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Bakanogami posted:Total Eclipse episode 6 - Welcome to Island!! I will never get tired of English text in animes. I came here to post the same drat thing.
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| # ? Aug 5, 2012 21:10 |
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Another loving beach episode for another anime. There wasn't anything in this episode that really moved the story forward much except for the relationship between Bridges and the Lientenant. Except, we knew that was going to happen anyway. The Russian's interest in Bridges is a surprise. I wonder exactly what the nature of that interest is, though.
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| # ? Aug 5, 2012 22:16 |
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Are you ready for the sequel to Nadia's Island?? I know I am.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2012 01:50 |
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Dan7el posted:The Russian's interest in Bridges is a surprise. I wonder exactly what the nature of that interest is, though. I'm assuming she's trying to figure out what could make Inia interested in him.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2012 05:03 |
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IIRC there should be some amount of development in the next episode, (beach episode part 2) though that's as far as I've read. From what I've seen in Japanese threads it sounds like we should get some more BETA before too long though.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2012 05:12 |
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For a beach episode, that could have been much worse, specially given this show's origins.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2012 11:08 |
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Dan7el posted:Another loving beach episode for another anime. Japan is, like, 75% beaches man, be thankful that same ratio doesn't apply to anime episodes  My favorite part was predicting the double damsel well before it happened, simply by guessing from what the source material would have done and seeing how both female characters have already shown strong combat strength so welp time to take them down a notch.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2012 13:40 |
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How did these guys pass their eishi exam?
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| # ? Aug 6, 2012 13:48 |
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How the hell does one sprain an ankle so severely on wet sand that you can't even limp along? Another thing, what exactly has Yuuya done to "interest" Cryska? Their interactions have consisted of: got a gun aimed pointed at his face and bitched at during that inconsequential drone thing.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2012 14:10 |
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Nate RFB posted:How the hell does one sprain an ankle so severely on wet sand that you can't even limp along? Inia's friendliness to him, I think. That's not the norm for her, apparently.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2012 14:17 |
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Mason Dixon posted:I'm assuming she's trying to figure out what could make Inia interested in him. Pureauthor posted:Inia's friendliness to him, I think. That's not the norm for her, apparently. That's why I said I wondered at the exact nature of her interest. I figured it was more likely directed toward Inia's interest than anything else. I'm going with that theory as well until next episode.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2012 23:22 |
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Nate RFB posted:Another thing, what exactly has Yuuya done to "interest" Cryska? It's a loaded question. Like a gun.
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| # ? Aug 7, 2012 06:53 |
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That episode was impressively terrible.
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| # ? Aug 7, 2012 07:18 |
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Largepotato posted:That episode was impressively terrible. A lot of fan service, but not enough plot line.
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| # ? Aug 7, 2012 07:24 |
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I'm still wondering why a bunch of (presumably) trained military personnel decided it was a good idea to get in a dingy with no supplies and no communication equipment and then paddle miles out to sea.
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| # ? Aug 8, 2012 19:48 |
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Sakurazuka posted:I'm still wondering why a bunch of (presumably) trained military personnel decided it was a good idea to get in a dingy with no supplies and no communication equipment and then paddle miles out to sea. Because then they would have had proper blankets to cover up anime tits. Can't have that.
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| # ? Aug 9, 2012 10:04 |
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It's because this show is poo poo and stupid, somehow even worse than MLA itself.
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| # ? Aug 9, 2012 16:27 |
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I don't think anyone was expecting TE to be better than MLA. E: I do think people were expecting at least a few characters who don't make you want to bang your head against a wall. Nate RFB fucked around with this message at Aug 9, 2012 around 16:50 |
| # ? Aug 9, 2012 16:44 |
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Popehoist posted:It's because this show is poo poo and stupid, somehow even worse than MLA itself. I have no idea why you'd watch this show if you were under the impression that MLA was poo poo, honestly. Were you expecting it to change your mind, really or do you just like to watch shows that you dislike?
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| # ? Aug 9, 2012 18:53 |
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Mordaedil posted:I have no idea why you'd watch this show if you were under the impression that MLA was poo poo, honestly. Were you expecting it to change your mind, really or do you just like to watch shows that you dislike? MLA is a pretty interesting but fatally flawed VN but it creates a very interesting world and almost all the MLA sidestories are far better than it once they're freed from the core issues that ruined MLA (awful characters, incredibly awful main character, being too long, blatant flashback abuse). I'm reading through TDA while watching this and the difference is just staggering. TDA is absolutely amazing and this is just irredeemable garbage.
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| # ? Aug 9, 2012 19:50 |
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Nate RFB posted:I don't think anyone was expecting TE to be better than MLA. I think I'll reserve final judgment on TE until later in the series, but it definitely has the weakest characters of the various Muv-Luv properties. Half of them are generic and the other half are stupid. I'm hoping that we'll see some decent action (and character death) later on, but it's probably just going to be Yuuya realizing that Japan is the Best Country and expanding his harem to include every girl. TDA's pretty solid character-wise, and I personally thought MLA only had 2-3 misses, though opinions on that tend to differ on personal preference. Lately, though, I've been reading Muv Luv Chronicles: Adoration, which features the cast from The Euro Front. And it is Fabulous.  
