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Nov 19, 2014 7:36 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Geez that face just spells the emotional expression of unpleasant surprise..

Well besides wrestling a giant cockroach, they still got adaptation to deal with against how they live. Weird ending as well.
Nov 19, 2014 6:08 PM
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From what I remember, they left out 2 or 3 things but for the most part it was a fine adaptation. Better than the first one at least

I'm glad that they properly adapted the parts with Ichiro and Thien though :'')
Nov 21, 2014 10:01 AM
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moderators again too slow
Nov 22, 2014 4:35 AM
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That Roach smile was quite horrifying I must say. But overall quite good adaption, much better than first OVA. It was awesome to see the Desert Locust in action and I'm glad they didn't leave out Thien and Ichiro's stories. <3
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La familia es todo.
Nov 22, 2014 4:58 AM
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Those two backstories were quite intense.

I guess I'll watch the television series once it finishes its broadcast run.

I wonder what the chronology of everything is in the manga.
Nov 22, 2014 9:58 AM
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It was pretty good, I liked the OVA. The animation was great as usual.
Nov 22, 2014 10:56 AM
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And so Bugs II comes to a horrible mission ending. RIP, crew members. It was nasty to have Adolf and Thien in the same week ;_;, and Ichiro's story felt more disgusting.

The evolution part was done pretty well.
Nov 22, 2014 12:45 PM
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Guess I'm ready to continue the main series then. :D
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Nov 23, 2014 11:38 AM
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So Thien evolved into the leg-cockroach from the main series? Not quite sure what's going on there.
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Nov 23, 2014 11:48 AM
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It was around the same quality as the first one, though maybe slighly better due to the extended length.

The female characters got squashed again. Victoria's death definitely looked more painful than Ming-Ming's.

It's nice to see some variety with Thien's death as a result of medicine overdosage, rather than brutal dismemberment. It was pretty disgusting and painful nonetheless. Kinda looked cool while he was transforming into a desert locust. The small glimpse into his backstory was not enough to make him particularly stand out though.

We also learned how the JOHJ Priests came to be.

xytech said:
So Thien evolved into the leg-cockroach from the main series? Not quite sure what's going on there.

I guess one JOHJ decided to extract the abilities of the desert locust from his body and implant it into one of its own kind.
Nov 23, 2014 11:49 AM

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Thien death was sad...as...Mines death in AGK anime, that was because LiddenStudio excluded Thien character development, thus fucking him up.

Ichiro was the star of the OVA.

Nov 24, 2014 12:29 PM

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Well, that was depressing.
Nov 25, 2014 12:01 AM
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thien's stomach and liver suffer fatal blow caused them to unable to decompose the drugs, hence the effect of the drug continues as he finally turns to a real locus.
Nov 25, 2014 1:51 AM

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overall the ova episodes were alot creepier than the series is. got some more insight into the story aswell. pretty good.
Nov 25, 2014 7:13 AM

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This OVAs are very good . Poor Thien :"( , I was hopping that the 'three' of them would be able to go back to earth together....but only those two managed to survive...and stupid wasp being betrayer , serve you right of what happened to you...
sad a bit , hehe , but enjoyable all in all.
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Nov 26, 2014 1:20 PM

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This OVAs are something else that's for sure. I liked them though.
Nov 28, 2014 8:23 PM
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Nice to know about those two's back-stories. Only two of them had survived.
Nov 28, 2014 11:56 PM

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It takes a lot for me to think something was genuinely unsettling/creepy.



But I did.
Nov 29, 2014 1:19 AM

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dam that was good hate it when good shows come 2 a end thank god there is still the main series

couldn't they easily prove he wasnt the father of that little whores kid, it was the 26th century
Nov 29, 2014 5:21 AM

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Wow, this episode took me by surprise in terms of it execution because it was very well done in comparison to the main series and the first ova episode.i genuinely felt sad towards the end when thein died even though his development was shortened.
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Nov 29, 2014 5:30 AM

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Laughing roach is genuinely creepy.
Oh god who are you people?
Nov 29, 2014 10:02 PM

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straggy said:
It takes a lot for me to think something was genuinely unsettling/creepy.



But I did.
I found that bit hilarious. The decapitated one strangling Ichirou too.

I guess this one was a bit better than the previous ep (which I don't remember how it ended), but this is still in the so bad it's good category. Now I just gotta move onto the TV series.
Nov 29, 2014 11:33 PM
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Why did Victoria kill the captain in her cockroach disguise in the beginning? A reason wasn't even shown. O.o
Though, I guess she got paid back soon after.

Ichiro's backstory was pretty depressing. Noticed most Terra Formars leads have some sort of unfortunate past, and they're actually done well.

Thien death due to the overdose was quite sad too. Them tears while he was transforming into a bug.. T_T

Good episode and certainly better than the first OVA. Wished the main series was directed just like this one.

Dec 3, 2014 10:16 AM

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Greaaaatt!!!!!!!
Dec 5, 2014 3:41 AM

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Depressing
Dec 5, 2014 6:14 PM

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Thien ;____;,dem tears.

