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Fall 2013 Anime |OT2| The Rise and Fall of Kyoto

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Syrinx

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Is Arjuna one of those shows like School Days where it's not enough to know what actually happens because you actually need to experience it, or have what I learned from trying to glide over Corvo's impressions but catching key tidbits going to sully the experience?
 

CorvoSol

Member
Is Arjuna one of those shows like School Days where it's not enough to know what actually happens because you actually need to experience it, or have what I learned from trying to glide over Corvo's impressions but catching key tidbits going to sully the experience?

Frankly I feel like it's the former or I wouldn't be saying things so vocally. There isn't much to the plot of this show, especially in the form of intrigue. The only thing really spoilable is the specific methods the author uses to tell you he hates the human race in that episode.
 

wonzo

Banned
Is Arjuna one of those shows like School Days where it's not enough to know what actually happens because you actually need to experience it, or have what I learned from trying to glide over Corvo's impressions but catching key tidbits going to sully the experience?
One must experience the mountain.
 

Narag

Member
Is Arjuna one of those shows like School Days where it's not enough to know what actually happens because you actually need to experience it, or have what I learned from trying to glide over Corvo's impressions but catching key tidbits going to sully the experience?

Arjuna must be experienced.
 
One more episode of Arjuna for the night and then I'll hate myself almost as much as the writer hates me.
That's all you have to say about episodes 7, 8 and 9? I mean, 7 or 8 is the episode where Arjuna takes on the problem of language, which was a pretty crazy, crazy episode...

And then 9 is the one where the show jumps the shark from crazy but interesting, to stupid and horrible, so it's noteworthy on that front. It stays bad after ep 9 too, sadly, as you've seen. But yes, I would defend the first eight episodes of the show. It has as many or more flaws than it does strengths, through that part, but it raises some interesting and often valid issues along the way. Of course from ep. 9 on it's awful and wastes any remaining potential it could have had, but at least I did find the first two thirds interesting. Badly flawed, and not very good at all at making their points, but interesting.


Also, Chris is the kindest person ever, as you now must know... :S He's so kind that
he's a completely horrible jerk.

Arjuna 10

Playing video games gives you awesome psychic powers to fight your father with. This episode was paid for and managed by the FOX news network.
Fox may have liked episodes 9 and 10, but the rest of the series is quite antithetical to their beliefs... I mean, the final arc in the series (PETROCHEMICALS!) is completely stupid, but it's definitely not something Fox would be fond of, for sure. :p

Is Arjuna one of those shows like School Days where it's not enough to know what actually happens because you actually need to experience it, or have what I learned from trying to glide over Corvo's impressions but catching key tidbits going to sully the experience?
Arjuna is nothing like School Days -- you can get a better sense of School Days by reading about it than you can Arjuna, I would say. So yes, Arjuna must be experienced to be understood (or not).
 
Arjuna must be experienced.

Well I won't be listening to the mountain any time soon. If the show really goes all out with its preaching and practically demeans human society as a whole, then screw that noise.

If I wanted to watch a show that shows some of the darker sides of humanity in a well done fashion, I'll watch Kino's Journey.
 

CorvoSol

Member
I need a fucking minute, because nobody can watch this last episode start to finish and not feel their mind implode. Good God, I don't smoke but tonight I almost feel like I need a hit of something to take the edge off this.
 

wonzo

Banned
Sign me up.
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Mature

Member
Gundam Build Fighters 9-10
Loved it. Felini getting drunk and talking about 08th MS Team inbetweeners made me laugh out loud. Could not be more sold on this show.

Unrelated: Calling all Pretty Cure gurus. I have a friend who would like to start watching it, but I know a lot of you are peculiar about the specific series and what to watch and not watch. So, that being said, where should one begin and end?
 
Yowamushi Pedal 10

I didn't like Makishima at first, when he was the guy skeptical of Onoda's performance in the welcoming race, but now he's shot forward to become one of the most likable characters. He has great awkward chemistry with Onoda.

I'm getting hyped for the Inter-High!
 

wonzo

Banned
Unrelated: Calling all Pretty Cure gurus. I have a friend who would like to start watching it, but I know a lot of you are peculiar about the specific series and what to watch and not watch. So, that being said, where should one begin and end?
Begin: HeartCatch
End: HeartCatch
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
I need a fucking minute, because nobody can watch this last episode start to finish and not feel their mind implode. Good God, I don't smoke but tonight I almost feel like I need a hit of something to take the edge off this.

I watched the final episodes of Arjuna, Blood-C, and School Days all in the same night. I came out of the experience feeling enlightened, not broken.

And yet, I distinctly remember getting a few minutes into Eiken and having to take an anxiety pill. I fell into bed and slept fourteen hours.
 
Gundam Build Fighters 9-10
Loved it. Felini getting drunk and talking about 08th MS Team inbetweeners made me laugh out loud. Could not be more sold on this show.

Unrelated: Calling all Pretty Cure gurus. I have a friend who would like to start watching it, but I know a lot of you are peculiar about the specific series and what to watch and not watch. So, that being said, where should one begin and end?

