/a/ - Animu & Mango

>>816675

Ive been waiting for three episodes to come out so i can watch them all at once and decide if i want to keep watching or not.

ED was cute though.

>>816675

>French

Don't care how good it is, it's automatically shit.

>>816678

Yeah, I hate Tsukuyomi Moon Phase too fellow countryman, damn Japanese girls ruining our language with their bad pronunciation

>dragon vore

Oh cool, a Cross Ange sequel

>>816700

Pretty much this. Post-90s we really haven't had enough girls in jumpsuits/mechanics.

>Okada

welp, picked up.

>>816675

I am a little surprised as well that there hasn't been a thread until now. I couldn't see this show on HS and figured most anons can't be bothered unless they are spoon-fed CR shit.

Anyway, it's cool that Asenshi picked it up as I've been really looking forward to it. Might not be able to start watching until halfway due to real life shit though.

The dragon vore is one thing the plane service is another. With the small cast of characters hopefully the story is really good.

>>816851

>we also have an opportunity to purchase another figh-

What, another F-35? If that's the alternative then dragon vore anime is an incomparably better investment.

>>816960

You could kill more people with an anime about dragon vore than you could with an F-35, assuming the F-35 worked long enough to get into flight.

>>817043

That's funny since the director of this show worked on the original NGE series and EoE. He also wrote the screenplay for Evangelion 1.0 and 2.0. Not only that, but he was the namesake for Shinji Ikari.

https://myanimelist.net/people/12646/Shinji_Higuchi

>>816678

>He doesn't like France Gall

Are you gay?

The normalisation of another perversion concerns me, but I can't help but like this show. The novelty of controlling a shape shifting dragon by being eaten by it overrides my concerns about vorefags being added to the list of protected degenerates, though. I fucking love the art choice as well. This season is an absolute joy artistically with hisone to masotan and megalo box.

>>816960

>>816965

Don't bully the F35! She flies proudly in our hearts and on paper!

>>817121

>normalisation

Hardly. Having them ride on the dragons back wouldn't make sense in the airplane-dragon analogy. The dragon eating is treated as comedic as well and adds a strong uniqueness to the story that makes it stand out from similar stories.

Is this just a Japanese How to Train your Dragon?

>>817203

No. Obviously, it's JSDF propaganda to get young japanese women to breed and have babies with jets.

When I read the synopsis I had no idea what to to expect, and now after two episodes, I still have no idea.

>>817338

>A shittier series would have had her shoved around for half the season before she developed enough backbone to speak up.

I don't know. I would have liked to see more of her being a repressed blabbermouth. I hope we don't see a different personality next episode because of it.

And yeah, the fact that the AF treats it as another operation is great. I wish we got to see more of Hosone in her camo, but it looks like now that she's joined flight line, everyone's going to be wearing flight gear instead.

>>817385

Sabashii desu ne

>>817427

Masotan is the dragon's name Anon. I nearly made the same mistake in an earlier post myself.

>>816675

Alright, feel free to MUAAH to your heart's content but they made a rather critical mistake in their subtitling.

So, Le Temps de la Rentrée is a France Gall song that's about a school girl who's really fucking glad the summer break is close to over because she can finally be with her boyfriend at school. The lynchpin verse of the song is "Moi, j'aimerai toujours, amenant mon amour, le temps de la rentrée". There's no real way to naturally translate this in english since it's awkward as fuck in french to begin with, but it essentially means "I'll always love the day we go back to school because it will bring my sweetheart".

Now, the problem is that, rather than "amenant", which means bring towards you, the ED subtitled "emmenant", which means bring to another place. That right there is a prime example of a simple mistake in wording going against the meaning of the entire piece.

>>817623

They're called vaporizers. I suppose 'vaporizing' would be the most correct, but 'vaping' works well enough to indicate you're not smoking [whatever].

>>817623

>jumpsuits

Those are Flight Suits. It's what everyone has to wear in the Air Force when working on the flight line, which means around the actual air crafts.

The camo uniform she was wearing in the beginning of episode one and what the other characters are wearing in the chow hall scene was the usual attire for the majority of the ASDF, and this is the common way of things the world over. Someone in the staff really knows their military.

