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| Man watching all those white rays all over my screen sure was entertaining... not. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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-OJ- said: THAT bath scene will be glorious if they are willing to remove the censorship for the BluRays Yuri-Crusader said: And I like to see the softer side from the eeeh!! I dont their fucking names but calling them wolf lesbian sisters!! If you mean Akagi and Kaga they are nine-tailed fox spirits (kitsune), not wolves ;) Oh yeh that was their names =P Im terrible on remember names in anime, especially when its so many girls!!! =P So I often give them silly nicknames =P Fox lesbian sisters sounds hotter!!,,YEES!!  |
Yuri-CrusaderNov 7, 2019 2:14 PM
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| Enterprise was only physically strong at the start of the series, self-damaging, reckless, selfless and duty-driven to a fault (nearly suicided in battle)... How much she is growing, gaining mental integrity and perspective. She's showing signs of her maturity, especially over the fact she was able to persuade a victory over the enemy by her mere presence, without needing to fight. For someone who used to be a reckless brute that would would only solve things with physical force, this is is many big steps forward for her. She's really been getting some appreciable character development. ...She still has a ways to go before a major breakthrough though.  OMG many more adorable lolis, and panties〜!!  This is what i'm really here for ლ(´ڡ`ლ) Lol, they outright had Sheffield admit to not wearing any panties XD (was recently confirmed by artist) ...i wonder how many nipples the BD release will have... YES ELDRIDGE!! I hoped she would show up :D Now just for a bit of her in action~ Unfortunately there was a lot of off-model chunky art in some scenes. |
GenesisAriaNov 8, 2019 1:34 PM
❀桜舞う空〜 Cute is Power.  “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” I seek only to improve myself and others. |
| Wait, so Akagi is trying to resurrect best Fox waifu, Amagi? Hell yeah, I’d be in on that. Also, damn. The censorship was all over the place. Arizona’s body at the beginning though :woke: |
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| So nice. The highlight of this episode for me is Kaga terrifying the poor loli ships. "Don't make me use P-kun" that made me laugh. Akagi is surprisingly good in talking with children, she is a kind person when not in yandere mode. :) Sandy getting bullied again. This time with an electric bath! >< |
Liddo-kun said: Yeah it seems Akagi isn't really yandere deep down, it's more of an exterior or façade. She's mostly just doing what she thinks is right; and feels indebted to (commander). It becomes more apparent when you look at some of her lore.Akagi is surprisingly good in talking with children, she is a kind person when not in yandere mode. |
| ❀桜舞う空〜 Cute is Power. “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” I seek only to improve myself and others. |
| Wow, look at Enterprise smiling and interacting with everyone. That part with her and the cube was interesting. Interesting part at the end as well regarding the Sakura empire, Prinz Eugen knows something was up. |
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| Just a fanservice episode in all honesty And not even a good one at that with all the light beams lol. idk how much would get resolved in the BD though |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
| Literally nothing happened in this episode. |
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| Forgot to say. Akashi already feeling relaxed, and enjoying the bath at the enemy camp! :) Also Sheffy not wearing any underwear... that certainly was what surprised Akagi in a previous episode. ;) |
| This was just glorious. Surprisingly heartwarming, full of glorious bath scenes and fan service. Damn the unholy light beams, why must you restrict mankind from salvation? Loved all the Enterprise and Belfast bonding scenes. It was just about yesterday, I was getting tired of running 3-4 in the hopes to get Kaga, having already gotten Akagi on like my 2nd run, but after this episode I can't give up. Back to the fox mines for me. In all honesty though, I loved the scene with Akagi and Kaga and how they interacted with the DD's, so sweet. <3 Is the best yuri ship Akagi x Kaga or Belfast x Enterprise? Too hard to choose. :( Was that Hood with the lingerie when Cleveland was staring? If so, well played! That said, watching Cleveland ships get absolutely destroyed by the Royal navy girls was hilarious. xD I hope the BD uncensors some of this, there was way, way too much censoring in this episode. I pray to the lords above that we get a onsen episode for the Sakura Empire and possibly something for the Ironbloods too. Amagi soon? cythraul said: It is pissing me how Z23 isn't getting any screen time compared to laffey, javelin and ayanami. Yeah, sucks she isn't getting more screentime. :( |
