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Spring Anime 2013 l OT One l All roads lead to this

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I guess nobody remembers Rebecca Hopkins :(

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If she doesn't cheat, then its no wonder.

I only remember her as the loli that wants Yugi's D
eck
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
Finally, all the Prism Stones are recovered, and it turns out the next step is for the Cures to travel to the Garden of Light itself, courtesy of a GIANT MAGICAL RAINBOW and Porun, the most annoying Prince you will ever meet-popo. I recognise this guy's name-popo, so I presume he will be sticking around-popo, which is honestly a little depressing-popo. Mipple, Mepple, I'm sorry I ever said anything against you guys! You're all right really! Get this little shit out of my face!

The next few episodes will be a good bellwether of how much you'll hate Max Heart.

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B-Dubs

No Scrubs
hxh 82

holy shit. Finally something well animated fights.

I forget, is Nen something all living things have that you need to unlock, or is it a natural born thing?

It's the bolded, at least for humans it is. Every person can use nen, it's just a matter of learning how. Some learn faster than others.
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
Didnt she give them a card they never really used?

According to the Yu-Gi-Oh! wikia, Yugi gave her a card called The Ties of Friendship after their duel, which was basically useless.

Another interesting fact from the wikia:

She is twelve years old in the original Japanese anime. In the English anime, she is eight.

wut? typically it'd be reversed. Apparently in 4kids' mind, 12 is too hold to carry a teddy bear around but 8 isn't :lol
 
Hawkins was an anime only character in YGO, all of her appearances aren't canon... for people who care about that sort of thing lol.

Also apparently nobody reminds Akiza from 5Ds, she was useful during the first season

Valvrave 8

I have such a hard time trust L-elf but after this most recent flash back I guess he isn't really isn't all that bad of a guy. Glad we've established his love interest so we can get him out of Haruto's harem (no offense DTL)
 
Lucky Star 06

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Yeah, this was something I completely didn't expect yet enjoyed so well. So amazing. They even had their own moev song!
 
Kotoura-san END

Well I'm glad everything wrapped up fine and dandy. It's nice to see a romcom actually have a satisfying ending
other than NO KISS AGHHHHHHHHHHH

What the heck was up with the detective just getting out of the situation without being handcuffed or anything. She's still a criminal, with aggravated assault and murderous intent, I think she might regress into her nuts personality at any time :I Also I totally guessed it was her as soon as she was introduced.

Seeing Kotoura's mom's eyes go back to normal was really nice, almost a tearjerker.

Kotoura-san gets a rating of
1 Sword Art Online
 

Jex

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[Aku no Hana] - 9

I had foolishly assumed that Kasuga couldn't reach a more pathetic low than he had already sunk too, but it turns out that I was wrong. I should never doubt that there's worse places this show can go to.
 

/XX/

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Netageo has added English subtitles to their video tour of Tokyo International Anime Fair 2013 GAiNAX booth's section called The Theory of Gainax Animation, an always informative look into a show's production process:

Comment faire un animé selon GAINAX #67 - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyAYuCcVnBc

Matt Alt described it well, after all!

As you can see, an 'attrezzo' ring recycled from Mr. Yamaga's The Rhine Gold staging and some posters weren't the only attractions on their TAF showing (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=51819645&postcount=1699). :)
 

Thoraxes

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Gargantia - 09

That was fucking awesome.
Was that Amy in the lab saying Papa? It looked EXACTLY like her, which raises some fucking questions for me. The whole experiments thing was super cool too. I thought that the Hideauze were gonna be human experiments gone wrong, but no way did I see them being evolved humans. That revelation had a little more impact because of that extra oomph. So this means that Ledo is part of what remains of the Continental Union while the Hideauze are the evolvers. So good. I was really hoping the past of humanity would be explored, and I was not disappointed. I just wonder now if the Earth Hideauze are evolved from symbiont or if they're mostly humans. Cause what's her face was still down there.

The preview for next week
looked good too. It has Ledo freaking out, Melty in the captain's room, Amy crying on her knees next to her BFF yelling, and Pinon pouring out something from a flask in a dejected manner. Is Ledo gonna die?

And everyone's favorite brown girl got speaking lines this week.

All in all, everything went real good.
 

Midonin

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And everyone's favorite brown girl got speaking lines this week.
Now's a good time to mention that I am a huge fan of Sora Tokui. Have been ever since she played Nero, my favorite of the Holmes. (Though really, I love them all.) As far as Tokui brown girls go though, I like Robotics;Notes's Junna a little more, mostly because she got more screentime.
 
Date A Live 10

Well this episode did a lot to shake up my harem rankings. Kurumi is no longer my least favorite route :I

Yoshino is precisely the kind of thing that I would like to wake up from unconsciousness from. She's just so adorable.

Poor Tohka, she does her best for Shidou but every episode he grows farther from her ):

Origami's just way too forward. But at least it's kinda funny.

Tohka > Yoshino > Origami=Kurumi >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Imouto :mad:
 

Thoraxes

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Now's a good time to mention that I am a huge fan of Sora Tokui. Have been ever since she played Nero, my favorite of the Holmes. (Though really, I love them all.) As far as Tokui brown girls go though, I like Robotics;Notes's Junna a little more, mostly because she got more screentime.

