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Considering we have ships in orbit, why don't we have a giant solar focusing array laser canon thing to just use... GLORIOUS SOLAR POWER BEAMS to erase them? I mean, we can fix the atmosphere later... right guys?
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Dark Wizard said: ↑
Considering we have ships in orbit, why don't we have a giant solar focusing array laser canon thing to just use... GLORIOUS SOLAR POWER BEAMS to erase them? I mean, we can fix the atmosphere later... right guys?
Uh, yeah, no. Space Fuckery, remember? 0s 'd just twist your solar lasers into a pretzel and throw 'em right back at you.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
Uh, yeah, no. Space Fuckery, remember? 0s 'd just twist your solar lasers into a pretzel and throw 'em right back at you.
Well then, we just need to make the light move faster than they can react to avoid them using Space Magic on it. Obviously by using space magic of our own! IF WE MAKE THE LIGHT WEIGH LESS... AND SPUN IT AROUND A BLACK HOLE, WE CAN SLINGSHOT IT AT LIGHT SPEED * LIGHTSPEED...
... and accidentally the planet. Shit. Alright, maybe that won't work. Well if we modify the first plan, and encapsulate the light in a higgs barrier field or something (like a one-use impeller mimic or something) it should avoid SPACE FUCKERY long enough to hit. I mean speed of light right?
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Dark Wizard said: ↑
Well then, we just need to make the light move faster than they can react to avoid them using Space Magic on it. Obviously by using space magic of our own! IF WE MAKE THE LIGHT WEIGH LESS... AND SPUN IT AROUND A BLACK HOLE, WE CAN SLINGSHOT IT AT LIGHT SPEED * LIGHTSPEED...
... and accidentally the planet. Shit. Alright, maybe that won't work. Well if we modify the first plan, and encapsulate the light in a higgs barrier field or something (like a one-use impeller mimic or something) it should avoid SPACE FUCKERY long enough to hit. I mean speed of light right?
Higgs are bullshit. I would be totally unsurprised if A0s were legitimately FTL.
Higgs are also bullshit in how they make no fucking sense and how are you going to turn that into cohesion packet on a C projectile?
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
Higgs are bullshit. I would be totally unsurprised if A0s were legitimately FTL.
Higgs are also bullshit in how they make no fucking sense and how are you going to turn that into cohesion packet on a C projectile?
Obviously with more Higgs... or I guess maybe if we used the Higgs to keep some micro black holes from collapsing in the middle, the Black Holes could keep the light trapped within the Higgs Envelope, and perhaps the vortex created by the Black Holes making the light 'rotate' around it, might cause the whole thing to become spinning, like bullets are via rifling, THUS MAKING IT MORE ACCURATE.
Alternatively, it might just become a swirling vortex of doom like Naruto's uh Wind Rasgen thing.
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Dark Wizard said: ↑
Well then, we just need to make the light move faster than they can react to avoid them using Space Magic on it. Obviously by using space magic of our own! IF WE MAKE THE LIGHT WEIGH LESS... AND SPUN IT AROUND A BLACK HOLE, WE CAN SLINGSHOT IT AT LIGHT SPEED * LIGHTSPEED...
This would require impellor to be streched all the ways to the target.
Also anyone involved in Stark quest is familiar with the headaches of variable c.
That was only a tiny fragment of the demon force. The bulk of it was stopped by Santa Claus' defenses.
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Dark Wizard said: ↑
Obviously with more Higgs... or I guess maybe if we used the Higgs to keep some micro black holes from collapsing in the middle, the Black Holes could keep the light trapped within the Higgs Envelope, and perhaps the vortex created by the Black Holes making the light 'rotate' around it, might cause the whole thing to become spinning, like bullets are via rifling, THUS MAKING IT MORE ACCURATE.
I... don't think that's how it works.
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Forget the Higgs, the only thing I want to see is whether we get a beach episode or not.
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Forget the Higgs, the only thing I want to see is whether we get a beach episode or not.
Shuri in a bikini...
*passes out from blood loss*
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Irontalons said: ↑
Forget the Higgs, the only thing I want to see is whether we get a beach episode or not.
RampagingRathian said: ↑
Shuri in a bikini...
*passes out from blood loss*
Get back to 4Chan. This thread is for SCIENCE!
That was only a tiny fragment of the demon force. The bulk of it was stopped by Santa Claus' defenses.
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Are you saying that we cannot see Anna making a Bikini out of Durga for the sake of maximum protection out In a new hostile environment?
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Ah yes, the beach. Truly, one of the most inhospitable environs known to man.
Although, in seriousness, Anna strikes me as the Sukumizu type. One pieces provide more coverage from enemy fire.
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Where would the beach be, though?
Apparently there's a setup on the Moon... Beach party at the Sea of Tranquility, anyone?
Most likely on the generic white sandy beach, reasons unknown and lost the moment Sandra shows and steals the show with her hair.
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Forget the beach episode, that's just going to be a filler and a place for Koji to make his move. Back to dakka, we should just nuke all of the Type Zeroes over and over again until there is nothing left. It worked in the beginning, right?
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
Forget the beach episode, that's just going to be a filler and a place for Koji to make his move. Back to dakka, we should just nuke all of the Type Zeroes over and over again until there is nothing left. It worked in the beginning, right?
They tried that. It didn't stick.
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Ummm, so, has anyone else noticed that all the other characters have things like heavy breathing after exertion and Anna... doesn't?
Robot Girl!Anna confirmed?
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Maybe she's just that good at athletics?
Edit: I mean, the robot girl theory isn't new, but Occams Razor. She could be a secret military valkyrie-piloting terminator, or a valkyrie core using an old corpse as an interface with humanity, or an infiltration-model Type-0, oooor she could just be a socially inept prodigy child.
I know which one sounds more likely to me.
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Clearly she only has to breathe in order to act 'normal' and fit in. That's what robots do, right?
RampagingRathian said: ↑
They tried that. It didn't stick.
HOW DOES LOTS OF DAKKA NOT WORK? Alright then, let's throw the Golden Ace at it.
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If she's a robot, why does she eat? Surely it would be simpler just to change batteries or something? And before anyone says "to fit in" or some such, she could just say she's eaten elsewhere/at a different time.
Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
HOW DOES LOTS OF DAKKA NOT WORK? Alright then, let's throw the Golden Ace at it.
Golden Ace? I've missed that one. Also, maybe the issue is less "amount of dakka" and more "type/location of dakka"? Conventional weapons (or, well, Valkyrie Core standards of "conventional weapons") seemed fairly effective in that simulator battle.
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
Clearly she only has to breathe in order to act 'normal' and fit in. That's what robots do, right?
HOW DOES LOTS OF DAKKA NOT WORK? Alright then, let's throw the Golden Ace at it.
Obviously it wasn't enough dakka.
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Have you guys seen what happened in that practice run they did with the complete harem cast? I'd sooner believe some kind human shaped nanite swarm with a taste for Antagonists.
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Have you guys seen what happened in that practice run they did with the complete harem cast? I'd sooner believe some kind human shaped nanite swarm with a taste for Antagonists.
But she spit it out, remember? Can't have been that good if it was worse than bread.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
But she spit it out, remember? Can't have been that good if it was worse than bread.
... Point. Eh, wasn't a serious suggestion anyway.
Although there's something very strange with her alright.
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Danger said: ↑
... Point. Eh, wasn't a serious suggestion anyway.
Although there's something very strange with her alright.
Earth is being invaded by creepy bio-technical aliens and one of the primary methods of defense is mech suits that run off physics-breaking-space-magic that can be operated primarily by females for no adequately explained reason. I think the local definition of "strange" has been somewhat skewed.
Earth is being invaded by creepy bio-technical aliens and one of the primary methods of defense is mech suits that run off physics-breaking-space-magic that can be operated primarily by females for no adequately explained reason. I think the local definition of "strange" has been somewhat skewed.
Well, female brains are wired differently. That might have something to do with it.
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I find it amusing it took us less than a page to go from discussing how to harness sunbeams to kill Antagonists to this, actually. Shifting gears back towards something (vaugely) like our original topic, what do you think the Type Zeroes will actually be like? I don't think we've actually seen any onscreen. All we know, if I remember correctly, is that they're big, dangerous, and if one's spotted the general orders are to flee unless you're specifically tagged for Zero-killing.
Well we know they have hats. there was that one line about how one of them waltzed over the battle-line, turned everything into lava, tipped it's fedora, and moonwalked back over the line while giving everyone the finger.
So hats confirmed.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
Well we know they have hats. there was that one line about how one of them waltzed over the battle-line, turned everything into lava, tipped it's fedora, and moonwalked back over the line while giving everyone the finger.
So hats confirmed.
No just an in-built fedora. Also Type-Zeroes are confirmed irredeemable dicks.
Going back to Anna, maybe she just is a cyborg? Considering she can do more physics-breaking space magic bullshit than the Golden Ace, it wouldn't surprise me if she was specifically suped-up for maximum dakka and destruction.
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
Going back to Anna, maybe she just is a cyborg? Considering she can do more physics-breaking space magic bullshit than the Golden Ace, it wouldn't surprise me if she was specifically suped-up for maximum dakka and destruction.
maybe she has a better frame than normal? one of those 300-series that we've heard hints about?
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
maybe she has a better frame than normal? one of those 300-series that we've heard hints about?
Perhaps, or maybe there're more cores than just those 300, just undiscovered, and our phenotypically aberrant Rei-clone found one?
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Dragonthulu said: ↑
Perhaps, or maybe there're more cores than just those 300, just undiscovered, and our phenotypically aberrant Rei-clone found one?
that makes sense.
...300 Durgas. How bullshit are Type-0s that even with three freaking hundred frames that ridiculous, the standard response is to make like Monty Python and "RUN AWAAAAAAY!!!" ?
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
that makes sense.
...300 Durgas. How bullshit are Type-0s that even with three freaking hundred frames that ridiculous, the standard response is to make like Monty Python and "RUN AWAAAAAAY!!!" ?
Go rewatch the opening scene describing the war. That thing WAY WAY in the back? With flashing specks around it? I think that's one.
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What level even are the 300 Spartans Valkyrie Cores at anyways, beyond "top"? I mean we're comparing them to Durga, but do we have any idea how accurate or inaccurate a comparison that is?
What level even are the 300 Spartans Valkyrie Cores at anyways, beyond "top"? I mean we're comparing them to Durga, but do we have any idea how accurate or inaccurate a comparison that is?
what, you think Durga is better than the "best of the best" frames?
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Confused Party said: ↑
What level even are the 300 Spartans Valkyrie Cores at anyways, beyond "top"? I mean we're comparing them to Durga, but do we have any idea how accurate or inaccurate a comparison that is?
We know that they're 'special,' but we don't know what that entails. Durga seems able to adapt to changing battle conditions and rapidly reconfigure; maybe the 300 are like that but with more dakka, or maybe they all have different weird abilities. Could be that they're weaker, even. Perhaps Anna got the super-prototype.
