Gens
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That's the most important part obviously.
YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world.
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That's the most important part obviously.
interregnum
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Excellent points. Because the scooter bit really shows how unnecessarily single-minded he's being.
Ultimately, I'd predict we're going to find that it's because Flunky A needed to show up. I mean, the MC's a total idiot, of course, but he's this stupid, here, because the story wants Flunky A to show up (...and maybe reveal that these guys work for him (maybe)). Whether this was pure narrative stall tactic or if it serves a greater purpose to the whole timeline travel deal (or as...character exploration?) is, I suppose, up to Ep 3 to tell us.
My assumption was that it had less to do with him showing signs of liking Headband Girl than it did with Tsundere Girl crushing on the MC and lashing out because he sided with another girl over her--and because, as such, this other girl must immediately be perceived as a threat and, therefore, rationalized as happening because the MC thinks the other girl is hot.
Okay, first off--I love me some ice princess.
But, even ignoring the exact context of the original choice, and even granted my absolute inclination for all things both "n-not that I care--baaaaka" AND Palmtop Tiger...our wastrel MC is surrounded by the cast of a MILF Hunter best-of DVD. I fail to see how Mio even ranks, here.
#Sexretary
(And I think there are 7 routes: 4 cougars, 2 schoolgirls, 1 hyper-dimensional elf. Which...is an unexpected breakdown.)
"Huh? I thought you were Team Hot M--"
Shhh!!! She's watching.
Shhh!!! She's watching.
Franconator
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Turkey's got it right. I know and YU-NO this is where the party's at.
Maybe I could finally have my chance to prove myself to you, since I haven't done much serious episode to episode posting since you became active. Just about gave up on it, but
Worry not, my good bird friend. I got the absolute utmost faith in your shitposting capabilities.
#TeamOldAntagonistWhoCouldBeHotIfYouLikeThatSortOfThing
Sorry, @interregnum.
Anyway.
Episode 2:
"WANNA HAVE SEX?!"
This show is all
time travel shit shit
PARALLEL WORLDS, not time travel, you stupid shit
FINE, parallel worlds, you happy now you little shit?
SURPRISE STRIP SCENE MOTHERFUCKERS HOW YOU LIKE THAT SHIT?!
parallel worlds shit
and I'm so here for all of the shitposts.
Zed
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Episode 01-02
Apparently this is an adaptation of an adaptation of a popular old VN that already got a hentai OVA adaptation about 20 years ago. Does that make this a downgraded porn? Why don't we all just drop this and go watch the hentai version since it's more honest about it's purpose as a fapbait?
You know, this has so much in common with Island, both are shitty time travel stories based on shitty visual novels made by studio feel. I was half expecting a chick to face plant into the protagonist's naked crotch in the first 2 minutes, but all I got was a teacher flashing her panties to her students, so this is very much pure and innocent in comparison. Not to mention it's of high quality, after all, I'd rather see the panties of a milf teacher than Island with all it's loli jailbaits.
Transfer student chick really knows how to not stand out in the most unsuspicious way imaginable to her fellow normal high school classmates of which she's as normal. She's totally not a time travelling magician from an alternate universe with superpowers here to warn people of the past about their terrible future that'll they bring about upon themselves. She's totes a normal high school student with no magical lightning powers, no sirree, nuh uh.
Transfer student chick really knows how to not stand out in the most unsuspicious way imaginable to her fellow normal high school classmates of which she's as normal. She's totally not a time travelling magician from an alternate universe with superpowers here to warn people of the past about their terrible future that'll they bring about upon themselves. She's totes a normal high school student with no magical lightning powers, no sirree, nuh uh.
Apparently this is an adaptation of an adaptation of a popular old VN that already got a hentai OVA adaptation about 20 years ago. Does that make this a downgraded porn? Why don't we all just drop this and go watch the hentai version since it's more honest about it's purpose as a fapbait?
interregnum
Well-Known Member
It's okay. I forgive you.
Karma won't, though.
...were we not already doing a side-by-side watch?
Zed
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interregnum
Well-Known Member
Hm...Ep 1 is like going back to the original Battlestar Galactica after watching the remake. And it's tamer than an episode of Game of Thrones.
Ep 2 onward is porn. Late '90s anime porn.
We need to rethink rethinking all our plans.
...because of the spoilers.
Alteration
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Just got around to watching the first two episodes. The MC has a really odd personality for such a story, his character type seems like the type that would ignore everything else and just use the device to flirt.