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| This whole episode felt pointless. It would have been ten times more enjoyable if they hadn't pulled a Terra Formers. Sheesh. Also, no Zuikaku? Lame. At least Cleveland had some screen time. |
SithSteelNov 7, 2019 5:05 PM
| Phew! I thought you guys might've seen something I didn't, so I guess we all got the censored version. Ah, I can die knowing I wasn't the only one who didn't see the goods. What a laid back episode, wish Enterprise did join though. |
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| I need this episode in bluray WAIT FBI, ITS A JOKE NOOOOOOOOOOO |
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| It's clear that Azur Lane is slowly pushing in Enterprise as the actual protagonist of the show, even though screentime is still given to Laffey, Ayanami, and Javelin. Azur Lane is clearly taking a page from Violet Evergarden and chronicling Enterprise's transition from "weapon" to "human." Albeit with far less grace and sympathy. Overall, episode 6 was much needed, but it could, and should, have come much earlier. This sort of expansion I might expect from a third episode, not halfway through the season. Still, key scenes, minus the absurd 10-minute-long bath scene of near-total-censorship, gave a little bit more of an expansion to the world-building of Azur Lane. World-building which, once again, was sorely needed. Sadly, and also once again, the fleshing out of the story comes at the cost of art quality:  Much Quality (TM). And then there's also this:   Hmm, where have we seen this explanation of what ship-girls are before? Oh, wait: "Girls with the souls of warships from years past":  Yes, I'm going to call out Azur Lane for plagiarizing Kantai Collection, as what Belfast said was just paraphrasing the same implementation of a concept; as with Kantai Collection, the girl is the "soul" of the ship where the rigging/hull is the ship itself. This is unfortunate, given that there could have been many possible interpretations, had more time been focused on fleshing out what Belfast was trying to say; Belfast could well have said that the pairing of a wisdom cube with a ship gives the ship a soul and an idealized human form. That concept would have been unique and entirely consistent with the way the mechanics of Azur Lane the game work. It pains me to see that Azur Lane is seen to be having so little in possible content that its directors have chosen to actively paraphrase or plagiarize narrative arcs and character concepts from other shows so blatantly. Despite these flaws, episode 6 was mostly an improvement. GenesisAria said: Enterprise was only physically strong at the start of the series, self-damaging, reckless, selfless and duty-driven to a fault (nearly suicided in battle)... This interpretation would be more convincing if there were actually any real consequences to losing ship battles; As is, the worst we've seen is that the losers kind of drift on the sea, but never actually die. How much she is growing, gaining mental integrity and perspective. She's showing signs of her maturity, especially over the fact she was able to persuade a victory over the enemy by her mere presence, without needing to fight. That's not maturity. That's being handed an unearned victory to please the fans. Once again, your bias is showing. With Belfast now confirming that Azur Lane is using the exact same ships-to-girls concept as Kancolle the Animation, we can actually toss that "victory is her persona" and "enterprise is the jesus ship" fanwank of yours straight out the window and into the rubbish tip where it belongs. Enterprise sending the Axis packing by her mere presence alone is pandering to the fandom, and a straight implementation of being a mary sue, as I've said before; since Azur Lane is not re-litigating World War II, Enterprise's easy victories and reputation are unearned, and backed up by no prior deed or reputation. For a better implementation of the idea of unique ferocity in a ship, compare enterprise with Yuudachi in her "nightmare of solomon" form; by no means does an exemplary combat record guarantee victory in battle. GenesisAria said: For someone who used to be a reckless brute that would would only solve things with physical force, this is is many big steps forward for her. She's really been getting some appreciable character development. ...She still has a ways to go before a major breakthrough though.