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#101: Jul 17th 2013 at 3:23:54 PM

Still aimed at kids in japan though. Kinda amusing, really.

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#102: Jul 17th 2013 at 3:24:02 PM

It did? I didn't notice any.

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#103: Jul 17th 2013 at 3:31:32 PM

During the final battle, everyone has an Out-of-Clothes Experience while they're fighting. Women included.

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#104: Jul 17th 2013 at 4:43:34 PM

Oh riiiight, that one. Frankly, there's nipples, but really, unless kids don't know that nipples exist, it shouldn't matter. It's not sexualized.

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#105: Jul 17th 2013 at 4:57:00 PM

Japanese culture generally doesn't put as much of a taboo on nudity as Western cultures do. That's why full-nudity public bathing (i.e. the bathers don't bother to cover up) is a lot more prevalent and socially acceptable in Japan than in the West, which is reflected in how normal it is to depict public bathing scenes with only minimal censorship at worst (in the form of Censor Steam over naughty bits and/or Barbie Doll Anatomy). Heck, Japan used to have unisex communal bathing as an effectively daily fact of life back before the 19th century, when comparatively puritanical Western values began to influence Japanese culture on the issue.

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edited 17th Jul '13 4:59:01 PM by MarqFJA

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#106: Jul 17th 2013 at 5:11:34 PM

Pretty Cure, compared to Gurren Lagann, by measure of badassery?

I need this explained.

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#107: Jul 17th 2013 at 5:24:54 PM

From HeartCatch Pretty Cure!'s final battle, proving for the seventh time in Pretty Cure's history that Magical Girls can engage in hand-to-hand combat as a first approach to defeating an enemy as much as your average Shonen Fighter hero.

Oh, and that Super Robot Genre anime/manga shouldn't hog the giant Guardian Entity stuff. Now that is what I call a literal Megaton Punch.

edited 17th Jul '13 5:29:05 PM by MarqFJA

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IanWilliam ...? Since: Jul, 2013
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#108: Jul 19th 2013 at 4:33:05 AM

[up] Heh.

Well, that's interesting and a nice way to look at it. Been attempting on rewatching Gurren Lagan. When you rewatch a series, do you do it chronologically?

Then again it was fascinating seeing how the original trio was like right from the start...

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#109: Jul 21st 2013 at 7:06:03 AM

Just watched episode 13.

The last General has the coolest army namand a damn cool name. He comes off as being...what's the word, petty? On the other hand, Viral may be still weak compared to Simon, but his reaction towards to Kamina's death (should I still spoiler this?) and the General's order make me like him more and more.

Oh, and Nia...well, sucks to be Dai-Gurren, I guess. I am also guessing that power of love dulled Simon's tastebuds or something. tongue

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Elfive (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#110: Jul 21st 2013 at 7:42:42 AM

Nah, Simon just has weird tastebuds.

If I remember right, Word of God is that if Kamina had been alive he'd have liked her cooking too.

Fluid Since: Jan, 2001
#111: Jul 21st 2013 at 8:12:13 AM

The last General has the coolest army namand a damn cool name. He comes off as being...what's the word, petty?

Guame? Yeah, he's an interesting guy. Also the only one of the four that talks to Lordgenome like a friend instead of treating him like a god.

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#112: Jul 21st 2013 at 8:21:18 AM

[up][up]

If I have one regret about the series, it's that Nia never meets Kamina. I would have loved to see those two interact.

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tvsgood from Steins Gate Since: Jan, 2010
#113: Jul 21st 2013 at 8:33:14 AM

[up][up]You're thinking of Guame, while the guy you're quoting was talking about Cytomander.

[up]Check out the High School AU manga.

And one more thing - I'm not saying anything explicitly, but I did watch the first 3 episodes of TTGL in delicious Blu-Ray quality...

edited 21st Jul '13 8:35:31 AM by tvsgood

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#114: Jul 21st 2013 at 8:33:35 AM

[up][up] Actually, I was talking about Cytomander or whatever.

[up] Truly a pity, indeed.

Random thought: Nia's voice had a rather airy feeling.

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Wiseman23753 Since: Sep, 2011
#115: Jul 21st 2013 at 2:40:46 PM

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I like Cytomander, too. Especially because he has all the air forces, my favorites part of battle.

