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[Ice Lightning]

Chibits is by far the best thing about Chobits.

Yes, Chibits would be a great way to finish the series despite the fact that I am now watching the .5 chat episodes at the moment. I guess I could not agree with you about not needing to watch those episodes to get the full Chobits enjoyment, along with your statement that Dog Days is better than Mayoi Neko Overrun. :'(

 

[dakkumauji]

It doesn't help that they're often using basically the worst designs available for each character in the original source.

I mean, these two are both female Hideyoshi Toyotomi from the original Sengoku Collection:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/NeonZ/ToyotomiHideyoshi_younggirl_01_No8.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/NeonZ/ToyotomiHideyoshi_advisormaiden_01_No6.gif
The design that's going to appear in the anime next week should be obvious... And that's not even getting into the male versions which have been completely excluded from the anime.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/NeonZ/ToyotomiHideyoshi_normal_01_No7.gif[/
(This is the male counterpart to the one that's going be used in the anime)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/NeonZ/ToyotomiHideyoshi_advisor_01_No5.gif
(This is the counterpart to that older one)

Is there a site or some sort that shows the different character designs. I mean the anime might be using the absolute worst designs but I am interested in seeing the others now.

 

[Rebel Leader]

I hope you didn't vote for Victorique. Because if you did....

I will.

 

[BGBW]

The only good I'm getting out of that poll is the practise of coin flipping.

 

[cajunator]

I will.

shots FIRED.
*hides in a corner from the chaos.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

But you cant stop this kind of bleeding with nen unless you have a specific hability.. for this purpose ( managing your body ) .
At best with a strenghtning nen you can close wounds given that those type can regen quickly ( like gon ).

They could have played the whole thing as his arms were fake or something as well. I guess, still trying to understand the nen + other stuff too.

 

[dimb]

People voting for Nadeko instead of Shinobu...well that's really something.

 

[madp]

People voting for Nadeko instead of Shinobu...well that's really something.

Twister > bathtubs, apparently.

 

[cajunator]

People voting for Nadeko instead of Shinobu...well that's really something.

I like snakes and I like her song. A lot.
Plus Bake > Nise.

 

[/XX/]

J.C. Staff in particular has a bad reputation when it comes to Blu Ray releases and poor upscales.

Well, that is more a problem for the production committee/publisher that commissions the task, and the authoring center in charge that has to work with the already edited material provided that they can attain. At least Sony PCL's handling of the video resolution upscale (what they now call Real Scaling for HD, as seen here http://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20110808_466237.html) and re-mastering process necessary for the Toradora! Blu-Ray disc release was kind of a good job, compared to the ones made for other related works from the same animation production studio (as far as I've seen examples of it).

 

[Ultimadrago]

I hope you didn't vote for Victorique. Because if you did....

.

 

[Soma]

Plus Bake > Nise.

Talking Shinobu was probably (one of) the best things to come out of Nise.

dat Maaya Sakamoto~

 

[cajunator]

.

Are you TRYING to kill me?

 

[Envelope]

.

 

[cajunator]

you guys. YOU GUYS.
My heart. Please post warnings next time.

 

[Rebel Leader]

you guys. YOU GUYS.
My heart. Please post warnings next time.

Then.. how would they have fun?

 

[cajunator]

Then.. how would they have fun?

Is it really fun if I DIE?

 

[Rebel Leader]

Is it really fun if I DIE?

*looks at title*

You would've died along time ago if that was possible

 

[cajunator]

*looks at title*

You died along time ago if that was possible

There is truth to that statement. If I haven't been killed by Cute yet it is highly possible that it is highly impossible.

 

[Chet Rippo]

Welp, I voted for Mio, now to pick the rest at random.

 

[tiff]

There is truth to that statement. If I haven't been killed by Cute yet it is highly possible that it is highly impossible.

That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

...or, uh, something like that.

 

[BGBW]

Welp, I voted for Mio, now to pick the rest at random.

At least flip a coin. It is up to them to make their own luck.

 

[Jex]

Anyway, no difficult choices for me, but a fair amount of abstains:

If I ever voted, for some reason, I'd have to pretty much abstain on every choices.

Which is one of the many reasons I don't vote.

 

[cajunator]

Are the choices that difficult to have to abstain so many times?
Its been pretty easy for me. Except stuff involving C.C., Holo, Iri, stuffl ike that.

 

[madp]

If I ever voted, for some reason, I'd have to pretty much abstain on every choices.

Which is one of the many reasons I don't vote.

I don't vote as much as I anti-vote, generally casting votes for the opposing character in any match involving K-On! or Angel Beats regardless of how moeshit the opposing character is. I've cast votes for loathsome characters like Shana, Fear Kubrick, and Kirino just because they were up against Mio or Tachibana Kanade.

 

[cajunator]

I don't vote as much as I anti-vote, generally casting votes for the opposing character in any match involving K-On! or Angel Beats regardless of how moeshit the opposing character is. I've cast votes for loathsome characters like Shana, Fear Kubrick, and Kirino just because they were up against Mio or Tachibana Kanade.

I vote against Kirino no matter who the opposition is. I guesS I really do hate her a lot.

 

[Brazil]

Are the choices that difficult to have to abstain so many times?
Its been pretty easy for me. Except stuff involving C.C., Holo, Iri, stuffl ike that.

Not everyone knows every character from the list.

 

[tiff]

I vote against Kirino no matter who the opposition is. I guesS I really do hate her a lot.