>>817749

>theres just way too many Lt. Col. and above consolidated in this one base

This particular base contains a dragon Anon.

>>817751

It wouldn't help organization at all to have higher ranked Officers stationed there.

The one thing I can think of is that because they "know too much", they are never stationed elsewhere, so they spend their entire career there, but even so, there's usually a quota for how many X ranked Officers are in each base. They normally wouldn't rank up unless there's a spot for it at the base.

We should be seeing Lieutenants just coming in like Hosone, and those guys moving on. It's not like Intelligence Officers and the like don't already have Top ++++ Secret clearance and can't speak about their jobs anyway.

>>817754

It's an anime, anon.

Secret AOTS for sure. Pacing is excellent, characters are good, they did their homework about technical shit, the art style is unique, and it has that touch of fucking weird that makes a good anime.

>>817329

>>817331

Nice blog.

>thread has multiple airmen AND a Frog capable of articulating the complexities of the French language

This series has exposed a unique element of /a/ that I was not aware of...

>>818067

>French and air force

We're all pussies?

>>817758

Not him, but it still feels a bit ridiculous.

>>819305

She has no nose. That's why she was perfect for the program, wasn't it?

>>819305

I really don't get why her TAC name is just her name. Am I missing something?

>>819379

>>819399

>>819377

Kasu means scum.

Hisone I am less sure about. I think it means something like "secret sound". So it could be ironic because she says exactly what she means, instead of keeping it hidden. I'm not really sure.

>>819408

Yeah, I don't fucking get it. Maybe we just aren't Japanese enough.

The senpai said, "You're really simple" When the MILF asked if she knew what Kasu was in English.

Before that, she said, "Sweet". I expected her TAC name to be "Sweet".

>>819349

The big girl looks like best girl to me.

>>820980

I'm still wondering why they're letting Enlisted pilot a dragon when everyone else is an Officer, and just playing it off by ranking her up one bar won't cut it.

>>820984

Because the dragon needs a pilot and chooses who pilots it and chose her.

>>819399

HSN would presumably just be HiSoNe.

>vlc

>>817436

Did I fucking stutter?

Gave this animu a shot, Quite cute for a fetish anime.

>>820956

>>819399

I want to see more of dat MILF as well. Preferably in a sexy flight suit!

>>821296

>>819399

>>819408

What if her TAC name is "His one"? Wouldn't that fit the reason why Forest left and why Hisone was mentioned as being special for finding the dragons true name?

>>816675

Why does this show have a French air to it?

The ED is in French but excluding that everything else also feels somewhat French-y. Is it only me? It's like it'd feel natural if you slapped a French dub on it.

>>822789

I kind of got that impression too. I think the reason might be that the artstyle and setting are pretty different compared to most anime, and the frogs are the only people who produce proper animation so it kind of makes you think of them by default when it doesn't fit into the anime mold.

Though that's only on the surface level. The actual animation and writing are still very Japanese.

>>822677

Oh, that does make sense and is not needlessly complex. You could be right.

I enjoyed the liberal amounts of autism in this episode. It's obvious that the other girls understand that the dragons are special and "caretaker" is inaccurate and disparaging, so I would have liked it if one of them put penguin in her place for almost killing her dragon. It looks like Cake Thighs is about to snap, so maybe it will be her.

>>822763

I love how cute that little Jaguar is, but what's strange to me is that she is actually depicted (going by random guys' comments) to be a pretty attractive girl from their comments, unlike Hisone.

>>822880

ASMR, the person.

>>822834

>Cake Thighs is about to snap

F-2 girl is all bark no bite. Futomomo is all bite no bark, except sound effects. She seems like the girl who will just suddenly kill then go back to her usual demeanor. Kind of like a housewife with an annoying husband that after 30 years gets killed by the wife and the wife just says "what a relief" when looking back on it.

>>822868

Hiso is supposed to be plain and somewhat overlooked.

>>822891

Yeah I kinda got that, but I thought that Nao will be the "unattractive shrimp" kind of character, yet there were already some remarks made about finding her desirable.

