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Hellfish



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:18 am Reply with quote
Oh the combo of cringeworthy moments of anime in one series... Xp I bet is quite a coveted item among collector outside of Japan Anime hyper
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Agent355



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:24 am Reply with quote
This strip is hilarious!
The worst part is you just know that someone is going to walk in the room during that "swimsuit with hotdogs and popsicles!" party scene. Then that person is going to shake his or her head and silently judge you and all anime ever produced, and no amount of "but...communal bathing is totally normal in Japan!" explanation is gonna cut it.
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GATSU



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:23 am Reply with quote
The strip's probably alluding to this.
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Anton Chigurh



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:52 am Reply with quote
The strip left out the very last scene of the episode:

Hikaru: "I love you Setsuko."

Setsuko: "I love you too, and I don't care what they say, my dear brother."
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Khooni



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 7:20 am Reply with quote
Now that's what i call trolling Very Happy
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vanfanel



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 7:48 am Reply with quote
According to quite a few "Downfall" clips on YouTube, Hitler was a dyed-in-the-wool NaruSaku fan...and therefore clearly wrong.
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Rednal



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:59 am Reply with quote
Kohii wrote:
Dude, yes. Start talking about that. I want another 200 comment roller coaster thread.
just kidding.


spoiler[And then the next story arc stars a powerful, fairly independent female character who kicks *all kinds* of butt on her own, overcomes her problems, and generally shows herself to be extremely competent even in an international-scale tournament with plenty of men in it. And let's not forget that while SAO's second story arc did have the birdcage, it also had several female tribe leaders, Leafa as a major companion for most of the arc, and so on and so forth. Not a whole lot of anti-female sentiment except from individual characters...]
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Bob from Accounting



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:29 am Reply with quote
Oh so true.
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Polycell



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:50 am Reply with quote
writerpatrick wrote:
I don't recall anything about Hitler in an anime, but I could see how some Japanese would agree since Japan did side with Germany in WWII. But the irony is that the Nazis would likely have eliminated the Orientals just as easily as the Jews for not being Aryan.
If the Japanese Empire and the Third Reich had come to blows, the former probably would've won for economic reason: while National Socialism resulted in conquered areas having their industry cannibalized for the sake of core Germany(even Austria got screwed over this way), the Japanese economy was healthy enough for massive investment into the Empire's conquests. This is doubly so since, the only industrialized areas within reach after Russia would've been Italian(where Fascism caused the same problems as Nazism) and Spanish(where the "curse of gold" hadn't exactly left an industrial powerhouse), so the German economy would be on the verge of collapse at the likely start of our imaginary conflict.

And that's assuming that the conflict started in a world where the UK bowed out after winning the Battle of Britain. If we postulate a world where an angry British Empire were trying to regain its homeland, Nazi ass gets kicked six ways to Sunday(even excluding the US).
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kgw



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 11:37 am Reply with quote
If it helps, infamous "Deep Blue Fleet" (Konpeki no kantai) anime has Imperial Japan fighting against Nazi Germany spoiler[after sinking the whole US fleet, and trashing the USA to force them to peace.].
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ConanSan



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:25 pm Reply with quote
Some bullets were made to be dodged.

Japanese cartoon writers are want to not dodge these bullets.
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naninanino



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:53 pm Reply with quote
I'd totally watch this.
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Agent355



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 4:54 pm Reply with quote
kgw wrote:
If it helps, infamous "Deep Blue Fleet" (Konpeki no kantai) anime has Imperial Japan fighting against Nazi Germany spoiler[after sinking the whole US fleet, and trashing the USA to force them to peace.].

So who won?
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kanechin



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 5:49 pm Reply with quote
loli fanservice - fine
token black guy - depends
nazis - whatever
women must be useless - that's bulls***

need more strong female leads like motoko kusanagi, less orihimes.
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Agent355



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:53 pm Reply with quote
I love strong female characters busting up stereotypes as much as the next girl, but don't most guys find battle girls hot? Isn't that the point of all those ero ninja, samurai, alternate history and Queen's Blade anime? Why would an anime keep girls out of the battle?

Or is it only hot when its girls fighting other girls and emasculating when girls fight guys?
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