[noirlax]: we start at OP?
[MartAnimE]: yes I wanna watch the OP
[jmsrober]: OP is good
[ShadowAlex]: yeah each episode has it's own OP
[MartAnimE]: they have different ones, worth watching ^^
[MartAnimE]: gogogo? ^^
[ShadowAlex]: go
[Forlorn Hope]: go~
[noirlax]: go!
[jmsrober]: go
[MartAnimE]: go~
[noirlax]: in game 3d graphics
[MartAnimE]: they use stuff from the games
[ShadowAlex]: yeah nice way to tie the projects like that
[jmsrober]: They use a bit of stuff from sign later on too
[noirlax]: set in Amerika!
[ShadowAlex]: mostly music
[ShadowAlex]: Covering up comas, IN AMERICA
[MartAnimE]: he's evil cuz he smokes a cigar :v
[ShadowAlex]: typical evil businessman
[noirlax]: lol
[jmsrober]: This bit with the grave never made sense to me until after I watched Sign
[ShadowAlex]: German!
[MartAnimE]: looks like the cemetery from Noir
[noirlax]: oh cool
[jmsrober]: Good song here too
[MartAnimE]: yeah they have the track Liminality split into four different short versions
[noirlax]: thats that guy from Sign at the grave
[MartAnimE]: and one long full version I think
[jmsrober]: That nurse looks too serious
[Forlorn Hope]: I don't remember that guy
[ShadowAlex]: it's an ER she should be serious
[MartAnimE]: lol it's serious
[MartAnimE]: Mai has huge eyebrows
[jmsrober]: Is there any more to this after the first 4 episodes?
[ShadowAlex]: lol
[MartAnimE]: it's unusual in anime, such an unique design
[ShadowAlex]: no just 4 episodes
[jmsrober]: pity
[MartAnimE]: the guy with the glasses is into her :v
[jmsrober]: thats pretty obvious early on
[noirlax]: oh that music
[ShadowAlex]: such a lovely piece
[ShadowAlex]: also used in SIGN
[MartAnimE]: violinlinlin~
[noirlax]: sad violin I like
[ShadowAlex]: love the mix and match of technology
[MartAnimE]: glasses dude is in the friendzone cuz Mai is with coma boy right?
[jmsrober]: yes
[jmsrober]: And her dad sounds like Bear
[Forlorn Hope]: spoilers :v
[ShadowAlex]: not sure she's really with him
[ShadowAlex]: I know he crushes on her
[MartAnimE]: ah ok
[MartAnimE]: I'm just making observations >
[jmsrober]: The series doesn't really go into the relationship.
[MartAnimE]: I don't remember this very well
[ShadowAlex]: pffht loser. she went into a coma so we hate her
[MartAnimE]: lol awwww
[MartAnimE]: that's typical school kid stupidity
[Forlorn Hope]: lol
[noirlax]: lol
[jmsrober]: She survived better than he did and that probably makes the kids uncomfortable.
[MartAnimE]: at least she has one friend
[MartAnimE]: ah she said he was her boyfriend
[noirlax]: looks like the same school Kirika went to
[ShadowAlex]: ah right
[MartAnimE]: kinda
[ShadowAlex]: I guess I kept missing that line
[MartAnimE]: totally unsuspicious middle aged creep
[ShadowAlex]: shuffling around a school yard noless
[MartAnimE]: lol they were gonna fight
[ShadowAlex]: lol Joshiba
[ShadowAlex]: that's the greatest fake brand placement since Popsi
[MartAnimE]: a traffic light!
[ShadowAlex]: no Bee Train shop, I am dissappoint
[noirlax]: so that's who the guy was
[MartAnimE]: Mai is voiced by the same actress as Madlax in the Japanese version
[MartAnimE]: just remembered
[noirlax]: oh
[ShadowAlex]: oh cool
[MartAnimE]: the voice sounded familiar
[noirlax]: Now I notice it
[ShadowAlex]: 13 don't quit playing remindes me "hey don't quit the world just yet"
[MartAnimE]: I would so quit a game when people started going into comas >
[noirlax]: subliminal suggestion
[MartAnimE]: I would quit in a heartbeat :v
[ShadowAlex]: you think a lot would but The World is just that freaking addictive
[MartAnimE]: so is cocaine >
[jmsrober]: You can hear Madlax a bit, but its more like in the timbre as opposed to the tone.
[ShadowAlex]: so illegal
[ShadowAlex]: pulling her in like that :p
[MartAnimE]: she's younger than Madlax, I think her voice projects less confidence
[noirlax]: yeah Alex
[MartAnimE]: he's being really shady
[jmsrober]: He's clearly pretty clueless as how to deal with people.
