UN Spacy Posted October 27, 2009 Author Share Posted October 27, 2009 They're showing the 2nd movie in San Francisco on November 17th and 18th. http://www.newpeopleworld.com/films/films-11-2009/ Any Bay Area MW'ers wanna go catch it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Interesting. Could this be one of the mystery blu-ray license for next year BV was hinting at this summer.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruskiiVFaussie Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 (edited) *________________________* http://www.hobbyfan.com/product_info.php?products_id=8429 damn... i mean... damn....... Edited October 27, 2009 by ruskiiVFaussie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeyondTheGrave Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Anyone know the music that plays when kamina dies? Also re-watching to figure out if its more epic than goagaigar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macrossnake Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 *________________________* http://www.hobbyfan.com/product_info.php?products_id=8429 damn... i mean... damn....... Damn... it is a resin kit! What is her left hand doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 (edited) While GaoGaiGar did have "Za Powa" Gurren Lagann tops it with "Raw Raw Fight Za Powa!" ergo it wins. Giga Drill Breaker also owns Hell & Heaven, although you do have to give credit to an attack strong enough to damage its user. Also, as Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 proved, Mic Sounders ain't got nuthin' on Nekki Basara. Edited November 15, 2009 by Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 *________________________* http://www.hobbyfan.com/product_info.php?products_id=8429 damn... i mean... damn....... Truly epic, the ass crack totally makes that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFTF1 Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 I'm gonna pass. Why would Yoko lick the muzzle of her gun? Has she dissasembled it? In any case, I can't really find a logical basis in her sexiness beyond someone saying "let's have her lick this gun muzzle." Not like the 1/5 Yoko which has a logical basis - namely she's fixing her hair (I can imagine she actually does that, while I find it hard to concieve of her licking her gun's muzzle). As for the ass crack - it's on the 1/5, and as soon as I have the 1/8 Yoko Litner sniper statue in hand I'll also know if it's there. Anyways....I'd sooner want to get the Space-suit Yoko to this one. Although I do think the jacket is sexy. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruskiiVFaussie Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 You fail.. Pete, you fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFTF1 Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Well...I have to try to save myself here First - I'm not by any stretch of the imagination arguing that this is a poorly done figure. On the contrary - unlike "realistic" Yoko, this one strikes me as being very well done, an excellent and playful representation. That said - a statue, since it is in a fixed pose, ought - in my opinion - to try to capture the spirit of the character in any fixed pose it takes. I just don't really remember Yoko as being the licking type. She didn't have any over phallophilic tendencies in the show beyond a natural heterosexual attraction to Kamina. And while one can argue that there was clearly an esoteric phallic symbolism in her wielding of a big gun - it was always esoteric and it was equally an attempt at underscoring her "manliness" as it was an attempt at putting a beautiful girl together with a phallic symbol (for proof, notice the little gun she gave Kamina, to underscore how "little" of a man he was in terms of firearms, and also notice how happy Kamina is when Yoko lets him use the big gun, and he manages to shoot a bird with it). Anyways - the point is... I just doesn't see Yoko doing what this statue depicts. WHY would she be licking her gun? In fact, they might as well just do an al out pornographic statue with her licking something else - THAT I could see her doing. But her gun? No. Second of all - I'm not quite certain as to whether the statue is an artistic vision or whether she has actually dissassembled her gun and is holding what I might mistakenly be calling the muzzle? In any case - the tip of the gun? Now...where is the other end? The muzzle is very VERY loooong. But she seems to be holding only the upper 1/3 of it. So... what happened to the rest? I would be more thrilled at this statue if it were a bit more imaginative - for instance - "Arctic Yoko." Have her dressed up in sexy winter apparel and have her surprised to find that her tongue is stuck to the frozen gun muzzle. That would be funny and sexy. As such - this statue confuses me. Finally - perhaps if I were a Yoko statue completist, then none of this would bother me, but given the bad economy and the cost of such things, since I have decided to purchase Yoko statues, I am distriminating. I have two statues thus far and if I do get a third one - I'd like to get "space Yoko" .... sadly I can't find a link to the space Yoko statue. She's a big more pronounced in terms of her ass and her breasts in that one, no doubt due to her having aged. But this in no way detracts, in my view, from her desirability. anyways... failing comes naturally to me Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miriya Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 What is her left hand doing? Her left hand is "guiding". lucky gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFTF1 Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 ...There also doesn't seem to be a zipper on those unzipping boots, whereas other statues and the animation model has a zipper... Pete being a bit of a spoil sport...I know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UN Spacy Posted November 15, 2009 Author Share Posted November 15, 2009 Logical basis? KICK ALL REASON TO THE CURB!!! THAT'S THE DAI-GURREN WAY!