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I'm gonna watch SYMPHOGEAR and this time I'm gonna try to LIKE it instead of treating it like a half-hearted hatewatch
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I wonder how old Tsubasa is
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I'm getting Anime Adult vibes from her so like at least 18
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I've seen like 3 or 4 episodes before but it was years ago
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so I'm starting from scratch
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Kanade, that's the other one
Princess Emily
I think Tsubasa is like 19? maybe a bit younger in season one
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idols
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but I'm down for it because the music has a good vibe
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it's making me think less love live and more macross
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aliens have come to... oh theis crowd is fucking dying huh
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oh a child just died
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eh, I've seen hornier outfits/transformations
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I like how they handle attack names
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no name shouting, just big batman punch text
Princess Emily
I will say in its undefense, the outfits and transformations get markedly more horny after season one, which I'm not a huge fan of but anime gonna anime
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of course they do
Princess Emily
the attack name freeze frames are fucking awesome though and only get more awesome
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and then the protag looking girl mcfcuking died
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OK
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following the talk from a previous plurk
~Lamiamon~
Tsubasa is 17 when the series starts and 19 by the last season
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I definitely think Swan Song is the best of the translation options
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oh that just ended the fight huh
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bye kanade
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okay that is hibiki
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I thought so
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and her roommate, hatsune miku
Princess Emily
not inaccurate
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do you guys only own one bed
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here we go, the real stars of the show
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the Useless Gun Guys
Princess Emily
Hibiki/Miku actually have a bunk bed (lower bed is curtained) they just choose to sleep in one bed for Gal Pal reasons
Princess Emily
normal platonic reasons to share a single bed when you have two, you know
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oh everyone's dead again
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Hibiki is a good girl
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The OP suggests that Miku is going to be in trouble this season
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Hibiki's not great at this yet
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hey Tsubasa how much did that motorcycle cost
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you didn't need to explode it
~Lamiamon~
She goes through a lot of them
Princess Emily
symphogear runs on a combination of anime logic and action movie logic, so therefore
Princess Emily
vehicles exist to explode
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Hibiki can now be proud
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she has saved more innocent lives than 99% of the people on earth
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OK so the MIBs just
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handcuffed Hibiki, abducted her
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took her to her secret base
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then went "surprise! you're not in trouble at all welcome to the team"
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and took the handcuffs off
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bruh
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don't handcuff her in the first case
~Lamiamon~
There are no smiles here
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knowing via spoilers that the zany predatory lesbian is actually evil makes her easier to endure
Princess Emily
I want to say the handcuffs were Tsubasa, who got to make the call out on the field and is kind of a dick early on
OneMoreTurn
yeah it's definitely Tsubasa's idea
Princess Emily
but also yes the zany predatory lesbian was easier to handle in retrospect even just like WHEW, IT WAS ACTUALLY A SIGN SHE'S NOT GREAT INSTEAD OF JUST A CHARACTER GIMMICK WE HAVE TO ACCEPT
Quinn Angstrom
just a couple of good friends cuddling in the same bed
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how's that PTSD going, Tsubasa
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pretty good it doesn't seem
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so wait it's been 2 years since the concert massacre
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so is Tsubasa 17 or 19 now
~Lamiamon~
17
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ok
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so she was 15 when kanade died
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hecked up
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I keep getting distracted by Hibiki's extremely tall eyes
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everone else's irises are circles, hers are twice as tall as they are wide
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Meteoroid-falling, burning, disappear, and then...
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is a weird tagline
~Lamiamon~
None of them top “Hold a determination to fist”
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Tsubasa is being kind of unreasonable to Hibiki, for understandable reasons
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oh my god she can do a rider kick that's also a giant sword with jet engines
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Get Some Therapy
~Lamiamon~
She doesn’t need therapy she has swords
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I feel like the swords make therapy MUCH more urgent
~Lamiamon~
Nah she’s fine
~Lamiamon~
Perfectly fine
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blah
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I'll deal with it just
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I hate how berserker hibiki is drawn
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where her head is black and everything else is normal
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it just looks so bad
Princess Emily
thankfully they change that up later anyway
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okay cool
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hey tsubasa
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that's not a good place for blood to come out
~Lamiamon~
Her Nendoroid has that as one of her faces
Princess Emily
sometimes blood just wants to be on the outside rather than inside
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inside is where blood is supposed to live
~Lamiamon~
anyway I dunno how I feel about the translation of the big ultimate song attack because “swan song” has some finality to it
~Lamiamon~
And it’s not neccessarily always fatal
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so I'm learning
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when I said swan song was my favorite I was assuming it was always fatal
HotXC
Outside blood, inside blood. It's like cats.
~Lamiamon~
Nah. Part of it is having enough phonic gain and compatiblity with ones Symphogear
~Lamiamon~
Kanade was a special case
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in that sense, climax song does make sense
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so I'm guessing that
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the writer of Symphogear really likes classic action movies
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and the chief is in that sense kind of a self insert
Princess Emily
I love the chief, and I say this as somebody who only likes the best of the best male characters
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when it did the training montage and got to the shot of the chief and hibiki both trying to imitate bruce lee poses I did a smile
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"Strike like you've been eating lightning and crushing thunder!" Maybe tell her something concrete about her form
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no? ok well it seems to have worked
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this sure is some english
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why are you naked
~Lamiamon~
The thing is Miyuki Sawashiro speaks English very well
~Lamiamon~
So this lady using all that is 100 % intentional on the writers part
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oh this scene is very uncomfortable
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I do not like it
Princess Emily
oh THAT scene
Princess Emily
yeah....................... yeah,
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the noise are kind of boring antagonists but fortunately there are other antagonists
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Hibiki kicking her heels off to fight better
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I bet you have to do some crazy core training to be able to sing while anime fighting
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I think what kills the berserker mode thing is that her mouth still has totally normal lighting
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so it looks like she has a black bag over her head with holes poked into it
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