eden of the east 9
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A hero is you.
How did Panties squeeze into these? They look smaller than Mio’s short shorts.
Going from writing a post about a K-On! episode featuring a beach trip to an Eden of the East episode featuring a dead fat NEET in a sewer ditch… I just love the diversity of anime. Though I’m torn on Production IG using their new found l33t animation skillz to give us a fat nerd in his underwear. Between this and lack of Mio panties on K-On!, I swear, these animation studios have lost their minds.
(More than ever, you guys need to support my campaign to become an anime director. I promise you Mio’s panties! I promise you more Micchon and Saki and Kuroha and less fat nerds! YES WE CAN!)
(And… uh… did we ever find out Kuroha’s fate?)
It’s like the Matrix… only the exact opposite!
(Can we get Alanis Morissette to remake Ironic to feature a new verse, “Just when you decide to leave your house / And kiss your fat NEET ass goodbye / You get run over by a cop / And you literally kiss your fat NEET ass goodbye / And isn’t it ironic? / Don’t you think?”)
I see toilet paper… I don’t see a bathroom… and he doesn’t leave the room. Oh boy.
(Though technically, NEETs are not the same as hikikomori. NEETs can actually leave the room– they just don’t have much going on in their lives at that moment. Interestingly, NEET is actually an official acronym used by the UK government. Yet, the term is more popular in Japan and Asia than in the UK now.)
But definitely some, uh, culture shock going from Mio’s red, white, and blue bikini to… uh… a towel? Panties should just go sumo. Anyway, good news everyone! We’ve solved the Cincinnati Reds mystery: it’s not the Reds, it’s the Hiroshima Carps. God bless Japan for stealing MLB logos and names.
(Now is Panties a Carps fans and not a Giants fan because there’s some meaning behind Hiroshima… nukes… and 60 Tomahawks incoming to Japan?)
(Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters… now that’s a baseball team name. So much more awesome than “Kansas City Royals.”)
Question: where did Panties get the money to outfit his walk-in closet into NERV’s 3 magi? Though this isn’t as awesome as Mariya’s secret closest.
(I imagine this lair is what 90% of anime blogger’s workspace looks like. Mine? I’m sitting on a La-Z-Boy sofa with my MacBook in my lap while watching the Stanley Cup finals on my HDTV. Life ain’t bad. Except, well, for the lack of Mio pinup and fanservice shots.)
He really let himself go after he lost his sweatpants… did he not do laundry the past few years? Ugh. I feel sick already and can only sympathize with Micchon. And wouldn’t his underwear be too small for his new, uh, William Shatner-like body?
Something tells me that when you hack into a cell phone, you’re not getting a new GUI out of it ASAP. Maybe Production IG should have hired iPhone Dev Team as a consultant as to how to properly depict cell phone hacking.
I like how there’s no battery in this phone… and I like how Panties just knew exactly where power and ground were… and I like how Mr Outside decided to leave a mini-USB port inside the phone when there’s no jack on the outside… and I like how for a phone this secret, they provided such a nice data connection. I’m shaking my head more at this than Yui’s perfect pitch (idiot savant is at least realistic).
Charlie Brown face on Micchon! Charlie Brown face!
So Taki played hero and tried to save everyone that the other Selacao tried to kill? Go Taki! I’d be more enthused, but it’s hard being enthusiastic writing a blog post for an episode that featured Panties showing us more skin than Mio. No, I’m not bitter about the lack of fanservice in K-On! or anything like that…
Scorpio Mcfly: word never seen a Reds fan before actually he looks like a young John Kruk LOL and yeah Ohsugi got to how can I say this STOP BEING A BITCH AND MAN UP you cant get the girl move on cause seeing a girl jealous thats hilarious a guy thats just sad and equally hilarious
I like the total and complete lack of punctuation in this comment Though Ohsugi needs to get over himself and start hitting on Micchon who I feel is vastly underutilized in this anime At the very least shouldnt someone be forcing her to wear nekomimi I can imagine Panties going Hey Im not going to let you in unless you wear these cat ears Awesome opportunity missed
naoh: Please tell me I’m not the only one getting entirely confused by this show. I’m digging it but how they have a hell of a lot to explain in 3 episodes, even with a movie.
I’m not worried. Something tells me Production IG is panicking right now thinking, “OMFG this show is doing better than our projections!” and trying to stretch the plot out beyond the movie. In other words, the same type of money grab that stretched Lost from 3 seasons into 6+… and… uh… inserting tons of pointless filler into Lost and almost completely ruining it. Mmm… okay, I’m worried. Maybe not as worried as Mio and barnacles, but more than Azusa and cat ears.
coyote: I think Production I.G. has a ways to go on their actual animation before I can hand them the crown. Backgrounds, CG, their whole graphic design is outstanding, really really good. When their animation starts conveying the same level of emotion as their CG, it will be neat.
You’re confusing animation with directing. Animation quality has nothing to do with emotions. Animation quality is objective: how many frames per second? How complex are backgrounds? How many lines does it take to draw a character? Are designs consistent between scenes? It’s really simple. Of course, to properly evaluate HD content nowadays, you really need a good HDTV (read: not VIZIO).
