Cat Shit One

[Spectacular_Insanity]

I absolutely love this anime. Just watched it a week ago, started researching the weaponry they use. Pretty easy to find what gun Packy was using using internet forums. (Press-checking in mai animu?!?? NO WAI!!! =O)

Spoiler for Technical tidbits for those who are interested...:

Apparently Packy uses a KAC SR-47, an AR-15 variant that fires Soviet 7.62x39mm rounds. In other words, an M4 assault rifle that fires AK-47 rounds. The lower receiver was modified to take the iconic AK-47 banana magazine, though the wiki page (HERE) says that it is speculated that the SR-47 production was discontinued because of problems using enemy ammunition (typically low quality) on the M4's sensitive DI (direct impingment) system. Using dirty ammo found on the battlefield can cause the gun's components to clog up, thus resulting in jams and magazine feeding issues.

However, I'm not 100% sure what gun it is that Bota uses. My instincts say a HEAVILY modified SR-25 (looking at the barrel's length, integrated silencer, and the magazine size/shape).... with a bunch of useless crap on it.

Spoiler for Rant on Bota's gear:

Two scopes is totally retarded. It would be a pain in the ass to zero in the sights, and it would be impractical to even use the upper one because even though his rifle has a really short length of pull, the additional scope is so far forward on top of the sniper scope that it would both be impossible to get a good sight picture and the accuracy would be awful because the reduce sight radius. Not to mention having a light, laser, plus bipod attachment (don't forget that ACOG scope) makes it hella heavy. Picatinny rails are heavy to begin with, without adding unnecessary attachments. A normal Match SR-25 (with standard barrel length of 24 in) weighs 10.75 lbs (4.88 kg). With the additional scope plus those accoutrements, he's turned an already hefty gun to probably close to 14-15 lbs (adding about a kg of weight). UNLOADED. That is a HEAVY ASS gun. Some of you may not think so, but when you're carrying additional gear (combat knife, grenades, emergency rations and water, signal flares, etc etc) the weight adds up. Seriously, what is Bota THINKING?! Bah. Snipers.

Best part of the series though is the epic pun.

USA G.I. = Usagi = Rabbit. Mind = blown.

I seriously hope more episodes are to come. There seems to be conflicting opinions (and no hard facts) on whether or not "The Animated Series" was a misnomer on part of the animators and it was just a short movie, or if it really is gonna be a 12-episode series like The Subwire seems to indicate. Maybe one of the Japanese sites says for certain, but I don't know enough kanji to read those.

I have not been this excited about an anime series since I first heard rumors that High School of the Dead was being made into an anime.

[ReddyRedWolf]

Bota thought it would be Tacticool. One should also note in the original manga Bota is the only one without special forces training.

[monir]

Originally Posted by Tiberium Wolf

What language were the camels using?

If this took place in Afghanistan which seems to be the likely case, then it might be Pashto. Any one that speaks Pashto can verify for us.

[yoropa]

Originally Posted by monir

If this took place in Afghanistan which seems to be the likely case, then it might be Pashto. Any one that speaks Pashto can verify for us.

I don't know anything about this series or show or whatever it is and I only randomly came across this post, but if you link me to a clip of these camels speaking and give me a time frame of when they speak, I'll be able to tell you what it is (though not necessarily what they're saying). Usually these type of things use Arabic instead of the right ethnic language (looking at you, Iron Man, looking right at you).

[Hooves]

Well I don't know much about this anime and just watched it yesterday (well the first episode atleast since it was the only one out) but two rabbits vs these camel like dudes is somewhat ftw

I thought this anime would be somewhat silly since it was going to be a 3D type anime, but it was surprisingly good enough to keep me watching till the end. So yeah I actually do hope more episodes come out.

[monir]

Originally Posted by yoropa

I don't know anything about this series or show or whatever it is and I only randomly came across this post, but if you link me to a clip of these camels speaking and give me a time frame of when they speak, I'll be able to tell you what it is (though not necessarily what they're saying). Usually these type of things use Arabic instead of the right ethnic language (looking at you, Iron Man, looking right at you).

You should be able to download it from a torrent site. I don't have the episode with me right at this moment, but some of the spoken dialogues are at the beginning and also spread through out during the action sequence.

[Hooves]

Originally Posted by monir

If this took place in Afghanistan which seems to be the likely case, then it might be Pashto. Any one that speaks Pashto can verify for us.

I'm just taking a blunt guess, but I'm generally supporting they speak "Arabic" even though I have no clue

They were probably just raiding Afghanistan due to a war or some-sort, but they could be part of some-sort of Afghanistan terrorist group so they could be speaking Pashto

[Drake]

Originally Posted by Spectacular_Insanity

However, I'm not 100% sure what gun it is that Bota uses. My instincts say a HEAVILY modified SR-25 (looking at the barrel's length, integrated silencer, and the magazine size/shape).... with a bunch of useless crap on it.

