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| Things are starting to get interesting again! really liking this anime :D cant wait for the cliffhanger so hype to see whats gonna happen |
| Be It 10 or 1000 Men, The End Result Will Be The Same.. |
| The new prototype gear was awesome. |
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| Oh god Tanikaze's beaten up face had me rolling. He's soooo stupid not to realize why Izana would be upset about her/his promotion : not everyone has the chance to be the ace pilot OP protagonist, Tanikaze-kun. She's like 100% guaranteed to die now. What was the Captain doing at that lame restaurant ? Didn't she care about people other than Tanikaze seeing her without her mask ? Anyway, another good episode, and indeed the sound effect during the Gauna fight was godlike. Actually the sound effects in Sidonia have always been like that. My ears can't get enough of the goodness *-* Next episode pilots are gon' be dying like flies. |
SapewlothJun 14, 2014 7:10 PM
| Proud founder of The Official Anti-Ging Freecss Fan Club Join now! Kellhus said: GuusWayne said: there is a limit to the suspension of disbelief And it's the fan that did it. Not the smoking porn reading rubik cube genius rape ape with a magic boat. |
| Tentacle-girl made herself a cute outfit. Sapewloth said: No kidding, ha!Oh god Tanikaze's beaten up face had me rolling. |
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mayukachan said: Two episodes left ;-; Hopefully that season two announcement was real? It's not. Sad face. You raised my hopes then instantly dashed them. |
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| From what i remember correctly, those aren't new tech weapons. They were used long time ago, informations about them where just lost. |
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Stark700 said: LOL, Nagate's face was priceless. To commemorate it: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, the story has surpassed levels to put the issue of the frame rate behind. I mean it has been that way for a few episodes already, but for the sake of saying so, the story actually hypes me up enough to absolutely disregard any issue with the animation. Many flags have been set. Kunato working hand-in-hand with Nagate is one of those checks to look forward to. Gauna relationship (or death) is check. Please god don't make it death. Nihei is a genius at integrating fetishes so naturally. First pee, then tentacle. My god. Great Scott. |
VudisJun 17, 2014 9:55 AM
| A great episode, Tanikaze didn't disappoint, once more. Maybe the gauna aren't human experiments after all. More arguments to conclude so than not. Season 2 is mandatory, because this is just one cour. At least AoT, which ended without a recent sequel, was two-cour(although it still failed to deliver in the end). |
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| For the current episodes discussion thought, I have to say I find the actions and speech pattens of Benisuzume eerily similar to the autistic toddlers which I had the pleasure of taking care of in the past. Whilst apparently with Hoshijirou's appearance, it still doesn't take away from the fact that that thing isn't human. I doubt that... creature... will ever be anything more than a mindless glob of placenta that tries to act upon it's hive-mind's orders (in that, I mean the Type 18 still flying around in space. I get the feeling that the Benisuzume will either be destroyed at the end of this anime, or Tanikaze, being the weak, compassionate character that he is, will allow it to escape to the stars to fight against them another day (thus setting up for a season 2). The new weapon is ultimately OP, but at the same time I doubt many pilots will actually be adept enough to utilize it (hey, no one but Tanikaze would have been able to re-compensate for the messed trajectory after skewing that first shot) At first I had my doubts as to why the green-haired girl would be able to grab that key so easily. All that was answered when the Captain showed up. Ya figure that the entire thing was completely staged to bring Tanikaze to that facility to explian everything to him. Still, I have my doubts as to whether the Captain can still be trusted or not. It feels like she's trying to save him covertly, but it also feels like she's doing it for his well being, but for her own purposes. The next episode will not be enjoyable for me personally, what with all the deaths in fighting against that World-class Gauna in the preview. I get why Izuna was so upset at how happy Tanikaze was that she'd made pilot. Not everyone has had his training, nor his genes and reflexes, survival rates for first five missions are normally the lowest, and only rise up after that provided you gain actual experience and didn't survive on luck alone. Given the lack of actual combat experience and the impossibly difficult task of facing those placenta thingy's, anyone but Tanikaze would find making pilot to be nothing short of a voluntary death sentence. Tanikaze is too naive to understand this point still, and even I'd be ticked off if he had congratulated me like that. Oh, and a late side note, Sasaki was quite... well endowed.... Mod Edit: Removed quote of deleted post and response to it. |
