No Game No Life (light novel)
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| We saw Zell and Fi's relationship, some fanservice bath bonding scene ;) and Sora's preparations for the warbeasts cheating <3 #Tokyo, chilling <3 Mod Edit: derailing ad hominem removed. |
rodacJun 11, 2014 5:27 PM
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kitkatxz said: Not talking about their past, I'm talking about the jokes in the episodes. Like elf's reason to hate jil... even though we can probably tell from jil talking about the great war between the races in episode 8, Why Sora wants to take a bath with them, harem cow #4 asking can you really win this... just endless shit we all know what the answer is going to be if we just use our heads in the sightless and we already know the answer for. Honestly they just keep repeating the same cliche jokes. Thinking it will still be funny... when it's obviously not... OK, then use your head, and tell me what the game will be, and how they will solve it. Along with all he fluff they do to cover their tracks, pleasedesu. EDIT: Wow... whenever I try to write "desu" in hiragana, it gives me an error, that it failed to recieve my message, then actually posts it :/ weird... Well, at least I managed to delete my tri-post before it was even noticed by most... |
GreenDragJun 11, 2014 10:33 AM
kitkatxz said: But then that conversation between them makes sense since it was the first time they meet, and considering they are supposed to work together and need to have some sort of trust between them.Botato said: But we never saw the back story of Kurami and Fil. This was the first time. Not talking about their past, I'm talking about the jokes in the episodes. Like elf's reason to hate jil... even though we can probably tell from jil talking about the great war between the races in episode 8, Why Sora wants to take a bath with them, harem cow #4 asking can you really win this... just endless shit we all know what the answer is going to be if we just use our heads in the sightless and we already know the answer for. Honestly they just keep repeating the same cliche jokes. Thinking it will still be funny... when it's obviously not... |
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| Did the Warbeats cheat? How did they know about Tokyo? Can the mysterious lady read minds? |
Caleb8980 said: This is something I btw see more and more often: Exposition episodes are being seen as boring and bland because "nothing happened"... Problem is if we have none of those people go cry about how rushed an anime is and how they can't understand anything... @GreenDrag Nice tripost ;-) EDIT: Oh just saw you had deleted the other 2 xD Yeah... I blame MAL's failure to recognize hiragana from google translate, despite being a site, that deals with Japanese media mostly... And yeah, I'm a ninja. I erase my tracks by the time anyone sees them. Also, do you think Takuan went back to rewatch the episode to find the one clue he's missing? |
| Yet another great episode. Really curious to see how Sora and Shiro overcome their fear in the Tokyo setting! |
GreenDrag said: OK, then use your head, and tell me what the game will be, and how they will solve it. Along with all he fluff they do to cover their tracks, pleasedesu. Actually I dare ANYONE who haven't read the LN, to try to figure out how they'll win... To be honest, I believe that not even those who read the LN could predict the ending of the game against Izuna, even though the tips were all there.... Here's a few tips regarding the game so that you can make your theories: [/color]Now please tell me how the hell will Imanity win the game??? No one will be able to guess it!!! Edit: typo (why the hell did I kept calling Izuna as Izumi?!?!?!?) |
DarkMoonWolfJun 11, 2014 11:21 AM
Personal tastes are like peoples behinds, each one has its own, and only those who wants to find [...] will smell one another. |
| This episode was a good one giving insights about Kurumi and Fi's relationship that has been delayed for quite a while. I really did not expect this game. lol and from the looks of it, neither did Sora and Shiro. That last part was pretty funny. And as usual, we have another bath scene (woohoo!). Other than that, this episode was isn't as intense or exciting, but you could tell its a setup for the big game, the game that decides the fate of Imanity. Can't wait to see what happens. This transition episode was great one because they added many aspects to it to make it seem less of a transition episode. 5/5 from me for this episode~ |
| "No one knows what the future holds. That's why its potential is infinite.” - Okabe Rintarou "El Psy Congroo." Kirino Kyousake Picture  |
| I'm praying for a second season! |
Skullcrusher said: I'm praying for a second season! Let me join you on that! |
| LOL. Let's see on how they will play on Tokyo. |
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| So Sora and Shiro won't play this game then? Fear of the outside world? Steph will help in this game since whatever Sora did to her before the game started. Right? |
