Aquarion Evol

He seems intent on putting Apollon back togethers somehow, so I think he's still Touma. Just being more dickish about how he's doing it.

Holy crap two Aquarions. That's awesome.

... MIIIIIIKAAAAGEEEEEEEEE!

Which raises the question of "why the fuck didn't they deploy both at the same time before?".

Because plot. XD

I would love to see these two Aquarions GATTAI.

And then the Aquarion pilots all go

"Whoa DOUBLE RAINBOW" while they moan out various orgasmic played lines

Well, it is essentially a six-person spiritual orgy of sorts.

....I still haven't seen this episode because I dont want to be depressed afterward

Kagura vs Accelerator

Okay finally watched the episode.

Kagura is Bizarro, and Mykage can rot in hell. (I hope he didn't kill the rest of the guys he flower beamed in the mission control area. Fudou didn't seem to mind it that much, it was only when Mykage did the finishing blow on Jin did he freak out.)

I almost wonder if Fudou sees this as some sort of game and Mykage seriously broke the rules or something. I'm really starting to believe that this Fudou is actually Touma (the good one)

The Super Robot Wars commercial at the end was a major Mood Whiplash though...

edited 30th Mar '12 9:36:31 AM by Thorn14

Isn't Fudo ZEN just a bad alias for Fudo Gen?

Its Kawamouri man. You're better off predicting who is gonna win that lottery tonight than figuring out what he plans.

edited 30th Mar '12 7:10:52 PM by Thorn14

His plotlines are as wayward as the Macross missiles

So, there's a post up on /m/ that fully translates this blog post. Those with "[ ]" are the translator's personal thoughts.

Element powers:

• Amata = Flying
• Cayenne = Ability to predict when bad stuff's gonna happen (and only that?) (literal TL = Despair Prediction)
• Andy = Digging holes
• Shrade = Mind controlling people with music (literal TL = Mind Concert)
• Mikono = Connecting people Nok-...
• J/Zessica = Impact (literal TL = Ability to crash things)
• MIX = filling empty spaces
• Yunoha = transparency
• Jin = Power to disconnect/sever/isolate

• Mari is an avid Nicovideo user (nico-chuu for those of you who know that word). She checks the comments on the livestream on Nicovideo every episode.
• Mari did not give the idea for the TEAR CLOTHES = MORE SENSITIVE TO ENVIRONMENT episode.
• The ED illustrations have all been revealed for now, they may change depending on the amount of support/discussion from the fans the show gets. [Does this mean there won't be a second ED animation?]

• Jin's death was planned from the beginning of the making of the show. Mari now regrets that because he unexpectedly became popular. [This means we need to send pineapples to Mari, not to Kawamori, I guess.]
• Mari went overboard (= too dirty/erotic) for the lyrics in the song that streams along the special training (which has not aired and will be in the BD) and so they were rejected. [I'm not sure if that means it was only rejected for airing or if it alwo won't be in the Bluray]
• The way they're doing the reincarnation shenanigans is interesting/funny. Kawamori mentions that "The soul, the mind and the body are three distinct things" a lot.
• Something interesting about "KUSO ONNA" (= smelly wench): Mari has been called that a lot when she was writing the scenario, she liked it, and so they decided to make Kagura say it in the actual show.
• Mikono has been, for now, set up as a good girl-type heroin that only says negative things and who thinks lowly of herself. But she is someone that connects men, which makes her a bad woman. [what?]
• Pic related is the spine for a book or a CD/DVD/BD case [not clear, maybe it's the B Ds case spine]. Is the disposition of these drawings relevant for the pairings?
  • The picture in question.◊

• Uchiyama [Uchiyama Kouki / Kagura's VA]: "In the script that was given to me for Kagura's audition, there were a lot of words such as "KUSO ONNA" or "TRALALALA" and even dirty lines. I then thought to myself "What's with this anime? Scary!". [Thanks, Mari! I'm really curious now.]
• Kawamori thinks that Uchiyama is refreshing.
• A lot of female characters got their personality changed as their design got made. For instance, Mikono was to be a military mania and Crea was to use abusive language. [Oh wow]
• Shrade is the character whose setting has the least changed from before Mari joined the project.
• Sazanka and Moroi (swag, black guy) were planned to be extra (= background) characters. They made an experiment with Sazanka and made her a hard fujoshi for the dating episode (the one with the electric bracelets), and since it was funny they decided to promote her to secondary character status. Moroi has been promoted because he's popular within the staff.
• Everyone was laughing during Shrade's episode's dub recording.

• Alicia is a famous ex-actress. The guys on Altair find her particularly beautiful because there are NO GIRLS over there.
• Amata and Kagura share a strong bond. Their relationship is not really fixed and Kawamori changes it according to how the audience reacts. [Man...]
• Kagura will change from now on, that change couldn't have been predicted at all. There'll be a huge gap.
• The relationships will also change a lot in the second half of the show. Everyone is shaking in fear think that they may die.
• Ep 14 will be an episode that no one would expect in a normal anime.

edited 1st Apr '12 3:08:07 AM by Izaak

Ep 14 will be an episode that no one would expect in a normal anime.

Goes without saying. This isn't a normal anime to begin with, period.

I HATE YOU MARI!

Repostan from /a/.

Take that with a fistful of salt, I'm not sure at all. There was an important kanji pun explained by Zen, I think, that explains the title (especially the first kanji, 個). Prepare for DEEP and maybe farfetched shit, but hey, it's Zen (and Mari/Kawamori).

Here, 個 means "the individual" 個 is made of these three parts:

人　(man/living human being) 囗 (enclosure) 古 (old/ancient) I think that Zen basically explained (complete with Magic Kanji Display™) that the living (人) and the dead ("old"/"古" in a "box"/"囗" = dead people in coffins) are always together, and transformed 古 into 個, "individual", maybe expressing that "everyone is one and together in life".

Holy fuck that's... A fucked up kind of training.

1: BEST MUSIC EVER 2: Holy shit, was that Kagura looking content and sane for once?

momogolfish: He's not OVA Touma either as he died while thinking Aquarion was embracing him. So he did die peacefully. Plus I wouldn't exactly do a Heel–Face Turn either if I have a miscarriage because of Aquarion going out of control.

So they not only brought back Genesis of Aquarion, they brought back the english version? Nice.

I see no matter what era, Gen's fucked up training will always make a shit ton of sense in the end and end up being completely awesome.

Also this episode seems to be pushing that this Gen though is Toma.

Also, great theory I heard. Alicia's body and soul are separate from one another. When Alicia was being sucked into Altair, she likely put her soul into the new Aquarion, which is why she's in a stasis pod in Altair. If this indeed the case, that might explain why the Aquarion was outside of Amata's window when he was mutilating his leg wings, and why Vector Z flew on its own to pick up Amata and Mikono in the first two episodes.

Even without a body to call her own, Amata's mother is still watching over her son. Doesn't that sound crazy? It does, but keep in mind that this is a Kawamori show. It could happen.

edited 2nd Apr '12 11:11:13 PM by Thorn14

So basically Alicia pulled a Shinji's mom?

Also my bro pointed out another reason for the Happy Birthday, apparently the original Aquarion started airing on the 4th of April.

edited 3rd Apr '12 1:30:57 AM by momogoldfish

Amata's words in the last gattai: "I feel like I'm a baby being held at my mom's breast again!"

edited 3rd Apr '12 2:11:23 AM by GrandPrincePaulII

I notice also they made the first real allusion to the reincarnation cycle with Jin telling his beloved how he'd spend thousands of years waiting to meet her again. I think between that and hearing them themesong again, we got some awesome character development moments for the main cast