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Dragonthulu said: ↑
Perhaps Anna got the super-prototype.
But super-prototypes are reserved for protagonist usage only.
Anna spin-off confirmed?
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
But super-prototypes are reserved for protagonist usage only.
Anna spin-off confirmed?
10 episodes in and we're already talking about spinoffs?
Also Coke-Zero's suit is part of the 300. And Anna doesn't have one; she's a cyborg remember?
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
10 episodes in and we're already talking about spinoffs?
Also Coke-Zero's suit is part of the 300. And Anna doesn't have one; she's a cyborg remember?
Of course she has a suit. You can't impeller if you don't have a valk frame.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
what, you think Durga is better than the "best of the best" frames?
I think I don't want to rule out possibilities without full and proper data on the subject.
Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
Also Coke-Zero's suit is part of the 300. And Anna doesn't have one; she's a cyborg remember?
1. What do you base that claim on?
2. Again. With the Robot!Anna claim. I just don't buy it.
Actually, thought on the 300: why are they tied to that number so intrinsically that they're named by it? Is there something preventing people from making more?
And there's a new theory right there: maybe Durga's a proto-300 frame.
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I think I don't want to rule out possibilities without full and proper data on the subject.
1. What do you base that claim on?
2. Again. With the Robot!Anna claim. I just don't buy it.
Actually, thought on the 300: why are they tied to that number so intrinsically that they're named by it? Is there something preventing people from making more?
And there's a new theory right there: maybe Durga's a proto-300 frame.
1. Protag bullshit. (Lack of usable weapons systems, cold temperament, etc.)
2. How else can you explain her ability to eat so much and NOT breathe? She's fused with her core or some other space magic bullshit.
However, I don't buy the Durga > or = 300 theory. Keep in mind that flight hours are crucial to how strong a suit is and how good the meatbag pilot is. Maybe Anna is either hooked up to a research lab somewhere or just has spent a lot of sync hours with Durga.
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
2. How else can you explain her ability to eat so much and NOT breathe? She's fused with her core or some other space magic bullshit.
to the first, I know people IRL who eat nearly that much. To the second, she isn't breathing hard after exertion that has the rest of the cast doing it, but I don't think the animation's precise enough to determine whether she breathes at all.
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Or the studio's gonna pull a double subversion and Coke Zero's got a really shit, stuck-up frame instead of anything special. Not that your reasoning is unsound, but I think mine's funnier.
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2. How else can you explain her ability to eat so much and NOT breathe? She's fused with her core or some other space magic bullshit.
Well-
RampagingRathian said: ↑
to the first, I know people IRL who eat nearly that much. To the second, she isn't breathing hard after exertion that has the rest of the cast doing it, but I don't think the animation's precise enough to determine whether she breathes at all.
*grumbling* Bloody ninjas... Yeah, pretty much that.
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However, I don't buy the Durga > or = 300 theory. Keep in mind that flight hours are crucial to how strong a suit is and how good the meatbag pilot is. Maybe Anna is either hooked up to a research lab somewhere or just has spent a lot of sync hours with Durga.
Never said Durga was better or equal to a 300 frame (whatever that actually ends up meaning; for all we know them having inbuilt pancake makers is a valid, if implausible, major difference between the frame types). In fact by necessity in my new little theory there, Durga must be worse than a 300 frame as it has not finished developing (gestating? No, that sounds too much like I'm talking about an insect) into one. It is, so far as I can tell, no more or less valid than any of the other proposed theories as to what on Earth's up with Durga.
Am I only one that noticed commercial on the background TV screen about ?retired? Valk and her bakery? One in episode 2? It's without subs at least in version I did see *whistles innocently* but it's pretty clear from what is shown. Yes, they DO have inbuilt pancake makers. Well, some of them.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
to the first, I know people IRL who eat nearly that much. To the second, she isn't breathing hard after exertion that has the rest of the cast doing it, but I don't think the animation's precise enough to determine whether she breathes at all.
Then they are extremely unhealthy if they are eating 4,000 + calories per meal. But Anna stands out because she either has a freaky-fast metabolism, or she stores it in Durga just in case. Also, didn't you look at the closeups? They particularly show Anna not breathing at all.
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Or the studio's gonna pull a double subversion and Coke Zero's got a really shit, stuck-up frame instead of anything special. Not that your reasoning is unsound, but I think mine's funnier.
Well-
*grumbling* Bloody ninjas... Yeah, pretty much that.
Never said Durga was better or equal to a 300 frame (whatever that actually ends up meaning; for all we know them having inbuilt pancake makers is a valid, if implausible, major difference between the frame types). In fact by necessity in my new little theory there, Durga must be worse than a 300 frame as it has not finished developing (gestating? No, that sounds too much like I'm talking about an insect) into one. It is, so far as I can tell, no more or less valid than any of the other proposed theories as to what on Earth's up with Durga.
And I never implied that you said that. The reason I don't buy the Durga frame is similar to a 300 is wouldn't it be rotated like the rest of them? But yeah, something is definitely up with Durga.
P.S. Do you guys think that DurgAnna has already been in heavy combat? Her whole log is censored to shit.
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
Then they are extremely unhealthy if they are eating 4,000 + calories per meal. But Anna stands out because she either has a freaky-fast metabolism, or she stores it in Durga just in case. Also, didn't you look at the closeups? They particularly show Anna not breathing at all.
Some people just get that freakish-level metabolism where lots and lots of food isn't a real biggie. Genetics, or some such. Mind you, what we've got in the show might be exaggerated for comedic effect/a lack of understanding of the scale of food being eaten. (Only tangentially-related side question, where'd you pull the 4,000+ calorie number from?)
As for the closeups... Don't remember seeing a huge amount of such movement in anyone else either, we typically only get those at dramatic moments and they're almost to the point of being stills.
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And I never implied that you said that. The reason I don't buy the Durga frame is similar to a 300 is wouldn't it be rotated like the rest of them? But yeah, something is definitely up with Durga.
Sorry, sounded like that was what you were implying. The rotation might not happen in the proto-300 theory because they theoretically wouldn't want to "contaminate its development" or some such. If it's full 300 level, maybe no one official has noticed yet? I mean, by your theory that Coke Zero's frame is a 300, shouldn't it be in rotation? ALTERNATIVELY alternatively, maybe it is in rotation but nothing about that's come up onscreen yet? Will agree with you on the "something's up with Durga" front though, you don't turn into mecha-Cthulhu lite and be normal at the same time. Coke's frame has a few funky bits too, even assuming we take the "300 frame out of rotation because protagonist" explanation as a base assumption. And... Actually, could we get a list of things that we know we can take at face value in here?
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Am I only one that noticed commercial on the background TV screen about ?retired? Valk and her bakery? One in episode 2? It's without subs at least in version I did see *whistles innocently* but it's pretty clear from what is shown. Yes, they DO have inbuilt pancake makers. Well, some of them.
No, I did not see that. Where was this in the episode? And why would they let a Valkyrie out of the military to run a bakery, of all things? Surely they'd want more Cores for the war effort?
P.S. Do you guys think that DurgAnna has already been in heavy combat? Her whole log is censored to shit.
It's even more censored than Shuri's, so, yeah. either that, or she's the secret inventor of some Anti-antagonist mac-guffin super-weapon that's gonna show up at the end of the season and be like "this is humanity's greatest hope for victory".
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No, I did not see that. Where was this in the episode? And why would they let a Valkyrie out of the military to run a bakery, of all things? Surely they'd want more Cores for the war effort?
remember infodump class #3? Builder-type valks are a thing.
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remember infodump class #3? Builder-type valks are a thing.
Miiiight have skipped a few of the infodump bits. Time constraints, and all. Give me about... A little while to play catch-up on that.
And actually, another topic change inspired by this whole talk about the censoring: what the heck is up with Shuri? I think Sandra had some censors in her profile as well...
Miiiight have skipped a few of the infodump bits. Time constraints, and all. Give me about... A little while to play catch-up on that.
And actually, another topic change inspired by this whole talk about the censoring: what the heck is up with Shuri? I think Sandra had some censors in her profile as well...
black-ops? I think Sandra's profile mentioned a hostage somethingorother.
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black-ops? I think Sandra's profile mentioned a hostage somethingorother.
The two of them seem rather inseparable. Bodyguard, maybe?
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The two of them seem rather inseparable. Bodyguard, maybe?
I wonder what happened to get an active, elite combat valk to become her bodyguard? Maybe something to do with whatever took her off the front lines?
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No, I did not see that. Where was this in the episode?
3:15, on background when Tsun-chan having tsun-off with Trap-kun right before breakfast.
Confused Party said: ↑
And why would they let a Valkyrie out of the military to run a bakery, of all things? Surely they'd want more Cores for the war effort?
Ugh. It's, what, 60 years after war started? Retirement is a thing. I personally wouldn't want to keep somebody who can level tank division after she is tired up from that shit.
PS. I don't know if that means that main problem is pilots and not cores or if it's impossible to take back aligned core and they don't want to piss-off veterans off retirement.
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
Then they are extremely unhealthy if they are eating 4,000 + calories per meal. But Anna stands out because she either has a freaky-fast metabolism, or she stores it in Durga just in case. Also, didn't you look at the closeups? They particularly show Anna not breathing at all.
You sure that's not a result of the animation budget being spent on awesome battles rather than drawing the breathing cycles of everyone on every frame? I mean, sure, they are apparently being funded by Gilgamesh but there's not a lot of gain to be had by drawing that compulsively while it slows things down tremendously.
Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
P.S. Do you guys think that DurgAnna has already been in heavy combat? Her whole log is censored to shit.
Confused Party said: ↑
Sorry, sounded like that was what you were implying. The rotation might not happen in the proto-300 theory because they theoretically wouldn't want to "contaminate its development" or some such. If it's full 300 level, maybe no one official has noticed yet? I mean, by your theory that Coke Zero's frame is a 300, shouldn't it be in rotation? ALTERNATIVELY alternatively, maybe it is in rotation but nothing about that's come up onscreen yet? Will agree with you on the "something's up with Durga" front though, you don't turn into mecha-Cthulhu lite and be normal at the same time. Coke's frame has a few funky bits too, even assuming we take the "300 frame out of rotation because protagonist" explanation as a base assumption. And... Actually, could we get a list of things that we know we can take at face value in here?
... Where the hell are you guys getting this stuff from? It's nowhere in evidence in the episodes, nor in any of the omake material I've seen.
Dragonthulu said: ↑
The two of them seem rather inseparable. Bodyguard, maybe?
Seems plausible to me, Shuri might also be fulfilling something of a 'senior NCO with a newbie LT' role. Yank a skilled but wounded soldier off the battle lines and show the newbie the ropes and how to handle strategy, tactics, logistics and morale so newbie mistakes don't get anyone killed. Then again, Sandra has that whole old money/nobility vibe going, and she certainly seems pretty damn good at the whole morale thing
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Danger said: ↑
... Where the hell are you guys getting this stuff from? It's nowhere in evidence in the episodes, nor in any of the omake material I've seen.