Not being a lamer like most people will be

Watch Period
Heartcatch

Watchable
Smile (provided you don't take it seriously)
Fresh
Splash Star

YMMV tier
Suite Precure
Futari Wa
DokiDoki

Watch if you dare tier
Yes! 5
Yes! 5 GoGo

Avoid Period tier
Max Heart
 

Envelope

sealed with a kiss
Da Best: HeartCatch

Palatable, perhaps: Smile, Futari wa, Splash, Fresh

Avoid: Max Heart, Suite Precure

Dunno: the rest
 

CorvoSol

Member
I watched the final episodes of Arjuna, Blood-C, and School Days all in the same night. I came out of the experience feeling enlightened, not broken.

And yet, I distinctly remember getting a few minutes into Eiken and having to take an anxiety pill. I fell into bed and slept fourteen hours.

Yeah that sounds like the healthiest of experiences.
 

Trojita

Rapid Response Threadmaker
Arjuna 11

WUT. "I am a [self-diagnosed] male. Because I have a Y-Chromosome. That I discovered after [some very ambiguous] checking into it." WUT. Why? Why are we including this? Why are you telling Juna this? Why are we having this conversation? What does an anime about forcing children to eat from shit-stained mountain hands have ANYTHING, I repeat, ANY FUCKING THING, to do with whatever complicated tangentially related real world problem that causes this?

A quick perusal of the internet suggests the affliction is Chimerism or Wrong Genetic Sex, in the which case she's physically a woman but has a Y Chromosome.

So she dumped the man she loved because of something on a genetic level? I fucking hate anime genetics, I really do. I fucking hate the way that in anime DNA has somehow become your heart or your soul (like in Coppelion where someone remarks "My DNA won't let me do it!") because it lacks all the poetry of the heart or soul and instead replaces it with science except it isn't accurate science at all so you might as well stick with the fucking poetry.

But for reals, while I am appreciative that there must be some stress involved with the people who have this affliction, and admit right here and now, with all of you as my witnesses that I am NOT an expert on gender identity stuff at ALL, I feel the need to repeat myself: WHAT IN THE FUCK. It is so typical of this writer to hilariously overplay something like this. "I was born female and my body is female and I definitely am female but I have a Y Chromosome so I'm going to use the term hermaphrodite, break up with a man I love, and join an eco-terrorist organization."

I don't even fucking know what I'm supposed to be learn here. Like even if I were to extrapolate what it was that the author wanted me to learn, I can't, because all the logic thingies in my head are just shouting "FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK".

OH OF COURSE IT WAS MEDICINE. How did I even not suspect that medicine would be the cause? At least Juna is like "No you doofus you're pretty obviously a woman. Unless you drop trow and prove me otherwise, I'm considering this debate settled."

Oh I see Science is pure evil when it is used to heal your pregnant mother but when using it to justify your self-diagnosed illness you used to justify breaking up with your clingy envrioboyfriend, THEN it is okay. Fuck you Kawamori. Fuck you and your phallic mountain.

"Did you know so many drugs are being made?"
-What a real person would say: "Define drugs." or "NO DUH."
Juna "I HAD NO IDEA THAT SO MANY ITEMS OF A VAGUE AND NONDESCRIPT NATURE FELL INTO THIS NEBULOUS CATEGORY. YOU HAVE SURE TAUGHT ME ABOUT THE DANGERS THAT SCIENCE POSES."

We manufacture drugs because of "garbage"? I'm sorry, but wasn't there an episode about making easy answers just a little while ago? COULD YOU PRACTICE WHAT YOU FUCKING PREACH? Like for reals, hokey hollistic medication is totes fine, but science medicine is because of industrial waste! This is the most bizarre and unprovable bullshit I have ever heard. And I go to college with people who unironically go to FOX News for their politics.

COAL IS A NATURAL FUCKING RESOURCE NOT INDUSTRIAL WASTE WHAT IN THE FUCK DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH YOUR FUCKING Y CHROMOSOME FUUUUUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKUFKFUCKUFKUFCKFKFJFFKJCKFKFKFKFKFKFKFKKFKFKFKFFFF


"There really aren't any illnesses that require medicine." TELL THAT TO FUCKING POLIO AND MALARIA AND THE BUBONIC FUCKING PLAGUE. ALL THAT SHIT WOULD WRECK YOU BUT YOU WERE INNOCULATED SO YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH THAT SHIT WOULD RUIN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. FUCK YOU KAWAMORI. FUCK YOU FOR BEING A VICIOUS, VILLAINOUS BASTARD.

You know what? Fuck it. Sword Art Online might be as bad as Child Porn, but EARTH MAIDEN ARJUNA SLAUGHTERS INNOCENTS. That is what would happen if anybody believed this shit. That IS what happens when people believe this shit. You don't just moxy Malaria off. You don't just shrug off fucking Polio. You can't just eat natural whole wheat and hope the BLACK FUCKING PLAGUE AND THE ANGEL OF DEATH WILL PASS YOU BY.

Yeah I'm never watching this.
 

CorvoSol

Member
Arjuna 13

As the last episode, and in light of the fact that I kinda mucked up that last episode, the whole damn thing will be wrapped in spoilers. Also because insanity no doubt ensues.

