MetaFap: Fall ’14 – 06
Warning: Rocket boobs ahead.
Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu – 06
This girl just doesn’t know how to take a compliment.
Oh, poor Erina. Her overly harsh upbringing lead to her twin tail impotence, which ruined her big entrance as a hero of justice. Good thing she had Souji to depend on to unlock her true potential by revealing her inner masochist and exhibitionist to the world. This sort of victim-of-overbearing-parents story is way overdone in anime – heck, in the past one week it was featured as a main plot point in both Sword Art Online and Le Fruit de la Grisaia – but I must admit I loved this show’s take on it. Seeing her blushing and moaning at every interaction with Souji early on indicated something was definitely going on under the surface, and when all was laid bare during their over-the-top double entendre training scene, I could identify with Thouars’s “I knew it!” reaction. That’s how you do foreshadowing, boys and girls.
“Naked Collide- oh wait, wrong show.”
Well, not really. That wasn’t great foreshadowing, because it was so abrupt, hinted at only in this episode but not during her prior appearances. This abruptness is the one criticism I have with how Erina’s story was handled. Not only would it have been good to have seen more hints of her inner desires – including more of her apparent love for fictional super heroes – in prior episodes, this coming out story could have been made much better through expansion into one or maybe half of one more episode. Like, what kind of upbringing did she go through – especially with respect to those enforced twin tails – and how and where did she pick up her inner love for masochism and exhibitionism? I’m only guessing masochism here because of her constant calls of “goshujin-sama,” but maybe it’s something different, related to her default state of being waited on by maids who call her that all the time? Or maybe it’s somehow tied into her exhibitionism? I’m not sure how these feelings of hers interact, since her stripping – and becoming more powerful through it – brings to mind her breaking free from the shackles of her tight upbringing, while her “goshujin-sama” brings to mind the opposite, someone willingly submitting herself to be controlled by someone else. These are the things I wish had been explored more deeply, in order to gain a greater understanding of Erina as a person.
Also, the art was janky as heck this week, with lots of weirdly off-model faces and at least one case of a 6-fingered hand. It doesn’t break the show, especially since the art has never been a strong point anyway, but it was still disappointing to see it stoop so low. At least the action scenes were about as good as usual, which is to say, not all that good at all. But I’m a sucker for dramatic flying kick attacks in anime, so I’m content. Plus, the show did it well where it counted, in Erina’s coming out story – the only weakness there being that there wasn’t more. Unfortunately, it looks like Erina’s time in the spotlight may be ending with this episode, with the new big villain, the very human-looking Dark Grasper, and her love of glasses being introduced. It looks to be a nice upgrade from the various Guildies who have proven to be little more than cannon fodder who were also obsessed with various fetishes. Now let’s see what makes the power of love of glasses such a worthy challenger to our heroines’ love for twin tails.
Glasses (click for stitch).
Tentacles. It always has to come down to tentacles, doesn’t it (click for stitch)?
Love that they bothered to plan out how they’d be crowding around to eavesdrop.
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Madan no Ou to Vanadis – 07
Mind stepping outside for a second? I need some private NTR time.
Well, things certainly happened this week. Unfortunately, the storytelling still leaves me mostly confused. Some of it was intentional and perfectly okay, such as Tigre and Titta’s little romp in the mysterious temple-looking thing. Clearly this is Tigre gaining some sort of upgrade from the power of the gods, and we’re not meant to be privy to exactly what that means yet. But the larger issue of why Roland surrendered when he did… that just reminded me of Ludmila’s inexplicable acquiescence at the start of the previous episode (which was apparently better explained in the source material). In this case, at least Roland lost before he surrendered, but the fact is, battles aren’t fought just by the leaders of each army. Why didn’t Roland check on the status of his underlings before deciding that his side had lost? He isn’t some coward like Zion who would throw away near victory just to preserve his own life.
Also, where did all the Dragon Ball energy ball attacks come from? War Maidens have been established to be able to use magical powers, but they’ve been the exception – indeed, they’re so exceptional that there are only 7 of them, and each is granted enormous reverence. Yet here we have Roland able to negate the attacks of 2 War Maidens with his own energy balls and Tigre charging up some dissipating arrow shot against Titta. Despite the energy ball fights, this episode did have some of the better fight scenes from the show so far, in Eleonora using the power of the wind to fly around Roland. But seeing the climactic encounter come down to my-ki-is-bigger-than-your-ki was unfortunate.