>>822911

The guys are also super thirsty so take it however you like really.

>>822916

>Hoshino is immediately worst girl

>The only one who seems to understand that she's in the military

I will say she does seem to be missing the key factor that D-Pilots are working with intelligent, living creatures. The whole military schtick is a form of disguise for the dragons, and she's got that down pat. But in doing so, she's gonna have to fix her perspective towards the dragons.

That said, she seems like the only one who isn't bumbling around like this is some high school club.

>>823192

>get to drive a dragon

>fuck I wish I was driving a normal plane instead

The only reason she's remotely interested in being a D-Pilot is because she cannot become a normal fighter pilot (at least that is what I gathered from her exposition about being the first female fighter pilot. Flying a fighter jet seems to be path of least resistance, so being a D-pilot must be her only path). She will definately have to stop being so self absorbed and meet the dragon, and her fellow d-pilots, half way.

>>823192

>>823194

>That said, she seems like the only one who isn't bumbling around like this is some high school club.

>Hisone: Job literally picked her, so she's still learning. She's trying her best, but she's kind of an autist

>Nao: Child of previous D-pilot, has Mommy issues, needs to grow up a little

>Ririko: odd personality, but she operates well with her Dragon and follows orders

>Hitomi: Could stand to exercise more, but same as previous, works well with her dragon, has a pleasant demeanor, follows orders

>Hoshino: Highly professional, but shit at her job. Doesn't follow direct orders because of her personal ego problems, makes her dragon suffer, nearly fucks up the entire D-Pilot program which is clearly of national significance and highly top secret, then cries when people tell her to stop treating the living creature that picked her for such an important assignment like a mindless object.

Worst girl continues to be worst girl and is holding everything back because of her stubborness.

Felt so long waiting for the next episode, suppose I really am into it.

>>825333

The dragon will give the pilot power in exchange for their soul. I think

>>825924

masotan is pure!

>>826027

Except pic related. Although she might turn it around.

>>822880

Onomatopoeia -chan is too precious

This show is surprisingly more enjoyable than you'd think and does a great job at portraying human relationships.

>>816690

Nah, I don't like the French, as of 1789.

>>826056

Go away Napoleon.

>>825333

Yeah, I don't think there's any other way to interpret that sentence. If it's supposed to be relevant in any way in the greater plot, then some manner of mind control is definitely going on.

So her whole thing is she is worst girl because she hates being a womans and wants to be a top gun.

She is basically a pitbull.

>>826103

While true, dear anon, it's also worth noticing that pilots do threat their planes like living beings once they flew with them long enough. Her being stuck up only shows her lack of knowledge.

>>826103

>the self-defense worse doesn't want you to because you're grill

It's not that they don't want her, it's that her aptitude isn't high enough to fly planes. Almost no women can actually fly military aircraft whatsoever. Only a handful of countries have successful trained female pilots, and plenty of first world countries have 0 female pilots.

More likely, she's upset because she's not good enough to be a pilot and this is a humiliating second place prize to her.

>>826105

What is the actual reasoning for whamen not being able to pilot? I'm surr it's just because men all around preform physically better but is there also a health reason and such?

>>826112

I'm Australian and there is no restriction against it whatsoever, it's just that no women in our history have been capable of it.

>>826105

So, she intends to force a freaking dragon into a fighter jet, pilot it then tell people "Women can actually flight a fighter jet, too. Sucks on it, boys"? That's not even worth the "worst girl" label.

>>825696

No, it's not mean. Both parties have something the other want. Neither are whole without the other. Think yin and yang.

>>826112

Pilots are expensive, and since men tend to score higher on the intelligence and physical exams it's probably more cost effective to get a man over a woman.

Also men are more willing to take risks with speedy things than women, so that also probably plays a part.

>>826112

When you have to trust a multi million dollar plane to somebody, it's going to the best available. For that reason the qualifications are extremely high so only the best of the best get to be actual fighter pilots. Even most men fail to make it let alone women and the pool of women to choose from will be incredibly tiny.