Ugh... Did you visited anime site? There are plenty of character profiles there. And somebody on Animedesu promised to translate first DVD booklet when somebody would scan one (or get him one from Japan). Info from it is already on Japanese wiki.
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Darkblade said: ↑
Ugh... Did you visited anime site? There are plenty of character profiles there. And somebody on Animedesu promised to translate first DVD booklet when somebody would scan one (or get him one from Japan). Info from it is already on Japanese wiki.
That would explain things, I can't read Japanese.
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Darkblade said: ↑
Ugh... Did you visited anime site? There are plenty of character profiles there. And somebody on Animedesu promised to translate first DVD booklet when somebody would scan one (or get him one from Japan). Info from it is already on Japanese wiki.
Wasn't there a leak that got posted somewhere about the back stories of characters after episode 2? That's where I found Bread-Chan's blacked-out story.
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That would explain things, I can't read Japanese.
...Freaking weeaboos.
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I'm not good with episode numbers, but during the one episode where the group all tried the one historical scenario "Single Sweep", Anna seemed to be forcibly dragging herself back to where the rest of the group was. Perhaps she was around when the campaign for Alaska ended, and felt some sort of duty to go and help?
It'd be odd, sure, what with Anna being 16 apparently, but I think that it was mentioned somewhere (episode 1 or 2, maybe) that she was offered the ability to go through an accelerated course.
Now, for the first paragraph, there are several thing that could be inferred; one, Anna is a robot, as others in the thread have oh-so-eloquently brought up, and they just haven't gotten around to removing the order to go toward the Alaska battlefield (or maybe it's setting off rule 1); two, that she's a normal person, and she just has an overly strong will to fight antagonists/protect others/whatever motivation the anime's going to give her; or three (and this is probably the least probable), she's an antagonist infiltrator. This seems unlikely from the outset, but it would explain a few things, such as how she is capable of absorbing light, creating giant black masses that allow her to turn antagonists and others inside out, and her very, very good weaponry.
There is more evidence for each of these things, but none of it is conclusive.
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Personally, if I had to pick an "Anna isn't human" theory, I'd go with then Puella Magi Anna Magica one, I. E. Anna is Dura using an synthetic meatbody to interact with the pathetic mortals humans.
That's if I were to pick one. I'm sticking with Anna being fully human, myself.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
Personally, if I had to pick an "Anna isn't human" theory, I'd go with then Puella Magi Anna Magica one, I. E. Anna is Dura using an synthetic meatbody to interact with the pathetic mortalshumans.
That's if I were to pick one. I'm sticking with Anna being fully human, myself.
>Implying they aren't all meatbodies
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
>Implying they aren't all meatbodies
Does meatpuppet work better?
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If it does turn out that Anna is a cyborg, then I guess that Anna's sword is a tool of justice we can expect hilarious hijinks if there's a pool episode (I'm still hoping there isn't going to be one, but considering what type of anime this is...), and that everyone will be electrocuted as soon as she steps into the pool.
Of course, the writer's will probably forget that because they need to shoe-horn in fanservice, but I'm hoping against hope, here.
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>Implying they aren't all meatbodies
I think you have the wrong forum; we aren't 4chan.
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ArmageddonWhale said: ↑
If it does turn out that Anna is a cyborg, then I guess that Anna's sword is a tool of justice we can expect hilarious hijinks if there's a pool episode (I'm still hoping there isn't going to be one, but considering what type of anime this is...), and that everyone will be electrocuted as soon as she steps into the pool.
Of course, the writer's will probably forget that because they need to shoe-horn in fanservice, but I'm hoping against hope, here.
I think you have the wrong forum; we aren't 4chan.
Oh my bad. Was viewing it earlier and shit posting. Going back to the fanservice thing, for a harem anime, there has been almost no hijinks so far aside from MC and Tsundere. The suits aren't even sexualized! They're actually realistic! I expected harem and got war and gore. However, there has to be fanservice at some point, right?
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
Oh my bad. Was viewing it earlier and shit posting. Going back to the fanservice thing, for a harem anime, there has been almost no hijinks so far aside from MC and Tsundere. The suits aren't even sexualized! They're actually realistic! I expected harem and got war and gore. However, there has to be fanservice at some point, right?
There better be. I signed on for a Harem/Shounen anime, not straight shounen (or straight harem, for that matter. it's the balance that's important.)
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In terms of fanservice and hijinks, I suppose you could count Kojiroku from the introduction speech in the first episode, if you're into that sort of thing.
...I'm morbidly curious as to whether he shaved his legs before that.
I know from experience that, as a guy, my manly leg hair makes wearing any sock longer than ankle height can be really uncomfortable. Koji was prancing about in thigh-highs.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
...I'm morbidly curious as to whether he shaved his legs before that.
I know from experience that, as a guy, my manly leg hair makes wearing and sock longer than ankle height can be really uncomfortable. Koji was prancing about in thigh-highs.
It's interesting that you point this out because he may have not even had leg hair to begin with. He might not have even hit puberty yet! (Judging by his high-ass voice) It would be an interesting twist though.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
I wonder what happened to get an active, elite combat valk to become her bodyguard? Maybe something to do with whatever took her off the front lines?
Just saw this one. Maybe Shuri's a merc? Are there mercs? I mean, I doubt that all humanity suddenly stopped trying to murder each other, and Miss Fluffy Hair does give off the ojou-sama feeling... So maybe Shuri's a mercenary bodyguard? I mean, she's definitely all skills and frekkin famous, from what we saw, so she's probably not there because she needs the training.
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
It's interesting that you point this out because he may have not even had leg hair to begin with. He might not have even hit puberty yet! (Judging by his high-ass voice) It would be an interesting twist though.
Well, IIRC Yukari noted in Ep1 that Anna is the same age, and she looks... Hmmm, early twenties? It's always hard to tell with animation and that height might be a result of 'foreigners are freaking tall compared to Japanese'. How old are they according to the character descriptions?
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Danger said: ↑
Well, IIRC Yukari noted in Ep1 that Anna is the same age, and she looks... Hmmm, early twenties? It's always hard to tell with animation and that height might be a result of 'foreigners are freaking tall compared to Japanese'. How old are they according to the character descriptions?
Speaking about origins, does anyone know where the rest of the cast came from? I'm interested in Best Girl Bread-chan's backstory the most.
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
Speaking about origins, does anyone know where the rest of the cast came from? I'm interested in Best Girl Bread-chan's backstory the most.
Well, I peg Sandra as some flavor of European, and Shuri's pretty solidly Middle-Eastern.
Nothing on Anna though. Sanchez is a relatively common surname, her design doesn't give any major clues other than "not japanese", and you can't identify accents from japanese voice acting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Irontalons said: ↑
Are you saying that we cannot see Anna making a Bikini out of Durga for the sake of maximum protection out In a new hostile environment?
Durga in bikini form would be a horror the likes of which Coke-Zero would have nightmares about for months.
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Bets on even the non-Japanese named being half Japanese because they can't be allowed to be too foreign?
And silly Pancakes, Antagonists aren't people.
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Darkblade said: ↑
Yes, they DO have inbuilt pancake makers.
Confused Party said: ↑
And why would they let a Valkyrie out of the military to run a bakery, of all things?
It's like you haven't even been watching the Chronicles of the RoboBread-chan.
... Umm, I haven't seen this up in many places but people seem to ignore the 'Alaskan Front' Thing that happened. Someone suggested that there could have been a secret tech lab out in Alaska somewhere and that's where Anna/Durga came from. I'm thinking that it may have become wrecked and that's why 'HUMANITIES ARMYYY!' abandoned that section ages ago but somehow Anna survived, continued upgrading herself and learning things until she managed to destroy the Rift/Magical Hole of Science/whatever.
That's my current theory on it.
... Or maybe the GUTS AND HARD WOORRRKK of the Alaskan Lumberjacks condensed into a single child who survived amongst the beavers as foretold by the ancient prophecy of *Insert Cool Biblical Reference here*.
... Now that I've said that, I hope it doesn't end like NGE.
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Dancing Exile said: ↑
... Or maybve the GUTS AND HARD WOORRRKK
I am now imagining Anna in green spandex, calmly explaining the virtues of YOUTH.
I'm not sure how to deal with this.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
I am now imagining Anna in green spandex, calmly explaining the virtues of YOUTH.
I'm not sure how to deal with this.
... why would you make me think of Anna with those Eyebrows?
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Dancing Exile said: ↑
... why would you make me think of Anna with those Eyebrows?
To share my pain.
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Dancing Exile said: ↑
... why would you make me think of Anna with those Eyebrows?
Because why not.
Dancing Exile said: ↑
It's like you haven't even been watching the Chronicles of the RoboBread-chan.
... Umm, I haven't seen this up in many places but people seem to ignore the 'Alaskan Front' Thing that happened. Someone suggested that there could have been a secret tech lab out in Alaska somewhere and that's where Anna/Durga came from. I'm thinking that it may have become wrecked and that's why 'HUMANITIES ARMYYY!' abandoned that section of the world a while ago because of total losses but somehow Anna survived, continued upgrading herself and learning things until she managed to destroy the Rift/Magical Hole of Science/whatever, the military swooping in after they find out to 'recover' her and integrate her with humanity.
That's my current theory on it.
... Or maybe the GUTS AND HARD WOORRRKK of the Alaskan Lumberjacks condensed into a single child who survived amongst the beavers as foretold by the ancient prophecy of *Insert Cool Biblical Reference here*.
... Now that I've said that, I hope it doesn't end like NGE.
You may be onto something here.
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
You may be onto something here.
Okay, say she's from Alaska. the fuck was she doing there? I mean, I dunno about you, but I don't drag 12 year-old girls in to one of the heaviest combat zones on the planet, valk core or no valk core.
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If the theory is true and Anna is a robot, that opens the door for the others to have robo bits in them as well. It seems possible given that from what we have seen society seems to be post scarcity given the kind of tech we have seen so far, so that leaves me curious, do the others have any artificial bits to them?
Just thinking of the inevitable beach episode with Anna realising she needs an armoured bathing suite just to avoid being eaten by Sandra's behemoth hair when it gets free.
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Irontalons said: ↑
If the theory is true and Anna is a robot, that opens the door for the others to have robo bits in them as well. It seems possible given that from what we have seen society seems to be post scarcity given the kind of tech we have seen so far, so that leaves me curious, do the others have any artificial bits to them?
Just thinking of the inevitable beach episode with Anna realising she needs an armoured bathing suite just to avoid being eaten by Sandra's behemoth hair when it gets free.
I don't think hair can escape. It's usually attached.
unless she's bald and it's a wig...
