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I just seen it and it was pretty crap. I felt like i was watching a disaster flick with superman in it. It had much potential to be a human drama but it fell short of it. You see the direction is there but it never quite reached the peak. Golden Arms, you more or less hit it on the spot. If they actually focused on "the return of superman" more and why the world and lois) need superman, it would've been a much better movie. This show gets a 2/5 from me.

Dat''s why they call it a TEASER. XD

Uhh...next month?

Yeah but a gradual mopeyness would've helped. This is Melancholy ep5 after all. What triggered Haruhi to suddenly open up? Haruhi wanted to know what happened to Ryoko without succeeding much. She walks off disappointed. Kyon was quite bored and asks if he can go home since he knew what happened and felt it was a wild goose chase. Next thing you know she pours her heart out to Kyon, who obviously took it quite by surprise too with nothing to share in response to her. PS: I do feel like Haruhi sometimes, that i'm just a insignificant speck on this earth and everything i felt special that happened to me was actually happening everywhere else in the world. U know like how your old classmates say our class is the best year ever when every other class is the same. You're starting to sound like Koizumi. Nah i wouldn't think Kyon is that depressing. He's NORMAL, enjoying life NORMALLY. But we normally forget this when everyone around Kyon is NON-Normal. Paranormal even. Haruhi sees something in Kyon, perhaps a kindred spirit, which triggered her enthuthiasm to setup the SOS. There was one very short scene while she talks with Kyon in ep2, where she says "I 've met you before haven't I? " where she just shrugs it off afterwards. Probably something happens when Kyon travels back in time later on where he comes face to face with a younger Haruhi. And this falls back on existential theory again. XD What actually exists? I don't wanna think. I'm in the office. This one's pretty interesting. Even if the world ended and restarted, would it have mattered to Koizumi? It could've happened 2 seconds ago and he wouldn't even realise it. And is their existence even real? Could they all be just created out of Haruhi's whim and fancy? I think Koizumi will be reaching this kinda dillema later in the series. Then talk about God, omnipotence etc will likely be the theme and it will tie back to existentialism. The old world/new world thing would be similar to Zion from Matrix Revolutions. But going back to my theory, imagine if this current world they're in is just a BIG closed space which appeared 3 years ago, when Suzumiya is "destroyed" or something happens that she loses her power and the barrier falls, what will happen? Will the world return to normal? Will the world outside cease to exist but instead being overlapped by Haruhi's world? And should Koizumi even care? Why was he given the knowledge that the <Celestials> are not to be let loose onto the world? Why does he and the ESPERs feel obligated to destroy these things? Why let Haruhi be happy? The simple answer is to "preserve" the current world that they perceive as reality. But they also know that the current world isn't reality and might be the 10th incarnation of the world. I agree with what you say that he plays the part of narrator as well as a connector to the viewers/readers and portrayed as a boring person like any rational thinking human like u and me. But i do believe that he will eventually play one of the more pivotal roles in the series. I feel that the writer purposely left out alot about him like his name, for reasons that will appear grandoise by the end of the series, not solely as a RPG protagonist. Besides, RPG protagonists (like Chrono who doesn't speak) somehow end up as the centerpiece of a grand scheme. XD

Melancholy will run for 14 eps so there's just 1 more ep left. I hope they'll continue the anime for the next volumes. I'm guessing this episode takes place right before the baseball game and after the class president disappears. Haruhi suddenly spilling her heart out was kinda random though. She fell out of character for apparently no reason, and started babbling existential stuff. Appreciated Koizumi's role in spurring the plot further despite all his babble about "I think therefore I am" kinda talk. Antropic something. <theory> I think the books mention that Kyon used to be like Haruhi that he wished aliens, espers and time travellers to exist. But one day his rational mind took over and he kinda died off with that 'chidish' though. But this was not shown in the anime yet IIRC. I wonder if Kyon was the initiator of the god-like powers. Is Haruhi an avatar of himself carrying out his inner-wishes very much like how the <Celestials> are avatars of Haruhi's frustration. So is this world created 3 years ago a gigantic closed space created by Kyon which exists parralel to the world outside, and Haruhi is Kyon's <Celestial> ? Yeah, u realise i'm thinking here along the lines of Evangelion, like if Kyon was Shinji and he succeeded in the 3rd impact, this is what would've happened. Because Kyon more or less remains a mystery, despite being the main protagonist. We know pretty much about Haruhi and the rest but next to nothing about Kyon. So i suspect by the end of the books etc, Kyon becomes central to the incident 3 years ago. </theory>

sebastian: Is that painted? Damn now i need to start working on mine. >_<

I'm no designer but if it were me, i'd draw a rough draft on CAD, make something "physical" so I sculpt something based on the rough draft, and then make refinements to both as i go along. I mean its better to have something physical to touch and mess around with rather than just CAD-ing all the way.

