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Dark Apostle 666 wrote: Out of interest, does anyone have a favourite OST - either a single song/tune or a whole soundtrack?
Personally, I like the Bleach battle music, but the song played in Kill la Kill when Ryuko throws the beatdown is awesome - sadly, I can't find the whole track on youtube, just a 30-second demo:
That alternate dimension may or may not be a higher plane of being, and may or may not be merely the mindscape/a psychic construct of Akira himself- due to him being such a OMGHUEG brainpsychic guy. Kaneda's powers went out of control because of his age and.. hormones, I guess? Yeah.
How'd you figure that? I mean it makes sense, but it seems like its pretty hard to conclude that from what is actually shown and/or explained (or not) in the movie.
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Coolyo294 wrote: I just watched Attack on Titan: Ilse's Journal, and I've gotta say it's pretty awesome. Better than most of the episodes from the regular show IMO.
What is Attack on Titan: llse's Journal? An OVA that was released?
Yup. It's an OVA about the chapter in the manga where the Hanj and Levi find the journal of a Recon Corps soldier who died outside the walls. Reveals some very interesting things about the Titans and one of the characters in the main show.
It came out on the 9th, I think
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I've just watched the OVA as well I really enjoyed it, I hope they continue with them to get more of a feel on back stories and what not, but I don't want them to do it on a regular basis so to speak.
That alternate dimension may or may not be a higher plane of being, and may or may not be merely the mindscape/a psychic construct of Akira himself- due to him being such a OMGHUEG brainpsychic guy. Kaneda's powers went out of control because of his age and.. hormones, I guess? Yeah.
How'd you figure that? I mean it makes sense, but it seems like its pretty hard to conclude that from what is actually shown and/or explained (or not) in the movie.
Eh. A combination of years of fiction, a lot of Anime, a general understanding of human psychology, storytelling tropes, and Japanese culture. You can tell a ton in most anime by what the characters don't say, or only vaguely allude to- moreso, oftentimes, than through what they do say. It's one of the signature differences of Japanese language, and one of the biggest issues translations have- when an Anime sentence is <went to party>- and makes perfect sense to a native Japanese speaking audience, it's kinda hard to expand that into "(John) went to the party at Jill's house". This is merely an example of the way Japanese shortens and implies meaning instead of stating it- that's also why there's a lot of meaningful glances and soulful looks in Anime dramas- so you really need to pay more attention to the body language and facial expressions (as small and subtle as they may be) to figure out what's happening.
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for example- the samples are clearly bits of Akira- and there's enough of them there to mean that they've got essentially his entire body vivisected. But there's never (afaik) a mention about how Akira died, or a huge amount of surprise at the re-occurence of the Event- shock, awe, yes, but not surprise. Which suggests that everyone "in the know" knew Akira was still alive- yet he's been vivisected! Well, one of the tropes of high-power Psychics is the concept of Astral projection/mind transfer- the mind being separate from the body. This, combined with the shown ability of the Psychic powers to manipulate and effect the biological processes of the body- rampant growth, premature aging- suggests that Akira was never 'killed' but instead the sections and sampling they did with his entire body forced his mind, his Psychic presence, to retreat from his physical being. Akira's clearly the most powerful Talent around- so it's no huge stretch to think that he'd be able to unconsciously keep his cellular activity going, with the specimen containers actually acting to slow and limit the regeneration, rather than keeping the samples alive. And while Akira's not in his own body- well, where do you go when terrible things happen around you, especially when you're a child? You go to your Happy Place- but again, as Akira is such a huge Psychic power, his Happy Place is either another plane of existence- a presumably higher one that he's able to access via his powers- or a completely conceptual astral plane that he's created himself.
The giant exploshpere is just rampant over-telekinesing drawing all matter in the area into a single point- the light is actually the release of energy as all that matter is condensed into a singularity and annihilated into pure energy.
See? Simple!
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I think I just saw one of the best anime episodes of my entire fething life. I can't wait for next week, holy gak, This show just kept being better and better and better!
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And her mother! How awesome was that?! The casualty of the killer's reveal, her growing smile, this episode's soundtrack, holy feth, this anime is just amazing!
I just fething love her smile!
Golden Time:
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Tada Banri, my penis is confused thanks to you. Well done, my dear madam!
Besides that, laughed my ass off when I saw Miss Monochrome
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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
That smile creeped me out, and is what told me the next fight is gonna end very, very badly. I also feel like we're getting close to the true plot of the story, and everything so far has been a lead-up.
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That smile creeped me out, and is what told me the next fight is gonna end very, very badly. I also feel like we're getting close to the true plot of the story, and everything so far has been a lead-up.
Indeed. It seems the Anti-Spirals arrived early.
"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
You know someone is badass when he starts defeating other heroes with a RULER.
This was the first time I saw someone being defeated with electronic appliances. The Rice Cooker FINISH HIM was hilarious
"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
oh yes, I'm going to watch Log Horizon after I finish Ouran High School...which will be around next week or so, seeing as this is the last weekend before the end-of-term exams
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