Spoiler for Rant on Bota's gear:

Two scopes is totally retarded. It would be a pain in the ass to zero in the sights, and it would be impractical to even use the upper one because even though his rifle has a really short length of pull, the additional scope is so far forward on top of the sniper scope that it would both be impossible to get a good sight picture and the accuracy would be awful because the reduce sight radius. Not to mention having a light, laser, plus bipod attachment (don't forget that ACOG scope) makes it hella heavy. Picatinny rails are heavy to begin with, without adding unnecessary attachments. A normal Match SR-25 (with standard barrel length of 24 in) weighs 10.75 lbs (4.88 kg). With the additional scope plus those accoutrements, he's turned an already hefty gun to probably close to 14-15 lbs (adding about a kg of weight). UNLOADED. That is a HEAVY ASS gun. Some of you may not think so, but when you're carrying additional gear (combat knife, grenades, emergency rations and water, signal flares, etc etc) the weight adds up. Seriously, what is Bota THINKING?! Bah. Snipers.

Bota is using an MK14 EBR MOD-0 which is basically an updated M14 platform with intergrated rail system and adjustable butt-stock.

His setup is a pretty common one from what I can see except for the bulky M2 aimpoint on top of what looks like a leupold m3 (not acog), however it isn't out of the ordinary to run a smaller micro-dot or reflex in the same position.

The only other differences from a common setup would be the the DBAL-I which would be switched out for a a PEQ 15 and you'd probably stow away the surefire until you needed it.

Your right about the weight tho as they are pretty heavy at around 5 odd kgs unloaded.

Here is my own EBR.

Spoiler for With a TA31 rep:

For those wondering what pistol packys using its an Allan Zitta ZM custom STI Strike gun (STI EDGE)

Really wish this where a full series =<

[yoropa]

It's definitely not Arabic, I can tell you that much. I doubt it's Farsi either. I actually don't know if it's Pashto or not, but it definitely is not Arabic.

[feRfe]

when's ep 2 coming?

[monir]

Originally Posted by feRfe

when's ep 2 coming?

When they have enough money to fund it. In other words, we don't know. I think it's reasonable to consider episode 1 as a pilot project to raise interest among the fanbase and, eventually, the producers.

[Vexx]

Originally Posted by yoropa

It's definitely not Arabic, I can tell you that much. I doubt it's Farsi either. I actually don't know if it's Pashto or not, but it definitely is not Arabic.

It is quite likely a middle-eastern tinged "mumblespeak" .. i.e. gibberish with an occasional actual word.

All those people in the background in movies are often not actually saying anything - they're just uttering "blah frebble nemostat" or whatever.

[monir]

Originally Posted by Vexx

It is quite likely a middle-eastern tinged "mumblespeak" .. i.e. gibberish with an occasional actual word.

All those people in the background in movies are often not actually saying anything - they're just uttering "blah frebble nemostat" or whatever.

I kind of think that should not be the case here considering how the show tries to capture almost everything in painstaking detail. At the same time, if the show wants to be politically correct (like Cats and Camel), then you are right.

[quigonkenny]

Originally Posted by Vexx

It is quite likely a middle-eastern tinged "mumblespeak" .. i.e. gibberish with an occasional actual word.

All those people in the background in movies are often not actually saying anything - they're just uttering "blah frebble nemostat" or whatever.

Of course, if it's a Japanese voice actor that's not trained in the language who is speaking it, it may be a legitimate language and a native speaker may still not understand it. I've seen a few anime where it took me a few sentences to realize the unfortunate actor was trying to speak English, and they teach that to most every Japanese student that graduates high school... God knows how mangled it's going to be if they hand some random voice extra a page of questionably parsed, phonetically spelled Farsi or Pashto and tell him to give it the old college try...

[Spectacular_Insanity]

Originally Posted by quigonkenny

Of course, if it's a Japanese voice actor that's not trained in the language who is speaking it, it may be a legitimate language and a native speaker may still not understand it. I've seen a few anime where it took me a few sentences to realize the unfortunate actor was trying to speak English, and they teach that to most every Japanese student that graduates high school... God knows how mangled it's going to be if they hand some random voice extra a page of questionably parsed, phonetically spelled Farsi or Pashto and tell him to give it the old college try...

The japanese just mangle other languages. Unless they have experience speaking them, that's just what happens. Especially with English, as the phonetic combinations are just too different.

But it could be either. Maybe it's someone mangling Arabic, or just mumblespeak to avoid political implications. Not that I believe japanese anime gives a rat's ass about political decency. I sure don't... I'll take accuracy over politically correct any day. I think we'd have to see an actual script.

[stormy001_M1A2]

It is gibberish, I already checked few times.

[-Sho-]

Originally Posted by Vexx

It is quite likely a middle-eastern tinged "mumblespeak" .. i.e. gibberish with an occasional actual word.

All those people in the background in movies are often not actually saying anything - they're just uttering "blah frebble nemostat" or whatever.

Like SIMS anyway waiting for ep 2 ..

[Spectacular_Insanity]

I found this on YouTube, thought you guys might get a kick out of it:

Obviously I didn't make it. Someone named "Mastamind" did. Did a great job of piecing together the clips into a trailer.

[Bonta Kun]

LOL thats awesome!

Very nice work, makes me actually want Black Ops now

[orion]

Whoa! Nice trailer.