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Erg posted:oh my god they became dust bunnies The moment I realised they were dust bunnies inside a vacuum cleaner was a real  moment and sold me 100% on this show.
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Oct 14, 2016 11:31
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This show is a visual treat so far. In particular, Papika's expressions are wonderful. 
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Oct 14, 2016 13:45
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Someone on twitter pointed out the word Thomasson being used, which seems to be a major theme of the show: https://twitter.com/vestenet/status/786824285323010049 http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thomassons/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperart_Thomasson#The_Pure_type Thomassons being vestigial elements left over as cities reinvent themselves. This imagery seems to appear a lot in the show - for example, the useless glasses Cocona wears and the concrete pipe in the first episode. It's probably my pseudo-OCD talking, but it feels easy to connect this to Dennou Coil, which the director worked on previously. That show was also concerned with the idea of obselete, forgotten spaces underlying ordinary reality, and obselete entities in terms of the Illegals.
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Oct 14, 2016 13:56
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Dennou Coil with yuri... oh wait. Also, I feel like Cocona's glasses could be a memento from her parents?
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Space Flower posted:Dennou Coil with yuri... oh wait.  Well, I think it's important to note that it's something she wears. It's not just a keepsake she carries with her, but something that specifically does nothing.
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Oct 14, 2016 14:08
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Fangz posted:
I saw the episodes. Wasn't saying your thoughts were mutually exclusive from mine.
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Oct 14, 2016 14:33
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Was it said that the glasses don't do anything? I don't think anyone whips glasses out in the middle of the night to look at something if they don't need them. Maybe she's just embarrassed to wear them in class. I think Papika appeared to her as an indistinct blob with a big smile because she spends most of her time inches away from Cocona's face.
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Oct 14, 2016 15:49
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lets hang out posted:Was it said that the glasses don't do anything? I don't think anyone whips glasses out in the middle of the night to look at something if they don't need them. Maybe she's just embarrassed to wear them in class. I think Papika appeared to her as an indistinct blob with a big smile because she spends most of her time inches away from Cocona's face. Nah, she specifically said she didn't need them to try and stop Papika from chasing after the big walrus things in the first episode. She didn't recognize immediately recognize Papika in episode 2's Pure Illusion because she'd been turned into a rabbit and had become more reliant on smell than on sight.
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Oct 14, 2016 15:54
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I thought she said that just to dissuade Papika from risking her life for them. I'd say the same thing.
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lets hang out posted:I thought she said that just to dissuade Papika from risking her life for them. I'd say the same thing. She doesn't wear them in the OP to read at night, e.g. http://randomc.net/image/Flip%20Flappers/Flip%20Flappers%20-%20OP%20-%20Large%2002.jpg But I think generally if you have a character making a statement like that, you kinda need to make it drat clear it's a lie immediately if you didn't intend it to be taken as the truth.
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Oct 14, 2016 16:29
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To continue the endless stream of references, here's an old children's book called Adventure in a Closet Exact same closet and spooky eyes and handholding
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Rewatching Episode 2 - I didn't catch this on the first go around, but when Cocona is trying to get away from Papika bugging her at school, there's a bit where blondie (Yayaka) pulls her into the nurse's office to hide. Papika then runs up to the door, then backs away suddenly, clutching her mouth and nose as though she smelled something foul. Between that and taking a closer look at the OP, I think Yayaka might be destined to be our villain - or rival, at least. Which might also mean I wasn't inventing those jealousy vibes I was getting off of her demeanor towards Papika.
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Spiritus Nox posted:Rewatching Episode 2 - I didn't catch this on the first go around, but when Cocona is trying to get away from Papika bugging her at school, there's a bit where blondie (Yayaka) pulls her into the nurse's office to hide. Papika then runs up to the door, then backs away suddenly, clutching her mouth and nose as though she smelled something foul. Between that and taking a closer look at the OP, I think Yayaka might be destined to be our villain - or rival, at least. Which might also mean I wasn't inventing those jealousy vibes I was getting off of her demeanor towards Papika. I took it as she can't stand the smell of all the manufactured drugs in there
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Erg posted:I took it as she can't stand the smell of all the manufactured drugs in there ...Hm. That would also make sense. We'll see.
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Oct 15, 2016 02:53
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There ain't just one optical illusion in this show, and they tend towards the sinister:
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Darth Walrus posted:There ain't just one optical illusion in this show, and they tend towards the sinister: That's pretty neat.
