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I'm just being facetious. No dog in this particular fight.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
Kirino is such a bitch to her brother.
It's supposed to be one, isn't it? Either way, while I can't vouch for Chamber since I'm not too hip on how a Machine Caliber works yet, the Arbalest and Laevatein that AL inhabits are still mecha because, while AL can pilot them, his capacity to do so is severely limited without a pilot because he's only an AI. and his key component, the Lambda Driver requires a human will to function
until the very, very end of Full Metal Panic, when AL determines that he, too, is human.
However, I have to ask how that isn't so different from the Evangelion, which cannot wield the Lance of Longinus without a soul, which it does not, ironically, possess. Furthermore, I'd like to point out again that if Chamber and AL qualify as androids, that suits my argument just fine, since the Evangelion is designated as an Evangelion Android by Ritsuko.
Also, don't we see on at least some of the EVA skulls hanging below NERV that they're not entirely biological anyway?
Well I don't think anyone whose seen EVA can argue that the Evangelions are 100% mechanical, since they're clearly not. But if it looks like a mech, behaves like a mech, and serves the purpose of a mech, why bother with the fact that its made of flesh instead of steel? The Evangelion still needs a mechanical power source to function without initiating its berserker mode, it still requires human maintenance and mechanical parts for its major use. It's not so different from the Nirvash, really, aside from the Nirvash being some manner of coral life form instead of one made from flesh.
Katsura is def best girl.
The eternal spirit of Sophocles smiles upon this thread once again.
firehawk12
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School Days is our past, present, and future.
By calling it a semantics argument, I was just pointing out I was using a strict definition of the word mech. That's all. Sorry for the confusion in the first part.
If we want to call Evas, chambers, etc. androids, I'd be totally fine with that from a strict definition point. Well, Evas biological factor doesn't make them strictly androids either. I'd call them pilotable cyborgs.
as for nirvash, he's not at all different from Evas. I'd say he's not a mech either from a semantics standpoint
peaceiscloser
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- Assorted 24-Hour Periods In An Academic Learning Environment Part II
Aww yiss a new OP to add to my phone's anime song playlist
I'll probably learn to hate it
OH SHIT EXPOSED BOOBS IN THE OP -- I'm so glad my roommates are asleep.
MAKOTO NO BAKA
-- Wisdom of the World
"What, a greeting? Aren't we in Japan?" -- Is it just me or does it seem like this anime so far was written for non-Japanese audiences.
OH SHIT EXPOSED BOOBS IN THE EPISODE -- I'm so glad my roommates are asleep.
hapulesu harem purotagunesutsu in its purest form.
Thank you for slapping a bitch, Katsura.
MAKOTO NO BAKA
-- Used twice in an episode for dramatic effect!!
Saved by the bell, you hapless scum. You don't deserve such a fortuitous fate.
Humiliation from too much :chet. How horrifying.
SHIT, A KISS. SHIT.
I dunno, still not seeing how this is a rite of passage for AnimeGAF. Hopefully I'll find out in the other 10 episodes to come.
This is wholly unexpected!
Did you not enjoy the Nibu thighs and thigh-highs?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Protip: Cross Days is a thousand times better than School Days.
Well there's a reason the term biomechanical floats around often enough, although I suppose biomech would refer more strictly to things like the Devil Gundam, which is living metal, as opposed to things like say, the Nirvash, which is not made from metal.
But this goes back to my original point: at one point is a mech not a mech when the mecha genre has taken pains to blur the line so completely. For instance, ATTACK ON TITAN SPOILERS
Eren Jaeger's Titan body functions only with his human body inside it, utilizing its controls. It has no autonomous will, but is made entirely from flesh. Is it a mech? One would say certainly not, since its made from flesh and hasn't a scrap of metal on it. On the other hand, it certainly is not alive on its own, lacking a will and reproductive system and goodness knows what else.
