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Post by Dai-T on Feb 3, 2013 23:45:07 GMT -5
LOL! that part was funny.
My prediction for next week is that if they are just pulling stories from diffrent places then Daidouji will be the one to break the barrior on the school and giving the girls the ability to fight back. Can't see it going any other way since in the manga she protects the school and Kiriya is outside. No way the girls can win on there own now.
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Post by scribbles on Feb 4, 2013 2:27:58 GMT -5
This "Yagyuu-Hibari I will protect you & happy face" scene is getting repetitive. Even Kiriya is cooler than those 2 now. Heh, yeah.. It was repetitive. But I couldn't help but smile at that point. 「心配するな。ひばりは。」 She pauses, and we all know exactly what she's going to say next. 「俺が守る。」 The sound effect and light and timing of delivery completed the moment for me. I don't know, it was funny to me cause it was almost corny, but yet she's so sincere about it. I feel that this serious characterization makes it feel more grave when they're separated and the first thing they both say is the other's name. And I feel it lends more gravitas to Yagyuu's motivation to break out and find and protect Hibari. I prefer her this way with her cool exterior, but we all have different preferences and there's nothing wrong with that. In Famitsu's online kindergarten comic she's sort of a pervert which fits well with the 4-koma gag format and that's fine though not my cup of tea. I'm not sure how it was treated in the game. Is Homura the leader? I don't think she's the leader of the Hebi girls any more than Asuka is the leader of the Hanzou girls. I'd say she's sort of like the mini-antagonist answer to Asuka's mini-protagonist. I could be wrong. When I first came upon this series I wondered why there were two opposing girls with eyepatches and an umbrella. Like maybe they were part of some secret society of one-eyed umbrella fighters. Then I remembered there's an English hero by the name of Alfred Wintle who among other things would never leave his house without an umbrella and had an eyepatch. Which is interesting. Is there some reason for this?
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Post by Dai-T on Feb 4, 2013 3:45:47 GMT -5
Alot of the characters in there series are refrences to other things in anime or otaku culture in general is what the producer said. So alot of stuff is done on purpose its not really trying to be original just have fun with all these themes.
As for Homura she is the class rep like Ikaruga because Haruka turned down the position or thats atleast what I got from the first short story on the Burst site.
And ya the short stories and the main stories and the manga's are all over the place when it come to the material but I would think the most extreme view of the characters is the original way the producer made them but for the 3DS game they were tonned down so its not as crazy. Hanzo is a super old perv but thats only on the Drama cd's
Expect the Vita game to be really exeteme with the character now because of that system and market.
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Post by ialda on Feb 4, 2013 6:03:37 GMT -5
What do you mean by 'extreme' ? Could you elaborate on this point and the differences about the characters between the original game, the manga, the anime, etc please ?
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Post by TwinTails on Feb 4, 2013 7:26:01 GMT -5
How cute! Some random wannabe ninja trying to challenge Homura. Homura, you better back off of her! Cute btw.
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Post by Dai-T on Feb 4, 2013 8:56:22 GMT -5
What do you mean by 'extreme' ? Could you elaborate on this point and the differences about the characters between the original game, the manga, the anime, etc please ? Well the characters were originaly designed and marketed one way by the producer so in non game related stuff like Yagyuu liking Hibari more then a sister and Mirai being crazy about Haruka just the same but worst or Hanzo being a big perv even more so then Katsuragi. The games does not show this really at all because the games story pulls back dramaticly on character and just the way the game is marketed over all. You would think there would be alot of sexual stuff in the game but there really is not. The 3DS games pulled back alot form the original vision of the director and he admited to this when working on the Vita game. THe Vita game has panty battles and clothes ripping and almost nudity and girls with pasties and thongs. It has the stuff he wanted to add but did not its how crazy he wanted it to be. The 3DS and the anime are the only things that really pull back because of the audience. Those things seem ristricted or at least thats what the producer thought. The manga and other non rated material like the drama CD's or ads are pretty edgy compared to the 3DS games. To give you an example on the unrated drama CD's these is a track where you as the listener suppose to be in a class room blind folded and Haruka enters and starts to talk in your ear and talk dirty and you can hear her walk around you as the sound goes for the left ear to the right ear while she is talking and blowing into your ear. NOW this is no where in the game its on an unrated CD. So there has always been this kind of well the marketing and manga's is one way then you play the game and its not nearly as extreme as people may think but the Vita game will change this and be up to the level of the marketing and extreme nature. One thing I pointed out before is that they never called Mirai a loli before but now in versus Midori's offical title is oppai loli.