| Rather nice transition episode as usual. I am really starting to like Kurami as a character. They should probably turn the fanservice down a bit though. I mean yes with this male:female ratio there is bound to be some but it is VERY abundant in these transition episodes... I can imagine people being turned off by it. |
| What happened to Sora and Shiro to make them so scared of Tokyo. |
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 ...for the final the game against the Warbeasts. Bring. It. On. I loved the reveal of Kurami's past and getting her involved in the fanservice. Even with the transition episodes, they do their thing in getting me so pumped up for the games that are about to begin. I agree with others here in that these are necessary in order to explore the background info, motives and development of the characters because the games are just pure non-stop action and raging. And we get that awesome fanservice/Stephservice. If you don't like fanservice, just drop the show and stop complaining. It's not going to change any time soon. |
dankzelJun 11, 2014 11:36 AM
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| Plus 5000 cuteness points for Fil and Kurami. Poor Jibril having to lick Fil's feet. |
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TheNumber1Tony said: Skullcrusher said: I'm praying for a second season! Let me join you on that! Let me join u on let me join u on that quote! u cant hate any characters in this show haha |
“They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.” ― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love |
Ophis said: What happened to Sora and Shiro to make them so scared of Tokyo. Shiro has Anthrophobia and is a Hikikomori Sora is a NEET and also a Hikikomori Long story short, they both hate/fear people in general and being exposed in great crowded places. The issue here is they though they were really transported to the real Tokyo, this is why they cowered like rats.... If they were in the real Tokyo then there would be tons of strange people all around them. Edit: typo |
DarkMoonWolfJun 11, 2014 11:55 AM
Personal tastes are like peoples behinds, each one has its own, and only those who wants to find [...] will smell one another. |
GreenDrag said: Caleb8980 said: This is something I btw see more and more often: Exposition episodes are being seen as boring and bland because "nothing happened"... Problem is if we have none of those people go cry about how rushed an anime is and how they can't understand anything... @GreenDrag Nice tripost ;-) EDIT: Oh just saw you had deleted the other 2 xD Yeah... I blame MAL's failure to recognize hiragana from google translate, despite being a site, that deals with Japanese media mostly... And yeah, I'm a ninja. I erase my tracks by the time anyone sees them. Also, do you think Takuan went back to rewatch the episode to find the one clue he's missing? Katakana is easy since it deals with foreign words, I can do that one just fine without any sort of translation thanks to a lot of time spent playing Japanese video games and just picking it all up. Hiragana is a lot more tricky since it requires you to actually know the Japanese words themselves. Anyway I don't know, this episode just kind of felt like your typical fanservice episode yet somehow was probably one of the more decent episodes in the series. People complained about the rather pointless stereotypical bathing/breast commentary scene in last weeks Mahouka but this one drags on even longer and it makes it look like the next game will indeed be the last with only two remaining episodes. Hopefully since it's the last one they can at least try to make it somewhat exciting like the game in the 6th episode and don't just totally fuck up some logic rule. First the bad, mostly the usual. I continue to find it funny how Shiro is literally the flat out worst female character in this entire show. She practically might as well not even be there but for the fact that Sora acknowledges her as some sort of counterpart that makes up for his shortcomings and vice versa. I mean she barely talks or contributes to anything really aside from last episode. Realistically though every character in general is on a whole more enjoyable to watch than the main pair. Blank really bring this show down character wise since pretty much all they contribute most of the time are dumb otaku references while the other characters actually talk about back story stuff and interact relatively normally with the rest of the cast when they don't have to utter lines about how amazing Blank is. It's like watching a really bad Penn & Teller setup where Sora is the big loud asshole like Penn and Shiro is Teller and is just sort of there as a prop. I also continue to find him just totally miscast. Like I can't take that desperately cool guy voice acting seriously with the complete moron that is Sora, it just doesn't work and comes off as try hard. Not really the seiyuu's fault, just has crap dialogue to try to work with for the most part to try to make sound cool and edgy. Some positives, the character interaction for this episode by the standards of NGNL was decent and not just all people being condescending twats to each other. I continue to find that the less screen time and dialogue Sora gets the better this show does on that front though