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 No.11797 [Open Thread]

Make a plot for a Mecha show

>I know there is a similar thread already but I want a thread that concentrates on the story and physics

Make sure it has the following:

- A main character mecha

- deus ex machina Physics particles

- death

- bonus if it manages to have comedy or be wacky like Zambot 3

(pic related)

What makes a mecha plot great?

>Discuss what plot aspects makes a mecha show great

Personally I like mecha shows that details the physics and engineering of the mechas. That along with kill em all endings makes the show memorable.

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 No.14355

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Reposting from the other thread because nobody read it and this one seems more active

Background

>2XXX AD

>The world has been decimated by an alien race that came to mine the planet for resources

>Humans waged war against them and fought bravely, but ultimately lost

>Humans piloted Gundam-like mechs

>Aliens used "No this definitely isn't an Orbital Frame I promise"

>Once the planet was drained of everything that was efficient to mine, the aliens just left, no bitterness, what they had come to do was done

>All that is left is a mostly barren desert and the mining structures (think pyramids) the aliens left

>The world is now mostly governed by 'Ra' - a group trying to bring together the last fragments of humanity and rebuild society

>The Bastet legion pilots Cat units, the mechs left over from the war, protecting from the roaming (unpiloted) Seth the aliens left behind that attack anything in their path and will never stop. Once, the Bastet Legion was the best of the best, now it's just whoever they can find.

>However, a splinter faction of humanity known as 'Osiris' are angry that Ra does not do anything to take revenge on the alien race, so they aim to take over the city Ra has set up and use the Seth units to bring the fight to the aliens

>The Anubis armada use Jackal units, heavily modded Cat units with anything they can get their hands on to beat the shit out of Cat and Seth units and scavenge what tech they can

>Ra devised the Wadjet task force to tackle Anubis

>Wadjet pilot Wadjet units, which are like Cat units, but customized to the users specifications

Now down to the characters

I'm no good at Japanese Names, so I'll just call our characters by letter

>a, Male, age 21

>Kinda grungy looking, shaggy hair, just wears whatever's in thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.14356

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>>14355

Story

>Wadjet unit are tasked with interrupting Anubis missions and reclaiming Jackal units

>Starts off with just a few missions with just messing up Jackal groups and general banter between the pilots

>A few chapters/episodes of them messing about off-mission

>One mission, everything is going as normal, when the jackal group is suddenly obliterated in one shot by a single Seth unit, which then turns to the Wadjet group

>a is absolutely horrified, b realises there's no fucking way they can beat it with just the three of them and the best course of action would be to retreat, c concurs

>Obviously this comes way too late, as the Seth unit is already upon them

>Then, several more (about 23) Jackal units fly in from nowhere, and scream at the Wadjet unit to help them, as a small town is nearby

>Now, a Jackal unit can usually take on about 2 or 3 Cat units at a time, before being destroyed, and a Wadjet unit can take on one or two Jackal units with moderate ease

>A Seth unit is about 6x the size of a Cat unit, and it takes about 50 Cat units to take one down, with heavy casualites, about 2/3 the squad

>a jumps in, despite Anubis and Osiris being their enemies, but the town in more important

>c says that they can't just let him get killed, and jumps in too

>b sighs and joins in

>The destruction is immense, the Seth takes out most of the Jackal units and knocks a's Dragonfly into the town

>It comes after it. a escapes, but the town is destoyed in the process

>Eventually the Seth comes down, but there's only about 6 Jackal units left

>The Jackal group thanks the Wedjet group for trying, and flies off

>a is horrified at the sheer destructive power of a single Seth unit

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 No.14357

>>14355

>The world has been decimated by an alien race

"Decimate" means "to reduce something by 10%"

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 No.14358

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>>14357

Words can have more than one meaning, matey

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 No.14372

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>>14355

>>14356

would watch it.

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 No.13535 [Open Thread]

Are there seriously no subs of the movie version of 0083 or am I just blind?