We last left off with Chris being an asshole of such galactic proportions that it pushed Juna over the edge and she went Dark Phoenix. She's still the fugliest Phoenix user of all time, and mind you that Kid Omega was a fucking ugly loser. But that's beside the point. The world's ugliest Dark Phoenix got into what is honestly probably the ugliest CGI Mecha of all time and made off for Japan after telling some Americans who were for some inexplicable reason totally gung-ho about the fact that they were completely dependent upon foreign oil. All of it was bullshit, but the most bullshit part of last episode was "I'm a Man even though really I am not" giving Juna the ACTUAL "starving children in Africa" lecture.

Now, the reason I found the lecture such bullshit was because the character punctuates it with a personal experience where she held dying children in her arms. Except the author has never done this, but has sat his inoculated ass in his arm-chair as he expounds that there is no need for medicine even though again, he'd probably be dead from TB if not for medicine. So yeah, that falls flat. And the reason I refer to the author is because until two episodes ago, this character had no actual development at all, and her delivery of the lecture is completely flat. The VA offers no emotion, no feeling to the experience of holding a child starving to death in her arms. There is no tear, no quaver of the voice, nothing, except the now-monotonous tone of a parent lecturing a child to eat her God Damn Merikan Burger because there are starving children in Africa.

So that's that, and now we begin the last episode of this insanity.

The episode begins with Juna rambling about how if only she'd realized what people needed to live sooner, she could've saved people. Which makes no sense because food, water, and air have nothing to do with petrol eating bacteria. That's just dumb. Of course Chris says that everything is Juna's fault, but I can't help but point out that "I want the birds to eat my flesh because that's symbolic." is just a really shitty teacher who never once taught Juna anything and now wonders why she didn't learn. Supposing the teacher from episode six was meant to justify, the idea is that Juna has to learn for herself because teaching someone makes it easy for them and that's wrong, nevermind that if you make some things easy for people, they go on to figure out new things themselves. Nope. All education is evil.

Anyway then there is a fight, and Chris has said that fighting and killing is wrong, but why does Juna have a bow and a GIANT ROBOT then? What's more is it is the most entertaining this show has been in EPISODES, so I'm not seeing it.

CHRIS IS THE RAAJA AND WE WERE SUPPOSED TO FIGURE THAT OUT OURSELVES. I guess the idea is he has to die so that Japan can be saved and then he can be Jesus but I'd like to put it on record that because of Chris' kindness people ARE FUCKING DYING ALL OVER THE PLACE. Is this supposed to be the wrath of God? Is Chris some Old Testament Jehovah pouring down fire and brimstone because modern day Japan is wicked? Let it be here said that before pouring fire and brimstone down on those cities, God had a nice long chat with Abraham where He was like "Dude if there are 5 good people in this city I'm gonna spare it, okay?" and Abraham was like "Rightio, 5 it is." but there weren't so then he dumped out his fire and brimstone. So I guess Japan doesn't have 5 good people in it? No? FUCK YOU CHRIS. YOU MURDEROUS BASTARD.

"Oh were you going to take me to task for being an asshole and murdering the population of Japan? SUBJECT CHANGE!!!"
"Yeah I didn't care too much about that anyway."

Oh my God. He really is going full on Old Testament. "You did not see despite your eyes, nor hear despite your ears." Holy shit. The author avatar is an angry and vengeful God. You know, the reason that we say that God has the right to decide who lives and who dies is in part, sure, because we like to hope that some all knowing being is up there guiding the entire world on a grand scale to a better ending, but also so that asshole preteens hyped up on psychic demon worms don't think it is in the domain of humankind to make that choice. Who lives and who dies is supposed to be out of human hands, Chris.

NEENER NEENER NEENER FUCKERS CAN'T KILL ME BECAUSE I AM THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD NEENER NEENER NEENER

HAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT HE PUTS HIM IN THE CRUCIFIED POSITION HOLY SHIT THE AUTHOR HAS DECLARED HIS MOUTHPIECE AN UNKILLABLE GOD. Did I once say that Gundam AGE was 50 episodes of Hino masturbating himself? Well Juna is that, but swap Nazi fetishism for ecoterrorism and cram the 50 episodes of AGE into 13. So it's HIGH DEF BAD CGI KAWAMORI JERKING IT.

I guess the message is that Japan cannot be saved because its people polluted it to this point, but I feel like the real answer is Japan can't be saved because SEED are a bunch of dipshits who kept Chris alive, knowing full well he was the source of the Raaja, for no reason at all. They should've killed him a LONG time ago.

By the by, at this point Tokio forfeits what little claim he had to being the voice of the audience by admitting Juna and Chris are right. Which they're not. This whole show is bullshit, and Tokio was constantly told he was wrong and now he's admitting it so he just flat out is not the audience anymore.

Oh boy here comes Cindy, voice of the author's masturbation. "Chris believed in you! Chris knew Tokio would find food on his own! These things make Chris a good person and make it totally okay for him to KILL HALF THE FUCKING POPULATION OF JAPAN, LEVEL CIVILIZATION ITSELF, AND TORTURE YOU NON FUCKING STOP." Thanks, Cindy. I would never know that Chris was a good person if it wasn't for you always telling me so. No really, I would honestly not know that Chris was a good person if you didn't keep shouting it. Nope. And that's some damn fine writing, there.

