hosannainexcelsis
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As researched as I'm sure Space Brothers is, I see it as more a character drama than a documentary about astronauts.
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Hey, I said "in part"!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Haha. That would be epic though. And then you can excuse that with "it's not the destination, it's the journey".
A tragic way to do that would be to have him get into some kind of accident right before his launch, so he ends up paralyzed or something. The last shot of the show is him smiling as he watches the rocket launch into the sky, all :firehawk like.
dakkumauji
Member
Ah My Goddess TV 19
Well, nice to see Belldandy being the aggressive one in the relationship which she is normally. They were running through as many couple-y actions as they could find, but hey at least the romance is there. Even though they really haven't done anything besides saying they do like each other. Better than nothing I guess.
No, they did nothing.
Well, nice to see Belldandy being the aggressive one in the relationship which she is normally. They were running through as many couple-y actions as they could find, but hey at least the romance is there. Even though they really haven't done anything besides saying they do like each other. Better than nothing I guess.
Jex
Member
He might say that, but then he was totally checking out her (Rea's) breasts and ass. I think he's a god damn liar.
Jex
Member
I feel that, as an outsider with some knowledge of this franchise (and series) I must ask - are you expecting something to happen between the two of them?
hosannainexcelsis
Member
I know I'd be pretty pissed.
Sure, sure. I just care more about the characters than the precise details of the astronaut examinations, so this kind of stuff doesn't feel out-of-place to me.
Jex
Member
Sadly, Space Brothers is not a KEY drama.
dakkumauji
Member
Not at all. I just would rather either something does happen or they stop doing so much will they will they probably not episodes and work more on the magic and goddesses aspect.
Jex
Member
Because she's his cousin?
Japan is a highly cultured society, they know that there's nothing wrong with getting close to a cousin or two.
I fail to see the issue here.
PdotMichael
Banned
The westermarck-effect is a bitch
Ice Lightning
Member
Got my copy of Heaven's Lost Property: Forte. The front cover is not the one posted on TRSI, but is the one that Madman Ent. is currently listing on their website. I do not have a camera to show pictures of the four postcards, but I can try to give a general SFW depiction if anyone wants to know.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
The show goes down easier when you accept that Keiichi and Belldandy are always going to be dancing around each other and take everything as the harem antics that they are.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Mai Ritoru Poni: Yuujou wa Mahou 21
This episode was pretty interesting in content,
and damn funny too, horse-drawn horse-drawn carriages and Applejack being the best parent ever for Bloomberg.
Pinkie was fantastic as usual, the catalyst to
The power of song was in full effect in this episode only with dire consequences. The scenes that fallout from that event are fantastic and nobody can ever doubt the power of Pie ever again.
Buffalos!
This episode was pretty interesting in content,
I mean a war breaks out! And its an episode built around territorial dispute. Totally cool.
Pinkie was fantastic as usual, the catalyst to
creating the war. Not once but multiple times.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Actually, that happened in Defying Gravity or whatever that ABC-show was. An astronaut was a last minute scrub and had to sit out the mission right before launch. Buahaha.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Well it is indeed improper, :me exists for a reason.
Jex
Member
But then why is the show so looooong?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I'm more than happy to go back to using mono no aware. lol
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Because once a manga author hits on a story that earns him a comfortable living, it's so tempting to keep that going indefinitely.
Jex
Member
Man, I have this kind of wistful nostalgia for the days when people just wrote 'mono no aware'.
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
I had hopes given the few game cutscenes I'd seen in the past and the quality therein but I was wary of a game being made into a movie in general as that's typically a poor recipe. I was pleasantly surprised to get a movie that was actually pretty good. The aesthetic and character designs were wonderful and gave it a unique feeling, the English dub was great, the soundtrack was fantastic, and the story itself was rather touching at times. The inclusion of some of the game's signature puzzle elements did feel a bit contrived but that's par for the course, I suppose. I also thought the pacing was superb as the movie absolutely flew by and kept me engaged throughout. It was definitely a higher quality product than I expected.
