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Because there's people talking about Ixion Saga DT and I chuckled a few times I figured I'd make the  to start a thread so why not. You might've seen this anime mentioned on Crunchyroll or ADTRW and wondered, "Um okay what is this" or "what's with all the ball puns?" Well, let's start with the background. The Background (a.k.a. "Rampant Speculation Corner"): Ixion Saga started as a MMORPG developed by Capcom. From what I can tell in youtube videos, it looks like Monster Hunter if it had PvP and you could Falcon Punch anyone. So to drum up enthusiasm for their new game, Capcom got Shinji Takamatsu (Gintama, Nichibros, among others) to direct and Akatsuki Yamatoya (some episodes of Gintama, Magical Doremi, Soul Eater among others) to script an anime about it and let them run free with the story, just as long as it loosely tied into the game. I assume Takamatsu was bored or busy with other projects so he logged on to /a/ under an anonymous name and asked the assembled denizens and trolls what they would like to see in a fantasy anime. Throw in animation by Brains Base and you have the result of that experiment. So what's the story of this show?  Loser nerd virgin guy named Kon meets a girl while playing an MMORPG one day. Forgetting that there are people on the internet who lie for whatever reason, he decides to accept a request from the sexy female character. Somehow he gets thrown into the world of the game and defeats a miniboss by landing on him with his chair by accident. Then he finds himself in the company of a transsexual maid (Jun Fukuyama) and a veteran swordsman (Kazuya Nakai) who are escorting a young princess (Shiori Mikami) to the capital for an arranged marriage. Wacky hijinks ensue with Kon's newfound hero status, though most of it is him bitching about the game world and everyone else as he wants to go home. I guess that makes him like a real game otaku. At least the writers are consistent.  Standing in their way is this guy with the unfortunate name of Erecpyle Dukakis. The ED is even called "LET'S GO ED!" and he loses his testicles early on in the show, just in case the joke hasn't been drilled into you hard enough. One of his lieutenant's VAs also does the voicework for Gintoki in Gintama. I guess that's cool. Why should I watch this show?  Lots and lots of puns about balls. Male fanservice. Or because you're waiting for a new episode of Gintama to air and you have nothing better to do. Watch it and discuss/complain below. Or don't. Whatever. Kleptobot fucked around with this message at Nov 21, 2012 around 14:47 |
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| # ? May 21, 2013 15:46 |
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It certainly takes "loosely tied" to a whole new level. The show's pretty hit or miss for me. Some episodes have been funny and others have fallen flat, but I'm watching anyway.
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| # ? Nov 20, 2012 05:48 |
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Yeah, shits alright. It has forced me to grudgingly admit I find ball jokes as funny today as I did when I was 12.
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| # ? Nov 20, 2012 05:59 |
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I'm loving this show. The voice actors really make it. The guy voicing Kon is pretty new compared to the rest of the cast, but he's so perfect at playing the selfish little poo poo that is Kon and if I'm remembering correctly, Marianne was basically created for FukuJun. Also the OP and ED are amazing. It's too bad CR isn't translating the songs because they're really loving funny (especially if you pay attention to how the fake lyrics on screen line up with what's being sung).
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| # ? Nov 20, 2012 07:58 |
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I actually find something oddly classy about this to me because I don't think I ever heard a single balls joke in my childhood except teabagging in Halo. Crass, and yet not childish. I suppose that's not typical though.
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| # ? Nov 20, 2012 12:30 |
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Went into it expecting a fairly generic RPG fantasy-type anime, stayed for the ball and virginity jokes. Kleptobot posted:Then he finds himself in the company of a transvestite maid (Jun Fukuyama) I think transexual would be more appropriate here. "It doesn't hurt the first time." 
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| # ? Nov 20, 2012 21:06 |
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I was shocked that the hot spring episode was so hilarious... I was all set on them doing the whole 'sneak a peak at the women's bath' "humor" but... all Kon gets are penis and balls. XD The writers really enjoy trolling their fanbase. I'm really getting a kick out of Kon's character. He's such a little poo poo, but with self awareness. ashez2ashes fucked around with this message at Nov 20, 2012 around 22:10 |
| # ? Nov 20, 2012 21:57 |
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People were talking for years about how effeminate Lelouch was, this was the next logical step.
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| # ? Nov 20, 2012 22:05 |
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I have to admit I like this show, if only because the dick jokes are funny and it managed to throw me COMPLETELY offguard a couple times The episode about the tranny's backstory, and the story of why Kon hates pets both had me cracking the hell up. Couple notes : The maid is a transsexual not a transvestite. As in actual tits and not just a padded bra. The hot springs episode makes that fairly clear. The game that Kon was playing was Monster Hunter; he's constantly making references to it and there's images of it in the first episode. The world he was thrown into is definitely not the game world. Fantasy setting sure, but not the game world. This ain't Sword Art Online folks, this is closer to a fantasy version of Last Starfighter from what I've seen. khy fucked around with this message at Nov 21, 2012 around 10:43 |
| # ? Nov 21, 2012 10:39 |
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I lost attention after that crappy episode with the animal. Did this get any better/funnier or?