CHRIS IS TOKIO? WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? Is the author trying a last ditch savings throw to convince me he isn't batshit insane, but is actually a normal person? Are normal people Jesus? Is Tokio a secret vicious abuser? Is it that because Chris is the Raaja and Chris is Tokio that Tokio is the Raaja and thus the human race are the real monsters? Is it that mankind is part of the Earth and vice verse (which is allegedly a point Chris has said time and time again IN SPITE OF HAVING NEVER FUCKING SAID IT EVEN FUCKING ONCE? Because let me tell you, if that was the case, then DESTROYING JAPAN TO TEACH IT A LESSON MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE.

Not, of course, that ANYTHING makes sense in this shit show anymore. You don't get to say Jesus is the Devil and Adam and NOT have people raise a few eyebrows at what point you're trying to make here. Good is Evil is Neutral, I guess? Black is White is Gray? Honestly all of that is TOO FUCKING DEEP to possibly be part of a show like Arjuna, where things are quite literally as shallow as a mountain is tall.

You know what the best part, is, though? EVEN THE EXPLANATION THAT FOLLOWS HAS NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT THIS REVELATION MEANS. Like the revelation that Chris is Tokio is SO FUCKING STUPID Juna has an aneurysm and just starts tripping the fuck out about waves and shit.

AND WE ARE ALL CONNECTED IN A CRICLE, IN HOPA NEFR EMZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW HIIIIIIIIIIIII DO A SYCAMORE GROW? IF YOU CUT IT DOWN THEN YOU WILL NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW? AND SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING ELSE PAINT WITH ALL THE COLORS OF THE WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND

HAHAHAHA JUNA IS CHRIS. EVERYONE IS CHRIS. EVERYONE IS SORA. EVERYONE IS JESUS IN PURGATORY AHAHAHAHAHAHAH I'M CHRIS, YOU'RE CHRIS WE'RE ALLLLLL CHRISQUIDWARD!!! And she's the Raja to boot!

It cannot possible go any further down from here, can it?

It does. HAHA, of COURSE it does.

Oh, saving the world won't cost you much, dearie, just a token, really, a trifle. All we ask of you IS YOUR VOICE. And that you take Chris' place as the horrible pain God of this new era.

Oh no. The Raaja, who are Chris, are edible. Oh no. No. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Oh, "Eat this and drink that in remembrance of my body and blood" Jesus said, and handed his Apostles bread and wine. That wasn't good enough for Chris, though. No, sir. For his Communion you have to eat the GIANT PHALLIC MONSTERS HE LEFT BEHIND. Yes, that's right, in order to become one with the world and complete your training in the ways of Arjuna and your learning from the Mountain and remember Chris' sacrifices and kindness, you must SUCK HIS GIGANTIC DICK. DAILY, IF POSSIBLE. THE AUTHOR OF THIS SHOW TOLD ALL OF JAPAN'S TEENAGERS TO SUCK HIS DICK.

And you know what I have to say to Arjuna, now that it is all over?

SUCK MY DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK
 
Digimon Xros Wars 19

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Do you feel all the LABU LABU!

Besides that, kinda impressed with the character development we are getting for everyone that isn't part of the Taiki's team.
 

CorvoSol

Member
You know, I tried to find Peaceiscloser's university, but when I went to what I thought was the address, this was all I found.



They say it burned down in a big fire years ago.

That's worrisome since I think I'm there right now. Definitely explains the difficulty I have getting a date, though.
 

CorvoSol

Member
Check if there's a spaceship growing out of your forehead.

Y-wait, no, that's just my nose.

Bakemonogatari 14

I KNEW IT.
Hanekawa wants Araragi. Not that that was hard to guess. At ALL.
Also I'm afraid I'm now firmly in camp Cat Hanekawa. For clarification, I think Araragi should stay with Senjougahara, but I think Hanekawa is Best Girl. Dem Jammies, folks. Dem Jammies.
 

Dresden

Member
gbf - 5

Funniest episode so far. Hit that balance between absurdity and self-seriousness just right. Fellini's swag, the GUNDAM SHINGYO school, the imagination battle . . . too good. I am not worthy.
 

cajunator

Banned
Machine Girl 10
Yaya is still cute as ever. I feel this fiance is going to cause some stupid harem antics

She will always be cute. There is no uncute Yaya mode.

Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito: Episode 12

I'm just going to get this out of the way, Eve is pretty horrible don't you think? Causing lots of annoyence and heartache for all just because she is crap at her job. It took this long to think
"Hmm. I think I need to patch things up with everyone."

Gargantua took things pretty well all things considered. He just
did as Eve said and got a happy ending with a sunshine filter to replace that weird moon filter. It's done wonders for his castle!

Hazuki on the other hand...
really didn't. To the point that she would rather just kill Eve just to stay with her forever, that's actually pretty creepy. Luckily Hazuki couldn't bring herself to do it so it didn't end too badly for better or for worse.

This episode was very boring followed by very ugh. Meaning par for the course once again! The consistency of this show is quite impressive!

