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 no seriously it's basically just Samurai Jack but he has a giant robot this time  Tokisada Oumakennosuke - the samurai in question  Yukina Shirahane - some girl who happened to be in the area who coincidentally looks like the samurai dude's princess (this may or may not be coincidental)  Hiromi Shirahane - cool mom who works for UN science things. frequently forgets her phone and her daughter  Sophie Noelle - serious ojou. is on cover art thing, for some reason. might believe all japanese are samurai  Sebastian - butler for the above. is a master kung fu man on the side  Tom Borden - this goddamn rear end in a top hat is the most loving respectable son of a bitch you'll ever meet, you can take that and shove it up your rear end  Liu Shen Mi - helps guy above pilot robot. does not give one poo poo  Marina Unami - school advisor. flagrantly thirsty for our samurai friend  Oshou Yakushi - uncle who's such a dork that he wraps around to being the only normal person to the samurai  Koharu Shirahane - it's all smooth sailing on this titanic Gyra_Solune fucked around with this message at 04:33 on May 23, 2016 |
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Lestaki posted:Show is a lot of fun. I very much appreciated that the UN team defeated a robot using their reverse-engineered mecha while Mr Samurai was still trapped in a black cube and conventional military forces apparently defeated another offscreen. Always nice to see conventional forces actually achieve something without relying exclusely on the protagonist's folded steel space katana. yeah that was a thing I noticed too, 95% of the time in a robot show everyone who's not in the main robot exists solely to get clowned upon to show how much better the main character is, but here it's established they're competent enough to at least fight back and accomplish something even if they're pretty outclassed. It's good
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Apr 16, 2016 21:46
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This is basically the best out-of-nowhere robots show I've seen in ages. The closest I think of is Gargantia and already I'm feeling this show even more than that one. It's just wonderful and charming and already I like almost every character introduced when usually mecha shows struggle to make anyone who isn't always in a robot remotely interesting. I'm digging it and hope this show gets the attention it ought to (it probably won't).
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Apr 23, 2016 08:01
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Darth Walrus posted:As in, an original work that's not part of a franchise, I guess? yeah that's what i meant. basically I didn't want to count the Gundams and Macrosses and...uh...Evangelion? ...actually there haven't been that many really high profile mecha shows in recent years, have there? So far the two most notable franchises of the 2010s behind those three (and Evangelion only had arguably its weakest movie yet for the decade) has legitimately been Fafner in the Azure and Aquarion and I don't know what to think about that. i mean sure Valvrave and Cross Ange garnered attention but I'd argue that their reception perhaps spells that we will not be seeing much of them again
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Apr 24, 2016 09:41
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updated op with the most powerful characters in the show
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Apr 30, 2016 09:17
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yeah I'm not a big fan of the titular robot's design. head's pretty ugly and the rest of it's not remarkable at all but then, perhaps I'm just spoiled by how robots in recent years have been ridiculously distinct and identifiable. maybe they're just running out of head shapes and so 'cobbled together tom clancy goggles' was the best they could come up with
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May 8, 2016 02:40
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i have improved my power level by adding more characters to the op. this is probably the last edit the op requires because i can't really think of many other people who are that important also did those two schoolkids just loving die
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May 23, 2016 04:35
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and now those two further reinforce the fact that they are Literally Toji and Kensuke from Eva by how Literally Toji is trying to get into a giant robot don't do it, Actually Toji died from that D:
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Jun 12, 2016 06:42
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those quarry workers must have stunningly bad eyesight like it's one thing for the security personnel to be sort of bad, i can kinda get it? they're heavily armed but not much more than well-equipped night guards, probably the most they actually do on their jobs is making sure schoolkids don't wander into military hardware, so it makes sense for them not to know what the hell to do when faced with a Solid Snake supersoldier mofo but goddamn he was pointing that assault rifle at those quarry guys for a solid minute and pulling the trigger over and over and you'd think they'd notice what he was up to sooner
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Jun 26, 2016 22:03
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Nondevor posted:I figured that the princess was one of the aliens since she stole the relic, and her blood oath with Kennosuke was a large factor in allowing him to pilot the robot. yeah this is what i'm thinking is the case. they'll probably build Ken up as something of a red herring when really it's more likely that it's Yukina who's the sleeper agent in other news - did we just get this show's Char at the end there
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Jun 30, 2016 02:27
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well holy poo poo that was a lot more brutal than i thought it would be
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Aug 28, 2016 07:24
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guess we're taking back that  ALSO, how on earth did I not notice this two weeks ago, I can't believe Man At Arms even did this (though they were specifically poked by PA Works) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q598DP27tGA
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Sep 19, 2016 18:55
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Serious Frolicking posted:my favorite part is how after they demonstrated how competent and knowledgeable they were throughout the entire crafting process, they looked like huge goobers when they started chopping things. i like to think that's sort of accurate for blacksmiths, like, they're just the dudes who make the sword, they're not the people trained how to use it! but that's probably not true, i imagine in ancient times where you have bandits and thieves and poo poo more commonly running around, and the stuff you're making is ludicrously valuable and resource-intensive for the time, that weaponsmiths took the time to actually learn at least the basics of how to fend off ruffians and maybe hold their own against disgruntled professional soldiers
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god one of the best things about this show is how well it keeps hooking me in. this is literally the only show I've ever seen where I'm 25 episodes in and I still am fascinated by where they're going with this, usually by this point pretty much everything's answered and the finale is a foregone conclusion. but even this far in we're still getting lovely moments of characterization and this is a perfect demonstration of that. the big finale has come and gone and now they're taking time to like, deal with that, and what the hell everyone is going to do with their lives afterwards it's really great. gently caress this is a really good show. i'm going be so pissed if it just fades away into obscurity because it has all the hallmarks of an utterly fantastic piece of fiction that only ever achieves cult classic status, kind of like Gun X Sword and stuff like that. like when i made this thread even it was mostly under the pretext of 'hey i basically have an amusing thread title for a show that is kind of fun, why not' and it's just kept surprising me Gyra_Solune fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Lurking Haro posted:Yukina and Kennosuke will stay at highschool age forever thanks to nanomachines. anime will do everything in its power to not star adults, drat it all
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