uscmCorps Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 What the hell? There's a new, new Ghost in the Shell?!? If they were gonna expand it to a full fledged series why the hell did they even bother producing the OVAs? Any more info? Link to post Share on other sites
-Drake- Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 The series its a re-hash of the OVA's and is apparently extended in some way. The first episode has segments from one of the later OVA's rather than the first, so I'm not sure what way they're working them in... Link to post Share on other sites
uscmCorps Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 The Arise OVA series had a lot of potential. The third and last episodes were very disappointing and anticlimactic. Link to post Share on other sites
renegadecow Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Just watched the first episode aaand... it's the exact same content as the first half of the 4th OVA! I take it episode two will be the second half. I don't know what to think about it, it's like TM making recolored variations of their guns. Link to post Share on other sites
renegadecow Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 And now that new Suzumiya anime without Suzumiya in it just put Suzumiya in as of episode 2. Link to post Share on other sites
Gunmane Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Sigh, I haven't really gotten into anything lately besides random mangas, and most of those either ended or were axed. I miss my airsoft animes... As for GITS, where is that replica rifle talked about a few months back? Link to post Share on other sites
T3CH Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 I KNEW IT! Also finally the AK47 reveal Link to post Share on other sites
Gunmane Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Yes, we got a snippet of glorious Red Steel High before it shifted back to Sensei. You can tell the mangaka is still going with a passion for "the ebil east" by mentioning the bankruptcy that is already been dealt with the pseudo-privatization of IZHMASH and other matters. What I don't get is this: From what we have seen before, the Guns can be injured and whatnot, but we have never seen one bleed in the way Sensei did when he was shot. However, it has been established that Sensei did not suffer actual damage because "he is human." Yet, now his is supposedly a Browning design (I've heard some folks saying he is the BAR), but that would mean that the bleedout would have continued back then because as a "gun" he would have been critically injured, right? Did the author just go and retcon his character for some reason, or is he stumbling because he had Sensei's name kept unknown for so long in order to make it plot relevant someday and jumped at the chance to make Sensei be a gun despite previous plot saying otherwise? I get the feeling the author is going to try and put in the "west paved the way for Kalash" story, which I despise because really any gun design can have influence and characteristics of another and there is no reason to attribute everything to everyone else but the folks who actually developed something (yes, I am one of the folks who attributes the Kalashnikov rifle design to a group of people alongside Kalashnikov but still gives respect to him as well for his spirit in the process). Anyways, I gots to see RPK-san again and see more Red Steel folks (who I vainly tried to guess each of them during the confrontation), so yay. I did expect SKS to be different though for some reason. It was interesting that there seemed to be concern with Vz 58 going along as well on the venture. Also, is it just me or is the author (or more likely the translators) getting more edgy with language? Lots of F's flying around now for some reason. Link to post Share on other sites
T3CH Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 Hmm bit of google fu found this "The design influences are accepted openly, even by Kalashnikov himself. As any firearms designer will know, much of his work is compilative - even more so when all the designers are considered comrades working towards the same goal. There were a plethora of sources for imitation, including open borrows from Browning, Remington and Sudaev (who died before finishing his entry to the same project), and controversial borrows from Bulkin (the main competitor at trials) and other competitors." Maybe he's a human with some relation to Browning himself? Link to post Share on other sites
renegadecow Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 I wouldn't give too much thought into it. I mean, the whole premise is a bunch of guns being personified as young girls. As much as I painfully went through the TV series, all it's really for is to satisfy gun otakus. Discrepancies in plot and mythology are irrelevant. But yes, I think the teacher is actually THE Browning and not merely a gun made by him. On a side note, the new GITS blows. As expected, episode 2 is the 2nd half of the last OVA and the preview reveals the 3rd episode will be the first OVA by means of a flashback. Regarding the replica by Laylax, they now have physical models, but no other details yet. Personally I think it's fugly. http://www.popularairsoft.com/news/laylax-ghost-shell-arise-rifle Link to post Share on other sites
