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I'm not sure what you think will happen, unless you just remembered what Bartimaeus and I were talking about when we watched Utena. If you don't, then it's probably not what you think right now. Boy-Miki has less problems going forward. That is, if he could actually take a step forward in the first place. That's the thing with the duelists. You can come back to this sentence when you're done and it will make sense. Nanami is like the worst. The worst. However, the episodes she appears prominently in are usually some of the funniest. Why would you do that, she's such a nice doormat. Not there yet, sorry, I've been severely slacking on my JoJo's watching. It's all the edgy and ecchi I've been watching lately that's come in the way.

I see we're back to censoring mastur-bate. @Amentep can you perhaps find out why the powers that be waffle around on that word so much? It was definitely not censored earlier this week. It's not really that problematic a word, and really, there's a whole host of things that aren't censored and probably should be, but nobody cares whether or not the Greatjon wants to shove a sword up Lord Tywin's bunghole or someone has a good wank, jacking off to pictures of Mari. Much like **** is censored, but arsehole isn't, asshat isn't either, curiously enough. Bloody bollocks, all of it, really. I mean, just look at that sentence the way it stands now: I could change it to: Or: Or maybe we could use some ridiculous metaphor: Or simply leave it censored: None of those are not what I wanted to express there. The metaphors are ridiculous, jacking off and wanking have a connotation that I don't want in there, and the asterisk replacement of the actual word evokes the idea of a connotation that I don't want this to have either. It's all around worse than what is meant.

No, it gets worse. Miki's sister. The guy with the stopwatch. Good luck finding out what the stopwatch is supposed to mean. Yes and no. Both at once, yet none. The biggest difference between the Utena movie and End of Evangelion is that EoE was narrative in addition to thematic closue for Neon Genesis Evangelion, while the original series only offered a thematic closure in the form of Shinji working through his problems and breaking out of the little world he's enclosed himself in. Revolutonary Girl Utena's ending doesn't have that problem, it serves as a thematic closure as well as a narrative one, assuming one can actually find the narrative. It's not unsatisfying without the film, it just works much better with the film. More talk about EoE: EoE, interestingly enough, contains the same thematic closure as the series, it's just less readily apparent, and fans have called that film "angry" and leaving the franchise going out on a hateful note. I don't think that's necessarily true, NGE spends a lot of its runtime showing us that Shinji isn't a likeable character. EoE does that - again - except in appropriately compressed feature film length by having him **** to an unconscious Asuka, and later attempt to choke her when she calls him out on it when they have their alternate reality childhood friendship, although in the context of the series itself Asuka can blame herself for that just as well. Shinji masturbating to her is more or less what she wanted to have, validation that she's attractive (something she did not get from Kaji when she tried) and desirable as a person beyond her ability to pilot an EVA, it's just her wish being granted in the vilest of ways. Yet, at the end, when Asuka reaches for Shinji's cheek, he just stops, and at that moment, essentially, goes through the original ending (kind of). Convinced until that point that nobody will ever like him, he realizes that Asuka accepts him, in her own, damaged way. Asuka on the other hand gets her validation, because who cold you possibly get so worked up if you didn't feel passionately about that person? We could assume that Shinji in EoE gets a compressed, utterly unsympathetic arc because he serves as more of an audience stand-in in EoE and reflects on Anno's bad experiences following the ending of the original series, with the vandalization of Gainax properties, the waves of insults and the death threats - all that before social media made sh*tstorms a thing. If you assume that, then yes, it becomes angrier than the actual series. If that bothers a viewer, though, then perhaps they're actually part of the problem, right? Or the viewer is a shipper and annoyed that EoE doesn't support either #teamrei or #teamasuka. That would be a little strange, given the almost universal love for having him run off with anime fanservice **** and ass character in Rebuild. If that doesn't reflect badly on the fandom, then what does?