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
I don't think hair can escape. It's usually attached.
unless she's bald and it's a wig...
Only Shuri has seen the monster move, dragging Alexandra about and feeding on everyone who cannot escape, that's why she is so cool. It takes a lot remain calm while a sentient mass of hair tugs at your scalp.
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Be serious though, have we actually seen any hints that other than Anna the cast is anything but fully human?
That one scene where Shuri forms a chair out of her hair doesn't count that was explicitly stated to be a non-canon omake (shame really, I'd like to see more of Koujiro, KITCHEN SAMURAI).
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Dark Wizard said: ↑
Considering we have ships in orbit, why /don't/ we have a giant solar focusing array laser canon thing to just use... GLORIOUS SOLAR POWER BEAMS to erase them? I mean, we can fix the atmosphere later... right guys?
Is it bad that despite never having actually played exalted I automatically completed the sentence as GLORIOUS SOLAR BULLSHIT to erase them?
Actually makes me think of what type of exaltation would the characters have?
Anna: Alchemical. (definitely not because she is a robot ) Not quite sure what caste though. I would say Adamant but I might be fan-wanking her to much if I said that
Koji: Scrub
Setsuna: Scrub
Neither would be exalt yet
Sandra: Eclipse maybe?
Shuri: Dawn?
Yukari: Not sure.
As I said, I haven't actually played exalted so I am probably off base
ArmageddonWhale said: ↑
It'd be odd, sure, what with Anna being 16 apparently, but I think that it was mentioned somewhere (episode 1 or 2, maybe) that she was offered the ability to go through an accelerated course.
In the first episode when Yukari was asking Anna to take care of her brother and Setsuna "You're an elite pilot with hours beyond that of many instructors so you are undoubtedly the most capable Valkyrie of this school"
If she has more hours than most instructors I would imagine that she has been on the battle field.
Actually, how did Yukari meet Anna in the first place since she seems to be the only character that actually might know Anna's past due to that comment.
They were both affected by the Alaska simulation, maybe they met there?
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Saintsblood said: ↑
Is it bad that despite never having actually played exalted I automatically completed the sentence as GLORIOUS SOLAR BULLSHITto erase them?
Actually makes me think of what type of exaltation would the characters have?
Anna: Alchemical. (definitely not because she is a robot ) Not quite sure what caste though. I would say Adamant but I might be fan-wanking her to much if I said that
Koji: Scrub
Setsuna: Scrub
Neither would be exalt yet
Sandra: Eclipse maybe?
Shuri: Dawn?
Yukari: Not sure.
As I said, I haven't actually played exalted so I am probably off base
In the first episode when Yukari was asking Anna to take care of her brother and Setsuna "You're an elite pilot with hours beyond that of many instructors so you are undoubtedly the most capable Valkyrie of this school"
If she has more hours than most instructors I would imagine that she has been on the battle field.
Actually, how did Yukari meet Anna in the first place since she seems to be the only character that actually might know Anna's past due to that comment.
They were both affected by the Alaska simulation, maybe they met there?
Maybe Onee-San worked at the research department where Anna gets her shit from?
Like you, I don't know anything about Exalted, so i'll just take your word for it.
Also, Anna's been doing lots of offscreen shit including a secret weapon and going to the Instructors' Lounge. What is up with that?
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Saintsblood said: ↑
If she has more hours than most instructors I would imagine that she has been on the battle field.
Actually, how did Yukari meet Anna in the first place since she seems to be the only character that actually might know Anna's past due to that comment.
They were both affected by the Alaska simulation, maybe they met there?
Forgot about that for a second. That comment implies that she grew up under extenuating circumstances, likely outside of UN reach (ignoring the theory/possibility that she's a robot), as the fact that they have a policy for only the instructors and a select group of third years to fight if antagonists were to attack.
Of course, that doesn't explain Shuri's background, but that'll probably be explained when her backstory comes to light. After all, she's the other special super-powerful snowflake (not including Yukari) in the group; of course she has a backstory.
Edit: Also, I know it's weird, but in your very last paragraph, the correct spelling is "affected" in that instance. Not "effected".
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
Okay, say she's from Alaska. the fuck was she doing there? I mean, I dunno about you, but I don't drag 12 year-old girls in to one of the heaviest combat zones on the planet, valk core or no valk core.
... It could have been a small logging town which Beaver Girl Anna came from after finding a core in a meteorite/etc somewhere in the wilds but more likely, as I said it was probably a research facility before the Antagonists came, Govt remodeled it for Valkyrie research of a more 'mysterious' nature away from cities/etc so they had less... oversight? In what they did while researching.
Then the facility got destroyed and the Valkryie Core/whatever/ProtoAnna survived and was roaming free, learning over time and getting better at fighting the Antagonists until she managed to destroy the breach. *Etc about Military picking her up for training/learning social at ValkTech.*
Of course as I said, THE PROPHECYYY foretells that Anna Sanchez is the Chosen Child, the Manifestation of Hard Work and Canadian Healthcare to save us all!
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Wait, given the whole thing with the Antagonist devouring Attempt... anyone wanna bet that Anna is ACTUALLY a THIRD alien species' scouting attempt?
I mean that would overcomplicate the whole thing massively but hey, it's getting funded by Gilgamesh right? So they probably have the budget for it...
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SillyAsCanBe said: ↑
Wait, given the whole thing with the Antagonist devouring Attempt... anyone wanna bet that Anna is ACTUALLY a SECOND alien species' scouting attempt?
I mean that would overcomplicate the whole thing massively but hey, it's getting funded by Gilgamesh right? So they probably have the budget for it...
Fixed that, unless there is another alien species aside from the Antagonists, we currently only have one alien species (Humans and Antagonists).
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Fixed that, unless there is another alien species aside from the Antagonists, we currently only have one alien species (Humans and Antagonists).
because valks are totally mundane tech.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
because valks are totally mundane tech.
... Not the worst handwaving I've ever seen.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
because valks are totally mundane tech.
...Valks are futuristic robots, so maybe Anna might be the Ancient Alien who bought them to earth to help Humanity fight the Antagonists?
How did Valkyrie cores turn up anyway?
On the opposite side of the spectrum (Urobutcher/etc): *Cores/Anna is an Antagonist Plant(s), Series ends with Cores/Anna devouring Humanity. Kyoujirou Screams. Audience is traumatized.*
And that's why you don't watch NGE straight after this.
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Dancing Exile said: ↑
...Valks are futuristic robots, so maybe Anna might be the Ancient Alien who bought them to earth to help Humanity fight the Antagonists?
How did Valkyrie cores turn up anyway?
More like Valks are pretty standard tokusatsu/shounen callable battle armour. Well, outside the whole 'accepts only women (and a rare few men)' going by the acadamy's population. This isn't the first time show demograpshics was skewed in a way entirely unlike the intended audience's usual preference.
I mean, look at Nanoha. Cute magical girl story with major super robot themes.
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Dancing Exile said: ↑
...Valks are futuristic robots, so maybe Anna might be the Ancient Alien who bought them to earth to help Humanity fight the Antagonists?
How did Valkyrie cores turn up anyway?
On the opposite side of the spectrum (Urobutcher/etc): *Cores/Anna is an Antagonist Plant(s), Series ends with Cores/Anna devouring Humanity. Kyoujirou Screams. Audience is traumatized.*
And that's why you don't watch NGE straight after this.
Well, admittedly, that would be a far more interesting ending than the norm.
In case you couldn't tell, I'm sick of seeing anime where the main character is boring, bland, and yet for some reason we're following him.
Really, I'm watching this for the interesting worldbuilding, decent to good side-characters, and actual hints of story. So far, the anime has not been living up to what I had hoped for in the story department, but it seems to be getting better.
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ArmageddonWhale said: ↑
Well, admittedly, that would be a far more interesting ending than the norm.
In case you couldn't tell, I'm sick of seeing anime where the main character is boring, bland, and yet for some reason we're following him.
Really, I'm watching this for the interesting worldbuilding, decent to good side-characters, and actual hints of story. So far, the anime has not been living up to what I had hoped for in the story department, but it seems to be getting better.
Koujirou is actually a pretty decent guy. Take a look at how he reacts to Anna when they meet again after that practice session they had with her.
Of course, this depends on if the lesson sticks...
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Danger said: ↑
Koujirou is actually a pretty decent guy. Take a look at how he reacts to Anna when they meet again after that practice session they had with her.
Of course, this depends on if the lesson sticks...
I think Whale meant in the "character is interesting" sense, rather than the moral one.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
I think Whale meant in the "character is interesting" sense, rather than the moral one.
Eh... sure. Koujirou hasn't distinguished himself in the ranks of the harem or shounen protagonist yet, not exactly. I mean, he's a fairly cookie cutter protagonist for both right now once you wrap your head around the setting. I think the upcoming Tournament Arc is going to give us some solid characterisation beyond the usual 'more effort, more guts, more wins' and 'all the girls fall for him in an instant' deal.
I mean, think for a moment. Setsuna is the twintailed violently tsundere childhood friend, Yukari the quiet and respected oneesama, Sandra is the oujo, Shuri is the athletics focused tomboy and Anna our... super competent Rei clone. None of them are exactly what you'd call very well defined characters of whom we've seen much of their backstory, even though we've certainly gotten a good handle how things are with them right now.
Well, okay, Anna is not very stock character given her super competence and reminds me more of... what was that guys name from Full Metal Panic?
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Eh... sure. Koujirou hasn't distinguished himself in the ranks of the harem or shounen protagonist yet, not exactly. I mean, he's a fairly cookie cutter protagonist for both right now once you wrap your head around the setting. I think the upcoming Tournament Arc is going to give us some solid characterisation beyond the usual 'more effort, more guts, more wins' and 'all the girls fall for him in an instant' deal.
I mean, think for a moment. Setsuna is the twintailed violently tsundere childhood friend, Yukari the quiet and respected oneesama, Sandra is the oujo, Shuri is the athletics focused tomboy and Anna our... super competent Rei clone. None of them are exactly what you'd call very well defined characters of whom we've seen much of their backstory, even though we've certainly gotten a good handle how things are with them right now.
Well, okay, Anna is not very stock character given her super competence and reminds me more of... what was that guys name from Full Metal Panic?
Sousuke was his name. Maybe we will get some less serious stuff with Anna learning to be more human ala Fumoffu?
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Koujirou is actually a pretty decent guy. Take a look at how he reacts to Anna when they meet again after that practice session they had with her.
Of course, this depends on if the lesson sticks...
Every harem protagonist is like that. They're always treated as some sort of nice guy, and for some reason, that's all you need to do to be considered a good person, and held up as a paragon. If they do have flaws, the show/manga/light novel praise them for "standing up for their friends" or some stupid stuff like that, and never focus on getting rid of those flaws.
I can't stand such protagonists!
They never have any character growth, they're shown as "unique" for being a generic nice guy, and none of the people that deserve it in these shows ever get any praise!
