What's your favorite anime ?

[TrueTears]

Yeah... I almost dropped the anime in the early episodes because the pacing was WDF-slow, but holy shit how wrong I was.

[götze]

do you guys read naruto ?

[Fyrefly]

Ha ha, thanks guys!
Sorry, for that huge chunk of text in my last post. I was on my phone and I was trying to be vague enough to not have to use a spoiler tag without ruining it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. I'm glad everyone understood what I was trying to convey

This is just my own speculation, but I think I already know how it ends.

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Like many time travel storylines: the end brings you back to the beginning.

^ I'm just guessing though, so please don't ruin it for me by confirming or denying my theory

[AbominableMowman]

do you guys read naruto ?

i used to, it became too long i cbf

Yeah... I almost dropped the anime in the early episodes because the pacing was WDF-slow, but holy shit how wrong I was.

Yeah same, I almost stopped at episode 10 but then it began.
Speaking of steins;gate have you guys watched chaos;head and robotics;notes?

[Drunk]

ok so on your recommendations guys I finished steinsgate in a day (I know) and my brain is still thoroughly fucked

if anyone can help clarify the following, it would be much appreciated

and if not obvious enough, spoilers ahead, so don't click if you haven't finished!!

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so on the day of the conference from the first episode, okarin came back and bumped into kurisu on the stairs and said "i'll save you" or whatever, but back in episode one, she pulled the original okarin from the lecture room and asked him what he wanted to say to her fifteen minutes ago. didn't he already say it?? "i'll save you" I was thinking that it might have been from when the okarin from the first attempt on saving her fucked up and just mumbled something rubbish when he bumped into her but then that wouldn't make any sense. am i just reading too much into it??

also, I still don't get the effect of the first d-mail sent: how did it end up cancelling the conference and resulting in a fucking time machine crashing into the radio hall??

[AbominableMowman]

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so on the day of the conference from the first episode, okarin came back and bumped into kurisu on the stairs and said "i'll save you" or whatever, but back in episode one, she pulled the original okarin from the lecture room and asked him what he wanted to say to her fifteen minutes ago. didn't he already say it?? "i'll save you" I was thinking that it might have been from when the okarin from the first attempt on saving her fucked up and just mumbled something rubbish when he bumped into her but then that wouldn't make any sense. am i just reading too much into it??

Yeah that I think you're reading too much into that but I think its just that she didnt hear him the first time or something.

also, I still don't get the effect of the first d-mail sent: how did it end up cancelling the conference and resulting in a fucking time machine crashing into the radio hall??

What the d-mail did was send okarin into the alpha worldline and the alpha worldline was where the time machine had landed and makise hadn't been killed. It's been a while but I think thats what it was.

[Drunk]

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Yeah that I think you're reading too much into that but I think its just that she didnt hear him the first time or something.
What the d-mail did was send okarin into the alpha worldline and the alpha worldline was where the time machine had landed and makise hadn't been killed. It's been a while but I think thats what it was.

hmm yeah I guess so, but with the reversal of all the other d-mails, there was like, a direct effect on the world (e.g. if ruka never turned into a girl, he/she would never have been in the shed or whatever cleaning and wouldn't have broken the ibn5100; if feyris never sent the ransom msg, the ibn5100 wouldn't have been sold etc.)

kinda hard to wrap my head around what the original d-mail actually did

[Fyrefly]

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hmm yeah I guess so, but with the reversal of all the other d-mails, there was like, a direct effect on the world (e.g. if ruka never turned into a girl, he/she would never have been in the shed or whatever cleaning and wouldn't have broken the ibn5100; if feyris never sent the ransom msg, the ibn5100 wouldn't have been sold etc.)

kinda hard to wrap my head around what the original d-mail actually did

Disclaimer: I finished Steins;Gate yesterday. It was amazing. My prediction was correct, but saying this doesn't do it justice.

Spoiler

The first d-mail was the one Okabe sent to Daru saying that someone had stabbed Kurisu. In the end, Okabe didn't actually undo that d-mail. Okabe 'transcended' time by allowing time to loop on itself.

