Infinite Stratos - General Discussion

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Himeji

they started with the map while still giving attention as to where the IS are placed, but then ran out of time, randomly added three more IS (second Russian IS and the two IS in decrepit third world countries) and considered it done.

My impression is that because those were ridiculously horrible places that they've stationed IS there to maintain order.

Also, who said each line represented one IS only?

[konart]

Originally Posted by Tano

"Mondo Grosso", the name of the IS International Fighting Tournament that is held every three years, in Italian means "Big World".

Why is it in Italian?


also i've seen this picture: http://www.lolibaka.com/image/post/v...finite_stratos

i guess it's from the novel. my question is: why this IS is so different (cooler) than the one shown in the anime? a future transformation?

First Shift, Second Shift.... Bankai!

[Belgaesh]

Originally Posted by Himeji

Buenos Aires (capital of Uruguay)

Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina. And that map presented in the episode, I don't think it represents the real distribuition of IS

Originally Posted by Tano

"Mondo Grosso", the name of the IS International Fighting Tournament that is held every three years, in Italian means "Big World".

Why is it in Italian?

Maybe it's prefence of the autor, or is the place where it's was first held.

[Angrypokstick]

Originally Posted by Tano

"Mondo Grosso", the name of the IS International Fighting Tournament that is held every three years, in Italian means "Big World".

Why is it in Italian?


also i've seen this picture: http://www.lolibaka.com/image/post/v...finite_stratos

i guess it's from the novel. my question is: why this IS is so different (cooler) than the one shown in the anime? a future transformation?

you should have asked that in the Novel discussion. http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=97359

This is an anime discussion.
Also Ichika's unit just underwent 1st shift, naturally implying more. You can figure out the rest.

[Tano]

Originally Posted by Belgaesh

Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina. And that map presented in the episode, I don't think it represents the real distribuition of IS



Maybe it's prefence of the autor, or is the place qhere it's was first held.

i agree with the bold part

Originally Posted by Angrypokstick

you should have asked that in the Novel discussion. http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=97359

This is an anime discussion.
Also Ichika's unit just underwent 1st shift, naturally implying more. You can figure out the rest.

thanks, i'll do that xD

[lightsenshi]

Originally Posted by TrueKnight

A real sniper? Hide yourself as stealthy as possible and get the kill without being exposed in the open.

It's called a sniper unit, which leads me to expect that most of the units are armed with close ranged or melee combat weapons. As far as the ending: winning by technicality is still winning (even if it'd be a dirt nap for you as the real thing).

[Himeji]

Originally Posted by Tano

"Mondo Grosso", the name of the IS International Fighting Tournament that is held every three years, in Italian means "Big World".

Not really, "big" would be "grande".
"grosso" is more like "important", something that's above the ordinary, so "great" or even "superb" would be more fitting (although "superb" is perhaps a bit too much again).

Originally Posted by Tano

Why is it in Italian?

Probably just because someone thought that it sounds cool
According to the map, there aren't even IS in Italy. However, as the map doesn't show Germany and we know that there's a German representative, it's clearly inaccurate anyway.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

My impression is that because those were ridiculously horrible places that they've stationed IS there to maintain order.

Yes... those IS being from other countries and being there only to keep down local riots would be the only thing that makes sense.

[Shinji103]

Originally Posted by triskelion

So those "dragoons" don't count as apart of her?

Like doesn't "perfect" mean without losing anything? Because she lost 4 things.

They're not actually called dragoons. And as I pointed out, the real Gundam comparison is "funnels."

I think taking out a couple funnels would be a good sign of nice skills. It's not easy to hit those things; nobody short of an ace pilot has ever been able to nail them in Gundam.

[triskelion]

Originally Posted by Shinji103

They're not actually called dragoons. And as I pointed out, the real Gundam comparison is "funnels."

I think taking out a couple funnels would be a good sign of nice skills. It's not easy to hit those things; nobody short of an ace pilot has ever been able to nail them in Gundam.

That's why I put quotation marks around them, I wasn't sure.

[Belgaesh]

Originally Posted by Shinji103

They're not actually called dragoons. And as I pointed out, the real Gundam comparison is "funnels."

I think taking out a couple funnels would be a good sign of nice skills. It's not easy to hit those things; nobody short of an ace pilot has ever been able to nail them in Gundam.

In the novels they're called "bits".

[Blue-Ultimate]

Originally Posted by Himeji

Watched the second episode now and found it highly enjoyable
This really has potential for best show of the season.

Spoiler for ep. 2 (with screenshots):

Some posh attitude from Cecil at the beginning, as it's announced that Ichika gets his own IS.


Sensei has no experience with boyfriends.


Ichika shows some backbone and takes Houki for dinner.


A small fight about which girl will teach Ichika.


Ichika is really weak in Kendo so Houki decides on daily training.


True motives for the daily training?


The IS battle is about to start, and a few visitors have assembled. Pink-ribboned megane twintail on the very left.


