[10:49] MartAnimE: I'm ready for episode 4 btw
[10:49] Noirlax: same
[10:49] forlornhope: ready
[10:50] ShadowBlazer3000: ready
[10:50] BiitoreinGoji: And then she snipes MulDoon
[10:50] BiitoreinGoji: ready
[10:50] forlornhope: go
[10:50] Noirlax: Go~! :naoji:
[10:50] ShadowBlazer3000: go
[10:50] BiitoreinGoji: go
[10:50] MartAnimE: Go~! :orpherus:
[10:52] Noirlax: That hand move makes me think of TRC
[10:52] Noirlax: and what a horse
[10:52] MartAnimE: so much horse energy in the OP :horse:
[10:52] Noirlax: Orpheus thinks he's Napoleon with that pose
[10:53] Noirlax: Kingdom of Kuchen
[10:54] BiitoreinGoji: The era of chaos?
[10:54] BiitoreinGoji: Imperialist Japan?
[10:54] Noirlax: I wonder
[10:54] MartAnimE: this doesn't necessarily follow real world history
[10:54] BiitoreinGoji: Be better, boy
[10:54] ShadowBlazer3000: the period aesthetic seems right for it
[10:54] MartAnimE: so it's hard to say what they are referring to
[10:55] BiitoreinGoji: gay?
[10:55] MartAnimE: Ludwig coming off rather strong :smile:
[10:55] ShadowBlazer3000: ambiguously gay
[10:56] Noirlax: The only path for you is to be my lover :smile:
[10:56] MartAnimE: Naoji you're mine! :V
[10:57] MartAnimE: think the ships so far are Orpherus/Ed and Ludwig/Naoji
[10:57] BiitoreinGoji: That was funny
[10:57] MartAnimE: but Orpherus/Ludwig have that rivalry to lovers energy
[10:58] Noirlax: lol Ed fell over
[10:58] MartAnimE: trying to lighten the mood :eduard:
[10:59] MartAnimE: that girl is the girl from the game I think!
[11:00] MartAnimE: shouldn't practice with real swords :grimacing:
[11:00] Noirlax: Those girls all hanging around you Isaac, OOC.
[11:00] Noirlax: Real swords :open_mouth:
[11:00] MartAnimE: "both of you... get a room"
[11:01] BiitoreinGoji: Full moon
[11:02] MartAnimE: Ed was spying on him :sweat_smile:
[11:02] ShadowBlazer3000: the subs explain it only for him to explain it a second later
[11:02] MartAnimE: ok maybe Ed/Naoji is another ship
[11:03] MartAnimE: everyone so shippable
[11:03] Noirlax: They make a good ship
[11:07] MartAnimE: that's rather touching
[11:07] MartAnimE: the diary
[11:07] MartAnimE: Ed is pretty cool on a horse :horse_racing:
[11:07] Noirlax: It's a real touching scene I really like it
[11:08] MartAnimE: duel :crossed_swords:
[11:09] ShadowBlazer3000: it's a ghost :ghost:
[11:09] MartAnimE: oh man, it's a ghost :ghost:
[11:09] Noirlax: wow
[11:11] MartAnimE: I had totally forgotten about that, the supernatural encounter
[11:11] MartAnimE: that was great!
[11:12] Noirlax: That was!
[11:12] Noirlax: tear in my eye from that
[11:12] BiitoreinGoji: That was weird
[11:13] MartAnimE: I feel for Naoji, being away from his homeland and feeling disconnected at times
[11:13] BiitoreinGoji: Yeah that sense of comradery.
[11:14] Noirlax: I felt that dying man's soul was giving him advice as well in a way
[11:14] MartAnimE: yeah
[11:15] MartAnimE: and them having that connection of speaking and reading the same language after so long
[11:15] Noirlax: yeah
[11:15] MartAnimE: probably rare to find other Japanese people in the country
[11:16] BiitoreinGoji: Kinda weird since everyone speaks Japanese, but this is an anime.