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 11:23 |
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That opening.   
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 16:19 |
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ConanThe3rd posted:I lost attention after that crappy episode with the animal. Did this get any better/funnier or? That was probably the weakest episode so far, but I hesitate to say the quality of the show has improved, because I don't want to use the word quality at all when referring to the show. lol It's still the same type of humor though. If you weren't into that before I don't see why the newer episodes would change your mind. Next week Kon apparently pretends to be a prophet of god and/or an actual god because he can't stop glowing for some reason. It looks pretty promising.
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 21:45 |
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I liked Episodes 1 and 2 plenty because they were riotoriously stupid. 3 just hung itself on the "Taz and the Devil Cat that is apprently a perfect saint to everyone else and thus Taz gets the bath" nonsense as far as I care.
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| # ? Nov 22, 2012 06:45 |
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This show is pure, unadulterated mind candy, and it's not even that good. I'm enjoying it because it's just so stupid it's funny -- at least for me. Basically, nothing happens in each episode. Every new episode arrives and I think, "Okay, nothing happened last week, this week we're sure to see something happen." And yet again, I'm disappointed. Somewhat. It's like, "Let's throw this dude from modern day Japan into a "game" like WoW, and have some mysterious elf-chick watch over him and also have some Rocky-The-Flying-Squirrel that's the elf-chick's familiar get involved, and just have stupid poo poo happen with no real purpose for In my opinion, that pretty much sums up this show. Except, when your main antagonist keeps getting beat by your loser-hero because the loser-hero continues to smash the antagonists testicles--how can you not like this show? One whole episode was devoted to the antagonist's having to deal with having lost both his testicles and dealing with his fiance. Again, nothing happened, except we got to see a lot of humorous events occur. How do you tell the girl you're going to marry that you have no gonads? Plus, the other characters are fairly awesome -- especially the transsexual. Our loser-hero spent most of this last episode walking around a hot-springs town in a robe with an erection and glowing like a lamp. Who thinks up this kind of stuff? Dan7el fucked around with this message at Nov 23, 2012 around 00:34 |
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Dan7el posted:It's like, "Let's throw this dude from modern day Japan into a "game" like WoW, and have some mysterious elf-chick watch over him and also have some Rocky-The-Flying-Squirrel that's the elf-chick's familiar get involved, and just have stupid poo poo happen with no real purpose for 12-episodes!" 24, apparently.
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| # ? Nov 23, 2012 00:32 |
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Dan7el posted:Who thinks up this kind of stuff? The guys behind the Gintama and Nichibros anime adaptations.
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| # ? Nov 23, 2012 01:57 |
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Well, that was an interesting interpretation of the history of the world. I wonder if Kon thinks that he's really inside a video game? I suspsect he does. Also, Rocky-The-Flying-Squirrel is a useful item of clothing. I wasn't completely Kon-tented with this episode, but it will do. (Was a stretch, but what the heck....)
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| # ? Nov 25, 2012 20:42 |
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I'm ashamed to admit it, but I'm enjoying this series. Just finished episode 4, it was the best one yet! I hope Erec gets a happy ending...  Edit: Oh, by the way, what does DT stand for in the context of Kon being a virgin? Silento fucked around with this message at Nov 25, 2012 around 21:38 |
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Silento posted:I'm ashamed to admit it, but I'm enjoying this series. Just finished episode 4, it was the best one yet! I hope Erec gets a happy ending... Its short for doutei, which means male virgin.
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| # ? Nov 25, 2012 22:11 |
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Oh you beautiful lovely show, never change. I about died when the stupid balloon suddenly appeared at the top of the pyramid. Sooo dumb. lmao.Part of me hopes this series never gets a plot at all.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2012 05:37 |
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I think this might have been the best episode so far, even if ED didn't make an appearance this week. There's just something immensely entertaining about how much of an obnoxious brat Kon is.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2012 08:29 |
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I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop the whole episode. I can't believe they (mostly) got away with it.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2012 16:32 |
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Kon is a pretty good protagonist for this kind of show. He's enough of a weirdo that you can laugh when bad things happen to him, but not creepy enough that you never want anything good to happen to him.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2012 18:27 |
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Just watched episode 8. Holy poo poo, this is some good stuff.paragon1 posted:I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop the whole episode. I can't believe they (mostly) got away with it. I was thinking the same thing! What's gonna screw Kon over this time? But things turned out mostly okay for them. Kon preaching about video games was great, as were all the Kon puns. I was totally expecting the Pikachu thing at the end, but it was still funny. If they can keep the rest of the show to the standard set by the past few episodes, I will be quite happy with it.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2012 22:57 |
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Another enjoyable 20'ish minutes of nothing actually happening. The "men" sitting around the table and drinking was great. Rocky-the-Flying-Squirrel is actually an Ewok-dwarf making weapons.