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 No.14291

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>that fanart

I don't remember Cima's hair being that green. This is sillier than the weird cosplay set I saw on sad panda last week. Picture unrelated.

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 No.14292

Why do you want to watch the 0083 movie in the first place?

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 No.14293

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Why are move versions of OVAs even made? Do they actually sell? I've never seen them regarded as anything but awful.

>>14285

I hate how Macross Plus's movie version changed the ending ever so slightly. It just doesn't have the same impact.

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 No.14294

>>14293

in Japan you get to see the movie version in a movie theater, so the usual lazy "greatest hits" approach is less terrible since you're there to see the show you already saw but now on a movie screen

that still doesn't answer why you'd want it at home, but it's a bit of insight at least

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 No.14295

>>14294

That makes sense. I can understand wanting to see something as good looking as Macross Plus or 0083 on the big screen.

>but it's a bit of insight at least

That's true. I didn't even realize that Bobby ni Kubittake was something that was shown before movies (Dagger of Kamui if I remember right) until someone on /a/ told me. I wasn't even aware they did things like that in Japan. Thanks for the info.

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 No.12288 [Open Thread]

Who was your favorite of the original three /m/?

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 No.14068

>>14048

IIRC he was used as an efsf/titans spearhead until hayato took him into karaba

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 No.14070

>>14066

Kamile>Judau>>>>>Amuro(there's a reason he could never keep a girlfriend.)

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 No.14072

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 No.14075

>>14070

I thought the reason was him being mentally scarred during his teenage years by fighting in a war, being a NEET before jumping onto White Base, and being a Newtype who had some romantic feelings towards a certain brown chick that he ended up killing and thus being haunted by until he decided to push a rock away from Earth while going beyond the time. M8 Amuro can't really love anybody anymore, just passing feelings and some lust.

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 No.14248

>>14075

I know, anon. I just like to shitpost about dicks.

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 No.13929 [Open Thread]

I AM POYO!

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 No.13976

I AM THE BURNING EAST

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 No.14078

>>13929

How is this game anyways?

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 No.14118

>>14078

Sounds like its at least as good as triple deluxe.

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 No.14208

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

Best kirby game.

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 No.14241

I AM KYOJI

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 No.14224 [Open Thread]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2016/05/28/shoji-kawamori-on-macross-delta-and-his-hopes-for-the-series/#320be3ff1210

Interesting tidbits: No Protodevlin in Delta, Kawamori keeps wanting to toss out the Plane Mecha/Love Triangle/Music formula, and the people who fund the show won't let him, and Harmony Gold is shit.

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 No.14225

>not posting an archive

https://archive.is/lpy5R

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 No.14226

>>14225

For a while they had some weird script that kept them from being archived.

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 No.13922 [Open Thread]

mine is the Rick Dias clay bazooka, this thing turns me on for some reason, the hyper bazookas look great too and dont even get me started on the atomic bazooka, that thing is the reason my first goal in gundam breaker 2 was to build the physalis. Bazookas in gundam are just sexy in general but not the GN bazooka, that thing should not even be called a bazooka, its just a particle cannon.

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 No.16206

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I wish more mecha anime would focus on a consistent arsenal of situational weaponry rather than just one generic beam rifle for each model.

Dat sexy Einhander Cannon, though.

I've only recently realized how much the Einhander looks like a Gundam in ship form

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 No.16211

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Does Victory Haro count as a MS weapon?

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 No.16213

>>16211

>gif

rip doggo

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 No.16214

>>16206

Try playing mecha games, then. They tend to focus on specific weapons.

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 No.16218

>>16206

Except the entire point of having mobile suits with hands is that they can be equipped with an arsenal of situational weaponry as long as it fits in their hands. Not to mention the Einhander is from a fucking SHMUP where packing an unrealistic amount of weapons and ammo into such a small craft happens.

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 No.14202 [Open Thread]

figured I'd make a thread, enjoy

some OC courtesy of Zeta Gundam, Panzer world Galient, and Dougram

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 No.14203

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There's already a reaction image thread.

>>5293

No worries, though. You probably just didn't notice it.

