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Summer 2011 Anime Thread II of IKUHARA'S RETURN, Penguins, and Idols
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Simoun 10:
Lenina Huxley: [Spartan encounters a burger grill in the underground world] Just don't ask them where the meat comes from.
John Spartan: Huxley, what's that supposed to mean?
Lenina Huxley: Do you see any cows around here, detective?
John Spartan: Que es este carne? [What is this meat?]
Hamburger Stand Scrap: Este carne es de rata. [This meat is from rats]
John Spartan: Rat? This is a rat burger?
[vendor nods]
John Spartan: Not bad! Matter of fact this is the best burger I've had in years!
Hamburger Stand Scrap: Gracias, Senor.
John Spartan: Prego. See ya later.
Episode Summary:
Lenina Huxley: [Spartan encounters a burger grill in the underground world] Just don't ask them where the meat comes from.
John Spartan: Huxley, what's that supposed to mean?
Lenina Huxley: Do you see any cows around here, detective?
John Spartan: Que es este carne? [What is this meat?]
Hamburger Stand Scrap: Este carne es de rata. [This meat is from rats]
John Spartan: Rat? This is a rat burger?
[vendor nods]
John Spartan: Not bad! Matter of fact this is the best burger I've had in years!
Hamburger Stand Scrap: Gracias, Senor.
John Spartan: Prego. See ya later.
Episode Summary:
Chor Tempest and their Simouns are transferred to the Messis, which leaves for the border with Argentum and the front line of the war.
Aboard the Messis, they must get used to more quaint living conditions. Mamiina sets herself up in the kitchen and begins preparing a meal as apology for her prior behavior to the other Sibylla. Maybe.
Neviril meets quietly with Dominura and questions her on what she knows. How were they able to save Chor Tempest at the trial? Who is Dominura reporting to at the Council, and for what reason? What strange influence does Dominura have that allows her to demand a ship and deployment for a disgraced Chor which just narrowly escaped being disbanded and all members forcibly sent to the Spring?
Rodoreamon asks Mamiina to meet with her to try and patch up their relationship. Mamiina once worked as a servant in Rodoreamon's house and has continued to harbor resentment for the rich and privileged girl she was ostensibly friends with as a child.
Members of the Chor go out and patrol the border in shifts of two Simouns. Neviril realizes at the last minute that Argentum ships have been following their earlier patrols in order to learn their patrol route, with the intent of ambushing subsequent patrols. Everyone heads out immediately to rescue the current patrol, with the exception of Rodoreamon and Mamiina who are busy having a little chat. They finally emerge and reconcile on the spot, and join the others.
The Chor, at full strength, destroy the ambushing Argentum fleet.
Aboard the Messis, they must get used to more quaint living conditions. Mamiina sets herself up in the kitchen and begins preparing a meal as apology for her prior behavior to the other Sibylla. Maybe.
Neviril meets quietly with Dominura and questions her on what she knows. How were they able to save Chor Tempest at the trial? Who is Dominura reporting to at the Council, and for what reason? What strange influence does Dominura have that allows her to demand a ship and deployment for a disgraced Chor which just narrowly escaped being disbanded and all members forcibly sent to the Spring?
Rodoreamon asks Mamiina to meet with her to try and patch up their relationship. Mamiina once worked as a servant in Rodoreamon's house and has continued to harbor resentment for the rich and privileged girl she was ostensibly friends with as a child.
Members of the Chor go out and patrol the border in shifts of two Simouns. Neviril realizes at the last minute that Argentum ships have been following their earlier patrols in order to learn their patrol route, with the intent of ambushing subsequent patrols. Everyone heads out immediately to rescue the current patrol, with the exception of Rodoreamon and Mamiina who are busy having a little chat. They finally emerge and reconcile on the spot, and join the others.
The Chor, at full strength, destroy the ambushing Argentum fleet.
I really don't feel as if the motion blur was because of limited resources. It felt very much like a choice in the name of style. It's not a technique that you see employed in anime all that often, if at all, but I'd actually like to see it be experimented with more. It worked pretty well in that scene.
Yeah, I remember that. The lighting made it stand out a bit less, though.Jexhius said:
I think TGWLTT is his most complete work, not just visually, but with how the sound works together with the visuals. The audio/visual synchronization is on another level compared to OP6/Summer Wars.
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Branduil said:
They like to abuse that to "hide" the limited quality of the animation. If it's a big blurry mess, nobody will notice! :|
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Miri said:
That was a general statement on what I see motion blur used for a lot.
Crash Station
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Koutetsuhin Jeeg 6
Giga Boob Drill Breaker!
what the fuck is thatSteroyd said:Kanade's trolling was weak this episode, not enough Subaru, too much tsundere girl and the whole drama over the garterbelt fanservice was just plain dumb.
Just be greatful animated avatars are gone.
Kamimemo 9
Any other day, any other series I probably would have enjoyed this. Just not doing anything for me right now.
So, regarding the preview,
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Any other day, any other series I probably would have enjoyed this. Just not doing anything for me right now.
So, regarding the preview,
from what I've read it looks like they're going back to cover the arc that actually started the story in the original novels, proving once again that JC Staff can make a failure out of any adaptation plot-wise
Dedication Through Light
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Fairy Tail 95
Like the manga, this part just cracked me up. Its so catchy.
Like the manga, this part just cracked me up. Its so catchy.
