Chet Rippo
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She's only got one boob!
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Spring Anime 2013 l OT One l All roads lead to this
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She's only got one boob!
It will make you despise it again very soon, no worries.
Stop trying to put cajun off Hunter x Hunter! That show is enjoyable for anyone, and I want to see delicious impressions!
What exactly IS snow?
curlyfriski
Banned
God's semen
peaceiscloser
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann 03
This is exactly the kind of ridiculousness I needed in my life. Although, to be honest seeing Yoko's boobs and butt taking up half the screen for parts of the episode was... eh I'm not one for fanservice so it was kinda taking away from the experience, personally.
This is exactly the kind of ridiculousness I needed in my life. Although, to be honest seeing Yoko's boobs and butt taking up half the screen for parts of the episode was... eh I'm not one for fanservice so it was kinda taking away from the experience, personally.
Kiss Dum: Engage Planet 01:
I'm watching this due to a death pact that I made with someone. In case you're not aware, this was a Satelight/Kawamori sci-fi/mecha series from a few years back that was apparently notorious for production issues/rampant QUALITY and fell into immediate obscurity, especially among western anime fans due to it getting Hyouge Mono'd except over a vastly longer amount of time. I've been waiting years to try it, and the time finally came.
I could tell within minutes of beginning the episode that the show was doomed to trainwreck--the overwhelming quantity of vague terminology, organizations, and mystical bullshit alone was bewildering with exposition paced far too quickly to sufficiently process, and the terribly inconsistent animation, disorienting fight choreography, unintentionally comical enemy design, and diverse host of doofus characters interconnected in a sticky web of relationships all worked in concert to create a bizarre experience. And yet, I wouldn't call the episode bad, but I'm clearly going to enjoy this for all the wrong reasons so my evaluation is skewed.
I don't really know what to say other than to simply relate the finer points of the episode:
Yeah, this is going to get weird. And probably really ugly. I genuinely can't wait to watch more because it definitely has the potential to be enjoyably insane.
I'm watching this due to a death pact that I made with someone. In case you're not aware, this was a Satelight/Kawamori sci-fi/mecha series from a few years back that was apparently notorious for production issues/rampant QUALITY and fell into immediate obscurity, especially among western anime fans due to it getting Hyouge Mono'd except over a vastly longer amount of time. I've been waiting years to try it, and the time finally came.
I could tell within minutes of beginning the episode that the show was doomed to trainwreck--the overwhelming quantity of vague terminology, organizations, and mystical bullshit alone was bewildering with exposition paced far too quickly to sufficiently process, and the terribly inconsistent animation, disorienting fight choreography, unintentionally comical enemy design, and diverse host of doofus characters interconnected in a sticky web of relationships all worked in concert to create a bizarre experience. And yet, I wouldn't call the episode bad, but I'm clearly going to enjoy this for all the wrong reasons so my evaluation is skewed.
I don't really know what to say other than to simply relate the finer points of the episode:
In the year 2031, a horde of mutated lifeforms emerge from a crack in the earth's crust and sink an ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean, killing thousands. In response, a special military and scientific organization is created to combat the new menace, but by 2051, the mutated lifeforms have followed oceanic currents and are now THREATENING JAPAN, because THAT'S WHAT MUTANT MONSTERS DO.
So there's some bullshit about something called the Book of the Dead that Yuno, a scientist, is convinced has to do with the appearance of the mutants, and due to "woman's intuition" (she seriously says this), she's somehow pinpointed the location of the Book of the Dead because a bunch of CG locusts have gathered somewhere in a gigantic swarm, which means, uhh, something. She's also in communication with a loli in a bikini floating in the ocean in an inntertube who knows about this shit because whatever.
Well, on Yuno's way to recover the book, MUTANT ARMAGEDDON breaks out and giant swarm balls of CG locusts appear all over the earth and begin to summon freakish-ass monsters called Hardians. One is a shark with tits riding a Graboid. NO JOKE. One is some kind of manticore thing with a snake for a tail. One is some kind of Yu-Gi-Oh dragon eagle thing gone way fucking wrong. One is just a misshapen brown blob that looks like a chiseled ass with arms and legs. I seriously have no clue how the whole thing works, but apparently the mutants can summon other mutants.
And so, all of Earth's cities are getting their shit wrecked and there's even a scene of some idiot looking out of her window going WHOA, THIS MONSTROUS SWARM OF CG LOCUSTS IS PRETTY COOL before said CG locusts somehow merge into a giant pink energy disc and blow up the house with extreme prejudice. All the while, important characters on the military side of things are getting introduced and sortied to their not-Valkyrie Fighters; there's Pederast Roy Fokker, whose only characterization so far is a shower scene where he talks about his muscles to a shota pilot while the camera remains fixed on shota pilot's dripping ass. Then, well, there's shota pilot. There are also two rowdy 2kool4skool frenemy dudes who have to get freed from the brig because they got into a fight over Yuno. One of them has spiky red hair and a breathe-right strip on their nose for that extra shounen panache.