I think I already linked what DIO is up to a while back. He's a feminist! Heh. edit: Before I forget, no, the series doesn't feature a duel in every episode. I wondered about that for the first couple of episodes. There are only 8 duels in the first 13 episodes, but one doesn't count. Try to figure out which one before the show tells you. Yes, it is set after the series and is called "The Adolescence of Utena", and the movie explains a lot of the things that go on in the series that might not have entirely gotten the first time around. Don't let it fool you into believing it is just an abridged retelling of the show. That's just the surface level. I'm actually completely serious about this. The movie really is a huge help in making sense of the series, however, it's about as readily understandable as the series itself. To give an analogy, perhaps, imagine you get a gadget with a machine translated manual that you cannot really make sense of, but you can get the gadget to work in some form, but you're uncertain if you fully understand what it does, or what it can do. The film is then a second, separate manual with an equally bad translation that you can use to cross-reference what you found out from the first manual and experimentation with the gadget to get a more complete overview of it and what it does. Have fun!

The teacher overseeing the keion club organized some outfits for the band's first live performance at the school festival (in Love Live! it was a school presentation of club activities), and Mio freaks out because she really doesn't want to wear hers. Mio also wrote the lyrics for the song they'll be performing. Love Live!'s Umi isn't just a blatant ripoff of Mio, she's a carbon copy. Seriously, how did they get away with that? Love Live! is, however, a bit different in some respects. The characters are used much more for fanservice, of course, but they're also a little more, say, not as... much in total hilarity overdrive mode. The girls from K-On! are much more expressive and more, erm, anime*, but otherwise so far it is the answer to the question of "What would happen if Minako and Usagi started a band?" and it's pretty funny. Yui and Ritsu aren't Usagi and Minako, obviously, but they're goofing off of each other in a somewhat similar manner. I also read the second season gets a bit more serious and has more character drama than straight up goofy comedy bits. I'll see soon enough, it's not like there's a lot of episodes. Oh, and I also tried the English dub for a (very) short while. Yui is voiced by Usagi, and Mio by Rei, and I turned it off almost immediately. Nope, that doesn't work, at all. *This is where it is really noticable that K-On! was based on a 4 panel gag manga, i.e. the Japanese equivalent of silly newspaper comic strips. @Bartimaeus (not actual spoilers):