I originally made the mistake of assuming "Cross Dimensional Time Travel" was different worlds + time travel, which could have been interesting if the number of episodes fit such a show.
I am interested in where they go with the plot, but the fight at the end of EP2 is disappointing, it may be as @interregnum said, just an excuse to make Flunky A show up. But they went through the effort in Episode 1 to establish MC used to be part of the Kendo club. Then, when a fight happens, he is entirely incompetent on how to handle a fight.
I originally made the mistake of assuming "Cross Dimensional Time Travel" was different worlds + time travel, which could have been interesting if the number of episodes fit such a show.
I am interested in where they go with the plot, but the fight at the end of EP2 is disappointing, it may be as @interregnum said, just an excuse to make Flunky A show up. But they went through the effort in Episode 1 to establish MC used to be part of the Kendo club. Then, when a fight happens, he is entirely incompetent on how to handle a fight.
Franconator
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You can't believe how pumped I am to see this unfold before my very eyes. Our mans has got the power of gods right in the palm of his hand, and he uses it to satisfy his own lewd desires. If that ain't the most relatable thing ever. That development would only elevate the quality of this series, as far as I'm concerned.
BurntJelly
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Dude, your mom is hot. (wow this has been boring so far)
Wow, seems lot's of older women want to have this guy's babies.
... and mysterious girl enters.
Yeah! Kiss the naked elf girl.
This reminds me of In Search of the Lost Future. But that had 2 best-girls to get me through it. This... not so much.
Wow, seems lot's of older women want to have this guy's babies.
... and mysterious girl enters.
Yeah! Kiss the naked elf girl.
This reminds me of In Search of the Lost Future. But that had 2 best-girls to get me through it. This... not so much.
Rascal
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interregnum
Well-Known Member
So...expository episode for future sex sce--uh, I mean, plot?
Actually, I suppose we could generously call it a mostly character-centric episode, as we spent most of our time learning bits and pieces about most of our harem. Which was...fine, in a general sense, and pretty good, in the hooray-for-Hot-Mom sense, which--let's be serious--is mostly the kind of thing we're here for.
To wit: don't think I didn't notice she let her hair down as a nod to her '90s hentai look--which was the exact scene in which she called our MC "cool," starting a three-scene arc of bosom-accentuation, mild double entendre, and outright flirtation. (In the literary world, we call that symbolism.)
And also don't think I didn't notice that she equated her love for her husband with her love for her step-son, and how that idea got repeated in MC's chat with Sexretary when she mentioned that she had unrequited feelings for Dr. Dead Dad. Which means we've got some kind of hybridized Jocasta/Electra Complex coursing through two of our more mature harem contestants, which sets up the potential both for further plot/character analogs between the two and, more importantly, a scintillatingly mindf***ed lesbian hookup. So...keep an eye out.
Oppai-sensei got a little more fleshed out--uh, figuratively speaking. Apparently she's been away for a while, which...made her so generally unconcerned with social conventions that she could easily accept that a "sexy teacher" Halloween costume passed for actual everyday work clothes. Which, I guess, also implies that the school is cool with it, if the MC bringing it up is the first instance of her being told such.
Headband Girl is a time traveler. So...good.
Oh, and Reporter Lady has ditched all journalistic standards to be an activist. To the surprise of literally no one.
BOOM! Topical burn!
Suck it, Mockingbird Media!
No, I imagine this was less a scathing satire of democracy dying in darkness than a tropetastic turn as the ratings-obsessed tv reporter who just wants to keep trouble stirred-up enough to lure in all those precious Nielsen ratings. (Does Japan have Nielsen ratings? Let's see...why, yes it does. It's called Video Research, if I read this right.) But I suppose we'll see. I mean, maybe she'd also had the hots for Dr. Dead Dad and is just looking to get a pound of flesh from his widow, of whom she was wildly jealous.
Also, we see that Flunky A was, in fact, behind the whole debacle at the shed. Which...sure. Part of his elaborate plan to something-something. He's not the smoothest spy in the world, but he's also apparently dealing with the most unsuspecting folks in the world, so...fortunate in his choice of enemies. Better lucky than good, as they say.
Actually, speaking of Flunky A--or, more specifically the MC's ridiculous (but hilarious) gagging at the very sight of him: golly, our protagonist is riding Dr. House-levels of dgaf about the world around him. Which would be way more endearing if I could figure out what he thinks he's bringing to the table that earns him a pass to act thusly without consequence...but, then again, he seems to be the only natural source of sustenance for the whole of Cougartown, so maybe he's onto something.