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Post by FlamingYu on Feb 4, 2013 9:12:50 GMT -5
What do you mean by 'extreme' ? Could you elaborate on this point and the differences about the characters between the original game, the manga, the anime, etc please ? Well the characters were originaly designed and marketed one way by the producer so in non game related stuff like Yagyuu liking Hibari more then a sister and Mirai being crazy about Haruka just the same but worst or Hanzo being a big perv even more so then Katsuragi. The games does not show this really at all because the games story pulls back dramaticly on character and just the way the game is marketed over all. You would think there would be alot of sexual stuff in the game but there really is not. The 3DS games pulled back alot form the original vision of the director and he admited to this when working on the Vita game. THe Vita game has panty battles and clothes ripping and almost nudity and girls with pasties and thongs. It has the stuff he wanted to add but did not its how crazy he wanted it to be. The 3DS and the anime are the only things that really pull back because of the audience. Those things seem ristricted or at least thats what the producer thought. The manga and other non rated material like the drama CD's or ads are pretty edgy compared to the 3DS games. To give you an example on the unrated drama CD's these is a track where you as the listener suppose to be in a class room blind folded and Haruka enters and starts to talk in your ear and talk dirty and you can hear her walk around you as the sound goes for the left ear to the right ear while she is talking and blowing into your ear. NOW this is no where in the game its on an unrated CD. So there has always been this kind of well the marketing and manga's is one way then you play the game and its not nearly as extreme as people may think but the Vita game will change this and be up to the level of the marketing and extreme nature. One thing I pointed out before is that they never called Mirai a loli before but now in versus Midori's offical title is oppai loli. To summarize all that, SONY has given him the chance to do whatever he wanted in the first place. He is now able to show off the true nature of the SK series and its characters.
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Post by ialda on Feb 4, 2013 9:38:49 GMT -5
Well the characters were originaly designed and marketed one way by the producer so in non game related stuff like Yagyuu liking Hibari more then a sister and Mirai being crazy about Haruka just the same but worst or Hanzo being a big perv even more so then Katsuragi. The games does not show this really at all because the games story pulls back dramaticly on character and just the way the game is marketed over all. You would think there would be alot of sexual stuff in the game but there really is not. The 3DS games pulled back alot form the original vision of the director and he admited to this when working on the Vita game. THe Vita game has panty battles and clothes ripping and almost nudity and girls with pasties and thongs. It has the stuff he wanted to add but did not its how crazy he wanted it to be. The 3DS and the anime are the only things that really pull back because of the audience. Those things seem ristricted or at least thats what the producer thought. The manga and other non rated material like the drama CD's or ads are pretty edgy compared to the 3DS games. To give you an example on the unrated drama CD's these is a track where you as the listener suppose to be in a class room blind folded and Haruka enters and starts to talk in your ear and talk dirty and you can hear her walk around you as the sound goes for the left ear to the right ear while she is talking and blowing into your ear. NOW this is no where in the game its on an unrated CD. So there has always been this kind of well the marketing and manga's is one way then you play the game and its not nearly as extreme as people may think but the Vita game will change this and be up to the level of the marketing and extreme nature. One thing I pointed out before is that they never called Mirai a loli before but now in versus Midori's offical title is oppai loli. Okay, I understand it better now. Thanks a lot for the explanation ! I couldn't help but notice a slight difference between the mangas and what I could understand from the game's dialogue, but I was far from imagine it was THAT different. It makes me all the more eager to play all the games fantranslated one day.