This is my train of thought:



Now... to answer your question about the effect of the d-mail: Daru said himself that he thought the first d-mail was just spam and he just ignored it. The first d-mail didn't trigger any significant action in the past when Daru had received it five days prior, and in this sense it's kind of like those few failed attempts where Okabe tried to stop Moeka going to the shrine or when Daru tried to beat Faeris. However, the first d-mail did still have an effect, only the effect of the d-mail was felt after it was sent. The effect was that Okabe recognised that the d-mail had been sent to the past and he realised the implications of this. It's the only d-mail that doesn't affect an event in the past relative to the Okabe depicted in the anime; the first d-mail only affects the future without having any apparent effect on the past relative to the Okabe depicted in the anime.

[brenden]

...anime explanation dedication ^

[Drunk]

Disclaimer: I finished Steins;Gate yesterday. It was amazing. My prediction was correct, but saying this doesn't do it justice.

Spoiler

The first d-mail was the one Okabe sent to Daru saying that someone had stabbed Kurisu. In the end, Okabe didn't actually undo that d-mail. Okabe 'transcended' time by allowing time to loop on itself.

This is my train of thought:



Now... to answer your question about the effect of the d-mail: Daru said himself that he thought the first d-mail was just spam and he just ignored it. The first d-mail didn't trigger any significant action in the past when Daru had received it five days prior, and in this sense it's kind of like those few failed attempts where Okabe tried to stop Moeka going to the shrine or when Daru tried to beat Faeris. However, the first d-mail did still have an effect, only the effect of the d-mail was felt after it was sent. The effect was that Okabe recognised that the d-mail had been sent to the past and he realised the implications of this. It's the only d-mail that doesn't affect an event in the past relative to the Okabe depicted in the anime; the first d-mail only affects the future without having any apparent effect on the past relative to the Okabe depicted in the anime.

LOOOOL wow thanks I think I sort of get it now, dedication indeed. definitely one of the best anime series i've watched, if not the best. can't wait for the movie to get subbed!

[Fyrefly]

LOOOOL wow thanks I think I sort of get it now, dedication indeed. definitely one of the best anime series i've watched, if not the best. can't wait for the movie to get subbed!

There's a movie? I wish you'd told me after exams... unfortunately I don't have to wait until things are subbed, lol.

[Drunk]

There's a movie? I wish you'd told me after exams... unfortunately I don't have to wait until things are subbed, lol.

Hahaha nah I think it just came out very recently so it'll be a while before even a raw version gets on the internet

[Fyrefly]

I've started watching Shingeki no Kyojin because Water recommended it.
It's really good, but I should mention that it's kind of gory (more gory than Elfin Lied).

Storyline:
(I've put a spoiler tag, but everything I've written here is explained in the first episode)

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The story paints a bleak future where mankind has been almost entirely wiped from the earth by mindless, human-eating giants called 'titans'. These titans have roamed the planet for more than a hundred years, and humans are fighting a losing battle. Humans have been forced to live within the confines of a single (albeit large) settlement protected by a set of walls 50m high, or else fall prey to the titans.

It's scored huge ratings on Japanese websites, and it's definitely the talk of this anime season.
It's only up to episode eleven so far though - I know a lot of people like to wait until a season is finished before watching it.

[TrueTears]

yup i cant wait to marathon that anime once it finishes airing.

relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of3_kOZzYyA

LOL

[Fyrefly]

yup i cant wait to marathon that anime once it finishes airing.

relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of3_kOZzYyA

LOL

LOL!!! Love it xD
Edit: Lol... how did Mami from Madoka Magica get in there @1:34?

I actually don't mind watching anime as they air.
I pick about two or three, and I watch the new episodes each weekend.
It helps me pace myself so that I actually study during semester too, instead of just marathoning when I find an anime I really like, ha ha.
I used to only watch anime over the summer holidays because of this, so it's a nice compromise.