>>826189

Maybe another OTF will turn up. (There's still a couple of planes that it could be). Maybe we'll get to see sexy jaguar in action. Also she's basically Hisone's manager.

>>826112

It's not that they're not allowed, it's just the very few who attempt it tend not to make it through training, and if they get forced through anyway it ends poorly.

There have been some successful ones (there was a show that aired here in Canada about trainee fighter pilots, and one of them was a female who went on to have a successful career) but there are also those who end up like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Hultgreen

>>826207

Oh god, that poor f-14. Why couldn't she have fucking been flying an f-4 or something?

>>826207

>those who end up like

>overshooting the landing area centerline

Non issue

>Stalling your own engine

Screw up but not the end of the world

>Full throttle

You stupid idiot. Anyone with a any remotely decent flight sim can reproduce a vaguely similar situation and appreciate this worst possible decision.

>>826189

Shes gonna get her own OTF no doubt.

>>826263

I love that the Radar dish doubles as a Kasa when he's relaxed.

>>826243

At least the guy who was with her survived

>>826258

Also to be in the division she had to pass the profile test. This means she`s still potentially "appetible" by an OTF.

>>827783

>The day /a/nons realize they jumped the gun about Hoshino

>>827792

This is the third time time this week I have seen people talk about eating Kiwi skins, all on separate websites. I cant even begin to understand wanting to eat a kiwi skin its almost as bad as eating banana skin.

>>827797

What it's like in your head is way worse than what it's like in reality.

Kiwi skin apart...

I start to wonder if the OTF have any offensive capability at all.

>no any weapon available unless mounted on the camouflage.

>They performed slower that standard F15 (F2 or Norm).

>Not a single episode with fights, not even for drills.

I guess their purpose is to bring good luck and wealth to a country since they are mythical beasts and explained in ep1. Hisone has been called the choosen "miku" when she discovered Masotan name.

In that case OTFs are barely flying charms with girl priests inside.

What a letdown.

I really hope they reverse my theory and those OTFs better show some combat capability soon. Otherwise I will drop.

>>827792

>>827797

>>827798

It's true that the part of the flesh closest to the skin of fruits usually has the most nutrients and by extension sugars, but I don't think there's a single fruit where the actual skin itself is sweeter than the flesh, that is if you can truly seperate the skin from the flesh. My issue with eating kiwi skin is that unless you're growing the fruits yourself you can be assured they're covered in all sorts of horrible grime from the handling, packaging and distribution they go through, and there's no way to really wash them with how the hairs go.

>>827800

Who knows what they can really do? they don't seem to obey any physical laws so far as the stomach cockpit and feats of contortion for the camouflage go, or to combine those two and wonder how the smaller dragons manage to make enough room in their stomachs for the pilots to fit while also squishing themselves into their plane camo Plus, that one time his one kicked masotan during the airshow masotan pulled some pretty radical maneuvers, I'm sure there's something they could manage if they needed to.

>>827808

>kiwi

What about hairless kiwis? I've never eaten one, only know they exist.

>airshow

This part seemed more comedy than actual flight capabilities.

>>827790

I don't feel like the gun has been jumped much. This was the most obvious way for her character development to go, and it doesn't really override the things she's done until now nor does it put them in a different light.

>>827875

There was nothing "low key" about that. More like "slap you in the face."

>>827886

We can finally move on.

>>827886

>>827860

>>827897

I agree, it took long enough to get her little problem out of the picture, and it was pretty boring. She was unreasonable and needlessly stubborn at that.

All the good things didn't involve her in these past episodes.

Hisone is so cute, it's unfair.

>>827904

>She was unreasonable and needlessly stubborn at that.

I take it you haven't gotten fuck over out of your literal dream by the military for no fault of your own then.

It embitters you. Severely.

On an other note, was the vore really necessary? The even OTFs have cockpits build onto them, couldn't they just sit in those?

>>828537

>The even OTFs have cockpits build onto them, couldn't they just sit in those?

The cockpits are just decorative, you control the OTF by mashing on its innards.

>>828541

Yes I get that, but it would be really easy to rewrite that.

