Thread #1012118

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Deep Insanity - The Lost Child
^{Episode 7-12}
Kimetsu no Yaiba - Yuukaku-hen
Kyoukai Senki
Muv-Luv Alternative
^{Epsiode 10-12}
Platinum End
^{Episode 11-12}
Saihate no Paladin
Scarlet Nexus
^{Episode 25-26}
Shiroi Suna no Aquatope
Taishou Otome Otogibanashi
^{Episode 6-8}
Visual Prison
^{Episode 7-12}

Oh Saihate ought to be asterisked, whoops
That's the only thing we have to watch with Bang so unless he shows up it might be easier just to wait until there's new things to watch and pile it together

Honestly I thought there would be at least one new thing to watch today judging from the schedule I use to monitor shows
Maybe I read the airing times wrong though

Also I forgot the stuff that came out over New Years

Deep Insanity - The Lost Child
^{Episode 7-12}
Kimetsu no Yaiba - Yuukaku-hen
Kyoukai Senki
Muv-Luv Alternative
^{Epsiode 10-12}
Platinum End
^{Episode 11-12}
Saihate no Paladin
Scarlet Nexus
^{Episode 25-26}
Shiroi Suna no Aquatope
Taishou Otome Otogibanashi
^{Episode 6-8}
Visual Prison
^{Episode 7-12}

--New Years Specials
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files - SP1 (53 min)
Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - Tsuioku-hen (1h 11min)

wow no bang shows?
and no kirara tonight?

Again, Kirara has to go out of his way to be here for Thursdays
He normally goes to bed at like 21:30-22:00 so him being around for anime involves napping earlier so he doesn't get like two hours of sleep

As for Bang shows, >>1012123

okay
well do we ahev banh tonight?

amd no jojo...

let's start with muvluv 19
10
okay
lets start

Well if you want to do either of the New Years specials, they should be readily available through Subsplease
At least that's how I got them
Lord El-Melloi is that series where adult Waver Velvet from Fate solves magical mysteries
And Mahouka is ONII-SAMA's show; I think the special is a fully contained plot arc from the series

Maybe it's just an inevitablility of jumping right into Alternative, but I think this series doesn't really do a good job of selling new people on the story
There's too much that relies on the viewer knowing who this character is from either the previous VNs in the main Muv-Luv series or who they are from one of the spin-off series

Like this is an interesting insight into the perspective of the rebels
They interpret the Shogun moving into the "safety" of the UN and American forces as surrendering a core spiritual pillar of the nation's identity to outside forces
We've only seen from the UN side which the MC and his crew are a part of
But there are alternative beliefs in the Japanese people
Strong enough that they'd choose to risk compromising the country in the midst of an alien invasion

this happens a lot
seris with monsters turn into politics

Monsters get kind of boring after a while
But politics offer far more complexity

Also again, a flaw of starting with Alternative
Because I'm pretty sure this series gets plenty of alien terror and visceral horror in Extra, the VN that comes before Alternative

Like I'm pretty sure the MC even said this whole thing with the civil rebellion never happened in the previous world line he was in

Very poetically, a lot of the fears the Japanese who are part of this civil rebellion are accurate though
This American soldier is trying to force the Japanese to go along with some "bigger global plan" which compromises their personal agency
Even if he makes rational, fair points
You can't just expect people to go along with something that controls them just because it's for some Greater Good

yeah I remember the americans being aggressive was part of this setting

It's kind of a common thing with y'all

Oh, that was pretty clever of that green-haired girl
She got what she wanted, a chance for the Shogun to rest, by throwing the big fit over the American soldier's meddling

I wonder if this is going to be an incomplete adaptation of Alternative to boot
I have a hard time believing this whole civil unrest with the Shogun is the main climax of Alternative
Especially since they've barely even touched on what Alternative IV, the whole crux of the VN, is going to take to accomplish
Nevermind whether or not they would be able to properly save Earth from the BETA

Maybe once I get some free time again I'll go look at the Muv-Luv VNs
Or maybe the new releases that probably tidy some of the uglier parts of them up

hmmm
so what do we have to pick from that's just us

visual prison 7?
okay
let'
start

We also have the New Years specials
They're a bit longer in runtime but are available through Subsplease

I like this glasses vampire's design
Turtlenecks and cardigans are good fashion choices

