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1 I have never before been glad I could not understand Japanese...

Posted by: Siergen at Wed Nov 6 17:31:03 2013 (c2+vA)

2 What on earth did I just watch?

And why is the most common ad I get from youtube "Meet Chinese Lady"?

Posted by: Mauser at Thu Nov 7 07:57:27 2013 (TJ7ih)

3 The Venn overlap of those who are fans of both AoT and Nichijou is probably quite small. So the full effect is lost on most.

OH! One other thing...
(scarcely worth mentioning)
If you are in that category and have been having a persistent nightmare since watching it,  you may want to be directly responsible for having someone look at this video sometime in the next week (well six days  at this point).

Just sayin'...

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu Nov 7 17:34:02 2013 (DnAJl)

4 I dunno if I'd describe myself as a fan of either - Nichijou is a little bit too random for the funny it delivers, and Attack on Titan is well-done but kind of predictable...

...but that was gloriously wrong!

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Fri Nov 8 14:20:38 2013 (GJQTS)

5 Now all we need is Lucky Star OP with Attack on Titan characters.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Mon Nov 11 20:12:39 2013 (RqRa5)

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...in the latest episode of RWBY.  For one thing, we now know that at least one of the promo trailers is canon.
'...and then the bastards robbed our train!'
Of course the big reveal regards Blake (yes...she is a catgirl)  came as no great surprise... they'd hinted at it in episode 8.

..though the way it was revealed (via an accidental WHAM line) was rather unexpected.

The episode also revealed that she'd been a member of the terrorist organization White Fang, and that was what was going on in the 'Black' trailer.

Of course the episode poses more questions than it answers...like what the HELL is going on with "Penny"?

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1: Don't screw with the band.



2: Kill la Kill continues to surprise.

The show has been consistently fun. What's surprising is not just the twists of the story. It's that despite being over the top, vulgar and silly, Kill La Kill is turning out to be somewhat thoughtful.

  On top of that the transcendentally bad-ass band provides the show with an awesome score.

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These helpful phrases come via this weeks episode of the educational series Outbreak Company which also discussed such useful everyday terms as Pitching, Catching, Furry, Oppai, BL and how to properly set flags.

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9 new Dr. Who Episodes were discovered earlier this year in Nigeria. The remastered versions were screened recently and they will be available for sale this week on iTunes.

Amongst them are Web of Fear

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J. Greely over at Dot Clue is reading the Miniskirt Pirates light novels examining the differences between them and the Bodacious Space Pirates anime as he goes.

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The latest installment is the cute girls doing cute things genre is a gentle, methodically paced tale that  follows a charming but haunted young lady who transfers into a new high-school where she knows no one. She struggles to fit in and find friendship by joining an after-school club populated with wacky misfits.

Please be advised that this is NOT a review of that show.

The show being reviewed here does involve a female transfer student which may have contributed to some confusion. However, if you're looking for a review of that show then you probably don't want to scroll any further. In fact you should probably move along because that show sounds boring and I'm not likely to review it this season.

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...this did not happen.

Jeaune has been something of an enigma. He's physically brave, but seems utterly out of his depth, both in combat skill and knowledge. He doesn't seem stupid (he can think on his feet ) but he is bonecrushingly ignorant. While his need to have even the most basic aspects of how magic and such works explained to him in small words has certainly helped to bring the audience up to speed on the show's fantasy physics, it rather beggared belief that this fellow actually got into an elite university that specializes in the very things he is most ignorant of.

Well...all that is explained by the fact that he got in via forged transcripts. It seems that (for whatever reason) he never made it into any of the fighting schools from which beacon selects its recruits.

It gets worse...

We find this out because he confess it to Pyrrha as she is explaining that she's got confidence in him because "anyone who made it into Beacon is worthy by definition".

This means that not only has he lied on his application (no doubt grounds for dismissal), he's also made Pyrrha party to his lie. Pyrrha has been assisting him with a saint-like helpfulness that frankly approaches co-dependancy...and now, well, given that she seems inclined to keep his secret (she offers to help him get up to speed) It follows that he's set her (and potentially his entire team) up for disgrace too.

But wait...there's more!

By the end of the episode, he's also being blackmailed.

I don't see how he gets to stay in the opening credits at this point.

