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BexGu posted:I'm curious now that the show is over, but how well did it do in the ratings in Japan? Wasn't it a surprise hit considering the main character is a 30 year old single father and most of the cast was out of high school? It was a huge success. Tiger currently sits at #1 on popularity polls and Bunny at #3 or so.
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I hope the second season (we can star making wish lists now right?) goes back to the shows earlier format and feature some one on one time with the individual heroes. I loved the show over all but my favorite parts by far were some of the vignettes each hero. Except in the last ep where it went BUDGET EXPANSION MODE, the heros seemed to lose something when they are all fighting together, and even if they are best buddies NOW, it was still nice when there was a little friendly competition. Hell, barely anyone seemed to be fighting for points aside from wanting to make the sponsors happy. It'd be pretty easy to introduce a rival that's all about taking the King of Heros name and gaming the system to do so.
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| # ? Sep 20, 2011 14:14 |
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ImpAtom posted:It was a huge success. Tiger currently sits at #1 on popularity polls and Bunny at #3 or so. Great! Now if other producers and script writers realize you don't have to create a series about a high school-er and his 12 year old looking, 1000 year old girlfriend as they fight the scantly clad highschool aliens from the future. Or just create more stuff not based upon a already created manga or recycling a new series again.
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| # ? Sep 20, 2011 14:31 |
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BexGu posted:Great! Now if other producers and script writers realize you don't have to create a series about a high school-er and his 12 year old looking, 1000 year old girlfriend as they fight the scantly clad highschool aliens from the future. The lesson anime studios will probably learn is that older men can be moe too, so they will put out the exact same trash with Tiger ripoffs in place of scantily clad little girls. New things are risky compared to the same old wretched pandering, which is assured at least some level of success.
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Serious Frolicking posted:The lesson anime studios will probably learn is that older men can be moe too, so they will put out the exact same trash with Tiger ripoffs in place of scantily clad little girls. New things are risky compared to the same old wretched pandering, which is assured at least some level of success. I welcome a future where moe middle aged male anime protagonists are a regular occurrence.
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| # ? Sep 20, 2011 15:01 |
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DamnGlitch posted:
I want Rock Bison to be the King of Heroes in Season 2 and for him to hitch up with Scarf Girl. Basically, everything goes right for him. He deserves it after the shabby treatment he got in Season 1.
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| # ? Sep 20, 2011 15:05 |
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Serious Frolicking posted:The lesson anime studios will probably learn is that older men can be moe too, so they will put out the exact same trash with Tiger ripoffs in place of scantily clad little girls. New things are risky compared to the same old wretched pandering, which is assured at least some level of success. Pretty much this. I imagine we'll see a yaoi series version of Tiger and Bunny in no time. Or a series much like Tiger and Bunny, but with huge-tittied girls who constantly lose their clothes while their huge titties flap around, defying all physics. quote:I want Rock Bison to be the King of Heroes in Season 2 and for him to hitch up with Scarf Girl. Basically, everything goes right for him. He deserves it after the shabby treatment he got in Season 1. Rock seems like the sort of hero who in twenty years will own a bar where he spends all his time talking about "the good old days", while complaining about modern heroes.
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Liar posted:Or a series much like Tiger and Bunny, but with huge-tittied girls who constantly lose their clothes while their huge titties flap around, defying all physics. I want both of these to be series so bad you have no idea. I mean, the former pretty much exists without the western superhero package but still. And grumpy bar tales is awesome. I wish there were a few more go out and have fun drinking sessions in TnB. Too many depressed end up at a bar drinking sessions 
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gnome7 posted:I welcome a future where moe middle aged male anime protagonists are a regular occurrence. there's a few websites that
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| # ? Sep 20, 2011 16:00 |
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Tae posted:However, I'm extremely cautious because I can't remember a 2nd season Sunrise show that was anywhere near its 1st season in terms of quality. Look at it less as a second season and more as a sequel series. If you do it that way, you have stuff like Zeta Gundam and so on that were sweet.
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| # ? Sep 20, 2011 16:52 |
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The real danger is that someone will decide T&B was popular because of super heroes and ignore everything the recent marvel animes got wrong. In other words, more terrible, terrible adaptations of english comics.