and most of this episode dealt with Kurami and her Elf friend. Also seeing him immediately revert to being a helpless NEET in the midst of a panic attack when they set the game in Tokyo was actually kind of funny and a rare gag that got a laugh out of me. Maybe it's because I love seeing the tool squirm a bit, but yeah there you go. Also the fact that he pointed out something that had occurred to me in setting terms for the Warbeasts not to cheat by setting up an impossible game and then erasing his memories of it being an impossible game in order to preserve there edge was important. Also he set up the elf chick to scan the area for cheats, though hard to say whether that will be a major factor or not. Still it shows that this show is paying at least some attention to obvious detail again after the disaster that was last weeks logic and reasoning. On a whole, by NGNL standards a decent episode for the first time in probably a month. If this show can finish strong I might be able to at least call it mediocre and mildly entertaining again. |
PeacingOutJun 11, 2014 11:57 AM
DarkMoonWolf said: Shiro has Anthrophobia and is a Hikikomori Sora is a NEET and also a Hikikomori. Long story short, they both hate/fear people in general and being exposed in greatly crowded places. I already know that. I got the impression that they were scared of Tokyo more than anything else. If it was a different city they probably wouldn't be so scared. |
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| The Eastern Federation battle!!! I wonder what Sora did to Steph. Tokyo being the game setting, Sora and Shiro's reaction. The meomory sharing ^^ Sora petting Shiro's head. What kind of cheats would the warbeast usei such a game. |
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| Well that game ended quickly huehue |
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Ophis said: I already know that. I got the impression that they were scared of Tokyo more than anything else. If it was a different city they probably wouldn't be so scared. Really??? You want to put 2 hikikomoris one of them with Anthrophobia out in the open space of Tokyo, a city that as of 2011, has a estimated population of 13.189 million in just 2,188 Km2 (about 10% of Japan's total population) and you can't understand why they cower like that??? My country, (Portugal) in 2011 had a population of 10,487 million in 92,345 Km2 and personally I believe it's too many people together already, can you imagine how Tokyo must be?? |
Personal tastes are like peoples behinds, each one has its own, and only those who wants to find [...] will smell one another. |
| I really like those girls around Sora.. Cant decide which girl should I put in my sig.. The hype is gone when I saw Tokyo :D.. Great ep cant wait for that Kawaii Paintball.. |
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Takuan_Soho said: Caleb8980 said: I have to say we both are incredibly similar in that we can make really good base assumptions but then miss the mark by a wide margin xD Nothing wrong in being wrong :-) It's been a while since I have said this, but the point of my guessing isn't to be right. It's to take the facts of the show and to create as many interpretations possible out of these facts. So I wouldn't say that I make assumptions, but rather come up with an explanation that accounts for what we have been shown. The fun is being consistent. For me it is like a game, but unlike most games I want is to lose. I want the author to come up with something better, and so that I can then go back and see how the clues were used and whether or not it adhered closer than my interpretation. That is what makes a show enjoyable. That is why I never read what I watch. Knowing what happens takes the fun out of it, being right takes the fun out of it (unless the writer is really good), being wrong and having a better story is the best (being wrong, but I have the better story, is consolation prize for watching bad shows :-) As I said above coming up with scenarios is easy All of these would be consistent with what we have seen. Probably not true, but the possibilities are there. Also, as someone, who reads the novels (BTW, you should read the novels as far as the anime covered it, should give you some things that could make the anime even more enjoyable), I want to see people try, and eventually figure out what will happen, that's why I go around giving somewhat spoilerific hints. [quote=Kaioshin_Sama]Katakana is easy since it deals with foreign words, I can do that one just fine without any sort of translation thanks to a lot of time spent playing Japanese video games and just picking it all up. Hiragana is a lot more tricky since it requires you to actually know the Japanese words themselves.