I can agree with you on that too.

Maybe it's her career destiny at this point.
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
[Gargantia] - 9

Oh yes, I should also mention that this is another show this season with extremely overt Evangelion references. Who'd have thunk it?

Not a subtle reference either, it's a pretty iconic scene.
I'm about to watch this. I'm gonna guess it's the end to the Bardiel fight. Let's see if I'm right.
 

Midonin

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Battle Spirits has better girls than YGO:
Ah, Ayahi Takagaki. The only thing I know about Battle Spirits is its ED songs (it's on before Super Hero Time, where I actually start watching). The Little Non song is good too, but "dear-dear dream" is so darn catchy. It helps that Takagaki has Sphere backing her on that one.
 

jgminto

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Gargantia 9

Jesus Christ.
So the Hideauze were genetically modified humans? I didn't see that coming. I was expecting the humans to be the evil ones but it's really a war for space between humans. That scene when Chamber was killing the young whale squids made me sick, especially with the human-like insides. And then when Chamber killed the humanoid one...fuck.
This show is really amazing.
 
Utena 30


Between Garden of Words and this I'm getting way more intimate foot time than expected. I can't think of any other footsmut in anime but regular smut and that one hairsmut show come to mind pretty easily. Not much to say other than obvious things like Utena keeps falling for the villains and pointing out all the tension going on. SO MUCH POWDER KEG!
 

Thoraxes

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Those
tapes were like thousands of years old. It's probably her ancestor or something.

That's what i'm think it'll be too, but
the similarity was way too identical... that I think it might be more than that for another twist. I mean, it's anime so they may not have realism of genetics in mind, but the looks would change over so many years and DNA intermingling.

I mean, Amy and her brother don't have any parents, and nobody on the fleet really talked about them (iirc). What if before their parents evolved they cryo froze their children or something, only to be found by Gargantia in the future?
 
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So of course, looking at our cast
The black guy dies first. How typical. Dammit Avdol

A pretty Polnareff heavy episode, dealing with his vulgarity and his weaknesses. In the game of Facebook, where all Stand Users know each other, we have chess battles to see who wins and who dies.

I wonder how J Guile's stand will be defeated since it can only be seen in reflections.
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
Nyaruko 8
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A "new" character appears and she walks into the porn section of a bookstore! Hijinks!

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And you know, as much as I hate nerd jokes - and this is a joke that could be lifted from an episode of The Big Bang Theory - the fact that people in real life get so salty from patch notes does make this amusing to me.

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Ah, back to the easy reference joke. I will say one thing, they have a relatively quick turnaround for this stuff.

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Gargantia 9

Yeah, that was to be expected. At least the infodump wasn't interminable like it was in SSY.

[Gargantia] - 9

You know,
the twist in this episode was obvious since before we even reached the half-way point. All the signs were pointing to it, and as soon as the logo for the video popped up on Ledo's view-screen I knew that the intertwined helix structures meant that humans and hideazure were mixed because that what it always means in science-fiction. Yet, in spite of all the evidence (including the human like babies earlier on) I still feel like the 'revelation' was delivered with some degree of impact. That's good stuff.

So, the part of the twist that I guessed at was that
the "humans" knew about Earth all along and that they've been hiding it forever.

The problem with this kind of twist is that, for me anyway, it completely breaks down when put up against any scrutiny.
Even China can't keep its people from using Wwitter and Facebook and shit, but somehow Space China is able to erase all memory of Earth and the entire conflict?

That's before you go into the ridiculous premise of the twist itself, inasmuch as science fiction always boils down shit to
two amorphous blobs of acronyms fighting each other, when as we know, the world is much more complicated than a simple "For" or "Against".

Perhaps the one interesting thing to come out of this is what I sort of said I wanted to see four or five episodes ago, when Chamber was the "human" robot and Ledo was the "robotic" human. If they can wrap that up neatly and not even bother with the metaplot that - let's face it - really isn't all that important - then I'll be happy.

Of course, since this is SyFy, my greatest fear will be that
both the space humans and space China will show up in Earth orbit and then fight each other, while Ledo has to sacrifice himself somehow in order to bring peace to humanity
. Boo. :(

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Aku no Hana 9
Another great slow burn. But at this point, I really have no idea where they will end it. My hope is they can get to right before the end of the
first "part" of the mango and just leave it at that
.
 
Gargantia 09

Just incredible, god damn once I realized where things were going it changed my view on everything that's happened so far in the series. Holy crap!
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
Gargantia 09:

I was getting scared for a moment that they were going to take the
"the singularity from ep1 sucked Ledo into the past/Ledo is actually the one who began the war between the Hideauze and humans in the first place/TIME PARADOOOOOOOX"
route, so this is much better.
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
Gargantia 09:

I was getting scared for a moment that they were going to take the
"the singularity from ep1 sucked Ledo into the past/Ledo is actually the one who began the war between the Hideauze and humans in the first place/TIME PARADOOOOOOOX"
route, so this is much better.

Honestly, I think this is still pretty stupid. But in a dumb
X-Files
direction.

But then again, I mostly hate
conspiracy bullshit stuff anyway.

(Although,
Obama is clearly a secret Muslim
, right?)
 
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