Shikabane Hime (aka The New Gainax Show) Talkback

I guess I got a little freaked out in that scene. The imagery, the music, and everything about it was just done so well.

I'm feeling both theme songs, and I hope Angela performs theme songs for more anime series.

Gainax reference?!

... Yes it does! Maybe Keisei or whoever he got those dolls from was a student of hers and admired her enough to make dolls after her. But they did screw up on the hair. Maybe it was a prototype.
 
Hmm, the first episode of this is streaming on FUNimation's youtube channel next week. That doesn't make it licensed apparently, but a good sign nonetheless.
 
Oh yeah, even though episode 18 was only put up 4 days ago, episode 19 has been up for 2 days. Stuff happens. Watch. Discuss. Blah...
 
The funny thing with Gainax is that people remeraber their hits more than their "misses". This Ugly Yet Beautiful World, anyone? Mahoromatic? The truth is, they don't hit a home run on every project. One might say, they only hit runs on every 3rd or 4th project.
 
ZOMG! Two twists for the price of one!

Balloon boy is actually the corpse of a little girl. What a way to die.

And also, did I hear correctly? One of Ouri's parents was a shikabane? Holy crap! No wonder he's different.
 
Decide for yourself. Episodes 1-20 can be watched here. Eva it's not. FLCL it's not. Gurren Lagann it's not. A property that truly deserves to be called "inferior"? Meh, I'll look on the bright side and say it's the fourth best from Gainax so far.
 
Fifth. I just haven't seen any of Gunbuster in years and I've re-watched all three of the ones I mentioned at least once each within the past year, so I didn't think of it as much.

But yes, all the superior properties are Gainax originals, so for an adaptation to be the next best, I'd say it's a good job.
 
There's less talkback when it's legal? Come on people, let's show Gainax and FUNimation our support. The first four episodes are up now on all sites FUNimation uses. Discuss!
 
I really laughed when it looked like (what's her name again?) Shikabane Hime was walking away and then out nowhere grabbed the other guy and pinned him against the wall. It's like it came completely out of nowhere

(Ep. 3 by the way)

That cat is scaring me.
 
So, I'm trying to catch up but I have to say something about epiosde 17.

I get the feeling that if this was a normal anime (in other worRAB, not made by Gainax) that Itsuki and Takamasa would be the main characters since their backstory was straight out of a typical "Girl meets guy who doesn't know anything about epic battles, go to school by day, kills monsters by night" kind of thing and then Tomoharu would be his arch-rival as a Shikabane.

But nope, this is Gainax. Normal hasn't been in their vocabulary since...ever.

(Speaking of Takamasa, was there a reason he needed to be naked in the ED?)
EDIT: I don't know if I'm missing something but I still don't like how they call the Shikabane Hime aberrations.
 
Her name is Makina. Yeah, that was funny. In that episode, after Ouri's brief mind-rape dream, when he woke up, I was half expecting him to say "Unfamiliar ceiling..."
 
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