No Game No Life (light novel)
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| Decent start off. Not much to say. |
| A great protagonist once said, "It's only overpowered if you can't return the favor!" |
| Hmmm when Shiro picked his nose and touched Shiro's head.... Ha they are in Tokyo Kinda boring but the elf finally talked so I guess it's ok. |
| Wow this was one of if not the greatest of the episodes so far. Elf boob magic xD |
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| Another episode with useless fanservice and a tentacle+ bath parody, ughhhh. I really want to like this show but maybe my problem is I'm a 24 year old male with a sex life so the ecchi genre really turns me away when it comes to my overall enjoyment of a series. I know it says it's rated R+ but you can tell the target audience is below that. Other than that it was another decent episode, hoping this next game can finally provide a real challenge to Blank and finish this first season on a strong note. |
| I am starting to really like Kurami. I like how she teases Sora. She deserves some popularity... Fab animation is fab. They are in Tokyo! Solid episode. 9.5/10 |
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| Fii is so kind and caring i like her! her nice side disappeared with Jibril though, ww. Shiro and Sora looked so dead in Tokyo, lil' NEETS. let the game begin! |
[spoiler] Next episode preview shows Ino in the game. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember him playing in the novels. |
| Lmao Fi and Jibril. This episode is just the calm before the storm.Well, Sora and Shiro are doomed. |
| The world shall know the truth soon. |
alexpte said: [spoiler] Next episode preview shows Ino in the game. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember him playing in the novels. |
| Great ep I'm expecting another epic win from [Blank] again :) |
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| The game is set in tokyo... their worst nightmare sooo... how are they going to win now? They will, but now I'm interested what ridiculous reasoning it's going to have now :P |
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| It was okay I guess, doesn't do much for me |
Kaioshin_Sama said: GreenDrag said: Yeah... I blame MAL's failure to recognize hiragana from google translate, despite being a site, that deals with Japanese media mostly... And yeah, I'm a ninja. I erase my tracks by the time anyone sees them. Also, do you think Takuan went back to rewatch the episode to find the one clue he's missing? Katakana is easy since it deals with foreign words, I can do that one just fine without any sort of translation thanks to a lot of time spent playing Japanese video games and just picking it all up. Hiragana is a lot more tricky since it requires you to actually know the Japanese words themselves. Anyway I don't know, this episode just kind of felt like your typical fanservice episode yet somehow was probably one of the more decent episodes in the series. People complained about the rather pointless stereotypical bathing/breast commentary scene in last weeks Mahouka but this one drags on even longer and it makes it look like the next game will indeed be the last with only two remaining episodes. Hopefully since it's the last one they can at least try to make it somewhat exciting like the game in the 6th episode and don't just totally fuck up some logic rule. First the bad, mostly the usual. I continue to find it funny how Shiro is literally the flat out worst female character in this entire show. She practically might as well not even be there but for the fact that Sora acknowledges her as some sort of counterpart that makes up for his shortcomings and vice versa. I mean she barely talks or contributes to anything really aside from last episode. Realistically though every character in general is on a whole more enjoyable to watch than the main pair. Blank really bring this show down character wise since pretty much all they contribute most of the time are dumb otaku references while the other characters actually talk about back story stuff and interact relatively normally with the rest of the cast when they don't have to utter lines about how amazing Blank is. It's like watching a really bad Penn & Teller setup where Sora is the big loud asshole like Penn and Shiro is Teller and is just sort of there as a prop. I also continue to find him just totally miscast. Like I can't take that desperately cool guy voice acting seriously with the complete moron that is Sora, it just doesn't work and comes off as try hard. Not really the seiyuu's fault, just has crap dialogue to try to work with for the most part to try to make sound cool and edgy. Some positives, the character interaction for this episode by the standards of NGNL was decent and not just all people being condescending twats to each other. I continue to find that the less screen time and dialogue Sora gets the better this show does on that front though and most of this episode dealt with Kurami and her Elf friend. Also seeing him immediately revert to being a helpless NEET in the midst of a panic attack when they set the game in Tokyo was actually kind of funny and a rare gag that got a laugh out of me. Maybe it's because I love seeing the tool squirm a bit, but yeah there you go. Also the fact that he pointed out something that had occurred to me in setting terms for the Warbeasts not to cheat by setting up an impossible game and then erasing his memories of it being an impossible game in order to preserve there edge was important. Also he set up the elf chick to scan the area for cheats, though hard to say whether that will