zone massacre, but can also easily say that Lelouch was using the Japanese resistance as cannon fodder to get to the Brittanian throne and "actually I was using you guys to kill my father" doesn't sound better. Those things getting vastly glossed over kinda make the entire payoff not very satisfying. Like, they couldn't just skip a bit of the Mao plot for that?
Yep, she is 100% the top pilot in probably the world considering Suzaku only matches her, even with the Lancelot, by making use of his curse to avoid her killing blows.
"You're a fruitcake!" -Daniel Jackson
The last animated arc was Roberta's blood trail. The most recent after that deals with a Chinese intelligence agent caught up in a conspiracy.
The final battle between Suzaku and Kallen almost feels like the staff was deliberately trying to put that question to rest by setting up a 1v1 battle where Suzaku has a slight edge and still loses.
Anyway, Kallen rules and it's unfortunate that the majority of season 2 treats her pretty poorly.
When 2 characters really shouldn't get together but the actors have chemistry and it confuses the audience so they get shipped anyway.
it's a thing for artists to redraw screencaps of anime (or film or shows or whatever) either as studies or to experiment with styles
the sailor moon redraw tag has been kicking around for a few years at least, before the current explosion i most often saw this shot being used
i'm not sure exactly why it blew up like it did now, thank the algorithm/zeitgeist/etc for it, but the first instance of this particular redraw was from last year
anyway i've tossed my hat in the ring too
i'm back on an utena kick and since i've been thinking about the movie i started going through this 9 part shot-by-shot analysis, it's quite good so far (full spoiler warning for everything, of course)
(NSFW language; that’s literally all the video is)
And that's alright. Still love the episode where the mixed race Chinese American and the black ex-marine kill a ship full of neo nazis and have a bunch of fun doing it.
I hope that actress' resume is just a link to that video.
C.C. and Nobody Lelouch are shortly joined by a grab bag of returning favorite characters: Kallen, Lloyd, and Sayoko. After inflitrating a prison, using the hidden C's World gate, rescuing Suzaku, and defeating the prison's guards (who, for whatever reason, had disguised themselves as prisoners until the the good guys re-emerged from the lower levels), the team emerges with a restored Lelouch to try and rescue Nunnally, who is being exploited by the villain because her brain waves are similar to Charles' or something.
After a long sequence involving the bad guy traveling back in time six hours over and over upon dying to try and thwart Lelouch and an expanded team that includes several more returning characters for maximum fan service (including Jeremiah, Anya, Cornelia, Ohgi, Tamaki, Cecille, and Nina), Lelouch finally manages to deduce and circumvent the villain's unique time-manipulating Geass power (in a way I don't quite understand) and rescue Nunnally.
Despite earlier saying to Suzaku that he might possibly be a ghost that will disappear in a day's time, the resurrected Lelouch declines to return home with Nunnally and instead go wandering aimlessly with C.C. Lelouch declares, shortly after being told by C.C. that he can't keep going by his real name, that his new name will be L.L., which a quick Google search informs me is his way of proposing marriage to C.C. (not sure if that's correct, but I don't care that much).
The after credits scene shows a gothier-looking Lelouch aka L.L. and C.C. The former begins monologuing to someone off-screen about the resolution it takes to use Geass and not be destroyed by it. At the end, Lelouch is shown with a Geass symbol on his chest, implying that he has passed on the power of Geass to someone else, is now immortal, and that C.C. is now mortal.
Shirley shows up a few times in scenes far away from the main action, remaining alive and almost completely separated from the plot. At least she didn't get fridged like she did in season two of the original show, so yay???
Oh, also, while C.C is in C's World trying to restore Lelouch she happens upon what appears to be Charles and Marianne trapped in a large, black globe. This never comes up again. I kind of get the feeling that the writers for this movie are more confused about C's World's rules than I was during the original series.
I'm inclined to say that the original TV series, warts and all, is the true canon of Code Geass. These movies were fun from a perspective of bypassing tedious school hijinks and fanservice, as well as trying to spot the differences between the movies and the original show, but in the end too much of the interesting material was cut and the new prologue movie is completely unneccessary.
Its not so much of its time as it is of like, 1986.