I had hopes given the few game cutscenes I'd seen in the past and the quality therein but I was wary of a game being made into a movie in general as that's typically a poor recipe. I was pleasantly surprised to get a movie that was actually pretty good. The aesthetic and character designs were wonderful and gave it a unique feeling, the English dub was great, the soundtrack was fantastic, and the story itself was rather touching at times. The inclusion of some of the game's signature puzzle elements did feel a bit contrived but that's par for the course, I suppose. I also thought the pacing was superb as the movie absolutely flew by and kept me engaged throughout. It was definitely a higher quality product than I expected.
So do I, it's just that I'm still trying to gauge where on the "realism <-> magical convenience" spectrum the show is. Turns out it may be closer to the latter than I thought/hoped. Not a big deal, but... "Huh."
Ultimadrago
Member
Have Song of the Sun on my mp3 player. It made for a nice theme
firehawk12
Subete no aware
That's just... writing though. I don't think this show ever put itself forward as a docu-drama anyway.
I suppose being mono no aware for "mono no aware" would mean being happy to accept a new term. lol
How good would that be. Mutta is actually a reincarnation of a past astronaut, his brother is a ghost, and the girl is actually a spirit of some kind...and they are all in purgatory. Uguu.
Get that crap outta here! :lol
Yami To BOushi to Symbolisms everywhere 3
I don't even know where to fucking begin. There were jet clowns, fireworks, mini hats, oh god, what even is this.
The one thing that will remain constant is DEEN art.
The train is completely forgetten. Lilith doesn't know who Hazuki is, despite knowing her last episode. They go to different worlds, solely for yuri moments and fanservice. Suddenly, the plot switches to a completely different set of characters than the past two episodes. who is this show supposed to be about? I have no idea, and neither does DEEN. The second half of the episode was DRAMA TO THE MAX, Since Hazumi is Eve, and Hazuki looks like yumiyami who is Lilith's dad, and Eve has been around for centuries or something. But she never learned to speak. She's living in a village, and takes care of the kids. But one of the kids, named Gar, goes around killing birds which eve then revives. And gar wants to learn the revive magic, so he can kill them with impunity. But eve teaches the loli instead of him. So gar gets mad. And then the GAR Shota decided he wanted to kill the loli who Eve had taught magic too, but instead he killed eve. There was lots of religious imagery, because it's symbolic, and sunflowers too. In the one moment of normal story telling, you can see a parallel to the first episode, but with a knife instead of the letter opener.
I don't even know where to fucking begin. There were jet clowns, fireworks, mini hats, oh god, what even is this.
The one thing that will remain constant is DEEN art.
The train is completely forgetten. Lilith doesn't know who Hazuki is, despite knowing her last episode. They go to different worlds, solely for yuri moments and fanservice. Suddenly, the plot switches to a completely different set of characters than the past two episodes. who is this show supposed to be about? I have no idea, and neither does DEEN. The second half of the episode was DRAMA TO THE MAX, Since Hazumi is Eve, and Hazuki looks like yumiyami who is Lilith's dad, and Eve has been around for centuries or something. But she never learned to speak. She's living in a village, and takes care of the kids. But one of the kids, named Gar, goes around killing birds which eve then revives. And gar wants to learn the revive magic, so he can kill them with impunity. But eve teaches the loli instead of him. So gar gets mad. And then the GAR Shota decided he wanted to kill the loli who Eve had taught magic too, but instead he killed eve. There was lots of religious imagery, because it's symbolic, and sunflowers too. In the one moment of normal story telling, you can see a parallel to the first episode, but with a knife instead of the letter opener.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Bodacious Space Pirates 14:
Marika in a business suit. I wholeheartedly approve.
Bodacious Space Pirates 15:
So it's time to... learn to properly boot the ship without destroying it! Manuals are good, kids!
Marika in a business suit. I wholeheartedly approve.