HAHAAH! Seasick and afraid of heights...that's hilariuos. THanks. Surfed the net for broadside photos. Wonder why he holds some kinda childhood intrigue to me. Perhaps its cause he's one of the cheaper triple changers. http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery.php...&size=0&start=0

But don't usually rivets stick out of the armour and not actually holes in the armour? Cause those rivets look like they're sticking out. Probably gotta ask the modelling folk bout this. Nice picture, Ikii. Apply teh eyes on him.

THere is a picture of a Hasegawa custom, it was blue and has Project Supernova all over it as markings. That , I think was the best rendition of a YF-19 ever made into a figure/model. I searched the website and came across this, which i'm not sure is the one i was looking for cause i had a better picture of it in my mind. http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/magazi...june02page8.jpg http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/magazi...june02page9.jpg http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/magazi...une02page15.jpg And to off topic, gah...if the modellers could make kick ass transforming models, the toy companies should be able to cook up some kinda similar toy, though Graham has said it before that construction of a custom model and a toy is very different. Teh VF-4....what a beaut. http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/magazi...ekifeb19991.jpg http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/magazi...ekifeb19992.jpg

Let me veer off topic awhile, but can someone tell me the name of the Autobot which could transform into a jet AND an aircraft carrier? Is he featured in any parts of the cartoon? Cause if it did, there's some really big differences of scale and anime-magic. XD

Sweet. Thanks for the info, Graham.

So are the reissues the ones that have the fixed problems? Do let us know.

A picture , name of magazine or soemthing would help. The pic on the mag i showed almost matched your description. Iron baton, military berret, etc. THere was another one complete with big boobs , machine guns and glasses and bikini swimsuit but i don't know where to find the pic on that one cause its a doujin figure.

Somewhat related, cute.

I can't tell what i'm looking at. >_>

And that was posted a few posts above. >_>

Randomc reports of a new Aquarion show. Not sure if its a new season or just a "summary movie" ala Rahxephon. Its called Aquarion: Wings Of a Traitor. http://randomc.animeblogger.net/2006/06/26...80%90man-anime/

The next in the Kotobukiya line is already on sale. The Crest. Looks ZOMGAWESOME. http://www.kotobukiya.co.jp/item/page/pk_a...est/index.shtml

Is the hobby mag a recent publication? If it is i think i know who you're talking about. Main site: http://www.ikaros.co.jp/moeseries/ http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4...link%5Fcode=xm2 The book is about mecha musume, or mecha girls. Generally anime-girls depicted "dressed-up" as WWII machines mostly. A topic not that well received here: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...hl=mecha+musume And this one, Moe-arms, features anime girls with real-life weapons. http://www.tp-ep.co.jp/ep-hp/special.html#005

Not really to me, cause traditionally u see rivets on all the hasegawa valks, and most jet models. So its kinda cool that the 1/48 was given a "model" look by adding the rivets. I was confused that the pic i was looking at was a model or the 1/48 at 1st.

Hitler was the anti-God. Reduced his powers somewhat.

that was fast, did you do that? 411555[/snapback] Nah i can't customise. I found the picture on 2chan. Sorry for misunderstanding.

Re-enactment in bad gaijin japanese *Flashback moosik* Takara Exec: Onegai shimasu, Kawamori-sensei, kore wa Makuros janai desu yo. Shoji Kawamori: GAHH!!! Kore tail-findo, kimochi warui. TE: Iyaan!! Yamete kudasai!! SK: HA HA HA!! Watashi no Starrer Screamer "KAI", "ver. KAWAMORI", DAI SAK SEN, hak shin!! TE: Agh!! Kawamori sensei! Iyaaaan!! Yamete kurei!!! SK: Ja jannn!! (Tadaa) KANZEN!! TE: *Kuso* Nande?! NANDE?!

EVA01 customised into Masked Rider Amazon.