This is always the case for harem protagonists. And I hate it.
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ArmageddonWhale said: ↑
Every harem protagonist is like that. They're always treated as some sort of nice guy, and for some reason, that's all you need to do to be considered a good person, and held up as a paragon. If they do have flaws, the show/manga/light novel praise them for "standing up for their friends" or some stupid stuff like that, and never focus on getting rid of those flaws.
I can't stand such protagonists!
They never have any character growth, they're shown as "unique" for being a generic nice guy, and none of the people that deserve it in these shows ever get any praise!
This is always the case for harem protagonists. And I hate it.
I only care for one harem series (other than VC (and incidentally, also a harem/shounen series.)), and the protag had many of those qualities. they made sense though. in setting, being a nice guy was unique. and he did get character development.
it's actually one of my favorite manga, and the measuring stick I'm holding VC up to.
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Well, okay, Anna is not very stock character given her super competence and reminds me more of... what was that guys name from Full Metal Panic?
I know, right? It's like watching Sousuke Sagara from Full Metal Panic: "I cannot into civilian life" all over again!
Also, JEEZUS the production values are INSANE. I've been going over clips in slow-mo, and it's like the animation studio mo-capped all the major cast members into 3D, then animated on top of the frame for extra accuracy! Normally, admitting to paying such close attention to torso movements would be perverse (hur, dur, Sandra's making speech, lets watch her boobies bounce / Tsunder-tails is drawing breath for inevitable berating, ooh, she's surprisingly busty for the arch-type), but the level of detail lavished on the characters and the attention paid to timing breaths drawn with the seiryuu's voice-over... Holyshit!
...And then we get back to Anna. Who doesn't appear to draw breathe except in preparation of speaking. Yeah, Anna is being animated like a STANDARD ANIME CHARACTER rather then the rest of the cast's hyper-detailed rendering of motion! What the ever living hell is going on with this girl?? With the animation studio?? Are they hinting at something, like the Robot!Anna epileptic tree being passed around? Damned if I know, but... mebe I'm just that paranoid. God damn Urobutcher for doing this to me! Damn PMMM, and damn Fate/Zero!!
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I know, right? It's like watching Sousuke Sagara from Full Metal Panic: "I cannot into civilian life" all over again!
Also, JEEZUS the production values are INSANE. I've been going over clips in slow-mo, and it's like the animation studio mo-capped all the major cast members into 3D, then animated on top of the frame for extra accuracy! Normally, admitting to paying such close attention to torso movements would be perverse (hur, dur, Sandra's making speech, lets watch her boobies bounce / Tsunder-tails is drawing breath for inevitable berating, ooh, she's surprisingly busty for the arch-type), but the level of detail lavished on the characters and the attention paid to timing breaths drawn with the seiryuu's voice-over... Holyshit!
...And then we get back to Anna. Who doesn't appear to draw breathe except in preparation of speaking. Yeah, Anna is being animated like a STANDARD ANIME CHARACTER rather then the rest of the cast's hyper-detailed rendering of motion! What the ever living hell is going on with this girl?? With the animation studio?? Are they hinting at something, like the Robot!Anna epileptic tree being passed around? Damned if I know, but... mebe I'm just that paranoid. God damn Urobutcher for doing this to me! Damn PMMM, and damn Fate/Zero!!
yeah, but they're not animating breaths when they're not speaking. they time it with the seiyuu, but when there's no seiyuus, there's less breathing.
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yeah, but they're not animating breaths when they're not speaking. they time it with the seiyuu, but when there's no seiyuus, there's less breathing.
...aaaand debunked. I r sad nao. *corner of woe*
EDIT: Derp, I cannot read into thread. Anna-special-not-breathing already debunked. Excuse me while I go back to the corner of woe.
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You all are having these serious discussions, dissections, and examinations of things in VC, and it's interesting. Meanwhile, I'm trying to come up with something valid and relevant, and all I can come up with are questions about how Sandra got and maintained that hair. And, considering where I am, whether or not the methods involved could be weaponized.
You all are having these serious discussions, dissections, and examinations of things in VC, and it's interesting. Meanwhile, I'm trying to come up with something valid and relevant, and all I can come up with are questions about how Sandra got and maintained that hair. And, considering where I am, whether or not the methods involved could be weaponized.
massive amount of time and effort, good genes, and not cutting it if at all possible.
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Confused Party said: ↑
You all are having these serious discussions, dissections, and examinations of things in VC, and it's interesting. Meanwhile, I'm trying to come up with something valid and relevant, and all I can come up with are questions about how Sandra got and maintained that hair. And, considering where I am, whether or not the methods involved could be weaponized.
You mean all 14.8 litres of it?
RampagingRathian said: ↑
massive amount of time and effort, good genes, and not cutting it if at all possible.
Also quite possibly Valkyrie Core support if the claims of those things refining the stuff they are in contact with are true.
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And, considering where I am, whether or not the methods involved could be weaponized.
Nothing wrong with that. 14.8 liters is plenty for weaponization purposes!
EDIT: derp, you were talking about the care-process, not the hair itself!
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Nothing wrong with that. 14.8 liters is plenty for weaponization purposes!
EDIT: derp, you were talking about the care-process, not the hair itself!
Sandra merely refined her hair, Anna refined all of herself into a bread-devouring, Antagonist destroying machine!
(or is that a Antagonist-devouring, bread destroying machine?)
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Nothing wrong with that. 14.8 liters is plenty for weaponization purposes!
EDIT: derp, you were talking about the care-process, not the hair itself!
On the opposite side of the spectrum (Urobutcher/etc): *Cores/Anna is an Antagonist Plant(s), Series ends with Cores/Anna devouring Humanity. Kyoujirou Screams. Audience is traumatized.*
And that's why you don't watch NGE straight after this.
No, no, no, if it was the Urobutcher then the Cores would be people. Look at PMMM and Psychopass, the main plot twist is that (plot device) is people.
Anyway, the tournament arc is coming up so aside from obvious Coke-Zero victory who do you guys think will get the furthest? If Anna does participate (which she pretty much said she wouldn't ), then I expect an epic showdown between her and Shuri with the winner fighting Coke-Zero. Both are pretty far out of his league in everything, but this is the tournament arc, something's going to come along to let him win. Maybe the Sandra/Setsuna fight would be cool to watch, because tsun gonna tsun and ojou gonna ojou over who gets to hold hands with Coke-Zero.
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Anyway, the tournament arc is coming up so aside from obvious Coke-Zero victory who do you guys think will get the furthest?
he might not necessarily win. Ash from Pokemon isn't guaranteed to win his tournaments.
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then I expect an epic showdown between her and Shuri with the winner fighting Coke-Zero.
Shuri's a confirmed non-participant.
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he might not necessarily win. Ash from Pokemon isn't guaranteed to win his tournaments.
Shuri's a confirmed non-participant.
Fair point, and I completely missed Shuri not competing, my bad.
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Fair point, and I completely missed Shuri not competing, my bad.
eh, it's easy to miss.
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So it's going to be a tourny of scrub first years? This will be... amusing.
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So it's going to be a tourny of scrub first years? This will be... amusing.
How else will Coke-chan winning seem reasonable otherwise? Ditto for Anna not being in it. 'I have won the tournament.'
'But we only just started the first round!'
'I have defeated everyone due to being Anna.'
*Thumb is raised*
*Anna is declared President of the World forever*
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Do we have to start an Anna Sanchez Facts list? Her rep is rapidly approaching MEME levels... And if someone makes the obvious 'Z joke, I will shoot them.
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Soldier9142 said: ↑
Do we have to start an Anna Sanchez Facts list? Her rep is rapidly approaching MEME levels... And if someone makes the obvious 'Z joke, I will shoot them.
Through the Internet!
Which is funny, since given how all the fellow students have gone starry-eyed over her Shuri's the one who gets that treatment in-universe.
Well, funny... aneurysm moment? Sure, the other valk cadets are squealing over Shuri, but... What have we seen of her?
Koji and Setsu got sideline seats to the view of Shuri grinding her own flight so badly into the ground with super-heavy duty training that they all up and quit! Jeez... that's hardcore. Except Sandra. Seems the Oujou is tougher than she looks.
So what is Shuri's deal, anyway? I'm stumped, especially after she started deferring to Sandra all of a sudden.
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Well, funny... aneurysm moment? Sure, the other valk cadets are squealing over Shuri, but... What have we seen of her?
Koji and Setsu got sideline seats to the view of Shuri grinding her own flight so badly into the ground with super-heavy duty training that they all up and quit! Jeez... that's hardcore. Except Sandra. Seems the Oujou is tougher than she looks.
So what is Shuri's deal, anyway? I'm stumped, especially after she started deferring to Sandra all of a sudden.
Shuri's whipped, yo. her oujo-sama told her to back off and she did.
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Soldier9142 said: ↑
Do we have to start an Anna Sanchez Facts list?
Yes, yes we do.
1. Anna's thumb was outlawed in the UN.
2. Anna doesn't need to eat. However all things must be sampled in Alphabetical Order.
3. Anna's backstory is so classified not even the head of the UN intelligence department knows it.
4. Anna started her alphabetical list of foods with Bread because she already ate one of every type of Antagonist.
5. Anna could kill a type Zero without dealing non-negligible damage to it.
6. Anna could beat a Ace level opponent in a 300 frame with her thumb.
7. Anna always has more Dakka than you. Always.
8. Anna's Sneeze is rated at the force of a Strategic nuke.
8a. The UN is still trying to come up with the rating of her attacks if she uses her whole hand instead of a thumb in combat.
Umm running out of things to say
More seriously I kind of wonder how a fight between Anna and Shuri would go. Sure Anna beat Yukari, Rokusabe, and Setsuna easily but even an elite isn't close to an ace in terms of power and the other two are scrubs. Having the two aces really go at it would be interesting to see something close to the upper limits of non-300 Valk cores. If Druga isn't one of the 300 anyway. I doubt it is one though. For Roku to be relevant his Valk will probably be one of the three hundred which will cause him to eventually outperform Shuri and Anna as soon as a powerful enough enemy arrives. After all who heard of a action-harem show where the main character doesn't eventually become the most powerful? Especially when it is known that his Valk is intentionally holding some of its weapons from him.
To bad Anna has the whole "Humans shouldn't fight Humans" thing. Though seeing how she is a robot (maybe? ) I don't see how it applies to her. No awesome ace vs ace combat for now .
ArmageddonWhale said: ↑
Edit: Also, I know it's weird, but in your very last paragraph, the correct spelling is "affected" in that instance. Not "effected".
Thank you for the correction!
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Yes, yes we do.
1. Anna's thumb was outlawed in the UN.
1a. The UN is still trying to come up with the rating of her attacks if she uses her whole hand instead of a thumb in combat.