And in the other corner we've got stuff like the Nirvash, which isn't strictly metal and isn't flesh, though it has metallic parts due to human interaction. Metallic parts which at one point it specifically requests, just like AL designs the ARX-8 Laevatein body he will inhabit, although with the thought of Sousuke's utilizing it in mind.
What seperates a Mecha from a non-Mecha? Is it the will? It cannot be when every possible class of "giant robot" can find at least one with a will of its own. Is it the materials from which it is made? How can it be when so many robots are constructed from so many different parts? Is it the need for a pilot? But then what of anime where the hero stands on his mech's shoulder, rather than in its breast? Real Robots are one thing, but the Super Robot genre is so expansive at this point I dare say its nigh impossible.
Call me when it's anime.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
CorvoSol, School Days is legit great. As someone who hates shitty harem show I really enjoyed it.
I should pick up the VNs.
Probably never.
It's too edgy for anime. It is a manga though, strangely enough. lol
I should pick up the VNs.
I don't know how the show is before that ending, but that ending is enough for me to steer clear for ever and ever and ever. No amount of telling me not to watch the show will get me to do it. Not this time, animeGAF.
Wait, wait. "Better" as in a recommendation of genuine quality or "better" in the sense of being a even more list worthy piece of media than School Days? Only one of those answers would pique my interest.
Jex
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Probably never.
It's too edgy for anime. It is a manga though, strangely enough. lol
Everyone knows that in manga, anything goes.
Only School Days has been translated.
peaceiscloser
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- I Wish This Was Madoka Episode III
Let's start off the episode with a towel scene. Yes, of course. It's anime. And then follow up with tension so thick you could slice it with a knife and spread it on bread and call it breakfast
Wait. Wait wait wait. Who the flip is Princess Ringhair? ...also isn't hugging in public some sort of taboo in Japan? That's just what I seem to notice.
Oh Princess Ringhair is a spy. Never mind, I was thinking a harem was beginning to grow.
being jelus is suffering
Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru has a highschool girl for an MC but it doesn't necessarily focus on the highschool aspect of it. Still one of the best modern anime series tho.
School Days is legit, check dat shit.
Both are great series but Utena is in a league of its own.
You need to fix that! (and no, that doesnt mean skipping to the ending like a scrub)
Like in any good tragedy, it's the journey not the destination.
That said, the first 3-4 episodes are straight up boring. Once the march to inevitability starts, though, it's good times.
peaceiscloser
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I'm just wondering, are there any romcom anime or manga/light novels/etc. that take place outside of Japan? It wouldn't make much sense but I would like to know if there's a Japanese take on contemporary western romance.
You're such a jerkface, Makoto.
You go to Europe -- for regular summer vacations? Does this mean she's one of those "half-European" people that absolutely has to be in every anime?
Ah yes, tissues and lewd magazines. It's okay, even Keiichi the Chaste had them, Makoto-baka.
Saved by innocent children. Thank grosh. No puraivashee for you!
Wow, their school looks remarkably like Hill Valley High School from Back to the Future.
Well now we're just getting into jealous softcore action-- WELL NOW WE'RE TAKING IT FARTHER
Okay I'm starting to see how Katsura can be best girl.
- My Anime About School Days Is Wrong As I Expected - 04
Not the Waifu Emblem I'm looking for!
You're such a jerkface, Makoto.
You're not feeling like you're love with her anymore, so you think feeling her up is going to fix it? It's just crap because you see she's actually falling for you now and you've gotta pull stunts like that.
You go to Europe -- for regular summer vacations? Does this mean she's one of those "half-European" people that absolutely has to be in every anime?
Ah yes, tissues and lewd magazines. It's okay, even Keiichi the Chaste had them, Makoto-baka.
Saved by innocent children. Thank grosh. No puraivashee for you!
Wow, their school looks remarkably like Hill Valley High School from Back to the Future.
I thought that ticket was a condom at the beginning of the episode. Well then.