Click for stitch.
The best part of the episode had to be seeing Eleonora at the sick Tigre’s bedside. I’ve mentioned before how I’d like to see this show go full-on love story between the 2 protagonists, and this feels like a step – a small, hesitant step, but a step nonetheless – in that direction. They’re both extremely likable characters, and they get along well together. Knowing how these go, I expect by the end of the series they’ll have looked into each others’ eyes before blushingly glancing away in embarrassment a couple times and maybe even accidentally brushed their hands together (LEWD), but here’s hoping this light novel series has a chapter 16.5.
When she loses her clothes and her hair ties, Titta actually looks kind of attractive (click for stitch).
So Sofya’s power is apparently just a bunch of light with force push powers? Could have been cool, I guess (click for stitch).
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Grisaia no Kajitsu – 07
It’s OK, she’s just taking a bath. Really.
Welcome back to another episode of Compress an Entire Route Into 24 Minutes. This time, we hit our resident meido, Sachi. Since the show seems to pride itself in compressing content, let me respond in kind by compressing the rest of this post into one sentence. I thought Sachi would be more interesting since we previously saw her making bombs in her room but it turns out instead of being some badass assassin masquerading as a maid she’s just a regular maid with emotional baggage who wants to be the most obedient girl in all history because of undue guilt over her parents’ accident and thus takes orders to an extreme by attempting to blow up the school just to cancel a test only to be stopped by our ever-timely hero who is revealed to have a conveniently until-now forgotten past with her which is only barely explored because of plot compression and leaves us with much to be desired but it doesn’t even matter because the whole episode was just more things happening without any real point thanks to us not having any time at all to soak in what little we see of the characters’ problems and sympathize with their circumstances.
Oh look, they have some history. Too bad it’s barely explored.
I still wonder why they stopped in the middle of the road to hug their daughter.
Happy birthday~
Yuuji makes Sachi wet.
This episode was one big excuse to show us Sachi’s ass.
Dat ass tho
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POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 77 comments
I think that could be Souji’s thumb simply visible between his middle and ring fingers, not an extra non-thumb finger.
But indeed the faces have been…off the past two episodes.
POWUH: 700-799 and Parkouring Fanboy with 776 comments
Could be, but if that was the intent, it was a pretty big fail, because then there’s a huge finger-sized gap between his middle and ring fingers.
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 77 comments
There are only 4 knuckles, though.
The show really could do with some better key animation, though. The latest episode…
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Vivid Twin-Tails: LOL. Take a compliment…
I’m currently in rebellion over Tail Yellow. They take a perfect LOLi and make her a dime a dozen bishoujo. This is not acceptable! LOL (actually LOLis are a dime a dozen anyway).
Agreed on some of DAT QUALITY. Souji better watch out for Inigo Montoya!
But all kidding aside, I did a spit take over the boob missles…just wasn’t expecting it!
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Your loss is our gain! Suffer in anguish over it! 😀
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Don’t serve yourself a slice of Schadenfreude Pie just yet….I’m a pretty tough old man.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
I’m not content with just a slice. I’m taking the whole dang pie.
POWUH: 800-899 and Mad Scientist with 814 comments
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
OMG…
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu – 06: Being a child of privilege may seem luxurious on the surface but it must suck big time if it’s to overbearing parents who micro-manage every aspect of that child’s life.
Erina’s masochistic and exhibitionist traits I’d say are definitely the results of deep-rooted trauma from a stressful life of image maintenance. As she said, no one knew the real her. Only now, Souji’s brought it to the surface due to him giving her leeway. She’s exposing herself both physically and psychologically. I wonder what would’ve happed had she suppressed such desires any longer. Okay, most of the Tail Yellow attacks can pass, even the canon assembly was cool but missiles from ports exactly where her bust is? That’s just ridiculous. No doubt about it. Thouars had some screws loose designing that suit.
