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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    Been enjoying the second season of that yuri Gundam show with the manipulative mom

    Y'know, Birdie Wing

    In this week guess the episode title: The Strange Fates of Two Generations of Young People Who Were Caught Up in The Ego of Adults

    Golf or Gundam?

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anzekay wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Ga-Rei-Zero dares to ask the question, "What if Chainsaw Man was good?"

    Technically it should be the other way around, Ga-Rei-Zero was here first! /hipster

    The big problem with Ga-Rei Zero is that Ga-Rei also exists, and existed for a few years ahead of Zero, which is why "don't look up anything about it" remains good advice even after the intro episode(s). Not that it's objectionable or anything, though it is very, very tonally different from (all but the rom-com episode of) Zero. It's just... well, we can discuss that once they're done with Zero.

    Also, this same director also did Fate/Zero and Aldnoah Zero. And Girls Bravo and Wandering Son. Eclectic dude. Who's doing a show later this year with the very unfortunate title of "Special Kid Factory."

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Anzekay wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Ga-Rei-Zero dares to ask the question, "What if Chainsaw Man was good?"

    Technically it should be the other way around, Ga-Rei-Zero was here first! /hipster

    The big problem with Ga-Rei Zero is that Ga-Rei also exists, and existed for a few years ahead of Zero, which is why "don't look up anything about it" remains good advice even after the intro episode(s). Not that it's objectionable or anything, though it is very, very tonally different from (all but the rom-com episode of) Zero. It's just... well, we can discuss that once they're done with Zero.

    Also, this same director also did Fate/Zero and Aldnoah Zero. And Girls Bravo and Wandering Son. Eclectic dude. Who's doing a show later this year with the very unfortunate title of "Special Kid Factory."

    That's funny, given the hate most have for Fate/Zero.
    (It was my gateway drug to Fate, and one of the two shows that got me back into anime after a long 2000s drought.)

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    do most people hate fate zero? I see more positive impressions than negative, around here at least

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    do most people hate fate zero? I see more positive impressions than negative, around here at least

    Well, only like two of us in the stream legitimately liked it, the rest were cracking jokes about the exposition-heavy pilot(which is still one of my favorite episodes).

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Fate has a very specific brand of bullshit that hits basically every button I have.

    Mage has turned the top floor of a hotel into his own personal workshop, guarded by ghosts and familiars, traps all throughout the floors below that require incredible magical ability to disable, protected personally by a Servant who is far more than any human's match?
    Blow up the whole building bottom to top.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Always struck me as very sensible personally.

    The real reason Fate Zero is good. Meta spoilers.
    The villain follows a traditonal heroes journey and the hero follows a villains downfall. They dont swap roles, they just follow the other sides traditonal structure.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    In general I can fuck really heavy with dialogue and character-driven anime - I loved Katanagatari and even enjoyed the slow parts of Durarara!!

    But Fate Zero just felt extremely slow and clunky to me with very little in the way of payoff for the buildup, and I honestly only finished it to close out the MyAnimeList entry

    The only part of it I really adored was the character arcs between Rider and Waver tbh

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Fate has a very specific brand of bullshit that hits basically every button I have.

    Mage has turned the top floor of a hotel into his own personal workshop, guarded by ghosts and familiars, traps all throughout the floors below that require incredible magical ability to disable, protected personally by a Servant who is far more than any human's match?
    Blow up the whole building bottom to top.


    That's why they all fear the Mage Killer. They play chess, he plays Battleship.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Anzekay wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Ga-Rei-Zero dares to ask the question, "What if Chainsaw Man was good?"

    Technically it should be the other way around, Ga-Rei-Zero was here first! /hipster

    The big problem with Ga-Rei Zero is that Ga-Rei also exists, and existed for a few years ahead of Zero, which is why "don't look up anything about it" remains good advice even after the intro episode(s). Not that it's objectionable or anything, though it is very, very tonally different from (all but the rom-com episode of) Zero. It's just... well, we can discuss that once they're done with Zero.

    Also, this same director also did Fate/Zero and Aldnoah Zero. And Girls Bravo and Wandering Son. Eclectic dude. Who's doing a show later this year with the very unfortunate title of "Special Kid Factory."