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If you're wondering about the Dragonball references that were peppered in Tiger and Bunny (The Full Nelson, Kaede's Ice Hadoken, Sky High's Sky Bomb, the Jake Games, etc), it might be a result of the main character designer, Masakazu Katsura being best buds with Akira Toryama.
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| # ? Sep 20, 2011 17:41 |
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I want to see a Dragon Kid & Scarf Girl confrontation where they accuse each other of stealing the others voice.
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| # ? Sep 20, 2011 18:16 |
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Last Episode: As much as people are dissing the 1 year later timeskip (I'll admit, it was pretty badly done, but I think it was intentional.), I will give it a pass if only for the fact that it did the exact opposite of what conclusionary timeskips do. With a couple small exceptions, it showed that the characters didn't change at all in the mean-time. That's amazing, if you think about it, and just goes to show how likeable the characters are that I'm not pissed they didn't change. I have to wonder about Tiger's massive drop in power, though. He lost about a minute's worth of time for Hundred Power in the three months or so that passed through the second half of the series. And with only one minute left, you have to wonder how long he even has that. Yes, the point was to show that he didn't care about the time limit, but if they're going for a season two, I just know they're going to pull some re-powering Deus Ex Machina out of their rear end, and I'm going to hate them for it, because out of 25 years of being a nerd, I've never seen cash-ins ever handle that properly.
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Fuck'em all!
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AlternateNu posted:
Saito uses the androids as a jumping-off point to help make a strength-enhancing suit for Tiger. Problem solved. Still able to fight, still able to GOOD LUCK MODE, just gotta stay in the suit. Also whoever mentioned earlier that next season should be called Dragon & Bison, get out of my brain.
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Jim the Nickel posted:Saito uses the androids as a jumping-off point to help make a strength-enhancing suit for Tiger. Problem solved. Still able to fight, still able to GOOD LUCK MODE, just gotta stay in the suit. I don't think I'd like the idea of Tiger becoming Iron Man. I really can't imagine that the series wouldn't continue to focus on Tiger in a second season. I know it's been said over and over, but I'm keeping my bet on the orange glow having a lot to do with his comeback. Even if Tiger's power only lasted a minute, with his Thousand Power he'd still be insane for that minute.
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| # ? Sep 20, 2011 19:07 |
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Well, if he's Had One Minute of Hundred Power after a Year maybe it's stabilized now.
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| # ? Sep 20, 2011 19:21 |
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As a kid, I loved watching anime. It was so colorful and exciting and action-packed and awesome. Then I got older, and everyone was obsessed with Naruto and Inuyasha, and I assumed that I would never be able to feel that way about anime ever again. My hope of ever loving another anime died. But then I saw Tiger and Bunny, and realized that it was never actually dead; it had just passed out, and I had forgotten to check its pulse!
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JosephWongKS posted:It might be interesting to try and predict in what ways Sunrise might screw up T&B Season 2. Have Blue Rose in a serious romantic relationship with Tiger.
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jonjonaug posted:Have Blue Rose in a serious romantic relationship with Tiger. Have Blue Rose in a serious romantic relationship with Fire Emblem. Now, and always has been an over idealised macho asian superman.
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jonjonaug posted:Have Blue Rose in a serious romantic relationship with Tiger. (a) Have Kaede in a serious romantic relationship with Tiger. But it's okay because she's actually adopted and not his biological daughter. (b) Series becomes a harem comedy with Barnaby, Blue Rose, Agnes, Scarf Girl, a re-constructed Cis, and zombie-Tomoe, zombie-Kriem and zombie-Samantha all hankering for their piece of Tiger meat. JosephWongKS fucked around with this message at Sep 20, 2011 around 23:10 |
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JosephWongKS posted:Have Kaede in a serious romantic relationship with Tiger. Have Kaede in a serious romantic reltationship with Blue Rose (she was using her powers at the end there you know that's going somewhere).
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| # ? Sep 20, 2011 23:08 |
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Have Scarf Girl in a serious business relationship with Ouroboros.
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| # ? Sep 20, 2011 23:10 |
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Whizbang posted:Have Scarf Girl in a serious business relationship with Ouroboros. Scarf Girl is Ouroboros. Her NEXT ability is that she is everywhere at once. She watches all other NEXTs at all times. There's no plotting against her because she's already there, listening and watching. She can kill you in your sleep or while you're on the toilet... She'll know when you're at your weakest!