[11:16] MartAnimE: we should probably assume they're speaking German most of the time
[11:17] MartAnimE: and only the scenes between Naoji and the poet were truly in Japanese
[11:17] MartAnimE: on another note, I think so far the rewatch has been pretty interesting, I noticed how the episodes have been paired thematically, perhaps accidentaly
[11:17] MartAnimE: 1 and 2 explores Orpherus and Ed's sister dramas
[11:18] MartAnimE: while 3 and 4 kinda touch on the supernatural, with Camus and Naoji being more in tune with it perhaps
[11:19] BiitoreinGoji: I remember Evangelion where everyone spoke Japanese, except when Asuka spoke German because she's German
[11:19] MartAnimE: true, but that takes place in Japan
[11:19] BiitoreinGoji: And I can see the supernatural at work
[11:20] BiitoreinGoji: I just think it's more fitting.
[11:20] MartAnimE: what's more fitting?
[11:21] BiitoreinGoji: Having a show set in a country and everyone speaks that country's native language
[11:21] MartAnimE: ah yeah, I think it's always a safe assumption
[11:22] BiitoreinGoji: Which is why I prefer Noir and Madlax's English dubs.
[11:22] MartAnimE: I think by that logic Noir's most accurate dub would be the French one :smile:
[11:23] MartAnimE: though I do think they speak English in Nafrece
[11:23] BiitoreinGoji: Then you would have the Middle Easterns speaking French lol
[11:23] BiitoreinGoji: Episode 6 was it?
[11:23] MartAnimE: well, it's no weirder than them speaking Japanese
[11:24] BiitoreinGoji: BTW, did you all hear the floating restaurant Jumbo in Hong Kong was towed away?
[11:24] Noirlax: yes I did
[11:24] MartAnimE: I'm not familiar
[11:24] Noirlax: That's kinda sad
[11:24] BiitoreinGoji: I never had the pleasure of dining there.
[11:24] MartAnimE: why was it towed away?
[11:24] Noirlax: Nor did I, it went broke.
[11:25] BiitoreinGoji: It closed in 2020 due to the pandemic
[11:25] MartAnimE: ah fair enough
[11:25] MartAnimE: perhaps it will reopen in the future
[11:25] MartAnimE: any more thoughts on Meine Liebe?
[11:26] BiitoreinGoji: I'm liking it so far
[11:26] Noirlax: Yes, I really liked Ep 4, I'm a sucker for sentimentality so I thought it was great
[11:26] Noirlax: Ep 3 with Camus was great too, sensitive
[11:27] MartAnimE: yeah, I think so far the show has not shied away from sentimentality
[11:27] BiitoreinGoji: And it's rather refreshing watching an anime from the early 2000s
[11:27] Noirlax: and quite yaoi
[11:27] Noirlax: in a way :smile:
[11:27] BiitoreinGoji: Modern anime feels kinda meh
[11:27] MartAnimE: I do enjoy the portrayal of the more sensitive side of these boys
[11:27] Noirlax: But then Isaac hangs with all the girls :smile:
[11:27] BiitoreinGoji: with a few exceptions
[11:28] Noirlax: Which modern anime makes you feel meh?
[11:28] MartAnimE: I don't think Isaac is a playboy necessarily, he's just older and more experienced probably :smile:
[11:28] Noirlax: lol sort of joking there
[11:28] BiitoreinGoji: It's just what's on the market right now doesn't catch my interest
[11:29] BiitoreinGoji: Birdie Wing caught my interest because Kuroda is the writer
[11:29] MartAnimE: I've been enjoying Spy Family and Birdie Wing a lot
[11:29] MartAnimE: but yeah, it's hard to find something with heart sometimes
[11:29] BiitoreinGoji: And Attack on Titan Final Season Part 3 isn't out yet
[11:31] Noirlax: The style of filmmaking seems more uniform but the settings are more diverse, that's how I generally feel about anime today.