Ichika meets his IS, Byakushiki, for the first time.


Cecil is a bit full of herself and thinks the battle will be a piece of cake


Ichika only has a sword against her sniper attacks.


However, due to his high agility, Ichika can evade most attacks and close in.


Cecil gets a bit nervous and fires her missiles. Ichika is hit, but protected by his IS.


After his first shift, he has a new sword avaiable.


Cecil tries successlessly to finish him off with more missiles. Ichika closes in, but because he uses an attack that saps up the remainder of his shield, he loses.


More info about the barrier nullification attack which Ichika tried to use.


Finally, the missing manual!


Houki tells him she'll give him IS traing as well now.


Cecil is impressed by Ichika's performance. We can see her joining Houki and Ichika in the ED, a clear sign


Next ep. will finally see the aapearance of cute twintail Rin'in
More competition for Houki and Cecil.

US has two, the one on the west coast is obviously Los Angeles (a little below the 35° North line) The east coast one is just a bit further north - New York or Washington D.C. are much farther north. Looks like Norfolk, which has immense military significance:





About Canada, it looks like Halifax, capital of Nova Scotia:





Shame on them for that!



No, that's definitely *not* Madrid (or anywhere else in Spain). You really need to brush up on your geography skills
From the three arcs going to Europe, the top-most is going to London. The second is just a little south of the first, but a good bit further east - that's probably Brussel. The third is just a little to the west of the first, but a good bit further south, most likely Paris.

Placement of the IS, according to that map only:
Moscow (Russian capital, obvious choice for first Russian IS)
Hanty-Mansijsk (second Russian IS is in a small town in the middle of nowhere)
Cairo (Egyptian capital, as would be expected for Egyptian IS)
Benin City (lolwut? IS in Central Africa? A real bad drug trip placement)
Jaipur (Indian IS, originally royal capital, now business centre)
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysian capital, known e.g. for the Petronas Twin Towers)
Changchun (Chinese IS piloted by Rin'in, biggest automobile research and development center in China)
Sydney (Australian capital, obvious choice for Australia)
Wellington (capital of New Zealand, again obvious)
Guatemala City (another bad drug trip placement... they should've at least chosen Mexico City further north)
Rio de Janeiro (famous for its carnival)
Buenos Aires (capital of Argentinia)

already mentioned further up:
Los Angeles (biggest city on the US west coast)
Norfolk (world's largest naval base, seat of the Nato)
Halifax, Nova Scotia (major presence of the Department of National Defence)
London (capital of England)
Brussels (capital of Belgium and of the EU)
Paris (capital of France)

While the placement of most IS is at least somewhat understandable, the second Russian IS was obviously placed entirely at random (they should've chosen Leningrad, Irkutsk or some other major city or military base).
Leaving out major European countries (Italy, Germany, Greece, Spain) while placing IS in two of the world's poorest countries (Nigeria and Guatemala) can only be the result of a bad drug trip

However, these IS shown on the map are only 18, and the total mentioned is 467. Also, since there's a German representative in this pic, I get the following impression: they started with the map while still giving attention as to where the IS are placed, but then ran out of time, randomly added three more IS (second Russian IS and the two IS in decrepit third world countries) and considered it done.



I think onee-chan put him there so she can easily discipline him

Altough I am sure you know more about military bases then me.
I must say that not all your locations about the countries that they are in are correct as I said in a post back on page 53 (the first of the page)
These are the CLOSEST to countries in which these bases are situated, I'm not hating or bashing here or saying that I know more about which bases they are, but I think mine lie closer to which countries they are in.

Spoiler for Previous post page 53:

Originally Posted by Blue-Ultimate

I know that this is quite a old post but stil.... looks at France >.>... is that a MALE uniform.... MALE uniform..

IT'S A TRAP


Actually the arrows point to 18 diff locations, but I think those are IS bases because I see no line going to Germany altough there is a German IS pilot so I think Shared Bases in one spot for multiple nations.

Canada
America x2
El Salvador

Brazil
Argentina

New Zealand
Australia
Indonesia

North Korea bordering Russia and China
India
Russia x2
Egypt Bordering Saudi Arabia

England
Ireland
France bordering Spain (could be in the microstate of Andorra)
Nigeria or Cameroon

And 467 IS's spread over 303 countries with 50 IS's stationed in Japan for that acadamy. I wonder how the rest it destributed.

And also I was expecting a bit more of the fight in ep 2, It was good but it seemed like a let down somehow. I know it can't be just like the intro fight from ep 1 but still I expected more.

I don't know about you other guys but I was expecting a "Zone of the Enders" type of Vibe here after witnessing nearly identical attacks in the intro from ep.1 which the "bad guy" uses.

Actually probably the only real reason I am watching this is because I want to see that baddass with IS suit Kick the living crap out of the Main cast. Because the MC is dissapointingly lame, he is stupid, doesn't act manly or courageous. The ONLY thing he has is that he is the only male Pilot and a decent battle intuition with a bit of luck, which apparently a REPRESENTATIVE of England lacks completely.

