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 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
Gate's premise was interesting as hell, and it continues to be above average, but I just don't give a fat frog arse about gothlolita characters, to the point that they're beginning to tick me off...

I would enjoy Gate SO MUCH MORE if Rory was a slightly different archtype.

Aren't you exagerating a bit? The way you said it, it sounds like Rory has been a major player in the show. She hasn't really done much besides wasting some fools, the mage has been much more important with her work as an interpreter.

The elf is the one who hasn't really done nothing so far.

I kind of wonder if Rory won't end up more antagonistic later, at least briefly. The stuff that raider was saying to her about is this really what war is supposed to be seemed to get to her.

 Alfndrate wrote:
Gate's premise was interesting as hell, and it continues to be above average, but I just don't give a fat frog arse about gothlolita characters, to the point that they're beginning to tick me off...

I would enjoy Gate SO MUCH MORE if Rory was a slightly different archtype.

Characters? There's only 1 gothlolita.
I'm pretty sure the mage and the elf aren't goths nor lolitas.

Sure I'm exaggerating, but I really don't like her character. Her strange bloodlust, the outfit, how she rubs against Itami. She's more like a priestess to the good of slaughter than death. The elf is useless atm, but she hasn't done anything to irk me. The mage is the best though.

The part of Gate's premise that fell flat for me was when conflict seemingly ended. We had a battle in Japan, a battle at arnus hill, and then "let's play Civ" I'm fine with them learning about the world, but at that point it could have been anyone from "our world" instead of the military. I liked the battle a few episodes ago, because it was modern tech vs fantasy tech, which is the biggest reason why I wanted to watch the show. I'll keep watching, but I still don't like Rory

Edit: I don't care about gothlolita characters from any series. Hope that clarifies what I said

Alfndrate, not watching Gangsta? Cause that show is IMO better then anything this season.

Show of the season as far I'm concerned.

 Soladrin wrote:
Alfndrate, not watching Gangsta? Cause that show is IMO better then anything this season.

Where did I say I wasn't watching Gangsta.?! Not only have I been watching it, I've bought most of the manga, and I'm looking for merch. Gangsta, Durarara!!x2, and Himouto! Umaru-chan are the three shows I look forward to every week from this season.

 Alfndrate wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:
Alfndrate, not watching Gangsta? Cause that show is IMO better then anything this season.

Where did I say I wasn't watching Gangsta.?! Not only have I been watching it, I've bought most of the manga, and I'm looking for merch. Gangsta, Durarara!!x2, and Himouto! Umaru-chan are the three shows I look forward to every week from this season.

I... don't know, my head told me I read you say that somewhere.................. I'm confused right now.

Lol, I've been pro-Gangsta since the week before it started broadcasting when I grabbed the manga.

Also in Kekkai Sensen news, the Bluray/DVD releases start soon, and it looks like we're going to have to wait until November 15th release of Vol. 6 to see the end of the season if they can't find a broadcast spot.

Edit: Picked up vol. 5 and 6 of Gangsta. today after work, will read them when I'm done with Log Horizon vol. 2.

I don't know exactly what I expected from Monster Musume, but it wasn't of the quality the show actually possesses.

And Smith knows exactly what she's up to.

Anvildude wrote:
I don't know exactly what I expected from Monster Musume, but it wasn't of the quality the show actually possesses.

And Smith knows exactly what she's up to.

Yeah, the manga was always amazing and I'm glad the anime has the same quality. With that said, I'd love a spin-off dedicated to MON: The Ogre-girl looks so damn cool in her trenchcoat and metal gauntlets and when her power armor is on <3 oh yes.

And ofc the best girl had to the last. Oh Rachnera Arachnera, so glad you are finally here <3

And to me, show of the season goes without any doubt to Overlord. Damn, everything about it is just so damn good. It's either an extremely badass show or funny as hell; I was laughing so much with Momon's inner thoughts when the rest of the party was commenting about the Wise King of the Forest

And on that note, I've now seen an "Overlord" car. It was a fething Ford Mustang GT. Such MANLINESS!