    Yeah, though it was kinda fascinating for me when I was younger and watched Ga-Rei Zero because it prompted me to go read the manga to find out just what happens after the anime. and it was good, I enjoyed it!

    I had a similar experience with Fate/Zero. Watched it with my Dad, liked it a fair bit, decided to watch the old Fate/SN anime (it was not good) and then when Ufotable did UBW I was 1000% into it and watched that with my Dad as well. If I had started with F/SN I highly doubt I would've investigated the series any further at all.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    WfM continues to be week after week of excellence. Really digging the urban brawl we saw here, little details like Earth suits using physical weapons while Spacians use energy, and also just how terrifying urban mech battles would be (Hathaway did this really well too)

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Also, WFM calling it now
    Suletta is a fully artificial human, a gund tech ai built at human size. It'd explain a few things on where she came from and how she exists, and we've also seen repeated shots of a very aggressively augmented person in the first OP. Why not a full from the ground up human?

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    bob can't catch a break

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    el_vicio wrote: »
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    Been enjoying the second season of that yuri Gundam show with the manipulative mom

    Y'know, Birdie Wing

    wait
    Birdie Wing has mechs?

    Well, mechanical limbs...

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
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    updated shot of eri in the OP!

    poor nika :<

    wonder if we're getting a kit of that new earth suit

    saw someone else point out that last episode we had chuchu getting all shocked at norea targeting cockpits and then this week it was full on urban warfare

    also i like how we left off on the reveal last week and didn't get a single second of suletta in this episode

    also, pretty lengthy postcredits scene this week

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Finally watched The Wind Rises on Netflix yesterday. Here are some (mostly) off the cuff comments, timestamped.
    12 min mark: You're damn right, Dream Caproni! Engineers are for turning dreams into reality!

    22 min: Oh no! The University is on fire! Save the books!

    23 min: Love how the foley for all the dream airplane engines are human mouths making engine noises.

    25 min: The dt's are how you know it's engineering! (And/or research, shhh...)

    1:03 min: Okay, even the real airplanes use mouth-based engine foley...

    1:22 min: More than even odds the piano man is Jewish.

    1:34 min: Going through the garden is more fun, eh? :wink:

    1:37 min: It's true, all airplane designs would be improved if they'd leave the guns off. Fake-edit written at 2:00 min: Oh god, is "we can sacrifice the guns for more speed" the thing that sparked the idea of kamikaze suicide bombers in the top brass?

    1:52 min; "We're not arms merchants, we just want to make good aircraft." Mitsubishi is selling arms to the government, that's pretty- Ohhh, they're just arms sellers and manufacturers, arms merchants would sell them to a variety of buyers and have an incentive to multiply their clientele.

    1:57 min: Wow, the Zero's speed is literally too high for the sensor to read, huh? Is Miyazaki reusing the "it's too powerful for the sensors to read" trope, or was that an actual historical event?

    2:01 min: Cursed dreams eventually turn into nightmares. Figuring out how to tell good dreams from cursed ones before being put into industrial production has been an ongoing worry of mine since I enrolled in Engineering school 14 years ago.

    Post-movie notes: After a quick wikipedia read, it turns out the movie's romance is actually Tatsuo Hori's, who wrote "The Wind is Risen", with his fiancée. They were both afflicted with tuberculosis and lived in a sanatorium near Nagano, but only she died. Jori Horikoshi was a married man during WW2 and had 5 children in the course of his life.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Also, WFM calling it now
    Suletta is a fully artificial human, a gund tech ai built at human size. It'd explain a few things on where she came from and how she exists, and we've also seen repeated shots of a very aggressively augmented person in the first OP. Why not a full from the ground up human?
    I think the second season ED really lends something to this theory, especially the part where Aerial stabs? Suletta, and then suddenly she has Permet running all through her body. We've never seen Suletta have a Permet reaction before...

