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[rk47]

what the fuck. lol. This is really a cheapshot. But at least it evens the playing field (NOT!)

[Simond]

It also ties in to "What are the Thrones/Laguna/Alejandro/Ribbons really up to, and are they actually part of CB or not?"

1) Original (green) Gundams spend 18 hours getting kicked around by combined militaries of Earth
2) Throne (red) Gundams show up & help them. May or may not actually be 'real' Gundams.
3) Thrones invited aboard Ptolemeus. Yandare-tan haxx0rs teh Gibson Veda, steals personel files of the original meisters and possibly installs backdoor to Veda
4) Thrones go on a killing spree, including Professor Whatshisface of the Overflag unit (who had just figured out where the GN-drives were from, and the implications thereof)
5) Red vs Green Gundam fight. Mantrap presses the "I Win" button but has it remotely reverted. Alejandro & Ribbons do the "Just as planned" smirk.
6) Somebody contacts all three Terran powerblocs and *gifts* them ten GN-tau drives each.

So...yeah. Either the original meisters and their team were being played as patsies all along by the powers that be in CB, or someone else (Alejandro or Ribbons or Lagna/Ragna/Laguna or someone else pulling one or all of the above's strings) is trying to use CB as a catspaw for their own purpose or purposes. Either one of these is an interesting storyline to follow, especially now that gundams just got effectively downgraded from "Unbeatable God-Machine" to "Powerful but rare mobile suit which the Union/HRL/etc may be able to match"

[Simond]

G00 ep20: Man, it's really not Saji's week.

[rk47]

His job change from civilian to soldier is almost complete I guess.
It's GW-style of one faction upgrades, overwhelms the originally superior forces. Seems like there's a multi-faction thing going on. Which probably means more plot twists.

[Simond]

Ep21 raw: Oh holy shit. 

Also, there's some spoilers out there for the rest of this series which, if true, will definitely make this the BEST GUNDAM IN YEARS.

[schild]

Best Gundam in years?

How low is that bar set?

[rk47]

Hahah. I'm curious with that statement as well. Best Gundam ever? There's no 'wow' moment in this series for me yet. Most of the tech are 'same stuff, different colour' of previous gundam series. Transformable gundam? Check. Pew pew? Check. Melee type? Check. Big fat boomer? Check. Energy shield? Check.

[Simond]

Best Gundam in years?

How low is that bar set?

Yeah, true.  "Best since G Gundam/UC spinoffs" work any better?

Hahah. I'm curious with that statement as well. Best Gundam ever? There's no 'wow' moment in this series for me yet. Most of the tech are 'same stuff, different colour' of previous gundam series. Transformable gundam? Check. Pew pew? Check. Melee type? Check. Big fat boomer? Check. Energy shield? Check.

If the aforementioned spoilers are right, the series is going to end with a bang. Also, when the sub for 21 is available...watch the end credits closely.

[rk47]

Didnt get it. Maybe I'm dense. Spoil me! I don't care!! 

[Simond]

Final shot of the Ep21 end credits on the beach? Setsuna's there, Tieria's there, Allelujah's there, Lockon...isn't.

Edit: And changing the subject completely - Whoa! Whoa! Fight da Powa!

The exhibitor notes for the media company Kadokawa Shoten at the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008 website say that the April issue (on sale on March 10) of Newtype Magazine will announce a theatrical version of the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann anime.

 

[rk47]

side story or?

lockon? oh. its alright. Felt chan Go~ 

[Simond]

G00 latest ep: welp. 

Still two more episodes to go - wonder who's going to survive to the second series?

[rk47]

mmmm odd he didn't use the new 'power up' they gained, but that just shows how good Ali is . IMO he's the best pilot in the series. The only other true aces of merit is probably Graham, but he never upgraded his mech or faced Ali, so we never know.