Other than that...it seems possible that Headband Girl might not have called lightning down from the sky, in Ep 1. Or that she did and has been doing so for a while. And has multiple deaths on her hands. Which...isn't the hottest wrinkle, admittedly, but the headband makes up for a lot.
Actually, I suppose we could generously call it a mostly character-centric episode, as we spent most of our time learning bits and pieces about most of our harem. Which was...fine, in a general sense, and pretty good, in the hooray-for-Hot-Mom sense, which--let's be serious--is mostly the kind of thing we're here for.
To wit: don't think I didn't notice she let her hair down as a nod to her '90s hentai look--which was the exact scene in which she called our MC "cool," starting a three-scene arc of bosom-accentuation, mild double entendre, and outright flirtation. (In the literary world, we call that symbolism.)
And also don't think I didn't notice that she equated her love for her husband with her love for her step-son, and how that idea got repeated in MC's chat with Sexretary when she mentioned that she had unrequited feelings for Dr. Dead Dad. Which means we've got some kind of hybridized Jocasta/Electra Complex coursing through two of our more mature harem contestants, which sets up the potential both for further plot/character analogs between the two and, more importantly, a scintillatingly mindf***ed lesbian hookup. So...keep an eye out.
Oppai-sensei got a little more fleshed out--uh, figuratively speaking. Apparently she's been away for a while, which...made her so generally unconcerned with social conventions that she could easily accept that a "sexy teacher" Halloween costume passed for actual everyday work clothes. Which, I guess, also implies that the school is cool with it, if the MC bringing it up is the first instance of her being told such.
Headband Girl is a time traveler. So...good.
Oh, and Reporter Lady has ditched all journalistic standards to be an activist. To the surprise of literally no one.
BOOM! Topical burn!
Suck it, Mockingbird Media!
Also, we see that Flunky A was, in fact, behind the whole debacle at the shed. Which...sure. Part of his elaborate plan to something-something. He's not the smoothest spy in the world, but he's also apparently dealing with the most unsuspecting folks in the world, so...fortunate in his choice of enemies. Better lucky than good, as they say.
Actually, speaking of Flunky A--or, more specifically the MC's ridiculous (but hilarious) gagging at the very sight of him: golly, our protagonist is riding Dr. House-levels of dgaf about the world around him. Which would be way more endearing if I could figure out what he thinks he's bringing to the table that earns him a pass to act thusly without consequence...but, then again, he seems to be the only natural source of sustenance for the whole of Cougartown, so maybe he's onto something.
Other than that...it seems possible that Headband Girl might not have called lightning down from the sky, in Ep 1. Or that she did and has been doing so for a while. And has multiple deaths on her hands. Which...isn't the hottest wrinkle, admittedly, but the headband makes up for a lot.
Shidira
Well-Known Member
Yep, pretty much nail on the head. I didn't think this series could get worse, but it really knows how to wow a crowd and go for gold...shit brown gold.So...expository episode for future sex sce--uh, I mean, plot?
Actually, I suppose we could generously call it a mostly character-centric episode, as we spent most of our time learning bits and pieces about most of our harem. Which was...fine, in a general sense, and pretty good, in the hooray-for-Hot-Mom sense, which--let's be serious--is mostly the kind of thing we're here for.
To wit: don't think I didn't notice she let her hair down as a nod to her '90s hentai look--which was the exact scene in which she called our MC "cool," starting a three-scene arc of bosom-accentuation, mild double entendre, and outright flirtation. (In the literary world, we call that symbolism.)
And also don't think I didn't notice that she equated her love for her husband with her love for her step-son, and how that idea got repeated in MC's chat with Sexretary when she mentioned that she had unrequited feelings for Dr. Dead Dad. Which means we've got some kind of hybridized Jocasta/Electra Complex coursing through two of our more mature harem contestants, which sets up the potential both for further plot/character analogs between the two and, more importantly, a scintillatingly mindf***ed lesbian hookup. So...keep an eye out.
Oppai-sensei got a little more fleshed out--uh, figuratively speaking. Apparently she's been away for a while, which...made her so generally unconcerned with social conventions that she could easily accept that a "sexy teacher" Halloween costume passed for actual everyday work clothes. Which, I guess, also implies that the school is cool with it, if the MC bringing it up is the first instance of her being told such.
Headband Girl is a time traveler. So...good.
