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That's horrible. You son of a grot why would you post that...
Naka-chan's my flagship right now >.>;
The game is actually pretty fun once you get used to the language barrier, I'm mostly on step with what's going on and what I'm doing after watching some let's plays. I applied to the lottery for a slot on the server and got in on the first run.
What's really disturbing about everyone being confused by KanColle is apparently you people haven't seen Strike Witches, which is pretty much the same concept, most of the Kanmusume wear more clothes though...
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
What's really disturbing about everyone being confused by KanColle is apparently you people haven't seen Strike Witches, which is pretty much the same concept, most of the Kanmusume wear more clothes though...
Well, I mean that was conscious decision, at least on my part.
the shrouded lord wrote: what's strike witches? I seem to recall a friend mentioning loli harem.
One day you'll have to learn the joys of google and wikipedia
Set in an alternate Earth in the mid twentieth century, Strike Witches tells the story of a fight to protect the world using a combination of magic and technology in a fictional recreation of events occurring in World War II with the national armies joining forces to confront an overwhelming alien threat together instead of fighting among themselves. Most battles featured in the franchise are fictional recreations of real conflicts of that time, with the human army taking the role of the Allied Forces, and the Neuroi assuming the side of the Axis Powers.
The titular Strike Witches are young women with high magical potential who are recruited into military organizations around the world to fight against the enigmatic Neuroi, which began an invasion of unprecedented scale on human territory in 1939. This puzzling enemy force has appeared frequently and without warning in many areas across the world throughout history. The weapons of the Neuroi mostly take on forms similar to aircraft, but their most troubling tactic is the spreading of a corrosive miasma. Not only do normal humans have no defense against this miasma, but the remnants of the land affected by it are processed by the Neuroi into new weapons, crumbling huge sections of former nations into the sea. As the miasma seems to be unable to spread across large bodies of water, humanity has designated such areas as their main lines of defense.
To bring out their potential for use in battle, each Witch equips a unique machine onto their legs: the Striker Unit. With the Striker Unit equipped, they gain the ability to fly and their tapped magical potential provides the strength to utilize weapons far too heavy and powerful for a normal person. A defensive field is also created that can protect the Witches from the Neuroi's miasma, as well as other physical weaponry, making them humanity's trump card in the war. The franchise's main media focuses on the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, defending the Britannian home islands, in the first season, as a parallel to the Battle of Britain, and struggling to retake an occupied Italian peninsula in the second season as a parallel to the late stages of the Adriatic Campaign. In the feature film, the 501st join forces to repel an enemy offensive near the Rhine in a fashion similar to the events of the Battle of the Bulge.
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"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill
What's really disturbing about everyone being confused by KanColle is apparently you people haven't seen Strike Witches, which is pretty much the same concept, most of the Kanmusume wear more clothes though...
Well, I mean that was conscious decision, at least on my part.
That's perfectly fair, but you're aware of the concept at least.
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
Ahahaha! Oh, Strike Witches. I heard about that one in a really, really strange way.
So I've got a friend who's a gun nut, and he was talking about some sort of rare stock scope that was produced with original models of a WWII rifle he's got. I didn't understand what he was talking about (being more about hitty things than shooty things) so he googled the scope (some sort of tri-scope with a pointy bar coming up from the bottom and two not-pointy bars coming in from the sides) to show me what he was talking about. On the first page, and one of the only accurate representations of how the scope was set up, was a picture showing a shot through the scope, of an anime chick's butt.
Naturally, we had to find out what the context of the picture was. We found out it was from an anime called "Strike Witches" and the scope was actually (for whatever reason) attached to a fire hose.
We watched the first episode.
My friend's reaction (as he's not a super-regular Anime watcher, more used to things like Trigun and Hellsing and KlK and Gurren Lagann, rather than things like Infinite Stratos or Nanoha) was glorious. Nopes and OMGs and whygodwhy's abounded, and I really wish we'd been recording his reactions for YouTube. The bit where they just suddenly had animal ears and tails was fantastic, too. Based on how he reacted to that, I'm hoping to record his reaction to Infinite Stratos as well.
