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[Tenzen12]

I don't think there was any intentional Death flags this time around. It's just heartwarming calm before the storm. Even with dobermans wiped out this isn't show that would be kill cast in gundam manner. Only people I can see be in danger right now is Simon or Daneel. Team Bunnies will be fine.

Especialy as possibility for second season is seriously considered.

[VTHokiePride]

Originally Posted by Tenzen12

I don't think there was any intentional Death flags this time around. It's just heartwarming calm before the storm. Even with dobermans wiped out this isn't show that would be kill cast in gundam manner. Only people I can see be in danger right now is Simon or Daneel. Team Bunnies will be fine.

Especialy as possibility for second season is seriously considered.

What about Teoria? She asked Daneel to protect Rabbits instead of her. Agreed about the death flags. I can't see this series actually doing something awful to the Rabbits.

Looks like lots of fighting next week. Can't wait!

[MeisterBabylon]

Originally Posted by cyberdemon

I have had this suspicion for a while but...

Spoiler for simon and izuru speculation:

what is Simon and Izuru are the same person rather than father and son? Izuru is suddenly degrading rather quickly when he never showed any symptoms before. The gate battle and season finale are approaching quickly as well. What if Izuru tries to sacrifice himself to put a stop to the gate and somehow goes back in time due to the gate going out of control due to its destruction? While there he starts going by Simon in order to prepare for the inevitable Wulgaru invasion? Or he lost his memories from the gate destruction and started to go by it as a result

Kindve out there but the secrecy concerning Simon has felt odd to me.

You took that straight out of Gundam SEED, didn't you?

*looks at MJP art*

...oh snap.

[cyberdemon]

Originally Posted by MeisterBabylon

You took that straight out of Gundam SEED, didn't you?

*looks at MJP art*

...oh snap.

where was that in Gundam Seed?

[Tenzen12]

Originally Posted by VTHokiePride

What about Teoria? She asked Daneel to protect Rabbits instead of her. Agreed about the death flags. I can't see this series actually doing something awful to the Rabbits.

Looks like lots of fighting next week. Can't wait!

Ok I guess Teoria might count too.

[MeisterBabylon]

Originally Posted by cyberdemon

where was that in Gundam Seed?

Excluding the time travel theories, that pretty much described the relationship and set-up between Mwu la Flaga and Ra.

[JediNight]

I'm still watching MJP, but it continues to underwhelm me the majority of the time. For a 2-cour show, it has a glacial pacing, and awkward character interactions.

Tamaki has a bust size that goes beyond fanservice IMHO and into the cancerous wtfiswrongwithyou area. It doesn't help that they also made her a total airhead that is also useless in battle. They still also haven't had Asagi do much of a proper wingman strategy with Izuru. Izuru just goes off on his own to be "Mr Awesome MC" while Asagi does something close to nothing against fodder all the time. With Kei at least its understandable, since it's hard to write intricate planning/strategy for your intel/signals person ... but there has been a few scenes at least.

And the whole Wulgaru wanting needing genes or their species will die out thing is kinda dumb IMHO. For a society that values strength and combat, they sure have a lot of useless people on their council too...

[Tenzen12]

Just cause it doesn't fit your tastes, doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it. Personaly I find it's leisure pacing very nice. And it was clear from very first episode it will go this way.

Same goes with characterisation that avoid unecessary melodrame and makes good background for story. I never found that akward.

Vulgaru HAD lot of (arguably) Useless people in council. And as you could see incompetence is equal of death, which perfectly fit Vulgaru culture.

And for Tamaki, yes her bust is bad joke, still she doesn't have bad results in battle, same goes for other teamates. I recommend rewatch show.

[Tchadnis]

i also don't see anything bad with the characters .. Izuru want to be a hero he act all hero like , going ahead to fight and protect his friends from harm, Asagi for a long time thought he was better then anyone and now start to see he isn't he learned from his weakness, Suruga is just a gun freak when it come to shooting he does his part , you cant expect him to just run into melee and fight like Asagi and Izuru do, Kei is the pillar of the team she issues order from afar and watch enemy and give out battle order and Tamaki is Tamaki , she is the goofy , yet heart warming koneko-chan , the way she fight , in a crazy way just fit her personality .. i dont see anything bad about it , compared to Heroic Age where Age basically did it all , those guys are capable of pulling some stuff up ... oh and yeah about Ange , ange is just a crazy battle maniac with two personality lol

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

Originally Posted by JediNight

For a society that values strength and combat, they sure have a lot of useless people on their council too...