So the enemy’s boss is a girl fitted with a suit powered by her love for glasses. Now I’ve seen everything. Bring in Kyoukai no Kanata’s Akihito Kanbara with his obsession for glasses and all here will be leveled.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Grisaia no Kajitsu – 07: In simple terms, that maid was a crackpot. Rigging explosives just to help someone evade a test is overkill. Clearly, she didn’t account for the possibility of her friends walking in on her. Accident or not, I really fail to see that as justification for her taking such extreme measures.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Madan no Ou to Vanadis – 07: Interesting enough developments. I guess Roland surrendered because he acknowleged Tigre’s conviction to protect people whereas he, himself, said he had doubts from start to finish. Plus, I believe he could no longer turn a blind eye to Thanadier since he can’t ignore the fact he’s up to no good.
I’d say that mysterious temple is where Tigre’s ancestor first got that bow if it radiated and lead him there. The spirit that possessed Titta must have known who he’s descended from since she never asked for his name. That was a pretty cruel way to test his resolve, though. The poor girl was scared out of her mind.
POWUH: Meta Resident with 1692 comments
I doubt Titta was scared out of her mind since the only thought occupying her mind is Tigre and there’s no room for anything else in it.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
Vanadis: The ‘war’ part of this show feels just so irrelevant. I complained last week about the incomprehensibility of the whole deal, but there’s another issue that’s been bugging me about it also. If the war is solely going to turn on “Whose Mascot Character wins the Mascot Battle”, then why bother having the rest of the army actually fight? Population control? So far the fights have been “I’m gonna send Elen / Tigre / Sofy against Roland / Thenardier / Ludmila and we’ll see who wins.” But while they’re doing that, the other guys are slaughtering each other. But to what point? When the Mascot Battle is done, the mascot would just go slaughter the other army back, even if they had wiped out the winning mascot’s army.
Why don’t the two armies just send their mascots out to fight, and enjoy the show?
POWUH: 700-799 and Parkouring Fanboy with 776 comments
Lol, I think that’s kinda what happened in the case of Ludmila vs. Eleonora in the previous episode. It looked like while they were duking it out in the pit, the rest of their armies were just standing above watching them. Can’t blame them, I guess; if LeBron James and Kobe Bryant showed up at a local pickup game and started playing one-on-one, I’m sure everyone would stop and watch too.
POWUH: 600-699 and LN Enthusiast with 623 comments
Actually, before the mascots fought, there was a lot more clashing of the armies that involved tactics and stuff. The mascots were fighting the
foddersenemy soldiers first before they met amongst the fighting and pulled away from the main battle.Just chalk it up to the anime making the soldiers feel irrelevant.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
But they always do that. “Let’s do all this fighting and strategy… and ultimately it means zero because the side that wins is the side whose mascot wins.”
Since the winner of the ‘battle’ is the winner of the eventual mascot fight, you’d think they’d figure this out and just send the mascots out first, then declare the battle over. I could see if the other guys actually came and helped, or had any relevance at all, but they don’t. As such, it’s just “Meat grinder until Elen / Tigre and Roland / Ludmila / Thenardier / Dragon get off their asses and get up to fight.”
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
!!! Do not underestimate the power of MegaNeko! Err.. I meant MeganeKo! (Slight difference between the two). What would even be better is… Grade S Zettai Ryouiki + Tsundere + Twintails + Meido + Megane! (Now where in Fate’s world have I seen that combo recently…)
POWUH: 600-699 and LN Enthusiast with 623 comments
Vanadis: Well, Roland did say why he surrendered. He can’t fight anymore in his condition. Plus the situation of the main battle had actually turned against his army before he engaged Ellen and Sofya. Too long to explain but it involved knowing and breaking the famed formation of their army and using the mud of the terrain. The narration in the anime did say they lost nearly half of their army in this battle. It was the only decision he can make then.
Plus as touched briefly, he was already doubting the purpose of this battle since it wasn’t the King who directly ordered him but Thenardier and Ganelon. And he knew of Tigre’s motives and proved his resolve with that final attack(cliched I know).
