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    Hm... How does that VF compare to a 1/72 VF-31? Same size? Smaller? Bigger? In some respects it honestly looks like a better Gerwalk than the Bandai kit. Hasegawa for fighter mode, this for Gerwalk, and the Bandai for Battroid?
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    Are the Maltrendi all-you-can-eat? If you know what I mean... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Honestly, i'd love to be on whatever fleet colonized Eden. That seems like a pretty cool place to live, all things considered.
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    I thought he WAS good at his job and respected for it and had a not just potential but certain love interest that didn't always criticize him for every action he took... Agree to disagree; I thought I was pretty clearly talking about something distinct from common anime filler. That certainly would have helped. But more importantly, Namsac feels like... actually, it feels a lot like filler, now that I think about it. Not much of consequence happens here. The... what I'll call the Jindai arc ends with Mithril scattered and Sousuke determined to find Kaname. What I'll call the Laevatein arc starts with Mithril scattered and Sousuke determined to find Kaname. There's a thematic and emotional through-line. They could have cut Namsac entirely and kept the narrative thrust intact, and simply adjusted any lingering plot inconsistencies (like Sousuke meeting Lemon, or Kurama being alive instead of killed by Sousuke in Namsac) as needed. If they wanted to keep Namsac, they could have integrated it better, made it play more into the larger narrative. Otherwise, that "smooth transition" could happen by simply getting rid of it entirely. According to Wikipedia, FMP author Shoji Gatoh had already written and published "End of Day by Day" (April 20, 2001) by the time the first anime debuted (January 8, 2002). By the time "End of Day by Day" got adapted into TSR, he had finished another two novels and would finish "Burning One Man Force" at its conclusion. So your assertion that the earlier anime productions had to come up with stuff due to the work being unfinished doesn't seem likely to me. Because the nature of an adaptation demands it? The unnamed sisters in the novels received names, lines, and whole backstories in TSR, and while I can only speculate as to why, I can say with confidence that the end product would have been poorer if those changes from the source material had not been made. The writers/directors took what were essentially throwaway villains and turned them into great foils for Sousuke. Part of enjoying an anime for me has always been the discussion of it, warts and all, so I'm totally down for more of this if you are or no more if you're not. /shrug
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    Plot things are happening, I suppose, insofar as one event is happening after the other, but not a lot of it has any time to settle in and affect the characters and, more importantly, the audience. For instance, (and again the board's infuriating mess of a spoiler tag system has thwarted me, so here's an entire post in spoilers I guess)
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    Is this season a 12-episode season? I had thought it was 13... I dunno... I'm leaning more towards agreeing with him than not. I've given up on better shows for fewer flaws than this; at this point, the only reason I'm still following it is out of sheer need to see the story through to its conclusion (or as much of one as it'll get in anime form, anyway). Aside from the animation, the storytelling is... bad. Instead of truncating several story arcs into the span of a single season, they should have done a true to form adaptation, blending all those stories into something original. The way I hear it, that's what TSR did by excising and including different elements from different novels, and even introducing entirely new elements such as the expanded backstory of the two sisters.
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    The animation took a nosedive this episode, even compared to the previous episodes. It's nothing new to mecha anime - this is largely a talking episode, so they're cutting corners, conserving money and effort for the real big moments in probably the last two episodes - but it was still cringe-inducing at times to actually watch. I just keep hoping that the animation will get spruced up for the eventual Blu-ray release. I did enjoy that they paid attention to the finer details of the weaponry, though. The P90's spent shells ejecting downward from the handle made me whoop during an otherwise unexciting "action" scene. The hardass Marine vet's gratuitous cursing also had me guffawing.
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    Just got my HLJ PW notice. $163.10. Will put this up in the FS thread.
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    Oh, duh me. I read your post wrong, my fault.
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    Were you one of the folks who spoke about benefiting from NY underdeclaring on customs forms? Or did they just have that much of a discount over HLJ?
