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Mar 15, 2013 12:35 AM
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Sister Centipede's "death" was kind of sad :(

Kai's confession was so awesome even though it wasn't super exciting or anything. Aki's reaction was cute. Finally some romance. I also love how the other members were just watching! Kona saying that Subaru has a crush on Aki, and then Subaru retaliates saying that Kona has a crush on Kai. They're such fun people. I'm loving the end of the episode with the bgm and all. Great episode this week! Looking forward to the finale!
Mar 15, 2013 12:39 AM
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Shit logic, but such a fantastic confession. Sentimentally awesome. Shitty antagonist though. More depth found in flat ground.

You are right that Kimijima has very little depth, but in some stories, that's how the villains are. Their roles are not as important, you know? Some stories don't even have a villain. What I find impressive is the impact of some of the other characters for an anime that is only 22(?) episodes long.
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Holy crap! Been waiting for this moment! They finally kissed!
Goodness gracious.

LOL at the reaction of Frau and the others.

Can't wait to see an epic battle between the Gunvarrel and the SUMERAGI.
Of course, in the AR view if possible.
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Sister Centipede's "death" was kind of sad :(

Kai's confession was so awesome even though it wasn't super exciting or anything. Aki's reaction was cute. Finally some romance. I also love how the other members were just watching! Kona saying that Subaru has a crush on Aki, and then Subaru retaliates saying that Kona has a crush on Kai. They're such fun people. I'm loving the end of the episode with the bgm and all. Great episode this week! Looking forward to the finale!

I thought that Kona said Subaru had s crush on Kai, not Aki, and it was in response to little innocent Jun saying that maybe Subaru likes Aki, without realizing that Subaru is quite possibly gay.
Mar 15, 2013 12:55 AM
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My god was this overdramatic for no reason.

The beginning of this series showed potential, but this show threw itself into the gutter with the weak nonsensical plot and characters.

Everything this show has done this last half was so badly executed, nothing feels like it matters. It's just simple stuff like asking how did Aki's sister even manage to let herself get put in that suit? How larger government organizations aren't acting? This small group of characters has made no effort the government, or international guards of the coming threat.

The massive anount of logical shortcomings in this show are too much to handle, I will be glad to see it end.
Mar 15, 2013 12:56 AM

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I was hoping there would be no romance but i guess most people would have wanted to see it. LOL at people saying "sister centipede's death", she's just a program, when push comes to shove, you just write her up again.

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Mar 15, 2013 1:11 AM

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I couldn't resist not uploading that part!
Mar 15, 2013 1:21 AM

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1. Airi and her AI separating in the beginning was a sad way to start the ep.

2. The plan is all coming together, they finished the robot.

3. Misaki and Kai finally announce their love for each other officially. (Although Frau was a good competitor, at least they kissed)

Next week Thursday is going to be full of epicness, can't wait to see how they wrap it all up! Robotics;Notes is beast! :D
Mar 15, 2013 1:26 AM

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I still have SERIOUS ISSUES with the plot progression and character development of the show but Kai somewhat redeemed himself after this week.
Mar 15, 2013 1:34 AM

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Pretty okey episode for thr build up to the final episode next week. I am really hoping this show gets a great ending to it.

Confession, I was kinda expecting this to happen, but not until the final episode. Yashio pretty much came out of nowhere for me. Though I was shipping Him and Akiho from the very start, so I ain't mad!

Well now to see how this goes, I hope it wraps up neatly. Genki Punch! XD

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Mar 15, 2013 1:45 AM

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KaixAki cutest scene
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This show is so underrated, it's depressing. I don't see how a series connected with Steins;Gate can be underrated, but for some reason, this one sure is.

I wonder how this series is going to end? I can't wait for the final episode to find out.
Mar 15, 2013 2:25 AM

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Kiss scene just made the episoe.
Mar 15, 2013 2:26 AM

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wut? no frau? dropped.

not really
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Mar 15, 2013 2:33 AM

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FUCK....I finally caught up!

And only to see one of the most cliched episodes of the entire series....Ugh.

