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[PdotMichael]

Strike Witches S2 - 07



In this episode, girls were depantsed, butts were slapped, and girls took to the skies going commando. A wonderful, entertaining episode indeed.

Best thing is that the episode is a reference of a real story about Hartmann and

Spoiler

Hitler's hat

.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

I have to wonder if the prices they change for this stuff isn't the reason.

Is price really the reason if 10K people are buying Kuroko Basketball BDs, and I guess 15K or so are getting the DVD's of it? Probably multiple issues with the anime and lack of appeal/quality vs prices, imo.

 

[ZachDeKoromaru]

Best thing is that the episode is a reference to a real story about Hartmann and

Spoiler

Hitler's hat

.

That was S1's episode 7. Easy to get mixed up considering they're both super episodes.

 

[Milamber]

That was S1's episode 7. Easy to get mixed up considering they're both super episodes.

Is this the one with the full on nudity?

 

[Chet Rippo]

Whats with the hype for Chuu2?

Is it a good anime?
Last time I asked about Guilty Crown I got mixed responses.

It's an ok show with a tepid ending. There are better shows from the same studio you could watch.

 

[ZachDeKoromaru]

Is this the one with the full on nudity?

They both are!

 

[A Black Falcon]

Chuunibyou 2? The first season was so boring I dropped it after a couple of episodes, so yeah, that's not too interesting sounding...

I meant Milky Holmes Alternate episode 2, I've only seen the first episode and thought NO!.

Ah. Yes, the second episode does somehow manage to be even worse than the first one, and it's not even close. That kind of serious story, in Milky Holmes? What in the world? Sure, they try to put in some humor, but it doesn't work because of everything else.

Right typo, it's meant to be gattai which means combine and is thrown around in this instance to describe the squid bunny combo attack. (and whenever people combine in anime)

I hadn't heard that word before I think, but yeah, it's a pretty amusing combination.

As for the cat mouse play line I borrowed it from SDBurton's review from episode 9 or so because it fits the interactions between Haruka and her 'toy'.

Okay. Yeah, poor Hibari is pretty much the prey... until Yagyuu shows up to save her, of course.

 

[PdotMichael]

They both are!

Oh right! S2E7 was about Minna's butt and sutext.

A glorious episode!

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Whats with the hype for Chuu2?

Is it a good anime?
Last time I asked about Guilty Crown I got mixed responses.

Chuu2 is pretty average but easily loses its way as each episode goes on. Visual genjutsu's, Yuuta's voice, and most of the Chuunibyou stuff were really the only hightligths.

 

[OceanBlue]

But surely they would get a lot more customers, right?

Not nearly enough to offset a big price decrease. If you look at the volumes of anime that sell their first volumes at half-price, the sales difference between the first volume and the second aren't enough to make up for the discount.

 

[Chet Rippo]

Not nearly enough to offset a big price decrease. If you look at the volumes of anime that sell their first volumes at half-price, the sales difference between the first volume and the second aren't enough to make up for the discount.

Yeah, the only way I could ever see the system changing is if the whole industry collapses.

 

[Hellsing321]

At least TeamCG got destroyed today.

TeamCG will have the last laugh as bad CG continues to destroy Anime.

 

[RurouniZel]

Yeah, the only way I could ever see the system changing is if the whole industry collapses.

*grabs popcorn and awaits the fire*

 

[dakkumauji]

Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal 57

I just can't help but cheer for the one with the slasher smile.

 

[madp]

It's an ok show with a tepid ending. There are better shows from the same studio you could watch.

I have a hard time choosing between the last episode of Chooney and SAO 24 for the worst single episode of anime that aired last year. I have no fucking clue how a second season even works now that the dramazzzzzzzzz are resolved and everyone decided to continue living in their idiot bubbles forever. 12 episodes of narrative-free uguuu LARPing?

 

[Envelope]

GuP 10,11,12

Come on Team Anglerfish,

Spoiler

that Pz III G was so obviously a trap! How could you fall for it?! The boss fight was awesome though at least! And Team Bunny finally did something!