VudisJun 17, 2014 9:58 AM
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At least two pilots were killed by the explosives that were shook loose. Which falls upon Tanikaze freezing. Hence why Tanikaze also blames himself too. Then the rest of the battle was made significantly more challenging because the tail wasn't dealt with immediately, causing more unnecessary casualties. Both Tanikaze and Kunato are to blame for this. And it wasn't hubris, it was intentional sabotage by someone who's not stupid enough to think there wouldn't be a cost in human lives. Semantics. Also yes, Kunato IS stupid enough to think that all this would result in was Tanikaze being humiliated - as proven by his regret and state of mind right now - if he was as calculating and evil as you wanted to portray he would spend time hating Tanikaze for getting back on track -instead he is haunted by the ghosts of the girl he caused to die, sulks for days in his house and is disturbed by what his actions caused. Its quite clear that he is just a bully who never expected the scope of the consequences for his actions that he got. Does he deserve the consequences? Narrative wise yes, because he still acted rashly and was influenced by his hubris, causing the said deaths. Human wise? I am pretty sure PTSD is not something to be wished upon ANYONE, no matter the scope of the crime. Also, he showed no remorse in the Manga, and took no responsibility. Wrong. The opposite is true. Kunato is far more shaken up after this in there and does not look that much of "mouhaha" one dimensional villain like anime made him seen beforehand(while he is still a prick). Kunato's flashbacks are more well-placed in manga, reinforcing his motivations and showcasing his inner state of mind during his "you did htis" confrontation with Nagate, making it clear that its a psychological defense mechanism(which fails latter on as anime and manga both show) He is not someone beyond redemption. He would be if he continued to engage in same behavior after crossing the line he crossed, instead of going into "WTF DID I CAUSE???!" BSOD-episode. No one in Sidonia(except maybe Tanikaze, whose motives are most pure and his harem) are pure good guys and quite a few people have blood on their hands, so having Kunato be portrayed as one-dimensionally as anime tried IS bad writing, but alas they are trying to fix it now. Mod Edit: Removed quote of deleted post and response to it. |
VudisJun 17, 2014 10:02 AM
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Fai said: [/quote]At least two pilots were killed by the explosives that were shook loose. Which falls upon Tanikaze freezing. Hence why Tanikaze also blames himself too. Tanikaze's actions after Kunato's trick have nothing to do with the fact that those explosives were gonna shake loose and kill people, him freezing had no effect on that and him freezing was a direct result of Kunato's trick anyway. And yes, Tanikaze does blame himself because he's not a terrible person, Kunato never indicates that he even cares in the Manga. The anime actually added a scene whereKunato's standing there looking at the recovered wreckage of Hoshijiro's Guardian, and that's the closest we get to an indication that he might have been feeling guilty, but he then immediately tells Tanikaze that he did it. There's also the scene where he flips out and flees Benisuzume, another anime original scene, the only indicators of Kunato's guilt were not even there in the Manga, and you keep complaining that the Anime is making him less sympathetic. Then the rest of the battle was made significantly more challenging because the tail wasn't dealt with immediately, causing more unnecessary casualties. Both Tanikaze and Kunato are to blame for this. Tanikaze is not to blame for them not taking out the tail at the beginning of the battle, they had one opportunity there and Kunato saw to it that they fucked that opportunity up, it was not Tanikaze's fault at all, not even remotely, any more than it would've been Hoshijiro's fault if Kunato was playing his cruel private channel trick on her. And it wasn't hubris, it was intentional sabotage by someone who's not stupid enough to think there wouldn't be a cost in human lives. Semantics. That's not semantics, hubris doesn't even begin to cover the horrible intentions and disregard for possible and highly probable consequences Kunato had there. Also yes, Kunato IS stupid enough to think that all this would result in was Tanikaze being humiliated - as proven by his regret and state of mind right now - if he was as calculating and evil as you wanted to portray he would spend time hating Tanikaze for getting back on track -instead he is haunted by the ghosts of the girl he caused to die, sulks for days in his house and is disturbed by what his actions caused. I still don't think he's that stupid, and there's a telling panel where he's smiling whilst Tanikaze's about to be killed by the gauna that Hoshijiro sacrifices herself to save him from. Not only did he intend to humiliate Tanikaze, he was perfectly happy to