I mean, it wasn't bad, but it had just about every single trope in terms of the second to last episode for most anime of this genre.

(MC is going off to the last battle to save humanity, while finally declaring his love to the main female character)

It really doesn't get any more cliche than that.

Regardless....I'm excited to see how this end, but judging from this episode, I can make a good guess how it will indeed end.

Anyways....Frau said it best about that kiss.
Mar 15, 2013 3:01 AM

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Little comparison with Steins;Gate
Mar 15, 2013 3:07 AM
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Bland bland bland~ At least I expected that they would get it on in the future but well, the show has been preeeeetty bad, I didn't expect anything good in the last 2 epis.

Good news, only 1 epi remains c:
Mar 15, 2013 3:36 AM

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Little comparison with Steins;Gate

Couldn't help but think of that either.
Mar 15, 2013 3:47 AM

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Little comparison with Steins;Gate
Have to say the build-up is much more powerful as well as convincing in Steins;Gate.
So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old?

I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them?

I wonder how long people would put up with this.

As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series.
Mar 15, 2013 3:56 AM

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this is it!! the action is about to come!!! lol
at last my questions about the scene from first episode has been answered lol
Mar 15, 2013 4:18 AM
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For someone who has read the VN, is the reason for why teh Noah IV invoke Kai's slow-motion explained?
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This show is so underrated, it's depressing. I don't see how a series connected with Steins;Gate can be underrated, but for some reason, this one sure is.

I wonder how this series is going to end? I can't wait for the final episode to find out.


Some of us actually like to see consistent character progression and a solid backdone to the story, something that Steins;Gate was very good at: 1 story at a time, and at a correct pace. Robotics;Notes, though having good individual parts, tried to use so many of them at the same time, executing so many parallel stories without establishing a solid foundation, resulting in a weak development that started to fall apart slowly around chapter 10.

You need more than cliffhangers, cute romantic scenes (even as good as this confession was) and a pseudo-serious, conspirational and desutional theme to build a good story, and one of those requirements is "consistency". That's the main difference between Steins;Gate and Robotics;Notes.

If this achieves a good ending it can be a solid 7 in my list, though I still have to standardize how I'm grading what I watch :P
Mar 15, 2013 4:32 AM

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Well, the kiss seems like a death flag to me (Gurren Langan anyone?).

The good guy always win but it will look quite dumb that a robot built by students in robot club defeating an advance robot built for mass destruction.

Mar 15, 2013 5:19 AM

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i have a feeling that the finale will be epic >:)
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Toucanbird said:
This show is so underrated, it's depressing. I don't see how a series connected with Steins;Gate can be underrated, but for some reason, this one sure is.


I'm sure it isn't underrated. It doesn't deserve 8. Plot had potential but it failed

If Yashio dies it would be great, bitter-sweet ending. Or something totally unexpected: Bad guy manage to kill 5 billion people. I would burst out laughing.

I was shipping Yashio x Hidaka. Frau too ;D

And how they are going to win with Misaki's robot with their moving piece of junk.
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Toucanbird said:
This show is so underrated, it's depressing. I don't see how a series connected with Steins;Gate can be underrated, but for some reason, this one sure is.


I'm sure it isn't underrated. It doesn't deserve 8. Plot had potential but it failed

If Yashio dies it would be great, bitter-sweet ending. Or something totally unexpected: Bad guy manage to kill 5 billion people. I would burst out laughing.

I was shipping Yashio x Hidaka. Frau too ;D

And how they are going to win with Misaki's robot with their moving piece of junk.

I believe that's where Kai's slow-mo would kick in.

And you really believe this series can have a bitter-sweet/sad ending? Really?
Mar 15, 2013 6:07 AM

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Well, /a/ spoiled the kissing scene to me big time before I watched this episode. Fuck you /a/! >(


Anyway, I really wonder how will they end this since only 1 episode left.


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DIE NORMALFAGS lol


I LOL'ed on this.


Mar 15, 2013 6:40 AM

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For someone who has read the VN, is the reason for why teh Noah IV invoke Kai's slow-motion explained?