[/img] No, she hasn't. At best, she's made a minor decision at the behest (really, forcing) of Belfast. I find it incredibly ironic that I claimed that Azur Lane isn't Violet Evergarden, and doesn't have the means to do it via Enterprise because she's a mary sue in our previous discussion, and the next thing that Azur Lane does is try to rip off Violet Evergarden. This plot for Enterprise will fail, because as a mary-sue character, Enterprise doesn't have sufficient guiding motivation to achieve the same character arc; she had the torch passed to her by Yorktown, and did not decide to take it for herself; she had a change in diet forced upon her by Belfast, or when she is forced to save Ping Hai and Ning Hai. None of these are actually her own choices, because these "choices" are all forced upon enterprise by the plot. Her choices do not actually drive the plot forward. This makes her a reactive, and static, character who the audience cannot easily empathize with. This is unlike Violet Evergarden, whose choices do drive the plot forward, and which are motivated by her desire and belief that doing these actions will help her find her commanding officer, whom she eventually realizes she loves. GenesisAria said: OMG many more adorable lolis, and panties〜!! This is what i'm really here for ლ(´ڡ`ლ) Lol, they outright had Sheffield admit to not wearing any panties XD (was recently confirmed by artist) ...i wonder how many nipples the BD release will have... YES ELDRIDGE!! I hoped she would show up :D Now just for a bit of her in action~ The fanservice scene was overdone and unnecessary. It was, worst of all, used as filler. Five minutes would have been sufficient, more than sufficient, to show that crucial scene between Javelin, Laffey, and Unicorn. Yet it went on for double that length when that time could, and should, have been used to further flesh out the world, particularly given what Belfast said about their humanity. |
firemagnetNov 7, 2019 7:50 PM
| boi can i not wait to fap to the BD version of this episode<3 also, haven't gotten good loli pantsu in awhile |
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| @firemagnet I'm not getting into this again. Your bias is showing by your incessant distaste and berating Enterprise, a character i don't particularly care about but have the ability to recognize. She wasn't handed an unearned victory as it's doubtful anyone else would have pulled it off. They just did a bad job of showing how and why. Stop calling me an Enterprise fan, because i'm NOT (i don't even really like her). Did you even read all the shit i put in the spoiler for last episode? I proved everything, including the fact that most people don't give a fuck about Enterprise. So your claims hold no water. (but i guess you only see what you want to see) The way Azur Lane ship girls come to be is different from the way Kancolle ship girls come to be. KC girls mysteriously come to be as mirrors of the ships, AL girls are created in a sense of reincarnation of the ship and evolve from it. Belfast didn't confirm anything of the sort; you are jumping the gun to conclusions with information that doesn't even support your claim (*cough* confirmation bias ). You keep looking at it so surface level. Stop being a KC hipster, nobody cares. This is AL not KC, nor an AL vs KC thread. firemagnet said: The fanservice was short and done pretty well. It spent the right amount of time to get in most of the girls at least a shot. The thing about Unicorn's breasts was unnecessary but cute, and it was an excuse to have her look on and show off more of the other girls contextually without it being gratuitous. It was reasonably cleverly done.The fanservice scene was overdone and unnecessary. It was, worst of all, used as filler. Five minutes would have been sufficient, more than sufficient, to show that crucial scene between Javelin, Laffey, and Unicorn. Yet it went on for double that length when that time could, and should, have been used to further flesh out the world, particularly given what Belfast said about their humanity. ps: Azur Lane is doing the humanity thing by "show, don't tell". they are showing you how they are acting like humans, the human relationship between the 3 starters, and enterprise's development and growth; not sitting around expositioning about it all day at a cafe like SAO. pps: Azur Lane is literally ABOUT fanservice... that is kind of the whole point. Character story and backgrounds and lore are bonus to keep you interest and invest you in the individual girls, but ultimately it's a waifu gacha and it's about raw appeal. Pretty much everyone else i talk to that plays AL (some also have played KC), and that's not a small number of people, are baffled by arguments you and a few others make, they end up laughing with me about it haha. The stuff you keep saying is frankly preposterous, and i put in all the effort i could to try and help you out. If you aren't gonna hear me, and just continue parroting the same things to disagree with me for the sake of it, then please stop quoting me on it, or i'm going to be forced to see it as harassment. It's been quite a bother to others, enough for them to report it. |
GenesisAriaNov 7, 2019 8:46 PM
| ❀桜舞う空〜 Cute is Power. “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” I seek only to improve myself and others. |