be a major factor or not. Still it shows that this show is paying at least some attention to obvious detail again after the disaster that was last weeks logic and reasoning. On a whole, by NGNL standards a decent episode for the first time in probably a month. If this show can finish strong I might be able to at least call it mediocre and mildly entertaining again. Sora's character is known as a facade and i am sure there is backstory to support it. The whole point of blank is to see 2 characters as one character. The idea about Shiro is that she is still developing and learning to accept others besides Sora. This might be further explored in a potential second season or what not i have no idea, but i strongly suggest you give it time, i am already glad that they didnt throw off her as being 1 dimensional as shown by the last episode (Cough*Tatsuya/Kirito) |
| Anime gave me more life lessons than school |
| Welp, Imanity is doomed. |
| *takes Shiro and Sora outside* And that's how you destroy NEETs. Well played Eastern Federations, well played. |
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Mauroki said: *takes Shiro and Sora outside* And that's how you destroy NEETs. Well played Eastern Federations, well played. Well, at least they didn't get separated. Yet... :P |
 悲しい… 悲しいわ… 今日のこと、「お月さま」にも教えてあげないと。 あなたも… 私 “たち” の中に… 取り込んであげる。 |
Mauroki said: *takes Shiro and Sora outside* And that's how you destroy NEETs. Well played Eastern Federations, well played. hahahah xD |
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| I wasn't expecting that end. Who would've guessed that they'll be back in Tokyo. Imo, they should show more of Jibril's brutal past xD |
| the ending was beyond epicness rofl |
| All that puffed chest and talk of unbeatable seems to be for naught unless Jibril and Stephanie figure out the game. |
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| Blank's reaction after discovering that the game is set in Tokyo was priceless <3 |
| "Me ni wa me wo, ha ni wa ha wo, aku ni wa aku wo." |
kitkatxz said: Looks like the King's notes WERE A PIECE A FUCKING SHIT, Sora n Shiro don't even know what happens what happens when they enter the fucking game.... X.X WHY KING WHY unless someone has some ln spoilers explaining this.... Well keep in mind that the kings notes were somehow old... Also there were spoilers telling the rules of the game and (in another spoiler tag) some of things that happen during the game on this post. |
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| lmao DAT PLOT TWIST at the end xd conclusion should be fun |
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| Poor Shiro and Sora xD Gotta love Jibril's face when they enter Tokyo tho :333 |
| Episode was kind of slow but still good, totally enjoyed Sora losing his composure against Kurami's teasing. totally don't get why they spazz out at Akihabara but can survive passing through an angry mob. from the preview it seems we'll be playing the fuzzy version of call of duty. why are Wednesdays so far away. (ToT) |
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| Ho-lee Shit.... I knew it! I knew that after that epic speech about planning for the Warbeast game Sora was gonna spew out something lame like "Self Introduction". The predictability didn't make it any less funny though, and those stick figure reaction was funny stuff. Sora introducing Kurami was fun. Though I never pegged Kurami for being 18. Never pegged Fil for being such a passive Sadist, nor Jibril for being such an arrogant yet hard M. Too much fun in that conversation alone. - Judge, the Defendant Jibril: Guilty! (plus epic pose XD) - Lick my feet (Fil to Jibril) - It's your own fault for being fooled (Sora to Steph) The 30 minute long lecture by Jibril on the pros of bathing together, completely overwhelmed Kurami's initial refusal, but the nail in the coffin was Fil's admittance that she didn't want to get in because her proportions weren't up to spec. Then that funny tentacle shampoo play, muahahaha! All the elaborate planning it seems will play a part in winning this game. I can only speculate on things I've seen though. Let me see.... first, Sora took the right to alter Fil's memory. What does this have to do with this game? At first I thought it would have something to do with putting her in the spectator's area to make it seem like she's spying on the Warbeasts for any signs of cheating, but in that case, why the need to alter her memories? I 'm guessing that the right to alter her memories will have something to do with events later in the story, but would it have any impact in this particular game? I'm still trying to figure this one out, but the only thing I can see thus far is that her presence will make that gramps at least a bit weary of cheating too obviously, if at all. Next he requested that Jibril and Steph join him in-game. Considering that Blank are actually good at video games, but that neither Jibril nor Steph know anything about video games, it seemed initially like a move to throw two human shields out there to protect Sora and Shiro from whatever Izuna can throw at them. Now you can never underestimate the power that Jibril and Steph possess, but had it been some hand-held console game, then both would have been in serious trouble since it would have been a really new game to them. Since the game is a full virtual dive though, and apparently Imanity had that knowledge beforehand (from the former king's diary, I'm guessing), then they would have already known what sort of a game they would be getting into? I'm guessing Jibril's role as a destroyer will be used to the fullest since this is a shoot-em-up. As