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    Quote Originally Posted by shinta|hikari View Post
    Him not being a virgin is one reason.
    lol. Maybe that was what I was trying to say.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shinta|hikari View Post
    Him not being a virgin is one reason.
    And scoring milfs, one of those being the mother of his subordinate who is his age. How cool is that ?

    All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David75 View Post
    And scoring milfs, one of those being the mother of his subordinate who is his age. How cool is that ?
    It really depends on the milf. The daughter suggests an average level of cool.

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    No, the mom is definitely better than the daughter. Ikta has really good taste.
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    I hope he scores with Yatori as well, such a fine woman, dayum.

    It's interesting to see that Ikta's troops are equipped with xbows, while the hottie-squad and that fat dude is using rifles.
    Probably has to do something with his depot, but I don't see why he'd do it. I'm interested, I hope it'll make sense.
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    I imagine the depot is supposed to enhance their mobility. That's evident in their arriving earlier than expected.

    The enemy will think he's slower than what he really is. The depot grants him mobility without being undersupplied.

    He schooled them this very episode: war isn't won by just counting numbers, weapons and formation, but by when you apply that in a given point in time.

    Boy, this brings back memories of when Lelouch was still fun to watch.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
    It really depends on the milf. The daughter suggests an average level of cool.
    Most teen girls are average at best and some get better when they turn 20. So hard to tell wether the mom is a gem of a milf or a cougar...
    And as strange as it seems, although that girl is in a military school, so she should be a young adult, but I see her as a 15 years old.

    But all of that was a simple and easy joke I liked, I doubt we get to see the mom, unless they have better jokes for us.

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    Episode 4












    Wow. That was really well adapted. I loved how bad ass Yatori was, but I loved the scene right after even more. The blurring, dulled sound and voices, camera angles, and direction were all great. The dialog between Ikta and Yatori was damn awesome and shows how deep a bond they share despite how cold they act towards each other.
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    I really liked everything else about this episode, including the scene after the massacre, but I didn't like how Yatori slew all those specially trained soldiers all by herself in that fashion. It kind of makes Ikta's masterful planning and stratagems meaningless if there are inhuman killing machines that could single-handedly destroy enemy platoons. I'm quite sure there would have been better and more believable ways to make her look just as badass, like a suitable location for the ambush that would have allowed Yatori to really face only a couple of the enemies at the same time, rendering it impossible for the enemy to use any tactics to defeat her. Now it was the grand anime tradition of opponents standing still while the hero slaughters them at leisure. It annoys me when an otherwise jolly good ep has such a single flaw.

    Still, it was a really good ep. I have high hopes for the whole show. A capable MC who's always doing what he wants and not caring about other people's meaningless opinions is so good.

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    Yeah, I agree. the soldiers were too weak, I mean, they didn't push her back or block her even *once*. She is clearly too strong for this kind of show.

    Why/how would she even appear in the middle of that group, that was stupid, sadly. She's a freaking Naruto-Ninja.
    They protected the Captain, using a defensive formation and then she stealthjumped right into it as if she was Zabuza, without the fog and with full visibility.

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    She jumped down from a tree, I'm guessing.

    Yatori is basically Suzaku to Ikta's Lelouch. Even with her skill, she couldn't win the mock battle, so there are limits to her abilities. I think those soldiers all went on panic mode after their precious leader got sniped, leading to their demise. Also, Yatori was right in the middle of the group, preventing them from shooting at her in fear of friendly fire.

    If they had another soldier with a rifle and his wits about twenty feet away when all this was happening, I think she'd be dead. Add to that the fact that she was completely exhausted after that display of martial prowess, she isn't OP at all. One could argue that a few more soldiers in that scene could've injured or killed her after she runs out of gas.
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    Loved the depiction of Yatori's post-fight bloodlust. Just extremely well done. I don't know if I've ever seen that in anime before.

    Think of Yatori as a Sword Saint. She's honed her one particular skill to the extreme, at the expense of all else.

    She's really only as tactically inclined as she is because she knows Ikta so well. She anticipated what he would do, and deliberately misinterpreted her orders as much as possible in order to allow for her return, thus sparing her commander.

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    So, I kinda loved everything about this episode. Clearly this is my favorite series so far this season.

    The episode looked like it was going to be a generic training exercise episode and it turned out to be so much more, and very fast paced, no wasted moment. Just awesome in all honesty.

    Hooray for laziness!

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    Sloth is the driving force of humanity. I completely agree. Everything I enjoy right now was driven by my desire to laze around.
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    One must not forget that the saying implies an equal desire for a goal or result. To ignore that bit means you have kids lying around thinking they're progressing humanity somehow.

    The episode itself? Great.

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    To ignore that bit means you have kids lying around thinking they're progressing humanity somehow.
    Glorious

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    I remember doing that once.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
    Think of Yatori as a Sword Saint. She's honed her one particular skill to the extreme, at the expense of all else.
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    She's really only as tactically inclined as she is because she knows Ikta so well. She anticipated what he would do, and deliberately misinterpreted her orders as much as possible in order to allow for her return, thus sparing her commander.
    That means she hasn't done anything at the expense of all else. She was still much better at tactics and military thinking than the dudes who were given leadership positions above her. If her whole worth was in the terminator fighting prowess, she couldn't have second guessed the dudes above her or rearranged the orders so that she could still save a part of the day, nor read Ikta's message from afar. In other words, she's worth a whole bunch of soldiers all alone in sheer fighting plus using her brain like a tactician.

    Fortunately Ikta still has a much more interesting personality. Yatori's character really wouldn't take her to anywhere special on her own.

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    She just knows that whenever Ikta does something, especially when it comes to tactics, something is up. I think she can only do that with Ikta and when it's a different situation with a commander she doesn't know, she'd most likely just follow orders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
    That means she hasn't done anything at the expense of all else. She was still much better at tactics and military thinking than the dudes who were given leadership positions above her. If her whole worth was in the terminator fighting prowess, she couldn't have second guessed the dudes above her or rearranged the orders so that she could still save a part of the day, nor read Ikta's message from afar. In other words, she's worth a whole bunch of soldiers all alone in sheer fighting plus using her brain like a tactician.

    Fortunately Ikta still has a much more interesting personality. Yatori's character really wouldn't take her to anywhere special on her own.
    Becoming a good fighter and being smart, logical, capable of strategy aren't mutually exclusive despite how much time one spends polishing one over the other.

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