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Key Board · 2014-05-17, 16:41

Do you resign being a space vampire? Yes/No

Random Wanderer · 2014-05-17, 17:03

Interesting that it took seven episodes to get a title-drop.

What exactly are the other members of this team going to do that they need flightsuits? Hana is a battery and a interpreter for Pitz, who predicts the attacks. Akari does hacking. I don't know if Teppei can even use his Kiltgang anymore now that his ego block was destroyed. Daichi seems to be the only one with offensive capability. I mean, there are three livelasters, but Hana can't use the one that came with her, and Teppei doesn't have anything to use his in.

Key Board · 2014-05-17, 17:27

He can jam it in the Earth Engine when Daiichi is not available

or maybe they'll make it a two seater
or maybe they'll make another one

Esclair · 2014-05-17, 17:51

The Earth Impacter is made up of four separate pieces. I'm sure each one will end up with a pilot down then line.

Random Wanderer · 2014-05-17, 17:59

That seems rather redundant...

ChampDream · 2014-05-17, 18:05

the other livlasters will probably power up the earth engine.

Darthtabby · 2014-05-17, 19:12

IIRC melons are rather expensive in Japan and are considered something of a luxury item. I still wasn't too keen on eating melon together being used as a motivator in a high stakes situation though.

Mad Pierrot · 2014-05-17, 19:26

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Here's a image link to a little mash-up vid I made. I hope people get a laugh out of it.

By your powers combined...

That was beautiful

Cloudedmind · 2014-05-17, 21:22

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Originally Posted by Darthtabby

IIRC melons are rather expensive in Japan and are considered something of a luxury item. I still wasn't too keen on eating melon together being used as a motivator in a high stakes situation though.

It's not really the melons though, but the symbolism/meaning behind it. The fact that when the fight was over they'd still all be together, Teppei included.

Guardian Enzo · 2014-05-17, 21:40

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Originally Posted by Darthtabby

IIRC melons are rather expensive in Japan and are considered something of a luxury item. I still wasn't too keen on eating melon together being used as a motivator in a high stakes situation though.

Especially the square ones, which cost about $100 in most cases.

Random Wanderer · 2014-05-17, 21:52

The temptation to make some sort of comment about "eating Hana's melons" is overwhelming...

MCAL · 2014-05-17, 22:39

So let me get this straight. These first seven episode were just one huge prologue. That's pretty ballsy, even coming from Bones. I enjoyed this episode by the way.

Anyway, it seems in a world of human/creature hybrids that feast on human libidos, the moe squirrel is King.

Also, melons!

Cloudedmind · 2014-05-17, 22:44

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Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

Especially the square ones, which cost about $100 in most cases.

Yesh, and I get them for free when my dad plays around with the ones he grows.

Guardian Enzo · 2014-05-17, 22:47

If you accept Nazo no Kanojo X mangaka Ueshiba Riichi's brilliantly incisive treatise that mecha series are romance anime with the girl as the giant robot, I think Captain Earth begins to be seen in an interesting light. If MGX was a series that turned the notion of mecha representing teenaged girls upside down, I think CE is one that takes the symbolic and makes it literal. Teenagers literally are spaceships. Their pubescent urges literally provide the power source that drives the story, not just figuratively. I've seen this show as something of an amalgam of BONES sci-fi ideas in the same way Valvrave was for Sunrise, and I still think that's true. But the larger theme behind it now seems more likely to be this notion of taking the symbolic underpinnings of mecha anime (especially BONES mecha anime) and making them literal.

Thess · 2014-05-17, 23:01

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Originally Posted by Random Wanderer

Interesting that it took seven episodes to get a title-drop.

What exactly are the other members of this team going to do that they need flightsuits? Hana is a battery and a interpreter for Pitz, who predicts the attacks. Akari does hacking. I don't know if Teppei can even use his Kiltgang anymore now that his ego block was destroyed. Daichi seems to be the only one with offensive capability. I mean, there are three livelasters, but Hana can't use the one that came with her, and Teppei doesn't have anything to use his in.

Teppei is the original pilot for the Earth Engine and his stats and skills are better than Daichi's. He'll probably pilot it or copilot it because is made of four parts. He also has his machine goodfellow which he uses in next episode (the Earth Mecha).

In order for the Kill-T-Gangs to get their true forms, they need to amass a great quantity of libido, or they don't take off. The battle can be on Earth. It seems is focused now in collecting the Design Children before Amara and Moco.

Esclair · 2014-05-17, 23:41

The adults are so useless in this show.

They brought up why they don't want to nuke Tokyo, but they don't have to use a nuke. They just need to destroy all the machine goodfellows that MacBeth Enterprises is manufacturing. Without the MG's the Kiltgang can't do anything.