have him die right there. Again, he showed not an ounce of remorse in the Manga, he was fine for the next battle, and following on from there the next time you see him in his mansion he's not sulking because of the deaths he caused, he's still trying to find out why Tanikaze's getting special treatment. Tanikaze getting back on track and his plan to defame him being ultimately unsuccessful is far more important to Kunato than the fact he caused the deaths of several comrades. Its quite clear that he is just a bully who never expected the scope of the consequences for his actions that he got. Does he deserve the consequences? Narrative wise yes, because he still acted rashly and was influenced by his hubris, causing the said deaths. Human wise? I am pretty sure PTSD is not something to be wished upon ANYONE, no matter the scope of the crime. We saw how he reacted when his plan failed and the human cost was for naught. Had his plan worked and Nagate died, or been rendered completley irrelevant and Kunato had then gone onto become the Ace, I don't think he'd have had any trouble sleeping regardless of whether those other pilots had died. But that would've been the true test of his character, to see his plan work and him still spiral into depression. What we see instead is his reaction to his plan failing. He deserved more than just PTSD, but he didn't really show signs of having PTSD in the Manga anyway. Mod Edit: Removed quote of deleted post and response to it. |
VudisJun 17, 2014 10:06 AM
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| 8000 times the Sidonia?!! That thing is freaking madness!! How can they defeat something so big? Where could the heart be placed? Those experiance on Gauna seemed... shocking to say the least. Fusionning human with gauna... That's some mad scientist level! :P Izana hitting Tanikaze so hard was hilarious xD And Hoshijiro..... How can a weird monster copying a death person be so cute?!? ''My dead crush that transformed in a human killing tentacular monster can't be this cute!'' |
| «Time is passing so quickly. Right now, I feel like complaining to Einstein. Whether time is slow or fast depends on perception. Relativity theory is so romantic. And so sad.» - Kurisu Makise a.k.a. The Zombie |
| Damn, great episode. Things were looking good for a second. Can't wait to the the '8000 times the size of Sidonia' Gauna. |
RediceRyanJun 15, 2014 8:14 PM
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| I just marathoned all ten episodes and am new here. Instead of posting in each thread I'm just going to post here what I think. Being eaten alive is the one way I don't want to go so watching Eiko get eaten (or absorbed, whatever) by the Gauna made me cringe. Dammit, Shizuka was the best girl. Why did she have to die? ;_; Holy shit Kunato. I didn't like him from the moment he was introduced but I didn't expect him to go as far as he did. I hope he dies the slowest most brutal death possible. How could he cause the deaths of so many fellow pilots all because he's jealous and wants everyone to shower him with attention? And then he has the gall to blame Tanikaze for Shizuka's death? What. The. Fuck. If he hadn't issued that order on the private channel EVERYONE might have survived. And seeing how advanced they are they SHOULD have communication logs on the frames and I'm quite pissed that Tanikaze didn't even think of this or ask someone about it. He could have proven his innocence in an instant. But honestly, what bothers me the most is that Tanikaze just took it all lying down saying "Gauna is my only enemy", it made me lose the little respect I had for him. No backbone whatsoever. Still, the way he saved the emigrants was cool. Why is Tanikaze so happy about the Shizuka copy trying to write out his name? It's NOT Shizuka. She's dead. She didn't magically come back to life. I just hope he doesn't get the hots for that thing. Yuhata is annoying. Izana...smh. Just confess your love and turn into a woman already instead of almost accidentally killing yourself because you can't say it. Samari and Sasaki hottest gurls. 8000 times the size of Sidonia? Well, can't wait to see what they'll come up with to try and beat THAT. Having read the other threads for the episodes, should I pick up the manga after the anime is done? I'm not sure I can wait for another season to see Kunato suffer, I rarely hate a character's guts this much in anime but he takes the fucking piss. |
| I am.... SO JEALOUS of that old geezer mechanic. I want to be hugged by that big-titty mechanic too :/ |
 Oppai is love, oppai is life |
