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I enjoy it, funny stuff.Magnus_Bulla said:Heh heh, somehow Baka to Test has become my favorite show this season. I mean it's not the best, not by a long shot, but it's just so goddamn entertaining and stupid. There's something to be said for things that are just ridiculous.
Halycon said:Thanks to Durarara's sudden turn towards weird incest decapitation fetishism, I can now honestly say Bakatest is my show of the season.
A Black Falcon said:Fairy Tail 21 - Starting the arc... kind of amusing. Lucy managed to get kidnapped though, she IS pretty useless... (as the other three main characters all said earlier in the episode... :lol
Katanagatari 03 - It's too bad that the show is monthly, that's really slow. It's an entertaining show. Nothing original, for sure, but entertaining and amusing, with a few serious moments here and there. Seeing anime with full-hour episodes (50 mins instead of 25, whatever) is interesting... but yeah, the slow pace is tough.
Shichika being so uncaring about killing people is creepy...
I understand the concept is that the swords corrupt the masters so giving them up would kill them or something, but still, in both the second and third episodes having to kill the person was somewhat sad... and he doesn't seem to care that much about it. I know he's an innocent outsider type, but still. I imagine part of it is cultural dissonance, but even Togame was sad about it, even if she (and the other priestesses) evidently thought that it would end that way all along, presumably because of the nature of the swords. At least in episode 2 the guy was clearly doing bad things with his sword, killing anyone who entered that room and such... that wasn't really true this time.
I mean the ninjas are clearly evil, but the other swordbearers aren't, yet because they have the swords they evidently will have to kill them to get the swords from them... or he probably does, but will anyway? I'm not sure, but the effect is the same.
I do like the show though. It's not exactly original, but for what it is it's pretty well done.
Oh yeah, in ep.2, Shichika's comment about Togame wearing too much clothes (in the desert) was kind of amusing, given how voluminous his pants are...Of course her reaction was probably why the conversation was there. They do like their "have Shichika say something that makes Togame embarrassed without him knowing why" conversations. It is anime though, and with these character types what else would you expect? But as I said, entertaining even if it is not exactly original.
Bakatest 10 - Gah, it is so stupid and yet entertaining...
distantmantra said:According to Anime on DVD, a few titles appear to be licensed in North America...
Summer Wars. DVD and BD. August 24. $24.98 DVD, $39.98 BD. No distributor listed.
Xam'd. Episode 1-13. DVD $49.98, BD $99.98. August 10. Sony.
Ultraviolet 044. Episode 1-12. DVD $59.98. BD $99.98. July 13. Sony.
Index was the same fucking way, they'd just be like out walking for ice cream and have to stop some plot for getting people to kill each other every episode.firehawk12 said:Railgun - what is it with impossibly evil villains appearing out of nowhere. Like... at least have a reason for being evil, damn it. :lol
Haven't seen this SnW, but in a way a 2d villain is nice, not every bad guy had to be some tortured soul that's just going about things the wrong way.firehawk12 said:Go figure. I mean, they have an interesting villain in the doctor who wants to save the kids... you know, a villain you could actually identify with. Now they up the ante with insane crazy psycho bitch. WTF?
It's funny because Sora no Woto just did the exact same thing. Maybe it's just an anime thing that I've been able to ignore because I watch shitty slice of life shows. :lol
(Although, having an insane villain show up on Hidimari Sketch would be kind of awesome)
Index featured plenty of ten-minute expositions from either Touma or the villain-of-the-month, so yeah, it's a series tradition.firehawk12 said:I kind of despised the Railgun ending. It basically turned into Code Geass, where they gave the villain 10 minutes of exposition to spout mumbo jumbo at the protagonist. I felt like they just ruined the show with the last three episodes of the series by introducing an evil character right out of nowhere.
Maybe the novels were like this as well and that's what they had to work with, but it was fairly on the nose.
Jexhius said:I don't even know whats going on here. Giant-women-robot with tentacle hair being piloted by two dudes? Sure!
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firehawk12 said:That looks like the art from Shout1up. :lol
Are you crazy? The intense drama that occurred in the last episode was both surprising and enticing.firehawk12 said:Couple of endings today, both ending predictably:
Chu-Bra - almost a touch of Toradora with all the wangst and the credits ending sequence.
Finally got caught up.firehawk12 said:Sora no Woto - evil dude being evil gets killed as punishment for his evilness. Also, random deus ex machina ending that was as expected.
Oh well, I guess I shouldn't have expected anything mind blowing from either show even if I appreciated them broadly for what they tried to do. Certainly a lot of the mythology of SnW is explained well enough though, even if it still leaves a lot to the imagination.
Still, a Japanese anime with German and French? I wouldn't have called it. :lol
To be fair, it should have been apparent from episode 3 that Railgun was going to be trash.Great Rumbler said:Well, watching the last two episodes of both Railgun and Sora no Woto this week was basically the epitome of fail-ton. Both were series with interesting premises, some decent work in art and animation, and some great episodes mixed into some kind of pointless slice of life plot lines...all of which was completely slaughtered by aand aarrogant, kill-crazed villain from out of the blueending."love conquers all"
PUKE. CITY.