Thess · 2014-05-17, 23:59

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Originally Posted by Esclair

The adults are so useless in this show.

They brought up why they don't want to nuke Tokyo, but they don't have to use a nuke. They just need to destroy all the machine goodfellows that MacBeth Enterprises is manufacturing. Without the MG's the Kiltgang can't do anything.

But knowing the cliches this anime is running on, they will teach the Kill-T-Gang the pleasure of melons, wind and mortality and they will destroy their own ego blocks and become humans. Moco already said she did like her human Avatar and she's intrigued by the wind.

zztop · 2014-05-18, 00:17

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Originally Posted by Thess

But knowing the cliches this anime is running on, they will teach the Kill-T-Gang the pleasure of melons, wind and mortality and they will destroy their own ego blocks and become humans. Moco already said she did like her human Avatar and she's intrigued by the wind.

So essentially the designer children are a kind of alien consciousness within engineered human bodies(the Avatar), correct?

I just started watching Captain, so I just want to confirm this.

RoboMambo · 2014-05-18, 00:19

I'm done with this. I watched this episode only to give it a last chance, but now I'm out. Seven episode and still not a single interesting moment (besides team rocket selling crepes and that guy kidnapping a girl because a coffe cup told him to), just repetitious exposition and silly names everywhere. The previous episode was twenty minutes of talking heads giving exposition as dry as posible. And this one was half that, some action and Teppei's potentially interesting dilemma being solved in a grand total of two minutes.

And damn, are these character annoying. Besides Teppei, that guy is okay. But Akari and Hana can take a hike, and take the pokemon with them.

Well, rant is over, sorry to bother.

Random Wanderer · 2014-05-18, 00:36

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Originally Posted by zztop

So essentially the designer children are a kind of alien consciousness within engineered human bodies(the Avatar), correct?

I just started watching Captain, so I just want to confirm this.

As far as I can tell. The alien consciousnesses already existed before they came to Earth, but someone (I believe Macbeth Corporation) created the "design child" bodies to serve as human "hosts" for them, for some reason that has not yet been made clear.

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Key Board Carbon Join Date: Nov 2003	Do you resign being a space vampire? Yes/No __________________ "Legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice—that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can’t treat one group differently from another.” Malcolm Gladwell

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Random Wanderer Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007	Interesting that it took seven episodes to get a title-drop. What exactly are the other members of this team going to do that they need flightsuits? Hana is a battery and a interpreter for Pitz, who predicts the attacks. Akari does hacking. I don't know if Teppei can even use his Kiltgang anymore now that his ego block was destroyed. Daichi seems to be the only one with offensive capability. I mean, there are three livelasters, but Hana can't use the one that came with her, and Teppei doesn't have anything to use his in. __________________

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Key Board Carbon Join Date: Nov 2003	He can jam it in the Earth Engine when Daiichi is not available or maybe they'll make it a two seater or maybe they'll make another one __________________ "Legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice—that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can’t treat one group differently from another.” Malcolm Gladwell

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Random Wanderer Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007	That seems rather redundant... __________________

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ChampDream Alive Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: in my really nice house	the other livlasters will probably power up the earth engine. __________________

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Esclair Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2013	The Earth Impacter is made up of four separate pieces. I'm sure each one will end up with a pilot down then line.

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Darthtabby Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009	IIRC melons are rather expensive in Japan and are considered something of a luxury item. I still wasn't too keen on eating melon together being used as a motivator in a high stakes situation though.

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Random Wanderer Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007	The temptation to make some sort of comment about "eating Hana's melons" is overwhelming... __________________

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MCAL Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2012	So let me get this straight. These first seven episode were just one huge prologue. That's pretty ballsy, even coming from Bones. I enjoyed this episode by the way. Anyway, it seems in a world of human/creature hybrids that feast on human libidos, the moe squirrel is King. Also, melons!

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Esclair Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2013	The adults are so useless in this show. They brought up why they don't want to nuke Tokyo, but they don't have to use a nuke. They just need to destroy all the machine goodfellows that MacBeth Enterprises is manufacturing. Without the MG's the Kiltgang can't do anything.

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RoboMambo Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2013	I'm done with this. I watched this episode only to give it a last chance, but now I'm out. Seven episode and still not a single interesting moment (besides team rocket selling crepes and that guy kidnapping a girl because a coffe cup told him to), just repetitious exposition and silly names everywhere. The previous episode was twenty minutes of talking heads giving exposition as dry as posible. And this one was half that, some action and Teppei's potentially interesting dilemma being solved in a grand total of two minutes. And damn, are these character annoying. Besides Teppei, that guy is okay. But Akari and Hana can take a hike, and take the pokemon with them. Well, rant is over, sorry to bother.