Its verrry 80s action movie cocaine logic
I enjoyed going on one more ride with the Pizza Hut brigade, but yes, it was super duper unnecessary. The way they constructed a movie timeline also means the original TV show story wasn't "cheapened" or "ruined" or whatever else canon fanatics might spend their days worrying about.
You've just reminded me that Kallen at one point in the movie refers to C.C. as "Pizza Girl".
I also still can't believe that Shirley lives in these movies and still accomplishes far less than she did in the original series. I had previously assumed Shirley lived because they were planning to use her in the new movie, but apparently she only lived because they didn't have time for her scenes but also liked her enough to add her into scenes she wasn't in before instead of just killing her off-screen.
That and a bunch of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Bratz clips.
No, I'm serious on this. Her IMDB page contains some huge whiplash potential.
Steam ID XBL: JohnnyChopsocky PSN:Stud_Beefpile WiiU:JohnnyChopsocky
Killing Shirley was the only reason for the Rolo character to exist. Which you might say "did that character need to exist either?" And I'd say... probably not, it's all marketing and merch. They (probably correctly) thought that giving Lelouche an obsessive pretty boy follower who wanted to jump his bones would light up a certain demographic and make them a wheelbarrow full of cash. And perhaps that was dead on correct, who knows?
Ideally she would have gotten something to do on-screen, though. She went from knowing Lelouch was Zero in the series to having a hunch that Lelouch was "probably" a member of the Black Knights in the movies. She also shot Villetta in the series and caused her memory loss, whereas in the movies I honestly can't recall how Villetta lost her memory. Shirley's overall importance to the plot in the movies has massively decreased save for things we're told she did off-screen.
Lelouch trying to use the "live" Geass command on Shirley as she was dying in the series was really intense, IMO. Even if they didn't do that they could have ended things with her by Lelouch wiping her memory of him like what happened in the series.
Honestly I really liked Rolo's character and what Lelouch's relationship with him revealed about their characters. The scene after Nunnally's supposed death where Lelouch rants to a clearly heartbroken Rolo that he'll never take Nunnally's place in Lelouch's heart, followed shortly after with Rolo saving Lelouch and trying to act like he believed Lelouch was only driving him away to protect him really got to me.
yeah god that scene is great
What really kills me about it is that Lelouch's anger isn't unjustified: Rolo is a fake that was put there to be Lelouch's handler by the very people Lelouch has been fighting against his whole teenage life. Of course he'd hate Rolo, of course Rolo could never replace his actual sister who has shared all the pain and tragedy of his life.
But Rolo's developed brotherly love for Lelouch is what makes that so tragic, because if it weren't for that then perhaps he could have had the big brother he so desired.
Good News!
https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2019/05/05-1/code-geass-creators-unveil-10-year-plan-for-series
Hmmm
To be fair, some of those are six or seven letter words.
And a 13-letter one somewhere in the middle there.
Let. Stories. END.
This obsession with IP is the thing that rots away the soul of a creative piece.
It's one of the most popular new mangas started in last 2-3 years, that did not get an adaptation yet. I did not read it, but apparently it is pretty popular and well received, as it not another typical shonen, but a story about young actress, where each arc is about another production she takes part in.
I was under the impression that it was a webcomic or pixiv comic or something and would never get licensed, but apparently a new company called Kaiten Books just started up and released it as one of their first two books.
It's a high school rom-com, except the lead girl is a lizard woman (which, while rare, is apparently a normally accepted thing in this setting). She's energetic and popular, and secretly a total weirdo. She's in love with the unpopular lead guy who is also a total weirdo in that he is obsessed with lizards and collects lizard molt. When she sheds her skin, he's tries to secretly collect her molt to build a replica of her. However, she is fully aware of this and leaves her shedded skin where he can get it. When he's nearly completed the replica, she appears in his room and finally confronts him. They start dating, but at first he's only interested in being with her to collect her molt before eventually realizing he loves her too.
It's mostly cute hijinks between the two, usually involving her lizard physiology. However, there are a few NSFW bits, such as the replica usually being nude.
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Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
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I have! I like it a lot! It is Very Pretty, and seems plenty smart etc. It's worth noting i've never ever watched the original, so i cannot compare and contrast. But i really do like it a fair bit and hope we get more.
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