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thanks for being such great sports. give a hand to Bort and Jade!!!! Eela6 fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Nov 2, 2017 |
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Snail headpet is the cutest thing.
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"M-maybe Phos is out working hard on her new job?" Everyone:  Episode off to a good start.
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Gemtlemen, we can rebuild them! We have the
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nielsm posted:Gemtlemen, we can rebuild them! We have the Maybe she's the first union of Bone and Flesh in a long time. I wonder how losing these memories will affect her personality. I also expected her to be way older than 300.
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since we're through most of vol2, i can post some of the official release stuff! TL note on the slug siblings: quote:Ventricosus and Aculeatus and the manga depiction of Phos' new legs, as seen in color on the cover of vol 2: 
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dogsicle posted:since we're through most of vol2, i can post some of the official release stuff! I always wondered how they were going to depict the legs. In the manga, I always assumed that they were a stripe of agate and the other stripe was the normal resin-skin color. It's a lot more beautiful than I imagined with the shiny pearlescent finish of the shell comprising the other half of the striped legs. I really like it. e: I think it's alright since it's just a name, but I don't think we've been formally introduced to Alexandrite(Alex) yet Postal Parcel fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Nov 4, 2017 |
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This show is so weird and good. So the gems are actually microorganisms that live in crystals and feed on light.
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Sindai posted:This show is so weird and good. They seem to comprise a colony of sorts without specialized internal organs.
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A cute Phos. https://twitter.com/cubewatermelon/status/926939693530468355  everyone
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Pollyanna posted:Today I learned that the manga releases one chapter per month. there's also the fact that scans are awful and confusingly refer to the gems exclusively with male pronouns. the official volumes really are lovely to read and i think i can handle them releasing every couple months, at least until they catch up...
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a kitten posted:What a strange and beautiful show. Also, poor Jade  All the gems being very scared when Kongou arrived was good and funny
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I really like this strange show about gem people. I especially like how even though every gem knows that Phos can't do jack, they still go look for her without a second thought.
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If a piece of an appropriate substance is attached to Phos it becomes More Phos. The bits that were removed to do this are presumably also still Phos... So who says Phos only needs two arms? Or needs to be not 100ft tall.
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http://land-of-the-lustrous.com/news/index00490000.html everyone enjoy the cute gems
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Dzhay posted:If a piece of an appropriate substance is attached to Phos it becomes More Phos. The bits that were removed to do this are presumably also still Phos... We were thinking the same thing. Why not use that entire shell?
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There Bias Two posted:We were thinking the same thing. Why not use that entire shell? They also play rock-paper-scissors, millenia after mankind perished. Who taught them that and why? EDIT: I was also weirded out that Phos's severed face-chunk had closed its eye. Like it went to sleep in the absence of the rest of its parts. If Phos can merge with new materials, could you make many copies of Phos with enough agate? Squidster fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Nov 5, 2017 |
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the series will give more details on it later, but reconstruction like this seems uncommon (see: literally every other gem being intact) and Rutile is wary of it working at all. giving full body upgrades would be risky just from an integration standpoint, but there's also the matter of memories being stored in the body you cast off. at what point would a gem like that cease to be themselves?
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boredsatellite posted:http://land-of-the-lustrous.com/news/index00490000.html No Watermelon, no sale. Those all rule
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I love the music in this series. The full opening and ending themes are already out too, they're really good.
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Dire Lemming posted:I love the music in this series. The full opening and ending themes are already out too, they're really good. The op in particular has really grown on me.
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Eela6 posted:The op in particular has really grown on me. The bass line is really catchy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxxKm_O1xwo The full theme has a sax? solo. I love how dissonant the whole thing is. It really fits the vaguely unsettling, alien world of the show. There Bias Two fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Nov 5, 2017 |
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dogsicle posted:there's also the matter of memories being stored in the body you cast off. at what point would a gem like that cease to be themselves? This is a cool invocation of the Ship of Theseus, because on the other hand you could eventually gather the parts they're leaving behind and perhaps have a separate entity with all their previous memories? They would be 'old' memories though, while the continuously existing example would have new memories. Which one actually carries their identity? Or is there some 'critical component' in each of them that activates what's connected? Maybe something in-between like a heavily weighted quorum, which wouldn't be reliable if Phos adding new 'nodes' to the cluster though. Does the new material not store memories?
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Ranzear posted:This is a cool invocation of the Ship of Theseus, because on the other hand you could eventually gather the parts they're leaving behind and perhaps have a separate entity with all their previous memories? They would be 'old' memories though, while the continuously existing example would have new memories. Which one actually carries their identity? They get into this in the manga, which I don't think we're gonna hit by the end of this series. It's complicated.
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Every time I watch the op Im blown away all over again. And Im the guy that skips even good ops after Ive seen it once. And the rest of the show looks basically as good the entire time. I really hope this show sets the standard for cg anime in the future because it puts every other attempt to shame.
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ViggyNash posted:Every time I watch the op Im blown away all over again. And Im the guy that skips even good ops after Ive seen it once. And the rest of the show looks basically as good the entire time. I really hope this show sets the standard for cg anime in the future because it puts every other attempt to shame. I feel like it's cheating just a little, because it all has this slightly oversaturated dream-like look which lets them get away with a bit more on the lighting than they could if they were aiming for a more realistic tone. But regardless, it's loving beautiful.
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ViggyNash posted:I really hope this show sets the standard for cg anime in the future because it puts every other attempt to shame. i dont know, i think the 3d parts of etotama are still the best showings of 3d animation in tv anime still
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The_White_Crane posted:I feel like it's cheating just a little, because it all has this slightly oversaturated dream-like look which lets them get away with a bit more on the lighting than they could if they were aiming for a more realistic tone. Yeah that's valid. They don't have to worry about creating detailed cityscapes or anything equally complicated because the entire show consists of grass, the homebase, the gempeople, and now the ocean and slug people. That said, it also the way the show moves that looks incredible.
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Where are you all watching this? It sounds interesting.
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Hiro Protagonist posted:Where are you all watching this? It sounds interesting. It's on amazon's anime channel
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The_White_Crane posted:I feel like it's cheating just a little, because it all has this slightly oversaturated dream-like look which lets them get away with a bit more on the lighting than they could if they were aiming for a more realistic tone. The ending bit where Phos walks is the only part that annoys me because it looks a bit jerky. Like if you're gonna spend time on a walk cycle, spend it on the one in your opening.
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