firemagnet said: You and a couple people (one of them exposed as being a rulebreaker) on MAL... vs many people who play, on multiple discord servers... Alright. Also the evidence stacks against you, not the other way around...Meanwhile, I and others laugh at the arguments you make, because you claim one thing yet all the evidence stacks against you. This is most evident with respect to your claim to not like Enterprise when you spend most of your time in your posts swooning over her and excusing the bad script-writing that defines her implementation in the anime. > Violet Evergarden wasn't that well written as a character, that show was carried by it's short stories and ancillary characters. (ps: violet is more clinically autistic than enty) > i don't care how she words it, it's still not the same. firemagnet said: It helps if you don't reply in such a hurry trying to act the rightest right person that ever righted. I added the link, the post even @'d you so i dunno how you missed it.Where did you spoiler it? The last post in that thread was, last I checked, AnAnimeListFan's, before I replied to them. But whatever, we're done here. As i said before, it's bothering people and causing a ruckus. I won't say it again, please leave me alone. |
GenesisAriaNov 7, 2019 9:12 PM
| ❀桜舞う空〜 Cute is Power. “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” I seek only to improve myself and others. |
| Well, I see what the marketing strategy for the dvds will be. Hell, if I had an extra 250 I’d snap on that myself. Loved the Eldridge being electrified, nothing like adding some urban legends to the mix. Was also gratified to see the Nevada made a cameo. I forgot briefly that Nevada had a ship, though I really shouldn’t have as there’s a suite of Nevada gear in the museum in my home town. 5/5 |
| Next episode is going to be recap. Guess the studio really can't make it out but it's understandable. They even have to outsource to some artists. I love some lolis scene in this episode, they're adorable Surprised to see Sirius, albeit they miscolored a little bit. Seibaaaa! So they're going for Alterprise? I wonder if takao alter will make an appeareance |
Formidable-chanNov 7, 2019 9:33 PM
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| We need more fanservice with St Louis (had some really little scenes), Honolulu, Sirius (they teased her D:<), and woul'd love to se formidable.... (also would love to see taihou, more prinz and bismark) |
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| Honestly, at this point, i already stopped trying to make any sense of the story, so i´ll just say this: Why isn´t Ecchi one of the genres? Genres: Action, Military, Historical Right now, this show is Ecchi>>>>>>>Everything else. Someone who watches this that doesn´t play the game or doesn´t watch the trailers might think that this is an actually serious show. |
| RamaTheStrandedOtaku Nier and MGS fan. |
| If they were going to use rays of lights to such extent they should've picked different angles to put together the bath scene, or better yet - make something else with clothes on, but without covering half of the screen with blinding light. I wish there were more sequences like the one with Akagi/Kaga and Mutsuki class destroyers. |
| Love to see that this anime have done some research. Some people asking why it has the history tag,, Well all the ships have existed and the names are correct! If im not mistaken USS Denver are still active today. And therefore the history tag Found a picture of my girls together in a joint operation, Proud warriors of the Royal Navy HMS Unicorn and HMS Illustrious in 1944  |
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JustAnAnimeList said: Isn't outsourcing work quite a common practice in the anime industry? And looking at the studio's portfolio it's no surprise that they're struggling. They have done plenty 2nd Key Animation work in other anime and made the Grisaia Phantom Trigger movies, but this is the first time they're producing a full length anime. well yes, but too much outsourcing can make a burden to animators, since they need to wait for artists to upload their scenes to them. Also if there is a correction, it can be done quicker. Rama_pt said: Honestly, at this point, i already stopped trying to make any sense of the story, so i´ll just say this: Why isn´t Ecchi one of the genres? Genres: Action, Military, Historical Right now, this show is Ecchi>>>>>>>Everything else. Someone who watches this that doesn´t play the game or doesn´t watch the trailers might think that this is an actually serious show. Why do people rely on MAL for taggings. lol They also fucked up the synopysis of this anime. Do people take seriously for a show that have anime girls wearing rudder footwear, walking on water and shooting enemies? |
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| Mandatory hotspring episode ✔️ These breasts tho |
| Hmm, maybe the sakura empire lolis know that Kaga has a wolf that eat ship girls? Which is why they were so scared. Their only protection is P-kun. xD |
| damn you censorship |
| Don't believe the hype. |
| The episode was okayish for me because fo the unnecessary bath part. But the last Akagi frame where she named Amagi game me chills. I mean, Amagi is "dead" so... the cliffhanger got me real hard. |
