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Here is a thread for Summer 2017 anime Princess Principal, an anime original brought to us by Studio 3Hz, the studio behind Flip Flappers and not much else! In America, it is streaming on Sundays whenever they get around to it on Amazon Prime. It is also streaming on Hidive, I believe only outside America. The premise is that the City of London is actually a steampunk Berlin, divided between east and west and then something something anime girl spies doing cool poo poo and murdering the gently caress out of people that look like they are from a mid-2000s edgy anime. It is written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, the man behind the plot of Code Geass and the series has similarly audacious stupidity. But it is also really cool and has great production values. Yuki Kajira, of Madoka Magica has provided the soundtrack, which is a weird but effective mix of her usual vocals and hyperactive jazz. Your enjoyment of the series is probably wholly dependent on whether you can just roll with the admittedly ridiculous premise and aesthetic, but from the premiere it seems well worth it if you can. The main characters are as follows:  Ange: Stone cold motherfucker and overall terrible liar  Princess - Literally the princess of Not Victorian England. How she's supposed to maintain secrecy about her clandestine activities despite being universally recognized is beyond me, but will probably be a plot point.  Dorothy - She's the driver, both in the literal sense of driving the getaway cars in a manner that honors the legacy of Vin Diesel and in the sense of driving operations of the group  Beatrice - Saved by princess as a child, unending devotion to her according to the promotional materials. Didn't receive much characterization in the premiere but I expect her to shout daisuki at some point.  Chise - Japanese ninja  Also the OP is pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjqkATvH9M Homura and Sickle fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Aug 20, 2017 |
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the team and names attached to this basically make it an all-star project for me and the first ep didn't fail to deliver. as a sidenote, this show makes me excited to see how the new Kino no Tabi handles Kuroboshi's modern style
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Jul 11, 2017 13:08
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Part of being a spy means having good bedside manner... https://my.mixtape.moe/lrpzbd.webm Excellent first episode, it hit every note just about perfectly.
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Jul 11, 2017 13:54
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Steampunk Gunslinger Girls steeped in a heavy dose of John le Carre? I'm intrigued so far.
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Jul 11, 2017 14:42
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Cute Girls Doing Spy Things
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Jul 11, 2017 14:52
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AnacondaHL posted:Cute Girls Doing Lie Things
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Jul 11, 2017 14:54
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Tinker, Tailor, Tsundere, Spy
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Jul 11, 2017 15:22
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Spaifu
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Jul 11, 2017 15:25
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The premiere was both fantastically stylish and fantastically stupid. I loved it.
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Jul 11, 2017 16:30
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Frankly, if little girls have already been assassins, weapons of mass destruction and even Word War II battleships...seeing them as spies doesn't strike me as inconceivable.
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Jul 11, 2017 16:35
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Command Ant posted:Part of being a spy means having good bedside manner... Hahahaha the first watch I totally missed that girl in the bed across the room freaking the gently caress out.
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Jul 11, 2017 16:42
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I probably missed some lines because I was just transfixed on 
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Jul 11, 2017 16:54
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esselfortium posted:The premiere was both fantastically stylish and fantastically stupid. I loved it. I really loving loved the Gravity Rush poo poo in that first action sequence. I hope there's a lot of that.
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Jul 11, 2017 16:59
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Excuse me this is dieselpunk not steampunk
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Jul 11, 2017 18:04
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This was stupid, overdone and I loved every loving second of it. And I want more!
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Jul 11, 2017 18:17
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Command Ant posted:Part of being a spy means having good bedside manner... just inject 200mg of morphine directly into my jugular
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Jul 11, 2017 21:16
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Great show so far. Only one ep. in, but still, an excellent start!
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Jul 11, 2017 23:46
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Show's goofy as gently caress but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested in where it goes from here. Fingers crossed it ends up more like Code Geass and less like Guilty Crown. Still feels like I missed something though--why did they sedate (or kill) the woman in the next bed?
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Jul 11, 2017 23:57
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Rangpur posted:Show's goofy as gently caress but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested in where it goes from here. Fingers crossed it ends up more like Code Geass and less like Guilty Crown. She was a plant for the Enemy. We saw a couple of the Duke's agents leave just as Ange and Alice are showing up. Ange spotted the girl in the next bed perk up when Alice was talking to Amy about Eric, so she knew the girl was a plant and dealt with her with the (probably) morphine she stole from the nurse they passed.