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https://twitter.com/Don_Don_Kun/status/787359829472018433 I had kind of picked up on this, but this articulates it much more cleanly than I felt able to. Will be interested to see if/how the show continues with this theme.
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Oct 15, 2016 20:03
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Spiritus Nox posted:https://twitter.com/Don_Don_Kun/status/787359829472018433 she really wanted to put her mouth on that really hard thing
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Fangz posted:Someone on twitter pointed out the word Thomasson being used, which seems to be a major theme of the show: It's funny, up until that 99pi episode, i thought that Thomasson was something that Wm Gibson made up for one of his books. 
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Oct 16, 2016 15:18
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Erg posted:I took it as she can't stand the smell of all the manufactured drugs in there That's how I took it, too, but I wouldn't be surprised if Yayaka was the villain in the sense of being the one trying to force Cocona into societally-approved behaviors rather than obeying the desires of her body like Papika, which seems to be a major subplot (The whole: "My teeth are itching, my body demands that I chew on this thing to wear them down, but it's not appropriate behavior" thing).
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Oct 16, 2016 18:05
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This is all well and good and I love this show but when do the girls kiss please e: the bite doesn't count until Cocona bites Papika back. Mutual bitey-bites only. Xinder fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Oct 16, 2016 |
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Oct 16, 2016 23:35
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https://twitter.com/rod4817a/status/787673489868075008
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Oct 18, 2016 07:05
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you're not helping
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Oct 18, 2016 07:26
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Xinder posted:e: the bite doesn't count until Cocona bites Papika back. Mutual bitey-bites only. 
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Oct 18, 2016 07:39
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lol Yeah I spotted that too, then forgot about it
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Oct 18, 2016 08:02
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I like Papika's muppethead.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:30
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papika is very cute and her giant mouth adds to that.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:33
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:you're not helping I think it's very helpful
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Oct 18, 2016 15:34
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Previews up http://www.flipflappers.com/sp/story/story.html
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Oct 18, 2016 16:09
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Papika was kinda obnoxious in ep2 but I also generally don't like characters who spend half of an episodes dialogue on nothing but yelling a name when the other character wants some space. I am glad that seems to have been handled with this episode though, since drat is this show a visual treat and I don't want one of the two main characters being kind of annoying in a specific way to turn me off from it. Pretty curious what all the other characters will get up to in this.
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lotta interesting reveal moments this week. It really was in her thigh!
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This is now the show I most look forward to every week. Give me more Magical Shopping Arcade Pretty Cure.
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New Episode New Thoughts: -It's pretty on the nose, thematically, but I do like that Cocona and Papika take on each other's colors when they Henshin. -Interesting that Papika's the shield and Cocona's the sword. -Noteworthy that this was the first Pure Illusion to contain intelligent creatures. -I really like these action sequences. They look fantastic and they're well scripted. -Called Yayaka being a rival, but didn't call that she and they weird kids and the robot men from episode 1's stinger would be from another organization. Makes me lean harder towards Flip Flap actually not being overtly malicious. -Sooooo Papika might not be human. -Where and when did Cocona get her fragment? Did she create it? Or was it given to her? -If you think that episode 2 was alluding to some sexual frustration or uncertainty (or using such as an allegory for broader existential frustration) on Cocona's part, then this episode sure didn't do anything to dissuade you. -Only half-watched the preview because I was on my way back from lunch, but looks like a tropical episode coming up? Will have to take another look.
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Oct 20, 2016 18:39
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Things happened and it was pretty. Beyond that, 
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Oct 20, 2016 21:53
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Grandma is more normal this episode!
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Oct 20, 2016 22:09
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Liver Disaster posted:Grandma is more normal this episode! Yeah. Still talks funny though. "Coh-coh-nah"
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This ep was great too! Love the Mad Max, love the magical girl transformations, love the designs of the weird dark villain lady thing and of Yayaka transformed, love the random child desert monster with its parent, love the weird cult antagonists AAAAAAAAA I love this show! And it all looks so good and moves so prettily!
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I'm fascinated by this show - it's beautiful and I love how weird it is....but a few things give me pause. The Kill la Kill esque transformations, the repeated sexual elements when we're dealing with children....  Anime, why you gotta be so weird.
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