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    ... I haven't seen any of season 3 yet, but I'm guessing its reached that point in the novels? Nobody saw it coming in the novels either.
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    Well thanks to my vacation and memorial day off I was able to get through a chunk of my haul. Bodacious Space Pirates- Great show! I really loved the pacing. You could see really where other shows would have wasted time and stretched a handful of episodes like the initial training cruise arc into an entire season, but BSP just keeps rolling along at a brisk pace. The characters are all memorable too, and they interact great together, and no one comes off as annoying. If there's anything bad its that the ending left me waiting with anticipation for the movie coming out soon. Cobra Space Adventure- This is the feature film rerelease from discotek, and I have to say they did a heck of a job remastering it. My only complaint is that its fairly brief and doesn't always make clear what is going on. It also has that classic 60-70s trippy visual effects at times. Allison & Lillia series 2- I can't state enough how much of a classic this show is. If you liked Porrco Rosso or alternate history novels set around pre WWII this is perfect for you. Castle of Cagliostro- Epic classic, and probably my top Ghibli film. I doubt I can say anymore than has already been said. Mad Bull 34- This is one of those bad shows that is so bad it ends up being insanely entertaining. Especially if you watch the dub. The last episode is also rather entertaining for the sheer amount of references to 80s american pop culture with thing like robocop, airwolf, predator, alien, and Lethal Weapon. Be warned though, there are boobies, and women aren't exactly shown in a possitive light. They come in three flavors hooker, psychob****, or rape victim. I would be embaressed if this show wasn't so bat **** crazy and over the top. Where else are you going to find a NYPD officer that looks like Mike Hagger wearing the powerloader from aliens fighting the predator in the middle of Yankee Stadium? Shin Getter Robo Vs Neo Getter Robo- I'm about half way through this OVA series, and finding it very entertaining. Its a bit of a adjustment given that my only other experience with Getter was the very dark Armageddon(which was good in its own different way). As I understand it this series is closer to what the regular Getter Robo is, and that's not bad. I'm really enjoying the two hot heads from the different robo's arguing over who can take more pain, and who has suffered the most injuries, when they aren't smacking each other around for the hell of it. On a side note, I think I can understand what took it so long to be released in the states, given its vintage of 2000-01 and the very first thing you see is New York with the saurion forces overshadowing the world trade centers before the city is subsiquently blown up in less than two minutes.
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    My only complaint is it was too linear, with very little in the way of replay value.
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    He got his start by also directing plaboy/softcore videos too. Hence the "slow close up as she walks on stairs" or the "slow pan as she lays on a vehicle" shot each film has contained.
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    In Gunsmith Cats, the GT-500 Shelby.
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    So looking at the last two trailers we have a Tex Avery inspired film featuring a crop dusting P-51, a lucha libre GeeBee, and somewhere in there an ENTIRE squadron of F4U corsairs! What's not to like?
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    Well Qwaser is more or less bought just so I can say years later "Yeah remember that horrible, horrible show with the breast milk? I own that.". As for Kampfer I enjoyed the tv series because I saw it as a bit of a parody of several genre's like magical girl, fighting girl clothes shredding, and things like pokemon with the entrails animals. I'm also toying with the idea of doing a panel on ecchi next year covering what it is, how its different from hentai, good shows(Najica and Freezing for example), and bad ones(Qwaser).
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    I dunno I thought that short haired blonde helmswoman from near the end of film was cute and hot.
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    I'm back from AnimeBoston, and here's my yearly haul. Bodacious Space Pirates parts 1+2 Battle Girls: Time Paradox Majikoi: Samurai Girls Cat Planet Cuties(aka Bombshells from heaven) Infinite Stratos Dirty Pair TV part 2 Allison and Lillia part 2(waited from last years AB to get this classic) Simoun Kampfer fur die liebe Qwaser of Sigmata season 1 and 2 Dairugger XV collection 2 Mad Bull 34 Castle of Cagliostro Lupin the 3rd complete first series Space Adventure Cobra feature film Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo Yeah my taste in anime is pretty much all over the place. Anyways I also won a super robot battlecry contest at a mecha panel I attended with the prizes being a pair of balls(RB-79 HGUC), Getter Robo Armageddon, and in something of a gag gift the first part of ADV's Aura Battler Dunbine. Its a joke because I'm not likely to EVER find the rest of the discs now, especially the last one.
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    Well I decided not to get the Petra variant or the Hiroki Yagami figure. Instead I got the pink variant of this...http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?oldscode=84927 Yep, its a Tamaki figure. I didn't know it when I bought it(marked $120 got it for $60) I just really liked the look of it. When I finally took a better look and saw the series and character name all I could think was "Son of ***** was right". Up to this point I didn't own a single Tamaki figure and I've been collecting for ove 10 years.
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    Do you guys think its worth going back and getting the red variant of Petra? I'm not a big fan of paint varian, but its the same price. I'm very close to also pulling the trigger on the Futari ni omakase police woman figure. Its from Hiroki Yagami the G-taste guy, resin, and its only $60. The only problem is there are tons of other things I want to buy, even though I already have the other statue in the set.