So Yuno ends up in some underwater cave where she finally grabs the Book of the Dead, which is, for some reason, ACTUALLY A SWORD. Immediately after, some military goons kidnap her and she looks for a chance to escape on the helicopter ride back to the base; lucky for her, a swarm of CG locusts suddenly appears and engulfs the copter until it blows up, but Yuno and her manservant are okay because somehow there was a car in the helicopter and they were in it and LOL IDK they survive a several-hundred-foot fall to the earth in that thing. The military orders the pilots to capture her, but the frenemy dudes are hesitant to because they're both in love with her. Spiky Red Hair Dude gets distracted and gets crushed to death by a Hardian right in front of Yuno, who freaks out and STABS HIM BACK TO LIFE with the Book of the Dead sword, which not only revives him but apparently imbues him with some kind of power. Episode end.
So there's some bullshit about something called the Book of the Dead that Yuno, a scientist, is convinced has to do with the appearance of the mutants, and due to "woman's intuition" (she seriously says this), she's somehow pinpointed the location of the Book of the Dead because a bunch of CG locusts have gathered somewhere in a gigantic swarm, which means, uhh, something. She's also in communication with a loli in a bikini floating in the ocean in an inntertube who knows about this shit because whatever.
Well, on Yuno's way to recover the book, MUTANT ARMAGEDDON breaks out and giant swarm balls of CG locusts appear all over the earth and begin to summon freakish-ass monsters called Hardians. One is a shark with tits riding a Graboid. NO JOKE. One is some kind of manticore thing with a snake for a tail. One is some kind of Yu-Gi-Oh dragon eagle thing gone way fucking wrong. One is just a misshapen brown blob that looks like a chiseled ass with arms and legs. I seriously have no clue how the whole thing works, but apparently the mutants can summon other mutants.
And so, all of Earth's cities are getting their shit wrecked and there's even a scene of some idiot looking out of her window going WHOA, THIS MONSTROUS SWARM OF CG LOCUSTS IS PRETTY COOL before said CG locusts somehow merge into a giant pink energy disc and blow up the house with extreme prejudice. All the while, important characters on the military side of things are getting introduced and sortied to their not-Valkyrie Fighters; there's Pederast Roy Fokker, whose only characterization so far is a shower scene where he talks about his muscles to a shota pilot while the camera remains fixed on shota pilot's dripping ass. Then, well, there's shota pilot. There are also two rowdy 2kool4skool frenemy dudes who have to get freed from the brig because they got into a fight over Yuno. One of them has spiky red hair and a breathe-right strip on their nose for that extra shounen panache.
So Yuno ends up in some underwater cave where she finally grabs the Book of the Dead, which is, for some reason, ACTUALLY A SWORD. Immediately after, some military goons kidnap her and she looks for a chance to escape on the helicopter ride back to the base; lucky for her, a swarm of CG locusts suddenly appears and engulfs the copter until it blows up, but Yuno and her manservant are okay because somehow there was a car in the helicopter and they were in it and LOL IDK they survive a several-hundred-foot fall to the earth in that thing. The military orders the pilots to capture her, but the frenemy dudes are hesitant to because they're both in love with her. Spiky Red Hair Dude gets distracted and gets crushed to death by a Hardian right in front of Yuno, who freaks out and STABS HIM BACK TO LIFE with the Book of the Dead sword, which not only revives him but apparently imbues him with some kind of power. Episode end.
Yeah, this is going to get weird. And probably really ugly. I genuinely can't wait to watch more because it definitely has the potential to be enjoyably insane.
The sooner you embrace Yoko, the better. Cuz Yoko is far and away the Best Girl in the show.
Slayers Try 6
Lina and the gang decide to take the train! Things get out of hand.
peaceiscloser
Member
Well Corvo approves so I no longer feel shame. I can now embrace the Yoko.
(Also I'm just watching this on my laptop screen instead of apartment TV now so I don't feel as hawkward lol)
Gurren Lagann 04
Wow, the animation quality kinda took a bit of a drop in this episode. Classic Gainax?
I think Ep. 4 is a different animator entirely or something. Some drama there or something. Regulus knows the deets. Also, if it makes you feel better, I laughed my head off at one of the upcoming episodes, which is basically dedicated to fanservice.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Started playing it.......that opening 0_0. Naughty Dog never disappoint.....except for Jak 3.
Man this game has gotten me in the mood for a realistic survival horror anime? Is there such a thing?
No to both.
Maybe. I much prefer it. The plot is not quite as stupid and more characters makes it more interesting to me. Enough to push me to reading light novels..