for Steph's role in the game... well... the last oh so secret request by Sora to Steph I'm guessing it was something really silly, a feint of sorts, to fend off the Shrine Miku's meddling. That look of absolute terror on Steph's face before being sucked into the game really does say it all for me. Steph is horrible as a poker player, and that silly face just made it all the more obvious that whatever Sora told her, it was obviously a load of bull that made her lose confidence in him all over again. In this case, I'm pretty sure Steph really IS a meat shield for Sora and Shiro for this game (to be sacrificed at their discretion). XD All that elaborate planning and they fall at the first hurdle with Tokyo showing up as the game map! When they arrived, the first thing that popped up in my mind was "Akiba'S trip2?". I'm wondering how exactly Blank could have negelcted the game map despite all their planning (that reaction was definitely not fake). I don't think the map was random though. My guess would be that the game scanned their brains for their greatest fear and set up the map accordingly (thus the reason why Tokyo was shown, despite Disk Board not having any knowledge of Japan) Oh yeah, and Sora did mention on several occasions that this game was suppose to be Shiro's area of expertise, so I'm guessing it'll be like tactical chess of sorts, will little psychological manipulation stuff since she's pretty bad at that. That preview though... why in the world was the gramps in the game anyway? I thought Izuna was the one playing? That part didn't really make sense. Oh well... another long wait for the next episode... damn next Wednesday can't come soon enough! |
L-RyoshiJun 12, 2014 4:02 PM
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Pikatostes said: envysion said: Was that Professor Layton riding the horse carriage? Well he does like playing trivial games... Thanks! I couldn't believe that nobody in the first 7 pages had noticed that. It was mentioned in the references section of another forum :P It was a fun ending. The episode was mostly fan-service, but I'm sure that's to appease that portion of the audience. Nothing wrong with it as long as it keeps a decent show continuing to run. After all, the paying audience is the most important audience :P |
| A great protagonist once said, "It's only overpowered if you can't return the favor!" |
| Away team in Home ground. ROFL! Steph was already too much for me to take. And they have thrown Clammy in the mix of blushes! <3 |
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| As the one who read the LNs, I'm perfectly satisfied with today's episode, as it perfectly managed to deliver everything from the LN and even enhance it (stick figure scene, for example). I needed it after this week's Black Bullet... Only complaint I have is that they cut off explanation for what exactly happened on the 20th... well, understandable, as they simply have no time to properly cover it. Still, anime-only viewers might find it confusing. Damnit, if the ep8 cliffhanger didn't force me to read the novels, this cliffhanger would :D Hmm... should I join GreenDrag and DarkMoonWolf in hint giving... |
astroprogs said: If HF ended up being a single movie, what would it need to do so it can get a high score from all of you? Not air. |
| Pretty good setup, looking forward to the game and how they deal with it. |
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| Warbeast technology is something else, huh? Can't wait to see their faces as they gaze at the sights of the largest city on Earth for the first time. |
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| lol they're all omg yeah we're so good we got this TOKYO |
"Urushibara Ruka. The mannerisms and voice of a woman... No... More feminine than any woman. But he's a guy. Taller than Mayuri, but so very thin... But he's a guy. Looks great in a miko outfit... But he's a guy. It's already twilight And yet, it's so hot. The cicadas are crying. But... He's a guy." |
| Great set up. It's going to be hard to top the game against Jibril |
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| Great episode! I wonder was Steph was told by Sora... It can't be easy to be that foolish girl :3 There was a moment where i thought we wouldn't get into the arena before the episode ended, but i'm glad we did. Only two episodes left D: i hope they'll use both episodes on a nice end of season battle. |
| As always amazing :D Poor Jibril,she had to lick the foot of Feel and ask for apologize ahahah omg Nice way to be even more friends,take 5 girls to bath and tell them to take the bath naked while you take pictures of their bodies with your phone ahaha xD Genious! Chlammy is now so cute :3 she got some little cute breasts ^^ Loved that moment when she asked Feel to enlarge her breasts with magic ahah :D Feel is very nice,she is agains slavery and want to end ti :) Nice girl. Whaaat?Their game is in Tokyo ahahahha Shiro & Sora face made the game ahaha no chance,we are sorry we lost ahhah lol I wonder what is the plan of Warbeast to win this game,i mean how are they planning to cheat and to win,that old man had some plans on his head but it seems that Izuza is afraid of something hmmm. Can't wait for the next episode! |
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| "Puff" and their confidence vanished. |
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| Welp. Looks like the next few episodes should be verrrrrrrryyy interesting. I really do want to know what Sora told Steph. Steph is probably my favorite supporting character in this show. She's hilarious. |
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