Hellsing321
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So thats good?
Winter 2012 Anime Thread of Roundcats Up in This
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So thats good?
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My point is that it didn't, what are you talking about?
Dedication Through Light
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Bodacious Maid Pirates 01:
Um... Kuroneko? I think you're on the wrong set. All that late-night programming and doujin writing must have hurt your eyes 'cause you're wearing glasses now. And you seem to have had a slight growth spurt since we last saw you. o_o Can we expect to see this new height in the 2nd OreImo season?
Anyhoo, the show. The artwork was nice and the animation acceptable, if nothing special. I guess I was expecting something called "Bodacious Space Pirates" to be a little more... I dunno... bodacious? That's the problem ultimately with this first episode. There just isn't enough "umph" to carry it through. And um... yeah the whole "legal pirates" bit is kind of an oxymoron so that's dumb. I get why they did it (the girl is supposed to be "innocent" and not a criminal so they have to come up with some bullshit reason for it to be "legal" and thereby okay for her to take over, etc.), but it's still bullshit. And last I checked the rank of Captain isn't usually a bloodline inheritance, usually the 1st mate becomes Captain if the old one kicks the bucket, yes?
I'll give this another episode since I find the artwork agreeable, but so far it's not living up to its name. :-/
I thought legal pirates were real, I dont remember people complaining about it for Barbossa in PotC.
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Legal pirates is just a really dumb way to talk about privateers or corsairs.
RurouniZel
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So I guess a better term would be "sanctioned" pirates I suppose? Yeah I know that's kind of the same thing, but I just personally feel the implication is different enough for the distinction.
Zero no Tsukaima F 01:
More of the same. If you've seen the prior seasons you know exactly what to expect here. Some decent story so far, but the bickering between Saito and Louise is getting as old as Lina Inverse flat jokes. Seriously Siesta, just chain Saito down and have your way with him. I'd pay to watch that. XD
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Infinite Justice
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Kinda looking like that tbh.
Its implied that some were basically that though, supposedly pirates who are allowed to still do what they do but to the company's or the country's rival instead.
The term just sounds really weird due to the strong meaning of each word.
darkside31337
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Most of the time boobs don't look good in anime either.
Where is your proof that boobs do not look good in anime?
Jex
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For some reason the seriousness of this conversation amuses greatly.
I checked Scamco's site before posting, you know.
Anime-related songs:
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RurouniZel
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Neon Genesis Evangelion - END
*golfclap*
You know you haven't actually finished anything if you haven't watched EoE.
That's the kind of thing you shouldn't admit on a board with archived posts.
Ignore this. Rebuild is terribad and will only serve to taint your opinion of the real Evangelion.
Space pirates? No problem. Legal pirates? That can't be right!
Privateers were pretty common back in the day. Countries employed them to harass trade primarily in the Caribbean but still remain with a good deal of plausible deniability. However, the US used privateers all the time during the US Revolutionary War, and similarly, so did both sides during the American Civil War. The concept is actually not that ridiculous and is pretty well embedded in the history of the Americas.
This song makes me want to go out in a pimp suit with dark sunglasses and just strut.
Smoke weed, fuck bitches, make money. Truth.
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You call flopping bags of Jello good?
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The Familiar of Zero F 01: She's back.
She's back!
SHE'S BACK!
Massive animation improvement. I remember the previous three seasons to be very stiff. While still very budget-constrained, F looks a lot more fluid than before. J.C. Staff already exceeded my expectations!
Plot-wise it's just more Zero no Tsukaima... in the Vatican! That means harems, love triangles, Kugilolis being tsundere, and Saito kicking arse when he's not fondling someone's breasts. Oh God I missed this show so much.
She's back!
SHE'S BACK!
Massive animation improvement. I remember the previous three seasons to be very stiff. While still very budget-constrained, F looks a lot more fluid than before. J.C. Staff already exceeded my expectations!
Plot-wise it's just more Zero no Tsukaima... in the Vatican! That means harems, love triangles, Kugilolis being tsundere, and Saito kicking arse when he's not fondling someone's breasts. Oh God I missed this show so much.
