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Davincie posted:The fact that they exist mainly to shill toys undermines any message they try to have that could possibly be antiwar. The toys must be cool and therefor even its bleakest portrayals of war are cool. In the end they are a part of Japan’s military industrial complex and I can not morally support the gundam series Nah I think the antiwar message is still poignant even if the capitalist system it exists within mildly undercuts it
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Personally I like war
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Apr 17, 2021 01:16
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Stairmaster posted:Why do you hate the nobel gundam stuff like this is different from Nobel's cooling fin hair   aside from in general being more cluttered and ugly than Nobel's simple design
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Apr 17, 2021 01:28
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As a completely impartial observer I think we have to give AotY and Season to Nagatoro
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Apr 17, 2021 01:49
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I like it when Domon Kasshu goes all "SHINING FINGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER"
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Apr 17, 2021 02:37
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Davincie posted:The fact that they exist mainly to shill toys undermines any message they try to have that could possibly be antiwar. The toys must be cool and therefor even its bleakest portrayals of war are cool. In the end they are a part of Japan’s military industrial complex and I can not morally support the gundam series This is why Takahashi is so based because his marketable shows are about the political economical utility of war as means to ideological ends, and the underlying thoughts and experiences behind those ideologies
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i like gundam not because they have deep antiwar messages but because they have cute characters and funny jokes, and amuro and char viciously want to gently caress each other
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The Colonel posted:i like gundam not because they have deep antiwar messages but because they have cute characters and funny jokes, and amuro and char viciously want to gently caress each other Make love not war!
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Raenir Salazar posted:Make love not war! It's Gundam. The two are nowhere near mutually exclusive. (Consider: Barbatos, one of the most animalistic and brutal Gundams, is also the only Gundam that we can be sure people have hosed in.)
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Amuro and Char have long been superseded by their incarnations in the Detective Conan universe.
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Apr 17, 2021 05:20
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JK o Hirou: "Your code is buggy we can't sell this product." Me, a software developer: "Pfffffft hahahahaha." e: I'm wondering if the dynamic that's going to end up going on is like, salaryman is turned down by his boss, but because by taking in a runaway he's motivated to take care of himself better, and makes people think he was suddenly snatched up, it made his boss take interest in him? And because he's taking better care of himself, it made the other coworker who seems to have had a thing for him already much more intense. The plot thickens. Raenir Salazar fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Apr 17, 2021 |
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Apr 17, 2021 06:26
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Davincie posted:The fact that they exist mainly to shill toys undermines any message they try to have that could possibly be antiwar. The toys must be cool and therefor even its bleakest portrayals of war are cool. In the end they are a part of Japan’s military industrial complex and I can not morally support the gundam series
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https://twitter.com/jahysama_anime/status/1382997382049247236 Jahy is getting an anime.
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Maxwell Adams posted:https://twitter.com/jahysama_anime/status/1382997382049247236 That reminds me I need to make more progress on reading the manga.
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Now I'm wondering if Jahy will have two VAs or if they'll just go with one and tell her to do a grown up voice and a kid voice or if she'll just have one voice.
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Apr 17, 2021 08:41
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Stairmaster posted:Personally I like war Sad to hear you say these chuddy things my friend
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Kwyndig posted:Now I'm wondering if Jahy will have two VAs or if they'll just go with one and tell her to do a grown up voice and a kid voice or if she'll just have one voice. Considering female seiyuus often voice younger versions of their characters whenever it's necessary, I'm pretty sure they'll go with option 2
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Back Arrow: With Rudolph's talk about the Gods, I suspect it's building towards a reveal where the entire world is basically an arena for "Gods" to battle it out. He and Zetsu might be from outside the walls. This particular configuration of nations might be just the latest in a whole cycle of political agglomeration and disintegration.
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Chas McGill posted:I caught myself looking at Super Cubs and Ruckus/Zoomers on eBay but I realised that a scooter wouldn't make me happy. Modern Super Cubs are really proper motorcycles and not scooters. I think in the US they only come in 125cc's which require a motorcycle license to get. Most places only refrain from requiring that for vehicles 50cc's and below. That said, scooters/lightweight motorcycles like Super Cubs or Vespas are totally super useful if you live an an actual city and not in suburb hell where you'll need to get on the freeway to get anywhere. Also way more affordable than a car, at 3-5k new. Excellent gas milage, with over 100mpg (I think the Super Cub 125 can go over 160 miles on its 1 gallon tank) Nitrousoxide fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Apr 17, 2021 |
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Apr 17, 2021 13:36
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chumbler posted:The childhood friend who won't lose seems like it could be fun. Interesting relationship chart being set up and things heated up a bit in the first episode. I'm going to be very upset if he doesn't end up with the childhood friend.
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Nemo2342 posted:I'm going to be very upset if he doesn't end up with the childhood friend. It doesn't say the childhood friend wins, it says she won't lose, so expect a status quo ending at best. Especially since there is more than one childhood friend Tamba fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Apr 17, 2021 |
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Apr 17, 2021 13:58
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First ep of Iruma s2 was good, the OP and ED aren't as fun as s1's tho so that's kind of a drag but w/e. Can't wait for me
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Phobophilia posted:Back Arrow: With Rudolph's talk about the Gods, I suspect it's building towards a reveal where the entire world is basically an arena for "Gods" to battle it out. He and Zetsu might be from outside the walls. This particular configuration of nations might be just the latest in a whole cycle of political agglomeration and disintegration. That's a pretty good point, yes. Not sure about Zetsu himself, but it does seem to fit Rudolph's whole thing after this episode and how his palace's inner design looked vaguely compatible with the sky mines above the wall.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:First ep of Iruma s2 was good, the OP and ED aren't as fun as s1's tho so that's kind of a drag but w/e. Can't wait for me I like that it was reintroduction episode, but still kept the story going. 300 year witch is still very cute, even though I don't know how to feel about the new character's backstory.