Well now we're just getting into jealous softcore action-- WELL NOW WE'RE TAKING IT FARTHER
Okay I'm starting to see how Katsura can be best girl.
Theonik
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The problem has nothing to do with style and everything to do with piss poor colours to the point it's impossible to watch.
Do it.
Holy shit, themes
Now it's no longer too white for me!
If it was only one to one ratio. They are doing less than half now.
Ume-sensei ;3;
You know what to do.
DO IT!
Good! Sekai is best girl.
The Boat We Saw That Day :firehawk
Not anime don't care. Should get through the SDHQ VN one of these days though. I did promise I'd get round to it.
peaceiscloser
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- Even Tragic Love Triangles Need A Swimsuit Episode 05
I like the Crunchyroll comments.
Logia17 said:
Lunchbox94 said:
I think this is one of the surprisingly few times where the hentai-san actually is a deplorable hentai-san
You have the perfect situation here. Actually all the flipping time. And you have to destroy it and confound it and twist it and scourge it and poison it. I don't think I've hated a main character more. Even Onii-chan in Koi Kaze had pure intentions of love.
- Scourge Days HALFWAY FINISHED
Mankind must be evil. Someone from our species made this anime.
Makoto don't you know wars have been fought and countless lives destroyed from the BS you're pulling
Katsura... ): YEAH YOU BEST SIT BACK OF THE BUS SEKAI
You're not a hapless protag. You're a heartless protag.
- Realistic Cheating Simulator 07
This is hard to watch. I think what's bothering me the most about this show is that it's actually kinda realistic about these kinds of situations... so its not the show's fault at all, I guess...
Still doesn't excuse this guy's BS. Dark Prince of Evil right here. Certifiably worse than Sugou in SAO, Ganondorf, Cain, and twelve versions of Satan himself.
peaceiscloser
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Sorry for the double post
Jex
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It's quite hard to explain exactly why it irks me so much, but luckily I have a previous post to illustrate my views on the series: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=26319400&postcount=9511
Theonik
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So you know the Crunchyroll version is censored.
So I definitely share your feelings for this show, particularly about the
Nina/Gato relationship coming out of literally nowhere in the last second and then suddenly the return of Nina/Kou in the last minute.
It isn't that Stardust Memory isn't a terrible, awful, lowdown no good insult to Gundam. It's that the disaster is mitigated by the relatively short length of the show and the fact that with crap like Destiny, AGE, and most of all 00 it just isn't the worst thing ever in the franchise.
At least Stardust Memory had the decency to end relatively quickly. 00 was the series that never ended. Two seasons and a movie of that filth.
Here's a fairly short and to the point, sans hyperbole explanation of why I didn't like 00 and consider it the worst show in the series.
I don't think I've heard her in any actual series yet but from the Muromi OP alone I would subscribe to this newsletter. She reminds me of Kana Ueda I think.
PdotMichael
Banned
You should watch Girls und Panzer now!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Cross Days takes the anti-harem, anti-otaku ending of the School Days anime and somehow makes it even more twisted, darker, and generally insane. It's probably the one of the greatest "fuck yous" to the genre that I've ever heard about, which is why it is almost reviled in the fandom.
Of course, this assumes you think of School Days as a masterpiece in the first place. If you do, Cross Days just elevates that energy one step further.
lol. That is the worst looking part of the entire show. I actually think most of the tank sections look pretty good. They just need better ground textures. Super thrilling to watch though.
PdotMichael
Banned
Your loss! (the scene was not even 1min long).
Or you could watch the BD version of it.
peaceiscloser
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- Real Life Relationships: The Animation OCHO
I take back what I said about downloading the OP. This filth will never exist on my phone.
Poor Katsura... she's so blinded by her love she thinks it's all Sekai's fault.
Sekai I think is starting to see through Makoto's crap. I hope so. Because Sekai's obviously got a conscience here. Who's to say Makoto won't pull the same stunt with you.