Oh, and Reporter Lady has ditched all journalistic standards to be an activist. To the surprise of literally no one.
No, I imagine this was less a scathing satire of democracy dying in darkness than a tropetastic turn as the ratings-obsessed tv reporter who just wants to keep trouble stirred-up enough to lure in all those precious Nielsen ratings. (Does Japan have Nielsen ratings? Let's see...why, yes it does. It's called Video Research, if I read this right.) But I suppose we'll see. I mean, maybe she'd also had the hots for Dr. Dead Dad and is just looking to get a pound of flesh from his widow, of whom she was wildly jealous.
BOOM! Topical burn!
Suck it, Mockingbird Media!
Also, we see that Flunky A was, in fact, behind the whole debacle at the shed. Which...sure. Part of his elaborate plan to something-something. He's not the smoothest spy in the world, but he's also apparently dealing with the most unsuspecting folks in the world, so...fortunate in his choice of enemies. Better lucky than good, as they say.
Actually, speaking of Flunky A--or, more specifically the MC's ridiculous (but hilarious) gagging at the very sight of him: golly, our protagonist is riding Dr. House-levels of dgaf about the world around him. Which would be way more endearing if I could figure out what he thinks he's bringing to the table that earns him a pass to act thusly without consequence...but, then again, he seems to be the only natural source of sustenance for the whole of Cougartown, so maybe he's onto something.
Other than that...it seems possible that Headband Girl might not have called lightning down from the sky, in Ep 1. Or that she did and has been doing so for a while. And has multiple deaths on her hands. Which...isn't the hottest wrinkle, admittedly, but the headband makes up for a lot.
lazyproblems
Active Member
Episode 3
So the Toyotomi definitely hired those goons so he could hit on Ayumi. Too bad for him she'd rather fuck her step-son. True love always prevails. 
Kanna's necklace looks like it's definitely apart of the time reflector device, and I imagine her fevers are from time traveling or something like that. I couldn't tell for sure how old she was when she originally met Takuya, but at the very least it doesn't appear as though she's aging physically at the same rate as him.
Secretary is a bigger horndog than Takuya, which is saying something. The migraine thing stuck out to me (did she practice time travel with Takuya's dad?), as did the stuff about Ryuzoji. Sounds like something is either possessing him or showed him the light or whatever.
As for the teacher's backstory, I can't tell if that was a shot at the west? Like that our society is looser and doesn't care as much as Japan. Whatever the case, I know we're supposed to suspend our disbelief on some of this stuff, but there's no way any woman would think dressing up like a hooker was ok. You'd think it would bother her that none of her colleagues dress like that. Then again, she actively gave Takuya a chance to look up her skirt so she probably doesn't care.
The episode filled in more details about Takuya's dad, the research site and the harem (particularly Ayumi), so we're moving things forward a bit.
Kanna's necklace looks like it's definitely apart of the time reflector device, and I imagine her fevers are from time traveling or something like that. I couldn't tell for sure how old she was when she originally met Takuya, but at the very least it doesn't appear as though she's aging physically at the same rate as him.
Secretary is a bigger horndog than Takuya, which is saying something. The migraine thing stuck out to me (did she practice time travel with Takuya's dad?), as did the stuff about Ryuzoji. Sounds like something is either possessing him or showed him the light or whatever.
As for the teacher's backstory, I can't tell if that was a shot at the west? Like that our society is looser and doesn't care as much as Japan. Whatever the case, I know we're supposed to suspend our disbelief on some of this stuff, but there's no way any woman would think dressing up like a hooker was ok. You'd think it would bother her that none of her colleagues dress like that. Then again, she actively gave Takuya a chance to look up her skirt so she probably doesn't care.
The episode filled in more details about Takuya's dad, the research site and the harem (particularly Ayumi), so we're moving things forward a bit.
interregnum
Well-Known Member
Imagine for a moment that all of the trashy stuff is actually intensely significant. That, like, what we're seeing as ridiculous, smutty details inserted for titillation turns out to be intricate and important foreshadowing.
I'm just saying: what if we're in the presence of a masterpiece?
I mean, we're almost certainly not, but...26 episodes is a long time. Anything could happen.
Word.
Potentially, yes. At the same time, we don't yet know what "time travel" actually is or how it really works, here. So it could be that she's jumping around in time and visited him at the beach recently (either in the past or the future), relative to her current age, in her time travel adventures (as opposed to having been around all this time). She could also be a different species from an alternate reality, if that elf girl from Ep 1 is anything more than a throwaway mystery, and, as such, is naturally long-lived. Or a robot.