Great end to a great series, go watch it if you haven't!

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Hope it will be ready for Summer or Fall this year.

Would be so good if it was for summer, if they can get 25 or so episodes of it again. Is there enough material to maybe even do a third season eventually?

 

[Regulus Tera]

HEY GUYS I HEARD KYOANI IS THE BEST STUDIO EVE-

--oh.

 

[Kagami]

Adding Strike witches name into it is a insult to GuP. GuP put strike witches and uprotte to shame and have shown how to do girls with weapons.

Strike Witches and Girls und Panzer aren't the same kind of show. GuP dedicates large amounts of time to its sports matches, whereas Strike Witches dedicates more of its time to characterization. GuP is an exciting and enjoyable show, but I got into the characters more in Strike Witches.

Unlike apparently most of AnimeGAF, I don't live in Japan so I won't see the last two episodes until tomorrow when Crunchyroll shows them, but I'm not expecting that impression to change.

It's non-stop tank action.

Exactly. The tank matches are great. Really great. But...that's basically all GuP has going for it.

Strike Witches > GuP

I do like GuP; it's my favorite show from fall 2012. But I don't see myself watching it again, whereas I always want to spend more time with the Strike Witches characters.

GuP had bad character designs and Majestic Prince does as well, I see a pattern here.

Haha. Yeah GuP designs are, well I wouldn't go as far as to call them bad but it's certainly a step down from Takamura's adaption of Fumikane's illustrations.
Takamura can even get me to watch that dumb mess of a show that is Vividred.

I understand there's a posibility there might be a legitimately good show somewhere in Strike Witches, but pantlessness being completely normal and the entire cast being adolescent girls is, I think, beyond my comfort line.

SW cast ages span a range from 12 to 20. There's something for everyone!
Well OK there's no actual MILFs but the 18-year-old acts motherly and has a

Spoiler

widow-ish

backstory.

All agree GuP is far better show.

Speak for yourself!

 

[Taruranto]

They have to do that to appeal to the otaku who never grew up.

"You guys are right, there's no point to growing up" is basically Chu2's whole message.

People are pretending they watched it for the plot and the "character development"? Cute.

 

[firehawk12]

[Goldfish Warning!] 44

Oi is this Oniisama e?

So much shounen haato in my little girl cartoons.

Helloooooo Tuxedo Mask.

What is it with girls and tacks in shoes?

Not really. We'll see more internal LN adaptations as time goes on, but this doesn't exactly kill future original projects or force them to adapt KEY stuff.

Yamada isn't getting shitcanned until another show bombs harder than this. She directed one of the most successful series of all time.

Dresden protecting his waifu.

Utah's lost chuuni childhood friend who is in love with him appears and becomes Rika's rival. I'm not even joking.

http://www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/img/books/chuunibyo/mainVisual/3.png

Holy fuck... this show is becoming OreShura. KyoAni really is dead.

 

[Branduil]

The true wall of shame before which all others pale in comparison:

 

[firehawk12]

Strike Witches and Girls und Panzer aren't the same kind of show. GuP dedicates large amounts of time to its sports matches, whereas Strike Witches dedicates more of its time to characterization. GuP is an exciting and enjoyable show, but I got into the characters more in Strike Witches.

I would agree, except the problem is that the characterization is focused on broom riding and upskirts and other various moments of sexualization/fetishization.

I would say Saki is the toned down version of what you think Strike Witches is in relation to GooP

 

[Syrinx]

The true wall of shame before which all others pale in comparison:

I see Dresden and Narag!

Spoiler

I didn't vote cause I didn't watch it. Really didn't care.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Chuu2 is probably the first coming of age story where the main character finally learns what it means to grow up... then regresses.

Evangelion episode 19 and onwards, but that was more tactfully handled.

not bad, not bad.

Spoiler

/immediately hides all of it from view

omgomgomgomgomgomgomg

Is that Umakoshi book still on print? I need.