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#116: Jul 21st 2013 at 8:41:13 PM

Yeah, he had the best army.

Speaking of that episode, Gurren Lagann using drills like Spiderman on air and snatching one of them as his wing was awesome.

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#117: Jul 21st 2013 at 8:50:15 PM

Once you finish the fight with the generals, you should totally watch the first movie, Guren-hen.

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#118: Jul 21st 2013 at 9:25:36 PM

Cytomander's only weakness is that he takes too fucking long say the names of his attacks.

Shorten it and he'd have won a thousand times over.tongue

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#119: Jul 21st 2013 at 11:00:32 PM

Walking down the subway last night. Some people see my TTGL bag and start shouting "HEY, GURREN LAGANN! YO MAN!" and I give them the thumbs up while heading down the escalator.

Feels good.

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#120: Jul 21st 2013 at 11:02:19 PM

[up][up]Winning? Against post-character development Simon?

Who the hell do you think you are?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFmGNqji4u0
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#121: Jul 21st 2013 at 11:23:02 PM

I would love a t-shirt with Dai-Gurren insigna on back. I would pay a good money for it. cool

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#122: Jul 21st 2013 at 11:37:58 PM

I know I've gotten into hot water for my critical negative opinions on this show in the past, but I just want to ask an honest question.

Does anyone ever think it's strange and kinda.... morally repugnant how disfunctional the characters treat each other in this show? Kamina constantly pushed Simon into things, pushing him into operating Lagann and going to the surface (and Simon isn't really given a chance to think things over and decide if he really wants to leave the village.] and when they do get to the surface, Kamina, IMO, crosses the Moral Event Horizon and starts being a borderline bully. Kamina continues to push him, from passive agressive statements like "How long are you going to keep running, Simon?" to getting in his Ganmen and throwing rocks at Simon, to outright hitting him when he was upset to get him to "fall in line." And most of these events are Played for Laughs or otherwise treated as perfectly acceptable or even considered to be Bad Ass to some people.

The problem with this, is it carries with it a lot of Unfortunate Implications. you have a young lead who is pretty much in a hellish existance, constantly fearing for his life, and it's perfectly fine to completely invalidate what he is going through, by taunting him with dogmatic manly bravado talk at best "Don't run away, be a real man, etc.", and outright abusing him at worst! this entire concept for developing a character just kinda shocks and baffles me. I used to think that talking and kindness and compassion was the stuff of good character moments, and well, not stuff like that. It feels like, unlike other coming of age mecha shows, Gurren Lagann goes to this..... very dark place, and not in a good way....

And this actually continues as we see Simon and Rossiu's clashing of the wills, until eventually Simon's recklessness is shown to be "The Correct Path"(TM) where just episodes before showed this same behavior being destrutive and bad, and Rossiu made correct steps to fix the problem (trying Simon for what he did.) Much like how Young Simon's feeling were stomped on and invalidated, R Ossiu's own arc was similarly stomped on the the point where he..... wants to kill himself. And this is where the Unfortunate Implications get way, WAY, not funny.

Simon barges in and punches, the unstable, distressed, distraught, Rossiu. Just as Kamina punched him when he was sad. Speaking as someone who's dealt with suicidal tendencies before, this is very, very offensive. First off, Simon is the source of Rossiu's despair. Simon making the mistakes and reckless actions he did put R Ossiu in the spot where he had to make all of those hard decisions, and Simon's later reckless actions being "right" when he saved everyone made Rossiu question the point of anything he accomplished, so having S Imon there was making a bad situation worse. Secondly, I talked before about Kamina being morally repugnant? This, is way, way worse. I can't begin to tell you how much is wrong with hitting someone as emotionally unstable as Rossiu, and on top of it, Simon gives a man-vado dogmatic speech to make it as offensive as possible.

I know I'm probably all alone in thinking this, but, that what I thought. I just prefer shows where the people who are "heroes" are supposed to have a more healthy friendship or teamwork atmosphere.

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#123: Jul 21st 2013 at 11:48:01 PM

Nope!

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#125: Jul 22nd 2013 at 12:06:25 AM

Fair enough, sorry.


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