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It appears to be a comedy-of-errors (by which I mean a comedy wherein the characters make stupid decisions and the humor comes from that) about friendship, or rather, about attempting to make friends and doing it badly. But I'm not even sure it's that.
Someone should make an aquatic dogfight game featuring Arpeggio of Blue Steel characters and/or setting.
Except right after the mid-episode commercial break, one of the characters says "not a piece of crap like Monster Hunter".
lol
like, how much more bizarre can it get
anyway so basically the dub is practically deadpan compared to the bizarreness of the plot events and in a way this is actually kinda unexpectedly entertaining
ITT: GMH reacts to basically the most un-GMH series ever
well actually it's dubbed so it's not all that un-GMH
in as much of a matter-of-fact tone of voice as one can have when being forced to read it out loud against one's will
apparently they're doing the "relatively normal person surrounded by crazies" thing since male main character's little sister insists on pretending to be a vampire at home
lol "fullmetal necromancer"
Also lol sounding girly.
also lol leaving cliffhangers
dangit i want to drop this series but it's not letting me
and not just that, but she also refers to herself in third-person
and not just that, but also knockoff evangelion robot porn -- not "robot porn" as in "giant robots everywhere for fans of giant robots", but "giant robots talking smuttily and making glaringly obvious references to sexuality"
okay i think i've had it, bye
why can't we have more normal, socially-well-adjusted scientist girlsSo, every poorly done romance anime ever.
This reaaaaaally doesn't sound funny out of context.
also GMH you could screencap stuff so it doesn't just sound like you've finally gone off the deep end
fwiw the "sounding girly" part was basically the male lead, in a flashback, commenting that the best friend he knew as a kid (and is shown to look like a boy, at least) sounded "girly", and then later in the episode
anyway meanwhile this show seems to be trying to figure out how much stupid it can cram into one show
edit: the problem with screencapping this is that i can't screencap dub lines
also, unrelated: wanted to point out that this series is rather distinctive in that every female character has noticeable lips. personally i'd rather they not do this though lol
There is no show like this not Love Live! that deserves to exist.
why
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Also, this went through three different spellings somehow.
Wait, these are the OFFICIAL subs???
The heck with this; you should have asked me and I could have gotten you something far better. At least, I recall that it was far better in being at least consistent and correct, though I can't check that right now because it's stuck in a box somewhere.
https://myanimelist.net/blog/GlennMagusHarvey
By the way, next cour there's a show called Animegataris that is sort of basically about socially akward anime fans trying to survive the end of the world. GARNiDELiA are on board to do the OP too, so I'm excited.
Otherwise, other weirdos deal with each other shows I know are GJ-bu (which I have personal experience with and loved), Denki-gai no Honya-san (which always seemed like a fun show to watch if I had the time) and Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! (which has Mizuki Nana in one of her few random seiyuu bits as of late).
it seems a little overdone lately and while it can certainly work i feel like i'm not in the mood for it
i mean, whether, say, Nanoha Takamachi is an anime fan herself seems it would be the most inconsequential thing in characterizing her, for example; her whole point (in my mind at least) is being that distinctive combination of empathetic skill and (magical) firepower, and as long as that doesn't change, adding a geekystuff background seems to be a pointless gimmick
somewhat more relevant gimmick is if a character actively uses their geekystuff familiarity as part of their actions in the story, which the main character of Re:Zero seems to be doing, but still it feels ham-handed. like, y'know, i was reading this to get away from that, right?
I think Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku dealt with most of the magical girls knowing enough about anime culture to reference it well too.
Putting <>s around things is a good way to make them disappear, I guess.
Also, firepower doesn't really have anything to do with characterization.
Mahoiku also very strongly implies, if not explicitly stating that people who watch anime are just more likely to become magical girls. (was it explicitly stated when describing Magical Daisy's backstory?)