Utena got engaged to Anthy. The first episodes are introductions, mostly, plus some filler insanity you'll soon come across. Surfing elephants, boxing kangaroos, inexplicably loose horses, body switching and exploding curry await you. Enjoy it while it lasts, because it goes off the deep end really quickly. Revolutionary Girl Utena is split into four chapters: Student Council: Episode 01 <- You're currently on this floor. Student Council: Episode 02 Student Council: Episode 03 Student Council: Episode 04 Student Council: Episode 05 Student Council: Episode 06 Student Council: Episode 07 Student Council: Episode 08 Student Council: Episode 09 Student Council: Episode 10 Student Council: Episode 11 Student Council: Episode 12 Student Council: Episode 13 Black Rose: Episode 14 Black Rose: Episode 15 Black Rose: Episode 16 Black Rose: Episode 17 Black Rose: Episode 18 Black Rose: Episode 19 Black Rose: Episode 20 Black Rose: Episode 21 Black Rose: Episode 22 Black Rose: Episode 23 Akio Ohtori: Episode 24 Akio Ohtori: Episode 25 Akio Ohtori: Episode 26 Akio Ohtori: Episode 27 Akio Ohtori: Episode 28 Akio Ohtori: Episode 29 Akio Ohtori: Episode 30 Akio Ohtori: Episode 31 Akio Ohtori: Episode 32 Akio Ohtori: Episode 33 Apocalypse: Episode 34 Apocalypse: Episode 35 Apocalypse: Episode 36 Apocalypse: Episode 37 Apocalypse: Episode 38 Apocalypse: Episode 39 The elevator reference will start making sense - or not - really soon. As always, remember to go deeper, and hope that the Seminar does not reject your application. Don't forget the movie, it really is essential to understanding what is going on. The artwork took some time to get used to for me. The backgrounds are impressive in their artistic direction and the sort of dreamlike feel they're evoking, but the character models are a stark contrast to what you usually would see in anime of the time. Kind of like a 70ies throwback, with the angular features. I didn't post the Natsu e no Tobira screenshots and say "looks like Utena" for nothing, because the setting and artstyle of Utena seems to have been heavily inspired by that. See, my posts here make it look like I dislike any sexual content, but that's not true. It entirely depends on the framing, and some fanservice is all right with me. Point in case, I've watched a couple of episodes of K-On! because hey, why not. It didn't look terrible and @Bartimaeus agreed. It opens with Usagi oversleeping and running out of the house, but not before falling on her behind. That scene could be seen as a bit of fanservice, she's falling on her ass after all, but it's just framed to immediately establish that Usagi really is Usagi (well, her name is Yui, but it seems like all of these shows have an Usagi-like character ever since Sailor Moon). Unlike it's Love Live! counterpart where Love Live!'s Usagi falls on her behind, only to stick it out and rub it for the benefit of the male audience. Oh, by the way, the name is just the pronunciation for a Japanese word, because @Bartimaeus wondered what is going on. Keiongaku, or keion for short, is the Japanese word for "light music" in the Japanese sense of the word, i.e. lighthearted and fun entertainment music, not a reference to the German concept of leichte Musik. The director of the anime, who is a woman, by the way, seems to have a thing for animated legs, so there's lots of shots of the girls just walking, but that's just the girls walking. The biggest moment so far in terms of fanservice was the beach episode, which really happened early. Mio, the band's bassist, is generally more reserved than the other girls. She has long, black hair and is otherwise a bit more serious (just like Umi in Love Live!, and yeah, really just like, a 1:1 copy of the character), and while she likes playing the bass, she's not all too comfortable with being the focus of attention. She also hates the sight of blood, or any mention of blood, which leads to hilarity because Yui begins as the band's guitarrist and - true to form - cuts her fingers on the guitar strings. When she shows up on the beach in a black bikini that accentuates her, uhm, assets*, there's a short focus shot on them, going from the other girls' eyes to her bikini top. Maybe unnecessary, but it's fine within its framing. It makes sense that the others would stare for a moment. I mean, Yui and Tsumugi do, Ritsu has been friends with Mio a bit longer (they all meet in school) and is less surprised. Also really hilarious how much Love Live! blatantly stole from K-On! and apparently not only got away with it, but also surpassed it in popularity. It's... really everything. The basic core group is the same in terms of characterization, the plot beats are sometimes stolen almost verbatim. Yui fails an exam and gets banned from club activities, meaning the group is in trouble until she takes the make up test, and the other girls help her study (in an absolutely hilarious episode). In Love Live! meanwhile they threaten to ban the girls from singing if they flunk any exams, so they study together. There are lots of little details like that where it's noticable just how blatantly Love Live! borrowed from what appears to be the superior show anyway. *Normally, if I wouldn't know people like that in real life, I'd argue that Mio probably wouldn't wear a bikini like that, but we were all pretty surprised during a work outing when our reserved, conservative colleague suddenly showed up wearing the skimpiest beach outfit you can imagine. Well, maybe not the skimpiest, but it didn't leave much to the imagination. Fun fact, the other women that came along stared much harder and much longer than the men. Insofar that shot makes perfect sense.

Actually that sequel sounds pretty awesome, and the manga ending seems to be a bit less problematic, or rather, a bit more poignant. I don't really mean to imply that I hated Devilman Crybaby, far from it, it was just the last couple of minutes of the last episode that left a lasting and somewhat bad impression.

I watched Devilman Crybaby because LC posted in the streaming thread that it's too trippy for her. So, obviously, I also had no idea what I was getting into. It was a pretty wild ride, but like I said, I felt kind of cheated by the ending. At least Akira didn't find a magical silver crystal and restore the entire Earth with it, so there's that. Not much to go on, being better than Crystal.

Now, onwards to Utena! Honestly, that makes NGE look sane by comparison. Really...