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 07:22 |
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Good to see Lelouch found a new job after that last mess.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 07:54 |
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Hmm. So what, is there a jar containing Kallen's brain somewhere in MLA land too?
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 07:55 |
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There really isn't anyone who can see Ikaruga and not immediately go for a Code Geass joke. Course it's probably intentional but I'm not sure when TDA actually started being published so I'm not sure.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 11:32 |
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Well, Muv-Luv Alternative was released just a few months before Code Geass's first episode, so even at the absolute earliest it would have probably been published while that show was airing.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 15:37 |
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Rodyle posted:There really isn't anyone who can see Ikaruga and not immediately go for a Code Geass joke. Course it's probably intentional but I'm not sure when TDA actually started being published so I'm not sure. Endorph posted:Well, Muv-Luv Alternative was released just a few months before Code Geass's first episode, so even at the absolute earliest it would have probably been published while that show was airing. While MLA was back in 06, the three TDA games were released annually 2010-2012, and I'm not sure if Ikaruga actually showed up on screen outside of a TSF before the most recent one was put out this past march. Makabe, on the other hand, is incredibly blatantly Lelouch. Someday I'd like to read through the Tech Gian and Dengeki Muv Luv magazine stuff. Apparently there's a 4-koma about moe anthropomorphized BETA. 
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 16:31 |
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 Oh god, what the gently caress. This is giving me PTSD flashbacks.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 18:07 |
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This isn't the first time Age has made BETA ladies. But the last time, it was porn (no, that's not a joke). Bakanogami posted:While MLA was back in 06, the three TDA games were released annually 2010-2012, and I'm not sure if Ikaruga actually showed up on screen outside of a TSF before the most recent one was put out this past march. Whoops, I got Ikaruga and Makabe mixed up. Never actually played TDA so what I know is mostly from summaries and things, and I've seen people refer to the Lelouch-lookalike as Ikaruga. But yes, him doing that hand thing is something of a giveaway.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 21:26 |
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Okay, I'm out. Not even the entire cast getting decapitated by aliens could save this show after the last couple of episodes.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 18:51 |
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The past two episodes is probably their way of cutting down budgets in an mech anime, just filled it up with bikini shots and drawn-out dialogues. 
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 05:04 |
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Sakurazuka posted:Okay, I'm out. Not even the entire cast getting decapitated by aliens could save this show after the last couple of episodes. This is almost certain to happen.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 07:13 |
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The lieutenant is so tsundere~ Not exactly surprised such a stereotypical role appeared though, given what this series is based off of. Zalgo fucked around with this message at Aug 13, 2012 around 08:04 |
| # ? Aug 13, 2012 07:55 |
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bubblegumbo0 posted:The past two episodes is probably their way of cutting down budgets in an mech anime, just filled it up with bikini shots and drawn-out dialogues. It just seems like the main age guy (Kouki) looked at Macross Plus as his source of inspiration. "Look, those main characters are going at it constantly!" and decided insert something similar into his own franchise. Except he doesn't seem to have an inkling of an understanding as to why it worked in Plus (key point, the characters in Plus had an emotive state beyond "angry glaring").
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 12:59 |
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Jesus christ this is just getting worse by the episode. Yui and Yuuya are like the only characters who have recieved any form of characterisation and they're also the 2 worst characters of the show. I would probably actually really enjoy some backstory episodes for the other squad members but it seems like those guys are just white noise characters at this point. I honestly kind of liked Yui's "hard bitch" character after the first 2 episodes set up her backstory but now they've just thrown that in the loving trash and made her another tsundere uguu "i need a big strong man to protect me" snoozefest. I wasn't a fan of ML's characters but at least they were consistent, you could even gently caress any of them and they still stayed fairly consistent reasonable characters. This show literally has worse characterisation than a porn game.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 14:01 |
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It takes a special talent to make a worse episode than 6. They managed to succeed in the very next episode with 7. What episode does the other director take over? That's all I can see saving this train wreck and he's got a massive job ahead of himself.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 14:37 |
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Largepotato posted:It takes a special talent to make a worse episode than 6. They managed to succeed in the very next episode with 7. Episode 11. Until then I wouldn't be surprised if this turns into some serious love war for our manchild of a main character.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 15:07 |
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It's not like another director is going to change the story they're adapting. This is what Total Eclipse is.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 15:14 |
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tooooooo bad posted:It's not like another director is going to change the story they're adapting. This is what Total Eclipse is. Username/post combo  I don't think I've been this bored while watching a show in a long time, and I tend to prefer character drama to plot. It doesn't loving help that the end of the episode was everything I was afraid of would happen (and was relieved didn't happen) in the last one. TK-31 fucked around with this message at Aug 13, 2012 around 15:45 |
| # ? Aug 13, 2012 15:32 |
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I could not stop laughing at how these last few episodes have been primarily about celebrating the purity of glorious Nipponese maidens and denouncing the harlotry of wanton Western sluts.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 18:06 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 17:26 |
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Wasn't Total Eclipse supposed to be Kouki jerking off over TSFs? Why does that seem to have vanished? Why couldn't we have a Chicken Divers OVA instead of this? Just... WHY?
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