[11:32] MartAnimE: I kinda don't like the trend of overly long and overly descriptive titles, but that's more of a pet peeve, doesn't necessarily mean the anime will be bad, it just makes me instinctively not wanna watch it as much :sweat_smile:
[11:33] BiitoreinGoji: Overly descriptive titles long as long as run on sentences
[11:33] BiitoreinGoji: As they're based on Light Novels with long titles?
[11:33] Noirlax: There should be an anime title - "When I'm reincarnated, I don't want to watch an anime with a long title"
[11:33] ShadowBlazer3000: most of them are
[11:34] BiitoreinGoji: And the reasoning is because people don't read the blurp on the back of the book, so the blurb is the title?
[11:34] ShadowBlazer3000: I don't know
[11:34] ShadowBlazer3000: maybe
[11:35] MartAnimE: lol Riki
[11:35] MartAnimE: I guess it was funny at first, it just kinda got old when too many shows started doing it :sweat_smile:
[11:37] BiitoreinGoji: I'm gonna head out
[11:37] BiitoreinGoji: see ya later
[11:37] MartAnimE: okies Goji
[11:37] MartAnimE: thanks for joining
[11:37] Noirlax: seeya later Goji
[11:37] MartAnimE: we're having the next rewatch next week, same time
[11:38] MartAnimE: I will pin it here
[11:38] MartAnimE: Bai Bai :dog:
[11:38] MartAnimE: ***
[11:38] MartAnimE: back to rewatch talk, I do feel Meine Liebe characters have a certain stiffness to them, but it kinda works with the setting
[11:39] MartAnimE: it would be weird for them to be overly animated, in an anime stereotypical way
[11:39] MartAnimE: I guess we can say it's very Bee Trainy
[11:39] MartAnimE: they feel more like real people than anime characters
[11:40] Noirlax: Bee Train might be kinda stiff cause their characters are kind of more serious usually?
[11:40] MartAnimE: yeah, more serious and their display of emotion is more subtle
[11:41] Noirlax: That's probably true and probably influenced my own work too.
[11:41] MartAnimE: it's been nice to revisit it
[11:41] MartAnimE: especially in a show I'm not as familiar with, having only seen it once before, and many years ago
[11:41] Noirlax: I've been enjoying the emphasis on different characters
[11:42] MartAnimE: I'm enjoying you guys' first time reactions too :nerd:
[11:42] Noirlax: cool
[11:42] MartAnimE: anything you wanna add, Alex?
[11:44] ShadowBlazer3000: it has been nice to see this show be able to give its cast due time to development. It's a pitfall too many shows with large cast of characters fall into, they forget half the cast
[11:44] Noirlax: agreed
[11:45] MartAnimE: yeah
[11:45] MartAnimE: I like that every character has a complex personality and backstory
[11:46] MartAnimE: and they're not all there just to support Orpherus, who kinda is the show's "main main character"
[11:47] MartAnimE: I also like they're not just simply divided into Orpherus and Ludwig's factions, as they seem to have the stronger personalities in the group
[11:47] Noirlax: Orpheus doesn't feel like the main main character atm, it feels like a group for me. And it doesn't feel like it's definitely split into an Orpheus and Ludwig camp.
[11:47] MartAnimE: they each care and relate and interact with each other in a sincere way
[11:48] Noirlax: Everyone is their own man/boy.
[11:48] MartAnimE: maybe the Orpherus focus comes later or maybe I'm remembering wrong? guess we'll see
[11:48] Noirlax: We'll see
[11:50] MartAnimE: definetly looking forward to more, two episodes is short but guess it gives us more time to ponder and discuss on each
[11:50] Noirlax: yeah
[11:50] MartAnimE: think that's it from me, any last thoughts? ^^
[11:50] Noirlax: That's it from me.
[11:51] MartAnimE: thank you all for the thoughts!
[11:51] Noirlax: ----- THE END -----