Good enough for me, I figure if I feed my brain enough new stuff I won't have to go back and finish Magic User's Club, because even only a total of 19 episodes seems like a lot after that first one. Poor Erica might be your point of ire as far as character archetypes go, but otaku-level pathetic magical boys accidentially summoning underwear on their face and grinning like idiots is mine. That's not funny and I feel deeply ashamed by being associated with these people. I kind of wish I could excise them from nerd-dom. Shoo, off you go, can you join the incels maybe? The name, yeah, sure. I'm currently watching "X", K-On! is at least a couple more letters. I wonder if that will end up being a net positive. It's less inexplicable than Revolutionary Girl Utena, but the story, setup and episode references borrow heavily from fairly tales I'm familiar with. I wonder how that will work out for you. Regardless, it's easier to digest, and Ahiru is, unlike Utena - or anyone else in the anime - a likeable, if a bit ducky character. Ms. Itoh sometimes overdoes it with putting her in situations where she gets transformed back into a girl and has to scramble for her clothes after she accidentially ducks herself. It's like that narrow alley joke from Sailor Moon, only played a bit too often. I'm not sure that's correct, it's more like The Last Jedi than any of the prequels. At least The Last Jedi left me with the same feeling of being trolled by director. I couldn't even offhandedly tell you which of the two I found worse. Although, I already hated TFA, and most people were happy with that, including the fandumb, so the falling distance for Rebuild coming from End of Evangelion was a lot higher (longer?). Meh.

@Bartimaeus could you run K-On! through your heuristics please, by all acounts that looks to be an "Usagi joins a band" kind of anime. Love Live! without the fanservice, or at least a lot less (there is, of course, the obligatory beach episode in there somwhere). Well, and a band, not an idol group. Same difference insofar as that's not any more interesting as a premise. Can't help how it looks, but eh... I'm a bit past caring right now. It's not like Love Live! was ever pretty to look at, and going over the episode summeries here and there, Love Live! copied K-On! something fierce. Thanks! Watched some more Princess Tutu:

Filthy pinkos.

Heh. I hated the ending of Devilman Crybaby. @KP the meanie zucchini and I talked about that in the past, it's what originally landed me in his signature, that was before we moved our Sailor Moon talks to the anime thread. Well, I was 12 when I watched it. I might find a good deal of flaws in a rewatch, but back then I found it to be pretty good. Except the ending, didn't like that too much. There's a basis for my thoughts. Rebuild* is everything that NGE was, except with all the subtlety and complexity taken out of most of the characters. Only Shinji is as he always was, and Shinji was as much a personification of a part of Anno (technically, in the original, Rei and Asuka were as well - Shinji is his fear of rejection, Asuka his need for validation, and Rei his need for human connection and emotional ties - arguably Misato his need for physical connections, the beauty of the setup being that it works even without viewing any of them as author avatars) as he was an anime otaku stand-in, something Anno probably considered himself to be as well. Before... well, before the death threats over the original NGE ending, and the ridiculous demands, although given the original ending, I can understand some of the anger. Not the death threats. The original NGE ending was a nice thematic ending for the series, but it was a narrative non-starter, obviously - to bring that tired old topic back out, that's a bit like Lost where the characters get a thematic resolution, and absolutely none of the long running plot threads are resolved. That's why Mari is nothing but fanservice, especially in light of the fans DEMANDING her to show up earlier than planned. That's why there are these huge, useless action scenes that were all curiously missing from NGE and End of Evangelion. Sure there was action, but it was always meaningful and carried weight. That nonsense in Rebuild? Yeah, no, and also the reason why the fanservice in the original had meaning beyond Anno apparently really being the type of person who loves looking at butts, while we get Asuka wearing nothing and doing nothing in the character piece of Thrice Upon A Time, tossing around trying to sleep. She really is the jerk off fantasy that Shinji used her for in End of Evangelion. The action is what NGE fans wanted. The fanservice is only that, and Mari, who everyone wanted to show up early, is totally useless, but still gets Shinji. The only thing meant seriously is Shinji's talk to his father, and the anti-universe stuff, as an actual, final ending to Evangelion. That was Anno not being able to help himself, I guess. It culminates with Shinji ending Evangelion by erasing all EVAs, and running off with Mari, who is neither Rei nor Asuka. #notyourship I mean, sure, it could also have been a blatant least effort possible cashgrab, but working on something for that long seems to indicate otherwise. Might as well not be any of that. I mean, I'm fairly certain that my assessment of the original NGE as talked about back when I watched it is pretty correct. It certainly is applicable, even if it wasn't totally intentional. I'm not sure Rebuild really was a trolling attempt. I'd sure like to ask Mr. Anno, but I doubt he'd reply to my questions. Oh, by the way, how far along with Nadia are you? Apparently Anno stepped down as series director around episode 23 and that really went to hell in a handbasket afterwards. *Except the first one, perhaps. He might have still been serious about it with that one. 2.0, nope.

