| HMM...hot girl using a guy who transforms into a monster (voiced by Natsuki Hanae) to fight...now kind of giving Gleipnir vibes...I am surprised that doesn't have a second season yet |
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HMM...hot girl using a guy who transforms into a monster (voiced by Natsuki Hanae) to fight...now kind of giving Gleipnir vibes...I am surprised that doesn't have a second season yet
| @HOOfan_1 I dunno. Kinda feels like Ayase has been doing the bulk of the butt kicking up to this point. Okarun seems more like a liability since she has to split her spirit power between fighting the aliens and keeping him from going full Turbo Granny. |
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| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| hmm~ not bad |
| Only the dead have seen the end of war |
| <- just trolling |
| Episode 3 Here comes Momo's granny Seiko, and she's a total badass. And of course, there's something occultic about her seeing that she looks much younger than she really is. And then it becomes a showdown between grannies as Seiko is trying to whip Okarun into shape seeing that he's possessed by a granny as well, and has potential to use it to be strong even though he would rather not deal with her. So after a chaotic start to this show, this one is pretty chill, relatively speaking. |
| Another great episode with some worldbuilding, and the introduction of the show's co-Best Girl in Momo's grandma Seiko. She's the Obi-Wan Kenobi of the show. Important translation note at 9:21: It's not "Hundred Kilo Granny," but should have been rendered "Hundred kph (kilometers per hour) Granny" on account of her speed, not weight. Also, is Momo's mouth supposed to be moving at 20:25? |
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| Okay, Okarun can poop just fine, but how can he pee without a you-know-what? boldulysses said: Important translation note at 9:21: It's not "Hundred Kilo Granny," but should have been rendered "Hundred kph (kilometers per hour) Granny" on account of her speed, not weight. Metric prefixes can be used anywhere, but yeah, I kind of see where you're going with this. The line should clarify that part better. In fact, the dub line actually mentions "Hundred-kilometer-an-hour Granny." |
Galaxy-CrisisOct 17, 10:39 AM
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Galaxy-Crisis said: Okay, Okarun can poop just fine, but how can he pee without a you-know-what? Well..............I hate to be Captain Obvious, but women have been doing just fine without them since, like, forever. ;) |
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Galaxy-Crisis said:
Okay, Okarun can poop just fine, but how can he pee without a you-know-what?
Okay, Okarun can poop just fine, but how can he pee without a you-know-what?
Well..............I hate to be Captain Obvious, but women have been doing just fine without them since, like, forever. ;)
| @boldulysses I read a book about ancient Egypt, and I think it described a guy being made a eunuch, and they cut everything off, and put in a tube to keep the urethra open. |
boldulysses said: Well..............I hate to be Captain Obvious, but women have been doing just fine without them since, like, forever. ;) Technically speaking, women pee and poop from different places, too. They're just closer to each other. |
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HOOfan_1 said: I read a book about ancient Egypt, and I think it described a guy being made a eunuch, and they cut everything off, and put in a tube to keep the urethra open. That's....a mental image I did not need, lol. Needless to say, I'm glad that isn't done anymore! Galaxy-Crisis said: Technically speaking, women pee and poop from different places, too. They're just closer to each other. I just assumed Okarun went from a man's to a woman's, um, configuration down there. The anime plays (appropriately) fast and loose with details like that. ;) |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| Absolutely loving Momo's grandmother. What the heck was she wearing in the morning? Looked like fingerless long gloves, stirrup thigh socks, and a corset. Are those a thing in Japan or just made up by the mangaka? |
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Domvina said: Are those a thing in Japan or just made up by the mangaka? No idea; I was too distracted by Momo's fluffy outfit and the genuinely enthralling sequence of her being taught how to use her powers. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| Hearing Monkey D Luffy as Turbo Granny is so bizarre. |
| I'm a cultured degenerate. |
| I like how all the things grandma said about the idol guy turned out to be true. Momo has it bad if she swoons just hearing the name Ken Takakura. I guess years of idolizing him has given her some uncontrollable responses. |
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Absolutely loving Momo's grandmother. What the heck was she wearing in the morning? Looked like fingerless long gloves, stirrup thigh socks, and a corset. Are those a thing in Japan or just made up by the mangaka?