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFTF1 Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Logical basis? KICK ALL REASON TO THE CURB!!! THAT'S THE DAI-GURREN WAY!!! I... cannot argue with that. You're right. I guess I can chalk it up to a Yoko licking fantasy dream... But that brings me to another point... she looks somehow...I dunno...like...not erotic...she looks more playful and giddy than she does erotic... It's like somebody said "hey - let's make a practical joke - lick this gun muzzle" ... and she thought it was all funny... I dunno... it's not like the 1/5 yoko where she's doing an everyday thing (fixing her hair) and manages to just look sexy doing it... Here there's too much effort... Although... you do raise a point...namely...the extent to which reason often tells us what is impossible and therefore serves the anti-spirals rather than showing us the infinity of possibilities... Maybe I need to learn to love this statue? Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeyondTheGrave Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 While GaoGaiGar did have "Za Powa" Gurren Lagann tops it with "Raw Raw Fight Za Powa!" ergo it wins. Giga Drill Breaker also owns Hell & Heaven, although you do have to give credit to an attack strong enough to damage its user. Also, as Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 proved, Mic Sounders ain't got nuthin' on Nekki Basara. But what happens when the Goldion Hammer -Hikari Ni Nare is performed against a Giga Drill Breaker? Does this solve the The Unstoppable Force(Gurren Lagann) Versus The Immovable Object(GaoGaiGar) question?!! Also Mic Sounders The 13th was created to combine with Nekki Basara so that culture could be spread across the universe and all who resist received Disc X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beltane70 Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Pete's just jealous cause she's not licking HIS gun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jam2983 Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 They're showing the 2nd movie in San Francisco on November 17th and 18th. http://www.newpeopleworld.com/films/films-11-2009/ Any Bay Area MW'ers wanna go catch it? I just brought my tickets. Going to the Wed 5 o'clock showing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruskiiVFaussie Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 (edited) I... cannot argue with that. You're right. I guess I can chalk it up to a Yoko licking fantasy dream... But that brings me to another point... she looks somehow...I dunno...like...not erotic...she looks more playful and giddy than she does erotic... It's like somebody said "hey - let's make a practical joke - lick this gun muzzle" ... and she thought it was all funny... I dunno... it's not like the 1/5 yoko where she's doing an everyday thing (fixing her hair) and manages to just look sexy doing it... Here there's too much effort... Although... you do raise a point...namely...the extent to which reason often tells us what is impossible and therefore serves the anti-spirals rather than showing us the infinity of possibilities... Maybe I need to learn to love this statue? Pete wtf man someone has gotta kick you out of your Yoko licking denial state!!! holy crap *slap slap slap* wake up this statue owns! but needs to be PVC. ohh and we need Sheryl licking a to scale Gunpod. either that or Misa, she needs to let loose. Edited November 17, 2009 by ruskiiVFaussie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFTF1 Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Her left hand is "guiding". huh.gif lucky gun. Pete's just jealous cause she's not licking HIS gun! At the risk of giving too much away, I'm not jealous of the licking - but rather...the guiding. wtf man someone has gotta kick you out of your Yoko licking denial state!!! holy crap *slap slap slap* wake up this statue owns! but needs to be PVC. Hm. On that note - am I to understand that being a resin statue, gun-guiding, gun-licking Yoko needs to be pre-assembled before looking good? I hope they don't expect me to paint it. Yeah - PVC would be preferable to something you need to assemble... Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFTF1 Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 UUuu... I made the "mistake" last night of deciding to watch "just one" episode of Gurren Lagann before going to bed...as you can imagine, it is impossible for me to watch "just one" episode of this anime, so I ended up watching half the series before passing out That said.... I think I've discovered my all time favorite part in the entire show: I LOVE episode 11's ending - where Simon accepts himself as he is and scares the crap out of Guam with his speech about being Simon the Digger before kicking ass. That scene is like my all time favorite. What about you guys? Do you have any scenes or parts of this anime which are amazing for you? Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 (edited) I don't think I can pick just one specific part, it's all so freakin' awesome. The first Giga Drill breaker, the super telegrpahed and yet incredibly sad each time death of Kamina, Viral finding out episodes later that Kamina is dead and that he'd been losing to Simone, the first Giga Drill Breaker, Rossiu & the village elder (whom I still say is his father) sharring a laugh at the realization their holy book was just a bunch of scribbles, the epicly melancholy enidng, and of course episode 26 when Renton & Eureka re-enact second episode of Macross....oh wait a minute Edited November 26, 2009 by Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 At the risk of giving too much away, I'm not jealous of the licking - but rather...the guiding. Hm. On that note - am I to understand that being a resin statue, gun-guiding, gun-licking Yoko needs to be pre-assembled before looking good? I hope they don't expect me to paint it. Yeah - PVC would be preferable to something you need to assemble... Pete The price says to me PVC, but we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFTF1 Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 whom I still say is his father I don't want to bring back a debate that was totally incomprehensible to me - but is there anything in the Japanese that implies OTHERWISE? My fansubs explicitly translate it into "father" a couple times and I never got the impression that the dude wasn't his dad - I mean - especially given what Rossiu looks like in the last episode, it would be absurd to stipulate that that is just coincidence. Renton & Eureka re-enact second episode of Macross....oh wait a minute Reference to...? sorry, but my ignorance of anime is showing again ---------- Anyways - yeah - I agree about how every scene is awesome - but I have always liked that scene in episode 11 best because I guess I just love Nia and Simon's relationship - I love how she takes Kamina's place and does a better job of it, and how that's such a natural progression for a young boy to go from being cared for by his big bro' to being loved by a beautiful girl. And it's as if all the tension that had been building since episode 1 just explodes and Simon really becomes who he is. But yeah... hard to nit pick when there isn't a scene or episode that isn't somewhow awesome. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Memory's going faulty in my old age, it was actually episode 26, and the series was Eureka Seven, something that should also be on your watch list. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05YsK4LjOkc...feature=related At around the 2 minute mark of this clip, you'll see what I mean, though the scene loses some impact without the series build-up, and unfortunately, I can only find a dub clip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFTF1 Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 something that should also be on your watch list. Thanks. I'm leaving my rustic isolated country farm today and going into the city where I can get a clearer signal for internet connection and am planning on downloading as much Galaxy Express 999 as possible. So if there isn't already a thread for it...I might just have to start it I'll see the youtube clip then too. And to end on an on-topic note: I hope that gun licking Yoko is a PVC. I've warmed to her. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFTF1 Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Wow Question: What sounds better than Row Row Fight the Power? Answer: 1. Open two Youtube windows with this song in each window. 2. Move the song in one window to 2:30 seconds - hit play 3. Simulataneously hit play from 0:00 seconds on the second copy of the song in the second wind. LISTEN. That is frickin' awesome. They overlap PERFECTLY and do it in a way that just makes this song doubly amazing! When the first song (started from 2:30 time) ENDS - start it again - the first one (which started at 0:00) will be at 2:30! And it loops! And it can go on forever like this! And it's great Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Hmm, have you tried mixing in Blue Monday E*r*ectrical Parade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeyondTheGrave Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 When Lord Genome brings out Razengan and powers it using his concubines. That and the ballad of Lord Genome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkullLeaderVF-X Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 (edited) Okay I just finished watching the series for the first time and.....Wow. This series definitly goes into my all time favorites. I did not think I was going to enjoy it as much as I did. I loved the ending yet still kinda hated it (if that makes sense) I mean I feel it's so sad that Simon rescues Nia from the anti-spirals, they get married (finally) and then she disapears. Then Simon leaves, and lives the life of a nomad by himself and Boota. I wish he could have stayed with Nia forever. I was also sad that alot of the team died. Many of them manly brave deaths (Kittan), but still. But still the final few episodes brought tears to my eyes. Now are the movies different from the t.v series, and are they officially available in the US? God I love this series so much now Edited December 2, 2009 by SkullLeaderVF-X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFTF1 Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 (edited) Welcome aboard to the Dai Gurren Dan!!! Glad to hea new people are watching this for the first time! There's nothing better than seeing this for the first time! Pete Edited December 2, 2009 by VFTF1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkullLeaderVF-X Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Welcome aboard to the Dai Gurren Dan!!! Glad to hea new people are watching this