Car is pretty cool. I'm still not subscribed/premium so I'm an episode of two behind but Albedo's Ains body pillow was pretty...interesting

Also, be needs to find something challenging to do, its OK to go back to the lower-middle levels to hell out n00b friends, but he's just tagging around showing of for complete lowbie strangers.

People did this in wow, they were typically not the cool kids

Yeah, my only complaint with Overlord is how rediculously OP he is so far. Nothing has been even remotely a challenge. Hell, he's not just a top tier magic user, he's apparently also a super bad arsed melee warrior too.

 AduroT wrote:
Yeah, my only complaint with Overlord is how rediculously OP he is so far. Nothing has been even remotely a challenge. Hell, he's not just a top tier magic user, he's apparently also a super bad arsed melee warrior too.

Don't forget how absolute OP he is when a "normal" human has a max of tier 3 magic. Our pharmacist hero said how this Ainz Ooal Gown fellow is probably hero rank so he can use 5th tier magic when we know he can use 9th tier magic

And well, in any RPG when you are high level enough, even the melee attack of a mage will be 1 hit kill for low level mobs.

I'm very curious to finally see what will be a worthy opponent for him. Maybe Shalltear, I guess. We see Momonga and Shalltear fighting in the op and everything in the OP has happened so far.

She shouldn't technically even be on his radar. It would be like Arthas having trouble with the first gate guard in his lair. She may be tougher than anything in this new world so far, but still nothing like an equal. So the opening is certainly curious.

And yeah, max level wizard hanging out in n00b zones can totally bonk things to death with a staff, not to mention his gear is probably giving him fighting stats since he can use those not wizard swords.

Anvildude wrote:
I don't know exactly what I expected from Monster Musume, but it wasn't of the quality the show actually possesses.

And Smith knows exactly what she's up to.

I read the Manga pretty dedicatedly and the show has made me very happy. We're nearing the "Mom" arch, but I doubt we'll get to it this season, so fingers crossed for S2.

Also love spirit bomb? Love spirit bomb.

I've really been enjoying Gate but the elf is starting to annoy me. Rory and Mage are both fleshing out and doing stuff. So far the elf helps once and is otherwise mostly sitting around silent and blonde while glancing at Itami when she thinks no one is looking.

 GrimDork wrote:
She shouldn't technically even be on his radar. It would be like Arthas having trouble with the first gate guard in his lair. She may be tougher than anything in this new world so far, but still nothing like an equal. So the opening is certainly curious.

And yeah, max level wizard hanging out in n00b zones can totally bonk things to death with a staff, not to mention his gear is probably giving him fighting stats since he can use those not wizard swords.

More or less. Momonga is a player. Sure, he's lvl 100, top level, but he's a player character. Shalltear, if she's a guardian of the dungeon, should be a raid boss. And we all know how raid bosses work in MMOs, either you have a raid or you are dead.
Shalltear's level is also 100. Stats:

 AduroT wrote:
Yeah, my only complaint with Overlord is how rediculously OP he is so far. Nothing has been even remotely a challenge. Hell, he's not just a top tier magic user, he's apparently also a super bad arsed melee warrior too.

To be honest, I kind of like how he's OP.
Then again, the last few animes I've seen had absolutely pathetic protagonists.
God dammit Yuki...

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Yeah, my only complaint with Overlord is how rediculously OP he is so far. Nothing has been even remotely a challenge. Hell, he's not just a top tier magic user, he's apparently also a super bad arsed melee warrior too.

To be honest, I kind of like how he's OP.
Then again, the last few animes I've seen had absolutely pathetic protagonists.
God dammit Yuki...

Are you referring to 'mirai nikki'? I read a chunk of the manga and never saw the anime itself. I'm probably way off though considering that anime isn't the big deal this season.

I feel like I have to watch Gangsta now. It seems like it's a great anime for me to watch. I'm still saying it'll get depressing and it'll hit us all very, very hard.

Yeah, Mirai Nikki. Its pretty good, though there are oddities.
Yuki is just insufferable though. Its as if they tried to write another Shinji. Even when you think he's gotten over it he can't stop whining.
Like, I know that he's thrown into a fight to the death with a bunch of sociopaths, his girlfriend being the biggest one, but come on...