Miki's stopwatch is not quite on the same level as all the Judeo-Christian imagery in Eva.
"A privateer is a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime." wikipedia
But don't let that stop you from being an idiot.
And if I recall correctly the show mentioned it was a legal thing, that the letter of marque could only be passed on within the family. But they gave a somewhat plausible explanation, there's worse BS floating around in anime these days.
KuwabaraTheMan
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Great episode. It's good that they finally have a full group, and I enjoyed seeing Chihaya pushed to her limit this time around rather than simply coasting by like she has for the past few episodes. I think there's a good dynamic amongst the group, so I'll be interested to see how things go for all of these characters from here on out.
Great episode. It's good that they finally have a full group, and I enjoyed seeing Chihaya pushed to her limit this time around rather than simply coasting by like she has for the past few episodes. I think there's a good dynamic amongst the group, so I'll be interested to see how things go for all of these characters from here on out.
They were called privateers. Some of the most famous pirates in history were "legal pirates", including Sir Francis Drake and Klaus Störtebeker.Bodacious Maid Pirates 01:
Um... Kuroneko? I think you're on the wrong set. All that late-night programming and doujin writing must have hurt your eyes 'cause you're wearing glasses now. And you seem to have had a slight growth spurt since we last saw you. o_o Can we expect to see this new height in the 2nd OreImo season?
Anyhoo, the show. The artwork was nice and the animation acceptable, if nothing special. I guess I was expecting something called "Bodacious Space Pirates" to be a little more... I dunno... bodacious? That's the problem ultimately with this first episode. There just isn't enough "umph" to carry it through. And um... yeah the whole "legal pirates" bit is kind of an oxymoron so that's dumb. I get why they did it (the girl is supposed to be "innocent" and not a criminal so they have to come up with some bullshit reason for it to be "legal" and thereby okay for her to take over, etc.), but it's still bullshit. And last I checked the rank of Captain isn't usually a bloodline inheritance, usually the 1st mate becomes Captain if the old one kicks the bucket, yes?
I'll give this another episode since I find the artwork agreeable, but so far it's not living up to its name. :-/
So that's probably the inspiration for the whole Shichibukai thing in One Piece?
I actually learned something today!
Should've made it clear that it was an "addendum" to the post rather than a correction, I guess. I just tried to say that IM@S fans actually buy really overpriced virtual merchandise.
Infinite Justice
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giving that the pirate stuff was actually an inspiration for Oda (IIRC the real Blackbeard is his favorite historical pirate) when creating OP then its a high possibility.
RurouniZel
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Clearly I know nothing of pirates. :-/
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Do Luffy and crew actually plunder other ships, pillage treasure, and rape port towns?
It's a shounen manga
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So no? Booo!
Jex
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So was Violence Jack and Fist of the North Star. Ah, how times have changed.
I don't know, a lot of dangerous stuff got inserted into my thought process through a visual medium and my brain ultimately doesn't know what to make of it, making me re-evaluate what I do and don't like.
On paper, Shinji and Asuka should have annoyed the living crap out of me, but they didn't, maybe I can attribute this to the 90's phenomena where anime could do no wrong, but I am retrospectively watching NGE/EOE in 2012 indicating that the show did indeed stand the test of time so the conventional degradation of current anime and their tropes in the modern era are not wholly applicaple.
However Shinji did indeed piss me of in EoE which shows that his character type does mean I actually don't like him and I was goading the character to pull the trigger when he had a gun to his head when he was curled up like a bitch. But then I realised, that maybe he wanted to die, maybe he wanted to be relieved from being weighed down by the constricts of living and by following a petty emotion of hate I would have no longer been able to enjoy seeing him suffer. This is how wars between man are born.
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The entire point of the EoE is that
he doesn't want to do any of that at the end
Well most of what they had done is aid revolutions, start ones, or stop them. Not much piracy actually happening.
Hellsing321
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So thats a yes?
There's some irony in here.
Infinite Justice
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Shots Fired i say.
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You could say it's a subversion of piracy. A deconstruction maybe?
nah
darkside31337
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I feel like you're insinuating something there. Maybe.
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Man, not cool.
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