2. Anna doesn't need to eat. However all things must be sampled in Alphabetical Order.
3. Anna's backstory is so classified not even the head of the UN intelligence department knows it.
4. Anna started her alphabetical list of foods with Bread because she already ate one of every type of Antagonist.
5. Anna could kill a type Zero without dealing non-negligible damage to it.
6. Anna could beat a Ace level opponent in a 300 frame with her thumb.
7. Anna always has more Dakka than you. Always.
8. Anna's Sneeze is rated at the force of a Strategic nuke.
1. Anna Sanchez's thumb is considered a tactical weapon system by the UN Security Council.
2. *laughs long and hard*
3. UN Intelligence
4. *laughs harder*
5. wut.
6. Enough with the thumb already! *laughs some more*
7. So true.
8. All the better that she appears not to need to breathe.
8a. Shouldn't this be a sup-type of number 1?
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To bad Anna has the whole "Humans shouldn't fight Humans" thing. Though seeing how she is a robot (maybe? ) I don't see how it applies to her. No awesome ace vs ace combat for now .
Wait... Anna said "Humans shouldn't fight humans"? Or was it "Humans shouldn't fight other humans"? Because the latter implies... what. Shit, I don't know! Argh, the waiting for the next episode is killing me by inches!
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Saintsblood said: ↑
More seriously I kind of wonder how a fight between Anna and Shuri would go. Sure Anna beat Yukari, Rokusabe, and Setsuna easily but even an elite isn't close to an ace in terms of power and the other two are scrubs. Having the two aces really go at it would be interesting to see something close to the upper limits of non-300 Valk cores. If Druga isn't one of the 300 anyway. I doubt it is one though. For Roku to be relevant his Valk will probably be one of the three hundred which will cause him to eventually outperform Shuri and Anna as soon as a powerful enough enemy arrives. After all who heard of a action-harem show where the main character doesn't eventually become the most powerful? Especially when it is known that his Valk is intentionally holding some of its weapons from him.
To bad Anna has the whole "Humans shouldn't fight Humans" thing. Though seeing how she is a robot (maybe? ) I don't see how it applies to her. No awesome ace vs ace combat for now .
It would actually be pretty cool if that didn't happen. Valkyrie Core has already shown a few rather interesting divergences from the standard formula, such as Kojirou's crossdressing tendencies and the fact that Anna completely shut down his last-minute powerup, which in just about any other shounen I can think of would net him a win.
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Saintsblood said: ↑
Yes, yes we do.
1. Anna's thumb was outlawed in the UN.
1a. The UN is still trying to come up with the rating of her attacks if she uses her whole hand instead of a thumb in combat.
2. Anna doesn't need to eat. However all things must be sampled in Alphabetical Order.
3. Anna's backstory is so classified not even the head of the UN intelligence department knows it.
4. Anna started her alphabetical list of foods with Bread because she already ate one of every type of Antagonist.
5. Anna could kill a type Zero without dealing non-negligible damage to it.
6. Anna could beat a Ace level opponent in a 300 frame with her thumb.
7. Anna always has more Dakka than you. Always.
8. Anna's Sneeze is rated at the force of a Strategic nuke.
Umm running out of things to say
More seriously I kind of wonder how a fight between Anna and Shuri would go. Sure Anna beat Yukari, Rokusabe, and Setsuna easily but even an elite isn't close to an ace in terms of power and the other two are scrubs. Having the two aces really go at it would be interesting to see something close to the upper limits of non-300 Valk cores. If Druga isn't one of the 300 anyway. I doubt it is one though. For Roku to be relevant his Valk will probably be one of the three hundred which will cause him to eventually outperform Shuri and Anna as soon as a powerful enough enemy arrives. After all who heard of a action-harem show where the main character doesn't eventually become the most powerful? Especially when it is known that his Valk is intentionally holding some of its weapons from him.
To bad Anna has the whole "Humans shouldn't fight Humans" thing. Though seeing how she is a robot (maybe? ) I don't see how it applies to her. No awesome ace vs ace combat for now .
Thank you for the correction!
All this post has done is hype me up for the always necessary dakka contest.
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1. Anna Sanchez's thumb is considered a tactical weapon system by the UN Security Council.
2. *laughs long and hard*
3. UN Intelligence
4. *laughs harder*
5. wut.
6. Enough with the thumb already! *laughs some more*
7. So true.
8. All the better that she appears not to need to breathe.
8a. Shouldn't this be a sup-type of number 1?
Wait... Anna said "Humans shouldn't fight humans"? Or was it "Humans shouldn't fight other humans"? Because the latter implies... what. Shit, I don't know! Argh, the waiting for the next episode is killing me by inches!
9.Type Zeroes create special dead zones to prevent Anna from destroying everything.
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It would actually be pretty cool if that didn't happen. Valkyrie Core has already shown a few rather interesting divergences from the standard formula, such as Kojirou's crossdressing tendencies and the fact that Anna completely shut down his last-minute powerup, which in just about any other shounen I can think of would net him a win.
Yeah, this show definitely varies from the common course of most harem/shounen animes (looks at the Valkyrie armor).
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It would actually be pretty cool if that didn't happen. Valkyrie Core has already shown a few rather interesting divergences from the standard formula, such as Kojirou's crossdressing tendencies and the fact that Anna completely shut down his last-minute powerup, which in just about any other shounen I can think of would net him a win.
he did it once, under duress. does that count as a "tendency"?
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
Yeah, this show definitely varies from the common course of most harem/shounen animes (looks at the Valkyrie armor).
10. How many Valkyries does it take to tsu-block a Tsundere Twin-Tails? One Anna Sanchez.
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he did it once, under duress. does that count as a "tendency"?
He did it at all.
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He did it at all.
at tsundere-point. I'd do a lot of things if the crazy girl told me to, too.
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he did it once, under duress. does that count as a "tendency"?
Dragonthulhu said: ↑
He did it at all.
Point. I have never seen an anime action/harem protag crossdress. At all. Much less doing it as well as Koji did!
No, that's right. I forgot about Kampfer.
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Soldier9142 said: ↑
3. UN Intelligence
Of course. I can't seem to write a post without making a mistake it seems . Thanks for the correction!
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5. wut.
I don't even know how she does it. I'd ask Anna but I am afraid of the answer.
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8a. Shouldn't this be a sup-type of number 1?
Fair enough, edited
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It would actually be pretty cool if that didn't happen. Valkyrie Core has already shown a few rather interesting divergences from the standard formula, such as Kojirou's crossdressing tendencies and the fact that Anna completely shut down his last-minute powerup, which in just about any other shounen I can think of would net him a win.
That would be awesome, and we can hope, but there hasn't been enough to make me expect it to defy conventions to that extent.
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No, that's right. I forgot about Kampfer.
I have never watched this "Kampfer" you speak of, but it sounds...disappointing. Like Raditz. Or Yamcha.
No, but seriously, I've only heard about it. I have to admit, some people are rather...passionate about the subject.
Also, I find it...well, actually, it's not that surprising that people keep talking about this. After all, we're still talking about the crossdressing Cloud Strife incident.
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I have never watched this "Kampfer" you speak of, but it sounds...disappointing. Like Raditz. Or Yamcha.
No, but seriously, I've only heard about it. I have to admit, some people are rather...passionate about the subject.
Also, I find it...well, actually, it's not that surprising that people keep talking about this. After all, we're still talking about the crossdressing Cloud Strife incident.
It is.
Also, Hora Hora~
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Also, Hora Hora~
Gosh darn it, queencelebi. I forever blame you for this.
Also, something I wanted to say before; the things that aren't called impeller fields are called higgs. Higgs-Bosons and/or the Higgs-field in real life only give electrons mass. Of course, that's assuming there was any thought put into the naming of their special particles, but it's something to keep in mind when writing up theories as to what they (Valkyries) could do.
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Wait... Anna said "Humans shouldn't fight humans"? Or was it "Humans shouldn't fight other humans"? Because the latter implies... what. Shit, I don't know! Argh, the waiting for the next episode is killing me by inches!
Hell, can someone who actually knows Japanese go back and watch that episode again? To check on what she really said.
Because depending on which one is right....
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Wait... Anna said "Humans shouldn't fight humans"? Or was it "Humans shouldn't fight other humans"? Because the latter implies... what.
not a lot, really. except maybe it's okay for humans to fight themselves?
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not a lot, really. except maybe it's okay for humans to fight themselves?
Maybe that guy is crazy and thought that it might help prove or disprove Anna's not human theories.
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He's extrapolating and looking too far into things when either phrase is usable in the situations shown and implies the same thing. Also, it's not nice to call people crazy.
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
Maybe that guy is crazy and thought that it might help prove or disprove Anna's not human theories.
Yes. >_<
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Edit: You know what, just forget it. I'll come up with something for this post to say later. I can't properly articulate anything I want to say right now.
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soooooo, Anna not a robot? OR an emissary of the nanoswarm? OR... wait... Anna too OP, Anna is not Anna
ANNA IS VALKYRIE!
ok probably not...
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SillyAsCanBe said: ↑
soooooo, Anna not a robot? OR an emissary of the nanoswarm? OR... wait... Anna too OP, Anna is not Anna
ANNA IS VALKYRIE!
ok probably not...
For an even more unlikely theory, Anna is a defector Type Zero. Actually, considering we still don't know what Type Zeroes look like... ... ... NAAHHH.
For an even more unlikely theory, Anna is a defector Type Zero. Actually, considering we still don't know what Type Zeroes look like... ... ... NAAHHH.
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"Truly, a work of genius." - Albart Einztein, 1958
"Best theory, 2016, 10/10, /thread." -Ani D. Iot, Right Here, Right Now
But I suppose it could work. We don't really know what the Type-Zeros are like.
I'll be disappointed if that is correct, though. It feels like fan-pandering. To the extreme..
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[Dons tinfoil hat]
Perhaps Anna being a Rei-clone is more on-the-nose than we think? Could be she's an engineered supersoldier with a falsified history.
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Perhaps Anna being a Rei-clone is more on-the-nose than we think? Could be she's an engineered supersoldier with a falsified history.
And another fanon has appeared. Again, since half of the thread seems to hate the idea of Anna not being human, it probably won't be looked into, but if it is true, this show could get a lot more serious.
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Maybe Anna's really this generation's Santa after she put in all three of the codes into the Merry Gear and killed the three ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.
Moving on from that; to clarify, I'm not against the idea of Anna being non-human, just so long as it makes sense, and that the conflict of that revelation isn't solved stupidly easily. For instance, I'm actually interested in the idea of her being an antagonist infiltrator, so long as it doesn't end up with the show solving the problem with the same method that every harem show does, and if she is a defected Type-Zero, then there had better be a darn good explanation as to why she decided to defect, instead of a cop-out like "she hit her head and lost her memory".
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ArmageddonWhale said: ↑
instead of a cop-out like "she hit her head and lost her memory".
Dear lord, I hope that's not it. I would RAEG so hard, geeks three dimensions to the left of reality would hear it!