| Yeah, this seems nothing like FLCL to me. Much closer to a mix of Mob Psycho, Jujutsu Kaisen, Dark Gathering and a splash of JoJo @Domvina the thing around her waste is a haramaki, which is kind of seen as old people clothing. |
HOOfan_1 said: This feels very much like FLCL to me. FLCL was much less straightforward and more metaphorical, but they both have the same hectic pacing and they way a lot of the action scenes are presented is similar. That's kind of what I was talking about with Mecha-Ude too. The story in that is pretty straightforward too, so you might give that a shot. It's not as good as this, but it's been OK so far.Yeah, this seems nothing like FLCL to me. |
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Absolutely loving Momo's grandmother. What the heck was she wearing in the morning? Looked like fingerless long gloves, stirrup thigh socks, and a corset. Are those a thing in Japan or just made up by the mangaka?
| @Domvina The haramaki is a stereotypical garment for old men. |
| <- just trolling |
| This show has been consistently entertaining and of high-quality so far. I did notice that it was a bit tamer- camera angles and activity-wise- for the recent (3rd) episode but, it was still in very good quality. But I do expect them to have episodes with toned-down qualities for less important parts, and I wouldn't mind it if it means the staff got some load off their work, and as long as the show remain cinematic at its core. Hope it retains its cinematic quality for the future sequels. Also... Domi-Granmommie. |
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| If Grandma looks that young I have to wonder just how old she is. She could be in her 70's or she could be two hundred. |
| Don't drive a car when you're dead - Tom Waits |
| I'm gonna guess she's in her 60s and the mangaka has deliberately gone against the stereotypical depiction of an older woman in Japanese fiction as a literal "little old lady" in her design. |
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@Galaxy-Crisis
Uhh, I think we are all familiar with female anatomy (did you really think you had to post that?) But closer? O_o "Technically speaking" nothing's closer...
Galaxy-Crisis said:
Technically speaking, women pee and poop from different places, too. They're just closer to each other
Technically speaking, women pee and poop from different places, too. They're just closer to each other
Uhh, I think we are all familiar with female anatomy (did you really think you had to post that?) But closer? O_o "Technically speaking" nothing's closer...
| This is an appreciated educational knowledge. xD |
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| Episode 4 It's time to settle the score once and for all with that speedy old hag. While there was no way Momo and Okarun could beat Turbo Granny on foot, they didn't need to as they just hitched a ride on top of a rail car as that thing moves at 120 km/h whereas Turbo Granny, now having turned into a crab, only goes 100 km/h as her former name implies. But there's just one problem in that the train slows around curves and Turbo Granny doesn't. However, Momo planned for that, and with help from her granny that they beat her at her own game, and free the girls who have been violated to death by her. So now, Okarun's junk is back, but it looks like his balls go missing based on the title of the next episode, so only one problem was taken care of while another problem props up. |
| That was one really wacky run through the city, made even wackier by the use of William Tell and the Can-Can as background music. Based on the next episode's title, it looks like Turbo Granny didn't return everything it stole from Okarun once it was defeated. |
Galaxy-CrisisOct 24, 11:54 AM
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That was one really wacky run through the city, made even wackier by the use of William Tell and the Can-Can as background music.
Based on the next episode's title, it looks like Turbo Granny didn't return everything it stole from Okarun once it was defeated.