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Phobophilia posted:Back Arrow: With Rudolph's talk about the Gods, I suspect it's building towards a reveal where the entire world is basically an arena for "Gods" to battle it out. He and Zetsu might be from outside the walls. This particular configuration of nations might be just the latest in a whole cycle of political agglomeration and disintegration. I think you're overthinking it; The nations are just flavour, the core conceit here is strength through conviction. I think Lingalind is just a shitload of people thrown against eachother to fight and kill until the strongest Conviction emerges. Zetsu's just the frontrunner with his. Randolph is there to stir the pot and make sure things stay nice and fighty on behalf of whoever's running this place, peace between the two major powers would extend across all of Lingalind eventually and that's simply not acceptable.
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Vivy 4 is still good though I gotta be honest I can't watch robot martial artistry without comparing it (usually not favorably) to Real Drive in the back of my brain
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Second TWEWY episode was a massive improvement over the first one, in case anyone still cares - this time they didn't try to cram way too much material into a single episode, so there's actual character moments and funny bits and the pacing actually works. Makes me sad the first episode was so bad. 
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i was determined to hate Athletess ReSTART for being just a reboot with bland direction, bad animation, and clumsy writing, but episode 2 loaded the weird up just enough that i suppose i'm on board. i'm sure the conclusion to all this lunar civil war/terrorism/shadow government/genetically engineering athletes stuff will be handled satisfyingly...
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Oh, hey, neat. https://twitter.com/anime/status/1383429806516105217?s=21 For anyone unfamiliar with it, this is one of the few isekai that feels like it has actual mature, professional writing rather than being a simple amateur power fantasy. It's a charming, solidly-executed classic fantasy adventure with a faint tinge of melancholy.
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Coming back to the beginning of Shadows House, they do a really good job of defining that feeling of a large Victorian house with loads of servants that act as personal slaves and the bits of cutthroat household politics at play at all of the social class levels. The second ep only had a small glimpse at it and it does feel like it's taking its time in introducing everything and the darker elements of the story (though some of them aren't revealed until way late anyways) and would be interesting to watch for the especially politically minded.
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OnimaruXLR posted:Vivy 4 is still good though I gotta be honest I can't watch robot martial artistry without comparing it (usually not favorably) to Real Drive in the back of my brain The episode was quite good on a couple of levels, the problem I had was that the robot fisticuffs were completely disconnected from the background. It was less two people having a really fast and intense fight somewhere and more to people having a really fast and intense fight on a green screen as the camera swung around to make them look like they were moving. A bit annoying because shortly before that there was a quick action sequence that was legitimately very good and did a cool thing with the character in first person.
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Faraway Paladin is a good fantasy with fun characters and the isekai elements are used with a fairly light hand, it's great.
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Started the new season of Fruits Basket and boy I hope the theme of this season isn't Akito being forgiven for all their abuse because they were abused too.
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New thread  quote:86
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dogsicle posted:i was determined to hate Athletess ReSTART for being just a reboot with bland direction, bad animation, and clumsy writing, but episode 2 loaded the weird up just enough that i suppose i'm on board. i'm sure the conclusion to all this lunar civil war/terrorism/shadow government/genetically engineering athletes stuff will be handled satisfyingly... From other anime boards, this is speculated as actually a sequel as the heroine from the previous series could be seen as a portrait in the background and the MC is her descendant. Xelkelvos fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Apr 18, 2021 |
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Nitrousoxide posted:Modern Super Cubs are really proper motorcycles and not scooters. I think in the US they only come in 125cc's which require a motorcycle license to get. Most places only refrain from requiring that for vehicles 50cc's and below. Second episode was decent, although I'm kinda worried they're gonna end up being the Honda Power Rangers. Hopefully the delicious mundanity continues as new characters are introduced.
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If you listen carefully, you can hear the lamentations of slimes everywhere.
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Chas McGill posted:Yeah, I live in a city where I can cycle everywhere and can get to some countryside within 20km so it was no more than a passing fancy. It looks like they're 125cc in the UK as well, which is way more powerful than I expected. The one she has in the show seems weedier than that. They are really cute bikes though. They sell smaller displacement super cubs in japan so she probably doesn't have the 125cc engine.
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Xelkelvos posted:From other anime boards, this is actually a sequel as the heroine from the previous series could be seen as a portrait in the background and the MC is her descendant. it was a pretty conspicuous scene, but so far i'm just taking stuff like that as references rather than full-on continuity. they've been kind of inconsistent in how characters are handled with Lydia and Yana being similar to their 90s counterparts while Shelley isn't and other characters seem to exist largely as name references like the detective or Paglia. it's obvious Kanata's grandma was raising her granddaughter into a potential athlete, but whether she's actually Akari from the original i'll wait for them to reveal (or not, and leave as an ambiguous tease).
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Me watching Nagataro: "Why does anyone actually drink V8 juice? It's disgusting."Kwyndig posted:They sell smaller displacement super cubs in japan so she probably doesn't have the 125cc engine. Can't compete in Mario cart at that speed. 
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