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Post by Dai-T on Feb 4, 2013 10:33:29 GMT -5
Well the characters were originaly designed and marketed one way by the producer so in non game related stuff like Yagyuu liking Hibari more then a sister and Mirai being crazy about Haruka just the same but worst or Hanzo being a big perv even more so then Katsuragi. The games does not show this really at all because the games story pulls back dramaticly on character and just the way the game is marketed over all. You would think there would be alot of sexual stuff in the game but there really is not. The 3DS games pulled back alot form the original vision of the director and he admited to this when working on the Vita game. THe Vita game has panty battles and clothes ripping and almost nudity and girls with pasties and thongs. It has the stuff he wanted to add but did not its how crazy he wanted it to be. The 3DS and the anime are the only things that really pull back because of the audience. Those things seem ristricted or at least thats what the producer thought. The manga and other non rated material like the drama CD's or ads are pretty edgy compared to the 3DS games. To give you an example on the unrated drama CD's these is a track where you as the listener suppose to be in a class room blind folded and Haruka enters and starts to talk in your ear and talk dirty and you can hear her walk around you as the sound goes for the left ear to the right ear while she is talking and blowing into your ear. NOW this is no where in the game its on an unrated CD. So there has always been this kind of well the marketing and manga's is one way then you play the game and its not nearly as extreme as people may think but the Vita game will change this and be up to the level of the marketing and extreme nature. One thing I pointed out before is that they never called Mirai a loli before but now in versus Midori's offical title is oppai loli. To summarize all that, SONY has given him the chance to do whatever he wanted in the first place. He is now able to show off the true nature of the SK series and its characters. Ya I know you heard me say it before but for this series to really make the jump to the Otaku market they have to come out on a Sony platform That way there are no restrictions or market to worry about.
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Post by pheonix03 on Feb 4, 2013 12:08:14 GMT -5
Heh, now I'm starting to think that teasing from Yagyuu's voice actress might actually turn out to be something.
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Post by Nerroth on Feb 4, 2013 19:49:40 GMT -5
Did anyone see if any of those Hebi characters happened to be from the New Wave cast, or were they all just generic ninja girls?
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Post by Yomi on Feb 4, 2013 22:10:32 GMT -5
Did anyone see if any of those Hebi characters happened to be from the New Wave cast, or were they all just generic ninja girls? Those are generic ninja girls.
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Post by zorogou on Feb 5, 2013 10:43:53 GMT -5
Did anyone see if any of those Hebi characters happened to be from the New Wave cast, or were they all just generic ninja girls? Those are generic ninja girls. I did like someone's comment that the girl who challenged Homura was actually a certain someone's sister. Unlikely given the lack of hatred in her expression but it was a good thought.
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Post by Disappearance on Feb 5, 2013 14:36:45 GMT -5
I noticed a redrawn scene during Asuka's flashback: Much better. A different studio would be nice, I think it's doubtful they'd go with another studio, Artland animate all of the openings for the games so I think they'd want to keep a good partnership with them. Eh, yet the cutscenes for the games look considerably better. Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou was also produced by them and it looked good. Whereas this adaptation just looks, well, pretty average. It's as if Artland is slacking off. I can't help but think that whenever I watch Senran Kagura. Hypothetically speaking, if another studio were to take up the series, then Madhouse would be my choice. (Ninja Scroll, Highscool of the Dead) I like the music, I think it adds a lot to the atmosphere, even though it's mostly the same pieces reused. The soundtrack I feel is sort of a hit or miss. There's that one song that played a few times when Hebijo was mentioned, e.g. at around the end of ep. 2 where Kiriya and Hanzou are discussing the evil ninja and the narrator goes on to explain who they are. That's a beautiful piece of traditional music right there. The track that plays during the Asuka vs. Homura scene in this episode is pretty epic too. Though some of the music is kinda lackluster, like the one from episode two during the Hebijo mission briefing scene. Sounds like some b-grade boss battle theme, meh. The 3DS and the anime are the only things that really pull back because of the audience. Those things seem ristricted or at least thats what the producer thought. The manga and other non rated material like the drama CD's or ads are pretty edgy compared to the 3DS games. Hmm, the manga so far didn't seem extreme to me, though I haven't played the games so I have no basis for comparison. I probably won't play SV but as far as other future SK media is concerned, I don't mind it's more extreme nature, as far as it doesn't abandon substance and becomes purely a source of fan service. I care less for the latter, even though it's a central theme of the series, I'm more interested in the characters and the story, as I think these have potential.
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Post by scribbles on Feb 5, 2013 14:44:00 GMT -5
This girl was cute.
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