Written by: Kabitzin at Sea Slugs! Anime BlogSummary: Since the Type 94 Shiranui isn’t ready yet, Yui has Yuuya practice on a Fubuki Type 97 TSF.  However, Yuuya can’t deal with how sensitive the Fubuki is, and doesn’t really bother reading up on the quirks of the model.  With his lousy attitude and not-as-great-as-he-thinks skill level, Yuuya does terribly during a BETA [...]
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iTunes | Direct Download | RSS UN Operations Report #170 I can't help but feel this project was intentionally sunk. Technically, the TSF testing is proceeding according to plan. Spending has not outstripped the base's budget, there are no resource concerns and all test-results are recorded and analyzed according to proper procedure in a timely fashion. Everything should be [...]
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“And their cartoons are also violent and pornographic! All those damn tentacles!” It would be silly of me to slam this episode of Muv-Luv too hard for its hilarious depiction of racism. Not because it’s good, mind, but because it’s not actually worse than any other anime that tackles racism. Sure, a lot of them [...]
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Hey, remember The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi? The story in that show sucked, but goddamn was it a well told story. It didn’t matter that almost half the series was crap because of the ludicrous amount of narrative gimmicks they used more than made up for it. From the very first seconds into the show [...]
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BETAs, gotta kill catch ‘em all! Ah, I watched this episode right after I did my entrance exam. It feels SO GOOD to watch anime after exam. There’s a sense of accomplishment when I did that. Anyhow, last time Yuuya and Yui didn’t get along well. I wonder if their relationship improved this week? What [...]
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BETAs, gotta kill catch ‘em all! Ah, I watched this episode right after I did my entrance exam. It feels SO GOOD to watch anime after exam. There’s a sense of accomplishment when I did that. Anyhow, last time Yuuya and Yui didn’t get along well. I wonder if their relationship improved this week? What [...]
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I didn’t expect a finale in the middle of a season … So what’s next for AKB0048? I had expected a two-season series but was wondering (when I think about this show at all) what they’d do to top the return to Lancastar. When they return I guess they’ll concentrate less on the new girls [...]
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Goddamn it. Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse may be excellent in narrating the military life and mecha themes, but how Satelight is fucking up the visuals is hard to ignore. Character animations in this single episode contained shit far more worse than what I saw in the entire Mouretsu Pirates series. ...The post Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse 04 appeared first on The dere-moe Project.
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Goddamn it. Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse may be excellent in narrating the military life and mecha themes, but how Satelight is fucking up the visuals is hard to ignore. Character animations in this single episode contained shit far more worse than what I saw in the entire Mouretsu Pirates series. ...The post Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse 04 appeared first on The dere-moe Project.
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「朧月の群れ」 (Oboroduki no Mure) "A Flock of Hazy Moons" This week, Bridges learns the meaning of "getting knocked down a few pegs".
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Lt. Takamura puts Yuuya in the Fubuki 97 TSF until the new Shiranui 94 is complete, and he has trouble controlling the Japanese design. Takamura tells him to curb his attitude, but in the subsequent joint BETA battle with the Soviets, he proves a liability, and has to be saved by his Argos teammates. Takamura [...]
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As one of those universal human experiences, death occupies a rather key position as a narrative device or event in, well, basically all media. Despite being so dynamic of an element, however, depictions often take on the same nature. These … Continue reading →
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Written by: Kabitzin at Sea Slugs! Anime BlogSummary: We start off at a Yukon base where Cryska Barchenowa and Inia Sestina are stalking Nepalese Ensign Tarisa “Chobi” Manandal’s Tactical Surface Fighters in their own two-seater TSF unit.  The fight is pretty one-sided, and Tarisa nearly crashes into the airplane carrying hot-headed, semi-exiled American ensign Yuuya “Top Gun” Bridges and his buddy, mechanic Vincent Lowell.  Yuuya isn’t too happy [...]
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Written by: Kabitzin at Sea Slugs! Anime BlogSummary: We start off at a Yukon base where Cryska Barchenowa and Inia Sestina are stalking Nepalese Ensign Tarisa “Chobi” Manandal’s Tactical Surface Fighters in their own two-seater TSF unit.  The fight is pretty one-sided, and Tarisa nearly crashes into the airplane carrying hot-headed, semi-exiled American ensign Yuuya “Top Gun” Bridges and his buddy, mechanic Vincent Lowell.  Yuuya isn’t too happy [...]
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Nothin’ to see here, just one robot straddling another while stabbing it. Move along, move along. This is basically another opening episode after the context-setting pair of episodes that actually started the series. It definitely gives a bit more weight to things — we’ve seen the threat that spurs the major nations of the world [...]
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I-it’s a proper OP! *tears of joy* YAY THIRD EPISODE ALREADY YAY YAY YAY. YAY YUYA BRIDGES. YAY VINCENT LOWELL. YAY ONO DAISUKE. YAY SUGITAN. YAY FOR EVERYTHING. Story So Far Ah, time skip. I’m not a time skip person, but if that’s what it takes for me to watch ONO DAISUKE, I’m totally cool [...]
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So now that Kyoto has been reduced to rubble and ruin it only seems proper that the UN get its shit together now that almost all of Eurasia has been lost. I am doing my best to avoid spoilers and the like and as a green horn I cannot understand how having a Top Gun [...]
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AKB0048 12 is full of little drama-bits but manages to keep its direction until we get to the understudies performance. Let’s see, we get Takamina, still not 100% after her injury, considering retirement, or graduation as they call it, to make room for Kanata. Heavy stuff, but there’s so much going on here that it [...]
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From the dere-moe Project The dere-moe Project - An all-Filipino blog on Japanese Pop CultureHoly smokes! Muv-Luv Alternative Total Eclipse’s third episode wasn’t predicted but expected. We’re already done with Yui Takamura’s backstory, this episode introduces us to the Project Prominence based in Alaska’s Yukon Base and to Kira ...The post Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse 03 appeared first on The dere-moe Project.
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From the dere-moe Project The dere-moe Project - An all-Filipino blog on Japanese Pop CultureHoly smokes! Muv-Luv Alternative Total Eclipse’s third episode wasn’t predicted but expected. We’re already done with Yui Takamura’s backstory, this episode introduces us to the Project Prominence based in Alaska’s Yukon Base and to Kira Yamato-lookalike main character Yuuya Bridges. While I love everything from this episode, it seems Studio Satelight is back on their [...]The post Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse 03 appeared first on The dere-moe Project.
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