Also, as a homecinema tip, computer LCD monitors (and a lot of cheap LCD TV sets) are usually made with cheap TN LCD panels. These are inexpensive, but the are vastly inferior to PVA and ASV type LCD panels used in high-end LCD TVs. The difference is definitely noticeable. I miss a lot of details if I watch an episode on my Dell LCD when compared to my Samsung LCD TV.
(And, of course, OLED blows everything away. But I can’t afford that unless I stumble across 10 billion yen somehow.)
Skribulous: â€Panties†looks like me. OHSHI-
Yep… these are my readers.
(Why don’t I have any that look like Mio? Sigh. I knew I should have done a fashion blog instead of an anime blog.)
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please continue being a broken savior.
Oh. Here I was hoping you’d make some reference to how Jack Black went from being hilariously miscast in a King Kong movie remake to putting on Barbie doll sweat pants and being on the wrong end of road rage in a bizarre cartoon project involving Johnny snipping, paper stop-motion animation, and 2 too few episodes.
Apparently not every anime needs to use the same mass produced moe in order to gather a large audience. I think it’s fascinating that Production I.G. chose a figure like Panties to be heroic in this episode instead of the typical Shonenesque hero-ine we’re used too. What I find even more interesting however is how much you seem to dislike him for his nerdiness, obesity, and repulsiveness to Micchon when members of your audience might very well have these characteristics and thus fantasize about Mio panties to compensate for an otherwise lack of relationships. This is all speculation of course, but from your large readership and your own observation at the obvious lack of Mio like readers you’re not left with a lot of leftovers. In other words I liked this episode because of Panties contributions and would not like to see it changed for more normalized anime (in the form of harem fanservice) that has made the whole genre a bit stale. Or course more Mio is always appreciated but isn’t the lack of fanservice what makes her so alluring? She can still be treated like a sxeual object while maintaining her chaste/(not ruined for marriage) status.
Maybe, I just have a different reason for watching anime and should just enjoy your posts like I normally do.
Oh wow. What a way to go.
Note to self: 1) Always keep my Nokia fully charged; 2) Invest in proper clothing, WITH POCKETS; 3) When some suspicious guy comes to me for help involving a suspicious cellphone, SAY NO.
Oh, and I guess I need to buy some nekomimi bands, just in case.
This series is heating up, and if they do expand it, expect there to be 20,000 episodes.
Dustin: Apparently not every anime needs to use the same mass produced moe in order to gather a large audience. — blah blah blah —She can still be treated like a sexual object while maintaining her chaste/(not ruined for marriage) status.
Uh…they should and she willl be.
Jason: (Why don’t I have any that look like Mio? Sigh. I knew I should have done a fashion blog instead of an anime blog.)
Speak for yourself, fella. God knows I ain’t a Mio lookalike, but at least I’ve got more in common with our favourite bassist (pace Jaco) than with Pantsu up there. Oh, and I think Kuroha got off scot free. Apparently snipping johnnies is OK if they belong to rapists. Which is a position I can have a little more sympathy for…
Computer monitors, just as TV, come with different pannels. While most are cheap TN panels, some are different.
For example:
On 24″ side, we have Dell’s WFP 2408 uses VA, 2407 uses S-PVA, 2405 uses PVA.
While 30″ Dell’s 3008 uses S-IPS
Where is Kuroha!? She can make me hallucinate any time.
I think some of you guys are taking this too personal. I spent about as many words in this post disliking the mini-USB port in the phone as I did disliking the animation of Panties’ underwear vs. Mio’s underwear. Yet… you focus on what? I wrote the most words concerning what topic? Oh right… HDTVs… yet… you focus about what?
I wrote: “computer LCD monitors (and a lot of cheap LCD TV sets) are usually made with cheap TN LCD panels”… I’m pretty sure that “usually” tossed in there means I understand that not 100% of monitors use TN.
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I swear, I wonder if my readers just skim my posts for fanservice images… so I made a post without fanservice… and, sigh.
If they succeed in remaking Japan, can we name the project in his honor and call it the Pantsu Pantsu Revolution?
Why was his phone being dead such a big deal? I have a cheapo discontinued cell that I got for free because the store didn’t want it anymore, but even if the battery is dead I can plug it in and a few seconds later make calls off wall power. And he probably gets decent reception in his room considering he still seems to make calls despite not leaving in however long.
@Giant Humanoid Robot: I think that he probably was thinking “Dammit, phones dead. Where’s the charger? Screw it, maybe I can catch them.”
@Skyman747: That’s probably it, but even if he assumes they’re heading straight for the train station the jump cuts don’t really give us a good sense of how much time has passed since they left and by the time Colbert-Selaco calls Taki they’re already at the station. Or it could be that since Pantsu is carrying the paper with Taki’s number he is looking for a public phone (does Japan even have many of those around any more?). Or I’m just thinking too much into this and the reason is as simple as Pantsu was too agitated to think clearly / Production I.G. need a plot twist for Colbert-Selaco to bump off Pantsu and get Taki’s phone number.
@Jason: Sorry about that, I honestly can’t remember why I wrote that except that I was coming off an all-nighter working on physics and felt pretty bad for Panties after watching the episode. I guess your words jut kind of struck a chord and I did take it too personally.