Speaking of that final attack, they got that wrong(again). It wasn’t suppose to be just Tigre firing it simply like that. Ellen and Sofya’s weapons actually emitted countless lights and the arrow absorbed all of them just like in the siege against Ludmila’s castle. That was a hint that it wasn’t just Ellen’s weapon that reacts to the bow but all of the Vanadis’s weapons. It’s a crucial plot point of the bow that’s pretty much one of the core mysteries of the series.
The part where Tigre met the goddess wasn’t so much as a powerup as just him willing to use the power. He was always reluctant to use it because it’s a mysterious power. And one thing the anime neglects about the bow. It also has a side effect of him feeling weak after shooting it. It supposedly sucks out his life force when he uses the bow’s power. He actually shot and intentionally missed one against Roland to threaten him to retreat since he has such a power. He was feeling very sluggish after doing that.
Oh and Tigre’s hand was actually in the opposite direction in that part where Ellen was talking to him while he was asleep.
POWUH: 600-699 and LN Enthusiast with 623 comments
Grisaia: At least this episode resembled the route somewhat more than Yumiko’s. The framework and the gist of the story anyways. It was basically just the bare bones and lacked the meat of the story. And as they were aiming for continuity with how Yuuji mentioned him helping Yumiko, they couldn’t exactly do what was done in the VN.
Several points missed:
1. After Sachi’s accident in the bath, Yuuji and Sachi interacted more and were doing some tutoring to challenge Sachi’s knowledge. During those moments, the hints of their connection got dropped here and there so it wasn’t as sudden.
Yuuji then got a call from his ‘part-time’ before their next session and he said to Sachi to wait ‘at their usual place’ which was the classroom. Sachi then disappeared for a full day because she interpreted the ‘usual place’ to be that park. This made Yuuji pay attention to Sachi. They became a couple so he could solve her problem.
2. Sachi’s flashback missed a crucial part. Her mother actually said “Sachi…why…” before she fainted. That was more traumatic to her than the accident. She then suffered PTSD which disappears when she thinks to herself to become a good girl.
3. Sachi didn’t actually set up something that intricate to get rid of the test. She was actually at her wits’ end thinking how to fulfill that request. In the end, she resorted to just spraying kerosene and burn the place since that was what she did before(what Yumiko said to Yuuji). Yuuji thwarted her of course but he actually did some preparations himself.
And what he did was…blow up the school. Don’t ask how, he just did and he was thorough in his preparations behind the scenes. It was to create a contradiction in Sachi’s mindset. She did fulfill the request to get rid of the test but then she lost the place precious to her.
And the best part of this was that they had outdoor sex afterwards.
I guess I still liked the episode even with this butchering. They gave me Sachi in bloomers after all which didn’t happen at all in the VN. Plus they animated the sleeve tugging part. Anything that’s better than the Yumiko episode is fine. You can’t go worse than that.
Makina is next but unfortunately I haven’t even started on her route yet. I was about to but then the Yumiko episode happened and I lost motivation.
POWUH: Meta Resident and LN Informant with 1529 comments
Vanadis: The goddess that possessed Tita is integral to later plotlines, esp. the world’s religion.
Note also Tigre sees a Tir na Fa statue wieldingShow ▼
,not unlike his own.
On religion:
The LNs say the world worships a pantheon of 10 Gods. Tir na Fa is the counterpart of Perkunas,god of sun and light. She is “his wife, his older sister, his younger sister, and his arch-nemesis in the cycle of life”. No priest or shaman has been able to explain why she is part of the Pantheon.
POWUH: Meta Resident and LN Informant with 1529 comments
Twintails: A list of Elemelian Guildies and their
fetisheselemeras:http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=5341347&postcount=699
(MILFs?Transexuals?Female abs? The Guildy deviancy list keeps rising.)
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Da… fu… Words escape me… the person who compiled the list needs to be awarded a medal.
OTOH, we know skylionguildy’s elemera…
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
…kickass LOLi…
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
How would you feel about LOLi succubi?
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
…mixed…
POWUH: 900-999 with 915 comments
Twintails: Is that tentacle… actually… a penis? And I thought tentacles couldn’t be more lewd…
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
It depends on how you want to mix your metaphors…
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
Aren’t they always?