    It could be Suletta is Eri, after a fashion... a simulacra of her.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    God, The Wind Rises absolutely decimated me the first time I watched it

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    wind rises is basically tied with princess mononoke for being my favorite miyazaki movie

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  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundam Witch From Mercury thought:

    I sure did not expect some kind of space Draco Malfoy bully to be the most compelling character in the series with the most character development, but here we are.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Today's Witch from Mercury
    Bob's off doing the main character arc of some other story.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    G-witch 15
    This was my favorite ep of the series I think

    Maybe the Suletta/Miorine space hallway chase episode beats it? But I loved everything about this

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  • KupiKupi Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    GWitch 15
    Jalil got one line out and I already knew not to get too attached to the guy.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    gundam witch 15
    I get that you loved your dad and it was traumatic to accidentally kill him, Guel, but god he was such a shitty, abusive parent and I'm glad you did lol

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ph blake wrote: »
    G-witch 15
    This was my favorite ep of the series I think

    Maybe the Suletta/Miorine space hallway chase episode beats it? But I loved everything about this

    Proud Iok traditions, just compressed as hell.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Asthariel wrote: »
    Gundam Witch From Mercury thought:

    I sure did not expect some kind of space Draco Malfoy bully to be the most compelling character in the series with the most character development, but here we are.

    the funny thing is me, i've watched enough anime that the second i saw bob i knew he was gonna go through some shit

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    el_vicio wrote: »
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    Been enjoying the second season of that yuri Gundam show with the manipulative mom

    Y'know, Birdie Wing

    wait
    Birdie Wing has mechs?
    The joke is that Amuro and Char's VAs are in the show

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    The Iruma-kun manga is in the middle of a pivotal arc, and things are popping off right now.

    The author is a master of both impactful page turns and subtle paneling. As much as I like the anime, it doesn't come close to the masterwork of the manga sometimes. Wow.

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    el_vicio wrote: »
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    Been enjoying the second season of that yuri Gundam show with the manipulative mom

    Y'know, Birdie Wing

    wait
    Birdie Wing has mechs?

    A side character is an avid Gunpla collector.

    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    The joke is that Amuro and Char's VAs are in the show

    Also this. Sayla's, too. Their characters are named "Amuro Reiya" and "Seira", even.

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I just figured it was good natured ribbing over the absurdity of the show.

    Nope! Sunrise cross-branding out the wazoo on this one.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    el_vicio wrote: »
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    Been enjoying the second season of that yuri Gundam show with the manipulative mom

    Y'know, Birdie Wing

    wait
    Birdie Wing has mechs?

    A side character is an avid Gunpla collector.

    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    The joke is that Amuro and Char's VAs are in the show

    Also this. Sayla's, too. Their characters are named "Amuro Reiya" and "Seira", even.

    Megumi Han isn't voicing anyone in Birdie Wing I think, it's just the character name that's the homage (though Seira's VA Yūko Kaida was Marida Cruz in Gundam Unicorn)

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ph blake wrote: »
    G-witch 15
    This was my favorite ep of the series I think

    Maybe the Suletta/Miorine space hallway chase episode beats it? But I loved everything about this

    Proud Iok traditions, just compressed as hell.

    ... Oh wow, the Avatar parallels just hit me: Suletta, like Aang, is a naïve but competent stranger from a long-forgotten civilization a distant planet arrives in an oppressive socio-political climate. When she starts interacting with everyone, she clowns on, and inspires, them due to her skills and outlook gained during her upbringing, especially the hot-headed Crown Prince of the Fire Nation heir to one of the top oppressive corporations. Then, like Korra, she gets taken in by the daughter of one of the leading industrial corporations... which makes Miorine Asami, if Asami's dad was a huge prick with a rock for a face and made his fortune off selling and manufacturing weapons.

    LoK S1 spoilers
    Wait, Delling is a negative of Asami's Dad: he's overtly making weapons and covertly working on a peaceful invention where A-Dad was doing the reverse, he's stone-faced where A-Dad was jovial and warm, and... he didn't go on a quest for revenge when his wife died unlike A-Dad.

    Okay, that's pretty much all the parallels I can clearly see rn.

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    el_vicio wrote: »
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    Been enjoying the second season of that yuri Gundam show with the manipulative mom

    Y'know, Birdie Wing

    wait
    Birdie Wing has mechs?

    A side character is an avid Gunpla collector.

    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    The joke is that Amuro and Char's VAs are in the show

    Also this. Sayla's, too. Their characters are named "Amuro Reiya" and "Seira", even.

    Megumi Han isn't voicing anyone in Birdie Wing I think, it's just the character name that's the homage (though Seira's VA Yūko Kaida was Marida Cruz in Gundam Unicorn)

    Think I must have read something somewhere else too fast.

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