[noirlax]: He seems shady but it seems like he has good intentions.
[jmsrober]: I like him more than Mai's mother though.
[ShadowAlex]: he's been described as marired to his job
[MartAnimE]: what character does coma boy play in the World?
[ShadowAlex]: and being a chain smoker like that
[ShadowAlex]: Sieg
[MartAnimE]: is that an important character?
[ShadowAlex]: no
[ShadowAlex]: otherwise he probably wouldn't be in a coma in this
[jmsrober]: this is interesting in that he seems to be different from Tsukasa
[jmsrober]: Other people aren't finding him in the game.
[ShadowAlex]: the cross cut stare down
[jmsrober]: Of course this is probably more tied to the game story than Sign.
[noirlax]: signature move
[MartAnimE]: is this happening at the same time as .hack//SIGN?
[ShadowAlex]: after
[jmsrober]: Yes its pretty clearly after.
[jmsrober]: Aura exists outside of her bed
[noirlax]: amazing game
[ShadowAlex]: I remember the game commercials always showing Mai waking up like that
[MartAnimE]: she lives in virtual stonehenge now
[MartAnimE]: I like the sound of that thing
[MartAnimE]: pliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim
[ShadowAlex]: the toning ping?
[ShadowAlex]: oh
[ShadowAlex]: that sound never happens in the games oddly enough
[jmsrober]: I think it was something only she heard becasue of her musical training.
[MartAnimE]: oh cool the story
[jmsrober]: I wonder if he means he will pull the plug on him.
[noirlax]: he's not like that
[MartAnimE]: I forgot they mentioned this
[ShadowAlex]: don't think he's in that capacity to make that decision
[ShadowAlex]: hey how did he get her number
[jmsrober]: Well he said that he won't let him stay that way, and my was talking about how he might just stay that way in a coma only aging.
[MartAnimE]: it was on the phone list?
[ShadowAlex]: lol took me this long to actually wonder that
[noirlax]: He is pretty smart
[ShadowAlex]: hey a red apple on that box
[ShadowAlex]: me sense an secret Apple plug!
[noirlax]: Citizen Clock
[jmsrober]: Apples weren't really much in the game market around then
[jmsrober]: it was different in the late 80s and early to mid 90s.
[ShadowAlex]: well 2002
[ShadowAlex]: it was in the PC market
[ShadowAlex]: for sure
[ShadowAlex]: or "Mac" I guess
[jmsrober]: Kicked to the curb
[ShadowAlex]: then again this is 2012 in the story so hey Apple would be ontop now :p
[ShadowAlex]: oh Mai's mother
[jmsrober]: After 1995 there wasn't much game development for mac since the platform was doing poorly.
[MartAnimE]: ah glasses guy blew his chance :v
[MartAnimE]: lol her mother is like "violin is more important than school"
[ShadowAlex]: all parents in the .hack universe seem to be dicks >
[noirlax]: lol
[Forlorn Hope]: lol
[MartAnimE]: what the heck lady :v
[jmsrober]: well music school is a bit different from normal school.
[jmsrober]: Not that she is going to a music school
[MartAnimE]: be a little kinder to your child who just woke up from a coma >
[ShadowAlex]: I like Mai's theme is violin music
[MartAnimE]: yeah great OST overall
[noirlax]: Its good
[MartAnimE]: glasses guy is considering pluging coma boy off
[MartAnimE]: get rid of the competition :v
[ShadowAlex]: lol kind of hard if your father is the doctor
[MartAnimE]: lol just kidding >
[jmsrober]: Well he isn't like that, but he doesn't feel responsible
[jmsrober]: that came out wrong
[MartAnimE]: yeah he seems like a nice guy
[noirlax]: lol yeah
[jmsrober]: sorry cat is sitting on me. Making it hard to try
[noirlax]: this is a PG show guys
[jmsrober]: He does feel responsible*
[ShadowAlex]: breaking in is such an ugly word
[ShadowAlex]: you use lot's of difficult words, how old are you? lol
[noirlax]: backdoor time!