 ^{"Yeah, I may have chosen...poorly. "}

All in all there was much better writing and character development than the rather perfunctory resolution to the Weiss/Ruby issue in episode 10. 

Of course since the episode was 7 minutes long, you probably spent more time reading the  post than it would have taken to watch the show so I have serious doubts regards the utility of the review.


 

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In amongst his closing thoughts on Gatchaman Crowds Don makes an interesting point I'd missed.

Shifting attitudes toward information technologies can be followed in anime. In 1998′s Serial Experiments Lain, the "wired” is weird, scary and dangerous. In 2007′s Dennou Coil, evolved Google Glass is a lot of fun, though occasionally still dangerous. In Gatchaman Crowds, smart phones and conscious artificial intelligence are taken for granted and are generally benign. 

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...This podcast is sufficiently well done that I will have to catch up shortly (when I won't fear further distraction from my current assignments....or sleep deprivation due to nightmares).



It starts here.

Via Don...whose helicopters are properly sorted.
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....except that sometime in 2014 there will be a new Yamato movie.

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...this is probably how they looked.

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  This weeks episode of RWBY was apparently preempted by an after-school special focusing on the heartbreak of bullying.
...
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Yeah...pretty much nothing happened except well, this...

I assume that the gratuitous bunny girl who was onscreen for 7 seconds  is a continuing character because she gets a silhouette in the closing credits and a new name appears in the cast list.

Next week , I predict...


VIOLENCE

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Stella Women's Academy  High School Division Class C3 episode twelve scared me for a moment.

I was afraid there was going to be much angsty dialog, but instead the episode is a very long, frequently escalating and occasionally quite cartoonish airsoft duel...where everybody has a grand old time.

At one point bat thevend of the battle Yura alters reality again, this time for everybody. Everyone except Kirishima is weirded out. After a moment of confusion and fear Sonora looks at Yura and says "YOU did this>" Well OK then." as if that makes it all completely understandable...and they proceed to have the time of their lives until, exhausted, they find themselves back in reality.  It seems that Sonora is aware of what is going on and that it involves the shrine.


There's nothing deep here. Yura has gone from one extreme to another and found them both unpleasant. Now she's stopped being an asshat and is enjoying a hobby she has become quite good at....a hobby she now wants to share with other people.



To my utter astonishment this was a perfectly pleasant episode.

It did nothing to explain the metaphysical weirdness we've seen from time to time in the show, but it did establish that Yura has found her path and is happy as she learns where it leads her.

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The viewers who resisted the urge to get all cutty with a straight razor after last weeks episode are rewarded with a look at what the well adjusted characters are doing.



They've received some bad news...but they are determined to make the best of the situation.

Then we go to Yura...who is putting on a brave face, despite being beset by guilt, despair and zombies...



...shortly after this things begin to get weird.

Kirishima has a perfectly reasonable,  fleeting moment of bitchiness which ultimately leads to this unexpected visual...

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Blake's bow...

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The Message behind Stella Women's Acadamy High School Division...I'm sorry...where was I?
Oh yes. I think I've figured out the theme behind this show.

We at Gainax hate you.
Our childhoods were miserable because we were a bunch of geeky, socially inept otaku who grew to hate our hobby (which we blame for all our lost opportunities).  Nothing makes us sicker than seeing those who watch and enjoy anime for they remind us of our selves and our many personal failures. We hereby dedicate our lives to making you hate the medium as much as us, for we are transgressive and enlightened hipsters who understand the nihilistic futility of everything...Well...everything except the cruel pleasure we derive from getting you gullible fools to first enjoy something we create and then watch helplessly and despair as we dismember it without anesthesia before you. That is the greatest joy in all creation.That we are paid to do this is icing on the cake. It's an ephemeral joy though. Your innocence thus defiled, you can bring us little amusement from this point on, but there are always others that follow the likes of you. Now get thee along, Aokigahara beckons you.

I could be a bit off there, but there's a better than even case to be made for that theory at this point.

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..is one of those songs where it's important to know know what the lyrics actually mean, because having this just pop up on ones playlist in earshot of a native Japanese speaker could be awkward...

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An exceedingly epic example of a Ruby Rose cosplay by Adellexe. Photographed/edited by Lee Hong Zhu.




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She has abilities other than stalking!

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