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Hiroki not Takuya
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Thank you so much Tanteikingdomkey, Mr. May always has great info and I'm not a regular to his channel. I think he indirectly makes a good point, to appreciate what makes a great success one must understand what makes an abject failure...
Now, here is a little quiz to test your EX-ARM accumen Q: Robot Maid is talking to Master Mraw and is able to use EX-ARM powers that only humans can. Nani?? What can this mean? 1. She's a psycho, Mraw is dead 'cause the little b*tch killed him after she got his EX-ARM unlock password 2. She's clueless, she doesn't get that she's on a phone line and Mraw is remote controlling her from Africa 3. She is an EX-ARM and Mraw is inside her body. She/they are enacting a dichotomy to Alma/Akira but where the machine slave subjugates the Master thus showing that inevitably slavers are themselves enslaved to thier lack of ability and the slave's ability 4. You are a dweeb. Asking questions like this instead of just experiencing it, man... 
The answer will be existentially revealed next epsiode! Last edited by Hiroki not Takuya on Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:13 am; edited 4 times in total |
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DuskyPredator
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On the windows thing, there was a weird part of the episode where a rocket is teleported and suddenly a window turns off, like the light suddenly disappeared and it is a void. I kept repeating the scene to pick it up, and I think it is just a case that these windows are losing their renders when other stuff happens.
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pokefreaks
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I felt so bad for the manga especially when the trailer "declare war on all SF series", it doesn't matter if it is original production but using the pre existing series and putting it that way will make everyone chuckle a bit in the least. |
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Dalek-baka
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After reading some of manga I wanted to point out they cut some stuff (understandably, no problem here) - sadly it means we've lost chance to see this artists using their tools to show scenes that take place in cyber-brothel.
Mix of fog on the bottom of the screen, mix of CGI and 2D - it would be a perfect statement on state of humanity at the beginning of 2021. |
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DeTroyes
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I feel kinda bad now that we've forced Nicholas Dupree to not only watch but defend this series. I can't imagine the sort of PTSD this assignment will generate.
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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That's what chocolate, whiskey, therapy, and going to petting zoos are for. To erase this sort of PTSD. Though I feel bad for his doctor. I can only imagine how the PTSD will kick in if his doc mentions lifting his ARM or getting a shot in his ARM. He'll just be in the corner crying about horrible polygons and bad editing. |
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Uchay
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Hmm, I had a feeling I saw a cry for help in episode's 3 review, but it was my imagination after all. Of course, it had to be, there's no way Nicholas is suffering to review such a revolutionary masterpiece.
There's something to be said about how fast the CGI and technology in general has advanced during these trying times, it's time to slow down and go back to the origins, and that's exactly what this show is doing when it's trying to mimic the worse aspects of PS1-era graphics. It's truly courageous and provocative. |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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^ Tell it brother, great insight! Nick is not only not suffering, he has been inspired to poetry by the end of the review! You hit the problem with modern CGI, it distracts from the story and the concepts in it. Like minimalism, representing just the idea of characters and motion allows the viewer to look past what could be too realistic and the intellectual baggage that inherently carries with it to see what the plot is truly saying. Welcome to the EX-ARMY!!
BTW, I guess Ep4 means that #1 of my quiz from last time is the right answer (sort of). It almost missed entirely so I guess I shouldn't try to second-guess the trajectory of the story. Next Ep I couldn't even guess where it'll go and my brain trembles in anticipation! |
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Spike Terra
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So if MC kun controls the eyebot and Ogre, he techically takes up three slots of the cast shots in the opening theme.
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CTM162
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Pretty sure he's just lifting lines from the first two verses of "Iron Man", from Black Sabbath. Still amusing, though. |
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Tanteikingdomkey
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YEP this is some of the best content on ANN.
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Top Gun
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I am not watching this "show," you could not pay me enough to watch this "show," but my God I don't think I've ever laughed as hard over anything on the site as I just did. Mr. Dupree, you are a scholar and a gentleman.
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FilthyCasual
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Hey, that rating has almost as many rings as Tom Brady!
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ATastySub
Past ANN Contributor
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Think of how many bad isekai we'd have been spared if any of those shows were as technically proficient as EX-ARM!
spoiler[And a fitting end to a dogshit season that proceeded despite a pandemic to have the GOOP King of the NFL take the title] |
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Madster
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I'm loving the EX-ARM reviews, they're really entertaining. Just a reminder that we have another 7 weeks of glorious CGI anime fun.
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