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Yeah, Mirai Nikki. Its pretty good, though there are oddities.
Yuki is just insufferable though. Its as if they tried to write another Shinji. Even when you think he's gotten over it he can't stop whining.
Like, I know that he's thrown into a fight to the death with a bunch of sociopaths, his girlfriend being the biggest one, but come on...

What I don't understand is that yeah he's a whiner and emo but how were most of you at his age? Same goes for shinji.

Personally I think that even though shinji and yuki are annoying at least they do something. Yuki threw a dart at the one dude's phone in the beginning, he's the reason that uni-bomber lady lost her eye and almost lost her diary/life and managed to save yuno from being raped by that blind girl's henchmen by throwing that ball in the air and thus confusing her diary and this is just the early stuff (to my knowledge that accounted for at least 2 kills on diary owners). Sure he's a wuss bag but he does stuff. Same goes for shinji. Shinji kicked *** even in the first version of evangelion. He was a wimp but he always came back after running away and dealt with his problems. The characters just need to grow up and learn that they can't always run away from their problems and in a sense they don't entirely. Besides with shinji he had a dead mom, unloving father and the safety of the city depended on him. That's a lot for anybody. Imo I more hate the 15 year old main characters where they have to save the world while going to high school. I mean fighting robots is easy but how can he handle high school?

So in short you guys just hate the main character's attitude. They aren't worthless by any means. In evangelion shinji's mentally unhinged state was getting worse and wasn't helped by what was happening. If you hate him then hate him for fapping on asuka even if she was a *****. In mirai nikki the main character whined but even his dad betrays him later for cash or something. When crap goes down and your most trusted ally is a sociopathic yandere stalker then you're in trouble.

Welp... Gate is going places.. I just have no idea where. Rory was great in this episode though.

I dunno I'm pretty sure if at 14, my dad had told me 'pilot this giant robot' I would have clipped off a 'how high' or similar response and jumped into the cockpit. After the first angel fight it may have been different, but shinji was a chickenshit about it before be ever even knew just what he'll he'd be walking into.

I was definitely a teenager when I was a teenager, but no where near shinji tier.


I guess the raid boss/player thing may hold some weight, but if that were the case then even the battle maids would be way stronger than Momonga just for having raid adjusted stats, so I'm not sure its a direct correlation to conventional MMO systems.


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Shinji had all kinds of stupid stuff going on before too, I mean abandonment issues out the wazzoo. Then he gets a guardian who is way too purposely sexual around a 14 year old (while not being especially emotionally stable herself), and all of the fights to the death with horrible aliens on top of it.

Shinji probably deserves to be whiney, but it doesn't make him any more fun to watch.

Yeah but both character's dads were terrible people. They also went through some pretty eff'd up ****.

I dunno it's just my opinion that a lot of the anime watchers were themselves the chicken **** type that wussed out fairly easily. So basically I feel it's a bit unfair to expect the main character to be super awesome.

That said that kid got to live with 2 hot women. Then again one was a ***** and the other would've been a pedo if it worked out. This is anime from japan though so it's not like it'd be a first.

Leaked screenshot from the Monster Musine finale...

 AduroT wrote:
Leaked screenshot from the Monster Musine finale...

Spoiler:

Look at my horse, my horse is amazing...

Just, no.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Yeah, Mirai Nikki. Its pretty good, though there are oddities.
Yuki is just insufferable though. Its as if they tried to write another Shinji. Even when you think he's gotten over it he can't stop whining.
Like, I know that he's thrown into a fight to the death with a bunch of sociopaths, his girlfriend being the biggest one, but come on...

What I don't understand is that yeah he's a whiner and emo but how were most of you at his age? Same goes for shinji.