"You can't tell if I'm man or a bug anymore."

Surprisingly this was a good episode.
Dec 6, 2014 2:52 AM

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Crappy face !! dat face !!

Nice adaptation for BUGS II Arc I guess.
Dec 9, 2014 9:21 PM

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Wish the whole TV show was done this way. Great :)
Dec 11, 2014 8:07 PM

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Damn that ending tho. Felt so bad for Thien.
Dec 15, 2014 9:50 PM

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interesting as always, definitely cleared some things up
Dec 19, 2014 5:32 PM

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This was alright for an background OVA.
Good to see who survived, and it was sad the... bugification (?) that happened, I wonder if that will happen to the current team.
Dec 20, 2014 4:51 AM

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Thien is BEAST!
Dec 20, 2014 10:13 PM

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dat grin
Dec 24, 2014 4:10 AM

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What a wasted potential.
You all need to watch Nami.

Dec 29, 2014 5:03 AM

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Better than the TV series by so much.
Dec 29, 2014 3:05 PM

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That was pretty grotesque but I quite liked the action/thrill! Let's see what the sequel will offer us!
Jan 4, 2015 2:43 AM
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I thought this would give a lot more backstory than how it turned out to, but it was alright. Got more info on the character's backgrounds from reading the small snipplets on the character info page here on MAL than from the OVA itself.

Regardless it was nice to see Ichiro and Shokichi back in their BUG 2 days in action. Outside of Thien, who was I actually sad to see go down and not live to see future missions in the series, the rest of BUGS 2 members got slaughter so fast it was hard to care much. Even Aki was gone within the first 2 minutes of OVA 1, I figured she would be bigger deal. The Vice-captain (who was so lacking in presence I couldn't recall her name until looking her up on the wiki, Ming-Ming) seem like she was going to do more but even she went down fast too.

Also the OVA kind of did a bad job with showing Victora's traitor side, I was wondering why she didn't finish Ichiro off at first but she needed him in helping find the Terraformer egg. Her backstory that I read about was kind of a shame that it was left out. She had plans to take over the world (hah). Oh well.
Jan 11, 2015 4:36 AM

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Anyone felt those roaches are way too op?
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Jan 16, 2015 9:28 AM
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Man, she is hot......but she is a bitch!! She got what she deserved.....I guess??
Damn, Ichiro and Thien had it real rough :/ Thien's death is just ;_; That hug, man.....That manly hug.
This Anime really likes to use sex to fuck us up, yeah.
Well, good OVAs. I want them to make season 2 and I will watch it!! Thank you ^^
Aug 15, 2015 4:20 AM

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Goddamn so during the BUGS II expedition Japan was the traitor? or was it only that selfish professor? but at least he didn't succeed. Well anyway that tanned babe sure has a sweet voice. Gotta do some research on her

A nice OVA overall though I didn't actually understood everything opposed to what I was expecting so I think after the S2 I'll read the manga or maybe wait for it to finish first but I'd definitely read it.
Mar 26, 2016 11:38 PM

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I'm happy Ichiro became prime minister. He deserves it after all the shit he went through, I hope that teacher and his bitch paid for what they did to him.

Honestly, I thought only Shokichi was going to survive, I wasn't expecting Ichiro to be alive. He kind of had that dispensable-character appearance.

RIP Thien, at least you're no longer suffering. I wish you could've gotten a happy ending after all the crap you went through.
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Mar 30, 2016 1:01 PM

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That Shokichi and Thien moment, too much feels :'(

Ichirou made it big and now Shokichi is going for the next bug trip.
One of the evolved roaches died and the other lived.

8/10 short and sweet, some things were left out but meh.
Apr 15, 2016 8:37 PM
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Most creepiest emotional scene ever?

3/5
May 15, 2016 8:01 PM

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Thien :(! Glad to see who survived. 7/10

Jul 13, 2016 2:13 PM

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Someone knows how Ichiro and Schokici (idk how the names are spelt) get back to earth?
Sep 15, 2016 9:14 PM

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That roach smile...*shivers*
Nice to see some back story on Ichiro and Thien - Ichiro's especially made me feel bad for him.
I watched these after the main series so it was nice to fill in some of the pieces to the story.



Dec 5, 2016 12:02 PM
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After to watch this 2 ovas, i want to watch the series, and this is the most important!!!

2Ovas, bloody, with nice action and a scifi plot, the best!!!!


8/10.
Aug 16, 2018 2:45 AM

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Wow, this sucks.
Only japanese people are allowed to stay alive? Fuck this shit. I'm not gonna watch TV.
Feb 11, 2019 2:01 AM
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there so much gore and death here,, this very easy to diein this anime and very hard t kill that terra formars,, i think this missio only for suicide
Apr 19, 2020 2:11 PM

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I'm kinda surprised with all the support that Ichiro gets here... Yeah his background struggle sucks and is unfair but didn't he
or am i missing something.
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