AnimageNeby said: As a whole I can agree, though this time they made a logical error by making it appear the human/gauna hybrid made it possible to create artificial Kabizashi BEFORE the Well... AnimageNeby said: Because now, when you mix up the timeline like that, the question becomes why they didn't implement those artificial Kabizashi a long time ago. The whole point of the importance of the spears is that they're only 28, so they're unbelievably valuable (hence all the trouble they do to recapture them, as has been shown). But now, it feels like weird. It feels forced, because one has to believe that, after more thazn 600 years, they only figured it out how to make and made the artificial Kabizashi just now, in the nick of time, right before a major battle. Right. Because there was no need for that. I mean, they (the ISC) are totally against the idea of facing the Gauna. The production of the Kabi-bullets was an initiative of Kobayashi, which shows very well her hidden agenda. AnimageNeby said: What's lacking now, is the actual reason why they didn't find out/weren't able to make that new Kabizashi up until now. I think this a pity, and one of the few times they didn't think their change through far enough. Kobayashi and Yure were already working on it for years, it's just that they were waiting for a chance to put their schemes into practice. And now |
VeldarthJun 16, 2014 5:16 PM
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| Kabi-bullets are nice and all, but how about equipping the Sidonia itself with anti-Gauna weapons? The Sidonia has the firepower the Gardes obviously lack, and it obviously also has superior range. They'd just need to stick one aritical kabi into one of those things they shot on a Gauna in episode two or so. Or just shoot a giant kabi that fits the Sidonia's weapon systems. Heck, they could basically shoot a bed of nails to maximaze likelyhood of hitting the core. Also, obviously Kunato is not the same as a Gauna, but he would get the harshest sentence he can get in baiscally every country today - and that often includes true life sentence or death penalty. He is doing mighty fine compared to that. Don't forget that he is the reason there is a cute little monster named Benisuzume in the first place. Without him sabotating the mission, the Gauna would most likely be dead before it could have hit anyone - especially Tanikaze. Therefore Hoshijiro would not have to save him, allowing her to dodge the attacks etc - if the Gauna is even still alive, as i said. You could even go so far to say that Kunato is directly responsible for creating a new type of Gauna. Which could make him worse then a Gauna. Animals are usually said to only act on instinct, so they are not directly responsible for their actions. Whether the Gauna are capable of self-reflection and similar remains to be seen, while Kunato was aware of what he was doing (even if he miscalculated the effect). |
NwAurion said: Kabi-bullets are nice and all, but how about equipping the Sidonia itself with anti-Gauna weapons? The Sidonia has the firepower the Gardes obviously lack, and it obviously also has superior range. They'd just need to stick one artificial kabi into one of those things they shot on a Gauna in episode two or so. Or just shoot a giant kabi that fits the Sidonia's weapon systems. Heck, they could basically shoot a bed of nails to maximaze likelyhood of hitting the core. That would be impractical and virtually impossible. NwAurion said: Also, obviously Kunato is not the same as a Gauna, but he would get the harshest sentence he can get in baiscally every country today - and that often includes true life sentence or death penalty. He is doing mighty fine compared to that. Don't forget that he is the reason there is a cute little monster named Benisuzume in the first place. Without him sabotating the mission, the Gauna would most likely be dead before it could have hit anyone - especially Tanikaze. Therefore Hoshijiro would not have to save him, allowing her to dodge the attacks etc - if the Gauna is even still alive, as i said. The reasons for Kunato getting away from the casualties he caused, was already discussed in the episode 7 thread, I think. |
VeldarthJun 16, 2014 4:16 PM
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| Nagate is2cool4me. Anyway, that scene of Izana and Nagate, rotfl. |
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| The only thing I remember is the captain is hot and that new weapon looks op but will not work in next battle. |
| 5/5 Plot that takes the train so much so fast, narration that takes the plane, not bad this fast-paced, but too few 12 episodes. The characters start to evolve, but it is still too little, but given the brevity of the anime series, I'm not complaining too much. Many mysteries surround the story, I'm curious to know if Kunato will make another nonsense, would be the best! XD That gauna shaped Shizuka is the result to which Ochai wanted to get there? |
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AnimageNeby said: They showed the hybrid after the aux-brain-probing, but the artificial Kabizashi were only made after even that, though. If memory serves right, he was already 'revived' by then, and it was actually through his work that the anti-gauna development made great progress from that point. Yeah, they anticipated the production of Kabi-bullets. Perhaps it's a sign of a possible original ending. EDIT: Actually I was AnimageNeby said: The argument that they didn't need it sound fanciful: they kept their military apparatus going for 600 years, and they considered the 28 kabi's as national treasures. There is no way in (any realistic) hell that a society under that kind of threat, and with so few resources (only 28 