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jl07045



Joined: 30 Aug 2011
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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 2018 7:50 am Reply with quote
chronos02 wrote:
As for "Stay Night", I'm pretty sure Nasu mentioned something related to how in most routes, a character stays the night with the MC, something which essentialy "seals" the path of one of the routes (Saber staying in shirow's house, Rin stayng there too on that route, Illya, staying too, etc.), with the "true ending" having almost every heroine staying the night in the Emiya residence.

"Stay/night" is the title of the climax part of the fate route with the final fights. More importantly it's the part where Shirou has to make the choice whether to make Saber stay with him or let her go. You can guess three times which part of the day it all happens in. It's Engrish, and Nasu likes slashes a looot, but it's def not nonsensical.
Fate can obviously refer to any number of things related to the main themes of the novel.
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RogerSmith2004



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 2018 10:23 am Reply with quote
Gatherum wrote:
I'm surprised Ergo Proxy isn't on this list. Even Dai Sato himself admitted that he chose the name because, "It's cool".

The anime itself is cool so this is completely okay but yeah. :V


Ergo Proxy is in reference to the ergo cogito sum, "I think therefore I am", connecting to Vincent's search for self discovery within the show.
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Javelin401



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 2018 2:01 pm Reply with quote
I would have liked to vote for the Puma Sisters from "Dominion Tank Police" (First Cat-Girls I remember seeing in an Anime!) (M'Ress from the animated Star Trek probably does not count here!)
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Polycell



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 2018 2:41 pm Reply with quote
There's an option to add a name to the list right there at the bottom. Each person can only add one, though.
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Vanadise



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 2018 3:03 pm Reply with quote
Actually, you can add more than one if you add one, then go back and edit your selections and add another, since you can select up to three.

Which, coincidentally, is how I corrected the list by adding Kuon and Katt to it.
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Zin5ki



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 2018 4:15 pm Reply with quote
RogerSmith2004 wrote:
Ergo Proxy is in reference to the ergo cogito sum, "I think therefore I am", connecting to Vincent's search for self discovery within the show.

If they wanted us to grasp the reference, they could at least have spared us some obliqueness by calling it "Cogito Proxy". It could only have been worse if "Sum Proxy" had been chosen...
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EricJ2



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PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 1:01 pm Reply with quote
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Caligula A science fiction anime starring a misguided virtual idol has little to nothing in common with the depraved Roman Emperor. Caligula's name draws up a lot of very specific images on self-absorption and sexual perversion,


And if you're the right age, it brings up specific images of something else, causing one to do double-takes and think, "Wait, they're showing THAT?? Shocked "

As for favorite cat-girl, have go with first experiences: Back when anime was first new, and still coming over with laserdiscs and untranslated VHS, first exposure to the Japanese phenomenon of feline hybrids--apart from the cat-eared ecchi-scifi Battia from an LD of Outlanders--was the cheerily psycho-kitty Ryukia from Villgust, and I remember the general reaction of "....What?? Confused " (Not a bad reaction, but still one nevertheless.)

Oh, and "Polly Esther" from Samurai Pizza Cats is "Pururun", if you don't mind...
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