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 No.14186 [Open Thread]

Tried posting the text itself here but the board wouldn't let me so here's a link instead.

http://pastebin.com/KYmmDdzh

Source: Wild Arms 2nd Ignition Complete Guide (Famitsu, 2000)

ワイルドアームズ2ndイグニッションコンプリートガイド

ISBN-10: 4757701098

ISBN-13: 978-4757701090

Summary of interview (pg 344-353) with Kaneko Akifumi (writer, total game design), Ookubo Tetsuya (monster design, battle graphics), Itou Yukihiko (character design, field)

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 No.14191

I thought Wild Arms was a western (as in the genre) game, not a mecha game?

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 No.14192

>>14191

Henshin heroes

Cyborgs

Giant robots

Kaijuu

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 No.14198

Nice interview, thanks for this.

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 No.8760 [Open Thread]

https://archive.is/43BzZ

https://archive.is/6Qcw1

First three novels are dated for 2016.

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 No.13409

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Now its a definitive buy of the hard copy.

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 No.13414

>>13409

based.

are any of lotgh games worthwhile?

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 No.13452

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>>13409

Wow.

I'm really fucking glad I bought my copy and got my sibling to watch the entire series, gaidens and all. Here's to hoping all the volumes come over soon.

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 No.13562

Ordered a hard copy of the book yesterday. In 3 weeks I will be able to tell you whether the translation looks good or not. Maybe I post some parts of it here.

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 No.14194

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Well Look what I just arrived for me in the bookstore! So far the translation has to be accurate aside from a one typo by the looks of it. I am devouring it right now, already 56 pages in from casual reading on the way back home. So far I don't regret that have bit the bullet.

>>13452

According to the classic advertisements inside Volume 2;Ambition and 3;Endurance are coming out this year. Volume 2 should be out soon.

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 No.14085 [Open Thread]

Streaming Victory Gundam (Bluerays) get in here

weebcrew.moe

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 No.14089

>>14087

tbh it's meant to be ironic. Also streaming more viktory fundam.

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 No.14090

weebcrew as in IRC crew? Not today, Rugga Smalls!

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 No.14092

>>14089

>tbh

Now you're absolutely going to the shitlist.

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 No.14104

>>14092

He should have gone there the second he mentioned shittory gundam.

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 No.14106

Streaming Cyborg 009

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 No.13848 [Open Thread]

How would you fix Space Runaway Ideon?

How badly could a remake fuck things up?

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 No.13863

Really, I would only shorten it. It is one of my top 5 anime (and I have been watching for a little more than a decade) for how well it crafts the atmosphere of hopelessness and develops the bonds between the characters without focusing too much on the melodrama of their individual lives. The slow pace makes me feel their fatigue with the endless battles. The seemingly unreliable power of the Ideon bringing them close to death so often. It really is a gem brought down by its excessive length.

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 No.13864

Remove the canon from Ideon's crotch(unless it's part of some kind of symbolism that I just didn't catch onto) and maybe trim down a bit on the the battles, and you're good, provided you stop watching the show after episode 38 and go straight to Be Invoked.

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 No.14049

I just finished the entire show and movie last week and I definitely think that the show takes too long to get to themes of hopelessness and such. I do think that show fails more in writing and gets by with its amazing cinematography. Ajian Burning is a good example of this, i.e when Cosmo becomes traumatized from a Buff Clan attack and he meets that military woman that reminds him of his mother. The way Cosmo's trauma is dealt with is poor but the scenes that impact him are amazingly done. So even though the show is too long, some parts aren't given enough time to be brilliant. There are more examples of this but that is the most obvious one to me.

Overall I enjoyed the show but it does have some problems that are going to take some thought to fix.

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 No.13974 [Open Thread]

/m/, how the hell is mecha not popular in the west?

The genre in general has got all the makings of a successful property over here in the states

>tons of things to sell as merch, and is in fact sold out the ass, in japan at least

>Typically young MCs that get to pilot giant robot war machines, easy to self-insert for the kiddes

>Enough iterations to keep in syndication for years

So why is it largely unsuccessful and ignored in the west, by prospective distributors and consumers alike?