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Jul 12, 2017 00:03
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She also later shows up in the Normandy team's place right before they get raided. She's got a top hat on and her neck is bandaged.
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Jul 12, 2017 00:17
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I suspected it was something like that, but I missed the tell earlier. Presumably the girl across the aisle was smart enough to claim she slept through the whole thing.
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Jul 12, 2017 00:46
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i'm glad 3hz is getting to make two good original anime in a row
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Jul 12, 2017 06:09
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The Colonel posted:i'm glad 3hz is getting to make two good original anime in a row yeah this was one of the main reasons i was really looking forward to this show
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Jul 12, 2017 06:16
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a kitten posted:Tinker, Tailor, Tsundere, Spy 
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Jul 12, 2017 08:49
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Guess it's time to pay up for Amazon Prime.
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Jul 12, 2017 09:08
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Ain't on Prime, it's on a separate Amazon-owned streaming service which is not included in the Prime fee. They've erected a wall between the different selections, you see. 
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Jul 12, 2017 12:41
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I just appreciate the hell out of the Berlinized Victorian steampunk or whatever microgenre of steampunk variant this is. Plus there's a lot of little details that just merge so well into the period - the style of civilian clothing for women seems to have that classic bustier dress look about it with different trimmings. The one thing I'm curious about - the Akari clone can do the voice change, is that thanks to the Unobtainium that Ange has to chill down to re-use and Chise has to wind up to use as a flashbang? Or is she just very talented? Either way this is AOTS for me. I hope the inevitable ~school hijinks~ continue to take a backseat to the goodness. Special Agent Yuki Nagato is also pretty good.
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Jul 12, 2017 16:48
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The part I really think I like is that not only is this alt history, it's batshit alt history. London is Cold War Berlin, but it appears that we still have Normandy which explains the split being in London.
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Jul 12, 2017 17:14
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:The part I really think I like is that not only is this alt history, it's batshit alt history. London is Cold War Berlin, but it appears that we still have Normandy which explains the split being in London. Didn't they mention something about being as powerful as the Romans? Wouldn't be surprised to see them controlling like half of Europe.
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Jul 12, 2017 17:17
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AnoHito posted:Didn't they mention something about being as powerful as the Romans? Wouldn't be surprised to see them controlling like half of Europe. I assumed that was just The British Empire and us having 2/3 of the world. That still leaves the question of how the colonies are split though.
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Jul 12, 2017 17:19
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The Spy Who Lo-"...It-it's not like I Loved you or anything, okay?!" Me
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Jul 12, 2017 17:21
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AnacondaHL posted:The Spy Who Lo-"...It-it's not like I Loved you or anything, okay?!" Me 
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Jul 12, 2017 17:29
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:The part I really think I like is that not only is this alt history, it's batshit alt history. London is Cold War Berlin, but it appears that we still have Normandy which explains the split being in London. If the writer is from Code Geass then maybe this serves as part of the ATB timeline and technically is in-universe canon to Code Geass? AnacondaHL posted:The Spy Who Lo-"...It-it's not like I Loved you or anything, okay?!" Me The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, But Not Because You Offered, Baka, It's Just That It Was Really Cold Out There, Don't Read Too Much Into It
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Jul 12, 2017 19:06
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a kitten posted:Tinker, Tailor, Tsundere, Spy
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Jul 12, 2017 19:43
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MJP posted:If the writer is from Code Geass then maybe this serves as part of the ATB timeline and technically is in-universe canon to Code Geass? 
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Jul 12, 2017 20:36
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MJP posted:Either way this is AOTS for me. I hope the inevitable ~school hijinks~ continue to take a backseat to the goodness. Special Agent Yuki Nagato is also pretty good. Oh, so that's why I liked Ange so immediately.
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Jul 13, 2017 00:25
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Holy poo poo the second episode was so good. CG cars and dancing wasn't actually that awful either!
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Jul 16, 2017 17:28
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It took a bit longer than it probably should've for me to catch on that the whole episode was a flashback, but yeah, I enjoyed it. Curious to see how things progress from here. Does Princess actually care about the order of succession, I wonder, or was she just bullshitting an excuse to work with her old friend?
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Jul 16, 2017 17:35
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Spiritus Nox posted:Does Princess actually care about the order of succession, I wonder, or was she just bullshitting an excuse to work with her old friend? Her old friend THAT IS ACTUALLY THE PRINCESS.
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Jul 16, 2017 17:43
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Her old friend THAT IS ACTUALLY THE PRINCESS. Oh wait did I miss that Oops
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