One more to go now and then it's over!

I do so love Yami impressions.

That is Tsukiko.

It is indeed. Poor thing :(

Why yes it does. I conveniently forgot about that bit!

I mean it's not every day that someone tells you
"You will give birth to me some day."
It was definately a strange choice of words to use there but of course as you say. Episode 13 is indeed the aftermath to that and it is there I can explore this quote fully.

Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito: Episode 13 [Final Episode]
Alternate Title: My Older Sister Can't Be This Good At Cooking Me Breakfast.

Let's get down to brass tax here. This episode explains the entire reason why Hazuki is in love with Eve. Shocking right? It really is quite simple! I'm surprised I didn't catch on to it sooner actually!

Are you ready for this?

Pancakes.
That is the reason. How did I not notice this? It's been staring at me right in the face! I mean this episode is a prime example as to why they are the true reason to why they are in love!

What is the first thing we see in this episode?
Pancakes
. What did Lilith say would lead to the user to never have a happy life ever again?
Eve's Pancakes
. What did Hazuki cry over the morning after?
Pancakes
. What caused
Hazuki and Eve to kiss? Pancakes as Eve was obviously smelling of Pancake Batter at the time as she made so many of the things this episode!

Getting back to the quote from the previous episode which I'm guessing is the prime reason why this anime is on The List. Yep
"You will give birth to me some day."
is definately a weird thing to say to someone before you say goodbye, even weirder is when not only does
Eve later has a snog and who knows what else with Hazuki, then implants the idea that Hazuki will eventually give birth to her eventually. I'm sorry but with what just happened there, am I to expect some romance between mother and daughter? Is that what this show is trying to tell me? I sure as hell hope not! Although considering the sort of audience this show was catering for, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the idea they were trying to get across.

But wait there's more!

Eve made a video of herself at the end of the episode saying that Hazuki must remember her face because of course she'll give birth to her soon! The world will 'sparkle' for sure! Yep it will. I'm just thankful it'll never be shown on television.

Let's also not forget the other crime this episode had committed. This was shown, abeit in a much smaller scale in the previous episodes but this time I guess they had to save their biggest one for last. It is the fact that this episode has roughly 7 minutes of reused animation. Yep 1/3 of this episode was directly taken from Episode 1. No edits, no nothing. Although I'm not surprised considering this anime looked 10 years out of date as it started airing.

In conclusion this show is a huge metaphor. This show is
Eve's Pancakes
. The viewer will never have a happy life yet
apperently it's meant to taste delicious. When in fact this show leaves me with a terrible taste in my mouth.

TL;DR: http://i.imgur.com/PRRyo.jpg?1

Lol. You've been Yami'd!
How do you rate it?

I feel moderately okay with myself and the human race. This is unacceptable. Back to the Mountain for me.

Totally unacceptable. If you dont go into death throes every time you taste a hamburger, you're doing it wrong.

Arjuna 11

WUT. "I am a [self-diagnosed] male. Because I have a Y-Chromosome. That I discovered after [some very ambiguous] checking into it." WUT. Why? Why are we including this? Why are you telling Juna this? Why are we having this conversation? What does an anime about forcing children to eat from shit-stained mountain hands have ANYTHING, I repeat, ANY FUCKING THING, to do with whatever complicated tangentially related real world problem that causes this?

A quick perusal of the internet suggests the affliction is Chimerism or Wrong Genetic Sex, in the which case she's physically a woman but has a Y Chromosome.

So she dumped the man she loved because of something on a genetic level? I fucking hate anime genetics, I really do. I fucking hate the way that in anime DNA has somehow become your heart or your soul (like in Coppelion where someone remarks "My DNA won't let me do it!") because it lacks all the poetry of the heart or soul and instead replaces it with science except it isn't accurate science at all so you might as well stick with the fucking poetry.

But for reals, while I am appreciative that there must be some stress involved with the people who have this affliction, and admit right here and now, with all of you as my witnesses that I am NOT an expert on gender identity stuff at ALL, I feel the need to repeat myself: WHAT IN THE FUCK. It is so typical of this writer to hilariously overplay something like this. "I was born female and my body is female and I definitely am female but I have a Y Chromosome so I'm going to use the term hermaphrodite, break up with a man I love, and join an eco-terrorist organization."

I don't even fucking know what I'm supposed to be learn here. Like even if I were to extrapolate what it was that the author wanted me to learn, I can't, because all the logic thingies in my head are just shouting "FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK".

OH OF COURSE IT WAS MEDICINE. How did I even not suspect that medicine would be the cause? At least Juna is like "No you doofus you're pretty obviously a woman. Unless you drop trow and prove me otherwise, I'm considering this debate settled."

Oh I see Science is pure evil when it is used to heal your pregnant mother but when using it to justify your self-diagnosed illness you used to justify breaking up with your clingy envrioboyfriend, THEN it is okay. Fuck you Kawamori. Fuck you and your phallic mountain.

"Did you know so many drugs are being made?"
-What a real person would say: "Define drugs." or "NO DUH."
Juna "I HAD NO IDEA THAT SO MANY ITEMS OF A VAGUE AND NONDESCRIPT NATURE FELL INTO THIS NEBULOUS CATEGORY. YOU HAVE SURE TAUGHT ME ABOUT THE DANGERS THAT SCIENCE POSES."