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 No.13999

>>13997

This stuff happens on /v/ a lot, it can only be fixed by a mod/BO responding to the thread.

Nobody really knows why it happens or why a mod response fixes it.

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 No.14001

Mecha is not popular in the East either. It's seen as old men's thing, children are into different things now.

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 No.14004

>>13974

The short answer is: Because speedrace was too violent and evil.

The long asnwer:

The mecha genre didn't have a good start in the West. All popular shows from back then either ended up as licensing nightmares that still make Western releases impossible(poster child: Macross)forever tainted due to retarded localization(Example: Captain Harlock and the Queen Millenia) . This bullshit happened during the first Mecha wave in Japan.Also take into account much stricter expectations and rules by the American audience and TV station managers for TV series. The reason why the nightmare named Robotech was made is because Macross alone didn't have the requiered numbers of Episodes to be considered a full season back then. Hefty editing was also a must for cable wasn't that widespread and any group of bored house wifes could cause a shit storm at the TV station.This is all what I know about the Situation in Burgerland and I think other Americans can explain that much better than me.

I am more knowledgable for Germany though. Here the genre had a better shot with Saber Rider and the Starsherrifs, a americanized version of a show called Sei Jūshi Bisumaruku. It went very swell for Japanese SciFi over the early years of commercial television here with the West's only faithful translation of Queen Millenia aired on TV and Akira coming out on VHS. The interest for it in Germany kinda slept in, because slice of life shows and every show that was Part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece theatre was more Successful. First with Heidi that was the only game in Town during its release on the only cartoon block here and then with everything that Tele 5 and RTL 2 have scrooged together and aired. Ohayu Spank, Attack No* 1, Captain Tsubasa and anime of old children's novels were more popular than Robots and shit here. We even got fucking Miyuki on TV that has a cult following. The manga wave didn't promise more success either. The designated big dogs were stricly Shounen and Shoujo manga and sometimes the one or other Seinen manga but nothing specifically mecha. The taste of the audience didn't allow for such huge wavPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.14013

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>>14004

Harlock, Queen Millenia and the like weren't the first wave of mecha in either Japan or America. That'd be the likes of Tetsujin-28 and Mazinger Z in Japan, and America had Johnny Sokko and his Flying robot and Gigantor. Probably something earlier and a lot more shows too, but that's another topic really. Macross was the third or fourth "wave" in mecha in Japan, depending how you want to count the generations. Localising didn't kill these shows, just the opposite. These shows got a lot more exposure because they were dubbed and localised. Hell, you have a precedent with Godzilla and Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Godzilla did come to the US before it's localised version, and it did bad. After it was localised, it found much larger audience and became a huge cultural phenomena. Taking a work and altering it to be larger success takes money and time, and while it has become a negative term to certain groups on the Internet, the fact still is that without localisation we would not enjoy anime or anything else from other cultures the way we do nowadays.

The exact same goes for Robotech. Yes, it was mashed with two other shows, and yet it was ground breaking at the time. It's easy to point and laugh at Robotech thirty years later as a purist, yet everybody forgets that Harmony Gold wanted to keep the level of sophistication found in Macross with their localisation, which they did in most cases, despite the alterations. There was a very small cult following for japanimation at the time, and Robotech kicked the fandom to high gear.

And no, Macross, Mospeada and Southern Cross didn't become a generational story in Robotech because of lack of episodes needed for a season. They became that because Harmony Gold didn't want to go the home release way and opted for syndication, and there is a needed amount of episodes needed for a show to be syndicated, which has nothing to do with episode count in a season if the show is not running in syndication.

Just like with Voltron that came year before Robotech, localised changes like this, especially at the time, were made out of appreciation for the original work and intention to have it the largPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.14022

>>14013

>Harlock, Queen Millenia and the like weren't the first wave of mecha in either Japan or America.

