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WCDT: 2505-2509 (August 5-9, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
GarandMarine:
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--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 10 Aug 2013, 17:38 ---It's a big step down from being a mercenary fighter jet.
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She should watch/read some version of Area 88 (there are several, I've seen 1 and a half), that'll cure her of any desire to go that path. The one I remember better was mostly a good mix of reasonable "war sucks and affects those in it badly" messaging and fighter jet action- mostly, except for the ending.
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You want the original OVA of Area 88. For those two don't know, it's an old school anime that follows the pilots of a French Foreign Legion style mercenary company that is composed only of fighter pilots. It is brutal, real and /very/ hard core while not being a gore fest. If you liked Mobile Suit Gundam: 8th MS Team this is the anime you wish you've known about.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Loki on 11 Aug 2013, 00:23 ---
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 10 Aug 2013, 16:53 ---
--- Quote from: SageJiraiya on 10 Aug 2013, 15:25 ---Momo-tan is the modern QC-verse equivalent of the cricket conscience guy in Pinocchio. Except she is trying to get humans to be human, instead of wooden puppets to be human.
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Jiminy Cricket. And in the original book, he got squashed around page 23.
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As far as I remember though, he got better.
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It was only a flesh wound.
westrim:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 11 Aug 2013, 06:17 ---
--- Quote from: Westrim on 10 Aug 2013, 23:01 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 10 Aug 2013, 17:38 ---It's a big step down from being a mercenary fighter jet.
--- End quote ---
She should watch/read some version of Area 88 (there are several, I've seen 1 and a half), that'll cure her of any desire to go that path. The one I remember better was mostly a good mix of reasonable "war sucks and affects those in it badly" messaging and fighter jet action- mostly, except for the ending.
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You want the original OVA of Area 88. For those two don't know, it's an old school anime that follows the pilots of a French Foreign Legion style mercenary company that is composed only of fighter pilots. It is brutal, real and very hard core while not being a gore fest. If you liked Mobile Suit Gundam: 8th MS Team this is the anime you wish you've known about.
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That's the one I saw. Terrible ending, I wish I could unsee it. The main character throws away all his effort to get out of the war without even running it past his One True Love (gets on the phone and doesn't even talk after 3 years!), just because he didn't feel terrible about the fight with French street punks, and flies off to known suicide. He 180s from being selfless to the ultimate selfish act. All his wingmates have already suicided, because the formerly calculating base commander suddenly gets stupid when they back him and doesn't fly them off to form a resistance. It's just a case of "okay, we're done with our story, kill everyone or leave them unhappy, because we're trying to hammer home the point that war sucks."
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Akima on 10 Aug 2013, 16:39 ---Heh, I'm a stranger here myself
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??????
Carl-E:
She meant the language - I'm pretty sure she was referring to Latin, not English.
Even though it's not her first language, IIRC. And despite that, her implementation is still better than most native speakers.
Clearly, an overachiever! :laugh: :-D :roll: :angel: :-P
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