A Black Falcon
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R-15 9 - This episode starts with clarinet girl playing that same song, AGAIN. That same song she has played every single time she has ever played clarinet in this show. Again. At least learn another song or two, darnit! This got really old, like, seven or eight episodes ago...
Anyway, after that scene, the episode moves to its actual plot, which is about the girl who's the chief of the school paper the MC and photographer girl work for. She's kind of amusing and likes to sit back and cause chaos. She's not nearly as good at it as Suzutsuki, but she does do amusing stuff sometimes. However, the newspaper is in crisis for some unknown reason... what could be the problem that led her to consider shutting it down?
She won't say, which causes our hero to realize that he knows nothing about her, not even her name, first or last.
lol) So he gets hacker girl's help in trying to find her. After some searching, she finds pictures... strange pictures.
Who knows, but our main character wants to find out... but doesn't have too much success. Utae (the idol) wants to help, so they try to figure out the truth. Naturally there are some of the usual goings on (him getting caught in the girls bathroom, etc.). It is odd how she can simply disappear like that, though. She certainly is suspicious. And she always has those two secret agent like guards with her...
Meanwhile, Narukara (clarinet girl) is messing up on her five-second-long music piece now because she's thinking about the MC too much. I just don't get why she is the main female character...
So, now MC, Utae, and hacker girl's investigation has moved to her
Ritsu (the guy friend) agrees. Unfortunately for him, she knows what they're doing...
:lol And then there's an MGS parody -- MC and Utae try to get close to her hiding in boxes. Unfortunately, these guards aren't as stupid as the ones in the games, so they simply lift the boxes off of the people, revealing our would-be agents... heh.
At this point, our heroes are on the verge of giving up, and the chief still is being informed about everything by her agents/guards. But then Utae says that she likes our MC as an author, so they keep trying.
Anyway, after that scene, the episode moves to its actual plot, which is about the girl who's the chief of the school paper the MC and photographer girl work for. She's kind of amusing and likes to sit back and cause chaos. She's not nearly as good at it as Suzutsuki, but she does do amusing stuff sometimes. However, the newspaper is in crisis for some unknown reason... what could be the problem that led her to consider shutting it down?
She won't say, which causes our hero to realize that he knows nothing about her, not even her name, first or last.
lol) So he gets hacker girl's help in trying to find her. After some searching, she finds pictures... strange pictures.
So is the chief an immortal or a ghost or something whose looks haven't changed in centuries, or is it all a troll for people trying to find her?
Meanwhile, Narukara (clarinet girl) is messing up on her five-second-long music piece now because she's thinking about the MC too much. I just don't get why she is the main female character...
So, now MC, Utae, and hacker girl's investigation has moved to her
maybe being an alien.
:lol And then there's an MGS parody -- MC and Utae try to get close to her hiding in boxes. Unfortunately, these guards aren't as stupid as the ones in the games, so they simply lift the boxes off of the people, revealing our would-be agents... heh.
At this point, our heroes are on the verge of giving up, and the chief still is being informed about everything by her agents/guards. But then Utae says that she likes our MC as an author, so they keep trying.
... The chief and Narukara are in league or something? Huh... that'd be unexpected. Maybe she hid her because she saw the MC with Utae and got unhappy that it wasn't her he was with? I don't know. Then they (MC and Utae) get locked in a giant freezer building, by the chief I assume. Inside, there are mysterious giant green liquid tubes... but it's very cold. They're on the edge... when they wake up outside, saved by the chief. Huh. She warns him to not keep investigating her, "there are things in this world you shouldn't know". Darnit, I want to know...
Then, it ends with another suggestion that Narukara now is depressed. Understandable, all she does is practice but now she likes him but doesn't do anything about it while regularly sees him with other girls (not romantically of course, this is a harem show after all, but still)... I wonder what she'll do now.
Then, it ends with another suggestion that Narukara now is depressed. Understandable, all she does is practice but now she likes him but doesn't do anything about it while regularly sees him with other girls (not romantically of course, this is a harem show after all, but still)... I wonder what she'll do now.
I still hate you, Chris...Branduil said:
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Those sluts.
airmangataosenai
Member
Guys, it's okay!
She isn't a normal teenage girl, she's just a bro-con.
So Jun is a brocon. Good to know.
Tiger and Bunny 23
See, for me, this is just the right balance of "epic video-game-like finale" and "ridiculously cliche and cheesy".
Anyway, only two episodes to go, so the only question is
Tiger and Bunny 23
See, for me, this is just the right balance of "epic video-game-like finale" and "ridiculously cliche and cheesy".
Though having Barnaby miraculously get his memories back just from being called "Bunny" was a bit much. Was the special helmet reinforcing it or something?
Anyway, only two episodes to go, so the only question is
when will Lunatic show up to help save the day.
A Black Falcon
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"brother"... sure...airmangataosenai said:
faridmon said:
Summer Wars is OK - I enjoyed it more the second time I saw it, but I didn't really see it as being especially great on either occasion. Certainly, TGWLTT was a more enjoyable movie.
It's complete fluff, but I did have a super-fun time the couple of times I saw that Layton movie, though.
Unknown Soldier
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Branduil said:
I like how you pretend you aren't an otaku. This is your world, son!
A Huge Battleship
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Being related to the female characters. Or working in shops.Steroyd said:
PdotMichael
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