2012-10-08, 14:30 | Link #603 | |
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This reminded me of who is missing in the last scene. It's the 3rd woman, Team C's short haired woman. So Wasabi Guy is the only remain of Team C we have if the woman failed here. Last edited by Rahan; 2012-10-08 at 14:54. |
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2012-10-08, 15:16 | Link #605 | |
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Two people missing then. Again, not sure it means anything.
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2012-10-09, 00:31 | Link #606 |
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For the record: probably the first celebrity seiyuu to conduct a voice-acting session in space!
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...ime-from-space
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2012-10-09, 01:05 | Link #607 | |
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I thought the results aren't known because they're still deliberating?
I'm confused about the whole "missing" candidates thing you guys are talking about. Ep 23 at the very start, or 9:26 shows all the candidates. 2 members from each team were picked (amongst themselves), JAXA picked the last 3 members. Quote:
EDIT: Ok, I think I get what this means. I disagree, Hoshika said their team had the most intelligence so it's logical most of their members passed. Mizoguchi carrying the team? God, no. |
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2012-10-14, 08:31 | Link #610 |
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First off, I love Hibito's Corvette Stingray in the OP. Corvette became the unofficial car of the Mercury astronauts. The Stingray is from the late 1960s; the photograph at the top of the linked article is from 1969. Hibito's 'Vette has a "two-tone" paint job, too. I liked the brief shot of the 1950-ish Ford parked next to a fence. Is that to show Japanese people the American car culture? These scenes almost seem a tribute to cars in America.
Then there was the hoe-down scene. I find it a bit hard to believe that this scene is based on participant observation of actual NASA parties, but you never know. And Hibito had taught himself all the songs! Whatta guy! Wasn't there a bit of jealousy in Mutta's voice in the promo when he hears that Serika is buying a Hibito poster? The subject of Hibito has come up before with Serika seeming to have a little crush on younger brother. It drove Mutta crazy then as I recall. I don't think Serika and Hibito have met, have they? It's a good thing Hibito is leaving, or Serika would probably ask Mutta to introduce her!
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2012-10-14, 09:37 | Link #612 |
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Location: Kyoto, Japan
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Wonderful episode. Simple, beautiful emotional honesty and love between brothers who each think of the other as their hero.
We probably haven’t spent enough time talking about Watanabe Ayumu, the director behind Space Brothers. “The other Watanabe” did a fantastic job with Nazo no Kanojo X, and he’s acing it here with a project that could hardly be more stylistically different. Watanabe’s fingerprints were easier to spot in the more avant-garde and accessorized MGX, but he’s pretty much disappeared into the background here – the way that other great director named Watanabe so often does. Everything with Uchuu Kyoudai is so natural and effortless that a director hardly seems necessary – and that’s great direction. In this episode we saw some of the more pronounced stylistic touches of the series, such as long stretches with no dialogue and tricks based on character perspective. It was impressive in what it accomplished, making a seemingly small story quite powerful.
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2012-10-14, 10:39 | Link #613 |
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Does anyone else feel that some scenes were unnecessarily dragged out in this last episode? Scene timing was pretty bad and the animation wasn't its usual self. Granted, it has never been all that great, but it felt subpar even for Space Brothers.
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2012-10-14, 11:59 | Link #614 |
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As you said, the animation has always been low-rent (just as it was for Cross Game, so no big deal to me) but I thought the direction this episode was off the charts. Really interesting use of music, dialogue-free sequences and character perspective.
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2012-10-21, 08:08 | Link #618 |
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The poster of the astronaut crew made me laugh. The male members of the crew, except for Hibito, all have names that are puns on musicians' names.
Freddie Saturn = Freddie Mercury Buddy Waters = Muddy Waters Damien Kweller = Damien Rice + Ben Kweller The very common name "Karen Jones" does not have any obvious referents, except maybe to Grace Jones. Linda Cliff might be a reference to reggae singer Jimmy Cliff. Both Jones and Cliff are Jamaicans so they do have that in common.
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2012-10-22, 12:21 | Link #620 |
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Has anyone posted a list of the spacecraft that appear in the new ED? I recognized the asteroid probe Hayabusa, the lunar probe Kaguya, the space station's Kibo module and HTV-3 cargo ship and the IKAROS solar sail test craft. Plus Hibito's UFO, of course.
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