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flygon250 Since: Dec, 2010
#526: Oct 19th 2011 at 3:54:44 AM

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I don't think so. The story of Double H / Triple H seems to play a pretty big role in Himari's character development, so I doubt he would use ARB songs themselves over the covers of those songs for that reason.

LiberatedLiberater 奇跡の魔女 from [DATA EXPUNGED] Since: Jun, 2011
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#527: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:23:40 AM

So apparently, that Lol wut? U mad? line is some sort of woolseyism for the outdated slang that Sanetoshi uses.

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flygon250 Since: Dec, 2010
#530: Oct 20th 2011 at 2:06:31 PM

No penguin tomorrow. Looks like another week of having to fill in the day with Guilty Crown instead, but even with weapons spontaneously spawning from a girl's chest, it is no replacement for penguins.

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#531: Oct 20th 2011 at 2:08:47 PM

That's a shame, but life happens.

Dragonzordasaurus Joining the Team.doc Since: Jan, 2011
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#532: Oct 20th 2011 at 2:16:26 PM

All I know about this show is some video that starts out like the Tales of Phantasia opening and then segues into the girl screaming angrily for some reason.

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LiberatedLiberater 奇跡の魔女 from [DATA EXPUNGED] Since: Jun, 2011
奇跡の魔女
#533: Oct 20th 2011 at 7:50:02 PM

Oh, that sucks. I hope 8thSin gets better soon.

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LiberatedLiberater 奇跡の魔女 from [DATA EXPUNGED] Since: Jun, 2011
奇跡の魔女
#534: Oct 22nd 2011 at 2:49:53 AM

New episode is out. And duuuuuuude... what the fuuuuuck.

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Arilou Taller than Zim from Quasispace Since: Jan, 2001
Taller than Zim
#535: Oct 22nd 2011 at 3:14:08 AM

The level of sheer plot-driven coincidence was LOL-worthy.

Also WTF?

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LiberatedLiberater 奇跡の魔女 from [DATA EXPUNGED] Since: Jun, 2011
奇跡の魔女
#536: Oct 22nd 2011 at 3:20:58 AM

Seriously, is Ikuhara trying to keep topping himself or something? Every episode since Episode 8 just scales up the WTF factor.

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Arilou Taller than Zim from Quasispace Since: Jan, 2001
Taller than Zim
#537: Oct 22nd 2011 at 3:45:45 AM

Yeah.

It's wonderful!

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fillerdude Since: Jul, 2010
#538: Oct 22nd 2011 at 6:45:08 AM

— watches latest episode —

Guys, I think I finally know what it's like to drink a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster!

Drakyndra Her with the hat from Somewhere Since: Jan, 2001
Her with the hat
#539: Oct 22nd 2011 at 7:25:57 AM

You know, I wrote a great big long pile of stuff about this essay over on LJ, and I can't be bothered rewriting it all, so I will just link it.

Includes: My WMG as to how the series will end, Momoka and Yuri as pre-pubescent Utena and Anthy, and how I am shipping Sho/Ringo and Himari/Double H.

I see we have hit the late Utena "The allegory is becoming the plot" stage of things. Hence the trippiness.

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Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#540: Oct 22nd 2011 at 8:25:35 AM

So, Ringo burst into flame in OP just like Momoka did in this episode. Therefore, wild mass guess Ringo will use the Diary to sacrifice herself and save somebody, possibly Himari or Shouma.wild mass guess

Also, wild mass guessWhat's currently written in the Diary is from another fate train where Momoka grew up and had a life with Tabuki.wild mass guess

Drakyndra Her with the hat from Somewhere Since: Jan, 2001
Her with the hat
#541: Oct 22nd 2011 at 8:48:30 AM

Ah, but in the new OP Ringo doesn't burst into flame, there's just a little flicker of fire.

And as I've noted elsewhere, the OP has changed from Kanba running in the same direction as Himari and Shouma, to now running in a different direction. I think the changes are significant.

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Organics Toast Connoisseur from Hidden in that crate Since: Jan, 2011
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#542: Oct 22nd 2011 at 5:02:31 PM

All of my whats. ALL OF THEM.

Ringo's stalking days seem so tame in hindsight. Ah, how innocent we were back when we considered drugging a man to rape him and bear his child, thus causing you to spontaneously transmogrify into your dead sister to be the pinnacle of batshit lunacy. If we only knew.

[up][up]I think that's pretty likely, actually. Perhaps it was the trio's parents who transferred everyone to a new destination of fate as part of their survival strategy.

edited 22nd Oct '11 5:04:48 PM by Organics

Funnyguts Since: Sep, 2010
#543: Oct 22nd 2011 at 8:14:29 PM

So now we get to sit and wonder just what exactly it was Yuri's dad did to her body.

Sackett Since: Jan, 2001
#544: Oct 22nd 2011 at 10:25:25 PM

[up]Here

Be warned. You'll want Brain Bleach afterwards. Industrial strength.

Sigh...

At least no one over here on this site is trying to argue that Yuri slipping a drug into Ringo's drink is actually an act of seduction and that Ringo was a willing participate in all of this.

Funnyguts Since: Sep, 2010
#545: Oct 22nd 2011 at 11:22:39 PM

^Considering all the statues of nude or semi-nude women, and the fact that Yuki's dad didn't find his wife ugly until she gave birth, I'm not sure that's quite right.

Also, there's that whole weird symbolism of the helicopter always flying past David's crotch. Seems like that would symbolize cutting a penis off rather than adding one.

Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#546: Oct 22nd 2011 at 11:37:43 PM

I just thought Yuri's dad was inflicting physical, mental, emotional, and probably sexual abuse (with surpisingly vulgar symbolism of the chisels pounding away at her), but nothing quite so fantastical.

I also took it as a sort of reversal of the Pygmalion myth: instead of a man following in love with a statue of a woman who then becomes real, a girl is being turned into a statue (figuratively).

And doesn't Momoka's incident here conflict with her being involved in the subway accident? Are there multiple "fates" going on?

edited 22nd Oct '11 11:40:24 PM by Eschaton

Funnyguts Since: Sep, 2010
#547: Oct 22nd 2011 at 11:57:13 PM

^This was presumably a few years before the subway attack. I think Momoka and Yuri were in elementary school during the flashback.

Drakyndra Her with the hat from Somewhere Since: Jan, 2001
Her with the hat
#548: Oct 23rd 2011 at 1:31:36 AM

The exact comment is that she vanished a while after the thing with the tower - so I'm assuming that Momoka got better, came back to school, spent some more time with Tabuki and Yuri, and then the bombing and her "death". Tabuki and Yuri do mention knowing one another since children.

I'm currently wondering if Tabuki was someone else who she tried to help with the diary, or he was just another class friend of hers.

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Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#549: Oct 23rd 2011 at 1:33:49 AM

There's that thing with his fingers...

Ever9 from Europe Since: Jul, 2011
#550: Oct 23rd 2011 at 2:59:11 AM

Considering all the statues of nude or semi-nude women, and the fact that Yuki's dad didn't find his wife ugly until she gave birth, I'm not sure that's quite right.

If you look at the statues in that room, all the females are broken, Venus de Milo style, but all the males are whole.


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