for the first time! There's nothing better than seeing this for the first time! Pete It was just...just ...Wow. It was so awesome. I hadn't seen a new series that made me feel the way Gurren Lagann did in a long time that wasnt a Macross series. The twists and turns in story telling. And the finale. Am so in love with this series. I want more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFTF1 Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Yeah, when I first sat down to watch Gurren Lagann - I certainl wasn't expecting to have a life-shattering experience. And you know what was the best about it? Up until I watched Gurren Lagann, I thought all of the coolest things were things that I'd already seen. You know? Like - the childhood you can "never go back to" but can only nostalgically enjoy. It's like - you've seen it all, and it was all in the past and the future is just about enjoying and re-living the past... Then BAM!! Gurren Lagann just blew me away. I felt like I was 9 years old again and I felt the excitement of seeing the cartoons I watched for the very first time back then - and man was it a good feeling. I was SO happy that something like Gurren Lagann was produced NOW - not 20 years ago - and it was really like rejuvinating. Like proving that life still has plenty of awesome surprises ahead! It was like - we were kids when all of the now classic famous stuff was made - but to be a conscious adult when a new classic of the genre is made is very exciting. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkullLeaderVF-X Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 (edited) Yeah, when I first sat down to watch Gurren Lagann - I certainl wasn't expecting to have a life-shattering experience. And you know what was the best about it? Up until I watched Gurren Lagann, I thought all of the coolest things were things that I'd already seen. You know? Like - the childhood you can "never go back to" but can only nostalgically enjoy. It's like - you've seen it all, and it was all in the past and the future is just about enjoying and re-living the past... Then BAM!! Gurren Lagann just blew me away. I felt like I was 9 years old again and I felt the excitement of seeing the cartoons I watched for the very first time back then - and man was it a good feeling. I was SO happy that something like Gurren Lagann was produced NOW - not 20 years ago - and it was really like rejuvinating. Like proving that life still has plenty of awesome surprises ahead! It was like - we were kids when all of the now classic famous stuff was made - but to be a conscious adult when a new classic of the genre is made is very exciting. Pete That was exactly the feeling. When I sat down, I was, okay lets see whats this is about. I hope it's okay. Then as soon as I started watching it. It was like I was 10yearold all over again. I got a marathon going. Watching all 27 episodes non stop. Because I wanted to see how it all turned out.Man, I havent felt that way with a anime series since Evangelion and the there movies. I'm happy that this series is around. Like I said it goes with my top anime picks. I just wish the ending was a little different. I mean it is a great ending, but to me it was still so sad. Edited December 2, 2009 by SkullLeaderVF-X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFTF1 Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Ok - well: the ending wasn't sad!! You only feel that way because it's the anti-spiral in your talking. The Anti-spirals would like nothing more than for you to think "well damn that was pointless. He rescues the girl he loves, marries her, and she disintergrates and dies on his wedding day and he ends up burrying her next to his dead brother and becomes a nobody ho-bo. Life is pointless. There's no reason to reach for the stars." But that's not how it ends. Does the fact that Nia is dead somehow mean that the passion of her love for Simon or Simon's love for her never existed or is dead? Love lives on in memories - and Simon's love lives on. And it will never die - even when he is gone, his legacy - and the legacy of the spiral will live on in the universe. It's not a sad ending. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkullLeaderVF-X Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Ok - well: the ending wasn't sad!! You only feel that way because it's the anti-spiral in your talking. The Anti-spirals would like nothing more than for you to think "well damn that was pointless. He rescues the girl he loves, marries her, and she disintergrates and dies on his wedding day and he ends up burrying her next to his dead brother and becomes a nobody ho-bo. Life is pointless. There's no reason to reach for the stars." But that's not how it ends. Does the fact that Nia is dead somehow mean that the passion of her love for Simon or Simon's love for her never existed or is dead? Love lives on in memories - and Simon's love lives on. And it will never die - even when he is gone, his legacy - and the legacy of the spiral will live on in the universe. It's not a sad ending. Pete Yes it is....Well more like bitter-sweet. There love transcended time and space. And there love will never die. I agree. But still. It's sad that Simon and Nia wont have kids, grow old together, and do all things that two people whoes love is so pure do.That he, Simon, has to wait until he dies to be together again, with her and Bro' and the rest of the guys. I find the ending sad, yet fitting. Damn this series really touches you, when you get in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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