Oh well just second ep... got to calm down and wait till the German Representative comes.... Be patient... be Patient.............

NOO I want AWESOME ZONE OF THE ENDERS COMBAT NOW, damn TEASE in the First ep

And maybe because I used a better picture, because the pic was Way to small I made a bigger screencap which is much clearer. (720P res.)

I still don't know why they would put one in Ireland since they already have one in freaking england....

And about the 18 bases I think those are shared bases used by multiple countries since I supose not every country can have the resources to have a specialiced IS facility so they share them among fellow nations.

[thundrakkon]

Originally Posted by Himeji

US has two, the one on the west coast is obviously Los Angeles (a little below the 35° North line) The east coast one is just a bit further north - New York or Washington D.C. are much farther north. Looks like Norfolk, which has immense military significance:

About Canada, it looks like Halifax, capital of Nova Scotia:

No, that's definitely *not* Madrid (or anywhere else in Spain). You really need to brush up on your geography skills
From the three arcs going to Europe, the top-most is going to London. The second is just a little south of the first, but a good bit further east - that's probably Brussel. The third is just a little to the west of the first, but a good bit further south, most likely Paris.

Thank you for your clarification. What I am basing my assumptions on where the cities lie are by their placement on the map relative to other maps I have looked at. The longitude and latitude lines on the IS map are definitely not representative of real maps and seem to be placed their for their art.

While Norfolk is a possibility, the placement on the map seems to point more towards Washington DC as far as comparisons to other North American maps.

As for Canada, as previously mention from another poster, it is definitely New Brunswick over Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia is at the peninsula, while the IS map shows it as part of the inner continent.

As for Madrid, yes, I was not looking too closely to that one. However, the bottom most location is most definitely not Paris. It is closer to Bordeaux. The middle one could be Paris, but you are probably right that it is Brussels.

Of course, these are all based on the picture comparison with real maps. We probably won't know unless they start talking about it where the real locations are.

[Shinji103]

Originally Posted by Belgaesh

In the novels they're called "bits".

An even more direct homage to Gundam. (I haven't read the novels) (as I also pointed out earlier, bits were the first type of remote weapon used in Gundam; funnels became more widely used in the franchise later)

[pauldy]

Originally Posted by Blue-Ultimate

As usual, most of the cores went into "First World Countries" LOLOL

In the world of anime/manga.. only the 1st world and and 2nd world exists.. no such thing as a 3rd wolrd as in 3rd world countries.. you know the countries no one gives a damn about and/or usually ....enslaved by either the Capitalist Pigs or the Drunkard Commies..... LOLZ

j/k ^

Anyways

I'm kinda liking the anime.. so yah.. ^

Default mode?? and First Shifts? What are they?

[DragoZERO]

Good episode. Houki is awesome. Hikasa Youko is doing a great job too. I am also glad he lost. It would have been way to cliche if he had won so easily.

And Cecilia uses too much hot water.

[Himeji]

Originally Posted by Blue-Ultimate

And maybe because I used a better picture, because the pic was Way to small I made a bigger screencap which is much clearer. (720P res.)

I still don't know why they would put one in Ireland since they already have one in freaking england....

Hmm... I'll take a closer look using that better map tomorrow.

...

[Dahak86]

Originally Posted by Himeji

Not really, "big" would be "grande".
"grosso" is more like "important", something that's above the ordinary, so "great" or even "superb" would be more fitting (although "superb" is perhaps a bit too much again).

um, literal translations again, huh?
there is really not that much of a difference between the two words, actually. Since they're mostly interchangeable.
Only thing is, "grosso" usually refers to something "thick", "bulky", "fat"... maybe, that's the reason I saw it written as "grasso" (direct italian equivalent for "fat") in a certain sub.
Whilst "grande" usually refers to something that's above the ordinary, like "great" or "important".

Just wanna avoid the spread of mis-information.

Originally Posted by Himeji

Probably just because someone thought that it sounds cool

Oh, lol. Between this and Index 2 italy-trip, I'm having some very good laughs at all the italian-spoken-language in the anime I'm currently watching.

Originally Posted by Himeji

Sydney (Australian capital, obvious choice for Australia)

No, Canberra is the recognized capital of the "Commonwealth of Australia".
Although, Sydney is the largest city.

[tsunade666]

Originally Posted by pauldy

Default mode?? and First Shifts? What are they?

Default mode. Just like a company default settings and aren't configured yet.

But after the formal fitting. It enters first shift where. It's personally configured for the IS pilot. That's what I understand from the default mode and first shift.

[Sixth]

Love Cecillia, Hate Houki

It seems that there are only two girls that I like. It is Cecillia and the Chinese Girl. The rest look meh to me.

[Wrath88]

Pretty enjoyable episode. I know Ichika's attack puts his shield energy into the strike, but I wonder, what happens if the shields of two IS collide against each other?

Never get tired of hearing the ending.