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I'm surprised that you think they were robots. Have you never seen anthropomorphized characters before? It's the same idea as cat girls, but with boats.... this time.... Just stick the best boat bits on a person and bam. done. Boatgirl. The reason so many are small chested is because the class of ship and their chest size is linked. You have a lot of destroyers and very few battleships so you will notice a lot smaller girls and fewer big ones.
You're pretty much right about everything except the release date: It's already upped and subbed
Well colour me kancolle. It says on Anichart it screened 9 minutes before this post in japan. http://anichart.net/
I can't complain i guess, but I'll still wait for the legal release. Also I don't mean to boast... but I have Takao as my flagship. Suck it. I got lucky as heck in the ship creation.
I'm surprised that you think they were robots. Have you never seen anthropomorphized characters before? It's the same idea as cat girls, but with boats.... this time.... Just stick the best boat bits on a person and bam. done. Boatgirl. The reason so many are small chested is because the class of ship and their chest size is linked. You have a lot of destroyers and very few battleships so you will notice a lot smaller girls and fewer big ones.
You're pretty much right about everything except the release date: It's already upped and subbed
Well colour me kancolle. It says on Anichart it screened 9 minutes before this post in japan. http://anichart.net/
I can't complain i guess, but I'll still wait for the legal release. Also I don't mean to boast... but I have Takao as my flagship. Suck it. I got lucky as heck in the ship creation.
You should be able to get a legal stream somewhere at least...
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
It was alright. Better than the bear one. Definitely got a strong Strike Witches vibe off of it so far, though having only seen like the first and maybe second episodes of that one as well.
I watched the first episode of strike witches.
good action, check.
interesting if odd characters, check.
interesting and convoluted plot, check.
attractive redhead, check.
my kind of anime is a go people!
eventho the main character is only year younger than me, I still feel just a bit pedo whenever her butt is taking up the entire screen.
the shrouded lord wrote: I watched the first episode of strike witches.
good action, check.
interesting if odd characters, check.
interesting and convoluted plot, check.
attractive redhead, check.
my kind of anime is a go people!
eventho the main character is only year younger than me, I still feel just a bit pedo whenever her butt is taking up the entire screen.
Don't feel like that.
Lolis are love! Lolis are life! PRAISE THE LOLIS!
(oh, and because it kinda annoys me to no end how people don't seem to be able to understand a drawing is different than real-life... I find amusing how some artists I like do disclaimers like "The girl depicted here is 18 years old" for a drawing. Well, at least they manage to dodge the bullet that way. Oh, and ofc this only happens for western artists)
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"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill
God dammit Naruto! The Manga's over so you don't really need to be worried about catching up to and having to wait for more to be released to cut it out with all the stupid filler interrupting things!
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I caught thefirst episode of kancolle last night. Pleasantly impressed so far. Hopefully it can keep it up for the rest of the season. Unryuu making an appearance would not be unappreciated either...
Next up on my watching schedule is Stardust Crusaders season 2. I'm a diehard JJBA fan so I can barely contain my excitement at this point.
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I reeaaally have to finish Aldnoah.Zero. This place's reaction to the final episode was really something.
"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill
AduroT wrote: God dammit Naruto! The Manga's over so you don't really need to be worried about catching up to and having to wait for more to be released to cut it out with all the stupid filler interrupting things!
"But we wrote all these extra episodes just in case we'd need them, it would be a waste to not air them..."
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5 eps into trike witches. all of the characters accept the eye-patch woman could be rreplaced by bricks with panties and a different emote drawn on them.
And you wonder why a lot of people make fun of anime...
I am the Hammer. I am the right hand of my Emperor. I am the tip of His spear, I am the gauntlet about His fist. I am the woes of daemonkind. I am the Hammer.
GET ON 