I second this. It seemed to do nothing otherwise. I won't even ask why not give it to someone else to try to see if it 'actually does anything', because that's how this anime is- but as it stands the device was made for 1 person who exists who was never intended to have it, and no one seems to care. 12x slo-mo is neat and all, but flawless illusions might prove better defensively against a multi-million dollar robot built with years of advanced research. Oh, and weapons. I bet the enemy robot will have weapons. Maybe be supported by more weapons- like those bots sister centipede came with. Wait- didn't Misaki 'free' Sister centipede last episode or something?

Wait- I'm thinking logically. What about this series made me think that would apply... :P

The confession scene was ok- even if (as pointed out) it was a S;G knock-off.

I personally don't care about the romance stuff, but he both seemed to aloof to care about either really, or marginally spent more time with Frau- even bringing her gifts/doing the Kamijima reports for her- but whatever.
Apparently love means 'Challenge me to a game of Gunvarrel'.

And how the heck is Kimijima down to one pawn? Wasn't there a whole unresolved arc about people in the game being mind-controlled? Whatever.
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If you aren't watching Zetsuen no Tempest (Civilization Blaster), you should be. Brilliant writing with legit plot twists.

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For someone who has read the VN, is the reason for why teh Noah IV invoke Kai's slow-motion explained?

I second this. It seemed to do nothing otherwise. I won't even ask why not give it to someone else to try to see if it 'actually does anything', because that's how this anime is- but as it stands the device was made for 1 person who exists who was never intended to have it, and no one seems to care. 12x slo-mo is neat and all, but flawless illusions might prove better defensively against a multi-million dollar robot built with years of advanced research. Oh, and weapons. I but the enemy robot will have weapons. Maybe be supported by more weapons- like those bots sister centipede came with.
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Well, I'm not sure, but I think that is because of Anemone incident.I bet, Aki would suffer seizure too, if she used Noah IV.
I mean, we don't really know what kind of experiments Kimijima was doing. Maybe it was something about Noah IV.

About romance. Akiho is Kaito's childhood friend, actually. There is nothing strange about his love to her.
Especially now, when they're experiencing such an ordeal.

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Well, making the Noah IV 'just' so Anemone survivors could have seizures at will may be some 'experimental' point- but that still has nothing to do with the flawless illusions we saw earlier.

I'm not finding it 'strange' that he loves his childhood friend- just that he would 'love her' so much as to snub her as often as he did. Like I said- he really seemed apathetic altogether- he could 'confess' he loved almost anyone based on the 'clues' we were given.

On a morbid note- why make someone you love responsible for possibly triggering your death? What a gift for her to agonize over the rest of her life...
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Give me back my S;G. R;N is simply boring (sorry).
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bloggbigg said:
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For someone who has read the VN, is the reason for why teh Noah IV invoke Kai's slow-motion explained?

I second this. It seemed to do nothing otherwise. I won't even ask why not give it to someone else to try to see if it 'actually does anything', because that's how this anime is- but as it stands the device was made for 1 person who exists who was never intended to have it, and no one seems to care. 12x slo-mo is neat and all, but flawless illusions might prove better defensively against a multi-million dollar robot built with years of advanced research. Oh, and weapons. I bet the enemy robot will have weapons. Maybe be supported by more weapons- like those bots sister centipede came with. Wait- didn't Misaki 'free' Sister centipede last episode or something?

Wait- I'm thinking logically. What about this series made me think that would apply... :P

The confession scene was ok- even if (as pointed out) it was a S;G knock-off.

I personally don't care about the romance stuff, but he both seemed to aloof to care about either really, or marginally spent more time with Frau- even bringing her gifts/doing the Kamijima reports for her- but whatever.
Apparently love means 'Challenge me to a game of Gunvarrel'.

And how the heck is Kimijima down to one pawn? Wasn't there a whole unresolved arc about people in the game being mind-controlled? Whatever.

I think there was mention of using the machine for making illusions to distract the Sumeragi. So, I think that giving the seizure to Kai is just a side-effect, likely unintended. What I was wondering was whether Kimijima's experiments were explained in the VN or not.

