[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 14 May 2025 - 12:58 PM, said:

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX episode 5 & 6:

Are Machu, Nyaan, and Shuji a throuple? I'm not complaining, but the two girls just competitively got into their skivvies to lay on the "cold metal" of the Gundam with Shuji when he said that it felt nice...and then Machu was mad that Nyaan saw the Kira-Kira lights when she connected to the Omega Psychommu as she felt that was just for her and Shuji...feels like it's headed that way. Which is actually more interesting than just a love triangle.

GUNDAM IS ABOUT GIANT ROBOTS SHOOTING THINGS DAMMIT

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 14 May 2025 - 01:45 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 14 May 2025 - 12:58 PM, said:

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX episode 5 & 6:

Are Machu, Nyaan, and Shuji a throuple? I'm not complaining, but the two girls just competitively got into their skivvies to lay on the "cold metal" of the Gundam with Shuji when he said that it felt nice...and then Machu was mad that Nyaan saw the Kira-Kira lights when she connected to the Omega Psychommu as she felt that was just for her and Shuji...feels like it's headed that way. Which is actually more interesting than just a love triangle.

GUNDAM IS ABOUT GIANT ROBOTS SHOOTING THINGS DAMMIT

Oh it's got tonnes of that too. LOL

[D'rek]

After the execs got so mad that they wrote lesbians in G-Witch surely they are monitoring GQuackX with an iron fist to not let anything remotely progressive happen in it, right?

[QuickTidal]

D, on 14 May 2025 - 02:10 PM, said:

After the execs got so mad that they wrote lesbians in G-Witch surely they are monitoring GQuackX with an iron fist to not let anything remotely progressive happen in it, right?

That was Kadokawa though (not Sunrise), and they are not involved with this new show. Plus I would expect that Anno has SIGNIFICANTLY more pull behind his name than Hiroshi Kobayashi had with Kadokawa being prudish.

[D'rek]

QuickTidal, on 14 May 2025 - 02:24 PM, said:

D, on 14 May 2025 - 02:10 PM, said:

After the execs got so mad that they wrote lesbians in G-Witch surely they are monitoring GQuackX with an iron fist to not let anything remotely progressive happen in it, right?

That was Kadokawa though (not Sunrise), and they are not involved with this new show. Plus I would expect that Anno has SIGNIFICANTLY more pull behind his name than Hiroshi Kobayashi had with Kadokawa being prudish.

Hmm I don't know, it's the same Anno who said Studio Khara would be directly involved with ensuring the Evangelion translations were correct went it got re-licensed to streaming companies and then Netflix changed Kaworu saying he loved Shinji into just liking and "being worthy" instead.

Besides, Anno isn't the director or lead writer on GQuackers so his opinion/clout probably doesn't matter much here.

[Maark Abbott]

QuickTidal, on 14 May 2025 - 11:27 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 14 May 2025 - 07:39 AM, said:

Yeah, no. Never make that comparison again.

It's mostly a sports / running show.

Yes, there's a bit of the idol stuff here and there but Cinderella Grey especially is all about running, rivalry and that sort of thing. The little bit of idol stuff there is gets played for laughs because Oguri is spectacularly bad at it which becomes a running joke.

Your Forma this season has been interesting. Sort of ID Invaded but focused on AI / Automatons etc. Would recommend.

[QuickTidal]

D, on 14 May 2025 - 09:11 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 14 May 2025 - 02:24 PM, said:

D, on 14 May 2025 - 02:10 PM, said:

After the execs got so mad that they wrote lesbians in G-Witch surely they are monitoring GQuackX with an iron fist to not let anything remotely progressive happen in it, right?

That was Kadokawa though (not Sunrise), and they are not involved with this new show. Plus I would expect that Anno has SIGNIFICANTLY more pull behind his name than Hiroshi Kobayashi had with Kadokawa being prudish.

Hmm I don't know, it's the same Anno who said Studio Khara would be directly involved with ensuring the Evangelion translations were correct went it got re-licensed to streaming companies and then Netflix changed Kaworu saying he loved Shinji into just liking and "being worthy" instead.

Besides, Anno isn't the director or lead writer on GQuackers so his opinion/clout probably doesn't matter much here.

Khara is all old school Gainax people though...people who cut their teeth in the industry under Anno's direct supervision on Eva, FLCL ect..and he's written and storyboarded two of the existing episodes, and the dude writing the rest is Yoji Enokido who is Anno's protege from his Gainax days.