Speaking of Mari, I think I've changed my mind on Rebuild. It's an utter failure as a Neon Genesis Evangelion reboot and as a movie series in almost every way, from looking bad, to narrative problems, to character problems and thematic issues. However, I'm pretty sure by now that it's a 10/10 troll attempt, and most fans don't even notice that and rate it highly. Anno sure is laughing at them right now. That takes some dedication to work for 15 years and power through depression only to do a piss take. I was angry at first because it felt like I was being trolled, but I don't think I was. The general fandumb? Oh, yeah.

Shocking, really. Massive spoilers: I'm sorry Eriko but you seem to be a little too dark to watch right after such an edgelord anime. Speaking of X: X might be the most frustrating anime I've ever watched. The episodes switch between being brilliant and over the top edgelording in the blink of an eye. Spoilers from here, but I'm getting the feeling that no one else is going to watch, so feel free to read.

I know, I know. I guess... it's time to try Pretty Cure then!

Okay, so this OVA is recommended for anyone who is interested in what exactly Kill la Kill is making fun of. Oh boy. On the flipside, I'm not going to complain about Nozomi rubbing breasts in Love Live! any more, or about Asuka's "trying to sleep" scene in Thrice Upon A Time because that's harmless. Okay, so what's next?

The Magic User's Club 6 piece OVA begins with a giant CGI bell-shaped spaceship descending into Earth's atmospere being intercepted by a US naval battlegroup with air support. It does not go well for them. It even has fully English dialogue (in the Japanese original audio track). Well... okay. That's... yeah. Not exactly how I expected a magical girl anime to open. Image quality is typical for mid 90ies NTSC transfers. Ah Japan, why did you have to use NTSC. Really. Out of all the systems you could have picked, it was the worst. The worst. Stupid CGI space ship aside, that opening sequence was fairly well animated. Let's see how that continues, and how bad the fanservice really gets. edit: The opening credits have a giant girl with equally giant, jiggly animated (albeit fully clothed) boobs firing lasers from her eyes. Yeah, that will get really bad, I think. edit 2: First piece of music right after the opening credits is generic JRPG jingle #5. I can swear I've heard that before. Numerous times. edit 3: DIO is voicing the most androgynous boy with the most impressive purple mauve mullet ever. Ever woder how I got the job as DIO? Me too! Okay, good thing this is really short. We're 10 minutes in, had the giant boob laser girl from the opening credits, one of the girl's flipping over on her bike landing on a boy's crotch, DIO fondling that boy telling him he's cute and the other boy staring at some breasts. And the other girl from the Magic User's Club is off doing something else while not really wearing all too much. Well then Mr. Sato, you're out too, even if the premise of the show is kind of hilarious so far and everyone is rather likable. And Ms. Itoh, you're... you're a good animator and character designer, but really, that's, erm, seriously... You know its bad when the opening of your anime OVA has more moments like this than the first three episodes of Love Live!, and that was made for an adult male audience.