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Liar posted:Scarf Girl is Ouroboros. A scarf is vaguely snakelike, it all makes sense now. 
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| # ? Sep 20, 2011 23:21 |
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Yeah, that was a great ending to a great season. Nicely done.
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| # ? Sep 21, 2011 02:41 |
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Jake had two powers because he had a twin fetus inside of him.
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404GoonNotFound posted:
Was going through the thread again and found this post being made after Episode 8. That turned out to be chillingly prescient.
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| # ? Sep 21, 2011 04:39 |
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When it comes to Tiger being 'repowered', I don't know that they'd really have to bullshit that much to do it. After all, the only 'confirmed' hero to lose their power was Legend, who didn't even make it the full cycle as far as we know. Tiger could actually be going through an evolutionary phase, as he first guessed.
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Yawgmoft posted:When it comes to Tiger being 'repowered', I don't know that they'd really have to bullshit that much to do it. After all, the only 'confirmed' hero to lose their power was Legend, who didn't even make it the full cycle as far as we know. Tiger could actually be going through an evolutionary phase, as he first guessed. They've already provided themselves an out for it with the orange glow back in episode 13 or 14. It hasn't been expanded upon since, but with Jake already having an orange glow and two powers they could use it to give Tiger a new or stronger power if they wished. They don't have to go this route if they don't want to, but it's the most likely scenario seeing as how the setup is already in place and wouldn't be stretching viewer disbelief at all.
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| # ? Sep 21, 2011 06:43 |
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Also, has anyone figured out who has magnetic powers?
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Yawgmoft posted:Also, has anyone figured out who has magnetic powers? For all we know, it's just someone from her school, or even someone in Kotetsu's family who never "awakened" their power or whatever.
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Yawgmoft posted:Also, has anyone figured out who has magnetic powers? Nope, that was never addressed, it's a Chekov's Gun that remained unfired this season. It's probably either a preview of what Tiger's "New Power" is going to be, or that his brother's a NEXT with magnetic powers. Of course, I don't see Kotetsu ever making good use of a magnetism power, so welp.
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It could still be Kotetsu's mother, too. Again, I don't think the person with magnet powers was anyone outside of the immediate family, because Kaede wasn't going to go out while she was breaking things left and right. There are plenty of reasons why either of the candidates would hide their power. That, or Kaede is capable of retaining more than one power at a time somehow, even though she wasn't able to do so later.
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Liar posted:I don't think I'd like the idea of Tiger becoming Iron Man. I really can't imagine that the series wouldn't continue to focus on Tiger in a second season. I know it's been said over and over, but I'm keeping my bet on the orange glow having a lot to do with his comeback. Even if Tiger's power only lasted a minute, with his Thousand Power he'd still be insane for that minute. Iron Tiger. I'd take it.
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Serious Frolicking posted:There are plenty of reasons why either of the candidates would hide their power. Or the original could only manifest the power at a very low level. There's no indication she copies the strength of the power, merely the mechanics (and her little memorywipe lightshow certainly looked more impressive than Maverick's ever did... although that could also just be a control issue).
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 02:49 |
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arhra posted:Or the original could only manifest the power at a very low level. There's no indication she copies the strength of the power, merely the mechanics (and her little memorywipe lightshow certainly looked more impressive than Maverick's ever did... although that could also just be a control issue). True. If Maverick could mess with memories using a light show he would have done so. It doesn't make much sense that he could only manipulate memories at short range, but cancel the effects over a wide area. Maverick made little balls of light with his hands, which he seemed to insert into people's heads. He did this to unconscious people, so obviously he didn't need to make them see his lights. For that matter, the length and frequency of Kaede's hundred power activations weren't ever specified.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 03:31 |
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Kotetsu's hat is up for preorder. Naturally it's way overpriced, with shipping and going through a proxy it'll probably cost $130.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 18:32 |
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Gackt posted:Kotetsu's hat is up for preorder. Naturally it's way overpriced, with shipping and going through a proxy it'll probably cost $130. At least it's not like Quattro's sunglasses (<---) which were limited release and cost like $300.
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The way Kaede invokes powers is different from all others as well. Instead of glowing she bursts into blue fire. I kinda like to think that 2nd gen Next are stronger than 1st gen ones. At least thats what I get from Kaede and Lunatic.
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