Katsura... you can find better men. Don't offer yourself to him just to get him back. Please, stop. PLEASE. PLEAAASSE FOR YOUR OWN SAKE AGHHH
Sekai I think is starting to see through Makoto's crap. I hope so. Because Sekai's obviously got a conscience here. Who's to say Makoto won't pull the same stunt with you.
Katsura... you can find better men. Don't offer yourself to him just to get him back. Please, stop. PLEASE. PLEAAASSE FOR YOUR OWN SAKE AGHHH
Really? You're going to pull normal school anime antics at a time like this?
Dedication Through Light
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Guess no one in america is dubbing bakuman
But the current manga arc and arc the anime half adapted is still yet to conclude.
You need to watch Accel World, its actually good.
Thanks for the warning, no reason to watch.
I referred to him as Japanese Simon Pegg in my review.
peaceiscloser
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- Keima Probably Hated Playing This Visual Novel 09
She's talking about Keima
I didn't need to see that incriminating kiss AGAIN.
The worst possible thing. So it was a harem after all!
Huh, that loli disappearing reminded me of one scene from Madoka. I hope that vague reference is enough for those who've seen it.
Please, for the love of grosh Katsura... just get with Sawanaga. It's better for you. Anything is better for you. Literally anybody would be better for you. A cucumber, for example.
AND THE HAREM GROWS LIKE A CANCER
Makoto has no remorse. Everything is conducted according to where it gets him in bed. A prime example of thinking with your dick.
I'm kinda bothered by the fact that the school endorses this tradition of asking someone out -- with a bed and everything. They probably don't even change the sheets between customers.
ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME, SAPPY MUSIC?!?!!!!!! NO. NO NO NO NO NO.
Huh, that loli disappearing reminded me of one scene from Madoka. I hope that vague reference is enough for those who've seen it.
Please, for the love of grosh Katsura... just get with Sawanaga. It's better for you. Anything is better for you. Literally anybody would be better for you. A cucumber, for example.
AND THE HAREM GROWS LIKE A CANCER
Makoto has no remorse. Everything is conducted according to where it gets him in bed. A prime example of thinking with your dick.
I'm kinda bothered by the fact that the school endorses this tradition of asking someone out -- with a bed and everything. They probably don't even change the sheets between customers.
ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME, SAPPY MUSIC?!?!!!!!! NO. NO NO NO NO NO.
- Everybody In This School Is Freaking Nuts 10
Now that's a way to do an opening to your harem anime.
NOT
SPIRALING
SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL
Don't spoil it for me, since I've got 2 episodes to go, but this is feeling like a VN with EVERY bad selection chosen. And now finally its crumbling on the evil player.
Sorry Sawanaga bro, you're just rebound. It was always this way.
Of all the people to be possessive of. Makoto is the last person you should be getting possessive over.
I don't effing care about growing the harem! AGHHH
Oh yes. It's finally happening. FINALLY. The truth... will set you free? -- probably too late for that now.
AHAHAHAHA THE CHEATER GOT CHEATED ON -- THEN THEY GOT CHEATED ON TOO.
...and he did it. Of course he did. I can't expect anything less from this series.
And now, the crap hits the fan. Perfect setup for the last two episodes.
SPIRALING
SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL
Don't spoil it for me, since I've got 2 episodes to go, but this is feeling like a VN with EVERY bad selection chosen. And now finally its crumbling on the evil player.
Sorry Sawanaga bro, you're just rebound. It was always this way.
Of all the people to be possessive of. Makoto is the last person you should be getting possessive over.
I don't effing care about growing the harem! AGHHH
Oh yes. It's finally happening. FINALLY. The truth... will set you free? -- probably too late for that now.
AHAHAHAHA THE CHEATER GOT CHEATED ON -- THEN THEY GOT CHEATED ON TOO.
...and he did it. Of course he did. I can't expect anything less from this series.
And now, the crap hits the fan. Perfect setup for the last two episodes.
peaceiscloser
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GAH sorry for the double post again.
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