 

[BGBW]

I simply stick up for the underdogs and TeamReal starts accusing me of being stupid. How rude is that? And they wonder why I'm sticking up for the CGers.

#TeamReal? More like #TeamCheeky.

 

[dakkumauji]

Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal 58

blahblah, backstory, blahblah

 

[Branduil]

I simply stick up for the underdogs and TeamReal starts accusing me of being stupid. How rude is that? And they wonder why I'm sticking up for the CGers.

#TeamReal? More like #TeamCheeky.

You're not stupid, you're just a coward who refused to take a side!

 

[Regulus Tera]

Here, good sir.

The quality is unbelievable for the price and now I'm worried that I'm going to begin collecting anime artbooks.

Wow, that is very cheap. I need a job nonetheless.

 

[BGBW]

You're not stupid, you're just a coward who refused to take a side!

I was on #TeamNorwegian, #TeamPillarmen, #TeamCGhost just to name a few. How many more sides do you want?

 

[Regulus Tera]

Well at least it's not going to be hard for Wolf Children to run away with the AOTY award, LOL.

I see people don't believe in Yoshinari yet. Fools.

 

[PdotMichael]

GuP 10,11,12

Come on Team Anglerfish,

Spoiler

that Pz III G was so obviously a trap! How could you fall for it?! The boss fight was awesome though at least! And Team Bunny finally did something!

To be fair, Miho didn't know that they were already at the end of the episode.

Strike Witches and Girls und Panzer aren't the same kind of show. GuP dedicates large amounts of time to its sports matches, whereas Strike Witches dedicates more of its time to characterization. GuP is an exciting and enjoyable show, but I got into the characters more in Strike Witches.
!

The SW anime is more like a typical magical girl show with monster of the day plot etc. - just without pants and with WWII references. GuP is maybe the purest old-school underdog-sport show since Taisho Baseball Girls.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Sub-4,000 bluray and 617 DVDs.

Lots of shows would kill for those numbers. Kyoto Animation's outstanding, er, animation, is what's doing Tamako in.

What is it with girls and tacks in shoes?

I blame Dezaki.

 

[Kagami]

I thought this would be a light novel title thread for a second.

Halfway through the night I hear an ear-piercing scream and my sis dashing down the corridor into my room in tears. <...> so I allowed her to sleep in my bed

She does not leave my side, at all, even when I go to the bathroom she waits in the corridor. She doesn't go upstairs to the upstairs bathroom unless I'm waiting in the corridor. Seriously, she checks I'm still around by trying to have conversations with me while she's in the toilet.

Airing this fall on AT-X.

 

[Shergal]

Lots of shows would kill for those numbers. Kyoto Animation's outstanding, er, animation, is what's doing Tamako in.

That just means that the industry is plagued with failures

 

[PdotMichael]

Lots of shows would kill for those numbers. Kyoto Animation's outstanding, er, animation, is what's doing Tamako in.

<4.6k, first volume with an event ticket?

It's not Fractale level bomba but that's not very good for an original anime project.

 

[Regulus Tera]

That just means that the industry is plagued with failures

Anime in itself is a failure.

 

[Rayearth]

The SW anime is more like a typical magical girl show with monster of the day plot etc. - just without pants and with WWII references. GuP is maybe the purest old-school underdog-sport show since Taisho Baseball Girls.

Just wondering...did Strike Witches, when it was broadcasted, bring out the WWII air force amateur historians out in force, just like how GuP episode discussions tend to devolve into "This tank sucks" arguements?

 

[Nafe]

The true wall of shame before which all others pale in comparison:

I'm not exactly sure what this is but I think I'm more surprised that the user name "Hitlersaurus Christ" was approved.

 

[Regulus Tera]

I was on #TeamNorwegian, #TeamPillarmen, #TeamCGhost just to name a few. How many more sides do you want?

The only war worth taking a side in this forum is the Pony War. #TeamFluttershy or death!

 

[ZachDeKoromaru]

Just wondering...did Strike Witches, when it was broadcasted, bring out the WWII air force amateur historians out in force, just like how GuP episode discussions tend to devolve into "This tank sucks" arguements?