The suspenders are a bit excessive though

konbanwa

Evening
If you need some time we've got about twenty minutes left in this episode

when he talks about saga
i think about zombie idols

An understandable confusion
Saga's like one of the few characters in this series who doesn't have an effeminate or at least androgynous name
With names like Ange, Mist, Robin, Charlotte, etc.
I think the only ones who come to mind with more masculine names are Saga, Jack, and Guil

If being a vampire would make me immortal and cure any disease I was stuck with
I'd probably take the option
Especially if I could get some bitchin' wings to fly around with

Also another moment of this series being hella gay

yeah this series is hella gay

I can't vouch for certain but I'm pretty sure the Visual Kei scene attracts a lot of fujoshi to begin with
A lot of pretty-boy types who play larger than life stage characters after all
Plus with Harajuku as the cultural base of the scene, you get the people who are really into this kind of weird fashion too
Harajuku is real cool
I'd like to go back there some time

okay
what bang show did we have

paladin?
okay
waiting on bang

it's your cue
but okay
let's start

Yeah, just Paladin
I was expecting there'd be some new stuff but I must've read the schedule wrong

oh that's my queue
oh yeah it's cue

he's being all emo cause he wasn't perfect and now the eternal bond of LOVE will save him

Cue popped

Can he really be saved by an angsty hakf-elf though

dude wtf

Geez fucking louise Will

Not to sound too dweeby but it's kind of a neat deconstruction of the usual OP MC trope you see in isekai
Will is miles above anyone else in power to the point where he can casually break this guy's arm and can fight like a battle demon from his years of training with Blood
But power isn't always enough to save everyone and in his attempts to be the loner he's getting shot down because he was too damn friendly

wow menel is so much cooler than will now

I wonder how elf brains develop psychologically
Like Menel's old enough to have been taken in by a human lady and see her grow old and pass on
Without aging a day
Elves might develop outwardly physically at a glacial pace but I wonder how that translates into their brains
Because despite his age he can act not much more mature than Will

BOUKEN

he says that but he probably could kill them all with his sword
he'd probably hurt his own soul in the process though

What good is having a soul if you can't burn it to damnation anyway

well Gracefeel-sama probably doesn't feel that way

Big chimera

QUAGMIRE

wait wrong series

Imagine if you were fighting this thing in a tabletop RPG and it could take three unique attack options a turn
Actually maybe even four because it does have a snake for a tail

against monsters like these you often have to blow defensive things turn one
the ones that get additional attacks or actions on their turn
or use positioning to ensure they're going to go for the beefier ones, if your party has that option

Hah hah hah
This fucking guy

Wow early credits roll

pretty cool series overall
i guess they're about to give us some kind of "just you wait for s2!" kind of thing after this

Halfings are cute
If tiny
Very tiny

>and you can be his girlfriend
too late, bee

He wanted to be a cool roaming adventurer like his parents but now he's a lord

>i just want a comfy life slaughtering the enemies of the light

that was a pretty good episode
any other bang shows?

Nothing on paper at least

i'm bang!

have another cute picture before i slink off back into the void

Well that probably answers the question

okay
what were the specials you were talking about?

Lord El-Melloi II Case Files - SP1 (53 min)
Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - Tsuioku-hen (1h 11min)

Lord El-Melloi is the Fate spin-off series with Waver being a magic detective
Mahouka is ONII-SAMA's show, the main one this time, not the spin-off

let's do melloi
okay
lets start

I wonder if this is an advance pilot of a new season
Because I remember they did that with the first season
The pilot episode came out during TYPE-MOON's usual New Year's TV special, just like this did

Also I hope we get some new good Kajiura Yuki music for this
I've been listening to Kalafina's older stuff from the Kara no Kyoukai movies and I'm definitely in the mood for her kind of music

This is definitely a callback
The divide between Kayneth's praise for magus pedigree and Waver's desperation to prove something of himself as a newbie mage

waver gets the last laugh on this one in a big way

Yeah
Not only does he suceed Kayneth as the Lord El-Melloi
He also becomes a tenured professor at the Clock Tower
Like even the second one there is enough to send those high school bullies of his reeling

I want to just chill at home and play a timesink game like an MMO

I'm pretty sure the shirt he was wearing was an F/GO nod

Wait shit
Touka
That's the lady from Kara no Kyoukai I think
Or at least in another world
It's kind of hard to tell some times where the Fate/Tsukihime worlds separate
A lot of settings and concepts exist between the various narratives in the Fate and Tsukihime worlds but there's also separate universes various parts of them exist in

is she?
i'm not too familiar with knk

Well, there is a Touka in Kara no Kyoukai
There's also a Touka in Tsukihime
I think there's also a Touka in Maoutsukai no Yoru, a TYPE-MOON VN which exists mostly independently of the other narratives ... I think?