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    Not really, but because the series creator is a military history nut its funny to know its all because of a pun. The 501st joint striker wing was created in the series history during 1937 in Spain, and is based on the real life international brigades that fought for the republican forces. The republican battlecry was "No Pasaran!" Hence in Strike Witches "No pants are on!". Another interesting joke is Sanya the Russian. In WWII women pilots in the Soviet airforce were nicknamed "night witches", and it just so happens Sanya is the only night fighter in the unit. Then there's how every major neuroi in the show is based on some type of German, Russian, or American prototype jet or rocket. The original season 1 Neuroi even represent facist Italy and their replacement in season two by an even bigger and worse neuroi cloud is based on Italy's capitulation and the Germans taking over the Italian front.
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    I can't believe a guy before me asked the price and then balked at the $40 price. I wonder if he understood how much this one usually goes for. Anyways off to sleep.
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    I'm attending anime boston right now, and I'm kinda shocked at how the figure world is kinda upside down right now. Good resin complete figures are going for $60-120 and pvc's are going for 150+! Still I did get some good deals like the Petra(funny knights?) Figure, and a queens blade figure of Sigui holding her staff above her head. To close out my figure purchases was a revoltech Leina figure I stubled across for around $40. I'll have pictures in the coming week once the con is over and I'm rested. Soooooooo....... which one of you guys dressed as the SDF-1?
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    I'm at animeboston, and wen to a panel on an analysis of Strike Witches. I always knew there were little things in it based on history, but this went to a whole different level. It even went as far to explain why none of the girls wear pants! Well aside from fanservice reasons.
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    I should be there. I'm bringing a rather interesting knockoff you might want to look at.
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    Will Ferrell just isn't funny. It should tell you something that his best SNL skits were him standng there getting insulted by the other cast members on "celebrity jeopardy".
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    I'm surprised nobody's noticed or commented how the film's opening is a tribute to Raider's of the Lost Ark, and a veiled shot at Prometheus. Nibiru is a part of babylonian and sumatran creation legend, the same legend's that Prometheus drew its imagry from. It just so happens in Star Trek its populated by pale white skinned religious fanatics with black souless eyes. EDIT: It's definatly more than a coincidence considering Lindelof wrote both films... Which might actually explain a few things.
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    In a way I'm somewhat okay with this. As it stands now game companies don't get any money from people who buy used games as opposed to people buying them brand new. What this means is that a company while getting that initial sale, loses a potential customer to a store who ops to buy a used game for 5 bucks cheaper who might have otherwise bought a new copy. Now it seems like they might have more control over the game and still get paid for secondary sales. Downside is of course this system will be abused by microsoft/game companies to artificially dictate prices, and in all likelyhood cut a huge chunk out of gamestop's profit margin killing them in the process.
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    You mean likee what the prequels did to everything else?
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    Yeah if by playing it perfectly means a drug addicted raging alcholic that can't hit crap with a gun unless the person is sitting at a desk two feet across from him, and manages to get EVERYONE under his protection killed(including his boss) while being both too new to the job AND too old for this crap at the same time. Yeah, but who cares about that stuff when look OMG six pack abs and gay innuendo! Seriously though has Daniel Craig ever done a film where he was a raging alcholic or drug addict?
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    We are stuck with him for the next two or three films I believe.
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    See my signature.
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    I just want to say two things... 1.Concerning the rank issue. The person we are talking about didn't get demoted He was relieved of his command, and was intended to serve as first officer under an admiral. 2.Kronos is the official english spelling of klingonese Qo'noS both in universe and out. This dates back to The Undiscovered Country film. A similar concept would be in english Germany with it in German Deutchland.
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    I have to strongly disagree with this concerning the nazi nuclear program, and the Horton. First of all, while the Germans were pioneers in nuclear science the actual Nazi program was a mess. It was underfunded, primitive, and phycisists who should have been involved in it were diverted away into conscription to fight as soldiers on the front lines. By 1942 Hitler was informed it would take 15 to 20 years before they could get an A-bomb, so he cut resources again to go to other weapons projects, and the nuclear program itself shifted its focus to energy production. By 1945 they had one barely working hazardous prototype reactor, that in no way could produce the amount of material needed to make an A-bomb. Much of the heavy water the nazi's were gathering went to said reactor just to make it work as they were using a flawed system. The Germans just didn't have the massive resources in terms of knowledge, manpower, and material to replicate anything near the level of the Manhatten project.As for the Horton HO 229, two months would not have made a difference. If it went into production, it would have suffered the same issues the 262 had with scarce fuel supplies, unreliable engines, and lack of skilled pilots. It would also be worth mentioning that at this point reliable allied jet fighters flown by well trained experience pilots would also be joining the front lines. That being said, Soviet Russia did help bring a quicker end to the war through their stand at Stalingrad.
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