Bodacious Space Pirates 15:
So it's time to... learn to properly boot the ship without destroying it! Manuals are good, kids!
Jex
Member
Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito 03:
So we went from
last episode to
this episode. I...uhh...
My brain is full of fuck. Where is
? Why do
? WHY ARE
?
this episode was a clusterfuck of skipping around to I don't even know what. We went from a library to a beach to a carnival to some kind of pastoral setting where
and we get some kind of backstory for
.
SYMBOLISM.
COMPLETELY UNAMUSED
So we went from
people thinking that a girl in tight clothing that emphasized her enormous tits was a guy
thinking that a girl in a seifuku looks like someone's dad
My brain is full of fuck. Where is
the train
Lillith and Hazuki not recognize each other
LILLITH'S TITS TEN TIMES AS BIG WHEN SHE'S IN A BIKINI
this episode was a clusterfuck of skipping around to I don't even know what. We went from a library to a beach to a carnival to some kind of pastoral setting where
Hatsumi is Eve is Jill
Gargantua, the dandy freak with the goblin servants from last episode and how he is a batshit stark raving killer psychopath even as a kid and likes to suckle the Virgin Mary's finger in secret
SYMBOLISM.
Crash Station
Member
You know who I miss? The crazy biker amanto girl that couldn't stop moving or she'd die. Loved her design and personality. Kind of like a less magnificent bastard version of Haruko.
Ultimadrago
Member
If they are symbolizing even half of the things you guys are posting about, consider me interested!
Basileus777
Member
Fate/Zero 15
The Kariya/Tokiomi scenes were disappointing, but had a nice pay off with Kotomine flashing his trademark smirk. What was with the magic dust that destroyed Gilgamesh's airship? The music was excellent in this episode, including the Yuki Kaijura remix of Promised Victory.
Crash Station
Member
Childhood Backstory
Firstly, the way in which the audience is shown what's happened to Rea feels a little exploitative, they didn't need to depict that material to us in that manner for us to understand what was going on. It wasn't nearly as bad as, say, Elfin Lied, but it was still a bit tacky. This isn't a particularly major problem, but I still felt like it should be brought up because any work that handles these kinds of themes should be careful in how it depicts such things.
Secondly, Rea's father seems a little bit too much for me to take him seriously. He is apparently omnipotent and omniscient - he can do whatever he wants to other characters and apparently witness everything that goes on. That seems extremely convenient - I don't really buy him as a character quite yet. I guess he's a necessary force to give the plot it's impetus.
Interesting. It actually sounds like you would like how the manga handles this better than the anime. Think that might be a first for the thread (despite what I said last night, I like what the anime did more).
Japan is into the cousin thing. I was actually surprised when it was brought up as a negative in Daily Lives of High School Boys.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Bring her back too! Along with the Prince of Mayo costume!
You can't deny the truth.
Further proof that High School Boys is just all class.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Poyopoyo 15
I stared into the horrors of the abyss... and a round cat stared back.
I stared into the horrors of the abyss... and a round cat stared back.
-Minsc-
Member
Yami To BOushi to Symbolisms everywhere 3
Gintama, a source of gifs for any situation. Here's another one for your library, use it wisely.
Crash Station
Member
Kids Jumping Rope 1
Positives
The drum solo
Sentaro's hat
Negatives
Everything else
There's really nothing compelling enough about this for me to continue watching. The only hook that I'm actually interested in is Maruo's social anxiety, but even that wasn't as executed as well as I had hoped. Everything from the social anxiety to the BL was handled better in Tsuritama IMO. Don't think I'll be watching more.
Positives
The drum solo
Sentaro's hat
Negatives
Everything else
There's really nothing compelling enough about this for me to continue watching. The only hook that I'm actually interested in is Maruo's social anxiety, but even that wasn't as executed as well as I had hoped. Everything from the social anxiety to the BL was handled better in Tsuritama IMO. Don't think I'll be watching more.
What if he's referring to himself in third person?
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