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| i actually enjoying this series my waifu is kaga white tail kyuubiii !! animation getting worse and worse from this episode .. |
| As an anime-only, IMO the POV of this is haphazard at best. It works as a game, but NOT as a show where plot is mindlessly given just to work things out while having the core, that is the battles between rival groups. Take that away and this is mind-numblingly boring. But this episode being mandatory fanservice and all, uh...more like a relaxed one after the many battles fought. And God knows HOW MANY light rays/steam clouds of censorship there are. Pretty much a laid-back episode per se before all the shitstorms arrive. |
KANLen09Nov 8, 2019 5:09 AM
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| I am not sure I am disappointed or not but simply speechless. Originally I was expecting something good to come out after watching the first episode, but it turns out to be running straight downhills. Fan service after another fan service, I hope you haven't dumped your plot in the ocean yet. I don't mind a fan service based anime but animation from a fancy action fan service anime like the high school of the dead to those typical isekai low ass budget anime level. If you are making for fan service only, you need to make it right at least the animation need to be good. but come on... I wonder what happens to those animators? Only underpay ppl that starves to hard will make that kind of quality. I really love your game but your anime... |
“It's okay to live, even if there's no greater point to living. -” Konno Yuuki “God would never put us through all this suffering if he didn't think we could bear it.” -Konno Yuuki “Life is not a game of luck. If you wanna win, work hard.” – Sora |
| Wow that was some big drop in quality. Luckily batch part (more important one, duh) looked better than earlier scenes. That censor though... I get it that they can't show nudity, but that was way over the top. Like, some of them show more skin in their normal clothes than under all this light/mist. And again so many "new" faces in the background that deserve to be introduced D: Girls like Sirius, Ranger, Ikazuchi + Inazuma, Long Island and many others have characters that would eaily win over even anime-only people if given a chance. On Reddit someone pointed out interesting thing about Sheffield going commando and Akagi's reaction during their fight: https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/dtalq7/ahhh_now_i_seeslight_spoiler/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x (can't link directly..) |
JustAnotherShiroNov 8, 2019 8:44 AM
| Boring episode. So we will see Amagi, the most popular shipfu of 2019. Still waiting for Bismarck and King George V to make appearance. |
| It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person. |
Fanservice department when creating this episode |
| Manga recommendation: - Spy x Family (Ch.123/? - biweekly) | Sakamoto Days (Ch.230/? - weekly) - MARRIAGETOXIN (Ch.140/? - weekly) | MAD (Ch.33/? - biweekly) - Make the Exorcist Fall in Love (Ch.100/? - biweekly) - Monochrome Days (Ch.28/? - biweekly) Anime recommendation: - Deca-Dence (Finished) | Wave, Listen to Me! (Finished) - If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die (Finished) - Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater (Finished) |
| St. Louis looking in the mirror - Is this me?..  |
| So many.. or rather tooooo many beams of light! Also there's a lack of Belfast in that hot spring! |
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| not showing the fuill episode is already a bad sign... |
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| Any episode where we didn't get forced Enterprise-job is good, so this one is good too. Altho it's far from the best episode. Two new plot points. Alterprise and Amagi's revival. Why do I get a sudden feeling that none of this will be resolved in this season and a 2nd season will be announced at the end? I enjoyed Akagi and Kaga's scene with little destroyers more than the bath scene, which is pretty much "can't be seen" with all those unnatural light beams. So, Unicorn is an oppai loli confirmed? @Liddo-kun I waited the new episode like you said but I still didn't get my answer of what happened to Zuikaku. Can I assume now that she also retreated because of Enterprise's "heroic arrival" after all that talk, which was a total joke? |
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| Wow, this episode gives the most fanservice than any other episode. Gotta say it was more boring, wanted to see more action like the battleships firing away last episode. Animation seemed to be off at times or was it just me? Seems like sometimes the frames were too few and other times the models were all skewed. |
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Renkini said: Unicorn was always oppai loli XDSo, Unicorn is an oppai loli confirmed? |
| ❀桜舞う空〜 Cute is Power. “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” I seek only to improve myself and others. |
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