>>828544

That is what we see almost every time there is a "dragon rider" trope in any fantasy setting. A guy sitting on top of a dragon and controlling it like an airplane.

I find the insider (vored) pilot more interesting as it gives the pilot a much better protection from outer threats.

But I have another question in mind. The fancy hi-tech helmet seems to project a full VR image of the outher sourrounding area out of the dragon.

How in the hell did old time pilots (even just few generations back) managed to have a look out of the dripping interiors of the dragon belly and... pilot?

>>828564

Somehow I get the feeling you're not supposed to think about it that hard.

I'm still unclear on what the dragons even do. Like another Anon said previously they don't seem to have any means of attack and even if they did, using them in combat would immediately blow the lid on the whole keeping the mythical monsters a secret thing since the enemy would find out about it, so why are they even under the military's control? Why aren't they being tended to by some secret society of dragon keepers? Why even keep them a secret when every random soldier who happens to be at the right air base just knows about them? Are they all sworn to secrecy under threat of death?

>>828564

>>828565

Well they lost WW2, so maybe they weren't very effective.

>>828565

They mentioned in the first or second episode that the dragons need to fly to burn off energy or they become deeply ill and the country regards them as divine bringers of prosperity and peace, so they have to keep the dragons happy. Flying them around as jets under the guise of normal training and drills lets the dragons fly around, keeps them happy and healthy, and is presumably good for the country.. We're still not entirely sure what all the shady whispering and secret meetings are about, nor do we understand the cryptic hints they've been dropping, but it seems to imply that there's a purpose between bonding a pilot and dragon, beyond simply tending to its need to fly.

I agree, grim dark endings instead of happy endings need to be the norm. The dragons should be influencing the top brass into manipulating them into giving them their actual feed, human, as they make a bid for power against the other dragons and their puppet nations.

>>828566

>Purposely fly your dragon head first into an American battleship

Maybe that's why there's so few dragons left. The jap pilots killed them all. That left them open to getting nuked.

>>828632

Maybe it has more to do with giving the dragons the time to recall their memories of each other and the island than not being able to fly.

>>828632

>Also, is anyone else appreciating the terrific job the seiyuus are doing in this show?

Yeah that is one of the best part of this show. The fat girls way of talking is kind of annoying to me, but Hisone and Nao are awesome. Hisone is just straight up great but I don't see people mention Nao, what makes her great might not be obvious if you don't know some Japanese so that might be why. The part with her reading the manga and her complaining quietly sometimes are great.

And not only the girls, don't know their names well but the designer guy, that Sosoda guy and the guy that came to supervise their island test are all great.

>>828642

There is no Nao, there is only Sekushi Jaguar.

>>828564

>How in the hell did old time pilots (even just few generations back) managed to have a look out of the dripping interiors of the dragon belly and... pilot?

Magic. Theres already dragons masquerading around as planes, talk about chosen dragon mikos and the odd shrine with wall paintings. Everything related to piloting a dragon will probably be explained by calling it magic.

>>827958

The female pilot so good she couldnt exist

>>826189

Nao is the prophesied miko

>>828632

AWACS pilot is absolutely perfect.

>>828632

>Wait, so why were the dragons unable to fly once they got to the island?

They didn't WANT to, for them it was vacation.

>D-Pilots only allowed to love dragons

W-What..?

B-But Hisone is my waifu!

>>829492

>cuter than ever

Okonagi please, she was always that cute.

>>829502

The VAs are singing the ED? Fuck, I didn't notice at all, the French pronunciation was too good for me to believe a nip is singing it.

>>829515

Is it really? Are you a MWAAAAH?

I think you can pull off a "convincing" French pronunciation to people who don't know French as long as your voice is phlegmy enough, so I can't tell if their pronunciation is any good or not.

>>829517

She was so lewd he turned into Obama

>>829545

I'd let her okey my dokey any time.

>>829517

It truly feels like a classic 80s anime but with cleaner colors. If only the rest of the modern animu industry could learn from this.

>>829577

I want to marry Hisone and her stupid face.

>>829583

You would have to deal with her being blunt about your poor performances. If you know what i mean.

>>829549

A man of taste.

