Anime Spring 2013

[Bells]

Originally Posted by phil_

New Saint Seiya is ok. I'm amused by adding in a Steel Saint and Kouga being all, "What the heck is that?" I look forward to seeing how everyone got over Cosmo Cancer and what garbage they're going to pull to have everyone's cloths turn into the old statue forms like Pegasus has.

Steel sains were such a weak idea that even the original series brushed them aside real fast. So they were never really canon until Omega brought them back again... now its kinda canon...

They pretty much dropped the entire Elemental aspects of Cosmo, and are now reverting all Cloth Gems back to Pandora Boxes and armors that actually look like suits of armor.

I liked how they kept Paradox´s fate a mistery... but she appears on the new opening so i guess she will be back soon enough. Which is a big plus.

Also, i saw the first episode of Shingeki, will certainly be watching more of that...

[phil_]

Originally Posted by Bells

Steel sains were such a weak idea that even the original series brushed them aside real fast. So they were never really canon until Omega brought them back again... now its kinda canon...

As far as Saint Seiya canon goes, I think the sanest course is to consider each property separately. Like, original manga, old cartoon, Lost Canvas, whatever the manga going now is, Omega, whatever I'm forgetting: all separate. Otherwise you have to get mad about mortals damaging Gold Cloths and stuff like that, and who wants to get mad at fighting cartoons?

[Bells]

on that note it is also the most sane option to have all SS movies in their own little bubbles, cause goddamn those movies fuck with canon hard...

[phil_]

Just watched Zettai Bouei Leviathan. I think eventually it will be about dragon people fighting CGI zerg, but for now it's less-than-competent mages and a fairy picking fights with local goons and not exactly winning. Maybe it's just the pretty colors and fantasy scenery and Hidamari music, but I want more now.

Edit: Episode two: Bahamut gets caught in quicksand and the others are unhelpful at best. Why am I enjoying this so much? Why did I spend the last two hours downloading subtitling tools to remux and retime the subs I had for episode one onto a better video?

[phil_]

I'm twenty-one minutes into episode two of Gargantia. I take back what I said about Ledo and not hurting people.

[Ryong]

Ahahaha oh man
that last scene was crazy unexpected
yeah sure, he would destroy the pirates instantly, but a single salvo of disintegration beams aimed specifically at enemies and nothing else?

To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S 01
This went exactly as expected. Dunno why does the psychic girl use a remote controller for her powers, though.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Same reason an aquakinetic needs water, I think. She can't produce the signals, only manipulate them. The remote is a convenient way to broadcast a specific signal on demand.

[phil_]

He has a robot that can decipher and speak unknown languages in minutes that apparently flies by latching onto an anti-gravity bubble. I'm willing to accept a targeting computer.

As for Railgun, esper powers are magic and work the way they do because the users think they work that way. Just 'cause Crowley doesn't call it magic doesn't mean they aren't the same phenomena other magicians use. K-Resh's explanation is also good and probably based on a greater knowledge of the work.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Dunno about greater knowledge or not, but it does sort of seem to be how Espers work in general. They don't create anything, only manipulate natural forces.

[Ryong]

Originally Posted by K-Resh

Same reason an aquakinetic needs water, I think. She can't produce the signals, only manipulate them. The remote is a convenient way to broadcast a specific signal on demand.

...Alright yeah this makes sense.

Originally Posted by phil_

He has a robot that can decipher and speak unknown languages in minutes that apparently flies by latching onto an anti-gravity bubble. I'm willing to accept a targeting computer.

It's not just the targetting, it's the nigh-instantaneous power to acknowledge who's a bandit on this civilization a galaxy away whose language we can barely understand. Neither Ledo nor Chamber could grasp what pirate meant past "bad people" minutes before.