Based on the next episode's title, it looks like Turbo Granny didn't return everything it stole from Okarun once it was defeated.
| @Galaxy-Crisis |
| God DAMN, I spent half that episode giggling like an astonished loon at the sheer audacious awesomeness of what I was witnessing. That totally ruled. |
Galaxy-Crisis said: That was one really wacky run through the city, made even wackier by the use of William Tell and the Can-Can as background music. That whole sequence had an intense WB Loony Toons chase feel. Especially with the choice of music. So much so it had to be deliberate. And completely fitting. |
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| I have to say, I'm warming up to the OP. Especially when the melody kicks in. It's a good jam, and the visuals are a lot of fun and fit the show well. Such a fun episode. To @Domvina's point, I don't know of any other franchise that so effectively walks the tightrope of "that's absolutely random and bonkers" and "but it also makes perfect sense." Some of the cuts were amazing, like the crab erupting through the wall of the mountain road, and the transformation sequences. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
boldulysses said: I'm warming up to the OP. Especially when the melody kicks in. It's a good jam, and the visuals are a lot of fun and fit the show well. Argh. So am I. After that badass cold open, it came in hard and I admit it helped carry me right into the resumption of the episode. |
MenchiK1 said: Also the end and the subtleties of the Japanese language and "sayonara, mata ashita/ne" are why I don't watch dubs. Sometimes the subtitle writers decide to "localize" it and destroy the meaning too. That's why I like when they sometimes put explanatory text on screen A good localizer could figure out to use "farewell" for sayonara and "see ya tomorrow" for mata ashita but often the botch the localization |
| Hoping gintamas are still connected by mystical powers, or something. |
| <- just trolling |
MenchiK1 said: Also the end and the subtleties of the Japanese language and "sayonara, mata ashita/ne" are why I don't watch dubs. FWIW the dub actually did a good job of inflecting "goodbye" in two different ways to convey the possible implications. It was clear and felt natural. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| Worth your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGSKHyHtl9w&t=174s Some unpacking of the motifs and directorial choices of the first episodes. His discussion of the color palette in particular is so obvious it's kind of embarrassing to admit it went over my head. And he explains how the show handles exposition / worldbuilding so as not to slow down the action. Among other things. |
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| ' Is this the guy who did the in depth analysis of every episode of Bunny Girl Senpai? |
boldulyssesOct 29, 12:53 PM
HOOfan_1 said: Is this the guy who did the in depth analysis of every episode of Bunny Girl Senpai? Yep, same guy. He did deep dives into Land of the Lustrous and Darling in the FranXX as well, among others. Did a really good job of unpacking Darling's trainwreck last half-dozen episodes in a way that provided a lot of catharsis to those who had enjoyed the show up until that point. I think he has some professional training or went to film school or something. |
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boldulysses said: Yep, same guy. Did I have a typo, or did you do the same thing I sometimes do and accidentally hit "edit" instead of "reply"? |
HOOfan_1 said: Did I have a typo, or did you do the same thing I sometimes do and accidentally hit "edit" instead of "reply"? Guilty as charged! Haha. Sorry for the confusion. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| Need to use a slightly darker subtitle for this episode, too much white on white. Maybe shift up to a yellow or give it a dark outline Other than that I'm loving this relationship. These two are a great pair and knowing who's in the lucky cat, just makes the ED so much more fun |
GreylurkerOct 31, 9:33 AM
| Episode 5 Here comes the Lucky Cat, and it turns out that while Momo defeated Turbo Granny, she was only weakened and she's still inside Okarun. Had he not noticed that his balls were missing she would have been able sneak up on him. In the end, Seiko managed to get her consciousness out of his body and she ends up inside the Lucky Cat, all while Okarun still gets to use her power of transformation, and only Seiko herself can undo it. So they make a deal to give Turbo Granny her powers back in exchange for Okarun's balls, but there's just one problem in that she doesn't actually have them. Pretty crazy turn of events that all was, but at least this time Turbo Granny won't be threatening anybody anytime soon. |
| What's the deal with the English subtitles on this episode!? I couldn't make them out at all when light backgrounds were behind them. The whole sequence of Momo and Okarun passing each other multiple times while trying to find each other was kind of silly, all leading up to that bump in the face. And I KNEW that someone was going to assume it was a kiss the moment it happened. Then Aira tried to make small talk with Okarun, and Momo dropped a washtub on her. But now Turbo Granny's still around and Okarun doesn't have his balls. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| I think I captured the frame (and just about killed my spacebar, lol). There may be 1 more. And yes! Turbo Granny Lucky Cat is finally here. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| And just like that the tone of the ED changes. XD |
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