2012-08-14, 16:18
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Florida
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1) I workout a lot and most females I see in the gym workout in clothing that can be describe as bras, plus my girlfriend walks around the house with her bra fully expose all the time.
2) Loli isn't really fan service, it is just most anime fans have a weakness for them. 3) Yeah, I have to agree with Sumeragi, though the funny thing is Katsuie doesn't have the biggest pair in the series. |
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2012-08-15, 10:38
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Portable Dude Mk. II
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: All ghillied up spying on someone ~2,000 yards away using telescope sights.
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After the anime started, Saru gets zero love in terms of fan arts (of course, by easy understanding, why would you want to admire the MC of any given series when you like the girls more instead, but I do not share this sentiment... and will continue not to). To date nothing tops this yet in my books, at least... and I find the artist's rendition much cooler (read: GAR):
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2012-08-15, 10:50
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: All ghillied up spying on someone ~2,000 yards away using telescope sights.
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2012-08-15, 13:47
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Age: 38
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I like this show quite a bit, although some of the.. ahem.. math is a bit weird.
Although some liberties had to be taken of course due to it being an anime adaption, the largest 'wtf' moment for me was during ep2 when Monkey buys and transports 30,000 koku in a single day. That sounds like a fairly respectable number, nothing too incredible, until you do some math. Each koku of rice weighs approximately 0.15 tons each, or 300 pounds. To put it in simpler terms, 1000 koku weighed 150 tons. So when Monkey managed to buy and bring in 30,000 koku, that was 4500 tons of rice. In terms of Imperial measurement, that is about 900,000 pounds. I'm not sure how much those Japanese carts could hold, but it must have been a very long line of carts..  Not that I'm judging this anime based on mathematical craziness or what have you (elastic metal armor), but that must have been an enormous amount of rice to ship in. Would that much koku even be possible to bring in during a single day? The only other concern I have is how quickly the series is escalating in time (in series it appears very little time passes between episodes, instead of months/years) and the fact that even though Monkey has already changed multiple events, things have for the most part remained the same. Hopefully we see this actually matter later on when his knowledge from the future is no longer useful. It's a shame he didn't "pull an Ash" from Evil Dead 3/Army of Darkness and bring some textbooks from the future for some good ol' modern technology. I know they are using arquebus/primitive muskets during the timeframe of this show, but you'd think Monkey would know more about modern military fortifications/weaponry to enhance Nobuna's forces. Though he did use prefab stuff last episode, the fact it only took one night to construct a small castle required a... minor suspension of disbelief.Of course Nobuna/ga did utilize Volley fire, like the Dutch, to make even the primitive firearm far more effective than normal. Pike and shot would probably have been even better in open battle in Japan, but alas the Japanese rarely if ever had contact from the Spanish, the main users of pike & shot aka Spanish Square. As a result most of the tactics used by Nobuna/ga were based on Portuguese tactics, although Nobuna did revolutionize arquebus/musket warfare with volley fire. Finally, the main weakness to these early firearms is humidity and moisture. They are also extremely loud, capable of causing hearing loss over time and preventing orders shouted from the commander/general from being heard. The smoke caused after multiple salvos were fired however was a double edged sword; without proper wind flow the smoke from the archaic gunpowder would obscure the enemy, which also helped cover them from enemy archers. All things considered though, this is one of my favorite shows this season. Does anyone know if this is going to be a 1 cour adaption or longer? |
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2012-08-15, 22:41
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Portable Dude Mk. II
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: All ghillied up spying on someone ~2,000 yards away using telescope sights.
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Usually music and soundtrack (save for the OP and ED) don't get much discussion, but I took a second thought on the music used while Nobuna saw Saru was still alive on the last episode (6th isn't it?) and realized the composition style seems familiar. A quick look at the staff list shows Yasuharu Takanashi as the composer for the OST. I am quite fond of his work for the Shin Hokuto no Ken OVAs, but that's for another story.
That said piece of music really caught my attention, and I suppose I would love to look forward to the OST of this series. ... This series is really in good hands, aren't they?
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2012-08-15, 22:57
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2012-08-15, 23:23
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