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ArmageddonWhale said: ↑
and if she is a defected Type-Zero, then there had better be a darn good explanation as to why she decided to defect, instead of a cop-out like "she hit her head and lost her memory".
While she did try to eat an Antagonist in the simulation.
At the very least simulated antagonists didn't seem to fit her taste.
Maybe she didn't decide to defect but had to flee when the rest of them found out she thought real antagonists taste good? I mean it feels weird for her to try eating an Antagonist in a simulation if she didn't try to eat one before?
After which she joined the humans for a steady supply of dead Antagonists, only to end up in a situation where she only fights simulated antagonists .
...
Sorry... that joke was in poor taste
...
and so was that one.
More seriously though I think the thing she did with devouring an Antagonist then spitting it out probably means that she isn't an Antagonist. I doubt the show would seriously convey cannibalism.
So Robot!Anna , is the only non-human theory I currently seriously think is possible.
Though it might just be Super soldier Anna or child soldier Anna with her being human. Rather those two are most likely. It might be a combination of both because I doubt that Anna could have more hours than an instructor (As Yukari claimed when Roku and Anna first met) without having started as a child, and I doubt a child that wasn't modified into an experienced super soldier would survive battling Antagonists for long
Wait, she looks old for her age and isn't one of the instructors like 90 years old despite looking 30? Maybe it is a high class Valk thing, and she is actually far older than she looks (making her actually look younger than she is instead of older, what a twist )and is just there for *classified reasons*, not posing being an instructor because lol that scene where she tried to give advice to Yukari and Setsuna was pretty awkward. Not quite instructor material . That would give a pretty good twist without having a horrid backstory.
Think this is my new pet theory.
edit: She does seem to be absent quite a lot compared to the rest of the main cast, so she might be busy with the real reason she is here instead of hanging out with her "classmates". Though I have to wonder why she seemed purposely placed in Roku's flight. Yukari is the only one who knows anything about Anna and asked her to protect Roku. Maybe because she did truly just want the strongest Valk among first years to protect Roku. However maybe it has something to do with Anna's mission instead and Yukari was the "in" to Roku's flight?
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Saintsblood said: ↑
Maybe she didn't decide to defect but had to flee when the rest of them found out she thought real antagonists taste good? I mean it feels weird for her to try eating an Antagonist in a simulation if she didn't try to eat one before?
That would legitimately be one of the greatest things ever.
You were expecting a dramatic reason for her defecting? TOO BAD. You just get this.
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That seems out there. It's not like this is a NGE story (thank god).
That said, I've heard some interesting gossip about the VA's for the show. No idea if they're legit or not.
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*several posts of legitimate discussion on the idea that Anna might be a Type Zero and how that would affect the story*
I was joking. Or rather, I was joking. Do we seriously think this is a real possibility?
The logic is sound enough that it can't be dismissed out of hand. Mostly because of a distinct lack of a thorough backstory for Breadchan.
Mind you, by a similar process one can conclude that Koujirou and Yukari are Antagonist infiltrators that were dropped into humanity's lab at 'birth' and have since been waiting for a chance to get into the enemy's command circuits...
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Danger said: ↑
The logic is sound enough that it can't be dismissed out of hand. Mostly because of a distinct lack of a thorough backstory for Breadchan.
Mind you, by a similar process one can conclude that Koujirou and Yukari are Antagonist infiltrators that were dropped into humanity's lab at 'birth' and have since been waiting for a chance to get into the enemy's command circuits...
Has the reverse ever happened as far as we know? Have humans been able to successfully infiltrate Antagonist ranks? Because this could be an interesting sideplot.
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
Has the reverse ever happened as far as we know? Have humans been able to successfully infiltrate Antagonist ranks? Because this could be an interesting sideplot.
*antagonist.jpg*
...yyyyeeah I doubt it.
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
Has the reverse ever happened as far as we know? Have humans been able to successfully infiltrate Antagonist ranks? Because this could be an interesting sideplot.
RampagingRathian said: ↑
*antagonist.jpg*
...yyyyeeah I doubt it.
Would kinda only work in a comedy of some sort, wouldn't it?
Human Infiltrator (Valkyrie with coloured cardboard and other such things glued to the frame): I am obviously an Antagonist and I would like to enter your base. I am in no way, shape or form a human.
Antagonist-chan: C'mon in, Obviously-An-Antagonist! There're waffles if you want some in the third building on your right.
but does that mean that the Antagonists can have a beach episode?̵̶̤̫͍͍̟͓̺̣̳͉̮ͨ̋̋̃ͬ̂̅ͦ̓̌̒ͮ͛͟͟
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Irontalons said: ↑
but does that mean that the Antagonists can have a beach episode?̵̶̤̫͍͍̟͓̺̣̳͉̮ͨ̋̋̃ͬ̂̅ͦ̓̌̒ͮ͛͟͟
...
Glancing back at *antagonist.jpg* has me in the 'no' camp for this episode idea.
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... ... ... ...Sooooooooo, who likes which ships? I mean, I don't have much of an opinion bout em buuuuut...
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Koji X Anna, Sandra X Shuri, Setsu X Kosenjobi, Yukari X Forever Alone.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
Koji X Anna, Sandra X Shuri, Setsu X Kosenjobi, Yukari X Forever Alone.
Senpai is in DISPAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIR!
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
Koji X Anna, Sandra X Shuri, Setsu X Kosenjobi, Yukari X Forever Alone.
Alright, back to discuss more about our favorite Anime!
First off, the SHIPPING TRAIN.
It's quite obvious that'll be Sandra X Everyone, with sub parings of Koji x Tsun and Koji x Crossdressing. Sandra is the actual HAREM MC, while Koji is just the CHOSEN ONE.
Second off, more crazy physics ideas
This whole Impellar thing reminds me of another Anime... Date a Live, where spirit girls (and guys...?) have these 'areas' of control and have crazy powers and wreck everything near em. Course they seem to be limited to themes, but one of em has crazy time powers.
IIRC from Steins;Gate if we could move a Wormhole FTL we could travel back in time, or was it that we can use Wormholes as like... bookmarks in time? Only from Now -> Forward. Thus if this 'teleporting' thing we saw em do in Tag is FTL, if they can use their fields with HIGGS for extra CRAZY PHYSICS then... couldn't they 'RETURN TO THE PAST' like in Code Lyoko?
TLDR use time travel to win all the things forever.
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Okay, not gonna quote that cause im on my phone.
Firstly, it's "impeller". It makes me cringe every time somone misspells it.
Second, stiens gate is not what I would call an accurate scientific source. If you microwave your cellphone, you get a dead cellphone, not a text from 12 minutes in the future.
If they somehow do manage timetravel, it will almost certainly be a) unintentional and b) a massive clusterfuck.
Like "oh no that T0 sent us back to dinosaur times what are we gonna doooooo?" and then the rest of the season is them trying to find a way to travel back to the future other than the normal way, I.E. waiting.
Maybe that's where the obligatory beach episode will be. There were a lot of beaches in dinosaur times, iirc.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
Okay, not gonna quote that cause im on my phone.
Firstly, it's "impeller". It makes me cringe every time somone misspells it.
Second, stiens gate is not what I would call an accurate scientific source. If you microwave your cellphone, you get a dead cellphone, not a text from 12 minutes in the future.
If they somehow do manage timetravel, it will almost certainly be a) unintentional and b) a massive clusterfuck.
Like "oh no that T0 sent us back to dinosaur times what are we gonna doooooo?" and then the rest of the season is them trying to find a way to travel back to the future other than the normal way, I.E. waiting.
Maybe that's where the obligatory beach episode will be. There were a lot of beaches in dinosaur times, iirc.
Steins;Gate actually just had the Cellphone as a remote control device attached to the microwave, they didn't microwave the cell phone.
To my understanding of something I read two years ago, they sent the text messages compressed via a Ker Black Hole of CERN's via the direct land line that was under the shop that only worked because of the exact electromagnetic waves coming off the old TVs that was in the shop below them.
Something like that.
But there's like 10+ 'vaguely plausable' ways of time travel... of course half of them involve some kind of Black Hole and the other half of them involve FTL and/or Wormholes.
As this seems to be kinda sciencey anime, they might even bring this up! Steins;Gate's Time Travel stuff was fairly popular, wouldn't surprise me to see a reference to it at least.
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Eh, still think if they timetravel it'll be unintentional. And/or not where they were aiming for.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
Eh, still think if they timetravel it'll be unintentional. And/or not where they were aiming for.
For maximum feels and/or comedy sure.
Either a character's backstory, or IN THE FUTURE, WHERE EVERYONE WEARS SWIMSUITS and or PLUG SUITS. And thus the fanservice episode was dealt with.
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What if the Valk cores are Future!Earth tech sent back in time to close the time loop that SAVES HUMANITY from the ANTAGONISTS?
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what if the Antagonists are the Guardians of Spacetime and were sent to pre-emptively wipe out humanity when we Meddled In Things Man Was Not Meant To Know
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
what if the Antagonists are the Guardians of Spacetime and were sent to pre-emptively wipe out humanity when we Meddled In Things Man Was Not Meant To Know
So... they're the anti-spirals? Or perhaps the heh, 'Space Cuttlefish' or the 'anti-humans-making-cuthulu-group'?
Obviously the solution is to keep going and see what happens anyway!
Mad Science doesn't stop and ask 'What's the worst that can happen'
Which is now apparently causing Pacific Rim as Reality / Aliens / Other Dimensional Beings tries to stop you from doing things. WELL TOO BAD, OUR DRILLS WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS! MAD SCIENCE TRAIN HAS NO BREAKS.
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Beaches can be claimed with a flag so I am fully on board with this idea.
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Irontalons said: ↑
Beaches can be claimed with a flag so I am fully on board withthis idea.
So this thread went from Type-Zeroes to beaches to Anna to NGE to evil superheroes and now we are talking about claiming Antagonist land with flags. I like where this conversation is going.
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
So this thread went from Type-Zeroes to beaches to Anna to NGE to evil superheroes and now we are talking about claiming Antagonist land with flags. I like where this conversation is going.
How else are we gonna get a beach episode if we cannot claim their beaches as neutral ground on which to party?
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I love this thread.
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Irontalons said: ↑
How else are we gonna get a beach episode if we cannot claim their beaches as neutral ground on which to party?
So a dual-beach episode where Antagonists and humans have a cease-fire for fanservice? I can see that happening...somehow.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
Koji X Anna, Sandra X Shuri, Setsu X Kosenjobi, Yukari X Forever Alone.
Man, Koujirou isn't even an interesting character.
I can't understand why you'd want Anna with him.
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Oh god, they're shipping again.
Well I'm out.
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ArmageddonWhale said: ↑
Man, Koujirou isn't even an interesting character.
I can't understand why you'd want Anna with him.
Because honestly, I see no better options.
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ArmageddonWhale said: ↑
Man, Koujirou isn't even an interesting character.
