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Steam: pazython
Witch from Mercury, episode 17:
I really liked all the clear parallels to episode 1. A bully gets told off in the tomato house, but this time Guel's role is reversed. The duel starts the same way it did back then, with Suletta immediately slicing and dicing Guel's mobile suit. And of course, Miorine giving Suletta a speech and changing her clothes. There's even clearer parallels to their second duel, with people on the sidelines interfering on Guel's behalf.
Prospera's scheme this episode seems clear for once. Shaddiq seems pretty sure he's actually able to acquire Gund-ARM and Aerial, so Prospera moves her daughter into Jeturk's hands. (She has dirt on them, ever-so-conveniently.) Elan 5 jumping ship to seek refuge in Grassley is funny after watching Shaddiq negotiate with Peil. Maybe he just gets thrown back. I just wonder what's going to happen to Suletta next episode. I think Prospera might just ghost her, fulfilling Miorine's request in a twisted way.
I was going to segue more smoothly into this but fuck it, here's some speculation/ranting about Suletta's and Aerial's nature:
I have seen Golden Boy twice, once when I was a mere 20 something in college and again something like 5-6 years ago when it was on Crackle.
I am still not sure if it’s any good and has something real to say or if it is just extremely horny.
I guess the most annoying thing is that Kintaro (fuck, his name is “Gold” and then ”taro”, like every protagonist in every Japanese fairytale, I just got that) is basically the same in every episode, it’s the people around him whose lives are changed forever by his presence, and I guess I’m not sure if that’s satisfying as a series arc.
It’s kind of like “What if Superman was a nomad and also gigantic horndog”, the anime.
Edit: Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure he straight up commits sexual assault in the swim episode, although 90s Japanese dudes' perceptions of what constitutes sexual assault are awfully collar-tuggy from what I remember of a lot of Anime in the 90s anyway....
WfM 17:
Also I just realized Miorine turned 17 in episode 17 lol.
Taro also means boy, as you picked up on like Momotaro is peach boy, so kintaro is the titular golden boy
But yeah agreed on all points
I watched the Entertainment District arc on one of those TVs with the darned motion-smoothing turned to the max, and the 2D/3D animation layers felt like they completely detached from each other
There's an episode of Bob's Burgers where Teddy falls on the floor and starts flopping around in weirdly smooth high-quality animation, and all Demon Slayer's fights look like to me now is the characters doing that flopping motion with swords in their hands
Like, take the animation in that clip, give Teddy a sword, and start bouncing him off of a bunch of walls or other Japanese-y background objects, and that's it that's the show
oh yeah I don't begrudge Demon Slayer having a certain place in the world, and it is probably a great Baby's First Battle Shonen for the kids these days - I pity the generation for whom that niche was filled by Fairy Tail and Seven Sins
Oh man, “taro” doesn’t just mean “boy”, it’s 太郎, which is “great/large son”
Or “big boy”, if you will.
I will never be able to say any “taro” name with a straight face again.
Big golden boy
Big peachy boy
Big bay-island boy
Okay, that one isn’t as silly.
Steam ID - VeldrinD
After 11 failures, I could see Elnora just breaking and pursuing the Quiet Zero plan as a method of giving Eri form outside of Aerial again; from what we’ve seen about how Aerial’s Permet network works, and what little they’ve said about Quiet Zero, my guess is it’s an enormous Permet field like we’ve seen her use a few times now, where the staves create a giant Permet enclosure and that, somehow, a consciousness that exists in the network should be able to manifest within that the space the particles occupy and able to freely move around without being confined to the mobile suit.
Ironically, it still very much seems like what happened to Eri is an accidental version of what Cardo Nabo had intended for the project to begin with: a fully synthetic body using GUND tech that would enable humanity to live in space… except because since it wasn’t planned, it wasn’t actually fully fit to be inhabited that way (Eri basically being rendered semi-mute, or not fully autonomous for 21 years being the clear issues with it so far; she exists within the Gundam’s own Permet network, but it doesn’t seem like she can treat the unit like a body without Suletta to help pilot it with her)
escanor is a good strong boy
Yam, but that's not Japanese. It's Indo-something, and taro, where the name is Tarou. The Japanese word for taro is satoimo, which basically translates to rustic potato as opposed to satsuma imo (sweet potato).
Big boy is also really stretching it. It's more like eminent or great. As in first son or first born. You could say that 太 (standalone as futo, rather than ta) means fat, which is accurate, but that's like saying 太陽 means fat shine instead of the sun. Breaking apart kanji to their atomic pieces is rarely sensical. For names especially, in any language. A lot of names like Nathanial or Johnathon come from variations of "blessed by God."
i will probably never watch seven deadly sins but i did watch this takedown video
got through the description of all those relationships, and it's pretty...something...to manage to cram that much yikes into a series
Became?
I watched the first episode at some point and as far as I'm concerned it was bad right away.
I guess I might have been willing to give it more of a chance if not for the casual sexual assault.
Escanor is the sole thing the manga did right. The fight vs. Estarossa is amazing.
Go-Gomora???
Old-school anime Voltes V got a live-action series in the Philippines that started airing today.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Many creature designs in Dandadan are riffs on old Ultraman creature designs!