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Thesarum
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Dialing back the wacky this week for a dose of TRAUMA.
(Because, let's be honest, a blond twintailed zombie queen hardly qualifies as wacky for this show)
Yeah, this is the charitable take. But also probably a fair one. The distance between them right now, physically and emotionally, is probably as big as it can get. They're working on the physical side of things, but Shizuru has a bunch of growing up to do before they can fix the other part. |
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Yuvelir
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Shizuru's attitude was a bit of a surprise, specially her mean words toward Touka, but who surprised me most was Nadeshiko. In wanting to fulfill that "group mom" role that first time Shizuru was too cold toward Pochi her degree of hostility became a tad unreasonable, and her later "we're not talking until you calm down, little miss" attitude was proof that she has neither the maturity nor the awareness to pull it off.
It's the second time for me. Although for that game it was actually just a bunch of oversized insects that looked like zombies. |
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NeverConvex
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I did not expect the train anime to be this good. The chemistry between the core cast is equal parts hilarious and endearing.
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pi8you
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[O Maidens in Your 7G Season intensifies]
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MartinWisse
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Mervyn Griffith-Jones warned us but we wouldn't listen. He said you don't want your servants or wife to read this but we laughed.
And now we have anime girls reciting Lady's Chatterly's Lover to explode zombies through sheer pornographic excitement. |
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Dop.L
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Dang, you beat me to the Mervyn Griffith-Jones reference! I mean, really the trial of Penguin Books under the Obscene Publications Act for publishing Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960 was a major landmark in British culture. |
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Yuvelir
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After Wonder Egg Priority I thought I never wanted to hear about that topic. I thought wrong. |
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Thesarum
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The decapitation pop! The monotone voice that distorts slightly at the point of explosion! The sound design for this episode was perfection.
As was the headline moment of the episode of course, Akira reciting lewd literature from memory. Greatly enjoying Steve's reviews too. Feel free to go full English Major mode any time Steve. I love some overthinking of shows this stupid/smart. |
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Hellsoldier
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On episode 4, after seeing a floating stomach in the sky, I had decided: This is weirder and wilder than FLCL. And that is quite something. Also, Rolling Girls was mentioned at some point. Loved that anime, but... this is wilder.
This is quite simply one of the craziest anime rides I've had thus far. Akira reading Marquis de Sade nailed it for me. |
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dm
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Is kind of amazing that the guy in the boat who gave them the map survived all this. The map does still seem to work, though.
Early in the episode we got the Wandering Rocks from The Odyssey, maybe? We had Lotus Eaters in the Mushroom People, and I’m wondering if this Alice in Newtons Land might also be a little bit of Odysseus’ journey to the underworld, with all it’s dark memories revealed and dark portents prophesied (in the form of “evil queen Yoka”). I have a feeling this series is going to repay multiple viewings by the time it is over. |
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egozi14
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Part of me honstly assumed that the review of this ep will include one of these "If you have suicide thoughts call this number" or "suicide is wrong" kind of vibes and warnings,
Overall I will rank the series for its crativity and craziness, but as for a story I can't give it much of a score since the 7G accident removed some numbers in my keyboard so xP. |
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MemoBookworm
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As the resident Astrophysicist here I gotta way in. This:
Is a fairly accurate description of our current hypothesis about the end of the universe but it is NOT actually the Big Rip referenced in the show. What Steve describes is the Heat death of the universe (in similar terms to Big Rip this can also be called Big Chill or Big Freeze), and requires that w exactly equals -1, so the universe is flat. It basically means what is stated: the universe expands to the point that even particles are too distant from one another to affect each other. In this case expansion remains constant: it neither decreases nor increases. The Big Rip referenced in the show however is very different. In this case w < −1, and the universe is curved meaning that expansion is accelerating. At the moment the expansion of the universe is very weak - it's only observable on massive scales, between galaxies. In the Big Rip scenario however, expansion eventually gets strong enough that galaxies are torn apart, then solar systems then planets. Then atoms. Then particles. Basically everything explodes. Pretty scary! You can see how this raises the stakes of the show - rather than distances continuing to get greater and greater at a constant rate eventually everything is going to tear itself apart! I'm extremely cautious of shows that get into astrophysics tbh. I know so much about it that when shows start trying to sound smart about it I know exactly how stupid they sound unfortunately. So far this show is doing alright by being vague and not trying to theorise. Hope it stays that way! |
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Thesarum
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It's also a link back to that instigating argument between Yoka and Shizuru. Shizuru doesn't really want to consider the possibility of change. She desperately wants her little corner of "normal" in Agano to remain static. The trip to find Yoka no doubt started as much an attempt to put things back to how they should be as anything else such as to rescue or apologise. Pontaro manages to be insane enough to pass right through the "mad villain with unbelievable paper thin motivation" trope who is just evil for it's own sake and emerge out the other side into a somehow believable mad villain with paper thin motivation who does evil things with seemingly little reason. It's quite a trick. The custard eating thing was super disturbing too. Will the bodyguard betray Pontaro for Yoka's sake do we think? |
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Netero
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The Lathe of Heaven? In that case, we know that Yoka will get by with a little help from her friends
I don't think I shall want to eat chawanmushi for a while, though. |
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