Re: Eva Netflix: It can be translated as "I love you". It's literally in the dictionary definition ("liking (romantically); being in love with; beloved"), and it's still translated as "I love you" in the Netflix version when Kaworu says that he represents the words "I love you". Translating it either way is fine. It's actually the most common way to confess your romantic feelings for someone in Japanese. Anno, in an extensive interview with yaoi magazine, said that Satsukawa was "right on the mark when it came to homoeroticism", and that there was nothing wrong with the earlier drafts (where Shinji and Kaworu kiss, for example), although some of the more racy elements had to be toned down because the producers at the time would not allow it (ex: skinny dipping turned into time at the baths).

I'm not saying that Anno has some master smackdown clout with everyone involved, just that this is not the same situation as Witch of Mercury by a long shot, and Anno and Kara history speaks to more progressive tendencies than not.


Nevermind, See my other reply.

Maark Abbott, on 15 May 2025 - 07:44 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 14 May 2025 - 11:27 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 14 May 2025 - 07:39 AM, said:

Yeah, no. Never make that comparison again.

It's mostly a sports / running show.

Yes, there's a bit of the idol stuff here and there but Cinderella Grey especially is all about running, rivalry and that sort of thing. The little bit of idol stuff there is gets played for laughs because Oguri is spectacularly bad at it which becomes a running joke.

Your Forma this season has been interesting. Sort of ID Invaded but focused on AI / Automatons etc. Would recommend.

I'm mostly teasing you.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 15 May 2025 - 05:09 PM

[QuickTidal]

D'rek, I take back what I said..episode 6 has it as a regular ass love triangle with Machu just complaining about Nyaan "stealing Shuji" now, and not a throuple. So you are likely right and they've avoided the progressiveness. Sigh. Oh well.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 15 May 2025 - 05:09 PM

[Maark Abbott]

QuickTidal, on 15 May 2025 - 12:09 PM, said:

D, on 14 May 2025 - 09:11 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 14 May 2025 - 02:24 PM, said:

D, on 14 May 2025 - 02:10 PM, said:

After the execs got so mad that they wrote lesbians in G-Witch surely they are monitoring GQuackX with an iron fist to not let anything remotely progressive happen in it, right?

That was Kadokawa though (not Sunrise), and they are not involved with this new show. Plus I would expect that Anno has SIGNIFICANTLY more pull behind his name than Hiroshi Kobayashi had with Kadokawa being prudish.

Hmm I don't know, it's the same Anno who said Studio Khara would be directly involved with ensuring the Evangelion translations were correct went it got re-licensed to streaming companies and then Netflix changed Kaworu saying he loved Shinji into just liking and "being worthy" instead.

Besides, Anno isn't the director or lead writer on GQuackers so his opinion/clout probably doesn't matter much here.

Khara is all old school Gainax people though...people who cut their teeth in the industry under Anno's direct supervision on Eva, FLCL ect..and he's written and storyboarded two of the existing episodes, and the dude writing the rest is Yoji Enokido who is Anno's protege from his Gainax days.


Re: Eva Netflix: It can be translated as "I love you". It's literally in the dictionary definition ("liking (romantically); being in love with; beloved"), and it's still translated as "I love you" in the Netflix version when Kaworu says that he represents the words "I love you". Translating it either way is fine. It's actually the most common way to confess your romantic feelings for someone in Japanese. Anno, in an extensive interview with yaoi magazine, said that Satsukawa was "right on the mark when it came to homoeroticism", and that there was nothing wrong with the earlier drafts (where Shinji and Kaworu kiss, for example), although some of the more racy elements had to be toned down because the producers at the time would not allow it (ex: skinny dipping turned into time at the baths).

I'm not saying that Anno has some master smackdown clout with everyone involved, just that this is not the same situation as Witch of Mercury by a long shot, and Anno and Kara history speaks to more progressive tendencies than not.


Nevermind, See my other reply.

Maark Abbott, on 15 May 2025 - 07:44 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 14 May 2025 - 11:27 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 14 May 2025 - 07:39 AM, said:

Yeah, no. Never make that comparison again.

It's mostly a sports / running show.

Yes, there's a bit of the idol stuff here and there but Cinderella Grey especially is all about running, rivalry and that sort of thing. The little bit of idol stuff there is gets played for laughs because Oguri is spectacularly bad at it which becomes a running joke.

Your Forma this season has been interesting. Sort of ID Invaded but focused on AI / Automatons etc. Would recommend.

I'm mostly teasing you.

There's teasing and then there's levying the B-word against someone. They are... a whole thing, and a fandom to be avoided at all costs!

[QuickTidal]

Hehe, noted.

[Tsundoku]

Watching "I Parry Everything" on Hianime.

Quite fun, if a little simple and extremely farcical at times.