Sound effect-chan is gonna feed you and then suck you dry.

>>829742

Wait a second, that number...

>>829742

>I must remind them

THE JEW FEARS THE SAMURAI

>>829789

You know that's an edit, right? It really says 1485.

>>829791

I just looked at the picture even closer...yeah its a edit. Oh well. It was interesting while it lasted.

>>829742

So what do all the subsections say?

Nao-san died on the island, why is everyone talking like she's still alive.

>>826207

>first female carrier-based fighter pilot

They actually tried to memory hole the whole thing by changing her title from first female fighter pilot to that, incredible. Sage for obvious reasons.

>>829820

But Nao-san wasn't even alive, just a figment of Hisone's imagination. Why does everyone keep entertaining that fantasy?

>the borderline shut in will never know love and is instead used for market research

This makes me even more suspicious when posting in some threads.

>>829515

Although it is true that the Nips are quite good at French (must come more naturally than English/sound more phonetically similar), it is really obvious that the lolibaba is singing that ED anon, for fuck's sake.

>>829517

I teared up laughing at this part.

>>830202

I've thought for a long time now that if the nips learned a Latin language in school rather than the horrible mess that English is they'd probably be a lot better at speaking foreign languages.

>>830204

It is true. As someone who spoke a Latin language natively, I can attest to how easy learning Nip has come for me as opposed to English-only acquaintances who struggle wrapping their tongue around the most basic Nip words (especially when it comes to pronouncing the "R's"). Conversely, like Yuropoors, Nips have one hell of time wrapping their minds around such sounds as "th".

There's also the matter that, like Latin-derived languages, Nip is read almost exactly the way it is written as opposed to English where learning the lawlessness of pronouncing each word is the biggest challenge.

>>830202

>Nips are quite good at French

Sometimes.

>>830211

>Latin-derived languages are read almost exactly the way they are written

Yeah, it's not like French has any silent consonants. Let's look at a line from the ED song:

>Je ne pensais sur les rochers et les plages ensoleillées

Je, ne, and sur are all pronounced the way they're spelled. Only 70% of the words in the sentence differ significantly between spelling and pronunciation.

>>829642

>Nao likes the suit designer

I bet she only likes him because he's the first person who's ever said anything nice about her body. She's the type who acts hard to get, but would crumble the second you compliment her eyes.

>>829791

The edit is SHITE

>>830813

>this is the face of someone who is 92+ years old

Anybody else getting that slow sinking feeling like you're about to go head first into a pit of suffering?

So is Japan's excuse for losing the Battle of Midway in this world that C. Wade McClusky, Jr. was a cute anime grill with an OTF?

>>830966

>Why do they need to break their hearts for the ritual? Why do they need to be prepared to fall asleep inside their OTFs?

Being awake three days straight and piloting is basically impossible so they need to be completely in synch with the OTF to be able to sleep and fly, having a love life fucks that up so it was necessary to keep them loveless until the ritual is over.

They lost another pilot of Masotan already to marriage three years ago while the ritual was close. They can't afford to lose one of the pilots when the ritual is months away.

>>830973

Don't you remember that Suwabe's character fixed it?

How is it that nothing other than unsubbed RAWs of this are up on Pantsu? Are all of you Netflix/CR-watching faggots?

>>831017

Go to the subbers website.

>>830923

>>830966

Yeah. It's all down hill form here, isn't it?

The easy-going and charming atmosphere we've become accustomed to thus far feels like it stands to lead into untold pain. This could be especially effective due to how likable and "warm" the cast of OTF pilots is; They're all innocent angels. If anything should happen the suffering will be amplified.

>>831017

asenshi.moe you massive fag.

>>830839

This is going to be us in a few short weeks. I can feel the suffering coming.

>>831107

The real song is only about the length of the anime ED, anon. I think with the ED, what we hear is all we get.

>>831171

>was not expecting it from babyface.

They've been foreshadowing that since the beginning; it shouldn't be a surprise.

I wasn't expecting the Joie lady to be quite so foreground though.

Oh boy, what a beautiful mess we're in.

>>817080

French = Code Lyoko = Shit