weapons that work) wouldn't jump at the opportunity to create effective weapons in mass, even if it was just to be better prepared for if they would mayhaps have dare need of it. And who says Kobayashi wants a demilitarized Sidonia? The ISC members are a bunch of puppets in her hands. She was the person who was ruling the seed ship for all these years. And she may even be the person who started all this research on immortality only to continue to live in order to exterminate the Gauna's threat. Kobayashi already had access to Ochiai's experiments (those that remained intact after the fourth defensive war, see the "hybrid"). She just needed a good reason to expose this "new" technology they were developing without raising the suspicions of the committee. Also, remember that we don't know exactly HOW and WHEN the chimera experiments began. But yeah, I'm also not happy with these changes they made. |
VeldarthJun 18, 2014 7:43 PM
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| Is Sidonia set in the Blame universe as well? They did mention Toha... |
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Wasabi said: Is Sidonia set in the Blame universe as well? They did mention Toha... Probably not. Nihei just likes to reuse terms and stuff in his works. |
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| 8000 times sidonia's size O.O how are they going to kill that? |
Onuma said: Wasabi said: Is Sidonia set in the Blame universe as well? They did mention Toha... Probably not. Nihei just likes to reuse terms and stuff in his works. Like the bear |
Z4k said: The bear is awesome.Onuma said: Probably not. Nihei just likes to reuse terms and stuff in his works. Like the bear |
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Botato said: Z4k said: The bear is awesome.Like the bear  |
Z4k said: Yup. Definitely awesome.Botato said: The bear is awesome. |
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| 02:52 dat MILF in kimono 07:37 inu ka yo 15:13 dat CG boin 20:15 moe!!! 7.5/10 for this ep. |
| Isayama Hajime should be awarded The Manga with The Highest Inconsistencies of Characters' Appearances. He keeps performing multiple plastic surgeries on those Shingeki No Kyojin characters in a SINGLE chapter. Yes, I've read up to the latest chapter of Shingeki No Kyojin manga. Forced myself to read through the kidsketching chapters after the anime's ended. At least from now on, I only have to go through the hell once a month. Patiently awaiting SNK TV/movie/OVA anime-sequel. The 2015 SNK live-action movie would probably suck. |
| Poor Nagate has to storm the shop ahead of them XD. And the the door opens so easily, poof! Poor Nagate got beaten by Izana in the dark and was mistaken for a monster loool. Oh, look, Izana's grandmother is here, and the captain shows up later also. Nagate to the rescue! The old dude got to feel some oppai at least. Pfff, still obsessed with the placenta Hoshijiro, aren't we Nagate? 8.000 times the size of Sidonia lol? |
| "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall." |
| KoS never fails to make a great ep Nagates a fucking badass pilot!!!! I think Isana is already developed into a girl she's jsut hiding it thats why she is soo upset the Placental Hoshijiro was kind of cute O_O in a weird way So happy they confirmed season 2 already !!!! |
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| Sigh. There isn't a thing I love more than women in anime with deeper voices and who are dominant.. Paha. Sasaki. Samari. Wonderful. |
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| It occurred to me while watching this episode that we can probably count the number of male characters on one hand.. |
| Holy shit.... 8000 times and that is the BIG BOSS of hte series ain't it? |
| "Justice Never Dies!" - Kenji Endou, 20th century Boys |
I hate you old man. I really, really hate you. |
-Resident- said: Sasaki appears to be an awesome side character. Yeah. :) Monad said: I hate you old man. I really, really hate you. Haha :D |
| Pretty awesome episode! Really looking forward to see what happens next! |
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| Lucky old man got a face full of delicious tits. HOLY FUCK 8000 TIMES?! WHAT IS THIS TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN?! YOU HAVE GOT ME HYPED SIDONIA!!! 5/5 |
| Oh my goshhh.... Hoshijiro is soooooo cute. (,,•﹏•,,) Izana on the other hand is pfff what exactly is her role again ? Finally Tanikaze get to do his thing.. awesome blast. That geezeer got some lovely cushion there lol. Big ass boss appears at the end. I see more deaths coming. |
| Tanikaze's face was messed up once again Never a dull moment in this series |
zat-bustFeb 16, 2015 11:39 AM
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| Oh damn, giant Gauna incoming. Is Izana going to die now too? :( The new weapon is definitely going to be an interesting new dynamic. And what about the garde Gauna? That's got to come back soon too. Wasn't this the first time that a recap of the previous episode wasn't the very beginning of an episode (other than the premiere episode obviously). |
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