The thing that caught me about the Touka that Waver mentioned is that he said she's a puppet user, which I think was something unique to the Touka who exists in Kara no Kyoukai

Kara no Kyoukai is pretty neat though
I know you've got things you're busy with these days but if you ever want to, I'd be more than happy to rewatch the movies with you
I call them movies but they're not all too long. Most of them are about as long as this special is, I think
They're a neat look into the TYPE-MOON multiverse

Oh no
He's a boy again

Lots of young waver here
you'd think turning young would be a good thing

Waver's maybe one of the few exceptions to that, hah hah
Growing up a decade really did him a lot of favours

I wonder where his adopted sister is
She'd probably find this hilarious

Kita kore!

oh i guess it's just an illusion
that doesn't help him at all though

It's a pretty powerful illusion though
At the degree it seems to be, it's only short of actually changing physical reality
Everyone sees him as his younger self, he sees himself as his younger self
It even has been affecting his ability to drink and smoke and is forcing the image of himself with the outfit he was wearing back then too

If no one can actually tell it's an illusion, is it really an illusion?
Or is it just a new reality?

I wonder if this illusion is that Camus lady's fault
Or is that maybe the too obvious solution to this mystery
This illusion did set in the day after she took his photo, after all

Hah hah hah
I was half expecting he'd get someone to cast a counter illusion on him to make him look his older self again
But he at least has the El-Melloi imouto to vouch for him

Wow she's drinking a lot right off the bat
Just chaining glasses of wine

Waver you're the Lord El-Melloi II
You've fucking succeeded at life

Oh Waver's already figured out the guy's plan
As expected of Waver
I guess the Camus lady is helping him out for some reason
But I bet she's also got some second angle at this

Everyone else is excited to be young

Even his imouto got de-aged too hah hah

I think Camus might have some yandere-y tendencies for Waver
And this is all a revenge on the class for bullying him

Oh maybe not though

Also there was this narrative's Touka
Oh Touko

There seems to be a few common points shared between all the Touko's I've seen though
They are extremely competent and knowledgeable magus
And operate on their own whims and interests
Just because this one is opposing Waver or something doesn't necessarily make her a villain
She's just doing what she wants

Camus here been taking sneak photos of Waver the whole time

He's pretty cold to her even though she just gave him a sandwich

at least older him realizes it

Yeah hah hah
But we're all dumbasses when we're teenagers, aren't we
In his defense she seems to have always been too shy to properly approach him
She's not even a friend, she's a classmate who randomly wakes him up in the middle of the night to hand him a sandwich and a photo
I don't think acting a bit indifferent is entirely unwarranted

Reines getting one last snipe at him and his incompetence

Okay maybe this Touko is a bit crazier than some of the others I've seen
Wanting to replace people with dolls of themselves some real Magus insanity

When Gray goes into combat mode she always looks a lot like Saber Alter

oh yeah, i just remembered how much of a saberclone gray is

She has the eyes and hair tone of Saber Alter but has the original Saber's ahoge

Personality-wise she's quite the departure from the other Sabers though

he's too gay got alexander for love

Yeah hah hah hah
I was trying to think of a more creative way of putting it
But he really did just reject her affections because he's too gay for Iskandar

Oh she completely fried her Magic Circuits in that final spell

surprisingly juvenile farewell from old waver there

He does have moments of that every now and then
Even with how mature he's become, he still can be kind of a kid at heart at times
After all he did begin this episode playing an MMO

I guess they're not teasing us with anything else
Too bad, I really enjoy this setting and the way they write mysteries around magic is really well done

yeah that was entertaining enough

just a one shot

It does put me a bit into the headspace for Kara no Kyoukai
The aesthetics of Lord El-Melloi II are kind of an inbetween of Fate/Zero and Kara no Kyoukai
And the sense of mystery and the arcane pursuits of a Magus are more in the latter than the former

yep
it was pretty good

okay
bedtime for me, thanks for anime

I'll probably rewatch this again with Kirara if we can find the time
Although he might watch it with the others because it's hard to line the two of us up

Thanks for anime Rika!
Have a nice night

Hopefully we have some new stuff for tomorrow