I can't understand why you'd want Anna with him.
Only male on the show.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
Because honestly, I see no better options.
If that's your only reason, then why are you shipping her with anybody in the first place?
Danger said: ↑
Only male on the show.
As I am sure that many people would tell you, that does not necessarily mean anything.
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If that's your only reason, then why are you shipping her with anybody in the first place?
because I feel like it? do I need another reason?
besides, Kojirou's a fairly nice guy, and seems like he could fit well together with Anna. By "no better options" I mean he's the second best option, and the (arguable) best is already taken.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
Because honestly, I see no better options.
Well given there's like what, 2 males in the whole show... It's pure Yuri bait, unless we see guys show up when they start interacting with the real military.
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RoleplayingNerd said: ↑
Well given there's like what, 2 males in the whole show... It's pure Yuri bait, unless we see guys show up when they start interacting with the real military.
yeah, I'm not even looking at gender in the equation at this point.
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because I feel like it? do I need another reason?
...No, not really. Sorry, I fell into the trap of not bothering to think that you might consider Koujirou to actually be a half-decent character. But to be fair...
RampagingRathian said: ↑
besides, Kojirou's a fairly nice guy, and seems like he could fit well together with Anna.
Yeah, he's a "nice guy". And that's all he's got going for him. He's not any different from any other Harem protagonist. He's boring. He has no convictions, we never get an idea of what makes him different from other people, he's a blank slate.
I actually can't understand why you think he'd be even the second best choice.
Frankly, Yukari would work better for Anna. She's experienced loss, has more to her character than "older sister who is obsessed with keeping her brother safe", and is far more mature than him. She also knows when to keep her nose out of something, such as when Anna shows up after disappearing, while the protagonist shows a complete lack of regard for the boundaries of Anna when he begs to know what she was doing.
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Frankly, Yukari would work better for Anna. She's experienced loss, has more to her character than "older sister who is obsessed with keeping her brother safe", and is far more mature than him. She also knows when to keep her nose out of something, such as when Anna shows up after disappearing, while the protagonist shows a complete lack of regard for the boundaries of Anna when he begs to know what she was doing.
Well frankly, you just sold me on this ship
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I honestly can't see Yukari with anyone. just doesn't seem right.
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RampagingRathian said: ↑
I honestly can't see Yukari with anyone. just doesn't seem right.
TBF everyone in this show will be affected by PTSD at some point so Yukari being with someone doesn't really come across as impossible to me.
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TBF everyone in this show will be affected by PTSD at some point so Yukari being with someone doesn't really come across as impossible to me.
it's not really her PTSD or anything, it's just her... personality? she doesn't seem to mesh with anyone.
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Wasn't she called rather unapproachable in the show? I mean, Yukari has this whole 'I'm your elder, wiser than you and we both know it' thing going on without it getting obnoxious but that doesn't exactly make it easy for her to get involved with anyone.
At least, not within the core flight. Maybe she gets an alternate love interest later?
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Danger said: ↑
At least, not within the core flight. Maybe she gets an alternate love interest later?
Yeah, I could maybe see that happening.
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So, it occurs to me, we have a general idea of how all the main cast's weapons work... except for just about everything Anna has. any speculation on the BFGs she's got?
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I was thinking some kind of Particle beam, they don't seem to be lasers and solid shot seems to be more small scale.
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Irontalons said: ↑
I was thinking some kind of Particle beam, they don't seem to be lasers and solid shot seems to be more small scale,
Your post ends in a comma, did you intend to put more words in later? Seems incomplete the way it is now.
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Dancing Exile said: ↑
Your post ends in a comma, did you intend to put more words in later? Seems incomplete the way it is now.
I was planning to then an idea for a beach episode hit me and I had to run off and fix that.
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Hmm, Anna's weapons seem pretty weird.
Well, we've seen Anna trying to eat a simulated Antagonist. Maybe she ate Antagonists and integrated their weapons into her suit, and that's why it has all these crazy things?
Heck, that might explain her weird behavior, too, the Antagonist chemistry doing weird things to her brain.
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captgreen said: ↑
Hmm, Anna's weapons seem pretty weird.
Well, we've seen Anna trying to eat a simulated Antagonist. Maybe she ate Antagonists and integrated their weapons into her suit, and that's why it has all these crazy things?
Heck, that might explain her weird behavior, too, the Antagonist chemistry doing weird things to her brain.
That could explain how distant she is to humans, but it wouldn't explain why because wouldn't antagonists want humans to fight against each other? Also, because of the OP weapons, could she take down (and presumably eat) a Type-Zero?
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Tornadic Sorcerer said: ↑
That could explain how distant she is to humans, but it wouldn't explain why because wouldn't antagonists want humans to fight against each other? Also, because of the OP weapons, could she take down (and presumably eat) a Type-Zero?
the Antagonist's desires don't come into it. if you were to snort a maneating beast made of cocaine, you would get high on cocaine, not a sudden desire to eat people.
okay, bad metaphor, but the point is that eating antagonists might cause funny-weird things to happen to her brain chemistry, but she's not gonna turn into some kind of Antagonist puppet. probably.
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...Actually, what do you think Antagonists would taste like? Maybe instead of any tactical reasoning, Anna just thinks Antagonists are tasty.
Those are probably the same thing for her. Why bother killing it when you can just eat it?
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...Actually, what do you think Antagonists would taste like? Maybe instead of any tactical reasoning, Anna just thinks Antagonists are tasty.
Her first type-zero kill will probably be because something happened and the cafeterias are closed down.
Actually given the level of respect the instructors give her maybe she's already killed eaten a type-zero.
Heck if it's written type-0 it comes first alphabetically. Was her first kill meal a type-zero?
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captgreen said: ↑
Her first type-zero kill will probably be because something happened and the cafeterias are closed down.
Actually given the level of respect the instructors give her maybe she's already killed eaten a type-zero.
Heck if it's written type-0 it comes first alphabetically. Was her first kill meal a type-zero?
... I know IV has an interesting relationship with sanity, but I think you guys have really gone off the reservation. I mean, wasn't the advice for standard valks meeting a Type 0 'run like fuck?' How the hell do you think even 1 Valkyrie, no matter how amazing has a chance against one alone?
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Danger said: ↑
... I know IV has an interesting relationship with sanity, but I think you guys have really gone off the reservation. I mean, wasn't the advice for standard valks meeting a Type 0 'run like fuck?' How the hell do you think even 1 Valkyrie, no matter how amazing has a chance against one alone?
ye shall eat yer words when bread-chan solo's Mum-ra or whatever-it's-called, jusst you wait...
or maybe no, I'm a bit drumk. who noes what'll happen?
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Danger said: ↑
... I know IV has an interesting relationship with sanity, but I think you guys have really gone off the reservation. I mean, wasn't the advice for standard valks meeting a Type 0 'run like fuck?' How the hell do you think even 1 Valkyrie, no matter how amazing has a chance against one alone?
You're underestimating Bread-chan's hunger.
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Irontalons
Meh I say! If anyone has eaten a Type it is gonna be Sandra, her hair is hiding things man is not meant to know.
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Dancing Exile
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You're underestimating Bread-chan's hunger.
Because some people disbelieve Anna's Power:
A is for Antagonist, that's good enough for me,
A is for Antagonist, that's good enough for me,
A is for Antagonist, that's good enough for me,
Oh, Antagonist, Antagonist starts with A.
- Anna the Antagonist Monster.
"...This is the equivalent of sending kid Bruce Wayne a get well soon card."
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I just love a shounen style anime where the conventional forces aren't complete pushovers.
How awesome was that historical simulation?
Did you see the UN forces storm the beaches with those amphibious carriers and tanks? All those jets flying around and those swarms of missiles? That was a bit ridiculous tbh, how did they manage to build that many nukes? It almost literally blotted out the sun with that many missiles. The briefing mentioned hundreds of thousands. I thought Japan had a taboo against nukes?
Though the tanks moved a bit too mechanically, unthinking. Didn't respond at all to the lead elements being cut down in droves. That should have caused some panic among the crews. Can't have everything in an anime I suppose.
I also loved how that instructor showed a simulation where the better outcome was to just support the conventional forces. Take out the point defense revealed by the decoys and let the 2nd wave of real nukes through. Pretty epic when she told them to remember they had an army at their backs.
Really hope that's some foreshadowing for the future.
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Those weren't nukes. Those were High Yield Weaponry.
Which are nukes in all but names, but not actually nukes.
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Though the tanks moved a bit too mechanically, unthinking. Didn't respond at all to the lead elements being cut down in droves. That should have caused some panic among the crews. Can't have everything in an anime I suppose.
That'd be becaus ethey're drones.
or a least a larg majority
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Random thought: is Anna the Antagonist's Lovecraftian horror?
Random thought: is Anna the Antagonist's Lovecraftian horror?
Iä! Iä! Breadchan fhtagn!
We, the viewers, consider her a cosmic horror.
She does not eat any of us.
She does eat the antagonists.
Therefore, yes, they do consider her a cosmic horror.
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Emaydeeman said: ↑
Though the tanks moved a bit too mechanically, unthinking. Didn't respond at all to the lead elements being cut down in droves. That should have caused some panic among the crews. Can't have everything in an anime I suppose.
Drones, duh! No amount of personnel would be enough for such losses.
EDIT: ninjas, ninjas everywhere...
Idealism is a dangerous road to travel down. It drains you of niavete right quick, weeds out the casual and the foolish. Only the determined walk this path to the end.
I left it out because the dates from the composing thread didn't matchup well to what the actual in verse post dates should be, and making up dates and times for every single one of them is far more work than I was willing to do.
So for the next time we do a battle simulation could we pick and i'm just saying here battle for great Briton hard/impossible mode the reason for this is to see if we and our flight can handle the difficulty and to see if we can turn Briton as a staging ground for the invasion of Europe via Normandy but all in all I want to see how well our flight can take the stressed of losing a teammate in hard mode and to see where they can improve and to give them a little humility and temper them this is just a suggestion i would like to have people here criticize and poke holes in this course of action and to see if this is alright. (pls be gentle)
@LostDeviljho, while I appreciate the omake thread pages, that shit takes forever to scroll past. Could you please collect them all in one post and put them into spoiler tags?
@LostDeviljho, while I appreciate the omake thread pages, that shit takes forever to scroll past. Could you please collect them all in one post and put them into spoiler tags?
In an unrelated request, can I get everyone who posts and omake or long text segment to not put them inside a spoiler/quote box? Like, quote boxes and stuff within the reply is fine, but please not the entire segment inside a spoiler/quote box.
Reading text in that fashion actually hurts my eyes. I had several false starts reading the Insufficient Velocity posts before just quoting them to read them inside the reply box.
I apologize for that, but I'm not aware of any better way to format them, and leaving the whole thing out just really isn't an option, as each entry here is roughly equivalent to four pages of discussion in the rp thread.