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| # ? Dec 2, 2012 23:55 |
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Dan7el posted:Another enjoyable 20'ish minutes of nothing actually happening. The "men" sitting around the table and drinking was great. Rocky-the-Flying-Squirrel is actually an Ewok-dwarf making weapons. Hell yes. Best part of the episode : "The name of my new killer move is SUPER GOLDEN HIGH SPEED AND HIGH JUMP SHRIMP BIG SPINNING DOPPELGANGER MIRACLE ATTACK!" ".... Hey Leon." "What?" "I dare you to say it again."
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| # ? Dec 3, 2012 03:52 |
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I'm confused if the blonde general is a female to male transexual or what... I thought I saw boobs this episode. And while rewatching the ending theme, the blonde one is shown in a way that boobs could be disguised... o_0 I don't know why its important. Argh, this show makes me think of dumb things. lol
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| # ? Dec 4, 2012 04:13 |
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I'm pretty sure he's a dude and was imagining himself as a woman.
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| # ? Dec 4, 2012 04:48 |
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ashez2ashes posted:I'm confused if the blonde general is a female to male transexual or what... I thought I saw boobs this episode. And while rewatching the ending theme, the blonde one is shown in a way that boobs could be disguised... o_0 I don't know why its important. Argh, this show makes me think of dumb things. lol Also, everyone's sleepy-talk was awesome. As expected, Kon's was superb. I actually almost care about what is going to happen now that Erec has a new weapon. Almost.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2012 00:32 |
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Another new episode happened. Pretty much 20 minutes of Kon being a selfish rear end in a top hat, with an occasional aside to Incognito playing volleyball while they wait for their big (next) episode. Reminded me of the occasional opening in Nichibros. Heck, I swear one of the background tracks early in the episode was ripped from the Gintama anime, but it might have just been my imagination.
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| # ? Dec 9, 2012 22:26 |
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Episode 11 -- Stuff actually happened! Mariandale was amazing. Kon actually seems to have come through for once. I strongly suspect the mirror in the creepy castle was heavily involved in what I also suspect was a fake-out for the end there.
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| # ? Dec 16, 2012 20:29 |
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It's kind of strange to see Kon being semi-competent.
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| # ? Dec 22, 2012 04:53 |
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Good_Haro posted:The guys behind the Gintama and Nichibros anime adaptations. Well this certainly explains the conversations held while passing the volleyball around.
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| # ? Dec 23, 2012 07:08 |
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As if we don't all know they so obviously faked their deaths. Do you know how when little kids come to you with their crappy drawings you have to tell them they're awesome because they tried really hard and you don't want to hurt their self esteem or whatever? I feel that way towards this show sometimes. lol
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| # ? Dec 26, 2012 21:08 |
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Yeah, I'm sure the show really is making a serious attempt to get you to believe the main characters died halfway through its run.
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| # ? Dec 27, 2012 01:10 |
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Xythar posted:Yeah, I'm sure the show really is making a serious attempt to get you to believe the main characters died halfway through its run. Well it wouldn't be unheard of for a show to end after 13 episodes, but to end on a note like that would be absolutely hilarious and incredible just because lf how much of a troll it would be to the fans of the show :P
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| # ? Dec 28, 2012 08:12 |
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Well, as we all suspected. Kon and the Princess are indeed alive. It was all a ruse. Whew! I was worried for a while that we'd have like 11 more episodes of just the other two drinking and eating and crying. Kon was his wonderful self again. Complaining, whining, and just being Kon. I appreciate how he had a lot of things he needed to do before dying. Gotta get rid of all those girly magazines, etc. His priorities are right.
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| # ? Jan 7, 2013 01:50 |
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The I must erase my internet history and format my harddrive before I die! line was pretty awesome. Showing how horrible tsundere's would actually be and that even desperate guy like Kon wouldn't want to be pursued by one was... strangely subtle in a really unsubtle way? The next episode previews telling us not to get too excited were pretty amusing too. There has to be some interesting backstory to why the animation company is making this. It's a licensed property and they haven't really done anything to tie it into its original game... lol ashez2ashes fucked around with this message at Jan 9, 2013 around 00:19 |
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ashez2ashes posted:Showing how horrible tsundere's would actually be and that even desperate guy like Kon wouldn't want to be pursued by one was... strangely subtle in a really unsubtle way? She was most certainly the definition of yandere.
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| # ? May 21, 2013 15:46 |
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Ah well I got my terrible anime female stereotypes mixed up. I think I can live with that. lol
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