Cao Ni Ma posted:

If anything nanami leaving the store unattended for like an hour while the kids played to be the mentor is a bigger roadblock to the theory than their expressions being common on camp characters

RillAkBea posted:

According to the the TV guide in today's episode Momoka tries to get the boys to join soccer club again but they tell her to shove it and go on an item fetch quest with Sarah.

Darth Walrus posted:

I can see you dropping your items if you ‘die’, which would really suck considering they were on a giant fetch quest.

ZenMasterBullshit posted:

Video game side lets you gunpla battle with people across the world and have easy PVE stuff. It makes sense as a side content kind of business

Xarbala posted:

To be fair, the idea of really big cultural-phenomena super mmos like you see in anime does seem pretty laughable in this day and age, VR or no.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

This show is worthless, worthless I say, if we never get to see what kind of mission a BearGuy Fest is .


I think we're in for a good show if the Char/Rival character is capable of getting distracted by fuzzy widdle paws .


edit: What were the grunt mobile suits from the first few waves?

Kanos posted:

You know, a thought occurs that Magee was actually kind of prescient when asking the kids if they hated GBN after their first outing. Except for Sarah, Magee, and now Kyoya, every single person they've met in GBN has either tried to scam them, beat them up, or scam them and then beat them up.

Sazabi posted:

You already have build quality, pilot skill, and B's specials like trans-am or hyper mode or the ability to build a disguise model the exact same shape or your real model with zero mobility problems. So I'm thinking gunpla points can only translate to unlocking minor passives like increased energy and ammo capacity, extra hanger slots, faster repair times, or ability to play longer than 2 hours and access to harder missions.

It'd be a bummer if you could only do 4 missions a day and had to either wait or pay to reset your mission cap.

Hunter Noventa posted:

I think that's specific to our protagonist, like 'I only have 2 hours before I have to go home and do homework'

Schubalts posted:

Also they were only allowed to play at all after they turned 15.

Zodack posted:

If Magee isn't the gunpla store lady I'm out

Kanos posted:

It's sort of weird that they bothered to establish that you need a gunpla to have a humanoid avatar with Momoka and Sarah has hung out with them for basically weeks now and they've never wondered "huh Sarah where's your gunpla?"

I'm hoping the show gets its Build Strike vs Zaku Amazing soon.

tsob posted:

It probably still has the sonic cannon on the waist. We'll, it's definitely physically still there; so it's probably not had it's functionality removed. It's also more likely to dribble and kick the mini-Kapool than to simply dive at stuff I would imagine.

Edit: I'm biased towards loving it both because it's not yet another Bearguy, but is a Kapool and Kapool are awesome.

Sazabi posted:

What do you think Sarah does in the interim? Is she goingon adventures with other groups? Does she ever eat? Does she need to eat? Can she eat? Does she gather discarded gunpla boxesand make a little homeless shelter in the corner of the main lobby? Can she evenleave that lobby and just go sleep in one of the replica towns?

Hopefully the next episode spends most of its run time explaining more lovely game mechanics.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

The english sub translate it as "This is how it looks when you battle by controlling actual Gunpla". The episode's also titled "Past and Future", so it's entirely possible.

Sazabi posted:

The only other explanation besides being a relative of Reji and Aila is her being another glitch in the system like the devil gundam. Am I missing something here? Because it's glaringly obvious she don't belong and has weird tendencies.

Sazabi posted:

Was she the pink haired idol? Remind me what was great about her?

drrockso20 posted:

I will never understand the fascination Japanese culture has with Soccer inspired attacks, it never results in anything actually cool or interesting

Raxivace posted:

If they're trying to imply a connection to Build Fighters I'm surprised that they didn't try and have Neet guy's group dissolve at the time that plavsky particles were destroyed or whatever for a while there.

Might have explained the creation and rise of GBN to fill in a now unfilled niche, though obviously that would be complicated by the particles being remade by Nils and Caroline, the existence of Try etc.

Sazabi posted:

When did you start seeing 12 year old cartoon girls in a sexual way?

Kanos posted:

That's especially multi-layered, since the Japanese title of MS Saga was Gundam True Odyssey: The Legend of Lost G, not MS Saga: A New Dawn.

It's so similar that it almost has to be a reference, though.

Taintrunner posted:

Where can I get the Zaku with the giant halo sticking out of his head

Blaze Dragon posted:

No kidding, for a literally illegal powerup, it sure is completely loving worthless. I can't even care about the glitches because we've seen they are completely temporary and easily stopped by merely stopping the Break Decal instead so...why are they worried about them again?

Mordja posted:

Agreed,. everyone knows the real drug is gunpla itself.

BizarroAzrael posted:

How long is the series going to go? I originally had the impression it was going to be 23-26ish, but right now it seems like it could be more like 13?

Sazabi posted:

Would have been a great opportunity for Riku to Target the joints, accuse Haro of not building his gunpla with love, and then yelling really loud gibberish and calling it a special attack.

But the show isn't that good. So nonsense wins in the end.


Also am I wrong or was the Haro just mad because he didn't like the controls in GBN and was salty no one had to repair their toys after every match? Cause that might be the most human thing I've seen in this show.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

It's a bit like saying "Arcade games can make a comeback at any time, no seriously look there's a working Point Blank machine at the local bar." Sure, they have one that still works and people play it. Namco's still not going to fork out cash to make more lightgun cabs when they can print PS4 games on blu-ray enmasse instead.

Guy Goodbody posted:

Guy Goodbody posted:

wheres the fricken episode?!?!

RillAkBea posted:

[...]
And it looks like no new episode next week.

Sazabi posted:

You could even argue that her gunpla evolves with a character arc. A decent one even. Which is more than anyone has in the rest of Try or Build.

Also wanna know where those three placed on the top 100 list. Cause I'm thinking Sei and Reji are less than five apart, but Reji probably placed decently high. Yet I don't expect fumina to make it past 90. It's a real thought puzzle.

A Big... Dog posted:

No episode this week?

Not that I'm... Into it.... Or anything

BizarroAzrael posted:

Skimmed through, saw no fights. See you next week.

They only have two more episodes? The champ still needs to switch to the white colour scheme from the op which isn't as good as the current one.

Guy Goodbody posted:

And he wants the protagonist to succeed! When they went all super expressive screaming during the fight, it made no sense because the Champ wasn't actually emotionally invested in the outcome. It seemed like he set the whole thing up to test Riku? All he wanted as to see if Riku was strong enough to win the fight.

Meanwhile, Rommel actually made an emotional argument about why he cared more about saving GBN than Sara, and the Administrator wanted to destroy Sara the whole time because preserving GBN was his job. Why weren't either of them the final foe?

Blaze Dragon posted:

He tried, but GBN is so badly coded that a simple user can actually out-rank an admin and stop them from doing their job.

This is pretty lovely programming, guys. Under no circumstances should this happen, but this is actually a GBN feature. It's a wonder this thing even works.