Dresden said:To be fair, it should have been apparent from episode 3 that Railgun was going to be trash.
I don't think it was, but I think it's also kinda wrong to even approach her as "the final villain" or anything of the sort as well, she was just a minor footnote in those characters lives that happened to be the last one featured in the TV show. Nothing more, nothing less.Lain said:In regards to Railgun, was the villain really out of the blue?
Thatwas gonna be the villain and a bitch was clear (or should I say I was expecting it, maybe) since she was shown during the fight at the end of the level up arc.Telestina
Plus, all her actions looked kind of suspicious, so much so that when she finally dropped the facade it seemed pretty normal to me.
Jexhius said:Cobra The Animation 12 - The 'Shiva Castle Arc' continues and is about part for this series really. Still, at least the show continues to be pleasently insane.
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Even people who have been turned into robots and have TV's for heads try and seduce Cobra.
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Still, she does provide a vital distraction with her TV head later on...
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Great Rumbler said:Well, watching the last two episodes of both Railgun and Sora no Woto this week was basically the epitome of fail-ton. Both were series with interesting premises, some decent work in art and animation, and some great episodes mixed into some kind of pointless slice of life plot lines...all of which was completely slaughtered by aand aarrogant, kill-crazed villain from out of the blueending."love conquers all"
PUKE. CITY.
firehawk12 said:I guess I'll spoiler too. :lol
It's still a society based on royalty I guess - at the very least, the ending suggests that like all marriages between royalty, it was just a marriage of political convenience.
I'm assuming Noel was able to restore some of the alien technology (much like the tank they use) during the war which was extremely devastating and ended the war.
I suppose it's funny that the famous Colonel that Kureha idolizes turns out to be a gigantic evil asshole... I'm sure that's anime simplicity that I've taken for granted these last couple of years. :lol
Still, wanting to start a war just for the sake of starting a war? That's Code Geass stupid.
I will say, I think I missed something in that I have no idea how Illya died. Maybe they said at one point but I just forgot.
As for the old war - the Roman version of the story is probably the best we'll get. Aliens came to Earth and were about to win the war. The Fire Maidens try to help an injured one but the town kills it. The aliens see that not all human beings are evil and decide to leave... and throughout the years of redevelopment, they just lost the real history of what happened.
One random note - The Random Curiosity blogger is retiring. That's too bad, because I found his summaries of episodes useful once in a while... but, so it goes.
A Black Falcon said:I'd seperate the quotes, but having to spoiler everything in every separate quote would be a real pain, so I'll just answer this way...
Royalty -- True, that is generally the way marriages in the nobility worked, and if nobility was back it would make sense that things would work that way. The thing is Rio obviously had not exactly wanted to have much to do with her father, or to do things he wanted... she had to give in and do what he wanted (despite that she hates him) and marry someone who already has two (current/past?) wives, while she really didn't want to be royalty... but she couldn't escape it. A more happy ending would probably have gotten her out of that somehow, but they didn't do that... they restricted their "getting out of something inevitable" for avoiding the war, not anything else. It adds some sadness to the ending for sure. Not nearly as bad as that worst-case-scenario ending I described though, so I don't mind. It works and is believable.
Noel -- Alien? I thought that the idea was that she rebu8ilt human technology, from before the fall of civilization. The spider tank is one example of her doing that, those tanks are from before the fall; only in the 11th episode do we learn of her earlier experience with that, when she "rebuilt" or whatever a chemical or biological weapons plant's capability, giving the Helvetian military the ability to use those weapons... which of course that guy did, which caused the "Invisible Death" incident. Noel obviously feels extremely guilty about the whole thing, for obvious reasons (a bunch of innocent people were killed, along with the enemy...). But no, the spider tanks and bioweapons were human tech, not alien or whatever the enemy were. Remember the episode with the ghost soldier (or delusion, or whatever) where we saw the short scene of a bunch of spider tanks fighting against one of the giant winged creatures, before the end of the war.
The colonel -- He said that the reason he wanted to start a war was that technology advances faster during a war than during peacetime, I believe, and that he wanted the world to regain its lost technology, and he believed that the quickest way to accomplish that would be to start a war. It was actually a clever reason I thought, and actually accurate -- during wars military technology advances faster than during peacetime without question. Of course, it doesn't justify what he was going to do, and their rebuilding the tank from the past, during peacetime, seemed kind of a counter to his argument I thought. Not that he listened.
Iliya -- In the 9th or 10th episode I believe Rio said that Iliya died trying to save a child from a flood... think of the episode where something like that almost happened again, that she was remembering that really explains why Rio was so angry with children in that episode. For good reason obviously, the kid was being a complete idiot.
Your explanation of the war -- Sure, perhaps. That's a good explanation actually, I didn't quite think of that... but yeah, that sounds reasonable. I wonder why the war started in the first place... oh well.
firehawk12 said:Let's talk about Utena! :lol