[MartAnimE]: he's hacking the only way movies know off, hit that keyboard fast! :v
[noirlax]: lol
[ShadowAlex]: he learned how to hack by watching old episodes of Star Trek
[jmsrober]: no hacking in star trek
[noirlax]: *hitting keyboard hard*
[MartAnimE]: much hack very keyboard wow
[jmsrober]: The original at least
[ShadowAlex]: it's not my joke
[ShadowAlex]: hey who saw a Q and who saw a Cross
[Forlorn Hope]: dramatic button pushing :v
[ShadowAlex]: on the shadow figure
[jmsrober]: sign music
[MartAnimE]: the way they use the controllers looks a bit silly too
[ShadowAlex]: yeah "obsession"
[MartAnimE]: it's not a fighting game to be mashing buttons like that >
[ShadowAlex]: in .hack you pretty much do mash buttons
[noirlax]: *mash mash mash*
[MartAnimE]: that looks intense
[jmsrober]: I think she is the better hacker personally
[MartAnimE]: did you really have to break the computer :p
[ShadowAlex]: I guess so
[noirlax]: the best 'hackers' break computers
[MartAnimE]: how about pulling the power chord off :v
[ShadowAlex]: they don't just break in they break
[ShadowAlex]: HIGH FIVE
[noirlax]: they hack the computers!
[noirlax]: HIGH FIVE!
[jmsrober]: Crush guy isnt happy the old guy has already hit it off better with Mai than he has.
[ShadowAlex]: Studio Ghibli
[ShadowAlex]: lol
[MartAnimE]: he's eternally stuck in the friendzone
[Forlorn Hope]: first episode finished
[MartAnimE]: now he needs to kill Tokuoka too
[noirlax]: finished
[noirlax]: I need to hack into people's computers now
[MartAnimE]: the ED theme is nice too!
[ShadowAlex]: finished
[MartAnimE]: these episodes are longer than a regular tv episode
[jmsrober]: Well her methods of hacking are certainly similar to how Madlax would handle it.
[ShadowAlex]: Gainax also helped on this so we can play six degrees of separation from Evangelion
[noirlax]: lol
[MartAnimE]: nice
[jmsrober]: How many more eps are we watching tonight?
[ShadowAlex]: think we're going all the way
[MartAnimE]: all of them?
[jmsrober]: ok
[ShadowAlex]: brb a sec
[noirlax]: that's like 6 normal episodes
[MartAnimE]: I thought that's what we had agreed on
[MartAnimE]: I'm buffering episode 2
[jmsrober]: there others are 30 min
[jmsrober]: the last might be 45 I didn't notice
[noirlax]: that's fine
[MartAnimE]: we all have time I suppose ^^
[noirlax]: yeah we certainly do
[noirlax]: I like a nom nom break in between
[Forlorn Hope]: the rest are 30 min
[ShadowAlex]: yeah 30 min
[noirlax]: cool
[ShadowAlex]: the first is the longest
[Forlorn Hope]: think I'm gonna stream the rest on youtube. fuctions better than that websie
[noirlax]: That was a solid first ep
[MartAnimE]: brb a sec!
[noirlax]: can you send me the YT link Brooke?
[Forlorn Hope]: wish they would of shown the ingame stuff at the end instead of silly button mashing :p
[Forlorn Hope]: but otherwise really good ep
[jmsrober]: I think they tried to separate this from the in game world.
[jmsrober]: I'm afk a few min
[Forlorn Hope]:
http://youtu.be/HC6q-5R6R78[noirlax]: thanks
[ShadowAlex]: lol but then people wouldn't play the games
[ShadowAlex]: plus I they were doing SIGN so I guess they figured "why bother"
[noirlax]: seems hard to buy a copy of this series
[ShadowAlex]: so sad Bandai kind of doesn't care anymore
[ShadowAlex]: but they cared enough to put Kite and BlackRose in Project X Zone
[MartAnimE]: yeah Liminality is strictly showing only the offline world it seems
[noirlax]: thats what I like about it
[noirlax]: so far it seems to give you the other side of the story
[ShadowAlex]: yeah it's a nice aspect for this series
[MartAnimE]: it complements the games yeah ^^
[jmsrober]: Actually when I watched this and played the game the separation between the two actually made a lot of sense.
[MartAnimE]: are we waiting on anyone?
[Forlorn Hope]: don't think so
[ShadowAlex]: looks like everyone is here
[jmsrober]: I am at op
[noirlax]: yeah give me one minute
[ShadowAlex]: ready
[MartAnimE]: okies
[jmsrober]: Funny that dog sort of reminds me of someone.
[jmsrober]: I can't think of who though.
[ShadowAlex]: a someone named Marta?
[jmsrober]: Yes very Martaesque.
[MartAnimE]: he combs his hair the same way I do :v
[noirlax]: ready
[jmsrober]: Only picture I have seen of you is the one on Adam's facebook.
[noirlax]: I wish I was adorable as that doggie
[jmsrober]: So that must be it, and why I couldn't place it.
[MartAnimE]: lol