Setsuna is strong contender for No. 3 spot, but honestly I'm tired of emo kid pulling ahead just by having that 'little bag of awesome' his mecha hid which he never triggered himself (Alejandro, you fool!) No 2 Spot is probably Lockon / Graham. Can't decide, they matched toe-to-toe, Graham was with 2 squadmates but lesser mecha..but never really 'lost' bad. He beat Johann in 1 v 1, proving that Trinity team is one of those '2/3 tech toy, 1/3 skill' kind of pilot I'm very disappointed Ali didn't finish off Nana  and gave Johann a chance. But whatever, if the anime wants to head the direction of:
Ali Vs Setsuna
Allelujah Vs Supergirl, so be it.

[Chenghiz]

Have any of you seen the new (sorta: 2007) Appleseed movie yet? I just picked it up and it was an improvement over the first in everything but plot. Which, honestly, isn't a surprise, really.

[schild]

I enjoyed it. Did you get it on Blu-Ray or DVD? Wondering how the picture is.

[Riggswolfe]

Ex Machina? I got it. I haven't actually seen the old one, I was wondering if it is worth getting for plot details of what happened before.

[angry.bob]

Ex Machina? I got it. I haven't actually seen the old one, I was wondering if it is worth getting for plot details of what happened before.

It's not necessary, but it's well worth watching and includes the origins of Duenan. Ex Machina is great, and the blue ray is spectacular. Lots of action and a decent plot (Great by most anime standards). I'm really liking the animation in both movies and I think it really adds something to them that wouldn't have been possible with conventional animation methods.

[Chenghiz]

The animation definitely is a reason to watch it, and although I was initially skeptical about John Woo's involvement, the action sequences did improve significantly.

[Simond]

BEST GUNDAM IN YEARS.

Timeskip for season 2, to boot.

[rk47]

Not bad at all. The bodycount's amazing and some died deservedly. A mix of cheap deaths with the impactful ones are great. But ouch, what a great excuse for an upgrade with all the mecha being torn apart one by one. And dual persona boy is starting to kill more, please don't let the emo-jihad kid get all the limelight, and wtf happened to one who got left behind? Did she just went off somewhere? Bleh.

[stu]

I  Ryoko.

[Jain Zar]

I  Ryoko.

Kiyone from the TV series is better. 

[Simond]

http://www.gurren-lagann-movie.net/

 

Apparently, there's two projects planned at the moment - the movie (which is generic_anime_movie retelling of the story, sort of, with a larger budget) and professional AMVs where eight people have been given eight pieces of music from the TTGL OST and told to go nuts.

If they do well, there's going to be OVAs - including "What happened when Lord Genome first came back to Earth after getting his arse kicked by the anti-spirals the first time" and similar.

[Yoru]

The movie sounds meh, but a Lord Genome & The Spiral Knights OVA would be kick-fucking-ass. 

When are they due out?

[Simond]

"2008" according to the website. 
We need a moonspeaker to translate, pronto.

[Hoax]

I've watched 13 eps of Gundam00, while apparently I can still watch bad gundam mecha but nothing else -I didn't even finish Dennou Coil which was trying hard to be a good show.  Geez, this plotline sucks a bunch of balls.  I can't decide what I think of the characters but if I even start to stop and think about the show it makes me want to stab writers. 

Everyone pisses and moans about Seed but fuck me I found it a lot more tolerable once you get past the initial why-are-all-the-pilots-little-kids leap.  This one has worse mecha designs and way more stupid.  I mean I'm committed at this point, unless they change the OP/ED which might break the spell.  Also I kept seeing major amounts of death mentioned in this thread while skimming, so I'm curious about that bit as well.

Still though, I'm not sure I like anime anymore.  Which is good but kinda sad, the shows I have liked I still adore greatly, but there hasn't been much added to that list beyod Black Lagoon and Code Geass and Geass was a total guilty pleasure thing with giant robots and anime babes. 

[rk47]

That's the problem with the characters in 00 hardly introduced themselves which reminds me a lot of Gundam Wing, they just warp in, start blowing shit up with their 'tech superiority' and slowly get zerged when the opposition start to tech up better, Seed did the character slightly better in the original. You kinda felt for the protagonists stretching himself to the limit, but after the first climax (around midpoint) Seed couldn't get back on track, especially after they gave him the uber upgrade which he just went 'Lvl 70 on stranglethorn' till the last 10 episodes.