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    Speaking of which, I'll be getting an HLJ notice of payment soon for the MB Laevatein but I've realized that I'd rather just have the model kits. Since it'll be waiting in my Private Warehouse for a while, if anyone wants it or the MB Arbalest, shoot me a PM and I'll let you have them at cost. For the Laevatein, that means 17100 JPY + whatever the shipping to you comes out to be, and for the Arbalest that's $200 + shipping ($215 max). Laevatein: $163.10 + shipping
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    tl;dr - My recc: Zaku II Type C/C-5 Type C/C-5 = newest (of the four), follows the design of the Zaku II from Gundam The Origin, is probably the most "complete" Zaku II from that line (others have little accessories that might not be included here, but most everything is accounted for) Ground War Set = oldest, uses a Zaku II mold from the early/mid-2000s based more on the original anime/08MST design, comes with a bunch of really nice accessories, but everything was designed with some paint work in mind Zaku II Thunderbolt = same as Big Gun kit, but without Big Gun, so don't get this Zaku II Thunderbolt + Big Gun = has a big gun, is based on the Gundam Thunderbolt Zaku II design, which is a hit or miss design depending on who you are, but that Big Gun is really Big and is a Gun If what you want is something that looks half-decent that you can play with, the C-5 is probably your best choice. All of these will require paint to look their best, but the C-5 comes closest to not needing it at all. I'm partial to the Ground War Set because of the close 08MST ties, and I can't stand the Thunderbolt designs, so if I were in your shoes it would be a tossup between the C-5 and the GWS, but I know some people probably wouldn't enjoy the dated design of the GWS Zaku.
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    Is Talking Head related to the Jin-Roh universe at all? Or is it a standalone story? Seems like from what you're saying it was included just because it was one of the three live-action films Oshii directed, and the other two just happened to actually be connected to each other and to Jin-Roh. I watched it again a few months ago and had the complete opposite reaction: I still found it enjoyable. I don't know the context in which the film (and novel? it started out as a novel or series of novels, right?) exists, so I've always just enjoyed it as a classic political thriller set in an alternate-universe Japan. Maybe you're just no longer able to stand the slower pacing, the washed out color palette? I know that watching Oshii's GitS 2 (and even GitS 1, and also revisiting it again a few months later) was a plodding exercise for me. Especially GitS 2. The amount of overt philosophizing that all the characters get up to was frustrating at times in GitS 1, and downright sleep-inducing in GitS 2. (SAC was straight-up awesome, by the by. I know I'm super late to that party, but still.) As for the animation... well, I think it's fine. Not everything needs to be Ghibli, and certainly it's from an era when diversity of style was far more common than it is now. I still think it's great animation work.
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    RA parts kit on sale at HLJ: https://hlj.com/product/ACA82130/Sci
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    What @Slave IV said. The F-16's name is the Fighting Falcon, but going from the F-16 to the F-2 is like going from the regular Hornet (F/A-18A through D) to the Super Hornet (E, F), where the new aircraft gets a serious size-up and resembles the original in basic shape only.
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    The Mitsubishi F-2 is a Japanese fighter based on the F-16 but larger. Think of it as the "Super Hornet" to the F-16's original "Hornet." EDIT:
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    A true single-engine VF!?!? I can't wait to see that thing transformed!
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    After the mess that was the AvP franchise, I was really skeptical of Predators, but that one turned out to be incredibly enjoyable, and this one looks just as good, so I'm allowing myself to be hyped. Both tweaked (or seems to have tweaked, in the case of The Predator) with the Predator formula in a way the other movies didn't, which makes them stand out amongst the crowd.
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    FMP Episode 9, done.
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    Hi-Metal R

    kajnrig replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    The forum telling me this was a hot thread made me assume some hot new release must've been announced. I'm guessing based on a quick perusal of the last few posts, that's decidedly not the case?
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    Phew. I'm guessing no one here saw this this weekend? I just got back, and I gotta say, if you don't see this... ...you won't miss much. It's not bad, it's not particularly good, its just here to do its job and collect a paycheck. It's made the leap completely from grounded, speculative science fiction to loose sci-fi fantasy, even more so than the last movie. It doesn't do anything that the earlier movies haven't already done. It continues the last movie's trend of finally executing on plot ideas that had been bandied about for decades now... ...but also continues the last movie's trend of not doing so very intelligently, instead favoring mass appeal. Oh well. It is what it is. You'll probably enjoy it if you see it, but your life won't be any poorer if you don't.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Maybe I read it wrong, but I thought they received only the courtesy warning email and their account was not yet deactivated?
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    With more and more Gunpla being distributed internationally for prices more and more comparable to local Japan prices, it's getting harder for me to justify purchasing Gunpla from them. But since my Gunpla collecting has gone down and my other kit collecting has gone way way up, I still have plenty of reason to buy from them. Plus all the other weird Japanese things that they stock, and their customer service, etc., they're still and will remain my first stop.
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    Indeed they do. Nice clean cutting, too (at least from this distance lol). Did you just print the decal image? Or did you try/have to clean up the image first in Photoshop/etc.? I'm considering going through all of the scans here and making "clean" versions of them, but I don't know if it would be worth the effort if you can get basically the same quality just by printing the scanned image.
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