I'm a bit confused to be honest, are you offended or did you make a joke, or is this a reference to something I don't get, I mean, Commander Shepard on the Citadel aside since we were talking about Mass Effect 2. I'd take anything as long as it features Usagi and friends written by the same people that came up with their anime characterization. Although that is not a guarantee for a good anime, there's Clear Card as testament to that. Plus it really should not look like Crystal. Ideally... I'm not going to try that just to see if its even a fraction as interesting or fun as Sailor Moon. Nope. Fun fact time though, Toei initially envisioned Sailor Moon to be something like what Pretty Cure became, an endlessly running series with a similar setup but changing casts and storylines per season. An animated Power Rangers with magical girls. Boy am I glad that didn't work out like that. I'm giving that the benefit of the doubt based on the people involved. It's probably going to turn out to be stupid, terrible or stupidly terrible, or maybe about tons of incest because nobody who worked on Sailor Moon walked away with their sanity intact, apparently. It still looks like the most interesting thing Sato has done since Sailor Moon. Eh... I have no excuse besides desperation, and a rotted brain from watching Rebuild. That's what the manga did. Both the movie and the anime had to come up with original endings. CLAMP just stopped with the apocalypse after several early 2000s events. Earthquakes, tsunamis, 9/11. So, yeah, entirely possibly that some things will be left open.

No, that really is one giant head, or a normal sized head on a proportionally too small a body. Sailor Moon in ancient Japan. At the rate this is going, I'd be willing to settle for a Sailor Moon like show set anywhere. The moon, an alien space ship, in a lost world setting with dinsaurs. Anything. Alas, if there is something like it, I don't know where. I guess there's Pretty Cure left to try, but... but... but that's over 800 episodes in like 17 season/series and 14 movies, and looks way too action focused. Once I'm done with Princess Tutu I'm going to give Magic User's Club a try, which was directed by Junichi Sato (Sailor Moon's series director for the first season and the R filler arc) and features character designs by Ikoku Itoh. Mostly because it's short. Really short. 6 piece OVA followed by a 13 episode TV anime. Afterwards... I'm going to go by some other suggestions, I guess. Crusher Joe looked like something that would be totally for me, so that's definitely on the list. Not sure I want to watch Eriko that close after X. A reprieve indeed, alas, not really something that will hold your interest. There are nice moments in there though:

Oh no! Oh my gooooooood! What did I watch?! No wait I already watched that. Heh. Uhm episode 17 of X is a clip show. Asise from that the past few episodes were really good. The cast of course doesn’t get equal screen time but how could it with that many characters. The episodes tend to focus on a few of them each. Kamui has overcome his misgivings and is looking for revenge! No just kidding, it might be almost like shonen but not quite. Kamui wants to redeem the bad guys. It might not be what I wanted and it certainly tries too hard with the dark and edgy at times but I am back to genuinely enjoying this at the moment. But... I also like Bioware games every now and then. And it is also a nice change of pace from the metaphor and symbolism overload I got from Utena, Tutu and Evangelion recently. Just some good old regular end of the world stuff.

I can't tell for sure, I watched most of the episodes with the German subtitles, and they're fairly consistent with Kero calling Meiling Göre and Shaoran Bengel mostly, which is German for brat, in their girl and boy variants respectively. He never uses their names, at least. Göre has a colloquial use when shortened to Gör. That changes the gender of the word to neuter, but it needs to be said that grammatical gender doesn't make any reference to personal gender - in this case it works that way because Gör can be used for both annoying girls and boys. It is, at the end, simply a colloquialism. Here we'd call either a Gfrast, coming from an older German word for chafe that at some point took the meaning of describing something as tedious activity (the result of which is chafing, so that does make sense), i.e. simply a tedious person - not necessarily, but usually, a child. It takes 40 or so episodes for Sharoan to call anyone except Meiling by name, and then it's only "Daidouji" when he's talking to Tomoyo. Spoiler: I get the feeling that you might be right. It's definitely not what I thought it would be, and what for a couple of episodes after the third one it looked like it might become. Kamui really does have an Emo McEdgelord appeal. He's also the poster boy for the shojo appeal in this, I think, because he's so gloomy and pretty. I don't wan to call Kamui the Edward of X, because there's a world of a difference, but this isn't meant to appeal to girls through giving them (teenage) counterparts to strive for or identify with, like Sailor Moon. No, well, maybe Kamui really is a proto-Edward. I've never seen or read any Twilight, but there must be some appeal in the dark, brooding character with a terrible destiny. That doesn't sound like Twilight? Well, you get the idea. I think.