Yep. I would say it all started with Astroboy and then Mazinger Z and Tetsujin-28 as you stated and after that Gundam.

>They became that because Harmony Gold didn't want to go the home release way and opted for syndication, and there is a needed amount of episodes needed for a show to be syndicated, which has nothing to do with episode count in a season if the show is not running in syndication.

This only a more exact version of what I have said and weebrags used to print.

>As a fellow Eurofag, I can straight up tell you to shove your shit transliteration of Bismarck and call it with its official rominization. Saying that Germany got a better start with mecha than US is just laughable, you got a different start. Bismarck is a footnote at best in mecha history alongside the rest of dime in the dozen 1980's mecha shows like Dorvack, but at least you didn't start with the likes of Balatack and Starzinger, like the Sweden and Finland did.

Mecha got a better shot. Did Germany had better Mecha shows? Hell no! Keep in mind that I am talking about the period were commercial TV has just started and Tele 5 was like the only channel airing mecha anything. What you have said about Bismarck , i.e. that it was footnote at best and very bitter one I might add for the Show wasn't that popular in Japan to begin with, could play a big role into World Master Piece Theatre curbstomping the genre here. Not only was everything from that line available for cheap but also much better. I forgot to mention that the I was talking about the Shit sabanized version of Bismarck Anime house had to correct and redub for their DVD release.

>Three decades of pumping out of mecha has made Japan tired, and the exact same goes for the west. It's simple as that, really. Giant robots had their fad, hit the cultural scene and wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.12041 [Open Thread]

>What is Toku night?

Ever wanted to watch some kamen rider or sentai with 8chan? well now you can.

>when is Toku night?

I've decided on every monday, wednesday, friday, and saturday.

>where is Toku night?

right here at https://synchtu.be/r/Toku_theatre

Come on in guys. theres a poll on what to watch tonight.

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 No.12848

>>12733

NOT TONIGHT IT ISN'T

LETS DO THIS SHIT. COME JOIN NOW

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 No.13113

ded

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 No.13406

>>13113

Nigga I tried but noone would show up. I tried to keep a time schedule and noone followed? If you want it to come back email me and Tell me if theres a better time to do it.

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 No.13944

TOKU NIGHT TONIGHT AT 9PM PST

We moved to https://cytu.be/r/Kamen_Rider_Theater

so now we can use google drive and stuff.

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 No.13964

>>13944

yo, can you please spoonfeed me instructions on how that works?

I've been doing a groupwatch over with 4/m/ and we'll eventually want to migrate to the cytube/googledrive method when it runs out of youtube

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 No.6127 [Open Thread]

What do you guys think of this movie? It's kinda like megmaman-ish, peaceful thinking robot is forced to fight. Just saw the trailer and I'm slightly interested.
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 No.9657

7/10, it's decent but nothing mind blowing. It feels like Short Circuit but with a ghetto flavour and consciousness swapping.

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 No.9661

>>9657

>7/10, it's decent

IGN, is that you?

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 No.9676

>>9661

Yeah, it gets an above average grade, however it doesn't go above, nor beyond within it's own genre, it's just there.

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 No.9695

This movie was fucking awful. I expected AI stuff/what counts as a human and instead I got a retarded faggotbaby and Die Antwoord.

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 No.13930

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Honestly, the fanart is more enjoyable than the actual movie.

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 No.13368 [Open Thread]

Turns out Iczer-1 was censored when it aired tonight in Japan. Whoever thought it was a good idea to show Lemon People based OVA on TV didn't have everything right. Maybe this is just propaganda to sell the BluRei.

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 No.13539

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Here's something you haven't seen before; the original Iczer-Robo and some character models from Arai himself. I need to pick another copy of this book and scan all of it.

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 No.13691

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Something you most likely haven't seen before.

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 No.13902

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The BD Box came out yesterday and I got mine in the mail this morning. From the outside, all of this looks pretty damn high quality.

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 No.13903

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Here's some screencaps for you to evaluate.

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 No.13914

>>13903

That's a nice ass. Good screens though, looking good.

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