The side characters are slightly more interesting too, instead of being a bunch of kids working for world peace there are a mix of adults, who take their battle more seriously than some 00 cast.

tldr version: it's hard to give a fuck to someone you hardly know a fuck about.

[Hoax]

Yeah it really is terrible, I mean on one hand 00 doesn't have anywhere near the filler, recap/flashback nonsense or animation reuse.  OTOH I keep wondering where the fuck all the time goes in 00 because somehow the characters are twice as 1 dimensional.  OH YEAH they have like 5 sub-casts that are freaking worthless at this point.  Hello stupid Saji and Louise,  your dumbass sister and the stupid press, the UN idiots, the lil azn girl who doesn't need to exist and her black mask bf, the princess character who has required like the most horrid plotholes to even fit into this terrible f'ing storyline...

PS  They changed both the OP & ED to way worse songs, the magic is just about gone on this one.  I'm not sure I care anymore unless the hot sekret pilot is who I think it is...  She's by far my favorite member of the space-crew, unlike stupid shopping chick, dumb drunk captain and the two clown male characters.  Have I gotten across that this cast is way to friggin big for these incompetent writers yet?

[rk47]

i hate to spoil it to you. but i think ...uh.. they're cannon fodder for season 1 climax 

[Hoax]

I'm not sure I'm going to make it to the great bloodletting, they really need to step it up a notch...

[Simond]

PS  They changed both the OP & ED to way worse songs, the magic is just about gone on this one.  I'm not sure I care anymore unless the hot sekret pilot is who I think it is...  She's by far my favorite member of the space-crew, unlike stupid shopping chick, dumb drunk captain and the two clown male characters.  Have I gotten across that this cast is way to friggin big for these incompetent writers yet?

That's about where it starts to pick up. Honest.

[rk47]

I dunno Simond, I watched the S-1 Finale, although the carnage was quite flashy I find most of the 'plot' is just barely holding on the thread.
If some of these guys didn't make it, then they just dropped their plot just as it is, and it wouldn't really leave any memory behind. They're barely registering in my plot radar and they suddenly disappeared like that? Oh ok. Fine. I won't miss them. And Graham is so out of character it's puzzling why they timed his entry so late that makes me yell out 'Plot Device Attack!!'

Some definite returns raise some eyebrows, I've got a little mixed feeling. Overall, the plot is still a blur and character introduction never completed at all, if anything they're having such a weird 'Red and Green Ranger' moment in the finale which i didn't find fitting.

[Simond]

IT. IS. TIME. 

[Arrrgh]

Best looking anime ever.

http://www.animesuki.com/series.php/1067.html

Anyone know of any others done in this style?

[Velorath]

Random bit of news here, but Avi Arad is apparently going to be producing a 3-D live action Ghost in the Shell movie for Dreamworks.

Variety is reporting that Dreamworks has acquired the rights to create a live action movie based on Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell property, and plans to make the movie in 3-D.  Avi Arad (Spider-Man, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk) and Stephen Paul, who brought the project to Dreamworks, are set to produce.  According to Variety there was a spirited bidding war with Universal and Sony also interested in acquiring Ghost in the Shell but “Steven Spielberg took a personal interest in the property and made it happen at Dreamworks.”

Spielberg told Variety, “Ghost in the Shell is one of my favorite stories, it’s a genre that has arrived and we enthusiastically welcome it to Dreamworks.” Dreamworks’ head of production Adam Goodman added: “Ghost in the Shell is a property that epitomizes 3-D live action motion picture possibilities.

If all this enthusiasm and high-powered backing translates to the film getting made, it should benefit sales of the Ghost in the Shell manga (published here by Dark Horse) as well as sales of the various Ghost in the Shell anime series (and features), which are mostly available from Manga Entertainment (Dreamworks has the Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence feature).