But I'd be shocked if, as you state, the necklace isn't a part of the time machine. Or, at least, the thing grants her time travel whatnot and which the machine can harness, if it is added to one of the empty slots.
Good theory. Could also be an Evil Leaper situation. (That's a Quantum Leap reference. To the time traveler whose purposes were entirely antithetical to the do-gooder hero.)
What if Sexretary isn't just a pretty face...and amazing body and delectable predilections? What if she's just after the tech?!
Man, if she's got secret villainous machinations...that's, like, 40 extra sexy-points.
Yeah, it's hard to tell, with this show, since it seems to have more disbelief to suspend than it does groundwork to lay. Lampshading things like that almost seems unnecessary and counterproductive--which either means it wants to be true to its source material but still taken seriously (as a story)...OR...Oppai-sensei's lack of concern about looking like the centerfold of an issue of Pin-Up Girls of Science! is an indication that she's genuinely unaccustomed to dressing like a serious member of society, maaaaybe because she's not from society, if you catch my drift.
lazyproblems
Active Member
To be clear, I definitely think she's a time traveler. I just don't want to immediately discount the idea that she may be the same species as the elf girl. Then again I don't think she has pointed ears.
The age thing stuck out as she could have potentially been a life long time traveler, or she could have visited him in the past shortly before coming to the current timeline/dimension Takuya's in. There's a lot of possibilities at this point.
And to state the obvious, they were at the beach, so it's likely it was near the monument where the construction is taking place now. She's also leaving flowers there, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that her or her people (other species or no) make regular stops at the area if they are dimension/time hoppers.
As for the necklace, I think that having the baubles might be enough to allow some time travel if you have the right knowledge (see below). He's missing parts, so conceivably more baubles means you have the power to jump further back, do more or... something.
She could be (and that would be pretty epic), but I don't really think so. Or at least I don't know if I can say that yet.
If we go with the above idea that having a bauble gives you certain powers, that could explain her own "migraines." The device is missing three slots, she was clearly very close to Dr. Arima, and based off of what she said about Ryuzoji she clearly knows more than she's letting on. I could easily see her giving Takuya another one of the spheres.
I feel like it's a mix of joke, serious plot point and the writer's horniness all in one. Which doesn't really do the story favors, honestly.
The dub of episode 1 is available, for those interested. It sounds good, but I don't think anyone here is going to switch over.
Shidira
Well-Known Member
I'd be quite surprised if they managed to turn all that cliched trashy stuff into anything important. They might have to with as hard as they're trying to put it in there at every moment they can squeeze it in. It's true, we have 24 more episodes to go, anything could happen, but I can't remember an anime off the top of my head that started shitty and managed to turn itself into a masterpiece by any means lol. I'll be sticking with the series anyways, now that I've started though, so we'll see.
8MangaMan
Well-Known Member
Episode 3:
At least the episode opened with him getting his ass beat again. Did nobody realize that was scripted? You think these guys can stop a damn motor bike but get all scared when that guy throws out a punch? I guess Takuya was passed out by then but man his Mom sure is dumb.
Wait, maybe our MC here is a genius. All he had to do was get his ass kicked in front of his mom! Now that he appears weak and helpless he could break that barrier and start flirting with her! Nice try you bastard I see right through you're perverted ways.
Anyone see how my man here just walked up to answer that phone? Was he in the middle of a light jog otherwise that looked real jank.
Alright, I actually enjoyed his gagging bit. It's relatable with how I feel about this show.
Alright that's where I draw the line. Nobody can sober up so fast. I'm fine with all the world hopping mumbo jumbo but this is just too unrealistic.
She looks just like Lucina from Fire Emblem: Awakening. Of course she's a time traveler.
Wait, maybe our MC here is a genius. All he had to do was get his ass kicked in front of his mom! Now that he appears weak and helpless he could break that barrier and start flirting with her! Nice try you bastard I see right through you're perverted ways.
Anyone see how my man here just walked up to answer that phone? Was he in the middle of a light jog otherwise that looked real jank.
Alright, I actually enjoyed his gagging bit. It's relatable with how I feel about this show.
Alright that's where I draw the line. Nobody can sober up so fast. I'm fine with all the world hopping mumbo jumbo but this is just too unrealistic.
She looks just like Lucina from Fire Emblem: Awakening. Of course she's a time traveler.