We manufacture drugs because of "garbage"? I'm sorry, but wasn't there an episode about making easy answers just a little while ago? COULD YOU PRACTICE WHAT YOU FUCKING PREACH? Like for reals, hokey hollistic medication is totes fine, but science medicine is because of industrial waste! This is the most bizarre and unprovable bullshit I have ever heard. And I go to college with people who unironically go to FOX News for their politics.

COAL IS A NATURAL FUCKING RESOURCE NOT INDUSTRIAL WASTE WHAT IN THE FUCK DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH YOUR FUCKING Y CHROMOSOME FUUUUUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKUFKFUCKUFKUFCKFKFJFFKJCKFKFKFKFKFKFKFKKFKFKFKFFFF


"There really aren't any illnesses that require medicine." TELL THAT TO FUCKING POLIO AND MALARIA AND THE BUBONIC FUCKING PLAGUE. ALL THAT SHIT WOULD WRECK YOU BUT YOU WERE INNOCULATED SO YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH THAT SHIT WOULD RUIN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. FUCK YOU KAWAMORI. FUCK YOU FOR BEING A VICIOUS, VILLAINOUS BASTARD.

You know what? Fuck it. Sword Art Online might be as bad as Child Porn, but EARTH MAIDEN ARJUNA SLAUGHTERS INNOCENTS. That is what would happen if anybody believed this shit. That IS what happens when people believe this shit. You don't just moxy Malaria off. You don't just shrug off fucking Polio. You can't just eat natural whole wheat and hope the BLACK FUCKING PLAGUE AND THE ANGEL OF DEATH WILL PASS YOU BY.

:D

SUDDENLY GIANT WORMS TAKE OVER JAPAN.

YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP.

UNLESS YOU HATE HUMANITY.

WHICH THE WRITER DOES.

ALMOST HALF AS MUCH AS I HATE HIM.

I love you Corvy Kun.
Please always be this way.

The Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha official site updated with some screenshots from episode 1:

Thanks for this. Looks great.

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hmm. Like.

Spice and Wolf - 1

So I saw that this was a romantic adventure. I'm always up for those. And for a first episode this was pretty good. I'm getting some Tales of Xillia vibes from this Holo character. I have to say though, our main character Lawrence is taking this whole "meeting a god" thing pretty well. I mean, he's shocked at first, but then is all: "oh, cool. You're a wolf god."

Anyway, this should be a fun little ride. I can at least expect this journey to be more upbeat than Kino's Journey was.

Well thats not difficult. Kino can get pretty dark. The scary thing is its only exploring realistic aspects of humanity.

Is Arjuna one of those shows like School Days where it's not enough to know what actually happens because you actually need to experience it, or have what I learned from trying to glide over Corvo's impressions but catching key tidbits going to sully the experience?

Its exactly that kind of show. You have to WITNESS.

Well I won't be listening to the mountain any time soon. If the show really goes all out with its preaching and practically demeans human society as a whole, then screw that noise.

If I wanted to watch a show that shows some of the darker sides of humanity in a well done fashion, I'll watch Kino's Journey.

Watch Kino's journey just to do it.

I watched the final episodes of Arjuna, Blood-C, and School Days all in the same night. I came out of the experience feeling enlightened, not broken.

And yet, I distinctly remember getting a few minutes into Eiken and having to take an anxiety pill. I fell into bed and slept fourteen hours.

Yeah I love all those. This stuff doesnt affect me in that way. I just get entertained by it.

Arjuna 13

As the last episode, and in light of the fact that I kinda mucked up that last episode, the whole damn thing will be wrapped in spoilers. Also because insanity no doubt ensues.

We last left off with Chris being an asshole of such galactic proportions that it pushed Juna over the edge and she went Dark Phoenix. She's still the fugliest Phoenix user of all time, and mind you that Kid Omega was a fucking ugly loser. But that's beside the point. The world's ugliest Dark Phoenix got into what is honestly probably the ugliest CGI Mecha of all time and made off for Japan after telling some Americans who were for some inexplicable reason totally gung-ho about the fact that they were completely dependent upon foreign oil. All of it was bullshit, but the most bullshit part of last episode was "I'm a Man even though really I am not" giving Juna the ACTUAL "starving children in Africa" lecture.

Now, the reason I found the lecture such bullshit was because the character punctuates it with a personal experience where she held dying children in her arms. Except the author has never done this, but has sat his inoculated ass in his arm-chair as he expounds that there is no need for medicine even though again, he'd probably be dead from TB if not for medicine. So yeah, that falls flat. And the reason I refer to the author is because until two episodes ago, this character had no actual development at all, and her delivery of the lecture is completely flat. The VA offers no emotion, no feeling to the experience of holding a child starving to death in her arms. There is no tear, no quaver of the voice, nothing, except the now-monotonous tone of a parent lecturing a child to eat her God Damn Merikan Burger because there are starving children in Africa.

So that's that, and now we begin the last episode of this insanity.