[/spoiler] Yeah, Katakana is kind of easy, though imagine my surprise, when I found a "ja" in the word "character"... [quote=Kaioshin_Sama]Anyway I don't know, this episode just kind of felt like your typical fanservice episode yet somehow was probably one of the more decent episodes in the series. People complained about the rather pointless stereotypical bathing/breast commentary scene in last weeks Mahouka but this one drags on even longer and it makes it look like the next game will indeed be the last with only two remaining episodes. Hopefully since it's the last one they can at least try to make it somewhat exciting like the game in the 6th episode and don't just totally fuck up some logic rule. First the bad, mostly the usual. I continue to find it funny how Shiro is literally the flat out worst female character in this entire show. She practically might as well not even be there but for the fact that Sora acknowledges her as some sort of counterpart that makes up for his shortcomings and vice versa. I mean she barely talks or contributes to anything really aside from last episode. Realistically though every character in general is on a whole more enjoyable to watch than the main pair. Blank really bring this show down character wise since pretty much all they contribute most of the time are dumb otaku references while the other characters actually talk about back story stuff and interact relatively normally with the rest of the cast when they don't have to utter lines about how amazing Blank is. It's like watching a really bad Penn & Teller setup where Sora is the big loud asshole like Penn and Shiro is Teller and is just sort of there as a prop. I also continue to find him just totally miscast. Like I can't take that desperately cool guy voice acting seriously with the complete moron that is Sora, it just doesn't work and comes off as try hard. Not really the seiyuu's fault, just has crap dialogue to try to work with for the most part to try to make sound cool and edgy.[/spoiler] I look at NGNL as a fantasy show. The MCs are not really there to be characters you see, but more like windows, through what you see the world that the author came up with. (though the anime itself is, in my opinion, failing at that). |
| Another great epd! Imanity vs Warbeasts |
| Glorious Titties Nuff Said! Make America Great Again! |
| Great way to flip the tables, gg wp warbeasts |
| Eh it was an okay episode, but I wasn't actually interested in this, until the ending part where they transferred into Tokyo. I honestly got bored in this episode, but at least there are some back story by Kurami. I think next should be interesting, wonder how Sora and Shiro will handle this. |
| Great episode! Jibril is just brilliant. Loved her casual way of explaining her past attack on the elves. Her looking down on the other races or nostalgically remembering bloodsheds she caused, always cracks me up. Not to mention her thirst for knowledge. Laughed when Sora asked Jibril to explain the idea of taking a bath together as a way to get to know one another better. Best moment definitely was how Sora gave that self-confident speech explaining their strategy to prevent any possible cheating only to break down the second he realizes they were in Toyko. Cannot wait to find out what kind of game they will have to compete in and how the warbeasts are planning to cheat. Definitely an exciting way to end the episode, making the wait for next week's all the more unbearable. |
Swordnoob said: Izutan didn't seem to like the game, giving a hint as to how the game will be solved. It's not a matter of liking the game or not... It's all about having fun while playing the game!!! If you played a game where you always won, and no one was able to compete with you, was it fun? And I can tell you right way that Izuna will have fun while playing the game!!! BeatzMe said: Cannot wait to find out what kind of game they will have to compete in and how the warbeasts are planning to cheat. Definitely an exciting way to end the episode, making the wait for next week's all the more unbearable. Most of those questions were already spoiled by me, is up to you to read them or not. Mod Edit: no need to repeat the post containing spoiler tags here, so it has been removed.. |
rodacJun 11, 2014 6:41 PM
Personal tastes are like peoples behinds, each one has its own, and only those who wants to find [...] will smell one another. |
| Everyone was tense after hearing what Sora said... just to hear that in order to fight together they needed INTRODUCTIONS XD! Fi... that's quite the S&M way to make someone ask for your forgiveness lol. Hahahaha, Sora found it surprising that Steph was able to follow and understand XD. Wow lol... Fi doesn't give a damn about her family or country... LOL, that's some pretty advanced shit they've got there, better than in our world I think. Oh c'mon, it's their home turf and they're saying that they can't do anything and that they're sorry lol. |
| "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall." |
| Haha, Sora bringing up Kurami's three sizes and when she last cried XD Fii and Jibril haha. Aw Jibril having to lick Fii's feet.. Love it when they're both using each other's memories to tease each other XD LOL then moment the game is set in Tokyo, they fall apart straight away. |
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| lol at sora's reaction to tokyo |
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| that ep was awesome and the end "sorry all is lost" that was good cant wait for the next weak and i hope for a second season |
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