T3CH Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 The proportions of that laylax thing look way off. Link to post Share on other sites
renegadecow Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 GITS guns or rather Masamune Shirow guns have always been messed up when it comes to proportions. Just look at the old C26A from SAC. Pretty neat looking gun until you realize the area between the trigger finger and thumb web is only about an inch long. Link to post Share on other sites
NeoVeNoM Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 GITS guns or rather Masamune Shirow guns have always been messed up when it comes to proportions. Just look at the old C26A from SAC. Pretty neat looking gun until you realize the area between the trigger finger and thumb web is only about an inch long. Wished someone would bring back the poseidon MN-23 as a nice complete detailed AEG. Link to post Share on other sites
T3CH Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 Someone has chapter 61 of upotte translated. And what the hell is going on here?! Aaaaah I get it HK32 uses AK47 mags and rounds. Link to post Share on other sites
Gunmane Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 I lol'd at one of the comments regarding the chapter and HK32. The HK32 uses it's own magazines though (but this is a manga and thus most magazines end up looking the same, the vz.58 magazine for example had me suspect). VZ.58 was pretty much boss (got the whole "stern bodyguard friend vibe), now I wish it wasn't ares making one.... Also, the author does like to go for fragment damage to the face a lot now. I get the feeling that the author is going to go for "invade Red Steel High and prove the West is Best in final showdown" scenario now, even though really just having him visit shouldn't be so blown up, but that is what the author is going for. For some reason lately I find myself having three mangas that are basically slice of life/rom on tab that I go read a few chapters of throughout the day, kinda nice from just reading one thing in a blitz. Link to post Share on other sites
-Drake- Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 Soo I've kinda had to time to catch up on a few of the newer shows that started recently. Only a couple stand out though. Namely kekkai Sensen, which is hilarious and awesome. I recommend it if you like awesome animated fights, slapstick and monsters. Also more Knight of Sidonia season 2, which has grown on me even if it is taking a bit of a weird turn. Besides those DanMachi is also pretty good if a little service heavy at times. Link to post Share on other sites
aznriptide859 Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 Just finished Death Parade, I cried so much at the end. Must recommend everyone to watch. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to post Share on other sites
renegadecow Posted May 16, 2015 Report Share Posted May 16, 2015 Knight of Sidonia season 2 My brother kept urging me to watch it and the moment I got through the first episode I understood why. It's like a cross between Battlestar Galactica and Shingeki no Kyojin. Link to post Share on other sites
T3CH Posted May 16, 2015 Report Share Posted May 16, 2015 Watching Etotama and loving it so far, the battle animation is particularly high quality. Link to post Share on other sites
aznriptide859 Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 *squeals* Link to post Share on other sites
kot7 Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 My brother kept urging me to watch it and the moment I got through the first episode I understood why. It's like a cross between Battlestar Galactica and Shingeki no Kyojin. Strongly recomend to watch 2-nd season with a bottle of vodka... Link to post Share on other sites
Gunmane Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 I recently read most of a series translated as Imperial Guards, and it wasn't until I was back at the site page that I realized the author was the person behind HOTD. Part of me went "how does he go from this epic war series with a good mc, emotion, etc. to "that" " XD I heartily recommend it. Wish I could read the light novels, as supposedly the manga is only 5 volumes. Link to post Share on other sites
renegadecow Posted July 14, 2015 Report Share Posted July 14, 2015 Prison School. That is all. Link to post Share on other sites
Gunmane Posted July 19, 2015 Report Share Posted July 19, 2015 Apparently there is another survival game series airing now Aoharu x Machinegun. I watched the first episode just now. It seems to be a middle ground between C3-bu's mechanic explanations (and actual bb's being used) and Sabagebu's sound effects. Got that matrix bullet time nonsense as well. Not sure if it can be jokingly called the Free! of survival game series (not counting the MC). Link to post Share on other sites
kot7 Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 i'll just leave this here: http://everlastingsummer.su/en/ Link to post Share on other sites
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