The episode begins with Juna rambling about how if only she'd realized what people needed to live sooner, she could've saved people. Which makes no sense because food, water, and air have nothing to do with petrol eating bacteria. That's just dumb. Of course Chris says that everything is Juna's fault, but I can't help but point out that "I want the birds to eat my flesh because that's symbolic." is just a really shitty teacher who never once taught Juna anything and now wonders why she didn't learn. Supposing the teacher from episode six was meant to justify, the idea is that Juna has to learn for herself because teaching someone makes it easy for them and that's wrong, nevermind that if you make some things easy for people, they go on to figure out new things themselves. Nope. All education is evil.

Anyway then there is a fight, and Chris has said that fighting and killing is wrong, but why does Juna have a bow and a GIANT ROBOT then? What's more is it is the most entertaining this show has been in EPISODES, so I'm not seeing it.

CHRIS IS THE RAAJA AND WE WERE SUPPOSED TO FIGURE THAT OUT OURSELVES. I guess the idea is he has to die so that Japan can be saved and then he can be Jesus but I'd like to put it on record that because of Chris' kindness people ARE FUCKING DYING ALL OVER THE PLACE. Is this supposed to be the wrath of God? Is Chris some Old Testament Jehovah pouring down fire and brimstone because modern day Japan is wicked? Let it be here said that before pouring fire and brimstone down on those cities, God had a nice long chat with Abraham where He was like "Dude if there are 5 good people in this city I'm gonna spare it, okay?" and Abraham was like "Rightio, 5 it is." but there weren't so then he dumped out his fire and brimstone. So I guess Japan doesn't have 5 good people in it? No? FUCK YOU CHRIS. YOU MURDEROUS BASTARD.

"Oh were you going to take me to task for being an asshole and murdering the population of Japan? SUBJECT CHANGE!!!"
"Yeah I didn't care too much about that anyway."

Oh my God. He really is going full on Old Testament. "You did not see despite your eyes, nor hear despite your ears." Holy shit. The author avatar is an angry and vengeful God. You know, the reason that we say that God has the right to decide who lives and who dies is in part, sure, because we like to hope that some all knowing being is up there guiding the entire world on a grand scale to a better ending, but also so that asshole preteens hyped up on psychic demon worms don't think it is in the domain of humankind to make that choice. Who lives and who dies is supposed to be out of human hands, Chris.

NEENER NEENER NEENER FUCKERS CAN'T KILL ME BECAUSE I AM THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD NEENER NEENER NEENER

HAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT HE PUTS HIM IN THE CRUCIFIED POSITION HOLY SHIT THE AUTHOR HAS DECLARED HIS MOUTHPIECE AN UNKILLABLE GOD. Did I once say that Gundam AGE was 50 episodes of Hino masturbating himself? Well Juna is that, but swap Nazi fetishism for ecoterrorism and cram the 50 episodes of AGE into 13. So it's HIGH DEF BAD CGI KAWAMORI JERKING IT.

I guess the message is that Japan cannot be saved because its people polluted it to this point, but I feel like the real answer is Japan can't be saved because SEED are a bunch of dipshits who kept Chris alive, knowing full well he was the source of the Raaja, for no reason at all. They should've killed him a LONG time ago.

By the by, at this point Tokio forfeits what little claim he had to being the voice of the audience by admitting Juna and Chris are right. Which they're not. This whole show is bullshit, and Tokio was constantly told he was wrong and now he's admitting it so he just flat out is not the audience anymore.

Oh boy here comes Cindy, voice of the author's masturbation. "Chris believed in you! Chris knew Tokio would find food on his own! These things make Chris a good person and make it totally okay for him to KILL HALF THE FUCKING POPULATION OF JAPAN, LEVEL CIVILIZATION ITSELF, AND TORTURE YOU NON FUCKING STOP." Thanks, Cindy. I would never know that Chris was a good person if it wasn't for you always telling me so. No really, I would honestly not know that Chris was a good person if you didn't keep shouting it. Nope. And that's some damn fine writing, there.

CHRIS IS TOKIO? WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? Is the author trying a last ditch savings throw to convince me he isn't batshit insane, but is actually a normal person? Are normal people Jesus? Is Tokio a secret vicious abuser? Is it that because Chris is the Raaja and Chris is Tokio that Tokio is the Raaja and thus the human race are the real monsters? Is it that mankind is part of the Earth and vice verse (which is allegedly a point Chris has said time and time again IN SPITE OF HAVING NEVER FUCKING SAID IT EVEN FUCKING ONCE? Because let me tell you, if that was the case, then DESTROYING JAPAN TO TEACH IT A LESSON MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE.

Not, of course, that ANYTHING makes sense in this shit show anymore. You don't get to say Jesus is the Devil and Adam and NOT have people raise a few eyebrows at what point you're trying to make here. Good is Evil is Neutral, I guess? Black is White is Gray? Honestly all of that is TOO FUCKING DEEP to possibly be part of a show like Arjuna, where things are quite literally as shallow as a mountain is tall.

You know what the best part, is, though? EVEN THE EXPLANATION THAT FOLLOWS HAS NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT THIS REVELATION MEANS. Like the revelation that Chris is Tokio is SO FUCKING STUPID Juna has an aneurysm and just starts tripping the fuck out about waves and shit.