It's episode 14 (out of 24) of X and the teams are complete. I had a good laugh at everyone being really surprised when Emo McEdgelord said thank you to Hinoto. If nothing else, that was a necessary break from the atmosphere of this show. Actually episode 14 was legimitately good, assuming the watcher doesn't dislike the Biowarian Fate of the World (tm) plot that features a weird combination of technology and the occult and makes Tokyo the city that's holding the world together. Not that it makes much sense how modern skyscraper buildings are shields against the apocalypse. They probably replaced the older shields. *shrug* Point in case, they've just sealed the Sacred Sword (tm) in a techno-magical sealing device that shoots laser beams in the form of a pentagram into the sky, an action that with a nice dose of destinied irony causes the remaining angels* to gather too. Because they noticed the giant laser beams shooting into the sky. Arashi was exasperated by Yuzuriha's Jean's exuberance when seeing the sealing thingie, she said it looks like a mech-launchpad. Yeah, you know, it's easy to see how this is an early CLAMP work. The elmenets are there, it seems all somewhat well plotted out (if a bit overdramatic) and for whatever that's worth, the anime is pretty good in evoking the sort of opressive, gloomy atmosphere they were going for. It's positively saturnine (haha, what a joke, get it? Positively saturnine! ). Karen (the prostitute) also showed up to introduce herself to the others, and says that she already knows Seiichirō, the editor, from work. Someone's going "wait a minute, does that mean..." until he's shut up and Seiichirō is like: "Uhm, no, I was doing research for a client, for a book..." Sure Seiichirō. Sure! The soundtrack isn't really that good. It's not in the way or annoying, but it feels like I've heard the music before, and it is pretty generic when it tries to be gloomy or inspiring. Functional, I'd say. That's not even damning with faint praise. Like with Utena, it reminds me a bit of the Lexx soundtrack at times. Could be some variation of stock music. Overall, I'm still mildly positive towards this, as a whole. It would be more positive-erly (lol ) without the plot point in episode 12 that really felt forced, but what's done is done. *Not sure if that is the actual English translation, it is for the fansubs at least. The Dragons of the Heavens are called seals, the Dragons of the Earth angels. I guess that's because the name's shorter and less of a mouthful, but I don't know. The official German translation for the angels is messenger. Which kind of makes sense, with angels originally being God's messengers.

I don't really know, to be honest. She certainly was at some point, but you'd think that change after she's been dead for a while. Although, I guess, it's just a visual representation. Her entire family's feelings will be wiped out anyway. Configuration Document edition makes a bit more sense being at the end there. Also, you're not wrong with the shin part. Shin also means new, should have looked that up before posting (see, it's not like I know what I'm talking about... I mean, erm, you know... *runs*) - atarashii is "new" too and apparently the more common way to say new. It's not like I know much beyond random words. Have you ever tried looking at Japanese conjugation? That'll make your brain melt, and I'm saying that, being intimately familiar with German conjugation. Whether or not that title makes sense in Japanese is something else, but since it's an official one I guess it does. It's probably a complete collection of something, why else would it be called complete works visual story edition. Yeah, no, it's bunny whenever he does that. Maybe some creative license, because it's originally brat for Meiling and "kid" for Shaoran, I think. It's been a while, but toad seems oddly negative for Yukito. That it did, also, besides, how else would she solve that. It's Sakura. Compared to her Usagi is a regular vicious murderdeathkill character. I mean, 90ies anime Sailor Moon. Crystal and Manga Usagi would straight up obliterate you for looking at her friends the wrong way and not bat an eyelash. Like in the Black Moon arc where she tries out her newly found power and just blasts one of the Specter Sisters out of existence and is like "Woha, not bad!" afterwards. Kinda weird. Not that long ago I would have said "It can't get any worse!" but apparently it always can. There's no such thing as rock bottom.