Lovely. Impressions: The first sign that this was probably not going to be a good episode was not subtle. It’s like there’s some bizarre Japanese trend where they feel compelled to give anything that they realize is sufficiently awful an enormous title, as if that will somehow mitigate it. Episodes, light novels, terrible doujin [...]
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Today’s episode of Vividred Operation has its fans think that they’re not just paying homage to Akemi Homura, but to Fate Testarossa too. Live-tweeting Vividred Here is a series of tweets that I made (reverse-chronological) while watching the broadcast on MBS using KeyHole. Bluray and DVD March 27 #vividred Then ...The post Vividred Operation – 05 appeared first on Deremoe, and is written by Jay.
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Today’s episode of Vividred Operation has its fans think that they’re not just paying homage to Akemi Homura, but to Fate Testarossa too. Live-tweeting Vividred Here is a series of tweets that I made (reverse-chronological) while watching the broadcast on MBS using KeyHole. Bluray and DVD March 27 #vividred Then ...The post Vividred Operation – 05 appeared first on Deremoe, and is written by Jay.
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Single release from earthmind, titled ENERGY is the OP for anime series Vividred Operation. Will be out on 13 February 2013. 2 editions available for preorder: Limited Edition, Regular Edition and Limited Pressing. Limited Edition comes with a bonus DVD containing the PV of ENERGY. Track-listing of ENERGY ENERGY Naked COMPASS ENERGY -TV Edit- ENERGY [...]
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Well… Vividred episode 5, what can I say about it? I did expect it to be much, much more epic and make me scream, buuuut, it didn’t. Still it looked amazing and actually explained more of the plot. Along with more fanservice. So the entire point of this show is to show off Rei. And … Continue reading →
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Akane and her three friends invite their classmate Kuroki Rei to be in their group for the upcoming summer trip, but she refuses. On her way home Rei saves a child from an I-beam, and her master, speaking in the form of a crow, warns her not to waver in her duty. That night she [...]
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I don’t remember Strike Witches’ use of crotch/panty shots very well, but I think they at least waited a bit before shoving the lack of pants down our throats. VO wastes no time in showing us why the Otaku Hive … Continue reading →
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We finally see Kuroki Rei’s (aka Alone Cheerleader) side of the story. Handed a chance to save her parents and old life by a talking crow, she helps it in its attempts to destroy the Manifestor Engine. After a botched solo assault on the plant, she is stranded and rescued by Akane, who nurses her [...] Related posts: Vividred Operation 04 Vividred Operation 03 Vividred Operation 02
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As the mysterious girl responsible for "powering up" the Alone over previous weeks, it's about time that this villain of the piece got some time in the limelight - enter Rei Kuroki, who also just so happens to be a classmate of Akane's. Of course, there's more to this story than simply Rei serving as a force of evil - indeed, the first half of this episode might as well have simply consisted of
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「もう一つの鍵」 (Mo Hitotsu no Kagi ) "Another Key" Why hello there, Homura Kuroki Rei.
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I like Black butts and I cannot lie. So after five weeks we get a proper introduction to the final member of the Vivid Rangers and, as expected, she’s a combination of HomuHomu and Feito with Rikka’s voice on top. It also turns out that she is from a different world too! Although the show [...]
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Summary: While delivering papers, Akane sees Rei standing among a flock of gulls. She calls out to her, but Rei brushes her off, then vanishes suddenly. At school, Amagi explains the upcoming school trip and asks her students to divide up into groups of four or five. Later at lunch, Aoi gushes about going on [...]
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Summary: While delivering papers, Akane sees Rei standing among a flock of gulls. She calls out to her, but Rei brushes her off, then vanishes suddenly. At school, Amagi explains the upcoming school trip and asks her students to divide up into groups of four or five. Later at lunch, Aoi gushes about going on [...]
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I don’t know if you’re as awesome as me, but we could all have guessed she was being manipulated to power up the Alones, right? Obvious! Though I don’t like the fact that she’s trying to bring back her parents, it’s a personal gripe. It’s sad, but I don’t want her to get her wish. [...]
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  The deadliest of all antagonist powers. Impressions: Oh hey. It’s been a long time since WordPress ate a post. Luckily, it was a very boring episode where I spent most of a paragraph making fun of this state of the art critically vital to everyone facility being nearly taken down by a single little girl terrorist [...]
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If Vividred Operation is not playing puns on Symphogear, it attacks gives homage to SHAFT. I’ll point out four things from this episode that points out SHAFT-related things (in which two of these are related to Puella Magi Madoka Magica), and you be the judge. Kuroki Rei saying “Home Run” - ...The post Vividred Operation – 04 appeared first on Deremoe, and is written by Jay.
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The Vividred Team meet Himawari the NEET thanks to a baseball accident. During a visit to the Manifestor Engine Power Distributor Streamer Plant, an Alone attacks the facility (surprise, surprise). Calling forth the power of promises and friendship, Himawari makes her début as Vividred Member #4. Right off the Bat: Easily the most amazing fight-nah, more of [...] Related posts: Vividred Operation 03 Vividred Operation 02 Vividred Operation [First Impressions]
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While playing softball, Akane’s home run that destroys the camera of the secluded hacker Shinomiya Himawari, whom Kenjirou just happened to ID as the the culprit in the theft of confidential Alone data. Akane, Aoi and Wakaba pay her a visit to apologize, and they end up visiting the site of the Streamer plant, which [...]
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「約束」 (Yakusoku) "Promise" VIVID YELLOW OPERATION!
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The Alone just aren't letting up on their attacks upon the Manifestor Engine, which is certainly keeping Akane and Aoi busy even with the addition of Wakaba to their team.  More importantly though, it seems that someone is watching events unfold from afar with a keen interest.... Not only is this party watching, but they're also actively involving themselves in hacking into systems to find out
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