Basileus777
Member
I'd take a twist like that, but I doubt will happen. There is nothing subtle about how they are handling any of this. I fully expect to be hit with a sledgehammer for another 40 minutes. If only they had kept it a show about an estranged soldier finding his place in a different society instead of bringing in all this rote scifi stuff.
How could it be worse than last week? Or the week before that?
You do make a very good point.
Basileus777
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Who knew Cajun was Araragi.
peaceiscloser
Member
Gurren Lagann 06
>Sees bunnies
This is the episode you're talking about isn't it Corvo
"I'm sorry... there are... SOME THINGS A GUY HAS TO SEE!!!"
>Sees bunnies
This is the episode you're talking about isn't it Corvo
"I'm sorry... there are... SOME THINGS A GUY HAS TO SEE!!!"
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Give him a toothbrush.
Lollipop Dave
Member
Haha love it!
I get them occasionally when I fall asleep at my desk as I did this morning.
Utena 5
OP to this show gonna get stuck in my head. All the music in this show walks the line between giving me nightmares and being my jam. What if Anthy is simultaneously Papillon, the Prince from Utena's childhood, and the little girl Miki used to know? Like, what if there are clones of her underneath the school waiting for Utena's dad to thaw them out or something?
"There's nothing to be afraid of!" SUDDENLY DRAMATIC AND SCARY MUSIC PLAYS. Oh man this show. Utena also voices all the things I'm thinking: how dumb the Rose Bride Slave system is.
SPEAKING OF EGGSHELLS, I really hope that there's a deeper character to Anthy than "I am a nice girl who does exactly what this rose bride thing says I have to do." Because deflecting Utena's question about Miki with that jazz is aaaaannoying. HAHAHAHAHA, dude, was Tengou making out with Miki's sister on top of his piano? HAhahahahahahahahaha. Man that is a douchebag move. And he did it to make a point it took him ten seconds to tell. That means that he waited like, all day just to do this. Oh man what a douchebag. Meanwhile, Anthy stands by and smiles vacantly because Chu-Chu's neck-tie has a higher IQ than her.
Why is Miki fantasizing this conversation in a lacy pink bed when it took place ten minutes ago exactly where he is standing now?
The one I'm talking about has pixels. Not pixies, but pixels.
OP to this show gonna get stuck in my head. All the music in this show walks the line between giving me nightmares and being my jam. What if Anthy is simultaneously Papillon, the Prince from Utena's childhood, and the little girl Miki used to know? Like, what if there are clones of her underneath the school waiting for Utena's dad to thaw them out or something?
"There's nothing to be afraid of!" SUDDENLY DRAMATIC AND SCARY MUSIC PLAYS. Oh man this show. Utena also voices all the things I'm thinking: how dumb the Rose Bride Slave system is.
SPEAKING OF EGGSHELLS, I really hope that there's a deeper character to Anthy than "I am a nice girl who does exactly what this rose bride thing says I have to do." Because deflecting Utena's question about Miki with that jazz is aaaaannoying. HAHAHAHAHA, dude, was Tengou making out with Miki's sister on top of his piano? HAhahahahahahahahaha. Man that is a douchebag move. And he did it to make a point it took him ten seconds to tell. That means that he waited like, all day just to do this. Oh man what a douchebag. Meanwhile, Anthy stands by and smiles vacantly because Chu-Chu's neck-tie has a higher IQ than her.
Why is Miki fantasizing this conversation in a lacy pink bed when it took place ten minutes ago exactly where he is standing now?
The one I'm talking about has pixels. Not pixies, but pixels.
Right? It's not time to get up yet.
I don't expect to be, but for now Anthy is sooooooooooo lame. I'll take Manami over her atm.
This the crunchyroll version?
peaceiscloser
Member
This is definitely the episode. ahahaha I was laughing my face off at this episode. Yoko IS totally best girl.
Fuck yes. I hope I'm decent on the Wall of Shame.
It's an English dubbed version. So not Crunchyroll.
Yeah, I think that's my favorite of the early episodes, and a strong contender for my favorite episode in the show.
Theonik
Member
It really is impossible to choose.
Your exposure to cute has reached its logical conclusion.
Make short videos of only it poking over tables or the top of your head and it.
Can you please tell the member popular demand to look out of a window.
It's not summer.
Basileus777
Member
Azuki Azusa is the easy choice.
I just spent a day in the swamp fishing in 88F heat with 90% humidity. Yeah its summer.
Theonik
Member
But Tsukiko. And King of Steel.
It's hard!
peaceiscloser
Member
Four more days!
Sounds like spring.
Damned right it is >_
All the characters in Henneko are pretty likeable. Except Emi. she kinda sucks.
Yeah, you're right, but it SHOULD be summer. Seattle was awesome for that.
It was yesterday! I saw the sun and everything! I was in different parts of London over the course of the day and only got rained on once!
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