I didn't watch it while it was airing, but there are certainly people who have watched this who have a fair amount of knowledge of the pilots the witches were based on/WWII in general. There was also lots of specula like one of these images for every episode:

 

[A Black Falcon]

Strike Witches isn't bad, but it's nowhere remotely near GuP's level. They are very different though, so they shouldn't be too directly compared, but yeah, GuP is far better, if they must be.

And yes, GuP 12 was awesome and great and I want more of this show. Everyone should buy it so they make a second season.

I didn't watch it while it was airing, but there are certainly people who have watched this who have a fair amount of knowledge of the pilots the witches were based on/WWII in general. There was also lots of specula like one of these images for every episode:

Those are really just references, though, not things integral to the plot like GuP's tanks are. The difference is that GuP is directly about the tanks, while in Strike Witches, any historical references are just passing mentions or visual things that have no actual bearing on the actual series. Strike Witches really pays no attention to historical accuracy, and just tosses stuff in to interest fans. GuP isn't like that.

The SW anime is more like a typical magical girl show with monster of the day plot etc. - just without pants and with WWII references. GuP is maybe the purest old-school underdog-sport show since Taisho Baseball Girls.

I don't know, Saki and Saki Achiga-hen are that as well... though I guess you might call that a little less purely focused on that because of the yuribait/etc. elements? But the mahjong makes up a huge part of the series, and both protagonist teams are very much underdogs, Achiga maybe even more so than Kiyosumi. Saki Achiga-hen is recent and is absolutely in that category of shows.

 

[firehawk12]

That reminds me of the Sora no Woto 4chan nerds and their speculah charts. lol

 

[ZachDeKoromaru]

That reminds me of the Sora no Woto 4chan nerds and their speculah charts. lol

Those are also fun charts, which is why I wish I had started watching airing anime earlier.

Those are really just references, though, not things integral to the plot like GuP's tanks are. The difference is that GuP is directly about the tanks, while in Strike Witches, any historical references are just passing mentions or visual things that have no actual bearing on the actual series. Strike Witches really pays no attention to historical accuracy, and just tosses stuff in to interest fans. GuP isn't like that.

Well I can't really argue with that. It did reveal that there are a bunch of history nerds that also have a love for animal ears and butts.

 

[Kurita]

The true wall of shame before which all others pale in comparison:

I'm in this list.

 

[darkside31337]

I'm in this list.

You should be proud. I'm on it as well as cool cats like Narag, Dresden, Lafiel and BGBW.

 

[jbug617]

Would be so good if it was for summer, if they can get 25 or so episodes of it again. Is there enough material to maybe even do a third season eventually?

Yeah there is enough material for a third season. Where they left off in the anime they had a long way to go before the Winter Cup tournament begins.

 

[Rayearth]

The SW anime is more like a typical magical girl show with monster of the day plot etc. - just without pants and with WWII references. GuP is maybe the purest old-school underdog-sport show since Taisho Baseball Girls.

I like to think that, if you look at it the right way, GuP is at least half a mecha anime...while still being a sport anime.

 

[Kagami]

I would agree, except the problem is that the characterization is focused on broom riding and upskirts and other various moments of sexualization/fetishization.

Nah, can't agree with that. Oh Strike Witches has lots of visual service. But that's a separate matter from characterization.
Obviously T&A service is a huge turn-off for many people, so I don't mean to imply people who hate that should force themselves to watch Strike Witches.
Just saying, as someone who isn't turned off by that, I like Strike Witches' characters more than GuP's.

I would say Saki is the toned down version of what you think Strike Witches is in relation to GooP

Ah well, the original topic was "girls and military." I agree that Saki is much more similar to GuP than Strike Witches.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Well at least it's not going to be hard for Wolf Children to run away with the AOTY award, LOL.

Let's wait and see if something amazing comes out in Summer or Fall first. Plus, there's still Space Dandy and Silver Spoon.