I do the same for Yozora.

 

[Jex]

[Eureka Seven AO] - 6

This week’s episode did a good job in assuaging some of the fears that myself and others had about the trajectory this show was heading it. It doesn’t actually answer the wider question of ‘what this is show is about’ or what the ‘end game’ might be (and it actually raises a number of further questions) but at least it answers the question of “is this all going to be terrible ‘anime’?”

As has been noted earlier, last weeks episode felt incredibly ‘anime’, to the point where it felt like the show was either trying to make some kind of point or the writers were terrible hacks Luckily for everyone the vast majority of the stuff we saw in the previous episode was used to build up certain expectations about the show which this episode tore down.

It turns out that

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Generation Bleu might actually be an extremely dangerous place to work, as various adults characters mentioned last week. Despite their friendly and open nature, the adults in the organisation are dedicated professionals doing their best for the pilots. The pilots themselves seem to understand the risks they are undertaking and they’re used to handing dangerous situations. They aren’t just there to be cute or set up jokes. Well, for the most part. Elena is still terrible otaku fodder who has no reason to exist.

Of course, the biggest revelation of the episode was that the ‘Secrets’ might not be the primary antagonist in the show – the Truth appears to be a member of a completely separate faction not aligned with the humans or the Secrets, it’s purpose and goals are explicitly unclear. The appearance of the truth certainly throws a curve-ball into my expectations of how the show is going to unfold, which is always nice to see.

Of course, none of this means that the show won't turn into a complete mess further down t he line, but at the very least it will be a new and interesting mess that perhaps we haven't seen before.

 

[Dresden]

I don't vote as much as I anti-vote, generally casting votes for the opposing character in any match involving K-On! or Angel Beats regardless of how moeshit the opposing character is. I've cast votes for loathsome characters like Shana, Fear Kubrick, and Kirino just because they were up against Mio or Tachibana Kanade.

You've already lost by voting.

 

[Jex]

Are the choices that difficult to have to abstain so many times?
Its been pretty easy for me. Except stuff involving C.C., Holo, Iri, stuffl ike that.

I don't recognise 80% of the characters and most of the ones I do recognise are bad characters from bad shows.

 

[Chet Rippo]

At least flip a coin. It is up to them to make their own luck.

I make my decision based on if they have hime hair or not.

 

[Jex]

Rei is a boring shit character.

You don't find anything cajun about pathetic bandage girls?

 

[cajunator]

You don't find anything cajun about pathetic bandage girls?

not particularly, no.

 

[Jex]

at least Rei was the only character in the show with real character development.

I don't know about that. Asuka developed as character, she got bitchier.

 

[jman2050]

Wait, did someone actually claim that Rei had character development?

Did we watch the same show?

 

[cajunator]

Wait, did someone actually claim that Rei had character development?

Did we watch the same show?

Well she developed into something alright.

 

[Jex]

Yes. I'm sure it will be. The concern should be whether 4.0 is out next year as promised. Lol.

They probably don't even know what 4.0 is going to be about yet.

 

[madp]

Wait, did someone actually claim that Rei had character development?

Did we watch the same show?

I'd say that someone developed her character

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20 or 30 times over again in that tank

.

They probably don't even know what 4.0 is going to be about yet.

At this point, I just hope it's a two-hour beach episode.

 

[Jex]

Wait, did someone actually claim that Rei had character development?

Did we watch the same show?

Don't you remember the episode where she smiled? You monster.

 

[Ultimadrago]

I've cast votes for loathsome characters like Shana, Fear Kubrick, and Kirino just because they were up against Mio or Tachibana Kanade.

Is she really bad?

The name is so awesome.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Hulu Free has 'Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise' and I was wondering if it's any good?

 

[Jex]

Something this magical could only be created by accident.

Those plugsuit designs aren't even that original, it was just a case of right place and right time.

 

[madp]

Is she really bad?

The name is so awesome.

Cool name, but insufferable tsundere loli moeblob.

 

[PdotMichael]

please... the Rei hate is disgusting

 

[Branduil]

Hulu Free has 'Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise' and I was wondering if it's any good?

It's the only legitimately high-brow work GAINAX has ever made.

 

[Jex]

Hulu Free has 'Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise' and I was wondering if it's any good?

Nah, don't bother watching it.

 

[Articalys]

Wait, Honneamise is on Hulu now? *marks to watch later*

edit: actually, I take that back, because Hulu's web player is terrible.

 

[Jex]

Well that would explain that Rei-themed hotel room I stayed in. I wanted an Asuka one but if Rei was the most popular then it would make sense that it would be Rei.

Wait, who would want to stay in a Rei themed hotel room? I don't imagine it being very hygienic or pleasant. It would logically have cold, metal walls, an uncomfortable bed with no padding, pills on all the surfaces and bloody bandages everywhere.

 

[Brazil]

Acchi Kocchi 7

The skits in this series are basically being retold all the time... It's always

Spoiler

Tsumiki being tsundere and then surrendering, Mayoi provoking her and getting killed, Tsubaki or Mayoi almost dying in some shounenfied sports event...

But the presentation and the VAs are so good I don't even mind.

The moe took over... But kawaii will never die.

And neither will Io's badassery.

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I'll be so frustrated if they don't get together in the end.

Two CG scenes in this episode. That's a new record. And there was also... Sakuga. Damn. Those rocket scenes were awesome, hahaha.