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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Yeah, looking back, if Kanade and Otonashi were still alive (again, how the hell is that possible when we saw Otonashi die in the 9th Episode), that would take a hell lot longer for her to get that damn surgery.

Actually, I've came up with a theory. Yeah, it makes no sense that they would be dead, so my guess is that Otonashi (by some unexplained 'Word of God' miracle, stupid writers) was somehow brought back to life with someone else's heart, Kanade got Otonashi's heart, and everyone's hunky dory. Yeah, I know this shit don't make sense, but neither did that cliffhanger ending!

When you mean AU, are you talking about Otonashi/Yuri or were you talking about that subtle Yuri/Kanade thing?
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:05 am Post subject:

The ending implied to me they had both been reincarnated in new lives. My question wasn't abotu Otonashi, I'm sure he's dead. It was about Kanade, who I'm less sure of.

I was speaking of the Yuri/Kanade thing. That was cute.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Maybe Kanade died while getting heart-bypass? I don't fucking know...

Yeah, that was pretty cute. At least it makes your Yuri/Kanade pics somewhat possible.
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:11 am Post subject:

Then why is she there before Otonashi?

Which is awesome.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

I said I don't know, I'm making shit up.

It does make it awesome.
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:42 am Post subject:

I know. More of a rhetorical question.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Ah, well, this is what happens when you stay up at 2 in the morning. Need to sleep, good night Phil.
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 7:15 am Post subject:

So, I seem to have completed all my spring season shows today. Final impressions (aside, obviously, from the one's still airing) are as follows.

The finale of Shin Koihime Musou Otome Tairan was pure magic. It focused pretty much every character playing on their particular moe angle at least once. Sure, it could have shown more of Enya kicking ass (or just more Ena period) and I'd have been happer, but it was still fine as is. It was all really pretty exciting a final battle. We had definitive evil, an evil sorcerer with an army of 100,000 earthen soldiers up against the sexy girls we all love and the nameless troops they command. This certainly topped the other final battles (a fraudulent bandit guy and his army of thugs in the first season and an idol group and their ravenous brainwashed army of fanboys in the second. Sure there still wasn't much in the way of actual intense one on one fights. I'm kind of disappointed in how the final boss, Ukitsu was handled. It was cute and creative, how he was stabbed from behind in a surprise attack, but with Ryuubi as the attacker we didn't get a good fight in the end. But really, I want more. Please, Dogakobo and all other involved companies, a fourth season. I need more of this it's addictive. The fact that secondary villain, Choujou was actually transformed back into human form near the end and allowed to escape, but not in any way dealt with gives me a lot of hope.

Koihime Musou's sister series, Ikkitousen, and Xtreme Xecutor as it is, also had it's finale. It was less impressive, with little to talk of. Least impressive final fight yet in an Ikkitousen series. If it weren't for the yuri cuteness in the beginning of the final episode I might have been bored with it. Still, not horrible. It did advance Bachou's character I suppose, and for whatever reason that seems to have been the point of this entire season.

Arakawa Under the Bridge ended, or at least it's first season did. Doesn't surprise me it's getting another. SHAFT usually is good with sequels (though I'm still waiting for Maria Holic 2...). And Arakawa really ended up being a show definitive of SHAFT's unique style as much as Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei or anything else they're known for. It's quirky oddball comedy about societal rejects living under a bridge. Even if it becomes less laugh out loud funny the more you get used to it, it still retains a definite charm. The ending was almost unfair though. I take it SHAFT wasn't officially green lit on the second season until just before work on that episode began. The gigantic mystery of the previous episode, who prevented Recruit's father from purchasing the land under the bridge, is abandoned in favor of exploring background character for most of the episode. Ah well, it was amusing to learn abotu the samurai barber, parrot man and bee girl.

And finally there was Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou... Meh. This show started brillaintly, quickly developed wonderful, vibrant character, but the ending arc just din't really work for me. There was too much compressed into it and a lot of the show's charm was lost in the final few episodes. I'd still give the show a tentative reccomendation, but really they needed two seasons for the thign to work, and they only got one. It really suffered for it.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Wow, that's a lot of finales. Good to know you enjoyed them all.
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 7:34 am Post subject:

Yep. Lots of awesomeness.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

I see. What were the shows about again?
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 8:32 am Post subject:

Koihime Muso I explained earlier. But the basic plot going back to the first season is that there is a talented female warrior not attached to any of the ruling powers who spends her time hunting down bandits for the sake of whatever village she happens to be in. She soon meets a young girl calling herself a bandit, defeats and befriends her. They travel together around a very colorful rendition of what is allegedly ancient China, meet an assortment of vivid, often sexy or adorable characters, some of whom accompany of them and near all of whom eventually return, without much real purpose (at least in the first season).

Ikkitousen is similar to Kohime Musou. It takes the same Chinese warriors, and again makes them into sexy females (though there are some males too in this one) but it's less moe and more ecchi. The premise is that the spirits of the ancient Chinese warriors of the Three Kingdoms have reincarnated as a bunch of modern day high school students. The main character is a girl destined to rule one of the big schools (kingdoms) and in the first season, she fights to claim that place and against the other schools as well.

Arakawa Under the Bridge is about this dude who is the son of the most powerful and respected businessman in Japan. He's been taught his father his whole life never to do anything to incur the debt of others and has been good on it up to the beginning of the series when after an incident on a bridge his life is put into jeopardy. His life is unwillingly saved by an attractive blonde girl who claims she is an alien from Venus who happens to live under the bridge. Due to his family code, the guy is desperate to repay this chick to erase his only debt thus far, but as strange as she is, the only thing the girl wants that he has to offer is for him to be her boyfriend; so he has to secretly move under the bridge to live with her to escape from incurring a debt. There he meets a very colorful cast of total psychos who also live under this bridge and interacts with them in amusing ways.

Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou is set in a fantasy world and is about a guy who just transferred into a school of magic. He wishes to learn there so he can one day become a high priest. When he arrives, he visits the school's sort of oracle artifact, which announces the destiny of whoever stands before it. As it is, it announces that instead of a high priest, the dude is announded to be destined to become the Demon King who will bring destruction to the world. Bemused by this announcement as he is, the rest of the school goes into a panic over his arrival and interesting characters begin to watch him.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Oh yeah, that's the one you gave me seasons 1-2 for, right? Or was that Ikkitousen?

Oh, okay, I remember Arakawa Under the Bridge.

How did I forget about that one? It was right there in the poster for Spring 2010.
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 8:50 am Post subject:

I gave you links to both Koihime Musou and Ikkitousen

All of the shows were pretty good. I'd still probably call Angel Beats! best of the spring season though.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Shit, that's right. I just found them 5-6 pages back.

Definitely the best of the Spring line-up. And I said I wasn't going to watch any of them, I guess that's what happens when you judge a book by its cover.
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