I’m kinda curious. Can you mention the “a lot of” people from the council that you think are useless and what kind of deeds that earn them the “useless” moniker you bestowed upon?

[Puu]

Originally Posted by JediNight

I'm still watching MJP, but it continues to underwhelm me the majority of the time. For a 2-cour show, it has a glacial pacing, and awkward character interactions.

It reminds me of 90s era mech anime, actually. Plot first three episodes, filler in-between, stuff happen in the last leg. And I'm fine with that. But yeah compared to the way most mechs are handled nowadays, MJP pales in comparison. And I do like the characters very much. They might seem a bit "shallow" because they don't really have traits that stand out, but I find them sort of rounded. And consistent, I suppose.

I have to say though, seriously, its mech fights are leagues away from most mech shows though. I feel like it really upped the ante on mech fights with its choreography and... I guess there's more contact between mechs here than any of the shows I've seen before which rely heavily on sniping/beamspamming/and just plain maneuvering around each other.

[frodonk]

I'm not a huge fan, but I don't hate it either.

anyway, I didn't know that huge steel jellyfish had that kind of function, I should've suspected it before, and even when it was being evacuated, but I thought that thing was just a space station. How come simon knows almost every advanced tech on this show? and he isn't even a wulgaru, is it just because he's the one who found teoria? It would even seem that GDF command doesn't know how to operate that thing, and they're content to let simon operate it all by himself.

looks like we're having fight scenes till the end

[Key Board]

Originally Posted by MeisterBabylon

You took that straight out of Gundam SEED, didn't you?

*looks at MJP art*

...oh snap.

I think you mean Nadesico

[outlaw97]

Looks like we're getting a Rin beach queen figure soon - Randy must be smiling right now

http://mjp-anime.jp/18other/index.html

[Puu]

Originally Posted by Key Board

I think you mean Nadesico

Oh yeah, there was that plot with Nadesico. Come to think of it, the way MJP flows really reminds me of Nadesico too. A lot of the in-between were fillers with nuggest of character development and then things began rolling later on...

[MeisterBabylon]

I'm not surprised, people have been stealing ideas from one another for centuries.

[cyberdemon]

Originally Posted by Key Board

I think you mean Nadesico

completely forgot about that series. good series but i wasn't really thinking about it at the time. Though i do admit the plot is identical.

[ReddyRedWolf]

It occrs to everybody evacuated Star Rose except for the squid.

[frodonk]

yea sure, there's a gate, but so far there's no indication of that gate being used as a time travel mechanism, quite unlike in nadesico where it was established earlier on that the tulips caused at least 1 ship to go back in time, and they're being controlled by the ruins.

if we're talking about the doctor though, then that's another story. I knew earlier on, when inez first came on board and recognized akito, that she was ai-chan from the time he jumped. who knows? maybe simon is asagi from the future, seeing that izuru's condition won't permit him to last much longer, although that would cause many many paradoxes than I could think of, so it is highly unlikely.

hohoho offtopic, but I just saw nadesico 2 days ago

[cyberdemon]

Originally Posted by frodonk

yea sure, there's a gate, but so far there's no indication of that gate being used as a time travel mechanism, quite unlike in nadesico where it was established earlier on that the tulips caused at least 1 ship to go back in time, and they're being controlled by the ruins.

if we're talking about the doctor though, then that's another story. I knew earlier on, when inez first came on board and recognized akito, that she was ai-chan from the time he jumped. who knows? maybe simon is asagi from the future, seeing that izuru's condition won't permit him to last much longer, although that would cause many many paradoxes than I could think of, so it is highly unlikely.

hohoho offtopic, but I just saw nadesico 2 days ago

we don't have any indication of what the gates are fully capable of. We only just knew that they existed until recently. We've never even seen anyone use it. so it's not necessarily impossible if it goes out of control.