As for Geji being freed; She is just an AI. Kimijima is also an AI. He could have hacked into her code. Similar to how Daru is working on finding a way to delete Kimijima.
And that reminds me, what happened to Kimijima report 0 (or whatever it was that Misaki sent with Geji)?
Mar 15, 2013 7:52 AM

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Where is my Kai x Frau!?
Wrong route :(
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wtf l thought he was on Frau's route


haha I was totally for him and frau

can't do anything now that things are decided though, it's not that bad. that confession was quite great XD

Great ep got me hyped for the last ep


There will be many fanmade pictures of Frau x Kai, and i cant wait to see them :D
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Well the device Kimijima was testing during the SS Anemone Incident was probably Noah III. It was based on data scavenged from the lost Project Noah. An electromagnetic irradiation experiment to induce mass illusion. He was going to test its limit which will surely kill his test subject. Note that Kimijima operated the experiment at his apartment, where Misa-nee found him.

I haven't read the Noah IV part yet, but it seems that Kai got his seizure from either artificial stress directly induced by the N4, or the powerful electromagnetic radiation alone is enough to stress him out.
Mar 15, 2013 8:58 AM

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lol kai pretty straightforward :D

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Waaaahhh! No Kai x Frau??? Shippers just gone friendzone. I super like Frau's "die normalfags" and probably that's all I can say after the Kai x Aki confession/kiss. So Frau is 'Shining Finger' of RN, after all she gave him his first kiss. I'm bummed! I'm sure all the Frau x Kai shippers share the same sentiments as well. What's the point of all those frigging moments together?! Frau didn't get the guy, but she won our hearts - the best girl of this show.
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Where is my Kai x Frau!?
Wrong route :(

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u8sand said:
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wtf l thought he was on Frau's route


haha I was totally for him and frau

can't do anything now that things are decided though, it's not that bad. that confession was quite great XD

Great ep got me hyped for the last ep



There will be many fanmade pictures of Frau x Kai, and i cant wait to see them :D


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Waaaahhh! No Kai x Frau??? Shippers just gone friendzone. I super like Frau's "die normalfags" and probably that's all I can say after the Kai x Aki confession/kiss. So Frau is 'Shining Finger' of RN, after all she gave him his first kiss. I'm bummed! I'm sure all the Frau x Kai shippers share the same sentiments as well. What's the point of all those frigging moments together?! Frau didn't get the guy, but she won our hearts - the best girl of this show.


Frau's "route" ended in episode 14. He was never interested in her in romantic way, nor he knew she kissed him. Give up.
Mar 15, 2013 9:55 AM

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That confession. I think I replayed it five times. >///< They're so adorable together stop it you two. I didn't think Subaru had a thing for Aki though XDD

Kai x Aki ftw.

I think Hidaka and Frau should hook up. Just saying.

I hope nothing happens to Kai. That thing put a strain on his heart, so... well, finale's next week. I'm going to miss R;N, I really liked it.
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It seems that Kai is going to use his "power" in the final battle...

And that kiss scene between Kai and Aki was beautiful. Lol, Frau's reaction...

Can't wait to the final ep!
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I liked the ending scene~

The rest still suffers from confusion.
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Subaru x Yashio I knew it see that blush

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Good, he finally declared his love for her. Way to go, they successfully built Gun Barrel.

Poor Misaki.
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Mar 15, 2013 11:01 AM

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Kai x Aki ftw
Great ep
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Better than the last episode I guess. Airi is getting on my nerves. Wtf, this is war not a playground.

That confession scene between Kai and Aki is ok. Nowhere near Okabe x Kurisu confession scene though.
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Guys! Have you heard? They wont release the last episode of Robotics;Notes because the Director murdered all his team!
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Guys! Have you heard? They wont release the last episode of Robotics;Notes because the Director murdered all his team!

Made my day.

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Guys! Have you heard? They wont release the last episode of Robotics;Notes because the Director murdered all his team!

Now won't that be interesting. Even better would be if the last episode is "leaked" and has a downer ending...
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