AND WE ARE ALL CONNECTED IN A CRICLE, IN HOPA NEFR EMZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW HIIIIIIIIIIIII DO A SYCAMORE GROW? IF YOU CUT IT DOWN THEN YOU WILL NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW? AND SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING ELSE PAINT WITH ALL THE COLORS OF THE WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND

HAHAHAHA JUNA IS CHRIS. EVERYONE IS CHRIS. EVERYONE IS SORA. EVERYONE IS JESUS IN PURGATORY AHAHAHAHAHAHAH I'M CHRIS, YOU'RE CHRIS WE'RE ALLLLLL CHRISQUIDWARD!!! And she's the Raja to boot!

It cannot possible go any further down from here, can it?

It does. HAHA, of COURSE it does.

Oh, saving the world won't cost you much, dearie, just a token, really, a trifle. All we ask of you IS YOUR VOICE. And that you take Chris' place as the horrible pain God of this new era.

Oh no. The Raaja, who are Chris, are edible. Oh no. No. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Oh, "Eat this and drink that in remembrance of my body and blood" Jesus said, and handed his Apostles bread and wine. That wasn't good enough for Chris, though. No, sir. For his Communion you have to eat the GIANT PHALLIC MONSTERS HE LEFT BEHIND. Yes, that's right, in order to become one with the world and complete your training in the ways of Arjuna and your learning from the Mountain and remember Chris' sacrifices and kindness, you must SUCK HIS GIGANTIC DICK. DAILY, IF POSSIBLE. THE AUTHOR OF THIS SHOW TOLD ALL OF JAPAN'S TEENAGERS TO SUCK HIS DICK.

And you know what I have to say to Arjuna, now that it is all over?

SUCK MY DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK

The rage. The horror.
So delicious
like the Raaja
 
Doki Doki Precure Max Heart 43


Well HEY look at that! I think it's a case of WE'RE GOING MAX HEART UP IN THIS BITCH, but without the stupid Heartiels that just land in our heroes fucking lap. Unfortunately because of this, this means something for Aguri and Regina. The latter, is more of a theory/implication, but it's pretty blatant at what this could mean. Granted, this is the fucking series that has foundations destroyed by making a different foundation, and then destroying it later because fuck man, the writers suck pretty badly here.

That being said, this new revelation also paints Mana as not only one of the creepiest harem lead ever, she's also a fucking
toddlercon by definition, because Aguri was a baby ONE YEAR AGO, BUT TURNED TEN IN A FLASH, ITS POSSIBLE THAT THE SAME APPLIES TO REGINA!
. I mean... jesus christ, nevermind Mana being a creepy molester to Blue Regina, this is a whole new level of creepy harem lead.

To top it all off, NO ONE WAS SURPRISED! Because hey, we're sues who are on top of everything G, we ain't surprised that you're
technically 1 year old, because of the Cure Ace thing
, yet at the same time, that also means that Mana was aware of Aguri's secret, which means she willingly threw her into the harem despite that because she willfully believe that the Mana cock (NSFW) is strong enough to defy logic. God damn Mana, does your level of creepiness ever stop?


Apparently not, because you're sleeping with her despite that. And Makoto as well. Apparently Mana's bed isn't big for 5 people! Only Rikka and Regina have been in bed with Mana, but hey! FIVE GIRLS IN THE BED! Fuck all the other Harem leads, Mana willfully leads her waifus like the harem lead she is. Clearly this is a better harem anime than actual harem animes. Too bad the other plot areas are shit due to the power of handwaving.


And yes, despite the shit that happened, Regina remembered the time she drew a picture of her and Mana holding hands. Lewd. Rewinding a bit, I found it somewhat interesting in that when Aguri ran to the group after being told of her origins from her grandmother, she ran to Rikka first, and then Alice. In fact she didn't even run to Mana. Hope yet? Who knows. I do know that Aguri wanted Rikka to make something to turn back time. Since when was Rikka a Time lord?

Anywho, with the revelation of it going into Max Heart territory, on top of Mana being a
toddler
con, this pretty much means to me that they better take the good aspects of the ending and apply it here, and by that, I mean the ones that would benefit me the fucking most right now
Which would be Regina and Aguri being able to live seperately without needing to be their true form
, because otherwise, I will be really angry, and trust me, there are a lot of details that were fucked over to make me list them. Because fuck.

NEXT TIME, FUCKING STEALTH RIKKA EPISODE! I'm both happy and disappointed. the latter because it ruined a picture opportunity for me. Actually no it didn't. Because it's a trap by Regina to make Mana busy so she can take on the other Cures. And with them gone, she can truly go:


Without interruption. And everyone would be happy.

Also, Fire Emblem related
by the way, if we can't justify Nowi being 1000 years old because the way she looks, we can't say, go "Aguri looks 18" when it happens, because she's not 18, she's only fucking 9. Fuck you. AIN'T HAPPENING SON! Good thing she's not 18!
 

Moonlight

Banned
Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion

So, this movie sucked.

Homura hits the reset button and turns it into the Melancholy of Madoka Kaname. I don't even know.
 
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