Personally I think that even though shinji and yuki are annoying at least they do something. Yuki threw a dart at the one dude's phone in the beginning, he's the reason that uni-bomber lady lost her eye and almost lost her diary/life and managed to save yuno from being raped by that blind girl's henchmen by throwing that ball in the air and thus confusing her diary and this is just the early stuff (to my knowledge that accounted for at least 2 kills on diary owners). Sure he's a wuss bag but he does stuff. Same goes for shinji. Shinji kicked *** even in the first version of evangelion. He was a wimp but he always came back after running away and dealt with his problems. The characters just need to grow up and learn that they can't always run away from their problems and in a sense they don't entirely. Besides with shinji he had a dead mom, unloving father and the safety of the city depended on him. That's a lot for anybody. Imo I more hate the 15 year old main characters where they have to save the world while going to high school. I mean fighting robots is easy but how can he handle high school?

So in short you guys just hate the main character's attitude. They aren't worthless by any means. In evangelion shinji's mentally unhinged state was getting worse and wasn't helped by what was happening. If you hate him then hate him for fapping on asuka even if she was a *****. In mirai nikki the main character whined but even his dad betrays him later for cash or something. When crap goes down and your most trusted ally is a sociopathic yandere stalker then you're in trouble.

Personally, I seem to be having a strange "reverse-maturity-aging" thing going on. I was all super-serious when I was a kid, my teenage years had me worrying about existential stuff (where will I live, how will I make money!?), and now, well, now I've hit the center 'balancing personal needs with responsibilities' bit. Gonna start falling over the hill back to existentialism in a couple decades, I bet.

Then again, I've got Germanic blood in me. I'd be much more of an Asuka than a Shinji.

The new YuruYuri has my interest piqued. Of course, there is more Transform! Anti-bully ranger!

Ok, let me explain my problem with Shinji. First, in the anime, I understand as a younger person, I didn't think about the enormous pressure on his shoulders, but good Gods, he doesn't make any easier, specially in the movies. Everyone is getting murdered and he's "NO, I will not use the Eva to protect everyone, I will just stay here and die!"

But that's ok, that was the old Eva. Now we have the new movies where Shinji is actually a likable human being. Right? Right?!

Yes, until movie 3.

/Begin rant

Heavy Spoilers about movie and mirai nikki. Be warned.

You see, Shinji fethed up. He fethed up badly and caused the apocalypse by the end of movie 2 but of course he had no idea he was gonna do it.
Long story short, in movie 3 when they get him from stasis, EVERYONE he ever knew was telling him "Never get into an Eva again." But ok, he was confused, he woke up from statis, everyone he ever knew was cold and angry with him, he didn't trust them now, I understand
Then he meets the Angel, the same as in the original Evangelion, and like in the original Evangelion, they become BFFs. They become REALLY close, he's like, the best BFF anyone ever had.
Shinji is given a mission by his father (Yes, the fether is still alive ofc) and Shinji now pilots a special Eva that requires 2 pilots, him and the Angel and he has to retrieve something.
EVERYONE he ever knew he's shouting for him not to do it.
THE ANGEL, the one guy he really should trust and who GIVES HIS LIFE FOR HIM, BEGS SHINJI not do it.
What does Shinji do? He does it anyway.
Angel dude dies thanks to Shinji.
Shinji releases the Apocalypse. AGAIN. THIS TIME WITH THE ENTIRE CAST BEGGING HIM NOT TO DO IT. INCLUDING HIS BFF. WHO DIES.

fething SHINJI IS THE MOST IDIOTIC AND PISSY CHARACTER. EVER. Sorry, this had to be in caps.

And Yuki? He's almost Shinji level. Why? Because of the SAME, GOD, DAMN, REASON.
There's this guy, who's almost like the Angel to Shinji. He's a great friend. Hell, he has many great friends who did all they could to help him, even sacrificed their lives from him.
Who does he trust and gets them all killed? His fething psychopatic girlfriend that already KIDNAPPED HIM BEFORE.

GODS. Some characters are made to be hated, some for reasons like the Mage in Fate Zero, others, well, because they are Shinji.

/end rant.


In other news, in GATE, RORY WAS FREAKING AWESOME. <3 A God has descended!

Yeah, Rory was amazing and I'm going to rewatch this episode with food today.